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You are right to recognize the distinction To me it seems like equivocation between the God described cataphatically during uncritical in group discus...

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I took a glance at the SEP entry on the epistemology of religion. I haven't read far, but it certainly opens with a discussion of the relevance of evi...

I agree that Plato was mistaken in his hypothesis. I don't see that as contradictory to what I said. Still I have to give him credit for recognizing s...

I'd say the best way to work on such a coming to grips, is by developing an understanding of the sort of information processing that goes on in our br...

Welcome to the forum. This is a topic I am very interested in. Thanks for the links.

Seems to me a characteristic one would want an engineer to have (the engineer who designed the plane you are going to be flying in, for example) is an...

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So it seems you prefer to use the word "signs" where many other people are inclined to use the word "information". E.g. instead of someone saying that...

The link to Lewis' paper that you originally posted is dead. In case you want to update the OP, this link works: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://...

Ignoring possible ambiguities to "life"... It seems to me that replacing "value" with "valuing" results in less likelihood of reification.

Does it matter to you, whether your thinking is incoherent or not? Your thinking about the answer to my question might help you see that at present yo...

I suggest you consider the possibility that your perspective is self contradictory. How do you know anything about chemicals?

Nah, you are looking at things far too simplistically. There is a whole lot of structure to how those chemical are arranged. That structuring results ...

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The information does exist in the USB stick, in the form of variations in electrical charge in different regions of a flash memory chip. This is why t...

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Sure, our understanding that those understandings are required for deeper understanding of our environment, has been greatly informed by people lookin...

There is the fact that our communicating as we are is rather dependent on our ability to build computers based on understanding the way small things (...

Macro things are regularly explained by properties that the building blocks do not possess. For example bits of iron don't float on water, yet iron (a...

Suppose the psychological language we use in talking about intentionality consists of metaphors which map roughly to different sorts of physical activ...

Sure. I'll take the option of not engaging in what I expect would be a tedious discussion. (I.e. there is a reason I choose this option.)

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Haven't you insisted that such influence on people is impossible?

The believer believes as he does at present, because he must due to the history that shaped the way he believes at present. However we can contribute ...

I largely agree with you, although I wouldn't use "predetermined" and instead I would use something like "interactively determined". I don't have any ...

I heard about Dawkins' article through Jerry Coyne's website: https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/02/18/richard-dawkins-chats-with-ai-about-consciousn...

I'm not surprised that you interpreted my comments as an attack, but no one can be an expert on everything. So I'd say it is more like I pointed out t...

It seem worth noting that a scientifically informed physicalism explains MoK's incredulity. With the understanding that MoK's intuitions are a functio...

It seems to me that subjective human judgements can be quite meaningful to humans. For example if someone's society judges them to not be fit to parti...

Why think that all physical changes are due to experience? Consider the possibility that astronomers today observe a supernova which occurred a billio...

I don't know what you are trying to say there, or who you are suggesting that you were quoting.

I provided you with an opportunity to show that you weren't ignorant in relevant ways with my first response to you. Unfortunately it seems that you w...

No I'm not assuming ill intent. Ignorance on your part seems a simple enough explanation. The bolded portion seems an odd way of expressing whatever y...

1. You seem to be attacking an archaic/straw version of empiricism, by stipulating that some sort of 'direct sensing' of properties must be available ...

To further entangle the thread with animal intelligence... https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/02/250203163756.htm It appears bonobos are capab...

"in due course"? At a later time?

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Is that a massive commitment? It seems to me a matter of rather routine observations.

Corvus, you are pretending to understand modern AI when you clearly don't. See here:

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This is a very interesting aspect of the logistics of LLM training that I was unaware of. It suggests that a move from digital to analog artificial ne...

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Taiwan produces around 90% of the world's most advanced ICs. It is very much in the iinterest of the US and other countries that such manufacturing ca...

That sounds like dogma. Do you have any reasonining to back it up?

Well, there are substances you might ingest, which would have results on your thinking which don't seem too consistent with what one would expect the ...

This seems rather naive when it comes to neural net based AI. Consider this excerpt from a recent Science Daily article: