wonderer1

I was attempting to convey a contradiction to the following without using language. (With the irony of using an image with linguistic content thrown i...

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And relevant to the thread title, what does an inability to live life free from the effects of such scars say about free will?

I've gotten the impression that pigs, at least when young, have a sense of humor. (A mother pig with a litter of piglets, not so much.)

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Yeah "g" is a simplistic/expedient way of treating the subject, and there is much diversity to the way individuals go about solving problems that is n...

Can you cite Darwin claiming that natural selection alone can account for the full spectrum of human abilities? After all, Darwin recognized distincti...

And probably just as well that you realize that your knowledge of philosophy doesn't make you particularly insightful into other people's psychology, ...

You are once again demonstrating that you don't understand the things you are making claims about. You seemingly don't understand the distinction betw...

I'm not here to win a contest for my knowledge of philosophy. At present I am discussing matters of psychology.

For further enlightenment, I'll refer you to The Cyberiad.

Absolutely. Sure. In light of Trump's presidency and candidacy, taking an opportunity to promote recognition of narcissism might be one small way. Any...

This is straw manning/gaslighting. No one has claimed that arguing for human exceptionalism is associated with narcissism. Gaslighting however, is str...

I see, and appreciate the compassion behind your response. I do think about what I say, and try to tailor the things I say to the individual that I am...

One problem with this is, that when you look at the mechanisms enabling the behavior of a thermostat and the behavior of an animal, that of the animal...

Earlier: Later: Do you see how you keep making my point? Is anyone in this thread "violently" rejecting human exceptionalism, or are people simply exp...

What you call an argument amounted to your naive psychologizing regarding the thinking of lots of people. I'm not going to bother to detail the fallac...

I don't disagree, and what you quoted wasn't directed at you.

That's very interesting to think about. It suggests to me that not only pattern recognition, but pattern seeking plays an important part in meerkat ra...

Thank you. Wow! I am very impressed, both with ChatGPT o1's, ability to 'explain' its process, and your ability to lead ChatGPT o1 to elucidate someth...

I'm sad to say, the link only allowed me to see a tiny bit of ChatGPT o1's response without signing in.

Absolutely, and I think it is probably reasonable to think of much animal rationality as a matter of gestalts, without animals having as much capacity...

I would add, that an indepth understanding of the science behind perception brings perspective about our ability to work around the limits of our perc...

The thing is, quite apropos to this topic, I've brought up the subject of pattern recognition a lot on the forum. It's a quite useful concept in under...

Elephants seem like they might be well justified in disagreeing. Why waste time trying to figure out how to open a gate, if knocking the gate down is ...

:up: :up: Non-linguistic thought seems near impossible for us to communicate about in any detailed and rigorous way. As you say, "how well they fit in...

Are you aware of the rather huge amount of energy consumed by present day AIs? What role, if any, does energy consumption (and the potential for compe...

It sounds to me like you are projecting your own fears. In any case, you are demonstrating a lack of insight into the perspectives of others.

Those of us who are plants? They can start their own thread.

Nice to see an appropriately disparaging review of Feser. :up:

I'd say something more like "infinite resistance" is kind of meaningless in absolute terms, and in practical terms "infinite resistance" is used to in...

What is your favorite?

Perhaps better to think of it as "Ohm's rule of thumb". It is not a fundamental physical law, but more of a useful way of looking at emergent properti...

I'd say the word "potential" used in such cases is useful way of talking about emergent properties, but drops out when looking at the subvenient detai...

Perhaps the "have no need" is the key factor rathet than observability? I'm no mathmatician, but it seems to me that in a practical sense we need at l...

Scientists don't have labs the size of the universe or grants lasting billions of years. In any case, supposing scientists did find a highly detailed ...

Have you ever studied the evidence for biological evolution, and the rather Rube Goldberg like mechanism that have often resulted from biological evol...

Here's an article on pseudoprofundity that might be more worthwhile.

I'd think it would make more sense to be dubious towards the color fictionalism theory one has in mind. Light comes in a spectrum of wavelengths. Obje...

There are plenty of species that don't need vision at all. Why is there a question of a species needing color? There are species that have color visio...

My device is wonky about downloading pdfs, so I tried, but gave up. I tried again, and I've had a chance to read it now. Interesting!

More realistic sounding to me is that dogs (and people) use a gaze heuristic..

I'm not seeing how the latter is better. It sounds solipsistic to me. I'd think it better to recognize that neither of those options is very realistic...

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I'm not sure what you are saying here. I'm picturing a scenario where there are multiple different fruit, some of which would be seen as green (unripe...

Achromatopsia tends to come with other visual problems, so generally probably no. Although if someone had complete achromatopsia without other visual ...

People with complete achromatopsia are not blind.

In US academia these days there are internal review boards which proposed research on human subjects must be approved by. My first wife was the the ad...

You didn't answer my question. Do you want to hear my best guess at what the answer is?