Adam Nieri – Uncommon Descent

Artificial Intelligence Intelligent Design Science fiction

Eric Holloway’s latest short story: Mindtrap

Also, Adam Nieri’s review of Sprites – an AI replacement for actors?

Artificial Intelligence Intelligent Design

Naturalists (materialists) can’t believe in love

They try but somehow the love story just won’t tell itself in a way that makes any sense: It may sound rational to conjecture that love is merely an emergent property of consciousness that has matured throughout the course of human evolution. But emergence is no less of a “god of the gaps” belief than Read More…

martin_r In 21st century, only very irrational, dishonest and corrupt people can deny that "the universe point to a Creator". The... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
kairosfocus Origenes, one has to lie to oneself to pretend that Jews, Slavs, Gypsies or Subsaharan africans are not human; our... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes Sandy, KF @ KF: moral principles are built in and attested to by conscience. Sandy: Only if you have the... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
bornagain77 FP states, Given the fact that it is well known that people with serious diseases or addictions, often “become” religious.... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
BobRyan Anyone who has honest inquiry about the universe must come to the same conclusion Oberg did, which was the same... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
kairosfocus F/N: Wikipedia on PSR: The principle has a variety of expressions, all of which are perhaps best summarized by the... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus Sandy, while it is true that harmful worldviews can damage our ability to think straight about right and wrong, there... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Ford Prefect I am slowly working my way through the above mentioned video. At about the 30 minute mark he made the... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Ford Prefect OT, but I think this might be of interest to some here. I lived with the guy being interviewed while... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
StephenB Origenes:According to Aquinas and you, every aspect of Ted Bundy, including his purported ‘free will’ is made by God. No... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
Sandy Kairosfocus Sandy, moral principles are built in and attested to by conscience. Only if you have the right frame of... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
relatd Origenes at 177, God sees all and knows all. He knows, before it happens, who will do wrong and who... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
Origenes Relatd @176 Like you, I am a theist who cannot imagine being wrong about it. However, Aquinas argues for a... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
relatd Origenes at 175, Where does Aquinas say that? God creates souls and men, however, He gave us free will. The... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
Origenes StephenB @172 ... there is only ONE ARCHITECT of Ted Bundy’s choices and that would be Ted Bundy. He is,... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
Origenes StephenB @170 Ori: The actions of B cannot be a separate entity from B, instead they are an inextricable aspect... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
relatd SB at 72, Man has two choices: Man is the ultimate reference point. So man prefers the words of other... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
StephenB SB: The broader point, which I have made previously, is that moral choices are the product of a multiplicity of... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
kairosfocus F/N: it should be clear that the design inference is an inference to a key causal factor. As such, it... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus Sandy, moral principles are built in and attested to by conscience. We often feel them most directly when we have... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus F/N: try restarting your PC, you may have entered an odd state. KF – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...