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- Fri Jun 17, 2016 2:00 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: For Superfund - a broken heart
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11321
Re: For Superfund - a broken heart
Now we're making quite a long string of "this post made me think of", but your post made me think of a central tenet of the religion in one of my fantasy stories. This is going probably going to sound weird, but I almost believe in a supernatural muse. Stories that resonate are in some sense true, a...
- Sat Jun 11, 2016 8:43 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: argument from laws of pjhysics
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6970
Re: argument from laws of pjhysics
Metacrock, you did yourself a disservice quoting from source [2] ( Is There a God? , Everystudent.com). I know you called it a "bad argument", but I feel a need to express just how bad. Point #1 there can be answered by the anthropic principle, suggests it is strange that water is colourless and tra...
- Fri Jun 10, 2016 12:04 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: The great psychosis of the person who
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14284
Re: The great psychosis of the person who
values can't e chosen out of reason There is going to be stopping point otherwise you have an infinite regression. You need a value to ground the values that you use to choose the values, ad infinitum, Although I admit some values can be chosen out of necessity but that'd not reason. Spoken as a tr...
- Fri Jun 10, 2016 3:37 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: The great psychosis of the person who
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14284
Re: The great psychosis of the person who
Rational thought, for the purposes of this post, means consistent, logically structured thinking that takes into account known fact. "Rational is who rational does ." Everyone is rational some of the time. Nobody is rational all of the time. Ironically, I would say that anyone who thinks they are pe...
- Thu Jun 02, 2016 3:07 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: You are not a computer
- Replies: 39
- Views: 56714
Re: You are not a computer
Coming to terms: there was a reason I didn't post an opinion or make a statement about the article (ETA) at first. I used it as a synthetic Rosetta Stone. I hope, QuantumTroll, you look at my posts as being candid, cheerful, hopeful, and respectful. I'm not trying to talk about religion as-such. Th...
- Wed Jun 01, 2016 2:19 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: You are not a computer
- Replies: 39
- Views: 56714
Re: You are not a computer
In any case, I think history has shown that what humanity can do is what humanity will do, sooner or later. Oh, I dunno. So far, at least, we've avoided nuclear wars.... You're right, I didn't give humanity enough credit. We don't do things that are obviously obviously obviously terrible. btw, I've...
- Wed Jun 01, 2016 11:18 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: You are not a computer
- Replies: 39
- Views: 56714
Re: You are not a computer
One important realm of applicability in the future is ethics, morality, and rights regarding artificial intelligence. If we don't accept the fact that our brains are computers, then it is hard to accept that computer-based minds can have the same intrinsic value as biological minds. After all, P-zo...
- Wed Jun 01, 2016 7:05 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: You are not a computer
- Replies: 39
- Views: 56714
Re: You are not a computer
How this implies that the brain does not perform computation, I will probably never understand.The Pixie wrote: All the author of the article has to offer is that the brain changes its state when it learns something.
- Wed Jun 01, 2016 6:56 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: You are not a computer
- Replies: 39
- Views: 56714
Re: You are not a computer
So let's take a bet, me and you QuantumTroll, but I'm trying to be a good Muslim so I don't wager for money. Let's wager, our esteem. lol I bet that a metaphor such as Climate, or Environment, in which disparate and causally unconnected parts are inclusively part of an emergent phenomenon of greate...
- Wed Jun 01, 2016 6:37 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: You are not a computer
- Replies: 39
- Views: 56714
Re: You are not a computer
Sgttomas, this is a lot to respond to, but I'll do my best to keep things focused. One of the overall "arguments" seems to be that you prefer to look at the world as a generalisation of yourself, rather than yourself as a specific case of the world. That's interesting, I'll try to remember this. You...