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by yc-kjh 13y ago
Thank you for correcting me on Nagel's name. I'm embarrassed that I misspelled it, cuz his book is right in front of me.
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
> Please give me a definition of "meaning" that can be applied to a human brain and not to a computer. You associate a meaning to the symbol "dog". You think of an animal that barks, wags its tail, chases cats and sq
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
No, I'm not begging the question. In another response, I readily admit that if materialism is true, then AI is a foregone conclusion. Please prove that mere electromagnetism can cause intentions, goals, and teleology. Limit yourself
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
I think that "qualia" is the wrong question. Please see my other comments on this story.
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
Yes
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
You apparently don't understand how computers work. There is no "meaning" associated with any variable or its value, and there cannot be.
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
I am not agreeing with your argument, but let me play devil's advocate. If somebody wanted to produce a real AI, every bit as intelligent as a human, he probably wouldn't go wrong by trying to reproduce in software what Pascal Boy
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
> I think you ought to try Julian Jaynes' Origin of Consciousness in the Brakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Thanks. I'll buy it and read it.
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
Au contraire. Since electromagnetism cannot cause intentions, or goals, and since the human obviously has both intentions and goals (teleology), it is clear that the human brain does encompass something in addition to electromagnetism. (Th
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
If you accept materialism as true, then by the Church-Turing hypothesis it is a necessary and foregone conclusion that computers will achieve full human intelligence, and even more, because they do not get tired and are not distracted.
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
Read, and then critique, Nagle's recent book: http://www.Amazon.com/Mind-Cosmos-Materialist-Neo-Darwinian-... Please come back and post your response here, or start a new Hacker-News story.
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
> But there are some things which are philosophical, yet not scientific I think you are wrong here as well. There is an entire branch of philosophy dedicated to the study of what we (can) know, and how we know it: epistemology. Some phil
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
It is obviously not a waste when we use computers to do syntax. Chess-playing computers can now beat the best international grandmasters; this is an example of computers doing syntax. For every task which is syntax only, it is a fantastic
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
The Ph.D. degree is all about philosophy, no matter what field it is in. There is nothing which is scientific (dealing with knowledge in general, according to the Latin roots of the word), which is not also philosophical (dealing with the l
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
Don't just vote me down. Give reasons. Critique my arguments. Critique Searle and Nagle, whom I cite. (You have to have read their corpus first.) Voting my comment down without giving any reason or justification proves my original
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
Idiocy: My thermostat has three possible beliefs: 1) It is too warm in here. 2) It is too cold in here. 3) It is just about right. Minsky is wrong about AI in the same way that McCarthy was wrong. McCarthy really "believed" that
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
The Asus model 1015E does not let you disable Restricted Boot, nor does it allow you to re-enable Legacy Boot. I don't have direct proof or experience, but I understand that many other models (and manufacturers) are similarly broken.
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
I don't blog.
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
Asus does not support disabling Restricted Boot for their model 1015E.
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
OpenBSD doesn't support UEFI, and will never boot from it. UEFI (better called Restricted Boot) takes away the user's freedom. I want to own my hardware. I don't want the manufacturer to own it. I don't truly own it un
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
Microsoft deserves the blame. They require UEFI (more accurately called Restricted Boot) for Windows 8.
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
It used to be the case that Linux just ran on everything, until Microsoft started throwing their monopoly weight around again , and insisting upon UEFI (better called "Restricted Boot"). http://www.FSF.org/campaig
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
OpenBSD does not support UEFI, and probably never will. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/196288 Please note that OpenBSD has no problem handling large disks, greater than 2 TB. The problem is with the
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
something unexpected will happen long before 202 million years from now.
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
> Show teleology is more than a human construction > to explain the purposes we ourselves invented Your question itself is enough evidence that humans didn't invent teleology, but merely recognized its existence. You are asking
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
> your decisions are being made > before your are consciousnessly aware of them Yes, I'm aware of these studies. But they make the mistake of presupposing materialist reductionism a priori, as if it were actually true. Those who
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
The ontological argument makes a lot more sense when you start from Augustine's viewpoint that evil is always a privation, a lack, and never a thing itself. In fact, it cannot be understood without Augustine's understanding of ev
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
Incompatible with Free Will The story is incompatible with free will. The only way the universe could be the way it is, with the one person living all those lives, yet always choosing such that the other people (him in another re-incarnati
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
There is a better way to visualize it. Do click on the link: http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=7033047 Unfortunately, this chart is arranged badly. But you can glean the information by comparing columns. First
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by yc-kjh 13y ago
Yes. Read it. Read it again in 5-10 years.

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