On Monday, August 4, 2014 3:48:23 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote:
On 8/4/2014 12:48 PM, Gabriel Bodeen wrote:
Mother: In fact, I bet there's somewhere far, far away where you are a
mermaid, too. And
somewhere else, you're an intrepid scientist-athlete-princess-explorer
adventuring among
Daughter: Daddy, daddy! Why wasn't I born beautiful and lucky like Kim
Kardashian?
Father: What? Surely no daughter of mine would take Kim Kardashian as a
role model!
Mother: But darling - she does! All outcomes happen. Somewhere.
Daughter: Does that mean I'm a Kardashian somewhere?
Mother:
On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 8:02:18 AM UTC-5, Craig Weinberg wrote:
So often it becomes clear to me in debating the issues of consciousness
that they are missing something which cannot be replaced by logic. The way
that many people think, especially those who are very intelligent in math
I was going to say that 22 minutes is, suspiciously, the actual length of
half-hour daytime TV in the U.S. once the commercials are removed. If
you're judging us Americans based on our daytime TV, then indeed, it must
appear there is no hope at all left for us.
But since MIT doesn't have a
I thought this blog post and the ensuing comments were a fascinating
perspective on the increasing problem of medical science not replicating.
The Control Group is Out of Control
http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-out-of-control/
Trying to set up placebo science would be
It depends on what perspective you're coming from, probably. For folk like
myself who were raised with an abusive religion and left it for generic
humanism, I'd recommend against reading the Quran unless you have something
happier to detox your mind with afterward. I first read the Quran a
Yay! I'd be happy with a larger number of planets in our Solar System.
Incidentally, since the current planet definition says that the object has
to have cleared the other stuff from its orbit, that means that rogue
planets aren't planets. :( And even less importantly, imagine a sci-fi
story
FWIW, on a flight this weekend I read a bit of Amoeba's Secret on my kindle
while the stranger in the seat next to me was reading Tegmark's book. If
plane rides didn't make me fall unconscious almost immediately, that might
have been grounds for an interesting live discussion. :)
On Thursday,
On Friday, March 21, 2014 7:04:58 PM UTC-5, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Friday, March 21, 2014 2:11:17 PM UTC-4, Gabriel Bodeen wrote:
On Friday, March 21, 2014 12:42:13 PM UTC-5, Craig Weinberg wrote:
I'm not so much interested in defining CTM, as in exploding the
assumptions from
He gives six evidences.
First, he falls for quantum pseudoscience.
Second, he says that he personally failed to make AI when he tried and
incorrectly implies that difficulty means impossibility.
Third, he brings up the hard problem and uses it to make an argument from
ignorance.
Fourth, he says
On Thursday, March 20, 2014 8:48:30 PM UTC-5, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Thursday, March 20, 2014 1:01:43 PM UTC-4, Gabriel Bodeen wrote:
On Thursday, March 20, 2014 11:16:19 AM UTC-5, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Thursday, March 20, 2014 11:09:39 AM UTC-4, Gabriel Bodeen wrote
On Friday, March 21, 2014 12:42:13 PM UTC-5, Craig Weinberg wrote:
I'm not so much interested in defining CTM, as in exploding the
assumptions from which CTM and other mechanistic, information-theoretical
models of consciousness arise.
OK. Would you mind defining which assumptions
Others worth a look:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0589 Is Eternal Inflation Past-Eternal? And What
if It Is? Susskind
http://arxiv.org/abs/0712.0571 Eternal Inflation, past and future Aguirre
-Gabe
On Friday, March 21, 2014 2:14:41 PM UTC-5, ronaldheld wrote:
Bruno, I have read several over the
On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 9:25:44 PM UTC-5, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10:06:37 PM UTC-4, Gabriel Bodeen wrote:
But all the forms of language do share a common logical basis, according
to many linguists. How is it relevant to the logic of a language
On Thursday, March 20, 2014 11:16:19 AM UTC-5, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Thursday, March 20, 2014 11:09:39 AM UTC-4, Gabriel Bodeen wrote:
It formed increasingly high-level associations between bundles of
sensory data, eventually also combining sounds and vocal behavior into
those
On Thursday, March 20, 2014 1:12:33 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote:
It looks like you have not yet grasped the UDA.
My post was not about the UDA; your comments are appreciated but they miss
the mark widely.
-Gabe
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I think the argument usually goes like this:
Suppose there's an infinite ensemble of the computations that include a
mental state that remembers having been you as you are now. There are a
lot of details needed to support such a mental state. Let's say it takes a
minimum of N bits. Longer
On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 8:24:33 PM UTC-5, Craig Weinberg wrote:
Another knife in the heart of CTM, IMO...
It took several minutes of Googling to find a plausible expansion of CTM,
at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computational-mind/ . I guess
objectively that's hardly any work at
On Sunday, March 16, 2014 1:10:19 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 16 Mar 2014, at 17:31, meekerdb wrote:
On 3/16/2014 12:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
That's correct, but we assume usually classical quantum
mechanics. Then, even if GR digitalizes the access to futures, it
On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 10:38:23 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote:
OK. Me too. But modern physics has a strong mathematical flavor, and
consciousness seems more to be an immaterial belief or knowledge than
something made of particles, so, if interested in the mind body problem,
the
On Saturday, March 8, 2014 2:37:50 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote:
A couple other accounts of how things might be that I take seriously are
(1) physicalism in the sense that arithmetical propositions might only be
true when physically realized,
No problem, and indeed this would make comp
On Monday, March 10, 2014 2:08:14 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote:
That relativism argues against comp, and even implicitly against Church
thesis. But my point is not that comp is true, just that with comp, the
theory QM + comp is redundant, and we have to justify QM (at the least its
On Thursday, March 6, 2014 12:32:32 PM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 06 Mar 2014, at 16:40, Gabriel Bodeen wrote:
Did you mean to address me, or did you mean to address Chris?
