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Right, it can be easily attacked. I'm sorry but I'm one of those against any kind of mysticism. We have the other side of the coin, people that attack...
January 28, 2021 at 12:05
Substrate implies limitations but I think those limitations are more quantitative (like speed of processing) than qualitative. You can simulate in tra...
January 28, 2021 at 11:41
Yes, of course it is not accurate, it is not even a description but a valid example to illustrate my idea that AI learn and treat information in a sim...
January 28, 2021 at 11:35
I give up then :chin: Right, me and many other people. But good you were able to grasp it :up:
January 28, 2021 at 11:05
And maybe that the key is on how we manage information... and not that much the physical substrate.
January 28, 2021 at 11:02
Yeap a kind of MadMax, instead of a Blade Runner :rofl: Right, I would say the worst of it risks of getting back and reinforced by the latest bio-tech...
January 28, 2021 at 10:59
Try to define intuition and you will see it is overestimated. Ask this question to Ke Jie, the champion of Go that lost against AlphaGo AI. Many asian...
January 28, 2021 at 10:54
:up: Why metaphysical feelings? What does a feeling be metaphysical? I personally would not attribute to feelings to be metaphysical but I would try t...
January 28, 2021 at 10:50
Spontaneous self-organization as spontaneous decrease of entropy ? I'm not sure "self-organization" is an exhaustive enough word. I like Damasio's arg...
January 28, 2021 at 09:03
We never know who is on the other side so I share arguments materials I find very interesting and formative. This is one of the nice things of this fo...
January 27, 2021 at 20:48
I said above what I'm saying, no need to repeat it. Regarding your question of H.'s self, I'm not a big fan of H., I actually do not rely at all on hi...
January 27, 2021 at 20:44
You're almost there but I think Damasio is more successful describing emotions and feelings (they re not the same thing). Ufff... here you lost me. Lo...
January 27, 2021 at 19:51
I agree it is not working the same way, the hardware-software architecture and the biology are different. But in terms of how information is treated (...
January 27, 2021 at 19:38
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January 27, 2021 at 19:31
Honestly speaking, I don't think your interpretation is right. It is quite clear when he says... "transposing an isolated subject-thing", then it says...
January 27, 2021 at 19:26
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January 27, 2021 at 13:39
Right, and we can say the opposite as well. That religious and spiritual beliefs (impregnated of dualism and metaphysics) are much more popular and ma...
January 27, 2021 at 13:32
:up: Let me add to your hermeneutics of H. building at the sametime on Janus "focused feeling" :smile: Let's focus on the anxiety-feeling produced by ...
January 27, 2021 at 11:09
Exactly, only science can give us an answer. All the rest is pure solipsist speculation. Not really, at least in mathematics and within science defini...
January 27, 2021 at 10:44
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January 27, 2021 at 09:51
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I read, studied and forgot and then studied again, etc. continental philosophy and phenomenology but I came to the conclusion that analytical was more...
January 27, 2021 at 09:49
Aside from the pertinence of religions to answer the question, would you agree that depending on how "you" is defined and understood the question itse...
January 27, 2021 at 00:04
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January 26, 2021 at 23:56
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Are you then supporting what Kierkegaard said? the core of his statement is the word "qualitative divide". Kierkegaard "qualitative divide" is full of...
January 26, 2021 at 23:52
Very good points and very pertinent. My 2 cents: Of course virtue is in the middle and the right equilibrium between exploring the self and focusing o...
January 26, 2021 at 13:35
Agree the brain is limited in its own but if we look at the "brain in relationship with the world" it becomes very interesting :wink: And let's keep t...
January 26, 2021 at 13:25
As I read you, dear thinkers, I get the impression we're all too anthropocentric here. I recently got to know Georg Northoff and I think his idea of s...
January 26, 2021 at 01:50
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January 25, 2021 at 18:50
Wouldn't it be good to ask them if they feel oppressed? What happened in Egypt when elections happened after the spring-revolution (today is the anniv...
January 25, 2021 at 18:46
Maybe this is not the case anymore, but in the past parents used to force daughters to become nuns as well...
January 25, 2021 at 18:44
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January 25, 2021 at 18:43
An astronomist would tell you Zero time is the moment right before the big bang and physicist would talk to you about light being in the border line b...
January 25, 2021 at 18:40
Linguistic aporia, linguistic trap! ... a need for some wittgensteinian linguistic turn? :-)
January 25, 2021 at 17:00
Here you go, Freedom Evolves from D. Dennett: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Evolves
January 25, 2021 at 16:39
Well, I respect you but I disagree, it is your reality, not mine . I don't think in 2 generations it will be the end of the world but agree we have to...
January 25, 2021 at 15:15
First of all, thank you Mick for bringing this very interesting topic. I don't think neuromorphic processors cross any ethical boundary that AI hadn't...
January 25, 2021 at 15:11
You say they're both wrong but they are the head of 2 countries, 2 major countries and they have to deal with reality and reality is that people are a...
January 25, 2021 at 09:59
One recent example, the recent interview between Macron and Al-Sisi. Al-Sisi says human rights are a human construct and for Egyptians that believe in...
January 25, 2021 at 08:25
we still have TV networks. These technologies evolve, do not just disappear. Think about books, for example, still there as well. GAFAMs are something...
January 24, 2021 at 23:52
Politics is about dealing with humans, societies and its issues. We, humans, are mostly irrational, we think with our stomach, our emotions bias us co...
January 24, 2021 at 23:47
Let me put another perspective. I would say most of the times falseness, fakeness, invented theories or invented stories are much more beautiful than ...
January 24, 2021 at 23:37
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January 24, 2021 at 23:28
As looks like there is not much interest, I will post one of the major conclusions on this topic that me and my "contertulios" agreed a few days ago: ...
January 23, 2021 at 18:11
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I think you use the words "thereness", "exteriority" with too much "continental philosophy" connotations. I would say here that the "wittgensteinien" ...
January 23, 2021 at 18:04
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January 21, 2021 at 10:52
Do you agree that understanding something means being able to manipulate it? The more we understand something the better we do manipulate it? With thi...
January 21, 2021 at 10:35
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This external reality is the world that interacts with our senses: the light that hits our eyes, the sounds that hit our ears, the feelings on our ski...
January 20, 2021 at 16:00
If you read contemporary neuroscientists like Dehaene, Northoff, Tononi you will certainly change your mind. We start to understand consciousness in w...
January 19, 2021 at 11:51
I like and support your answers very much! I would add, our brains are always the same, our instincts, human condition and passions (underestimated by...
January 19, 2021 at 11:46