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The following is a self published article by an AI developer from google who was working on their latest language based AI. It outlines a conversation the developer had with the AI in which his interactions caused him to believe the AI was “sentient”. They do not go into what they mean by sentient, ...

1. All utterances of the brain are hallucinations. 2. The brain studies the brain. 3. "All utterances of the brain are hallucinations" is a hallucination. You have discovered the paradoxical power of self reference. Run this through your logic: “This statement is false” The trick lies not...

To me, reality consists of minds and qualia. Minimally there are two minds one causes qualia that I perceive and another mind is mine. An object in my view can only exist if there are more minds that are responsible for moving qualia in reality. What is an object? An assembly of minds that exchange...

To me, reality consists of minds and qualia. Minimally there are two minds one causes qualia that I perceive and another mind is mine. An object in my view can only exist if there are more minds that are responsible for moving qualia in reality. What is an object? An assembly of minds that exchange...

Yes, everything is minds and qualia. Minds being primary and qualia are due to minds. It is a matter of fact. If there is a motion that is not due to my mind then it is due to another mind. There are motions that they are not due to me so there is at least one mind more. What if instead if concedin...

Update 5.8.22 Ra-Hoor-Kuit is a phase or state of Consciousness where mind annihilates that which impedes its Selfrealisation. As “god of war and vengeance” (LAL III-3) he exposes the self-deceptions, pretensions, avarice & cowardice of ego and attacks its ideologies, morals, myths, religions, ...

What is the problem? What's the problem with not thinking everything is qualia and mind? Yes, everything is minds and qualia. Minds being primary and qualia are due to minds. You're making claims about all of reality when you are only in touch with yourself, by our own admission. You don't know if ...

How the consciousness can grant meaning to the life. The problem start with consciousness when you realize that something is missing. You have hit the nail in the head there. When you feel meaninglessness, you feel like something is missing, from YOU. So, it stands to reason, that when you feel com...

The meaning of life is when one realizes that the physical world is utterly meaningless in the absence of a conscious subject, life, biology is then creator of all meaning, which it bestows upon the world at its discretion. Biological reaction to the physical world is your everyday reality/experien...

Wokeism is essentially for people who want to be “on the right side”, but either can’t think through issues themselves and thus need to be told how to think, or, are morally bankrupt and are compensating. Or, they don’t agree with it but are too scared to speak out against it, as wokeism tends to b...

Wokeism is essentially for people who want to be “on the right side”, but either can’t think through issues themselves and thus need to be told how to think, or, are morally bankrupt and are compensating. Or, they don’t agree with it but are too scared to speak out against it, as wokeism tends to be...

Whatever it is it cannot be in the thought and feeling category. Well, if there is such a thing as the meaning of life then one should be able to experience it. For me, the meaning seems to be inherently already existing in the seemingly meaningless. What you are talking about? If I can find meanin...

Whatever it is it cannot be in the thought and feeling category. Well, if there is such a thing as the meaning of life then one should be able to experience it. For me, the meaning seems to be inherently already existing in the seemingly meaningless. If I can find meaning in the meaningless, then l...

There are two substances, mind and qualia so, so we are dealing with substance dualism in which mind is primary and quale is secondary. Can you imagine them being nondual? I.e., you have mind, which is subject, and quale, which is object, yet, subject is formless and object is form. I cannot follow...

Mind is an irreducible substance with the ability to experience qualia, freely decide, and cause qualia. Quale is another substance, subject of experience and causation. I cannot experience the mind directly but indirectly through the qualia that the mind produces. It is the mind within milk that g...