The point of the OP is that I don't believe that burden could be met. — Art48

...declaring something supernatural seems, to repeat myself, presumptuous and foolish. — Art48

...not ready for prime time... — Wayfarer

AI is not about repeating what it has downloaded even if that is masterfully masked by paraphrasing and word substitution. Real AI should provide us with solutions to problems like global warming, poverty, diseases, etc. — Agent Smith

To convert this to some sort of philosophical rather than biological premise, what do you think such a will implies for conscious agents in a dead/inanimate world? — Benj96

Contemplation is the yang to the yin of meditation. — punos

Would you label Socrates as a martyr, and is that label deserved? — Shawn

The past is real. When you watch a really old movie, the dead are convinced they are real. — neonspectraltoast

..are saturated with the social and political contexts of the turbulent, early Roman Empire in which they were written. — 180 Proof

In essence, what sort of god would you define yourself as? — Benj96

What do they mean? — TiredThinker

Of course Dennett does not champion qualia. I think the term is OK as long as it remains as a mere synonym for "quality of experience". — Janus

Also, I don't think thinking is strategic. I'm not even sure what that means. Certainly a lot of our thinking is not goal oriented. — T Clark

The question could have been couched in more general terms. I would say the question is, Do some technologies have negative impacts on society at large? The answer to this question is yes. In which case those technologies need to be regulated. And yes the case you put is a good example. — Pantagruel

What do you mean by transhumanism? — TiredThinker

... a class of philosophies of life that seek the continuation and acceleration of the evolution of intelligent life beyond its currently human form and human limitations by means of science and technology, guided by life-promoting principles and values.

The only growth here is a kind of self-diversification. — Joshs

If a thought can be destroyed, then perhaps Shakespeare did create the play Macbeth. But if we find it difficult to imagine utterly destroying a thought, then perhaps we’ll also find it difficult to believe that a mere human could create an eternal, indestructible thought, or the sequence of thoughts and images which constitute the play Macbeth. — Art48

Like from the eighteenth century onward, there seemed to be this conception that energy represented something an object possessed – as a person possesses physical energy, or a ball has energy when airborne – and at some point when theory about light, electricity, time, and space, began to predominate over simple mechanics it seemed that a transition took place from energy being thought of as a property of an object into it being thought of as an abstract entity itself that could be part of a wave or motion between atoms; something that could be harnessed and stored.

I find it interesting from the point of view of how the conceptual landscape has changed along with this change. What kind of ways has the same shape been observed in other forms of everyday life in Western culture? Do you think there were any ways in which this may have influenced our way of thinking? — kudos

Was the story meant to show that being a neo-luddite is an untenable position? — Bylaw

Ah... but what precisely does it mean 'to keep up'? — Tom Storm

I sat at my desk, looking at the new computer that had been delivered that morning. I had been a neo-luddite for years, but my work required me to use the latest technology. I was a philosophy professor, and I liked to think that I was above such things. But the truth was, I was struggling to keep up with my students.

The question is how do we render the abstract (ideas) concrete (images)? — Agent Smith

AI is good at picking up patterns in images and also sounds too. We need to translate concepts/ideas/theories/whathaveyous into images/sounds, this is the hard part, and then let AI do its thing, this is the easy part. — Agent Smith

...anything that looks ‘new’ is simply due to the reader’s interpretation. — I like sushi

It would be interesting to see several AI ‘philosophers’ tackle a problem and see how well they are able to use all the philosophical works ever written to counter each others points. — I like sushi

Which system do you believe ‘pierces the veil’ better in understanding the mystery of the purpose of living for a 20th Century human? — David S

But it's not due to the lack of their own inner awareness. It is due to their abhorrence over the apparent pretension associated to things that people say who talk about "Inner awareness". — god must be atheist

Personally, I don't know any humans who lack inner awareness. It is indeed hard even to imagine a human without inner awareness.

I don't think this is a major problem, because it is simply isn't so. — god must be atheist

So, it seems to me there is a broad range of positions that some will call neo-luddite, which nevertheless are not against all technology. Sometimes people will get labelled luddites, sometimes they will even name themselves that way. But likely most of them lie on a spectrum. — Bylaw

Lucid dreaming is a phenomenon that I want to analyze. What are your thoughts about it? — Shawn