Jan 13, 2022 01:00 AM
(This post was last modified: Jan 13, 2022 01:07 AM by C C.)
Do we have a ‘bias bias’?
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-11569-...l#pid48474
EXCERPT: When we see a pattern of reasoning error in humans, do we have a systematic tendency to posit a new bias, even if there might be alternative explanations? (MORE)
Interview with Karl Marx
https://www.3-16am.co.uk/blog/exclusive-...-karl-marx
INTRO: Karl Heinrich Marx is a German philosopher, critic of political economy, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. Born in Trier, Germany, Marx studied law and philosophy at the universities of Bonn and Berlin. Due to his political publications, Marx is stateless and lives in exile with his wife and children in London , where he continues to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and publish his writings, researching in the British Museum Reading Room. The interview took place in a cafe in Dean Street, Soho... (MORE - the interview)
Virtual reality is reality, too (an interview with David Chalmers)
https://www.vox.com/vox-conversations-po...ix-reality
EXCERPTS: : A new book by pioneering philosopher David Chalmers takes up these sorts of questions and much more. [...] I reached out to Chalmers for the latest episode of Vox Conversations. We discuss the nature of reality, why he thinks we can live a meaningful life in the virtual world, whether we might actually be living in a simulation, and if he thinks there’s any chance consciousness survives the death of the body. This is a fun conversation, one that might take you back to those late-night chats in your college dorm room, but we lean into that and we do think there’s something serious to ponder here.
Below [at website page] is an excerpt, edited for length and clarity. As always, there’s much more in the full podcast, so subscribe to Vox Conversations on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts... (MORE - interview podcast & partial transcript)
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Quote from interview (Chalmers): [...] In some ways, this is an interesting generational divide. People in my generation — I’m in my 50s — are much more inclined to count digital worlds as second-class and not fully real. Whereas people born in the last 20 years or so are basically digital natives who are used to hanging out in digital realities. From their perspective, virtual worlds are part of reality and treated that way.
I’m not sure I’d say that virtual realities are second-class, but maybe I’d say that they’re second-level. We all acknowledge there’s a physical reality and then there are these virtual realities, which are created within the physical reality and to some extent depend on it. So in that sense, they’re second-level realities. And we say things like IRL (in real life) all the time in order to draw a distinction between physical reality and the virtual world. For me, that’s a distinction between original reality and what I’d call a derivative reality — it’s not a distinction between “real” and “unreal.”
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-11569-...l#pid48474
EXCERPT: When we see a pattern of reasoning error in humans, do we have a systematic tendency to posit a new bias, even if there might be alternative explanations? (MORE)
Interview with Karl Marx
https://www.3-16am.co.uk/blog/exclusive-...-karl-marx
INTRO: Karl Heinrich Marx is a German philosopher, critic of political economy, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. Born in Trier, Germany, Marx studied law and philosophy at the universities of Bonn and Berlin. Due to his political publications, Marx is stateless and lives in exile with his wife and children in London , where he continues to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and publish his writings, researching in the British Museum Reading Room. The interview took place in a cafe in Dean Street, Soho... (MORE - the interview)
Virtual reality is reality, too (an interview with David Chalmers)
https://www.vox.com/vox-conversations-po...ix-reality
EXCERPTS: : A new book by pioneering philosopher David Chalmers takes up these sorts of questions and much more. [...] I reached out to Chalmers for the latest episode of Vox Conversations. We discuss the nature of reality, why he thinks we can live a meaningful life in the virtual world, whether we might actually be living in a simulation, and if he thinks there’s any chance consciousness survives the death of the body. This is a fun conversation, one that might take you back to those late-night chats in your college dorm room, but we lean into that and we do think there’s something serious to ponder here.
Below [at website page] is an excerpt, edited for length and clarity. As always, there’s much more in the full podcast, so subscribe to Vox Conversations on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts... (MORE - interview podcast & partial transcript)
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Quote from interview (Chalmers): [...] In some ways, this is an interesting generational divide. People in my generation — I’m in my 50s — are much more inclined to count digital worlds as second-class and not fully real. Whereas people born in the last 20 years or so are basically digital natives who are used to hanging out in digital realities. From their perspective, virtual worlds are part of reality and treated that way.
I’m not sure I’d say that virtual realities are second-class, but maybe I’d say that they’re second-level. We all acknowledge there’s a physical reality and then there are these virtual realities, which are created within the physical reality and to some extent depend on it. So in that sense, they’re second-level realities. And we say things like IRL (in real life) all the time in order to draw a distinction between physical reality and the virtual world. For me, that’s a distinction between original reality and what I’d call a derivative reality — it’s not a distinction between “real” and “unreal.”