Re: On Zuckerman's paper

2012-10-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Oct 2012, at 21:27, Stephen P. King wrote: On 10/6/2012 2:51 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Oct 2012, at 17:40, Stephen P. King wrote: On 10/6/2012 4:25 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Oct 2012, at 09:35, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi Bruno, You wrote: As the cow-boy guessed right

Re: What Kant did: Consciousness is a top-down structuring of bottom-up sensory info

2012-10-07 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Hi Roger: ... and cognitive science , which study the hardware and evolutionary psychology (that study the software or mind) assert that this is true. The Kant idea that even space and time are creations of the mind is crucial for the understanding and to compatibilize the world of perceptions

Re: Maxwell on Metaphysics and Theology

2012-10-07 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Evgenii Rudnyi He's got it all mixed up. Physics deals with objects extended in space. Things. Metaphysics deals with inextended objects. Ideas. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/7/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following

Re: Maxwell on Metaphysics and Theology

2012-10-07 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Evgenii Rudnyi Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/7/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Evgenii Rudnyi Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-06, 13:25:53 Subject: Maxwell on Metaphysics and Theology

Can computers be conscious ? Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-07 Thread Roger Clough
Hi John Clark Unless computers can deal with inextended objects such as mind and experience, they cannot be conscious. Consciousness is direct experience, computers can only deal in descriptions of experience. Everything that a computer does is, to my knowledge, at least in principle

Re: What Kant did: Consciousness is a top-down structuring of bottom-up sensory info

2012-10-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Oct 2012, at 12:32, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Hi Roger: ... and cognitive science , which study the hardware and evolutionary psychology (that study the software or mind) assert that this is true. Partially true, as both the mainstream cognitive science and psychology still does

Re: Re: Re: Re: On complexity and bottom-up theories and calculations

2012-10-07 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist Then where do the CYMs and their properties come from ? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/7/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Richard Ruquist Receiver: everything-list Time:

Re: Maxwell on Metaphysics and Theology

2012-10-07 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 07.10.2012 14:04 Roger Clough said the following: Hi Evgenii Rudnyi He's got it all mixed up. Physics deals with objects extended in space. Things. Metaphysics deals with inextended objects. Ideas. Yet, he was able to develop the theory of electromagnetism. Evgenii -- You received

Re: Re: Maxwell on Metaphysics and Theology

2012-10-07 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Evgenii Rudnyi I know that, but his theory of electromagnetism is a physical theory, even if it's hard to pin down the extension property. Physical theories can tell us nothing about philosophy or mind or God, since they cannot deal with meaning. Physics is meaningless. Roger Clough,

Re: Re: Re: Re: On complexity and bottom-up theories and calculations

2012-10-07 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Stathis Papaioannou Don't avoid my question please. Where do the laws of physics come from ? One theory is that existence of platonic entities such as numbers is not ontologically distinct from actual existence. In

Re: Re: Maxwell on Metaphysics and Theology

2012-10-07 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Evgenii Rudnyi I know that, but his theory of electromagnetism is a physical theory, even if it's hard to pin down the extension property. Physical theories can tell us nothing about philosophy or mind or God, since

Re: What Kant did: Consciousness is a top-down structuring of bottom-up sensory info

2012-10-07 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/10/7 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 07 Oct 2012, at 12:32, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Hi Roger: ... and cognitive science , which study the hardware and evolutionary psychology (that study the software or mind) assert that this is true. Partially true, as both the mainstream

Re: Maxwell on Metaphysics and Theology

2012-10-07 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 07.10.2012 14:44 Roger Clough said the following: Hi Evgenii Rudnyi I know that, but his theory of electromagnetism is a physical theory, even if it's hard to pin down the extension property. Physical theories can tell us nothing about philosophy or mind or God, since they cannot deal with

Re: What Kant did: Consciousness is a top-down structuring of bottom-up sensory info

2012-10-07 Thread Alberto G. Corona
With by real computers made of ordinary matter. I mean that the computers are structures within the mathematical manifold that describe the physical reality (or the tip of the iceberg). 2012/10/7 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com 2012/10/7 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 07 Oct

Re: Subjectivity is no longer a dirty word! A nice videodiscussingthedual aspect theory

2012-10-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Roger Clough, Hi Bruno Marchal 1) That's not subjectivity. That's objectivity. Wrong perspective. Subjectivity is the view from within, looking out, not the view from outside objectively looking in. 1p does refer to a particular person, although indeterminately, but from outside,

