GENIUS FORUMS

Diebert van Rhijn wrote: Cosmic, you might not be aware that there's a discussion about the definition of life ongoing in various academic fields with no consensus reached. Your points 1,2,4 are very weak in the face of computer viruses or evolutionary programming in general. Yes, software depends o...

I don’t know Cory I think compassion is the same as saying disturbed by another’s tragedy. You even said earlier in your thread that humanity needs to be disturbed by life. I watch day after day how feeble my father is, how he comes home partially intoxicated night after night and gets in the sa...

actually I'll let you two handle this.

Jason: you are comparing two different things here, for example one can accurately describe the qualities of something that constitutes it as alive, but he couldn’t ultimately know what is the essence inside that thing that makes it alive. Without biology, one can observe qualities of a computer t...

To the wise man sorrow is a gift from heaven, a teacher. To the ignorant man sorrow is a constant reminder of his own stupidity. And to observe the stupidity of an ignorant man, one feels his tragedy because his tragedy is your tragedy. What makes the stupid mans predicament so unfortunate is that h...

Quinn wrote: None of us knows enough about consciousness to know whether it can be artificially created by humans or not. I don’t claim to be absolutely certain that robots could evolve to possess sage-like intelligence, but I’m incredibly skeptical and doubtful of the idea. This series of argum...

Jason wrote: Why do you believe that bacteria are alive but computers aren't? you will not find computers listed as a type of species that interacts with its biological ecosystem so perhaps this is a hint of why bacteria are living and computers are nonliving. Pye wrote: One doesn't need fret or rom...

Diebert van Rhijn wrote: they certainly would be capable of the range of human emotion. But I’m saying is that this wide range of emotion will not be actual feeling, it will be man’s simulation of feeling based on his limited knowledge of what he is able to imitate in human psychology. It is sti...

Quinn wrote: We are fortune that evolution programmed an ego into us, and there is no intrinsic reason why we can't program an ego into a machine. Science may program what they think is ego into a machine, but then all the robot will amount to is a structure based on humanities logical knowledge of ...

MKFaizi wrote: Humans drink because they still have emotions. Many people in this forum are under the assumption that the sage is devoid of emotion. However this couldn’t be further from the truth. There is a homeless women near my work who begs on the streets to support her drug addiction, and I ...

Diebert van Rhijn wrote: When seen like this, any advanced programming of a machine will have subroutines just like it. This assuming that this machine is able to change or repair its own programming to a certain extent. Which is exactly the direction the development of artificial intelligence is mo...

This is an exploration of why robots will never be philosophers. First of all, why does a human become a philosopher? It seems to me he seeks wisdom because he is discontent with himself, discontent with the state of his consciousness. Discontent is a necessary feeling for the human animal, because ...

Leyla wrote: The issue is not that Freud was attached to his libidinal theory -- he just saw and scientifically explored a marked difference between humans and animals: much deeper than the likes of a cosmic_prostitute can fathom (so ironic). But, you have to look deeper into Freud to see it. Leyla,...

suergaz wrote: Sure. In one way, the point of everything I've so far written in this thread was to encourage lingual rigour, as opposed to pedantry. Yes, I noticed that many of our statements were both true based the paradoxical nature of truth. You say self, I say no self. No self = self. You say t...

Suergaz wrote: That one only lives one life, in exactly the way that one lives it, is no argument against the infinite. Agreed. But my point is that a wise person realizes that there is not an infinite amount of feasible options that they have to choose from, the gate through heaven is very narrow. ...

The song “anything” reminds me of compulsive pep talks I used to hear from my grade three teacher Mrs Tordan. She would constantly tell me as a child that I could do anything and be anything if I believed in myself. Looking back, the woman was a cross between Mary Poppins, Puff the Magic Dragon ...

ya know what!? Dhodges is right! We just need to believe Suergaz.

Come brother take my hand and I’ll show you a whole new world.

We’ll go on infinite adventures together….

Anything and everything is possible.

Join me at this link:
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/aladdinworld.htm

Suergaz wrote: Eat more beef. Sorry bud, no can do. I don’t eat meat these days, and not because the animals make me feel all warm and fuzzy. If one is a true minimalist philosopher one sees how inefficient it is to eat meat. Eg:// one can either eat a slab of beef, which originates from a cow tha...

Dhodges wrote: I just don't see what free will gets you, other than the ability to make bad decisions, and frankly, that's not really so great. Agreed. It appears the more wise one becomes, the greater conviction one has that there is only one way to live. Suergaz wrote: A commander implies will. I ...

Suergaz wrote: nature is not conscious. Are you sure nature is not conscious? How do you know? What evidence do you have that nature is not conscious? Suergaz wrote: Nothing is an illusion. Incredibly deluded people don’t exist. There is nothing there. There is a girl I’m forced to work with fro...

suergaz wrote: Self is an experiencer. a commander, a realization. But if there is no choice, then there is nothing to command, the commanding is done for you, one just has to live according to this law. Moreover there is no commander because all commanding is ultimately caused anyhow. So the comman...

as from my genius teacher:

He once said "Aaayyyy!, When you're this cool, they're out to get you."

the last super genius for me is Fonzie from "Happy Days."

Allow me to translate your poetic expressions into mediocre CP language: Bert wrote: first:if our in-breathings are of purity,then our out-breathings are not foul. remember that what we as humans absorb - psychically or bodily - forms its own excretion. Are you saying that what we consume affects us...

Telepathy is a useless word? well... Suppose I walk into a social setting where a group of humans have gathered, but they are afraid to communicate because they are afraid of being hurt, humiliated, etc. So one sits down and can feel the group anxiety without one word being spoken. isnt that a form ...

Leyla wrote: Oh, really? On what fraudulently intellectual basis have you concluded that separation is an illusion and not non-separation, especially since you need to separate before you can realize this non-separation and, thus, engage in telepathy. Telepathy isn’t really a choice, for instance ...