How Cognitive Science treats the mind and consciousness of self

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
How Cognitive Science treats the mind and consciousness of self http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-mind/#2.4 the dominant model of the mind in contemporary cognitive science is Kantian, Kant's conception of the mind is functionalist to Kant, the two most important function of the mind

Re: wave function collapse

2012-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Oct 2012, at 14:50, Roger Clough wrote: Hi meekerdb There are a number of theories to explain the collapse of the quantum wave function (see below). 1) In subjective theories, the collapse is attributed to consciousness (presumably of the intent or decision to make a measurement).

Re: Re: One more nail in comp's coffin.

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Jason Resch No, have proven solipsism. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/24/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Jason Resch Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-23, 10:30:37 Subject: Re: One

Re: Solipsism = 1p

2012-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Oct 2012, at 15:11, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal SNIP ROGER: OK, but computers can't experience anything, it would be simulated experience. Not arbitrarily available. But that's what the brain does, simulate experience from the point of view of the owner or liver of the

Re: wave function collapse

2012-10-24 Thread Richard Ruquist
Bruno, What is your opinion of Cramer's Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics TIQM, a 4th possible interpetation of QM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_interpretation More recently he [Cramer] has also argued TIQM to be consistent with the Afshar experiment, while claiming

Re: Can you think of an experiment to verify comp ?

2012-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Oct 2012, at 15:35, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal Nothing is true, even comp, until it is proven by experiment. Then your own consciousness is false, which I doubt. Then the existence even of the appearance of a physical universe is false. Etc. Since Gödel, we know that,

Re: Re: Interactions between mind and brain

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb Just because something has no extension in space (physical existence) doesn't mean it doesn't exist mentally, for example in Platonia. Mathematics has no extension in space, forms of art do not have extension in space, nor does truth nor does goodness. Materialism is a very

Re: Can you think of an experiment to verify comp ?

2012-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Oct 2012, at 17:27, smi...@zonnet.nl wrote: Bruno was born 100 years too late, he would have predicted quantum mechanics. Haha, thanks Saibal. But only the MW then, as 100 years ago, Gödel didn't yet prove that computations are already in arithmetic. Without Gödel and Church

Predictive physiological anticipation preceding seemingly unpredictable stimuli: a meta-analysis

2012-10-24 Thread Stephen P. King
http://www.frontiersin.org/Perception_Science/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00390/abstract Comments? -- Onward! Stephen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To

Re: Solipsism = 1p

2012-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Oct 2012, at 17:46, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, October 23, 2012 10:15:15 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Oct 2012, at 18:49, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, October 22, 2012 12:28:41 PM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: But that's what the brain does, simulate experience

Re: Solipsism = 1p

2012-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Oct 2012, at 20:21, Stephen P. King wrote: On 10/23/2012 10:15 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Oct 2012, at 18:49, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, October 22, 2012 12:28:41 PM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: But that's what the brain does, simulate experience from the point of view

Re: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism

2012-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Oct 2012, at 02:01, Stephen P. King wrote: On 10/23/2012 5:47 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 10/23/2012 2:39 PM, Russell Standish wrote: I have not met this argument before. I have comments interspersed. On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 08:04:35AM -0400, Roger Clough wrote: Kant's Refutation of

Re: Re: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
SNIP ROGER: 2) I can be aware of having experiences that occur in a specific temporal order only if I perceive something permanent by reference to which I can determine their temporal order. (premise) RUSSELL: What motivates this premise? ROGER: The permanent entity could be the first

Re: Re: wave function collapse

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal 1) OK, so particles don't need a probe to be created from the wave ? What's different about consciousness ? 2) If comp or materialism could work, I'd be happy. But they'd have to be able to handle the self specifically, not just imply it. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net

Re: Re: Solipsism = 1p

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal Anything that the brain does is or could be experience. For computers, experience can only be simulated because experience = self + qualia Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/24/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the

Re: Re: Can you think of an experiment to verify comp ?

