The nature of childhood trauma and development of AGI are different. — Jack Cummins

It signifies the idea replacing human beings with the non-human.

Do you not see this as being problematic at all?

Are you saying the universe is non-intelligent irrespective if there is intelligent life in it ? — kindred

intelligent laws of physics

It’s like looking at the mechanism of a clock ...

... because the universe contains intelligence it would make it an intelligent universe — kindred

Energy and mass aren't existents (per se), they are properties of things that exist, and they can be converted to each other (that's entailed by E=MC^2). — Relativist

So, supposing you were a deity, what would you do and why? — Benj96

What would be your characteristics?

As in how would you define yourself?

And what would be your motives?

Would you be an active force in the world/reality or merely a passive observer?

energy are massless (not physical) eg a photon, — Benj96

What else is there besides vacuum fluctuations? — Fire Ologist

the universe is only an expanding (cooling, or entropic) vacuum fluctuation that is/was random / acausal / non-intelligent.
— 180 Proof

Would you say that explains everything? — Fire Ologist

Seems to me that is an explanation for everything.

something can’t come from nothing — kindred

Then you could equate life with intelligence ... — kindred

... and you’d be saying that intelligence is a rare property of non-life

we do know that something has always existed

pre big bang world

How then is [only so called for a point of mutual focus] God to be conceived of, absolutely? — ENOAH

Would you then agree that non-life has the potential to give rise to life and intelligence? — kindred

Would you also then agree that at the very least intelligence is a potential in the universe?

you can’t get something from nothing just like you can’t get life from non-life — kindred

So you don’t believe that these processes exhibit intelligence from an anthropic perspective? — kindred

If so then why would non-life lead to life? (Abiogenesis)

or put more simply how do you get intelligence from non-intelligence?

You can’t.

Was intelligence in the universe pre-existing? — kindred

'The Book of Minds: Understanding Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to Aliens', Philip Ball (2022). — Jack Cummins

truly free thinking — Jack Cummins

Israel is the aggressor, Hamas commits a war crime and Israel uses it as an excuse to step up its decade old aggression by committing even worse war crimes. — Benkei

It partly comes down to the question of what is [do we mean by] consciousness? — Jack Cummins

It also depends on what do the artificial simulations serve, and in accordance with whose will?

If one has any sympathy with panpsychism ...

... beings with free will.

Who would you name as the 10 [13] most important philosophers born after 1900? — Joshs

It might just be that the word god was the name given to anything that was unexplainable and originally meant "I don't know". — Sir2u

[It] would be logical to assume ... god(s) came about from the initial belief of animism¹, which likely came about due to pareidolia². — Outlander

Antinatalism is the poster boy for playing with Big Important Ideas not always leading to wisdom or insight. At least the minutia-mongerers among us aren't so foolish as to think there could be such a thing as an argument against life. — Srap Tasmaner

It's factually correct that anyone who defends Israeli aggression is a war crime(s) apologist. — Benkei

Are they overly influenced by watching science fiction? — Relativist

Which is why the victory must be complete and Hamas completely replaced. — BitconnectCarlos

You could be possessed. You don't know — frank