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In this review paper, it only gets a quick mention at the end. So I didn't get the impression he was grappling with it.

Thanks for that. Were you thinking she was saying something different to me? I like the way she puts it in this interview - https://www.theverge.com/2...

So are we pretending now that these citations exist?

If you want to be taken seriously - which is what you say - then my reply is still that you have to supply references that can give context to your cl...

Whose theory is this exactly? I remember you were reading some book but can't recall the author. And you think he literally felt smug hilarity? You do...

Yeah. A random dude on the internet who makes shit up is always going to trump the experts. Happens all the time. If you can't place your arguments wi...

What people say at the other end of life, on their death bed, should be a pretty sound guide. 1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to mys...

Not just unsubstantiated assertions, but bare-facedly so. Anyway, it is amusing how you now seek to socially-frame this conversation with an emoticon ...

No. You need it. If you are going to make these bald, unsubstantiated, assertions.

Citations?

If I say I am in love, or I am being brave, there is always some affect - and even a lack of affect counts as an empty kind of feeling I could report....

I don't want to dispute your personal experience, but the general theoretical response would be that the game does require us to be a player. We have ...

Yeah, there is a lot of nihilism, existentalism and ant-natalism expressed around these parts. It is a natural reaction to being asked to jump so high...

Plato's chariot allegory - a tripartite division of reason, higher moral feeling and base animal emotion would be the influential basis of the Western...

A good partner brings out the best in one's self.

I read one of his literature reviews and thought it presented a very confused picture. For me, nothing about emotion makes sense until you can clearly...

I'd refer you to the writings of Robert Rosen and other theoretical biologists like Howard Pattee. The whole idea of simulation falls apart when you c...

I'm not asking you to prove something cannot happen. I'm asking you to demonstrate that what you claim has started to happen. So - as is one of the de...

Sure. But if there is something like a 140 orders of magnitude difference between the amount of "dumb entropification" and the amount of "smart entrop...

The burden is really on you - as the AI proponent - to show that your machine architecture is actually beginning to simulate anything the human brain ...

Funnily enough, that is the very first thing nature must discover. Existence itself - speaking as an organicist - arises via dichotomous symmetry-brea...

There are two AI scenarios. AI will either replace humans or augment humans. And given the "technology" is fundamentally different - machines can neve...

I don't think it is wrong so much as just clunky. It is still stuck in essentially a representational/computational paradigm with its flaws. But on th...

There is a good reason why binaries make sense. To understand the world in the most computationally efficient fashion, you want to break it into sharp...

I can agree with this as a starting point but then is emotion really also an action? Sure, having a feeling of positivity or negativity is a state we ...

If you check out evolutionary biologists like Nick Lane, there are much more sensible stories than this "unwanted over-powering" scenario of yours. Fo...

You can control for the biases you believe to be there. And if you can control for the particular biases of some specific domain, then you can also co...

Again I am gob-smacked that you simply repeat my own arguments back to me. The only difference is that I emphasise the complementary logic involved. T...

I'm puzzled that you think "an NCC approach" or "an integration via recurrent networks" is somehow different to what I said. I'm also puzzled if you d...

OK, so it is a difference in scale as the neuroscience suggests. But then you want to make some kind of claim about a difference in kind? This is wher...

Is it a difference in kind or difference in scale? Is mind something only humans have or does the degree correlate with neural organisational complexi...

As soon as you can define awareness or consciousness in a way that can be neuroscientifically investigated, then we can have a sensible debate about w...

Again, the argument would be that attention (and habit) are neuroscientific terms. They speak to information processes that can be mapped to brain arc...

Or more like fundamental resonance modes in being the simplest possible permutation symmetries. Particles are excitations of a quantum field rather th...

So if someone asks you why 1 +1=2, then you would reply that it is necessarily so. It has mathematical inescapability. What then when fundamental phys...

It's a matter of emphasis. In the end, science can't avoid teleology in some form. Analysis must break causality into two general parts - the what par...

Sure. But in recreating a likely evolutionary sequence, we can be sure that tool-use started a million years ahead of symbolic thought, and hence symb...

That's not it at all because it doesn't do sufficient justice to the "mind" with its goals and meanings. You are only talking about two physically rea...

Yeah. I already said it is hard to see that. Dualism is that deeply rooted in the folk view. So reference and representationalism is just taken for gr...

On a point of neuroscience, swear words are more emotionally expressive vocalisations - said by the cingulate cortex, as it were - rather than prefron...

Again, that just restates the metaphysics that leads to the blind alley of dualism. Sure, in simple-minded fashion, we can insist the world actually e...

It is hard to give up the commonsense-seeming notion that words refer to things. So the way you talk about this philosophically looks to presume the t...

Or before that, the first "words" would have pointed at socially present ideas. So they would have highlighted real possibilities present to both part...

Well I said I would reject that old fashioned cogsci symbol-processing paradigm and instead of information processing, I speak of sign processing. So ...

So thought, feeling and consciousness generally can also be "pretty active"? In other words, you are making an irrelevant distinction given that one o...

You are just muddling with words to prolong an argument. As is usual. Another way of putting it is that vague intentionality becomes crisp intentional...

I can only repeat what I've already said. The brain is already an "intentional device". It is full of potential intentions at all times. Then what we ...

That's really great, MU. But you are the one barking about there being only the one possible use of "intent" here. I'm happy not to confuse them the w...

And thought and feeling and planning and imagining aren't actions? Muscular action isn't both voluntary and involuntary?

Maybe you just don't realise how disjointed your thinking is? Two different points and you ask don't I agree as if you were still talking about the on...