I don't object to any step in UDA. It seems internally consistent and
plausible to me. I'm unsure what
On Friday, March 7, 2014 10:59:06 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 07 Mar 2014, at 17:05, Gabriel Bodeen wrote:
An argument on its own merits is presumably either valid or invalid, and
either sound or unsound. Regarding UDA's soundness: I have no problem
saying Yes Doctor
On Thursday, March 6, 2014 1:52:56 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 05 Mar 2014, at 18:45, Gabriel Bodeen wrote:
Brent was right but the explanation could use some examples to show you
what's happening. The strangeness that you noticed occurs because you're
looking at cases where
Brent was right but the explanation could use some examples to show you
what's happening. The strangeness that you noticed occurs because you're
looking at cases where the proportion is *exactly* 50%.
binopdf(2,4,0.5)=0.375
binopdf(3,6,0.5)=0.3125
binopdf(4,8,0.5)=0.2374
IIUC, the Moon is tidally locked to the Earth because it was initially a
bit molten and due to Earth's gravity was an elongated ball shape, not
quite a sphere. Then it cooled down and solidified that way. The tug of
gravity keeps the Moon's bulge pointed toward us, braking the rotation of
On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 7:32:51 PM UTC-6, Pierz wrote:
The phenomenon of eidetic (photographic) memory is well established as a
reality. ...
Huh, are you sure? I remember always hearing that it was a myth. I
didn't find anything which settles it conclusively in a brief search, but
Good luck to Shu. I occasionally chat over dinner with a local
professional physicist who disbelieves in the Big Bang. His alternative
also stumbles over the CMB, though. I suspect that a good heuristic for
inventing alternative theories is to not bother much to plumb their depths
unless
FWIW, under the usual definitions, the rationals are enumerable and so are
a smaller set than the reals. I'd suppose that if people can figure that
out with our nifty fleshy brains, then a well-designed computer brain
could, too.
-Gabe
On Friday, January 24, 2014 1:23:40 AM UTC-6, Brian
On Friday, January 17, 2014 5:14:13 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote:
To be franc, I don't believe in super-intelligence. I do believe in
super-competence, relative to some domain, but as I have explained from
time to time, competence has a negative feedback on intelligence.
Intelligence is a
If any of you haven't seen it, you will likely be quite interesting the The
Edge's list of responses to this year's question, What scientific idea is
ready for retirement? Some of the answers are fascinating, some are
absurd, and some are confusing. Take a look!
So you're assuming that nothing must mean non-existence? Why?
In any case, Existence exists because non-existence cannot exist is
really more of a slogan than an axiom, as we can't make deductions from
it. While I'm quite sympathetic to Platonic-style ideas, I don't assume
them
On Friday, January 10, 2014 8:17:13 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote:
On 1/10/2014 10:49 AM, Gabriel Bodeen wrote:
On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 4:25:04 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote:
As you've explained it above your theory makes a rock just as conscious
as a brain. I'm
sure you must have a more
On Monday, January 13, 2014 11:49:17 AM UTC-6, Edgar L. Owen wrote:
Forget all other theories when you read mine and judge it only on its own
merits... Don't shoehorn!
FWIW, that's all well and good for mathematical and other formal theories.
You've been insistent on not formalizing your
On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 4:25:04 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote:
As you've explained it above your theory makes a rock just as conscious as
a brain. I'm
sure you must have a more subtle theory than that, so I'll ask you the
same thing I asked
Bruno, if I make a robot what do I have to do
Hi Bruno ( all),
I was trying to read through your paper The Origin of Physical Laws and
Sensations, which I saw linked to in a conversation earlier. I started to
get lost about page 13 of the PDF, and by page 17 I was too lost to
profitably continue. Can you (or anyone) suggest, based on the
in a present moment and that
present moment is the only possible basis for anything, including the
differing clock times of relativity, to even take place.
Edgar
On Friday, January 3, 2014 12:23:52 PM UTC-5, Gabriel Bodeen wrote:
Hi Edgar,
That response does not at all address the contradiction
(I'm expanding on the comment by Jason.)
The P-time notion, if it means anything at all timelike, says that there
exists some uniquely correct ordering of events across space.
Consider these events: Pam's 3rd birthday party and Sam's 4th birthday party
The P-time notion says that either (A)
.
Best,
Edgar
On Friday, January 3, 2014 10:31:59 AM UTC-5, Gabriel Bodeen wrote:
(I'm expanding on the comment by Jason.)
The P-time notion, if it means anything at all timelike, says that
there exists some uniquely correct ordering of events across space.
Consider these events: Pam's 3rd
So in the event that somebody actually does make AI, please recall this and
consider your philosophical system to have been falsified.
-Gabe
On Monday, November 25, 2013 6:17:15 AM UTC-6, Roger Clough wrote:
Why computer consciousness and artificial intelligence are impossible.
Dr. Roger B
Is there another version of this list anywhere with a lower density of
Cloughisms?
On Tuesday, August 13, 2013 7:48:55 PM UTC-5, Pierz wrote:
See here:
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/the-rise-of-slime3a-jellyfish-and-algae-thrive-in-new-oceanic-/4838478
It seems
Greetings,
I came here after reading and being intrigued by Russell Standish's book.
I just thought I'd share one bit of fun before I go into lurker mode. It's
a little ditty about Kant's philosophy. I remembered it after reading the
book because it sounds very similar to some of the
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