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I'd be interested in hearing more details of your hypothesis if you have the time.

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Scotch causes global warming: BTW, I like Glenlivet, although I have no idea how sustainable its production might be.

How do you know? Don't you think that might be asking a little too much? It seems to me that Ockham's Razor suggests it's fairly reasonable to chop of...

Anesthesia seems fairly direct.

Sounds like something, that someone who didn't want his attempts to manipulate people's minds to be recognized as such, might say. What makes you thin...

It involves other aspects of cognition the development of which are a prerequisite to our being able to engage in logical reasoning. For example patte...

I don't see a good reason to look at it in a binary way. It makes sense to me to see it as an impressive but limited degree of mind reading, just as i...

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That is a good point. The ineffability makes it problematic to try to encompass it with language. There is also variation in people's capacity to feel...

I certainly agree that there are a lot of limitations to what can be learned with the current state of the art. MEG (the technology used by Meta) has ...

Well, if you really want to know, you advertise that you are a pretender, and an aphorism about teaching a pig to sing comes to mind. For example: Sci...

Sure, I can't imagine without using my mind. Then why did you ask me to make a wrong step? (I know, I know, that's how the presuppositionalist game is...

That (which exists as pixels on a screen) is not a true statement?

"Prove" is an ureasonable standard. We should look at where the evidence points though.

You say this sort of thing a lot, but then the effectiveness of physicalist thought about minds is shown in your OP.

What evidence for strong emergence?

What are your thoughts, on the fact that these things are outcomes of the same physicalist thinking that you are constantly crusading against?

The technology used is not fMRI or EEG.

I suspect carrying a cellphone around might be sufficient, (or could be made sufficient). However for those who prefer a lower tech solution, that lin...

I broadly agree with what you are saying in this post. However, I think that saying that our human nature functions as a universal objective fact, ign...

Here's a link I posted awhile back in The Post Linguistic Turn thread, which discusses the original research discussed in the OP video. From that earl...

Yeah, for now at least, you need a specially shielded room to do MEG.

Sure, just pointing out that we don't need tinfoil hats just yet. :wink:

It is worth noting the 15 hours that subjects spent in a scanner before the AI that was used had sufficient training data on the individual to be able...

Demonizing those who understand things differently than you. Nice.

I'm inclined to see evolution of scientific understanding as having resulted in recognition of "system structure" as playing a role analogous to that ...

I'm skeptical that most people in the hard sciences would disagree with the proposition, "What happens at the microscopic level is a function of the c...

Is "smallism" a view that anyone actually endorses?

Unitarian heretic! The Shoutbox is clearly myriad boxes, if not an infinite number.

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Me neither, but I want to consider a pragmatic motivation for a compatibilist perspective. A person can recognize that we are physically determined sy...

Or 'a more scientifically updated Hume' saying, "of course we still end up using the deep learning in our neural networks because we sort of have to."

I see.

Yes, appreciatively.

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That depends on what sort of possibility you are referring to. https://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-logical-possibility-and-vs-metaphy...

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Vats don't have toes that can be smashed.

For me it was the early 80s. I didn't have vivid hallucinations, although people I tripped with did. (I suspect I may be towards the aphantasic end of...

I was quite surprised when my first child was born, how overwhelmingly protective I felt towards her. I had fully expected to love her, but this went ...

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Learning about Hebbian theory is a good place to start, followed by looking into information processing via neural nets.

Understandable, but sometimes convincing details are only available to people who study a lot of relevant stuff. Me, I'm kind of a Fezzik of neuroscie...

There is a big difference however, in that instances of emergence are observed all over the place, whereas omniscient minds existing for no reason are...

FWIW, the fact that you have such a basis for comparison makes me more interested in hearing more.

Have you ever tried LSD, as a basis for comparison of altered states that you can experience? I can certainly understand mystical states of mind as ha...

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Your thinking is rather last decade. The systems that run modern AIs use many interconnected processors operating in parallel, and a complex ballet of...

There being a genuine ambiguity at hand, is rather key to a no true Scotsman fallacy being a fallacy.