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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...

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 follows some arbitrary rules, does not mean that those scribbles refer to, or represent, anything us...

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 and let live. I disagree... If I want to build a Family for myself, wife, children, long-term relationships, etc. then it starts with S...

I disagree with this analogy. My native language does not limit what I see or how I see it, only how I communicate it. A Spanish speaker does not see a different animal, gato, when I see a cat. We are only using different symbols to refer to the same thing. If we are stuck in a particular reality b...

So, your statement, "All language is a deception and all of humanity has fallen for it. This is the fundamental cause of all suffering." is a lie? If language is a deception, then how can you use language to inform me that it's use is deception? It parallels his framing of Godel as saying...

https://youtu.be/t3PFdqHDBSQ?si=c_FnxObk0G3a6uw- OMG. I thought you'd gone Nope. Still here. Still the greatest philosopher of all time. Still ignored, laughed at and ridiculed in this shit-hole of delusion But if it's a delusion you're not really being laughed at and ridiculed. It's just part of y...

All language is a deception and all of humanity has fallen for it. This is the fundamental cause of all suffering. Humanity is in this state of delusion due to it being mesmerized by thought and language. In order to contact someone in delusion they must be contacted in the delusion. This is the pu...

IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT PURPOSE IS, NOR WHAT WILL IS, in order to assess the difference between human purpose, or will, and computer purpose or will. What is purpose, or will, would be a great question for a sidebar or another thread, but not a necessary question for comparisons. Please disregard th...

So the same can be said of: "This statement is false.", which is what spurred Godel to discover the most profound revelation about logical systems. Dopson's paradox doesn't mean anything to you because you don't want to know what it means. If you are intellectually incapable of understand...