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FOLLOWS YOU. Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Architectures, Computation. The goal is integrity, not conformity.

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    1. Stuart Sims‏ @SimsYStuart 26 Jun 2019
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      Replying to @ilyasaeagle @Plinz @likeplastic_

      The difference between “knowing” and “believing” is that knowing something means it can be measured and quantified. Can we measure or quantify the “proof” of God? smh. I believe in God, but I KNOW that proof of God is beyond human ability.

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    3. Stuart Sims‏ @SimsYStuart 26 Jun 2019
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      Can you give me a “for instance”? An example of something we “see as 100% true” for which we “don’t have empirical evidence”?

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    5. Stuart Sims‏ @SimsYStuart 26 Jun 2019
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      Haha. I’m not a fan of solipsism, personally. I reject most of the tenants of Cartesian thought as intellectually craven with almost zero practical utility. It’s a fun thought experiment for college sophomores taking philosophy 1301, I will concede. 🙂

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    6. Joscha Bach‏ @Plinz 26 Jun 2019
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      Who are the poor tenants of Cartesian thought that you reject?

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    7. Stuart Sims‏ @SimsYStuart 26 Jun 2019
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      Dualism. That mind is separate from physical reality. While I admire this model as an interesting thought experiment, as a practical matter it is an intellectual dead end. No utility.

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    8. Joscha Bach‏ @Plinz 26 Jun 2019
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      It makes more sense once you notice that physical reality is not "stuff in space" (res extensa). The stuff in space is the domain of perceptual representations, which are mapped in the mind into a single dynamic 3space, and exists next to thoughts and feelings (res cogitans).

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    9. Joscha Bach‏ @Plinz 26 Jun 2019
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      The physical universe is fully inaccessible, except by conceptualizing it as a pattern generator, with pattern properties that our mind can model.

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    10. Stuart Sims‏ @SimsYStuart 26 Jun 2019
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      I’m not arguing against the internal logical consistency of dualism - Descartes was a smart cookie, obviously. I’m arguing against the usefulness of dualism as a practical matter. The logical destination of dualistic ideology is nihilism.

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      Joscha Bach‏ @Plinz 26 Jun 2019
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      If understood as a statement about the relationship between mind and physical ground truth, Cartesian dualism is false, both pragmatically (it leads to false predictions) and epistemologically. I don't see evidence that Cartesians are more nihilist than the rest of the population

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        2. Stuart Sims‏ @SimsYStuart 26 Jun 2019
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          If you truly believe that nothing outside your own mind can be verified, then the concept of “reality” is meaningless. All concepts of morality, ethics, humanity, are reduced to subjective aspects of personal perception. The result is moral relativism, leading to nihilism.

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        3. Joscha Bach‏ @Plinz 26 Jun 2019
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          You seem to imply that your motivation depends on your beliefs, and your beliefs on your understanding of reality, and that reality has moral facts in it. That is quite a stretch. Do you insulate yourself from a train of thought with a "slippery slope" argument here?

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