Re: R/ASSA query

2010-02-26 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 26 February 2010 16:41, Rex Allen rexallen...@gmail.com wrote: We could, for example, have the belief that we only survive for a day, and the entity who wakes up in our bed tomorrow is a different person. We would then use up our resources and plan for the future as if we only had hours to

Re: On the computability of consciousness

2010-02-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Marty, On 25 Feb 2010, at 15:03, m.a. wrote: Bruno: Does the following relate at all to your theory of Comp? I am not so sure, or I don't see how. I don't address the question of individual life. What I show is true for all machines (enough rich (Löbian) and ideally correct,

Re: On the computability of consciousness

2010-02-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Feb 2010, at 15:38, Diego Caleiro wrote: I'm not reading the whole discussion here, but the reason I recommended those readings is that I sensed a mix between accounting for phenomenal consciousness and access conciousness in the discussion.Both were used as 1p and 3p, depending

Re: On the computability of consciousness

2010-02-26 Thread m.a.
Bruno, Thanks for this deeply profound reply. marty a. - Original Message - From: Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 6:08 AM

Re: [Fwd: The Brain's Dark Energy Scien amer]

2010-02-26 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Charles charlesrobertgood...@gmail.comwrote: On Feb 23, 9:02 am, Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com wrote: But recent analysis produced by neuroimaging technologies has revealed something quite remarkable: a great deal of meaningful activity is occurring

RE: problem of size '10

2010-02-26 Thread Jesse Mazer
From: stath...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:23:55 +1100 Subject: Re: problem of size '10 To: everything-list@googlegroups.com On 23 February 2010 04:45, Jesse Mazer laserma...@hotmail.com wrote: It seems that these thought experiments inevitably lead to considering a digital

Re: R/ASSA query

2010-02-26 Thread Rex Allen
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 February 2010 16:41, Rex Allen rexallen...@gmail.com wrote: Could our universe *actually* produce such a being by applying our presumably deterministic laws to any set of initial conditions over any amount of