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal I follow leibniz's idealism, not e. So the existing universe is just as it is, a well founded phenomenon. I can stub my toe and measure the speed of light. The experiment that proves my consciousness-- to me at least-- is that I know that I know. Roger Clough,

Re: Re: Solipsism = 1p

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal The simulated experience is not a real experience. OK ? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/24/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time:

Re: Re: Solipsism = 1p

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg No, the computer can simulate knowledge by description but not knowledge by acquaintance that you could experience. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/24/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content -

Re: Re: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Russell Standish I agree. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/24/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Russell Standish Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-23, 18:20:35 Subject: Re: Kant's

Re: Re: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stathis Papaioannou OK, but I think you are still left with the I. I doubted' still means there's an I present. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/24/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stathis

Re: Re: Solipsism = 1p

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King How can you know that the simulation is exact ? Solipsim prevents that. And who or what experiences the computer output ? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/24/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content

Re: Predictive physiological anticipation preceding seemingly unpredictable stimuli: a meta-analysis

2012-10-24 Thread Richard Ruquist
At the risk of beating a dead horse, Cramer's Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics TIQM, a 4th possible interpetation of QM, requires waves coming back from the future. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_interpretation More recently he [Cramer] has also argued TIQM to be

Re: Interactions between mind and brain

2012-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Oct 2012, at 06:03, Stephen P. King wrote: What difference does what they refer to matter? Eventually there has to be some physical process or we would be incapable of even thinking about them! The resources to perform the computation are either available or they are not.

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-10-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 12:21:23 AM UTC-4, Brent wrote: On 10/23/2012 6:33 PM, Max Gron wrote: On Sunday, November 28, 2010 5:19:08 AM UTC+10:30, Rex Allen wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Jason Resch jason...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Rex Allen

Re: wave function collapse

2012-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Richard, On 24 Oct 2012, at 13:46, Richard Ruquist wrote: Bruno, What is your opinion of Cramer's Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics TIQM, a 4th possible interpetation of QM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_interpretation More recently he [Cramer] has also

Re: I believe that comp's requirement is one of as if ratherthanis

2012-10-24 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: it's also true that the letter e is not Shakespeare's play Hamlet, but its part of it. By that analogy, you are crediting the letter e for authoring Hamlet. The letter e did not write Hamlet and neither did one neuron

Re: Predictive physiological anticipation preceding seemingly unpredictable stimuli: a meta-analysis

2012-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Oct 2012, at 14:31, Stephen P. King wrote: http://www.frontiersin.org/Perception_Science/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00390/abstract Comments? If verified it might confirms Helmholtz intuition that perception is unconscious anticipation. It would be the Dt of the Bp Dt. It is natural

Re: I believe that comp's requirement is one of as if ratherthanis

2012-10-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 11:17:43 AM UTC-4, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: it's also true that the letter e is not Shakespeare's play Hamlet, but its part of it. By that analogy, you are crediting the letter e for

Re: wave function collapse

2012-10-24 Thread Richard Ruquist
As a first step below is Cramer's argument. But I might add that MWI does not seem natural to me at all. Alas I have to invoke god and or teleology to negate it. TIQM seems to invoke teleology. Here for your convenience are the key sentences in his dismissal of MWI: Many Worlds Interpretation of

Re: wave function collapse

2012-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Oct 2012, at 15:41, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal 1) OK, so particles don't need a probe to be created from the wave ? I don't know that. With comp we have not yet clearly a wave. Only consistent extensions obeying some quantum logics. Particles are result of symmetries,

Re: One more nail in comp's coffin.

2012-10-24 Thread Jason Resch
On Oct 24, 2012, at 6:33 AM, Roger Cloughrclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Jason Resch No, have proven solipsism. What? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/24/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Jason

Re: Solipsism = 1p

2012-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Oct 2012, at 15:50, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal The simulated experience is not a real experience. OK ? Keep in mind that I assume comp. OK? It is my working hypothesis. OK? If we run into a contradiction, we can still abandon comp, OK? The statement the simulated

Re: I believe that comp's requirement is one of as if ratherthanis

2012-10-24 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: What can you do with your computer that you couldn't do five years ago? Do a good job at understanding the human voice. Beat the 2 best human players at Jeopardy. Drive a car safely for many miles over very rough terrain.

Re: Predictive physiological anticipation preceding seemingly unpredictable stimuli: a meta-analysis

2012-10-24 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/10/24 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 24 Oct 2012, at 14:31, Stephen P. King wrote: http://www.frontiersin.org/**Perception_Science/10.3389/** fpsyg.2012.00390/abstracthttp://www.frontiersin.org/Perception_Science/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00390/abstract Comments? If verified it

Re: I believe that comp's requirement is one of as if ratherthanis

2012-10-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 12:38:21 PM UTC-4, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: What can you do with your computer that you couldn't do five years ago? Do a good job at understanding the human voice. Beat the 2 best human

Re: Predictive physiological anticipation preceding seemingly unpredictable stimuli: a meta-analysis

2012-10-24 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I dont believe that such genuine anticipation is possible, for a simple reason: If for quantum or relativistic means the mind or the brain could genuinely anticipate anything, this would be such a huge advantage, that this hability would be inherited genetically by everyone of us, every human

