Forum: Diavlog comments
05-18-2010, 02:50 AM
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Forum: Diavlog comments
05-17-2010, 10:58 PM
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Re: Science Saturday: The Great Singularity Debate
It's an old concept but in some ways has always been related to mechanistic interpretations of mind as in the thought experiments of G.W.Liebnitz who imagined getting really tiny and walking around...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
05-17-2010, 10:48 PM
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Re: Science Saturday: The Great Singularity Debate
My thinking is why put the cart in front of the horse? Let's figure out the brain first then deal with that knowledge, instead of getting all excited about possibilities that depend on already having...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
05-17-2010, 09:32 PM
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Forum: Diavlog comments
05-17-2010, 07:09 PM
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Forum: Diavlog comments
05-17-2010, 02:58 PM
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Forum: Diavlog comments
05-16-2010, 04:38 PM
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Re: Science Saturday: The Great Singularity Debate
You might be changing the subject. Eliezer argued for continuity of human thought from biological instantiation in a human body to instantiation in a machine of some sort. I think there is no reason...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
05-16-2010, 03:21 PM
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Re: Science Saturday: The Great Singularity Debate
Downloading the human mind (in it's entirety/completeness/fullness) to a machine presupposes the it can be perfectly understood. Presupposing that the human mind can be perfectly understood is silly....
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Forum: Diavlog comments
05-15-2010, 10:58 PM
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Forum: Diavlog comments
05-15-2010, 02:52 PM
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Re: Science Saturday: The Great Singularity Debate
This is the nub. So much comes down to attitude. E is very invested in winning and when M doesn't roll over for him he gets frustrated and whiny. M is more patient than I would have been. I got a bit...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
10-26-2008, 01:44 AM
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Re: Science Saturday: Confronting the Right Wing
John, I'm at the point in the diavlog where you are expressing upset that haidt asks liberals to be the understanding ones in trying to reach some kind of consensus w/ conservatives. I don't think...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-12-2008, 11:06 AM
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-12-2008, 11:03 AM
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Re: S.P.O.D. (Sarah Palin Obsession Disorder)
Bob,
I was very interesting to hear what Jacqueline Shire had to say about sarah palin but she could hardly get a word in! You have good things to say too but why even bother having a guest on...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-09-2008, 01:45 AM
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Re: Free Will: Intellectual Cousins Edition
Will, I completely agree with you viz a viz the relevance of philosophy to moving culture in a substantial or meaningful way (if I can paraphrase what you said as such). You voiced your frustration...
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