2,905 Forum Posts by "naronic"
In case you are, even with all the knowledge you could conceive all your beliefs are still fallible, and thus could always be false.
Believing in other minds is believing in second hand knowledge.
You simply assume that the images in your head resembling people have minds based on the way they act.
At 2/19/13 08:25 PM, Sekhem wrote: the problem of other minds only occurs if you believe in an outmoded, dualistic Cartesian view of the world
learn to keep up with science
Are you serious?
You walk down the street, you see people, you're in your classroom, you look at people, you post on the BBS, you expect people to post back.
What people? You mean the people your minds image provides you with? How do you know anyone is not an mindless drone here to convince you of the world you live in?
Aliens could've abducted you from another planet on a world populated with only robotic clones of people to collect data as far as you know.
The epistemological problem of other minds, in that it is impossible to know whether they exist or not.
There's multiple problems such as Metaphysical solipsism that say it is impossible for there to be other minds in existence except for yours.
Some people have futility attempted to avert this problem with the Reductionist view.
"The reductionist viewpoint, supported by John McDowell and others, has tried to tackle the first two propositions 1 and 2 (above), by putting forth certain modes of expression (such as being in pain) as privileged and allowing us direct access to the other's mind. Thus, although they would admit from the problem of pretense, that at no one time can we claim to have access to another's mental state, they are not permanently unavailable to us."
But the problems still stands, you are not aware of any other minds but your own.
This can lead to great implications as we get closer to inventing chat robots that can act completely like us, the future will open up to all sorts of fraud, murder, and general warfare to come.
In the future if someone wanted to do you harm they could just order a robot that looks/feels/acts just like your wife or kids and will be programmed to stab you while you're sleeping.
Do you believe this problem is solvable?
If so what solution would you propose?
You walk down the street, you see people, you're in your classroom, you look at people, you post on the BBS, you expect people to post back.
What people? You mean the people your minds image provides you with? How do you know anyone is not an mindless drone here to convince you of the world you live in?
Aliens could've abducted you from another planet on a world populated with only robotic clones of people to collect data as far as you know.
The epistemological problem of other minds, in that it is impossible to know whether they exist or not.
There's multiple problems such as Metaphysical solipsism that say it is impossible for there to be other minds in existence except for yours.
Some people have futility attempted to avert this problem with the Reductionist view.
"The reductionist viewpoint, supported by John McDowell and others, has tried to tackle the first two propositions 1 and 2 (above), by putting forth certain modes of expression (such as being in pain) as privileged and allowing us direct access to the other's mind. Thus, although they would admit from the problem of pretense, that at no one time can we claim to have access to another's mental state, they are not permanently unavailable to us."
But the problems still stands, you are not aware of any other minds but your own.
This can lead to great implications as we get closer to inventing chat robots that can act completely like us, the future will open up to all sorts of fraud, murder, and general warfare to come.
In the future if someone wanted to do you harm they could just order a robot that looks/feels/acts just like your wife or kids and will be programmed to stab you while you're sleeping.
Do you believe this problem is solvable?
If so what solution would you propose?
Get a good working antiaphrodisiac, something that won't harm your hormone levels too much but will help you stave off sexual thoughts.
Take said antiaphrodisiac and don't fantasize about sex for at least 5 to 9 days and your interest level will drop drastically.
Unless you're trolling of course...
I believe in a higher power, but I wouldn't shackle it to institutionalized faith.
If you havin' girl problems I feel bad for you son,
I got 99 problems but a girl aint one.
HIT MEH
Loosing viewers like you.
What's with all these VS threads lol,
if you want to jerk yourself off do it out of our line of sight.
At 2/17/13 12:29 AM, Kman wrote: Morrowind definitely hasn't stood the test of time for me. I just cant get into it anymore for some reason...I think Skyrim spoiled it for me honestly.
really?
because if anything skyrim and it's prequel Oblivion made me really wish my Morrowind disk would still work for the Xbox
It would need to saw off my nuts first.
T for the General Forum
In soviet Russia,
meteorites eliminate themselves.
At 2/15/13 10:57 AM, Cootie wrote: If there is one thing that depresses me about this show it is the fact that the quality took a huge drop off after the pilot episode. Go back and watch it and then come watch these new episodes. The new ones are good and worth a watch, but the pilot was truly amazing television.
Um no not really.
If anything the quality has gone significantly up since the original, distancing itself from zombie flicks like "28 days later" by focusing more on what it would be like for a human to be interacting, living, and emotionally dealing with this environment with other humans.
Need to get your account deleted quickly I see...
you're lonely, shut up
ITT: OP tries to justify not having a date.
Lol, I could get a valentine if I really wanted to but this stupid holiday isn't really worth it.
Most relationships come crashing apocalyptically down anyway so you can't blame me for having good pattern recognition.
Valentines day is a funny thing for me.
Since I was little I've participated in valentines day, (if only mandatory politeness, parentally enforced), gathering up leftover Halloween candy, pink, red, purple, and blue cards together.
Giving the pink and purple "be my valentine" cards to the girls with little candies inside and giving the red and blue "I'm not gay no really we're bro's" shitty card to the boys with no candy inside and a hollow "good luck" caption to find a valentine.
It's a pseudoholiday, something that acts as a yearly checkpoint you keep track of.
It's less like more fun or creative holidays like Christmas, Fathers/Mothers day (hopefully), April Fools, New Years, or Halloween and more like holidays people only really get excited about if they're under the age of 12 or it provides someone a good excuse to get drunk or party like St. Patrick's day.
At 2/13/13 08:19 PM, Jackho wrote:At 2/13/13 05:32 PM, naronic wrote: Every 3D game made from 1991 to 1997Crash Bandicoot.
Dude that game's aged the worst...
Uh...
bioshock not even a contest
I saw this from a mile away
At 2/13/13 06:58 PM, Painbringer wrote:At 2/13/13 05:32 PM, naronic wrote: Every 3D game made from 1991 to 1997The original Doom, Half-Life, and Realms of the Haunting still look very realistic to me.
Or maybe it's just my brain filling in the missing details...
Half life was made in 1998
That's not a revolution in gaming, that's a revolution in graphical display.
Plus once you get past 1080p, going farther seems to cease to be useful.
Every 3D game made from 1991 to 1997
Game boy Pokemon games (if only for the graphics)
Call of duty MW2 and all the COD games before then
Counter strike 1.6
Max Payne 1
I'll probably think of some more but here are a few off the top of my head.
At 2/12/13 12:59 PM, Protagonist wrote: Ok new argument. I am uncircumcised and I enjoy sex more than circumcised people. Enjoy your cut penises though.
There's nothing special about not being circumcised.
It just means you have to drag an extra slab of skin around your privates.
What private prep school did you attend before Harvard?
How much did it cost?
