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- Sat Jun 30, 2007 2:36 pm
- Forum: The Philosophy
- Topic: Gynoid functionalism; maps, territories and chinese rooms...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 19628
Re: Gynoid functionalism; maps, territories and chinese room
My main question to you is; so long as the Gynoid performs the same functional roles, with the same causal relations between inputs and outputs, should it be considered as a real mind with sapience, sentience etc.? As far as I'm concerned, yes. Even if the internal mecanism is different, I think th...
- Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:14 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Future of the forum
- Replies: 29
- Views: 29639
About the changeover: have someone though of using an already existing forum (awn.com, animenation.net, absoluteanime.com, etc) to be the official successor of this one? I understand that it would have its disadvantages (moderators control), but also a some advantages. Just making a suggestion... In...
- Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:04 pm
- Forum: Anime
- Topic: Anime Is Expensive
- Replies: 15
- Views: 30904
I know you and I will never agree on this subject. Thats alright. Maybe I will agree with you someday. It's just that, for the moment, the arguments for IP are generally based on feelings (I think IP is good) while those against it are usually based on kind-of scientific claims (the monopoly introd...
- Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:58 am
- Forum: Anime
- Topic: Anime Is Expensive
- Replies: 15
- Views: 30904
- Mon Jan 15, 2007 7:14 pm
- Forum: Anime
- Topic: Anime Is Expensive
- Replies: 15
- Views: 30904
- Mon Jan 15, 2007 4:07 pm
- Forum: And More ...
- Topic: Simulated Worlds
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7999
- Mon Jan 15, 2007 3:43 pm
- Forum: Anime
- Topic: Anime Is Expensive
- Replies: 15
- Views: 30904
Maybe you could try to get addicted to less costly things? :-) For equally good quality, books cost a lot less than DVDs. And the cost is certainly not proportional to the quality. Check here for some suggestion. Your local library might even have some. As for the poor student feeling, that might be...
- Wed Jan 03, 2007 7:52 pm
- Forum: And More ...
- Topic: Avalon
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4797
Avalon
I don't know if this has been discussed in a previous incarnation of the forum so I risk it. I liked the movie very much, but I was left with unanswered questions. Spoiler alert, btw. The dog. Why the dog disapearance? Does the dog posters in class real are supposed to have a meaning? How could Bish...
- Fri Dec 15, 2006 1:26 pm
- Forum: The Philosophy
- Topic: The Suicide of Humanity
- Replies: 12
- Views: 22613
- Sun Dec 03, 2006 12:50 pm
- Forum: The Philosophy
- Topic: Faith
- Replies: 70
- Views: 102171
I though I would bring two points I find interesting. I think we all more or less agree on that faith is a very personal thing and that you can't prove if you are right or wrong, thus the very idea of faith. However, where I see a problem is that, when you believe something to be true (God sends lig...
- Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:49 pm
- Forum: The Philosophy
- Topic: Faith
- Replies: 70
- Views: 102171
Explain to me this then: How is your morality any different from moral relativism, or the idea that morality is whatever a given culture or group makes of it? That if some radical cleric with a barbaric medieval mindset says it's not only acceptable, but our sacred moral duty to Allah to kill peopl...
- Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:15 pm
- Forum: The Philosophy
- Topic: Faith
- Replies: 70
- Views: 102171
If you believe that morals are as universal as the laws of physics, you believe in supernatural phenomenon, because it's impossible to measure or judge morality objectively. Absolute morality doesn't go with scientific worldview. I think that where douyang is going* is to the platonic belief that o...
- Mon Nov 20, 2006 5:33 pm
- Forum: The Philosophy
- Topic: Faith
- Replies: 70
- Views: 102171
One objective value would be the individual's right to speak their mind, regardless of whether his opinion is popular or not, without fear of violence or retaliation. [...] For me this is the only true morality there ever could be, and the moral relativism you propose turns the very concept of ethi...
- Sun Nov 19, 2006 5:37 pm
- Forum: The Philosophy
- Topic: Faith
- Replies: 70
- Views: 102171
Without an objective set of morals that you can justifiably force on others, what do you have to oppose someone whose values you feel to be evil in the worst possible degree, someone like Hitler or Stalin or Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban? I don't understand how a subjective and ever changing mora...
- Sun Nov 12, 2006 8:21 pm
- Forum: The Philosophy
- Topic: life
- Replies: 34
- Views: 56970
Of course, knowing is always a problem. I think that there is a substantial chance of stumbling upon what awareness is if you develop advanced AI. I know there a various theories on how things can be conscious, but I am definitely not a supporter of the idea that entities suddenly become “possessed...