The silliest philosophy quote ever

The word "real" ...... is a substantive-hungry trouser-word. -Hasker

I came across this in some recent reading on scientific realism. I kid ye not!

Look at my swanky avatar.

Sounds like something you would read at timecube.com

What is this, the useless information of the month thread?

DocRock said:
What is this, the useless information of the month thread?

Not until you showed up :heee:

ooooooooh that hurt lol

Ha ha! Fear my dashing good wit and rapier looks!

/leans over and vomits

Well, vomiting is a start I suppose. I'd prefer more acute manifestations of fear, however.

yes, exactly, I was so overcome with fear, I vomited. :razz:

Aside from the vomiting etc.

Almost as silly as that great quote from the Animatrix "to a machine all reality is virtual". How the hell does that work? This means they don't know the difference between the real world and the matrix, so how would they know we were convinced by the Matrix that it was reality?

P.S. I probably misquoted that.

I dont think that was sposed to be taken literaly, i think mabey it just means that the machines dont have a sense of awareness of being like the humans do

Daringly against the traditions of Snarkdom, I return to the original topic and publish the sentence I've just read (hey, it's as pointless as a blog, yet with an intellectual twist):

The semantic question is the one just raised: how do representations of cognitive domains as patterns of activities over sub-conceptual units in the network models of the sub-symbolic paradigm relate to representations over neurons in the brain? -Smolensky

Oh, how I love philosophy.

....and to go completely WITH snarkpit traditon, an abrupt "left"....

2 bits, please tell me that that avatar does not imply a "nazi hand salute"......otherwise, you shall be the object of my disdain and malicious intent for the rest of your days sir.....that is not a threat, it is a promise.....

Doc Brass... :dodgy:

Looks more like he's been flattened by a steam-roller to me.

***adjusts glasses, refocuses...... :eek:

nope......looks like a friggin nazi salute to me, but ...wtf do i know.....

Doc Brass... :dodgy:

Aside from the vomiting etc.

so how would they know we were convinced by the Matrix that it was reality?

how does a machine know what creamed corn tastes like? :smile:

It doesn't in the sense that it can never "taste" as we taste, but it can mimic our brains response to the various protiens, amino acids, whathaveyou that our tongue processes.

Which is how they have managed to somewhat craft machines that can "see" and relay information to a CPU much in the way our eyes take in data and send it to our brains for processing.

Take anything in the world, break it down enough, and it can be quantified in some way.

Dr Brasso said:
***adjusts glasses, refocuses...... :eek:

nope......looks like a friggin nazi salute to me, but ...wtf do i know.....

Doc Brass... :dodgy:

I dono doc. I don't think it looks like that. always give a guy the benifit of a doubt.

trust me TB, thats the only reason im not ranting my ass off..... :wink:

Doc Brass... :dodgy: