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Of course part of evolution as currently understood is random genetic drift, which also does not involve reasoning, planning or foresight. Attempts to argue away from the empirical are simply ideological. Generally an attempt to rescue certain versions of religion from reality.

This is incorrect. Science actually understands biology to be a process of random mutation mediated by natural selection. But that could be not wholly true too. Sometime back I started a thread about how there is now evidence that mutations respond to environmental changes, at odds with...

Indeed, the question has been answered again and again, and he keeps asking it while failing to engage with the multitude of answers he has already received. I’ve basically stopped reading his posts.

The fact that whales and dolphins have not created a hierarchal civilization full of deep inequalities strikes me as evidence of their mental superiority to humans. I feel confident that they talk to each other and have deep conversations, one of which probably is, wtf is up with those fucked up...

And what possible reason do you have for thinking that we in this world are some sort of avatars in a game that someone is playing? I notice your name, excreationist. Did you once believe in a supernatural creator but just changed that for a natural creator who runs computer simulations? And if...

The point is, however, that this an ancient problem, the problem of other minds, which does not require AI bullshit.

No. The first clause of the above sentence is a non sequitur. (Though strictly there is no clause because there is no comma.) Nor I have argued that consciousness cannot be simulated. We already have such simulations. What I am asking is: Do you believe such simulations of consciousness are...

Maybe @1Heidegger1! would like to comment in this thread, I feel I can learn something from him. We also wrote a novel together, so there is that. :)

The Tegmark frog/bird view seems to be a diametrically opposite but actually wholly compatible view of the Minkowski block universe. Two sides of the same coin. Sorry, doing philosophy now. ;) The idea here is that two contrary epistemologies can represent the same ontology from two different...

Now I have become interested in Heidegger’s phenomenology and Tegmark’s bird/frog view as it relates to the difference between Heraclitus and Parmenides. There seem to be similarities but not sure. More reading to do! :shrug: The latter does seem to have anticipated Minkowski by some 2,000 years.

Bernie Sanders gives Trump hell. Too bad the Democratic base didn’t choose him in 2016 or 2020. But the wonderful old geezer still looks pretty spry, and what a speech. Berniie 2028? If we still have elections by then?

Swizzle gets his “news” from the Daily Mail. What more need be said? :unsure:

Philosophy from the ancient Greeks but also other cultures (including the now-hated Muslims) laid the intellectual groundwork for what today we call science, which is also natural philosophy and epistemology — that is, applied philosophy.

Here is more philosophy, from the modern physicist Max Tegmark: Frog view: being and becoming. Bird view: block world. Going back to a debate that began some 2.400 years ago. All tedious and pompous nonsense I guess. :rolleyes:

Parmenides argued for a single, unchanging reality — which prefigures the modern Einstein/Minkowski block world. Heraclitus argued for constant change and flux, the modern idea of being and becoming. Heidegger wrote about this. But it’s all just tedious and pompous I guess. :rolleyes:

I agree completely. But this is a philosophical stance. ;)

The ancient Greeks also posited the idea of randomness in nature and atomism, though their randomness views do line up exactly with modern quantum mechanics. The randomness idea was at odds with Aristotle, though the point here is that the ancient Greeks did pretty well for not having access to...

New study aligns with Aristotle’s idea of why time seems to pass faster for older people. But no, philosophy and science have no relation. :rolleyes:

Maybe we are all p-zombies in a simulation!

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