Recent content by entangled_cat

I went to your psciencequest forum. So, you can grab me there. I'm choosing my opponents. Trying to see how far before the axiomatic walls come down. You shpuld check out IGI. Would love to interview Alex there but he'd have to

I found this thread both sad and entertaining. It's a pity, I couldn't steer some of your members off to IGI which was dying. Here are some of the things IGI did : isgodimaginary.com. -- set up simple set of rules Really basic. No spam. No insults. -- ignore button hiding posts from annoying...

I think, if Turing had lived out his natural life, he might well have discovered Cook's theorem. Cook's theorem basically says if an algorithm can be found to solve the 3-satisfiability problem in polynomial time, then P=NP where P is the set of problems solvable in polynomial time, NP the set...

Why was it a folly? Turing simply defined an approach allowing ppl to move forward. A simpler well defined problem that was close to solvable after 75 years of effort. We made progress towards Turing's goal, yes. The question we can't answer remains the same because we can't directly...

Insane assumption, no? I mean, we have no evidence for any of these assumptions and no means to test for them. While we shouldn't delude ourselves to implying untestable things don't exist, why do we feel anythimg is outside?

I don't know who said it but certainly any one with any sort of a brain thought it, including skeptics. Society focuses too much on the who and not enough on the what. You guys obviously don't engage people who disagree with you. Pity that. Conversations don't seem part of the skeptiko...

I always find odd when the Turing test is seen as a test for consciousness. The point of the test, was, from an engineering perspective, you don't care what is going on internally. We don't have means of testing or measuring consciousness. At best, we can merely guess. Things exist we...

This paper seems to reference several studies. https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118

Can a biological rebot be sentient, have karma and how can a sentient person not have meaning in themselves? m

Why would you not look at them, LOL ppl still buy your books

Yes, that's the keto approach. Apparently works Other approaches also exist. Ppl claim they work

Your argument involves too many independent threads. Focus on one argument and I'll gladly provide a counter.

What evidence could truly prove an NDE is not a function of a dying brain? We know ppl have them. We know something about what some ppl see. We also know some ppl don't seem to have them.

Philosophers sometimes get paid a lot to arrogantly machine gun arguments to argue that materialism is somehow wrong. They cannot escape the fact that everything we know and a good deal we don't know is material. Certainly, our senses contruct a model of the world. We see things such as the...

I am a biological robot and so are you. This is self evident. We can measure the inputs and outputs, observe the effects. I am also conscious. So are you. Yet, I can't prove this. Descartes said, "I think therefore I am". I experience my own consciousness. I deduce yours. It is by definition...