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- Fri Dec 22, 2023 7:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Thinking about death
- Replies: 81
- Views: 267847
Re: Thinking about death
Thanks for your understanding and experience of this, Ash. Interesting! I confess my sympathies still lie with the imperfect and ignorant who are suffering (probably because I too am imperfect and ignorant)! It's really a matter of perspective. I do believe we gain insights from our everyday lives b...
- Fri Dec 22, 2023 2:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Thinking about death
- Replies: 81
- Views: 267847
Re: Thinking about death
Ashvin said: "But if this is even conceivable as a possibility, would it at all influence your thinking about the 'Thinker-of-Reality' and its nature? Could such a possibility nudge your philosophical focus at all in a different direction, perhaps towards learning what it is within you, and wit...
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 5:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Thinking about death
- Replies: 81
- Views: 267847
Re: Thinking about death
Ashvin, in fairness, you asked whether I had any thoughts directly relating to this thread. My thoughts on death are that it is nothing to fear. However, I think that dying slowly and painfully is fearful and would be a disgrace if the Thinker-of-Reality were metacognitive and moral.
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 4:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Thinking about death
- Replies: 81
- Views: 267847
Re: Thinking about death
"Indeed, the various aspects of our soul-life that we call "me" are living elementals, playing off of each other in the most varied ways. What else could they be, dead abstractions? Carl Jung was another great phenomenologist who verified this." Ashvin, I send out hundreds of tho...
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 4:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Thinking about death
- Replies: 81
- Views: 267847
Re: Thinking about death
Lorenzop, I think you might fairly say that Ashvin wants his cake and eats it. When he talks about such ideas as thoughts being living elementals or the immorality of using solar power, he is not building “a gradual gradient of experience”. He has already decided on the nature of reality – how it wo...
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 12:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Donald Hoffman - Fusing agents and qualia: a formal solution to the combination problem
- Replies: 19
- Views: 49815
Re: Donald Hoffman - Fusing agents and qualia: a formal solution to the combination problem
Thanks for your insights, Eugene! On the subject of top-down, bottom-up, I guess there may be a way round it: Top down has minimal "understanding" so goes with simple structures it evolves (almost by chance or by repeated iterations trying to make sense out of chaos), then builds these up ...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 5:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Donald Hoffman - Fusing agents and qualia: a formal solution to the combination problem
- Replies: 19
- Views: 49815
Re: Donald Hoffman - Fusing agents and qualia: a formal solution to the combination problem
Stranger said: “Interesting insight at 32-35 min on how higher-order conscious agents are formed by "fusion" of lower-order agents where the new qualia of the higher-order ones are being created from the qualia of the lower-order agents but are not reducible to them. This is a possible sol...
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 11:00 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: A conscious synthetic-biology living android
- Replies: 10
- Views: 20289
Re: A conscious synthetic-biology living android
Jonathan said: "Look, Ashvin, you have posted 5249 messages. Are you lonely and afraid to face your loneliness, so you distract yourself by out-of-proportion writing and posting on this forum?" Ashvin is on a mission, and if a response is not to his liking, his naturally adversarial daimon...
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 7:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Anthroposophy for Dummies
- Replies: 326
- Views: 284110
Re: Anthroposophy for Dummies
Federica said: “Redemption means to find and inhabit the force of life that can brighten up the darkness of death through us. Redemption doesn't mean to wander to exhaustion through the valley of death letting our blood be preyed on by ever-thirstier, shinier and plumpier networks of thought-replica...
- Thu Jan 26, 2023 6:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: ChatGPT answers metaphysical questions :)
- Replies: 65
- Views: 6868
Re: ChatGPT answers metaphysical questions :)
I was intrigued by Chat GPT and noticed there was a thread here. I was deeply unimpressed by the bot - it admitted that it's first two answers were in error (all done within a minute)! The final answer was also highly dubious, but I'd seen enough by then: It literally doesn't know what it's talking ...