I like the idea of “eternal event” and “atemporal (timeless) cause” (1:51:38). It fits perfectly with Aristotle’s idea of “final cause” and Kant’s idea of “causation through freedom”, which Kant put at the basis of morality and by which he made us practically co-authors of the world, together with God. And I like what Jonathan … More Marcel Chelba – Comment to ”We Were Wrong About Religion | Jonathan Pageau” (YouTube)

https://qr.ae/pYYFWa “Can a computer remember something it never learned?” I asked this question to a famous computer scientist at a conference, and he gave me no answer. He simply ignored it. Of course, I have my own answer, but I’d like to see if others think like me. I’m waiting for answers linking “deep learning” … More Marcel Chelba – Can a computer remember something it never learned? (Quora)

I agree with Iain McGilchrist’s position on utilitarianism and longtermism (55:44), and death (2:22:45), and I would support him not with sophisticated theories, but with the Romanian fairy tale “Youth Without Aging and Life Without Death”. There is a hero who succeeds in acquiring what Gilgamesh, for example, had sought, namely immortality, but in the … More Marcel Chelba – Second Comment to ”The Potential of the Human Brain / ft. Iain McGilchrist”

https://www.quora.com/I-spend-literally-twenty-minutes-on-one-sentence-when-reading-Kant-Is-this-too-fast-or-too-slow Hi Vishal, do not despair, it took me four years to read the Critique of Pure Reason. This book cannot be read like a novel, but only in stages, and between these stages you need long periods of reflection and spiritual growth. I was 35 years old when I started reading CPR, in the … More Marcel Chelba – Answer to the question “I spend literally twenty minutes on one sentence when reading Kant. Is this too fast or too slow?” (Quora)

I. Can a computer remember something it never learned? The human mind does exactly that through intuition. This is what Plato called anamnesis and Kant called synthetic a priori knowledge. Computers will never be able to do that. Their way of learning and thinking is just a kind of “ars combinatorica” (Leibniz). Why? I will … More Marcel Chelba – Comments to ”Math Will Never Be the Same Again… | Yang-Hui He”

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