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by SteveKlinko
Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:41 pm
Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
Topic: Can Machines Be Conscious?
Replies: 7
Views: 1060

Re: Can Machines Be Conscious?

Her's an Experiment that will test a theory of Machine Consciousness: https://www.theintermind.com/MachConExp ... ctions.asp
by SteveKlinko
Thu Sep 09, 2021 9:13 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Mind
Topic: A Journey Into Mind, Seeing, And Light
Replies: 19
Views: 4798

A Journey Into Mind, Seeing, And Light

This is a script for a possible Audio or Video presentation. The lettered titles indicate the main thought in the corresponding group of script lines. I think that on further consideration this double-spaced text version might actually convey the message better than an Audio or a Video. A) Science H...
by SteveKlinko
Tue May 18, 2021 1:41 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Mind
Topic: Computers Are Incapable Of Creatively Writing Music
Replies: 352
Views: 39521

Re: Computers Are Incapable Of Creatively Writing Music

Realism is called Naïve for a reason. Yes, of course. It's useful to those who buy into sophistry (from which we get, "sophisticated,"), who call anyone who has not swallowed their sophistry, naïve. The problem with your view is that no matter how many time you run into the wall, you will...
by SteveKlinko
Tue May 18, 2021 1:32 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Mind
Topic: Experiencing 'Living'
Replies: 3
Views: 1523

Re: Experiencing 'Living'

If you strip a man of all senses since birth; sight, touch, smell, hearing, taste, is he still living? He may grow to be twenty, fifty, old enough to meet the end. Has he lived? All he has left is thought, but what can he think? "I think; therefore I am." -Descartes Life is comprised of e...
by SteveKlinko
Tue May 18, 2021 1:19 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Mind
Topic: Do thoughts affect reality?
Replies: 412
Views: 46544

Re: Do thoughts affect reality?

Of course, they do (we know the difference between a person who knows from the one who does not know). All conscious phenomena are irrelevant in what is going on in matter since matter behaves according to the laws of nature. Therefore, thoughts are irrelevant which is a contradiction since we know...
by SteveKlinko
Mon May 17, 2021 1:02 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Mind
Topic: The Human Brain Is Incapable Of Volition Or Free Will
Replies: 4
Views: 1885

Re: The Human Brain Is Incapable Of Volition Or Free Will

This is the basic flaw in the Experiment. The Experiment was Measuring the Readiness Potential generated by a Brain Program. It had little to do with Volition or Free Will. Volition is always linked to Free Will in Philosophical discussions. I will attempt to uncouple Volition from Free Will, and d...
by SteveKlinko
Mon May 10, 2021 3:52 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Mind
Topic: The Human Brain Is Incapable Of Volition Or Free Will
Replies: 4
Views: 1885

The Human Brain Is Incapable Of Volition Or Free Will

When the topic of Volition is discussed the Libet Experiment will always need to be addressed. Libet first conducted this Experiment 50 years ago and other researchers have conducted many more variations of it in the following years. The Philosophical implications of the Experiment have been hotly d...
by SteveKlinko
Mon May 10, 2021 1:18 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Mind
Topic: Computers Are Incapable Of Creatively Writing Music
Replies: 352
Views: 39521

Re: Computers Are Incapable Of Creatively Writing Music

If all anyone really has access to is their own minds, are you saying that we're doing statistics about imagining that there are other people, walls, etc.? Your view posits that we can't actually observe any other people. So we'd only be able to do statistics about our own mental phenomena. Statist...
by SteveKlinko
Mon May 10, 2021 1:14 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Mind
Topic: Computers Are Incapable Of Creatively Writing Music
Replies: 352
Views: 39521

Re: Computers Are Incapable Of Creatively Writing Music

Fill this out, with just one simple thing: "The first epistemic step regarding how science knows that we're detecting an external world is _________________." And then fill out the first step, and only the first step. I'm not going to assume that you're telling me the whole story, so you ...
by SteveKlinko
Mon May 10, 2021 1:05 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Mind
Topic: Computers Are Incapable Of Creatively Writing Music
Replies: 352
Views: 39521

Re: Computers Are Incapable Of Creatively Writing Music

Science would go to statistical methods. By showing statistically that people can avoid walking into Walls . . . If all anyone really has access to is their own minds, are you saying that we're doing statistics about imagining that there are other people, walls, etc.? Your view posits that we can't...
by SteveKlinko
Mon May 10, 2021 1:02 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Mind
Topic: Computers Are Incapable Of Creatively Writing Music
Replies: 352
Views: 39521

Re: Computers Are Incapable Of Creatively Writing Music

I'm not going to run through the whole thing--you typed a lot more than you needed to, but here's the problem for the first couple things you suggest. The objections would keep going this way throughout: On your view, what you're actually seeing is a mental image of a wall. You're not seeing anythi...
by SteveKlinko
Mon May 10, 2021 12:40 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Mind
Topic: The Human Brain Is Incapable Of Understanding Anything
Replies: 24
Views: 4894

Re: The Human Brain Is Incapable Of Understanding Anything

My consciousness is a field generated by my physical brain. WHat you are asking is impossible. You are mired in a myth that consciousness is separate from the physical brain, it is not and could not be. Who you are as a person is vested 100% in the unique organisation of your brain, and without tha...
by SteveKlinko
Thu May 06, 2021 1:00 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Mind
Topic: Computers Are Incapable Of Creatively Writing Music
Replies: 352
Views: 39521

Re: Computers Are Incapable Of Creatively Writing Music

How? How would science know this (given the assumption that we only experience our own mind). Tell me what the first step would be. The Big Bang happens and a new Universe is created. This Universe consists of Matter, Energy, and Space. After billions of years of complicated interactions and proces...
by SteveKlinko
Thu May 06, 2021 12:52 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Mind
Topic: Computers Are Incapable Of Creatively Writing Music
Replies: 352
Views: 39521

Re: Computers Are Incapable Of Creatively Writing Music

I'm not going to run through the whole thing--you typed a lot more than you needed to, but here's the problem for the first couple things you suggest. The objections would keep going this way throughout: All the Senses are Correlated with each other. If you see a Wall On your view, what you're actu...
by SteveKlinko
Thu May 06, 2021 12:40 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Mind
Topic: Computers Are Incapable Of Creatively Writing Music
Replies: 352
Views: 39521

Re: Computers Are Incapable Of Creatively Writing Music

And it's weird just how dense you're being about what you're saying. I can only guess that you're not really saying what you appear to be saying. Or there's at least some sort of weird cognitive dissonance between different beliefs going on here, maybe due to not really analyzing how the beliefs re...