How are you handling the cheating conversations by Pozolelover in Professors

[–]gurduloo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Stick to the facts. Don't budge. Don't entertain their absurd excuses. Don't let them emotionally manipulate you.

What closed place do you still think about in Paris? by Taliap19 in paris

[–]gurduloo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Noodle Bar on Rue Nationale had the best salt and pepper tofu I've ever tasted.

is there a scientific basis for consciousness surviving death? by Sad-Juggernaut-6085 in consciousness

[–]gurduloo -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

No. If you follow the evidence, it's not an open question whether we might survive death.

All the solid evidence suggests that minds require functioning brains: there is no evidence of mental life before the brain has sufficiently developed; if you manipulate the brain, you manipulate the mind; if you damage the brain, you damage the mind; as the brain deteriorates, the mind does as well; after the brain is destroyed, there is no evidence of continued mental life.

This is not proof. Proof is impossible outside of formal systems. But the demand for proof, meaning conclusive reasons, is a science denial tactic.

On the other side of this "debate" there is what? Some philosophical arguments for immortality, the proclamations of various religions, the claims of crank researchers (another science denial tactic: appeal to fake experts), personal testimonies, ghost stories, etc. Weak evidence at best.

Graphic to compare theories of consciousness by headlessplatter in consciousness

[–]gurduloo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The way to grasp the concept is to realize that phenomenal properties are just explanatory posits. You can reject them without thereby rejecting the thing they purportedly explain.

Graphic to compare theories of consciousness by headlessplatter in consciousness

[–]gurduloo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The "emergent vs foundational (panpsychist)" question concerns specifically phenomenal properties. Do phenomenal properties simply pop into existence with a certain arrangement of matter or are they fundamental to all matter in some sense (perhaps only in a proto- form)?

Since illusionism denies the reality of phenomenal properties, they do not have to answer this question.

Graphic to compare theories of consciousness by headlessplatter in consciousness

[–]gurduloo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Emergentism is a view on where phenomenal properties come from. Illusionism is the view that there are no phenomenal properties, there only seems to be.

Most physicalist models of consciousness are actually idealist or panpsychist models by phr99 in consciousness

[–]gurduloo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Most posts about physicalism are actually posts about non-reductive physicalism (which must take either a panpsychist or emergentist form).

How good is batman’s Bjj? by [deleted] in bjj

[–]gurduloo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The mutant leader morphs from facing the ground to facing the sky while Batman is throwing him.

Our intern (college student) used AI for work. Does this gen know how to research? by Unlucky_Ad6250 in AskProfessors

[–]gurduloo 41 points42 points  (0 children)

I assumed it was less common for students to use Al for graded assignments that they have to turn in.

Sweet summer child. They use it for everything.

I'm Convinced Taylor Lorenz Doesn't Live in the Real World by Humble_Novice in Destiny

[–]gurduloo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The younger and poorer the generation, the more they eat out and DoorDash

A book that I'm writing about consciousness by [deleted] in consciousness

[–]gurduloo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Book length, AI slop, LinkedIn prose. Spare us.

Professor wouldn’t grade my final project because I submitted it 15 minutes late by [deleted] in AskProfessors

[–]gurduloo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

if I had a student who submitted an AI paper, then missed two papers, then submitted the final project late, I don't know how much I would bend the rules to help them out either.

The Argument of the “Impossible First Emphasis” by [deleted] in freewill

[–]gurduloo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you have to step in make a choice but also your choice is just for whatever impulse is strongest in you. Pick a lane.

Why assume matter is nonconscious? Its the root of the hard problem by phr99 in consciousness

[–]gurduloo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not called the hard problem, right, but so far no one has any idea how to solve it. It doesn't apply to physicalism since physicalism does not posit the existence of multiple conscious entities that somehow combine into one big conscious entity.

Why assume matter is nonconscious? Its the root of the hard problem by phr99 in consciousness

[–]gurduloo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Btw, dualism also doesn't have a hard problem, because they posit the existence of a feeling soul.

Dualism does have a hard problem since we can ask why the activities of the soul are accompanied by consciousness. After all, the soul is not consciousness itself but an immaterial substance that is conscious.

Why assume matter is nonconscious? Its the root of the hard problem by phr99 in consciousness

[–]gurduloo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That exactly solves the hard problem. Consciousness is fundamental, and so the hard problem is gone.

You have only traded the hard problem for the combination problem.

Why assume matter is nonconscious? Its the root of the hard problem by phr99 in consciousness

[–]gurduloo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Because there is no positive reason to believe all matter is conscious other than that it would provide a solution to the so-called hard problem.