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- Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:41 pm
- Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
- Topic: Can Machines Be Conscious?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4585
Re: Can Machines Be Conscious?
Her's an Experiment that will test a theory of Machine Consciousness: https://www.theintermind.com/MachConExp ... ctions.asp
- Thu Sep 09, 2021 9:13 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: A Journey Into Mind, Seeing, And Light
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5205
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...
- Tue May 18, 2021 1:41 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Computers Are Incapable Of Creatively Writing Music
- Replies: 352
- Views: 42602
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...
- Tue May 18, 2021 1:32 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Experiencing 'Living'
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1639
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...
- Tue May 18, 2021 1:19 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Do thoughts affect reality?
- Replies: 412
- Views: 49241
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...
- 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: 2089
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...
- 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: 2089
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...
- Mon May 10, 2021 1:18 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Computers Are Incapable Of Creatively Writing Music
- Replies: 352
- Views: 42602
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...
- Mon May 10, 2021 1:14 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Computers Are Incapable Of Creatively Writing Music
- Replies: 352
- Views: 42602
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 ...
- Mon May 10, 2021 1:05 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Computers Are Incapable Of Creatively Writing Music
- Replies: 352
- Views: 42602
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...
- Mon May 10, 2021 1:02 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Computers Are Incapable Of Creatively Writing Music
- Replies: 352
- Views: 42602
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...
- Mon May 10, 2021 12:40 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: The Human Brain Is Incapable Of Understanding Anything
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5368
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...
- Thu May 06, 2021 1:00 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Computers Are Incapable Of Creatively Writing Music
- Replies: 352
- Views: 42602
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...
- Thu May 06, 2021 12:52 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Computers Are Incapable Of Creatively Writing Music
- Replies: 352
- Views: 42602
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...
- Thu May 06, 2021 12:40 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Computers Are Incapable Of Creatively Writing Music
- Replies: 352
- Views: 42602
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...