I'm a bit confused at the explosive growth of Lemmy and the slower growth of Kbin. Do the stats reflect the reality or is there a problem with the data being fed back to the various stat hubs?...
It has nothing to do with "permitting trans people"... I am arguing is that it is in their own interest, and interests of better future of the whole society being more acceptable for trans people not to insist on this word.
This is a series of proposition that leads to the conclusion (somewhat convincing in my eyes) that we are not physical, but informational/numerical/mathematical structures....
I don't think it is different. It is just I did not found it convincing for myself when I read Tegmark's book about it. But the logic that I proposed sounds much more convincing that the hypothesis is true, at least for me.
I will go even further, by saying that most likely subjective experience is not required to understand most of the things in the world. The only place where it is required is to understand yourself, and by analogy the inner world of other similar creatures.
I do not accept your argument, however, that just because "subjective experience" can be fully recreated from "objective description of the world", then it is not an extra knowledge. For two reasons.
First, just because you can derive one thing from another, that does not negate that the first thing is extra knowledge. Biology can be completely derived from quantum mechanics. But I am sure that biology is an extra knowledge.
Second, you, as an intelligent being, can not recreate and experience the subjective experience unless you are already capable having it. For example, we can not have subjective experience of how bats perceive the world with echolocation. Even if you can simulate bat's brain, it is that simulated brain that will have the experience, not you. You will never know how a bat subjectively perceive a flying mosquito, few meters away from the bat, flying.
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Why is Kbin seemingly growing considerably slower than Lemmy?
I'm a bit confused at the explosive growth of Lemmy and the slower growth of Kbin. Do the stats reflect the reality or is there a problem with the data being fed back to the various stat hubs?...
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OC In Defense of Platonism. We are not in simulation, but we are numbers or information.
This is a series of proposition that leads to the conclusion (somewhat convincing in my eyes) that we are not physical, but informational/numerical/mathematical structures....
OC An Argument Against the "Mary's Room" Thought Experiment
In the thought experiment Mary's Room, it is argued that Mary gains new knowledge about the colour red when she leaves the room....