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- Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:30 pm
- Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
- Topic: What Is Time?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 21573
Re: What Is Time?
Time is a measurement of change. Just as a ruler of a specific length measures the length of other objects by comparing the lengths, time is using a consistent, repetitive change, like the movement of the hour hand across the face of the clock or the revolution of the Earth around the Sun, to measur...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: This is how AI "Sees" our world:
- Replies: 81
- Views: 47551
Re: This is how AI "Sees" our world:
Only sentient beings can have a will. For an AI to want to kill humans for example, it must be guided to via the will of a sentient being (a human). Sentience: If i am hungry, my will is to eat. If I look at the garden and see that the grass is long, my will is to get the lawnmower out. The windows...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: This is how AI "Sees" our world:
- Replies: 81
- Views: 47551
Re: This is how AI "Sees" our world:
Who gave the AI a 'random activity'? Some random guy who programmed it to learn on its own. So a guy programmed a machine of masses of switches to build a database of knowledge and this machine is going to go from that to killing a human!? Maybe the information in the database is all about how huma...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 2:59 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: This is how AI "Sees" our world:
- Replies: 81
- Views: 47551
Re: This is how AI "Sees" our world:
Granted, it is highly speculative, but I've been promoting the theory that we humans are what I call "THE ULTIMATE SEEDS" who are each imbued with the potential of evolving into a literal universe created from the living fabric of our very own minds. In which case, if you can figure out w...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 2:57 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: This is how AI "Sees" our world:
- Replies: 81
- Views: 47551
Re: This is how AI "Sees" our world:
Indeed, what is a will or a purpose or sentience? Or of greater practical value, regardless of whatever will is, what is the difference between computer will and human will? What is the difference between computer purpose, computer sentience, and human purpose or sentience? You are the one that use...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 5:31 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: This is how AI "Sees" our world:
- Replies: 81
- Views: 47551
Re: This is how AI "Sees" our world:
What does it mean to have a will or purpose? Do you have a will or purpose? What is your ultimate purpose? Does your pet have a will or purpose? What about spiders and crabs, or jellyfish? What does it mean to be sentient? I think philosophers often throw these terms around without fully understand...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:02 pm
- Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
- Topic: Dopson's Paradox
- Replies: 49
- Views: 17060
Re: Dopson's Paradox
"This statement is not being read." https://youtu.be/Dy-4zt_ebRY?si=jgSV8TRGfN-3cel3 There's nothing paradoxical or profound about it. It's just a misuse of language - a meaningless/useless string of scribbles. Just because you can arbitrarily arrange scribbles in a certain way that follo...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 4:58 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: This is how AI "Sees" our world:
- Replies: 81
- Views: 47551
Re: This is how AI "Sees" our world:
Sure, some of programming involves exploring what is possible, but the ultimate goal of any programmer is to solve a problem, or to automate some trivial or tedious job. I think the goal of AI programmers is to solve all problems and do all jobs. Yes, but… The AI per se would have no ultimate goal ...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 3:31 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: This is how AI "Sees" our world:
- Replies: 81
- Views: 47551
Re: This is how AI "Sees" our world:
One thing I’d like to add—I’ve seen a number of articles that predict that strong AI will be able to reprogram itself without human interaction. If so, AI could write its own programs. Really scary 😵💫 The myth that we can make a program to write a program has been around since at least 1980. The c...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 3:03 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Sex and the Religious-Left
- Replies: 1043
- Views: 40244
Re: Sex and the Religious-Left
A woman who has had zero sexual partners is NOT the same as a woman who has several, or a dozen, or a hundred sexual partners though. Sure, they are different, but that doesn't mean that one is moral while the other isn't. What effect does some woman's sexual choices have on your life? None. Live a...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:13 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: This is how AI "Sees" our world:
- Replies: 81
- Views: 47551
Re: This is how AI "Sees" our world:
One thing I’d like to add—I’ve seen a number of articles that predict that strong AI will be able to reprogram itself without human interaction. If so, AI could write its own programs. Really scary 😵💫 The myth that we can make a program to write a program has been around since at least 1980. The c...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:13 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: This is how AI "Sees" our world:
- Replies: 81
- Views: 47551
Re: This is how AI "Sees" our world:
Yes. This makes me think about Searle's Chinese Room. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room The man in the room understands something. It understands the instructions to write this scribble when he sees that scribble. He also understands the language the instructions are written in. So it is i...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 3:09 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Consciousness and the Brain in the Vat
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4925
Re: Consciousness and the Brain in the Vat
Of course you have access to the world via your body. And that's because your body and brain represent the physiological means by which your mind and soul were awakened into existence within this world. It's needless to say that we're both just speculating here, but isn't it at least logical to ass...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 2:25 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: This is how AI "Sees" our world:
- Replies: 81
- Views: 47551
Re: This is how AI "Sees" our world:
How is this any different from me telling you a fictional story and the sounds from my mouth invoke visual imagery in your mind? If we gave AI access to cameras so that it can see the world, memory to store the images and the programming to compare real-time visual information provided by the camer...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 5:10 pm
- Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
- Topic: Dopson's Paradox
- Replies: 49
- Views: 17060
Re: Dopson's Paradox
"This statement is not being read." https://youtu.be/Dy-4zt_ebRY?si=jgSV8TRGfN-3cel3 There's nothing paradoxical or profound about it. It's just a misuse of language - a meaningless/useless string of scribbles. Just because you can arbitrarily arrange scribbles in a certain way that follo...