dimreepr

Only one of which know's or care's, the stage doesn't doesn't need too. See above.

We can't exist without Earth but the Earth can exist without us.

Lest we forget

lol +1

There's always a get out clause in any algorithm, a limited counter with a least objectionable outcome.

“This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.” ― Douglas Adams,

Which, by definition is not extreme.

Of course we're meant to know, God is man made comfort blanket; he'll get the bully for you. If we know he's limitated, the blanket won't cover every one. Religion is designed to give (every) one peace of mind, and for that one must believe absolutely that God/karma/other mechanisism work's, to allay our fear of everyday life. But you can change your mood... 😉

I don't have to be a tree to know I don't need a leaf.

Indeed, it's the difference between being covered in shit and being covered in fertiliser. 🙏

What's the point of a God that can't protect you or seek revenge on your behalf?

Who knows, but it's much likely to work with Putin pressing the button than Trump. Isn't that what they say about military intelligence?

Indeed, nothing can be self aware without a mind and what's the point of consciousness, if one is not aware of it?; it's like the question of whether, or not, a virus is alive. The line on the spectrum depends on how we define the question.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/us/politics/russia-putin-missile-test.html He's determined to win something, and if we can't prize his finger off the trigger we all lose. This seems to me, much more serious than the Cuban crisis, because he has nothing left to lose and doesn't care about the consequences.

How else do we communicate meaning? Body language is just word's we don't know the sound of... If an ant kicks a rhino, is the rhino stupid because it doesn't feel or understand the ant's anger?

But not if the subject is aware of it's consciousness... Gaia can be said to be conscious in much the same way as an anthill can be said to be intelligent...

If a lion could speak English, there's nothing to suggest we would understand them, because understanding depends on mutual experiences to give context to the language. For instance, the rosetta stone allows us to understand the language, but we have no idea what the language would sound like. We understand our culture because we all live it, what test do you suggest? I've never seen star war's 🙂

He didn't mandate the none wearing of mask's, people are still free to protect themselves from COVID-19. In a complex situation where the balance of the scales of justice is uncertain and he's made on honest judgement, we can't use captain hindsight to proclaim his guilt, how would that be just?

Indeed, if I metamorphose into you, that doesn't make us clever; it just means, we understand each other.

"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones." ~ Franz Kafka

So, in order for a computer to think it has to be alive? What level of mimicry is life?

No, he/they said "there will be another profit" IOW someone else will understand what's written; when the time is right, "cometh the hour, cometh the person".

No, I am saying that people punish themselves far more effectively than you could; room 101 A criminal that runs from justice, is never free of their crime; they spend their life looking backwards, never looking forward to life...

I think you mean self awareness, which is an interesting question; for instance the mirror test is recognised as a measure of visual self-recognition. Dog's fail the test, but their primary sence is smell rather than vision, so they see the dog in the mirror but it doesn't smell like me (or a dog). How would we design a test to determine the consciousness of a bacteria/mouse/camel, if we can't walk a mile in their shoe's?