Judi S.

@_Robert_ – I have no reason to believe that I shall be received there, not even on a Sunday. I will happily settle for whatever the Everglades has to offer like Flamingos flying endlessly to the silent sky…….

@Simon – I think philosophy is good at supplying questions that need answering.

A classic question for philosophy students is to ask them “OK, should we all go outside now and kill ourselves and if not, why not”. I think that question demands an answer.

@Unseen – I have a friend who is a serious photographer and a nerd when it comes to cameras. He has a similar Panasonic camera for wildlife when he goes on Safari and also a Canon EOS R5 for nude models. I could be mixed up on that as I have no knowledge of cameras myself but he never ceases to explain the technical benefits of each to me! I think…[Read more]

No, I think the bot is giving a descriptive evaluation or interpretation of facts. That is what Alexa or Siri does but this is  a higher level. Philosophy is also evaluation of facts and their implications. But the best way to begin philosophy is to study philosophy. As Hegel said, the study of philosophy is but the introduction to it.

Eno is…[Read more]

Regarding A.I. and speech take a look at this article on Open A.I. GPT-3 technologies. It can write prose that includes higher level concepts. If you have an NYT sub see this recent article. The following is an excerpt from it:

For example, when I gave GPT-3 the prompt:

In 1958, Frank Rosenblatt introduced the Perceptron, an early version of a…[Read more]

@_Robert_ – I had not looked at that anti-vaxxer site for a while so I did today. What I noticed (apart from the sad stupidity) was that the age of those getting Darwin awards has really dropped. That are now many more younger people dying. Denial is not just a river in Africa!

@Encog – Last summer I was chatting with a few of my neighbors when a kid came around on his bike to say that “some man” had just climbed over the back wall of the garden a few doors up. The owner ran in and dragged some junkie out who then threatened to “spike” us with a syringe (a not uncommon threat to give people HIV). Nobody called the pol…[Read more]

Yeah, I have killed some time watching the porch pirates get bombed. (No, not Jehovah Witnesses but Amazon package thieves) They are funny and they all deserve it.

I met a guy a while back on a flight to Northern Calif. He was telling me that he is now fully licensed to removed Redwoods and that there seems to be a increase in his workload (a family business)  over the last 10 years (not fire related) with more and more trees found to be dying earlier than expected. He was not sure of the cause.

I would…[Read more]

I would like to have shared the breakfast buffet that Tammy and the KLF had before they had the idea for the song…..Tammy Wynette, Justified Ancients from MuMu Land, Ice Cream…..Yeah Tammy, Stand By Your Van!

Sounds good, can I get a show of hands?? I think we need to be guided by angels if we want to stay crazy.

Could it be that with so tree logging that the hills are not hold as much water as they normally did. Would you say that you notice that they are more distressed trees the higher you up you hike? Just a thought….no science to support it.

About 40 million years of Evolution and then we come along and feed them.  Robot overlords??? I don’t so 🙂

Two squirrels visit my back garden every morning. They climb down from the trees in the field behind my house (not where the fronkeys live) and then up another that overhangs one corner of the back garden.  One jumps from the tree unto the wall where I put a variety of nuts and the other uses the climbing ivy (Ivy Hedera) to move about under it…[Read more]

@Belle Rose – Do they always say “Yes?”

I get various reactions. Some automatically say “Yes” without blinking but most look a little confused and I see them processing the question. Once they try to explain what they mean I get all Socratic Method on them and keep asking for further explanations of what they mean. “What do you really mean by…[Read more]

@Belle Rose – Then take for example someone who says they are “spiritual but not religious,” then they likely don’t follow any organized religion which is the point.  The natural follow up question would then be, “so what do you believe?” – and they’ll tell you assuming you’re having a dialogue…then you’ll know what flavor of spirituality they be…[Read more]

@Simon – Well, I don’t use the word spiritual, but I do the things that the word means to me: take care of my spiritual health, which effectively, to me, means biological, psychological, social, and moral well being.

Why not just say “Take care of my physical and mental well-being”.  If I ever go to the doctor and he says that my spiritual he…[Read more]