Bb5a31f81ClaimAt Hilaree Nelson's memorial service, climber Timmy O'Neill stated that people die once when their soul leaves the body, and a second time when stories about them cease to be toldAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's mill thought experiment asserts that mechanical interactions of physical parts cannot explain perceptionAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimAristotle's treatise De Anima defines the soul as a mortal causal pattern bound to the physical bodyAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimAristotle categorized living souls into three hierarchical divisions: vegetative souls in plants, sensate souls in animals, and rational souls in humansAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimPhilosopher Paul Thagard published a 2022 paper arguing that physical energy requirements undermine functionalist substrate independenceAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimAnimism defines living systems as possessed by intrinsic, agentic causal patterns capable of experienceAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimStephen Wolfram proposed the Ruliad as the entangled limit of all possible computational rules and automata executionsAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimL.E.J. Brouwer formulated mathematical intuitionism, proposing that mathematical validity requires constructive finite procedures rather than non-constructive axiomsAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimFunctionalism defines an entity by its causal relations, operational mappings, and environmental interactions rather than by an internal essenceAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimThe Latin root of the word sublime signifies approaching the threshold of a doorAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimKurt Gödel proved that axiomatic formal systems contain self-referential statements that cannot be resolved without redefining the formal languageAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimVenkatesh Rao coined the phrase cognitive industrious revolution to describe workers voluntarily expanding cognitive effort in response to accessible intellectual toolsAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimCognitive mercantilism fears the loss of scarce intelligence, whereas AI Malthusianism fears the catastrophic consequences of abundant intelligenceAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimVenkatesh Rao characterized market capitalism as the first planetary intelligenceAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimCognitive mercantilism treats intelligence as a scarce, fixed resource embodied in human brains and proprietary knowledge productsAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimWriter and strategist Venkatesh Rao authored the essay titled Cognitive MercantilismAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimCognitive mercantilism models international and corporate competition as a talent hunt to hoard genius minds, patents, and artificial intelligence modelsAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimCognitive mercantilism assumes the general public cannot think independently and requires governance by certified cognitive elitesAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimThe founding philosophy of the United States was rooted in the premise that human life is perfectible on EarthAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimAlain de Botton is an author, philosopher, and the founder of the educational organization The School of LifeAgreeDisagree