Recent content by steve_bank

I don't think that is my quote. I have been saying for over 10 years the system as it is is fatally flawed. The question is it will fail catastrophically or if there will be a managed change. Or slowly descending into chaos. Which we are seeing with our politics. Unrestricted AI plus the net...

It means there is nothing special about visual art and music. No crtevity or lerng or qork involved. Reduced to an algorithm. A denomination. Being the philosopher you are you cam understand that.

I realize you can not follow, that is the p[problem with those blindly embrace AI. Like the climate change deniers you are ratiojnaliozng away the issues. AI is being sued by parents for which AI has harmed their kids, in one case it pu8shed a kid over the edge to suicide. How is AI replacng...

I don't think I asked you for examples of anything. I have absolutely no need for video games. Unfortunately for e my vision problems make it doubtful to do the kind of reading I used to do. I stopped reading scifi in the 80s, reality was far more engaging. As to forces you bring g in the...

Jaryn The last tie I played a video game was arcade games back in the early 80s. I remember the old text based adventure games. So, I have no idea what your references to a video game means. Do you have something against short people, aka adwares? :)

Well, I think I agree. Pood might dispute your science philosophy dichotomy. Pood argues science IS philosophy. I was wondering if esq meant lawyer.

There is no special engineering or science logic per se. Deductive and inductive reaoning is the same however it is applied. Science is tied to unambiguous defined physical units of measures. Therrer are basic principles like conservation and causality. In philosophy obvious in this thread...

My imaginary cat Arnold tells me I now know all I need to know about free will versus determinism. Don’t know what I would do without Arnold to tell me what to do. Some post as if they are writing a masters or PHD thesis. It is after all the philosophy forum, but I wonder what it would be like...

I was looking for an oldcompicated treaty that I read about that when subjected to formal logic analysis was found to be meaningless. I stumbled on this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractatus_Logico-Philosophicus https://writing.upenn.edu/library/Wittgenstein-Tractatus.pdf Philosophy...

Okey dokey,if it works for you then good for you. To me it is all in brain, so to speak. My imaginary cat Arnold is all I need .... no cat food and kitty liter required. I wiil add one thing. The difference between Christianity and Buddhism is that Buddhism has a clearr set of rules for...

I think I know what you are saying, I disagree on how you frame it. There are mathematical deterministic functions, meaning given all variables but one, the unknown variable is deterministically defined. For integers a = b + c is deterministic. True regardless if the inverse itself is...

QM s a human created model, plants do not 'use' QM. QM is used in part to model photosynthesis.

Opps, the problem is not adequately bounded. Good catch. Point was formal and symbolic logic is better than words. I had to review a set of specification and had trouble geeing my arms around it. I reduced to a Boolean Algebra expression to make sure I covered all the dependencies..

Ilistened to a Christian news report on the topic. As they framed it belief in the bible is falling. Growing opinion that the bible is about control, makes me think all the religious debate here and elsewhere on the net actually may have an affect.

Sheesh ... I started a Marxism thread on social science so NR would not have to derail the forum.. It don't take a PHD in psychology. NR gets a positive self image and a purpose in life.