namero999

Nobody denies the existence of an objective, external world. However "particle" is but a description of what appears on your screen of perception. Making the move that reality is made of "particles" is exactly identical of me concluding that you are made of pixels because I look at a picture of you on my screen.

"Particles" don't exist in the naive sense. What a particle is, is an excitation of a field. A "particle" is a dynamic pattern.

Yes. Datapoint: the underground garage of the complex where I used to live experienced a large number of thefts (including my motorbike), and in 6 years we never managed to install security cameras because you need unanimity for this, and there's always someone who is concerned about their privacy.

Same, I built a correctly-working AND gate made only of NAND gates but the tests don't pass.

Because more is better. Seriously, the game they play is at this point ludicrous. I saw 18650 cell being advertised through the years as 2500mAh, to 3500mAh (still reasonable/credible), then suppliers started to one-up each other and you could see 5000mAh, 9000mAh, 9999mAh up to, I kid you not, 1.000.000mAh. If I had no clue, of course I would by the 1KAh single cell XD

Definitely. An implication of several strands of idealism is that we will be able to create artificial life (with consciousness)... it will just look like biology.

I might in some sense agree with you but check your wording: creationism... we recreated life... see where I'm going?

This is at the same time one of the most solid metaphysics and one of the least known or studied. At least for now.

The "complexity -> magic" argument is just religious belief. Something one accepts without proof or a shed of coherent reasoning around it.

Naturalism and materialism are not married together. Materialism can't claim naturalism just for itself. There are coherent ontologies that are naturalists and not materialists.

Cognition/intelligence is not consciousness. Information processing vs phenomenality. AI is intelligent (it's in the name) but not conscious.

The like-ness properly capture in one go the first-person and the phenomenal aspects of consciousness.

Not even close.

As a counter example, I witnessed 3 months ago a similar scene in my neighborhood, where a kid on a bike, crossing on pedestrian stripes, was hit by a taxi. It was a bad accident but luckily he didn't die. His dad was following right behind him. I'm leaning to think that "shit happens" in any case, but overprotection adds on top another layer of subtle, long term risks.

IQ tests only measure the ability to pass IQ tests, they say very little about intelligence. MMA fighters might be among the most intelligent people on the planet, playing 4D bullet chess with each part of their body at light speed, while scoring a flat 100 at IQ tests (the average).