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by owl of Minerva
Thu Apr 20, 2023 10:03 pm
Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
Topic: Nietzsche & Evolution
Replies: 21
Views: 1790

Re: Nietzsche & Evolution

Sound, Time, Space, and the Atom. The original four ideas, referred to as Manu since ancient times. Where it all began, not in some primordial slime. Devolution, Evolution, Involution. Can’t ignore the first or the third stages in comprehending the nature of reality. Or of man. If he did not origin...
by owl of Minerva
Thu Apr 20, 2023 2:08 pm
Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
Topic: Nietzsche & Evolution
Replies: 21
Views: 1790

Re: Nietzsche & Evolution

Sound, Time, Space, and the Atom. The original four ideas, referred to as Manu since ancient times. Where it all began, not in some primordial slime. Devolution, Evolution, Involution. Can’t ignore the first or the third stages in comprehending the nature of reality.or of man. If he did not originat...
by owl of Minerva
Sat Apr 15, 2023 3:31 pm
Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
Topic: An Encounter with Radical Darwinitis
Replies: 6
Views: 1109

Re: An Encounter with Radical Darwinitis

Tallis as usual takes a rational commonsense view in bursting the bubbles of theories gone awry. In the case of Darwin, approving of the basic theory not the nonsense it has spawned. Gray’s view is nonsensical unless he is referring to substrate only, to what underlines beast and man, and not to cap...
by owl of Minerva
Sun Apr 09, 2023 2:18 pm
Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
Topic: An Ancient Conversation About Motion
Replies: 4
Views: 950

Re: An Ancient Conversation About Motion

Where reason fails intuition works. For the many until the real shows up, in the fullness of time, it is a tossup.

Then they are smacked in the face with it. Reality that is. Always there. Always waiting. Ready to arrive, to be admitted into comprehension when the mind settles down.
by owl of Minerva
Tue Apr 04, 2023 2:49 pm
Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
Topic: Can Machines Be Conscious?
Replies: 7
Views: 1075

Re: Can Machines Be Conscious?

If consciousness is endemic to everything, is the ground of being, AI already has it as AI is not outside what is. But nothing created, including mankind, is consciousness. To have consciousness is not being consciousness itself. Having consciousness requires having sensation which does not arise un...
by owl of Minerva
Sun Apr 02, 2023 3:00 pm
Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
Topic: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Replies: 2
Views: 682

Re: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Brian G. Collins you are absolutely correct in your critique of Yuval Noah Harari’s worldview. His view is totally wrong and misleading. At a time when humanity should be evolving out of literalism Harari is reinforcing it. Literalism was necessary in the Dark Ages, as the numinous could be incompre...
by owl of Minerva
Mon Mar 20, 2023 1:07 pm
Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
Topic: Nietzsche’s Hammer
Replies: 37
Views: 4473

Re: Nietzsche’s Hammer

Both Nietzsche and Freud misinterpreted Greek myth. The myths were cautionary tales that enacted human inner states and emotions and their consequences. The gods could be crazy or rational. Freud did not recognize this, taking the myth literally and Nietzsche misinterpreted the Greek attitude to tra...
by owl of Minerva
Sun Mar 12, 2023 1:59 pm
Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
Topic: The Battle for the Robot Soul
Replies: 6
Views: 858

Re: The Battle for the Robot Soul

Response to: Gary Childress I totally agree with your post on A.I. A.I. further extends the reach of human choice which has always been to choose between good and evil. In balance good and evil are bearable, but not ideal. Out of balance, if evil has the greater sway, much suffering occurs. The choi...
by owl of Minerva
Sat Mar 11, 2023 1:03 am
Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
Topic: The Battle for the Robot Soul
Replies: 6
Views: 858

Re: The Battle for the Robot Soul

There are different ways of looking at this topic but only one way of looking at it to eliminate the fallacies of both East and West in relation to Robots or Cyborgs. In Japan religion is based on a universal spirituality, a transcendence underlying the inanimate and animate. In the West religion is...
by owl of Minerva
Wed Mar 01, 2023 9:30 pm
Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
Topic: The Free Will Exam
Replies: 4
Views: 775

Re: The Free Will Exam

Faenon wrote: Mon Feb 27, 2023 9:39 pm I enjoyed this story.

Moral of the story: Toe the line or the line will tow you.
by owl of Minerva
Sun Feb 26, 2023 2:20 pm
Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
Topic: What Hard Problem?
Replies: 72
Views: 6899

Re: What Hard Problem?

owl of Minerva response paragraph by paragraph, point by point is as follows: If I am interpreting what you are saying correctly, consciousness is all and all is consciousness. What that would mean, to start at the beginning, what lies behind the elemental organic world we see and inhabit are state...
by owl of Minerva
Sat Feb 25, 2023 6:33 pm
Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
Topic: What Hard Problem?
Replies: 72
Views: 6899

Re: What Hard Problem?

Objective knowing, as in science, is not enough. It is just objective facts. Intuitive knowledge is better but that cannot be conveyed because when it is, it too becomes objective, capable of being understood, or not, or totally misunderstood and turned into something else entirely. It has been sai...
by owl of Minerva
Fri Feb 24, 2023 3:54 pm
Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
Topic: What Hard Problem?
Replies: 72
Views: 6899

Re: What Hard Problem?

There is a difference between a simulated reality and a dream. A simulation could be consciously created, as for example a computer simulation. A dream is not a simulation of any particular reality, it is its own reality. Our minds are not expansive enough or powerful enough to dream a universal dr...
by owl of Minerva
Fri Feb 24, 2023 3:44 pm
Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
Topic: What Hard Problem?
Replies: 72
Views: 6899

Re: What Hard Problem?

Objective knowing, as in science, is not enough. It is just objective facts. Intuitive knowledge is better but that cannot be conveyed because when it is, it too becomes objective, capable of being understood, or not, or totally misunderstood and turned into something else entirely. It has been sai...
by owl of Minerva
Thu Feb 23, 2023 4:00 pm
Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
Topic: What Hard Problem?
Replies: 72
Views: 6899

Re: What Hard Problem?

Yeah, but the dreamer is the choreographer, how does one express one's self in relation to others and the context of the inner world in general. It is interesting to try to interpret one's dreams, sometimes it is self-evident of what significant aspects of the nightly drama mean to one. Other aspec...