Timeline for With how much certainty can one define something as alive and sentient,or inanimate and non-sentient?
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| Dec 7, 2022 at 4:36 | comment | added | Adam Ledger | I can assure you my self-hood is far from ever being capable of destruction, albeit my inevitable death as we all face upon realization of our own mortality. Personal philosophy? Well, with all of the world governments currently acknowledging publicly their military have encountered unidentified aerial phenomena, yet these phenomena remain silent, I most certainly agree that our personal experiences will be increasingly insignificant, assuming it is not a globally orchestrated hoax spanning several decades.... | |
| Dec 6, 2022 at 23:00 | comment | added | Dcleve | @AdamLedger You are getting into personal philosophy, something modern philosophy tends to be bad at. I do not drink , or use drugs, as I consider myself to be a sentient being, and I do not want to destroy my seflhood. Yes, focussing on sentience can be useful for that. I also think that Virtue Ethics gives far better life goals than utilitarianisms pursuit of "pleasure". I want to create a character for myself I will admire/respect, not pursue shallow pleasures. | |
| Dec 6, 2022 at 17:13 | comment | added | Adam Ledger | I just feel like perhaps at least sentience, is something far less tangible than we allow ourselves to consider, It's human nature to consider the universe revolves around us, rather than us listlessly orbiting within it | |
| Dec 6, 2022 at 17:10 | comment | added | Adam Ledger | I guess my point is, I came to a point that I knew subconsciously that disassociating myself like this is pointless and harmful, but I never really reconciled this with any real conscious agency, So something in me decide to limit such an activity to once per year, and it was clearly just as dangerous as it always was, and again very little memory of what happened exists, but the painful physiological reminder, coupled with my decision to only do such a thing on my birthday, has left enough of an imprint to think about never drinking to such excess. | |
| Dec 6, 2022 at 17:03 | comment | added | Adam Ledger | Well that addition certainly strikes a chord in me, thank you for taking the time to converse with me on such a "touchy" subject. Particularly the part regarding organized systems using entropy to gather more information. For a very personal example, I have a problem with alcohol. So I decided that only on my birthday I will allow myself to completely indulge this addiction, and the night commences with me buying an $100 bottle of french absinthe, 24 hours later I woke with at least one broken rib this year, more later I'm still in pain. | |
| Dec 2, 2022 at 23:33 | comment | added | Dcleve | @AdamLedger There are various proposed pragmatic models. One answer on life listed the Biology definition -- with its set of criteria. That is useful. Another useful one is that Freeman Dyson proposed is purely functional -- Organized systems that use entropy to create information. Neither capture the full concept, but both are useful. For sentience -- one approximation is to infer by analogy that any adult mammal will have a similar enough neural stricter to reasonably infer sentience. A functional approach is to look at apparent agency, or at learning, and both include even bacteria. | |
| Dec 2, 2022 at 11:14 | comment | added | Adam Ledger | It's not that I was seeking an answer that's deterministic or analytical, i knew that to not exist, just an answer with a well informed opinion with regards to the subject of the question. I don't think such questions deserve to be closed. I realize that it is against stack exchange policy to permit the exchange of OPINION, but applying this restriction is a little dubious, especially for philosophy | |
| Dec 2, 2022 at 11:09 | vote | accept | Adam Ledger | ||
| Nov 29, 2022 at 18:03 | history | answered | Dcleve | CC BY-SA 4.0 |