Thank you for correcting me on Nagel's name. I'm embarrassed that I misspelled it, cuz his book is right in front of me.
> Please give me a definition of "meaning" that can be applied to a human brain and not to a computer. You associate a meaning to the symbol "dog". You think of an animal that barks, wags its tail, chases cats and…
No, I'm not begging the question. In another response, I readily admit that if materialism is true, then AI is a foregone conclusion. Please prove that mere electromagnetism can cause intentions, goals, and teleology.…
I think that "qualia" is the wrong question. Please see my other comments on this story.
Yes
You apparently don't understand how computers work. There is no "meaning" associated with any variable or its value, and there cannot be.
I am not agreeing with your argument, but let me play devil's advocate. If somebody wanted to produce a real AI, every bit as intelligent as a human, he probably wouldn't go wrong by trying to reproduce in software what…
> I think you ought to try Julian Jaynes' Origin of Consciousness in the Brakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Thanks. I'll buy it and read it.
Au contraire. Since electromagnetism cannot cause intentions, or goals, and since the human obviously has both intentions and goals (teleology), it is clear that the human brain does encompass something in addition to…
If you accept materialism as true, then by the Church-Turing hypothesis it is a necessary and foregone conclusion that computers will achieve full human intelligence, and even more, because they do not get tired and are…
Read, and then critique, Nagle's recent book: http://www.Amazon.com/Mind-Cosmos-Materialist-Neo-Darwinian-... Please come back and post your response here, or start a new Hacker-News story.
> But there are some things which are philosophical, yet not scientific I think you are wrong here as well. There is an entire branch of philosophy dedicated to the study of what we (can) know, and how we know it:…
It is obviously not a waste when we use computers to do syntax. Chess-playing computers can now beat the best international grandmasters; this is an example of computers doing syntax. For every task which is syntax…
The Ph.D. degree is all about philosophy, no matter what field it is in. There is nothing which is scientific (dealing with knowledge in general, according to the Latin roots of the word), which is not also…
Don't just vote me down. Give reasons. Critique my arguments. Critique Searle and Nagle, whom I cite. (You have to have read their corpus first.) Voting my comment down without giving any reason or justification proves…
Idiocy: My thermostat has three possible beliefs: 1) It is too warm in here. 2) It is too cold in here. 3) It is just about right. Minsky is wrong about AI in the same way that McCarthy was wrong. McCarthy really…
The Asus model 1015E does not let you disable Restricted Boot, nor does it allow you to re-enable Legacy Boot. I don't have direct proof or experience, but I understand that many other models (and manufacturers) are…
I don't blog.
Asus does not support disabling Restricted Boot for their model 1015E.
OpenBSD doesn't support UEFI, and will never boot from it. UEFI (better called Restricted Boot) takes away the user's freedom. I want to own my hardware. I don't want the manufacturer to own it. I don't truly own it…
Microsoft deserves the blame. They require UEFI (more accurately called Restricted Boot) for Windows 8.
It used to be the case that Linux just ran on everything, until Microsoft started throwing their monopoly weight around again, and insisting upon UEFI (better called "Restricted Boot").…
OpenBSD does not support UEFI, and probably never will. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/196288 Please note that OpenBSD has no problem handling large disks, greater than 2 TB. The problem is with the…
something unexpected will happen long before 202 million years from now.
> Show teleology is more than a human construction > to explain the purposes we ourselves invented Your question itself is enough evidence that humans didn't invent teleology, but merely recognized its existence. You…
Thank you for correcting me on Nagel's name. I'm embarrassed that I misspelled it, cuz his book is right in front of me.
> Please give me a definition of "meaning" that can be applied to a human brain and not to a computer. You associate a meaning to the symbol "dog". You think of an animal that barks, wags its tail, chases cats and…
No, I'm not begging the question. In another response, I readily admit that if materialism is true, then AI is a foregone conclusion. Please prove that mere electromagnetism can cause intentions, goals, and teleology.…
I think that "qualia" is the wrong question. Please see my other comments on this story.
Yes
You apparently don't understand how computers work. There is no "meaning" associated with any variable or its value, and there cannot be.
I am not agreeing with your argument, but let me play devil's advocate. If somebody wanted to produce a real AI, every bit as intelligent as a human, he probably wouldn't go wrong by trying to reproduce in software what…
> I think you ought to try Julian Jaynes' Origin of Consciousness in the Brakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Thanks. I'll buy it and read it.
Au contraire. Since electromagnetism cannot cause intentions, or goals, and since the human obviously has both intentions and goals (teleology), it is clear that the human brain does encompass something in addition to…
If you accept materialism as true, then by the Church-Turing hypothesis it is a necessary and foregone conclusion that computers will achieve full human intelligence, and even more, because they do not get tired and are…
Read, and then critique, Nagle's recent book: http://www.Amazon.com/Mind-Cosmos-Materialist-Neo-Darwinian-... Please come back and post your response here, or start a new Hacker-News story.
> But there are some things which are philosophical, yet not scientific I think you are wrong here as well. There is an entire branch of philosophy dedicated to the study of what we (can) know, and how we know it:…
It is obviously not a waste when we use computers to do syntax. Chess-playing computers can now beat the best international grandmasters; this is an example of computers doing syntax. For every task which is syntax…
The Ph.D. degree is all about philosophy, no matter what field it is in. There is nothing which is scientific (dealing with knowledge in general, according to the Latin roots of the word), which is not also…
Don't just vote me down. Give reasons. Critique my arguments. Critique Searle and Nagle, whom I cite. (You have to have read their corpus first.) Voting my comment down without giving any reason or justification proves…
Idiocy: My thermostat has three possible beliefs: 1) It is too warm in here. 2) It is too cold in here. 3) It is just about right. Minsky is wrong about AI in the same way that McCarthy was wrong. McCarthy really…
The Asus model 1015E does not let you disable Restricted Boot, nor does it allow you to re-enable Legacy Boot. I don't have direct proof or experience, but I understand that many other models (and manufacturers) are…
I don't blog.
Asus does not support disabling Restricted Boot for their model 1015E.
OpenBSD doesn't support UEFI, and will never boot from it. UEFI (better called Restricted Boot) takes away the user's freedom. I want to own my hardware. I don't want the manufacturer to own it. I don't truly own it…
Microsoft deserves the blame. They require UEFI (more accurately called Restricted Boot) for Windows 8.
It used to be the case that Linux just ran on everything, until Microsoft started throwing their monopoly weight around again, and insisting upon UEFI (better called "Restricted Boot").…
OpenBSD does not support UEFI, and probably never will. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/196288 Please note that OpenBSD has no problem handling large disks, greater than 2 TB. The problem is with the…
something unexpected will happen long before 202 million years from now.
> Show teleology is more than a human construction > to explain the purposes we ourselves invented Your question itself is enough evidence that humans didn't invent teleology, but merely recognized its existence. You…