Report to Greco by Nikos Kazantzakis. — javi2541997
Over the weekend, almost seven million people in several thousand communities here in the US got together to celebrate our anniversary...among other things. — T Clark
Only our "idea of" is unreal, "we" as in humans organisms/species are real. — ENOAH
The "unreal" is human consciousness or "mind," representations displacing the real aware-ing with desires, emotions, perception, ideas, etc. — ENOAH
Being, just is. — ENOAH
So how does the phenomenological exercise get you to that, Real consciousness? It can't. But it gets you so close it becomes at the very least, the dream of a possibility. You only access real consciousness when you're being real consciousness. — ENOAH
I've added the note: NO AI-WRITTEN CONTENT ALLOWED to the guidelines and I intend to start deleting AI written threads and posts and banning users who are clearly breaking the guidelines. If you want to stay here, stay human. — Baden
However, suppose that instead of starting its decline in 180 AD, the Roman Empire had continued to grow its GDP at around 3% per year (a growth rate which most modern economists would be happy with) until the present day, a period of 1845 years. The total size of the Roman economy would now be 4e+23 times larger than its starting point, or if you want it in more traditional notation, 400000000000000000000000 times larger. So all things considered, it's probably a good thing that the Roman economy began to shrink when it did. — Peter Gray
What I’ve learned in comparing the forum with a.i. is that, unfortunately, the majority of participants here don’t have the background to engage in the kinds of discussions I have been able to have with a.i. concerning a range of philosophers dear to my heart, (such as Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida, Deleuze, Gendlin and Wittgenstein), especially when it comes to comparing and contrasting their positions. — Joshs
Therefore, the logical inference is that perpetual economic growth is impossible and that at some point the economy must stop growing. — Peter Gray
So sure, it's not like anyone can stop it anyway. — Forgottenticket
I was under the impression that intelligence of ANY kind had already been banned on this site. — Ciceronianus
Nowadays, there is an increased focus on the finished result, without much regard for how it has come about. This has so many negative consequences. — baker
The problem with modal moral quandaries generally is that one can always make them impossible to solve.That's why they make for long and often tedious threads. — Banno
What's the difference between buying a book at Amazon vs buying it at a bookstore, vs having ChatGPT make me one? — RogueAI
Why is that wrong? — RogueAI
On AI progress; as I say javi2541997, I use AI daily to help me with work and personal tasks, as do my friends. Why don't you think it counts as progress? — Mijin
but you could probably argue that the current day has the most inequality than any other point in history if you consider the massive wealth of certain people. — ProtagoranSocratist
I’m confused. Above you say that an act of remembering makes something non-fiction but below you write that remembering the past makes it fiction. — Joshs
Their style of thinking is not linear. — Joshs
What’s the difference between dreaming about me and being a novelist who writes a story with me as one of the characters? — Joshs
Novelists often say the characters come to life and tell them what they want to do. Do you think a novelist distinguishes between the reality of their dreams and that of their writerly imagination? — Joshs
Does my appearance in your fiction prove my existence? — Joshs
My point was to note that there are people out there that would utilize your criteria to come to conclude that Zeus -- or maybe other, more plausible cosmic figures -- also exist. — Moliere
Clearly I'm missing something. If the experience of interacting with me in a dream is the same as in reality, and I didn't cause your dream experience, then why believe i caused the real experience at all? At the very least it makes my status as cause suspect. — hypericin
Have you ever noticed that when you try to make sense of a dream strictly on the basis of remembered perceptual data (the identification of people, things and the actions that are being performed, like flying) the narrative of the dream appears bizarre and incoherent? — Joshs
Dont be too sure you’re dreaming about so and so just because the dream image looks like them. The feeling accompanying the image may lead you to someone else. And often, what starts out as one person morphs into someone else. Follow the feelings , not the images. — Joshs
You're asking the eye to see itself. As always, it will go to work trying to give you the explanation you seek. — frank
If it were then would it not be the case that God or Zeus is real for some, and not real for others?
That is, some would say that they have made an impact on them -- so just as I conclude that money is real so do I conclude that Zeus is real every time there's a lightning storm. — Moliere
