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I: Information E: Experience M: Matter Some think selfhood can be made of pure-I; others think pure-E. Most modern materialists think I-type M is enough. But experiential materialists think it's (E+I)-type M. The ancient materialist Epicurus thought there were physical (I) and psychical (E) atoms, so he was already an experiential materialist. - pt On Thursday, April 18, 2019 at 5:34:16 AM UTC-5, Cosmin Visan wrote: > > The only downside being that... the robot does not exist. People are > tricking themselves too easily into personifying objects. There is no robot > there, there are just a bunch of atoms that bang into each others. You can > move those atoms around all day long as you want. You will not create > self-reference or "self models" or "imaginations of itself". These are just > concepts that exist in the mind of the "researchers" and the "researchers" > not getting outside of the lab too often, start to believe their own > fantasies. > > On Thursday, 18 April 2019 10:11:09 UTC+3, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> *Columbia engineers create a robot that can imagine itself* >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
