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Atla wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2024 2:01 pm Yeah that didn't make a lick of sense.

Yeah, I'm sure that is what I said about your post. Now you're resorting to "I know you are but what am I?" arguments? Pathetic.

Processes and relations in the sense that you're using them, are also abstractions. How so? Seems like you didn't bother reading my whole post. If it's abstractions all the way down does that not prove my point as well? "Abstraction all the way down" makes no sense. Abstract vs concrete t...

Transgenderism is a counterculture movement. They've embraced the Palestinian movement because it is another counterculture movement. Just because one movement is counterculture does not mean that it will share the values of another counterculture movement. The trans crowd doesn't seem to realize th...

Information is also an abstraction, just like mathematics. :) Not necessarily. I often use information interchangeably with processes and relations. As I pointed out earlier, there is nothing "physical" about matter. It's relations all the way down. Objects are just relations of smaller o...

Some physicalists propose that reality is simply a relation of mathematics, or that mathematics is fundamental. But mathematics is an abstraction. In my opinion, reality is not physical or mental. It is informational. Information is fundamental. Information is also an abstraction, just like mathema...

Consciousness has always been a serious embarrassment for those who believe that everything is physical and that physics is the most authoritative account of the material world. There is, it seems, nothing in matter or energy as seen through the eyes of physics that explains how a part of the mater...

So there is some real philosophical substance to the ideas he's into... it's just that those ideas are really very simple, limited in range, with little applicability in real life, and often very ambiguous due to the nature of the language used. There isn't even any philosophical substance to his i...

This is good shit right here: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxdGHopr4vfGUqrIaDLcxMv_9olmzxbJlu See what just happened there, Roy? U were suddenly captivated by her beauty and u started having impure dualistic unmetaphysical thoughts. Then u recognized how u were sizin her up when u glanced at your own...

And how is that any different than a having an eye connected to a brain that sends electrical pulses through neurons? How do neurons generate your visual experience? So you are asking me to explain consciousness - something that no scientist has managed to do as yet. "Whereof one cannot speak,...

I don't want to live in a Authoritarian society built upon some mass delusion of an extra-dimensional alien telling us how to live our personal lives and who we should have sex with. So, the Chinese culture is your choice? Aren't they Atheists? I think I made it pretty clear that I don't want to li...

What does 'self-identity' entail? If AI can refer to itself in conversation, then does it not have some sense of 'self-identity'? Can't 'self-awareness' come in degrees, like a dimmer switch, rather than just either on or off? I believe most Self-Identity refers to biological memories. People self-...

I'll try to make my point again. An individual's unique intellect or perspective is Unlimited. However he needs to communicate an idea to another person, who may have far greater or far less IQ than him. Those with far greater IQ, will be able to understand, accept, and recognize greater conception...

No, representationalism is idiotic. Once the representationalist ideal is attained you'll have your mind mirroring reality. Why? What do you get for having two copies of the same thing? What do you do next? Seriously now. You really, really need a healthy dose of anti-representationalism... https:/...

Good or bad choices are dependent on the goal you have. "I want to build a family for myself" is a personal goal of yours. While I share that goal, others may have a different goal. Maybe they don't want a family but love sex and want to be with someone else of the same mind. How does tha...

It seems, from the recent responses here, AI cannot have a 'self-identity' because AI cannot have a Biological body nor can have a Brain-neural "Sentience" or "Sense of Self". I'm going to move this to the other thread: (https://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtopic.php?t=41788) Wha...