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- Sun May 21, 2017 10:17 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Language
- Topic: can we simulate meaning consciousness in artificial intelligence using language and program proper association
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3144
Re: can we simulate meaning consciousness in artificial intelligence using language and program proper association
I suspect that consciousness - that is, a "what it's like" - comes first, then meaning/intelligence can arise. Reason is that anything I imagine has a "what it's like" to it - e.g. a bright shade of blue spanning across a plane. A computer can output this to a screen, but that do...
- Sun May 21, 2017 4:02 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: Derived from Nothing
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5644
Re: Derived from Nothing
Keep up that backtracking towards first cause and it all comes down to you. The question is, who are you? I'm not sure about "I" being the cause of all particular existence. However, it seems intuitive that "I" have no essential properties or character. My personality could chan...
- Thu May 18, 2017 8:29 am
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Suffering and the categorical imperative
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3110
Suffering and the categorical imperative
Kant's categorical imperative can seem a purely abstract principle, ungrounded in experience. If one said "I don't care whether the maxim's of my actions can be universalized", what could anyone say to him? Would such a person just be beyond morality, able to happily live their lives despi...
- Wed Aug 10, 2016 9:02 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: What is the use of consciousness when it comes to thought?
- Replies: 93
- Views: 23716
Re: What is the use of consciousness when it comes to thought?
For a thought to form, doesn't there need to be (conscious) experience along with it? For example, if I think of a particular that I want for dinner, it's because I have some prior (conscious) experience of eating such a salad, and I know I liked the taste of it and felt good afterwards. If I were n...
- Sun Jul 24, 2016 2:46 am
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: ~ YOUR ETERNITY ~
- Replies: 98
- Views: 20675
Re: ~ YOUR ETERNITY ~
Actually I'm male, and not all that young. Wondering how you thought this though.Bill Wiltrack wrote:I welcomed that young lady into the forum...
- Mon Jul 18, 2016 4:32 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: ~ Consciousness; the brain’s non-conceptual theory about itself ~
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4007
Re: ~ Consciousness; the brain’s non-conceptual theory about itself ~
This theory sounds reasonable, though I'm not sure what a "non-conceptual" theory is. I believe there is non-conceptual knowing, but I'd also consider that to be a non-theoretical (i.e. non-verbal) type of knowing that comes from (or just is) immediate experience. If the claim is that the ...
- Thu Jul 14, 2016 8:30 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: ~ YOUR ETERNITY ~
- Replies: 98
- Views: 20675
Re: ~ YOUR ETERNITY ~
Regarding computers being more capable of tasks than humans - Computers must be programmed by a human, who gives the computer a framework to operate within. A car driving computer can know all the rules of driving, and operate a car, because a human already had those rules in mind. But could a compu...
- Sun Jul 03, 2016 12:41 am
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: On the Nature of Free Will
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5183
Re: On the Nature of Free Will
I'd also like to hear people describe what goes on within one's experience, when one makes a choice. Here is how it seems to me: Any decision has some buildup that precedes it, and during this time all kinds of things occur in my mind (and body), some of it happening at the edges of consciousness. R...