Re: Solipsism = 1p

2012-10-24 Thread Stephen P. King
On 10/24/2012 10:01 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King How can you know that the simulation is exact ? Solipsim prevents that. And who or what experiences the computer output ? Roger Clough,rclo...@verizon.net 10/24/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody

Re: Predictive physiological anticipation preceding seemingly unpredictable stimuli: a meta-analysis

2012-10-24 Thread Stephen P. King
On 10/24/2012 10:04 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: At the risk of beating a dead horse, Cramer's Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics TIQM, a 4th possible interpetation of QM, requires waves coming back from the future. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_interpretation More

Re: I believe that comp's requirement is one of as if ratherthanis

2012-10-24 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: What can you do with your computer that you couldn't do five years ago? Do a good job at understanding the human voice. Beat the 2 best human players at Jeopardy. Drive a car safely for many miles over very

Re: wave function collapse

2012-10-24 Thread meekerdb
On 10/24/2012 4:31 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 23 Oct 2012, at 14:50, Roger Clough wrote: Hi meekerdb There are a number of theories to explain the collapse of the quantum wave function (see below). 1) In subjective theories, the collapse is attributed to consciousness (presumably of the

Re: Descartes' definition of existence

2012-10-24 Thread meekerdb
On 10/24/2012 4:49 AM, Roger Clough wrote: According to Descartes, the physical is that which has extension in space. That's a common definition of existence. That would imply that electrons and quarks don't exist. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: Can you think of an experiment to verify comp ?

2012-10-24 Thread meekerdb
On 10/24/2012 4:51 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 23 Oct 2012, at 15:35, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal Nothing is true, even comp, until it is proven by experiment. Then your own consciousness is false, which I doubt. But I do experience my consciousness. Then the existence even of

Re: Interactions between mind and brain

2012-10-24 Thread meekerdb
On 10/24/2012 4:56 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi meekerdb Just because something has no extension in space I wrote location not extension - don't misquote me. (physical existence) doesn't mean it doesn't exist mentally, for example in Platonia. But existing mentally isn't the same as

Re: Interactions between mind and brain

2012-10-24 Thread Stephen P. King
On 10/24/2012 10:15 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 24 Oct 2012, at 06:03, Stephen P. King wrote: What difference does what they refer to matter? Eventually there has to be some physical process or we would be incapable of even thinking about them! The resources to perform the computation

Re: Predictive physiological anticipation preceding seemingly unpredictable stimuli: a meta-analysis

2012-10-24 Thread meekerdb
On 10/24/2012 5:31 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: http://www.frontiersin.org/Perception_Science/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00390/abstract Comments? Woo-woo. Small effect sizes which are *statistically* significant are indicative of bias errors. I'd wager a proper Bayesian analysis of the original

Re: Predictive physiological anticipation preceding seemingly unpredictable stimuli: a meta-analysis

2012-10-24 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 10/24/2012 10:04 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: At the risk of beating a dead horse, Cramer's Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics TIQM, a 4th possible interpetation of QM, requires waves coming back

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-10-24 Thread meekerdb
On 10/24/2012 7:56 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 12:21:23 AM UTC-4, Brent wrote: On 10/23/2012 6:33 PM, Max Gron wrote: On Sunday, November 28, 2010 5:19:08 AM UTC+10:30, Rex Allen wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Jason Resch

Re: Code length = probability distribution

2012-10-24 Thread meekerdb
On 10/24/2012 11:58 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2012/10/23 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be On 22 Oct 2012, at 21:50, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2012/10/22 Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net mailto:stephe...@charter.net On 10/22/2012 2:38 AM,

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-10-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 2:52:06 PM UTC-4, Brent wrote: On 10/24/2012 7:56 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 12:21:23 AM UTC-4, Brent wrote: On 10/23/2012 6:33 PM, Max Gron wrote: On Sunday, November 28, 2010 5:19:08 AM UTC+10:30, Rex Allen wrote:

Re: I believe that comp's requirement is one of as if ratherthanis

2012-10-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 1:48:14 PM UTC-4, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: What can you do with your computer that you couldn't do five years ago? Do a good job at understanding the human voice. Beat

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-10-24 Thread meekerdb
On 10/24/2012 3:11 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 2:52:06 PM UTC-4, Brent wrote: On 10/24/2012 7:56 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 12:21:23 AM UTC-4, Brent wrote: On 10/23/2012 6:33 PM, Max Gron wrote: On Sunday,

Re: Can you think of an experiment to verify comp ?

