I had some difficulty, where the software didn't send a confirmation email initially and even after a resend was requested. It seem I needed to attemp...
Something being "written..." is probably common in cultures that have had written language for some time. However, that is not the case with Native Am...
There is one particular brain, lying behind one particular pair of eyes, which is instantiating you. Other brains behind other pairs of eyes instantia...
AI pinpoints promising materials that capture only CO? from air Not to say a practical solution to AGW is at hand, but it is becoming routine for new ...
Being social primates, it is instinctive in us to care about the way others see us, so it isn't a matter of "should care". People do care, and thus on...
Slow page loading (without pagination) was something I was concerned about. I'm often accessing TPF via a cellphone hot spot with relatively poor cell...
I had the same thought and had written (but not posted) the following: I wouldn't expect a response to this. (Although now that I've brought it up as ...
Perhaps an image worth considering, is a pulsating web of causality, with many thoughts causally interacting with each other, and those interactions o...
LLM's are kind of the tip of the AI iceberg that gets all of the attention. However, many AI's trained for scientific purposes have demonstrated the a...
What is the source of your claims to knowledge of the psychology of "the AI afficianado"? I.e. is there any reason for us to think that you aren't lyi...
The emergence of intentionality (in the sense of 'aboutness') seems well enough explained by the behavior of a trained neural network. See: https://m....
I'll suggest an explanation (in very metaphorical terms) that seems apt to me. Perhaps it will resonate. Suppose we think of the many neural networks ...
I'm not grasping what you see as a problem for physicalism here. My neurons are not interconnected with your neurons, so what experience the activity ...
It's not as if any other philosophy of mind can provide more than handwaving by way of explanation, so I'm not seeing how this amounts to more than ad...
No. You would need to 'have my brain' (and other physiological details, such as sense organs) in order to 'experience my experience'. Clearly not a po...
It seems that you are ignoring an important subset of relevant physical facts, and that is the unique physical structures of each of our brains. So yo...
:up: Though, to take the idea of panspermia somewhat more seriously... Suppose humanity, 1000 years from now, were to embark on a project to seed biol...
Some people develop areas of expertise, e.g. auto mechanics and MDs. Do you really think that is an accurate claim about yourself? Or do you recognize...
It seems pretty silly to me to think about the subject in such a black and white way. Some people clearly know more about why things behave as they do...
So we better not send anything from the Earth to the Moon or to Mars and leave it there, because doing so would result in the solar system flying apar...
I disagree about the breaking the rules part. I'd say we use science to learn the rules, and learn what can be accomplished by doing things in accorda...
Actually they do exist. For example, a quantum processor developed by Google is discussed here: https://www.tum.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/press-r...
It's not that hard. Just recognize that the apple and the plum are aspects of the same state of affairs - a state of affairs in which the apple has a ...
It seems I'd never considered that phrase before. Google's AI overview was very close to my intuitive notion of what is suggested by the phrase. Is th...
I suggest you try rereading with greater care. Accepting that it is possible that physicalism is wrong is not "admitting" that physicalism is wrong. I...
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