Re: Can computers be conscious ? Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Oct 2012, at 14:17, Roger Clough wrote: Hi John Clark Unless computers can deal with inextended objects such as mind and experience, they cannot be conscious. Consciousness is direct experience, computers can only deal in descriptions of experience. Everything that a computer does

Re: Maxwell on Metaphysics and Theology

2012-10-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Oct 2012, at 14:44, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Evgenii Rudnyi I know that, but his theory of electromagnetism is a physical theory, even if it's hard to pin down the extension property. Physical theories can tell us nothing about philosophy or mind or God, since they cannot deal with

Re: On complexity and bottom-up theories and calculations

2012-10-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Oct 2012, at 14:56, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Stathis Papaioannou Don't avoid my question please. Where do the laws of physics come from ? One theory is that existence of platonic entities such as numbers

Re: Maxwell on Metaphysics and Theology

2012-10-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Oct 2012, at 15:14, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 07.10.2012 14:44 Roger Clough said the following: Hi Evgenii Rudnyi I know that, but his theory of electromagnetism is a physical theory, even if it's hard to pin down the extension property. Physical theories can tell us nothing about

Re: On complexity and bottom-up theories and calculations

2012-10-07 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: One theory is that existence of platonic entities such as numbers is not ontologically distinct from actual existence. In that case, all possible universes necessarily exist, and the one that has the laws of physics

Re: What Kant did: Consciousness is a top-down structuring of bottom-up sensory info

2012-10-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Oct 2012, at 15:11, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2012/10/7 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 07 Oct 2012, at 12:32, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Hi Roger: ... and cognitive science , which study the hardware and evolutionary psychology (that study the software or mind) assert that

Re: Can computers be conscious ? Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-07 Thread Richard Ruquist
Roger, If human consciousness comes from attached monads, as I think you have claimed, then why could not these monads attach to sufficiently complex computers as well. Richard On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi John Clark Unless computers can deal with

Re: Re: Re: Re: On complexity and bottom-up theories and calculations

2012-10-07 Thread Richard Ruquist
Then where do the CYMs and their properties come from ? Nature, or god- samething. There may be a programmer that initiated the chain of universes. But that programmer is far removed from us. The god or cosmic consciousness that relates to us and life in general in this universe is manifested by

Re: On complexity and bottom-up theories and calculations

2012-10-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Oct 2012, at 16:45, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: One theory is that existence of platonic entities such as numbers is not ontologically distinct from actual existence. In that case, all possible universes

Re: On complexity and bottom-up theories and calculations

2012-10-07 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I think you are currently forgetting the first person indeterminacy. You seem to forget the fact that if you drop a pen on the ground, it will not fall on the ground because you are in a computation which support you and a

Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-07 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, October 6, 2012 1:56:33 PM UTC-4, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: I'm openly saying that a high school kid can make a robot that behaves sensibly with just a few transistors. Only because he

Re: On complexity and bottom-up theories and calculations

2012-10-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Oct 2012, at 18:05, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I think you are currently forgetting the first person indeterminacy. You seem to forget the fact that if you drop a pen on the ground, it will not fall on the

Re: Evolution outshines reason by far

2012-10-07 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: I explained in a post above why evolution does not select weels. An autonomous living being must be topologically connected, and weels are not. Explaining why Evolution is incompetent does not make it one bit less incompetent.

Re: On Zuckerman's paper

2012-10-07 Thread Stephen P. King
On 10/7/2012 4:26 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Oct 2012, at 21:27, Stephen P. King wrote: On 10/6/2012 2:51 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Oct 2012, at 17:40, Stephen P. King wrote: On 10/6/2012 4:25 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Oct 2012, at 09:35, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi Bruno,

Re: On Zuckerman's paper

2012-10-07 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote: On 10/7/2012 4:26 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Oct 2012, at 21:27, Stephen P. King wrote: On 10/6/2012 2:51 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Oct 2012, at 17:40, Stephen P. King wrote: On 10/6/2012 4:25 AM,

Re: On Zuckerman's paper

2012-10-07 Thread Stephen P. King
On 10/7/2012 5:46 PM, Jason Resch wrote: Stephen, I'm not sure that there is any real disagreement between your view and Bruno's. It seems more to be a language thing, if anything. When Bruno refers to a physics, he means the appearance of a physical world from the perspective of observers.