a lens through which we can reconsider existence and the limits of logic — mlles
its output shows that it can draw conclusions about itself — Carlo Roosen
The first person perspective, the "being", it is impossible to experience in another human, let alone in a computer.
... But also ChatGPT has an image of itself, you can ask it about itself and it will answer. — Carlo Roosen
If you're allowing the children to be out late that's a sign of a high-trust society and the practice reflects that.
— BitconnectCarlos
Three year olds in a busy urban street? Trust who? Do you just argue to argue? — schopenhauer1
Autonomous vehicles sound like the closest thing to what you're describing. They're equipped with sensors humans don't have. — fishfry
“It may be cheaper just to pay a driver to sit in the car and drive it,” said Thomas W. Malone, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Collective Intelligence. — prof
Singer has the right criticism but it is directed at the individual when it needs to be directed at the way of life that is imposed on the individual, of being morally responsible for social inequalities that they are entirely isolated from — unenlightened
It seems like Aristotle thinks that the nature of the human species is such that we should care about each other and seek to be just — Bob Ross
Aren't all scientific theories underdetermined? Does that mean science, in general, reflects our biases, our worldviews, our pet perspectives? — frank
But scientists dream of bypassing their bodies. When they build their theories, scientists act as if they were pure, point-like gazes from which they can enjoy the show put on by the world. — Michel Bitbol
purpose comes with – or is invented by – mind. Bottom line, purpose is boot-strapped. And for most people that never being an adequate account, they invent something, usually, G/god/s, but maybe also technology and science meet the need for purpose. — tim wood
In order to arrive at the concept of the number unit, one must turn away from the meaningful world of continually changing senses by inventing a new notion, that of the empty, context and content-free particularity, a particularity which can be returned to again and again as ‘same thing different time’ because it has no content, stands for nothing other than a placemark. — Joshs
...agents are normally embodied in their own body with all its neural processes. However, this feeling of embodiment can also be interrupted if neural processes accompanying an earlier action intention cause a muscle contraction that does not conform with the agent’s current action intention. This non-conformity, in turn, is grounded in the delay of those neural processes that accompany the agent’s earlier action intention and the slowness of her current intention’s neural processes. — Robert Reimer
"Everything has a function or purpose and its essential nature is to grow and achieve its purpose." — Gnomon
Not 'Fountain' - that thing is worth millions. But much art is thrown away and burnt too. Often art is only kept because it has a significant monetary value. — Tom Storm
There are others reading, thinking, and in some cases commenting. — Fooloso4
I take Dennett as a textbook example of scientific materialism, which I think is impossible to reconcile with any 'sense of the sacred' — Wayfarer
The way Wittgenstein leads with Augustine in PI rubs me the wrong way. It feels like he is setting up a caricature, both with respect to Augustine's thought and with respect to the tradition which went on to develop Augustine's thought. It looks like Wittgenstein read a few sentences of Augustine's most popular work (The Confessions) and then used this (caricature) as a point of departure or foil for his own approach. — Leontiskos
Wittgenstein's writing leads less to aporia than to a change in gestalt, a reconsidering of the way in which something is to be understood. — Banno
And then you get to bring in those fun Sanskrit and Pali terms to placate it. — schopenhauer1
the wise man always holds himself aloof from jubilation and sorrow, and no event disturbs his ἀταραξία [ataraxia]. — Schopenahuer, vol 1 p.88
But that's a problem with language itself. Not using such pronouns would lead to an extremely tedious interaction with it. Even if it was used as a marketing move from the tech companies in order to mystify these models more than they are, it's still problematic to interact with something that speaks like someone with psychological issues. — Christoffer
Our entire language is dependent on using pronouns and identity to navigate a topic, so it's hard not to anthropomorphize the AI since our language is constantly pushing us in that direction. — Christoffer
I think you again, strongly discount what Ligotti lays out here. — schopenhauer1
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
I ask about despair: to what extent is it an emotional framework or a rational evaluation of suffering in life? — Jack Cummins