With all of the city’s criminal records downloaded into his mind and his dopamine levels nearly zero, Murphy meets the press…
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Humans can tolerate mysteries quite well as long as we can fill them in with speculations, which in the end tell us mostly about ourselves.
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To suppose that unthinking processes can somehow produce a thinking entity as an illusion is a sheer act of faith — faith in materialism but faith nonetheless.
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Given that human consciousness is a Hard Problem in philosophy, we can expect useful discussions to follow — but also a good deal of silliness.
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Not understanding what words mean or how they relate to the real world, chatbots have no way of determining whether their responses are sensible, let alone true
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It’s useful to know that this sort of fact-free performance is acceptable, given the state of a materialist interpretation of consciousness today.
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Apart from demoting evolution, “consciousness first” is yet another attempt to naturalize consciousness by making it a basic origin of life process.
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We can’t read the thoughts of the dead who left no decipherable writings but we can study the workings of the human mind from remarkably long ago.
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There is much evidence to suggest that the human mind is immaterial and immateriality is one of the characteristics of things that do not die.
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Who will assume Dennett’s role as the leading, world-famous Darwinian materialist philosopher? Will the position remain — tellingly — vacant?
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Based on extensive training on untold amounts of text, LLMs are able to repackage superficially compelling answers that they literally do not understand.
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In a discussion at Psychology Today, a philosopher notes that her dissertation supporting the reality of near-death experiences was received without hostility.
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What feels remarkable is that people with an interest in political issues have even started to ask these questions. We used to be told they never would.
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Just as extraterrestrials are Out There because we don’t want to think we are alone, chatbots are Becoming Human because we don’t want to feel we are unique.
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The conclusion we must reach by examining our own intentionality carefully is that it has an ultimate origin from a conscious being outside of our world.
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Only in the intellectual world are concepts like correct vs. incorrect (or right vs. wrong) meaningful. It’s a different world from the one created by physics.
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Such a position is not something the materialist derives from the evidence; it is imposed by the ideology.
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The Dalai Lama asked Merzenich a question that cut to the heart of the question of the relationship between our brains and ourselves.
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If information is “the relational glue that holds reality together,” the mind–body problem can be reframed in a more satisfactory way.
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Their discussion of animal behavior depends wholly on the uniquely human ability to abstract. That ability also radically changes how humans use tools.
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