Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-05-16 Thread Alberto G.Corona
No. Consciousness is not information. It is an additional process that handles its own generated information. I you don´t recognize the driving mechanism towards order in the universe, you will be running on empty. This driving mechanism is natural selection. Things gets selected, replicated and

Re: Victor Korotkikh

2009-05-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 May 2009, at 01:06, russell standish wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 05:30:57PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: Thanks Russell, I will take a look. At first sight he makes the same error with numbers that Wolfram makes with cellular automata. I think this sums up my feeling too.

Re: Victor Korotkikh

2009-05-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Ronald, On 15 May 2009, at 14:25, ronaldheld wrote: Bruno: I will wait for your most recent UDA to be posted here. All right. I have problems with infinite time and resources for your computations, if done in this physical Universe. Sure. Note that I use unbounded physical

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-05-16 Thread Kelly Harmon
I think your discussing the functional aspects of consciousness. AKA, the easy problems of consciousness. The question of how human behavior is produced. My question was what is the source of phenomenal consciousness. What is the absolute minimum requirement which must be met in order for

Re: No MWI

2009-05-16 Thread Jason Resch
Right, I copied and pasted it and it must have lost the superscript. Thanks for catching that. Jason On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:48 PM, russell standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 05:40:09PM -0500, Jason Resch wrote: Deutsch. If the number is 64, people can shut

Re: 3-PoV from 1 PoV?

2009-05-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Stephen, Ok, Robinson Arithmatic is ... or Q, is a finitely axiomatized fragment of Peano arithmetic (PA). ...Q is essentially PA without the axiom schema of induction. Even though Q is much weaker than PA, it is still incomplete in the sense of Gödel.