2012-10-24 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal Nothing is true, even comp, until it is proven by experiment. Can you think of an experiment to verify comp ? What is needed is an experiment showing that the behaviour of brains can be simulated on a

Re: Re: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism

2012-10-24 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Stathis Papaioannou OK, but I think you are still left with the I. I doubted' still means there's an I present. There's an I present but not necessarily a world to contain it, which is what Kant set out to prove.

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-10-24 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 12:21:23 AM UTC-4, Brent wrote: On 10/23/2012 6:33 PM, Max Gron wrote: On Sunday, November 28, 2010 5:19:08 AM UTC+10:30, Rex Allen wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Jason

Re: Continuous Game of Life

2012-10-24 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 21 Oct 2012, at 18:42, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Hi John, On 20 Oct 2012, at 23:16, John Mikes wrote: Bruno, especially in my identification as

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-10-24 Thread meekerdb
On 10/24/2012 5:41 PM, Jason Resch wrote: That's right. The meaning, the what is represented, is given by interaction (including speech) with the environment (including others). So only a computer with the ability to interact can seem intelligent and therefore

Re: Continuous Game of Life

2012-10-24 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:04 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote I think you are missing something. It is a problem that I noticed after watching the movie The Prestige In my opinion The Prestige is the best

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-10-24 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 7:58 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/24/2012 5:41 PM, Jason Resch wrote: That's right. The meaning, the what is represented, is given by interaction (including speech) with the environment (including others). So only a computer with the ability to

Re: Interactions between mind and brain

2012-10-24 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net wrote: A top-down effect of consciousness on matter could be inferred if miraculous events were observed in neurophysiology research. The consciousness itself cannot be directly observed. Hi Stathis, This would be

What If A Zombie Is What You Need?

2012-10-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
If we turn the Fading Qualia argument around, what we get is a world in which Comp is true and it is impossible to simulate cellular activity without evoking the presumed associated experience. If we wanted to test a new painkiller for instance, Comp=true means that it is *IMPOSSIBLE* to model

Re: Continuous Game of Life

2012-10-24 Thread meekerdb
On 10/24/2012 6:27 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:04 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com mailto:johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com mailto:jasonre...@gmail.com wrote I think you are missing

Re: What If A Zombie Is What You Need?

2012-10-24 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: If we turn the Fading Qualia argument around, what we get is a world in which Comp is true and it is impossible to simulate cellular activity without evoking the presumed associated experience. If we wanted to test

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-10-24 Thread meekerdb
On 10/24/2012 6:39 PM, Jason Resch wrote: Note that I too agree with that bit about the interpreter of information being needed for information to have any objective meaning. But that's just a semantic explanation since interpreter and how we would know whether or not

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-10-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 6:24:39 PM UTC-4, Brent wrote: I'm with John Clark on that - if a machine functions intelligently it's intelligent and it's probably conscious. Nothing magical about it. It's completely magical. Saying that it isn't doesn't explain anything. If people

Re: Strings are not in space-time, they are on space-time

2012-10-24 Thread Richard Ruquist
Nonsense Stephan, I totally agree with everything you copied over but totally disagree with your interpretation of it. Richard On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 10/24/2012 2:35 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: I do not understand what you are saying

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-10-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:09:16 PM UTC-4, Brent wrote: On 10/24/2012 6:39 PM, Jason Resch wrote: Note that I too agree with that bit about the interpreter of information being needed for information to have any objective meaning. But that's just a semantic explanation

Re: What If A Zombie Is What You Need?

2012-10-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:05:40 PM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: If we turn the Fading Qualia argument around, what we get is a world in which Comp is true and it is impossible to simulate cellular

Re: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism

2012-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Oct 2012, at 14:04, Roger Clough wrote: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism Problematic Idealism (Berkeley's idealism, not that of Leibniz) is the thesis that we cannot prove that objects outside us exist. This results directly from Descartes' proposition that the only

Re: Solipsism = 1p

2012-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Oct 2012, at 15:43, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal Anything that the brain does is or could be experience. For computers, experience can only be simulated because experience = self + qualia In the theory I represent the self by the B.Bp = my self believes p. (I can

Re: What If A Zombie Is What You Need?

2012-10-24 Thread meekerdb
On 10/24/2012 6:59 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: If we turn the Fading Qualia argument around, what we get is a world in which Comp is true and it is impossible to simulate cellular activity without evoking the presumed associated experience. If we wanted to test a new painkiller for instance,

Re: Code length = probability distribution

2012-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Oct 2012, at 20:13, Stephen P. King wrote: On 10/22/2012 2:38 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2012/10/22 Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 11:38:46PM -0400, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi Rusell, How does Schmidhuber consider the physicality of resources?

