"You are not the brain" sounds quite familar. In fact, I was teaching that in a philosophical institute quite a long ago. I will found more about it, anyway. Although the important thing is that ... At last! A different view on the subject! Up to now, "Brainists" totally outnumber "Non-brainists". And I'm afraid this difference won't get smaller ...You might enjoy Alva Noë‘s book, Out of our Heads: Why You are Not your Brain. — Wayfarer
Thank you for your response.That's because the detailed information is hard to get. The moment you try to get that detailed information you are interfering with that process you distort it, more or less — Prishon
This reminds me of quantum phyiscs ... — Alkis Piskas
OK, but have you thought involutarily of writing this and what exactly to write about? I certainly haven't! :smile:"voluntary thinking" is very much the exception to the rule of – just the rippling surface of the deep – involuntary thinking. — 180 Proof
As for "has not", I have already presented a documenation about what is generally known by Science on the subejct of thought. (So, if you have actually read the whole description of the topic, you shouldn't have asked this! :smile:)Science has not and cannot explain how they are produced and what is their source
— Alkis Piskas
Explain how you know this. — 180 Proof
TBD — 180 Proof
I assume that if biology can produce thinking organisms, then nature does not constrain a sufficiently advanced thinking organism from, at least in principle, engineering a 'synthetic thinker'. — 180 Proof
Indeed! So, the thought/thinking is like travelling. It can be done by foot (brain), by car, by plane, by ship, teleportation, etc i.e. the brain is just many ways thinking can be achieved. In other words, thinking isn't exclusively brain and that, in a sense, liberates thinking from biology onto other substrates. — TheMadFool
Thought moves bodies. Bodies are physical and physical entities are only moved (affect-affected) by other physical entities. Ergo, "thought" is "evidently" physical...."thought" is evidently of non-physical nature and Sciencedoes not deal with non-physical things.
Yeah, "you" are an idea generated by a brain interacting with its environment.You are not your brain. — TheMadFool
Yeah, "you" are an idea generated by a brain interacting with its environment. — 180 Proof
However, is the brain sufficient for thinking? Can AI think? Can silicon-based life-forms think? — TheMadFool
There's the rub. Will we ever be able to verify whether A.I. is actually thinking/is conscious? No. Even if someone's entire brain was replaced with a functionally identical mechanical brain and they reported they were conscious, we would still wonder: are you really conscious? We would always wonder that. Science can never answer that question. That suggests science is not the tool for this particular job. — RogueAI
I'm a functionalist so I agree 'self-aware phenomenal cognition' (mind) is in principle substrate-independent. — 180 Proof
BUT...
6. I hesitate to conclude the AI is conscious. — TheMadFool
You ain't going to work out where thoughts are unless you are fairly clear as to what they are. — Banno
"Good morning, sir"
And you responding :
"Oh my friend first we have to clarify the definition of what good is. After what you define as morning since it's almost 12, so you could easily say noon. And last but not least to define what you mean with Sir. Since I could easily be a transgender woman dressed like a Sir! ". — dimosthenis9
"Random stuff"? Is this what research means to you? You must better look up the word "research". Well, I will make it easier to you: Research is "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research)I don't waste time with random stuff pulled off of the internet – as you admitted "I made a small research in the Web" — 180 Proof
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