I may be one of the very few completely non-religious and non-spiritual dualists
If your beliefs regarding dualism can be expressed as "maybe there is more to consciousness than can be explained through current physics" then your ideas can reasonably be described as "non-spiritual". But that's clearly not the case. The beliefs that you have expressed in this post (and numerous others in the past) can be better described as "there just has to be more to consciousness than physics. Why? Because you can't prove it isn't so!".
Identifying yourself with any kind of "ism" is foolish in the absence of supporting evidence, and you have none.
There are two distinct issues here: whether Rossi is a fraud, and whether cold fusion is inherently impossible. Of the first, there is no doubt. Even if CF is possible, Rossi hasn't done it. He is a fraud.
As to the second, nobody knows whether it is impossible because you can't prove a negative. But what you can say is that to date, no credible evidence exists for CF.
Which suggests that you don't really understand the English language. If you did, you would know that north and south America are collectively referred to as "the Americas"(plural) while "America" (singular) always refers to the U.S.
If you went anywhere and told someone you had a bomb, you can expect similar treatment. Go ahead and try it. Walk into a library or bank and tell someone you have a bomb and see what happens.
Yeah, but I'm not 12 fucking years old, Mr Dumbass.
The naysayers seem to forget that self-driving cars already have millions of miles of testing.
Yes, where those "millions of miles" consist of going over the same carefully designed test track, only in daylight and good weather, thousands of times.
the Turing test was declared as passed based on a conversation with a chatbot who claimed to have poor English
According to Kevin Warwick, one of the biggest windbags in Computer Science. He's the guy that had a chip implanted under his skin, and then went about claiming to be the "first cyborg". If that makes him a cyborg, then everybody with a hearing aid is too.
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I may be one of the very few completely non-religious and non-spiritual dualists
If your beliefs regarding dualism can be expressed as "maybe there is more to consciousness than can be explained through current physics"
then your ideas can reasonably be described as "non-spiritual". But that's clearly not the case.
The beliefs that you have expressed in this post (and numerous others in the past) can be better described as
"there just has to be more to consciousness than physics. Why? Because you can't prove it isn't so!".
Identifying yourself with any kind of "ism" is foolish in the absence of supporting evidence, and you have none.
Everyone else is moving on to other activities.
:Yeah, like collecting and spending welfare checks. This is the only occupation that is likely to expand in the future.
There are only two possibilities: physicalism and fantasy. It's clear which you have chosen to believe in.
We might have a new wave of domestic staff appear and I personally would like my own butler.
It's more likely that you will end up as some 1%er's slave.
There are two distinct issues here: whether Rossi is a fraud, and whether cold fusion is inherently impossible.
Of the first, there is no doubt. Even if CF is possible, Rossi hasn't done it. He is a fraud.
As to the second, nobody knows whether it is impossible because you can't prove a negative.
But what you can say is that to date, no credible evidence exists for CF.
I wonder which is worse: old physicists trying to be philosophers, or old philosophers trying to be physicists.
Gravitational "force" does not, in fact, exist!
It is capable of inducing acceleration, therefore it exists. That's what "force" means.
we really don't talk as much as we ought about the problems posed by scientism.
Probably because there is no such thing.
Besides, you still couldn't block one blade with another. And it wouldn't ZWOOM, ZWOOM, ZWOOM right.
There are a lot of journals and web site which tracks how reliable car are. German car are very reliable.
Pretty vague.
Actual reference, please?
rather that it's going to lead to human road rage, which often leads humans to be even more irrational and drive in even less safe ways
Especially if the humans are laid-off ex-truckdrivers.
"I have no fucking idea; it's a mystery to me."
I agree that I don't. But unlike you, I don't try to pretend that I do.
Well, I choose to believe that you do not exist.
You are just a just a component of my brain that exists only to amuse me.
I think the real problem for the future will be crashes with robocars that have beeen deliberately caused by pissed-off, unemployed former truckers.
It's jail.
I'm American (from South America)
Which suggests that you don't really understand the English language.
If you did, you would know that north and south America are collectively referred to as "the Americas"(plural) while "America" (singular) always refers to the U.S.
If you went anywhere and told someone you had a bomb, you can expect similar treatment. Go ahead and try it. Walk into a library or bank and tell someone you have a bomb and see what happens.
Yeah, but I'm not 12 fucking years old, Mr Dumbass.
Nope, they defended the whole thing.
Once again, Texas is shown to be the armpit of planet Earth.
The gas-powered ones are pretty fucking noisy. Are you a leaf-blower salesman?
Let me guess: you're a resident of Woodland, N.C., aren't you?
The naysayers seem to forget that self-driving cars already have millions of miles of testing.
Yes, where those "millions of miles" consist of going over the same carefully designed test track, only in daylight and good weather, thousands of times.
It's the equivalent of saying "No it isn't!" like a petulant child.
Exactly like Searle.
His whole thesis can be reduced to:
Machines can't be concious because I define conciousness to be a human quality.
the Turing test was declared as passed based on a conversation with a chatbot who claimed to have poor English
According to Kevin Warwick, one of the biggest windbags in Computer Science.
He's the guy that had a chip implanted under his skin, and then went about claiming to be the "first cyborg". If that makes him a cyborg, then everybody with a hearing aid is too.
You're talking about a machine consciousness that has an understanding of itself in the world.
Two more words that have no generally agreed upon or comprehensive definitions.