Jim

This is as good as any place to pass along a meme I made yesterday:

The Trumpster thinks that all Christians are evangelical and either play golf or are obsessed with it and share his obsession with crowd size.

I find that those newspaper astrology columns say things that are generically true for everyone, that’s why people think they’re accurate.  You could read any one of the twelve signs, and think it applies to you.

However, and I don’t know why, the professional birth charts that people can draw up seem to be very accurate.  Mine has a Grand T…[Read more]

Have a great week everyone!

The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence whereas insanity is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence.

William Harwood (Dictionary of Contemporary Mythology, London, 1st Books,…[Read more]

I think I would fell safer with a monkey at the helm rather than Mr. Magoo.

jakelafort wrote:
I’d be happy to pay you tuesday for a hamburger today. In the meantime i would be obliged to bum a banana or two.

Never ever bring a banana aboard a boat. This is why monkeys don’t sail.

I’d be happy to pay you tuesday for a hamburger today. In the meantime i would be obliged to bum a banana or two.

@jakelafort

Not sure about A.I. but I know what I do like. I am happy to share some of my bananas.

Simon Paynton wrote:
The Christian idea of heaven and hell never made sense to me. Is there some kind of binary division between good people and bad people? No, there isn’t. So, apparently you only get in to heaven if you believe in Jesus. Anything else is “hating God”. If God exists, he has the morals of a toddler. I think heaven or hell makes…

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The Christian idea of heaven and hell never made sense to me.  Is there some kind of binary division between good people and bad people?  No, there isn’t.  So, apparently you only get in to heaven if you believe in Jesus.  Anything else is “hating God”.  If God exists, he has the morals of a toddler.

I think heaven or hell makes sense in the cont…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
Yes, a Christian said to me that heaven and hell must exist, otherwise there is no ultimate justice.

That is a summary of Kant’s moral proof of God’s existence. “Shit. If I eff my neighbor’s wife and never suffer for it in my lifetime, then if God isn’t there to send me to suffer forever in a burning lake of fire,” there is…[Read more]

Yes the article about AI was sophomoric.

Yes, i have no bananas. I have no bananas today.

_Robert_ wrote:
There is no cosmic karma, the only consequences are relatively immediate or null.

Yes, a Christian said to me that heaven and hell must exist, otherwise there is no ultimate justice.

Simon Paynton wrote:

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
DEBATE: Is Morality Objective? – Alex O’Connor vs. Craig Biddle.

The usual complete load of old tosh that you get whenever moral philosophers have discussions. I think that no two of them agree on anything. Their ideas are bollocks. However, they do raise some excellent questions, and if I am…

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
DEBATE: Is Morality Objective? – Alex O’Connor vs. Craig Biddle.

The usual complete load of old tosh that you get whenever moral philosophers have discussions.  I think that no two of them agree on anything.  Their ideas are bollocks.

However, they do raise some excellent questions, and if I am going to make asser…[Read more]

I found that article

why AI will never be conscious

less than convincing.

Thanks, Reg 🙂

Have a great week everyone!

Belated thanks, Reg!

What would count as a physical explanation of consciousness, anyway?

It seems to me that consciousness is an epiphenomenon of the brain and there must be some correlations between physical entities and consciousness but that it can’t be a simple one.

When you’re put under general anesthesia you literally lose your mind for the duration and I’m…[Read more]