Re: Strings are not in space-time, they are on space-time

2012-10-24 Thread Stephen P. King
On 10/24/2012 10:20 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: Nonsense Stephan, I totally agree with everything you copied over but totally disagree with your interpretation of it. Richard OK, please tell me how else the math is to be understood. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Stephen P. King

Re: Strings are not in space-time, they are on space-time

2012-10-24 Thread Richard Ruquist
Stephan, The compactified dimensions curl-up into particles that resemble a crystalline structure with some peculiar properties compared to ordinary particles, but nevertheless just particles. What about that do you not understand? Richard On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Stephen P. King

Re: Can you think of an experiment to verify comp ?

2012-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Oct 2012, at 15:48, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal I follow leibniz's idealism, not e. You mean not B (Berkeley) ? Comp is demanding; it takes the best in L and B. That gives Plotinus, somehow. So the existing universe is just as it is, a well founded phenomenon. That

Re: Continuous Game of Life

2012-10-24 Thread Jason Resch
On Oct 24, 2012, at 9:02 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/24/2012 6:27 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:04 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote I think you are missing

Re: Strings are not in space-time, they are on space-time

2012-10-24 Thread Stephen P. King
On 10/24/2012 11:25 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: Stephan, The compactified dimensions curl-up into particles that resemble a crystalline structure with some peculiar properties compared to ordinary particles, but nevertheless just particles. What about that do you not understand? Richard Dear

Re: What If A Zombie Is What You Need?

2012-10-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:54:52 PM UTC-4, Brent wrote: On 10/24/2012 6:59 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: If we turn the Fading Qualia argument around, what we get is a world in which Comp is true and it is impossible to simulate cellular activity without evoking the presumed

Re: Strings are not in space-time, they are on space-time

2012-10-24 Thread Richard Ruquist
Please inform ST Yau of your views. He will be interested for sure. I have informed him of my paper and he found it interesting. Personally I think your perspective is intellectualism. Richard On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 10/24/2012 11:25 PM,

Re: Continuous Game of Life

2012-10-24 Thread meekerdb
On 10/24/2012 8:48 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Oct 24, 2012, at 9:02 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/24/2012 6:27 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:04 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com mailto:johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: The circular logic of Dennett and other materialists

2012-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Oct 2012, at 15:17, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal Numbers and calculations are not subjective, Right. for they are mindless. Hmm... OK. Which means they can't experience anything. They're dead in the water. This is too ambiguous. I can say that you are right. Numbers

Re: What If A Zombie Is What You Need?

2012-10-24 Thread meekerdb
On 10/24/2012 9:23 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: Or what if we don't care? We don't care about slaughtering cattle, which are pretty smart as computers go. We manage not to think about starving children in Africa, and they *are* humans. And we ignore the looming disasters

Re: Strings are not in space-time, they are on space-time

2012-10-24 Thread Stephen P. King
On 10/25/2012 12:46 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: Please inform ST Yau of your views. He will be interested for sure. I have informed him of my paper and he found it interesting. Personally I think your perspective is intellectualism. Richard Dear Richard, Your point is well made. It is quite

Re: What If A Zombie Is What You Need?

2012-10-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, October 25, 2012 1:10:24 AM UTC-4, Brent wrote: On 10/24/2012 9:23 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: Or what if we don't care? We don't care about slaughtering cattle, which are pretty smart as computers go. We manage not to think about starving children in Africa, and they

Re: Continuous Game of Life

2012-10-24 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:00 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/24/2012 8:48 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Oct 24, 2012, at 9:02 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/24/2012 6:27 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:04 AM, John Clark

Re: What If A Zombie Is What You Need?

2012-10-24 Thread meekerdb
On 10/24/2012 10:19 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, October 25, 2012 1:10:24 AM UTC-4, Brent wrote: On 10/24/2012 9:23 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: Or what if we don't care? We don't care about slaughtering cattle, which are pretty smart as computers go.

Re: computers, materialism and subjective/objective dyslexia

2012-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Oct 2012, at 16:39, Roger Clough wrote: Computers, materialism and subjective/objective dyslexia In materialism there is no self, it is implied. In computationalism there is no matter, it is implied (apparent). This works in most cases, except if the case involves the self or

Re: What If A Zombie Is What You Need?

2012-10-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, October 25, 2012 1:29:24 AM UTC-4, Brent wrote: On 10/24/2012 10:19 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, October 25, 2012 1:10:24 AM UTC-4, Brent wrote: On 10/24/2012 9:23 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: Or what if we don't care? We don't care about slaughtering cattle,