Leibniz's theory of perception and consciousness.

2013-12-14 Thread Roger Clough
Leibniz's theory of perception and consciousness. The secret of perception. Particular minds and how they relate to the overall or Cosmic Mind The problem of perception in materialistic thinking is that it forces us to think that there is a fleshly homunculus inside our brains. Leibniz has

How the banks are stealing our wealth

2013-12-14 Thread Roger Clough
How the banks are stealing our wealth. This seems to be factual, and is non-politcal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFDe5kUUyT0Hi - Roger Clough You'll need to watch it at least twice to understand it, it's very complicated. And scarey. Pass it on. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000

Beware of the bitcoin

2013-12-14 Thread Roger Clough
The bitcoin is an international speculative cyber-currency (based on nothing) that has been inflating rapidly in price. I would be wary of investing in it because it can drop in value just as fast as it is rising. It's probably a bubble. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHVu626uOGE Dr. Roger B

You can order Augason Farms 30 day supply of food from Walmart online at

2013-12-13 Thread Roger Clough
Hi You can order Augason Farms 30 day emergency supply of food from Walmart online at http://www.walmart.com/search/search-ng.do?search_query=Augason%20Farmadid=224211189655wmlspartner=wmtlabswl0=3536268310wl1=ewl2=walmart%20augason%20farmswl3=15081448341veh=sem Free shipping, they

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2013-12-13 Thread Roger Clough
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2013-12-13 Thread Roger Clough
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Walmart 30 Day Emergency Food Storage Pail Augason Farms Review

2013-12-13 Thread Roger Clough
Walmart 30 Day Emergency Food Storage Pail Augason Farms Review Video at- Roger Clough http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRtg5YKddQo $89.00 on sale from $90.00 at walmart. free shipping, order online at http://www.walmart.com/search/search-ng.do?search_query=Augason%20Farmadid

Global warming ?

2013-12-13 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Chris, According to the Vostok data, we're in for another ice age, in say 10,000 years or so. jcs-online,theoretical_physics_board,- mindbr...@yahoogroups.com,everything-list,4dworldx Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at

A great place for hackers to start to be an identity imposter

2013-12-13 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Hans Dieter Franke A great place for hackers to start to be an identity imposter is www.healthcare.gov (if that's the right address). No or little security. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This email

Auguson Farms emergency food supplies at walmart

2013-12-12 Thread Roger Clough
Hi In preparation for the coming weimar-type economy collapse, where a loaf of bread will cost you $100 or more, I'm going up to Germantown to buy Auguson Farms emergency food pails at walmart. The 30 day pails of emergency food will keep for 25 years, run from $80 to $160 for 30 days. Maybe 6

Arctic sea ice increased by 51 % last year.

2013-12-12 Thread Roger Clough
Hi - Global warming ? Liberals live in a universe of lies. Arctic sea ice increased by 51 % last year. http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/51-growth-in-thick-arctic-ice-over-last-year/ Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at

MERRY CHRISTMAS !

2013-12-11 Thread Roger Clough
MERRY CHRISTMAS ! USAF FLASH MOB at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIoSga7tZPglist=UUKX86dJGhTOn8NtRUqnATFQ Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This email is free

That hateful subject, metaphysics

2013-12-11 Thread Roger Clough
That hateful subject, metaphysics To deal with consciousness and experiences, which are mental, not physical, you have to go to that hateful subject, metaphysics, and only Leibniz has a good account of the perceiver, which is the experiencer not available to materialism. If you still believe

Leibniz on sensory experience (my account)

2013-12-11 Thread Roger Clough
Leibniz on sensory experience Leibniz maintained that all causation is mental. This appears to contradict sensory experiences such as being pricked by a pin, for the cause of the experience would seem to originate in the body with the prick. There are a number of resolutions to this

The myth of computer consciousnesss and intelligence

2013-12-10 Thread Roger Clough
The myth of computer consciousnesss and intelligence People have been trying to create perpetual motion machines for centuries, but nobody has succeeded, I believe because of energy losses. The problem with making computers truly intelligent I believe is also impossible, because the final stage

Leibniz vs Jerry Fodor - Is there a language of thought ?

2013-12-10 Thread Roger Clough
Leibniz and Piccinini versus Jerry Fodor - Is there a language of thought ? 1. Jerry Fodor argues that thoughts have representations, namely that there is a language of thought: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_of_thought In which, as I understand it, computations are made by the brain

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2013-12-10 Thread Roger Clough
Leibniz and Piccinini versus Jerry Fodor - Is there a language of thought ? 1. Jerry Fodor argues that thoughts have representations, namely that there is a language of thought: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_of_thought In which, as I understand it, computations are made by the brain

Leibniz and Piccinini versus Jerry Fodor - Is there a language of thought ?

2013-12-10 Thread Roger Clough
Leibniz and Piccinini versus Jerry Fodor - Is there a language of thought ? 1. Jerry Fodor argues that thoughts have representations, namely that there is a language of thought: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_of_thought In which, as I understand it, computations aremade

Once again. Why science can never understand consciousness.

2013-12-09 Thread Roger Clough
Once again. Why science can never understand consciousness. Science deals only with public (communicable) knowledge. Descriptive knowledge by the third person. Mind and consciousness are personal (private) knowledge. Personal experience by the first person singular. This is

In case you didn't get it. Consciousness is not a scientific topic

2013-12-09 Thread Roger Clough
In case you didn't get it. Consciousness is not a scientific topic Science deals only with public (communicable) knowledge. Descriptive knowledge by the third person. This is the province of science. Mind and consciousness are personal (private) knowledge. Personal experience by the

Is the universe driven by mathematics or is it driven by aesthetics

2013-12-08 Thread Roger Clough
Is the universe driven by mathematics or is it driven by aesthetics ? One cannot fail to look upward at the beauty of the night sky without a feeling of wonder. Physicists look for ultimate explanations for the behavior of the universe in mathematics, and indeed one cannot avoid mathematics in

A modern monadology

2013-12-07 Thread Roger Clough
For those wishing to delve deeper into Leibniz, see A modern monadology http://www.ucl.ac.uk/jonathan-edwards/monadology Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This email is free from viruses and malware because

For those interested in the theory of conscious experience, see

2013-12-07 Thread Roger Clough
For those interested in the theory of conscious experience, see the excellent site, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/jonathan-edwards Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This email is free from viruses and malware because

A definition of human consciousness

2013-12-07 Thread Roger Clough
A definition of human consciousness Human consciousness is experience by the first person singular. Materialistic theories of consciousness can only describe experience, not deal with experience itself. Actual experience is only available in philosophical Idealism (Kant, Plato, Leibniz).

Some basic principles of mind - a wakeup call for materialists.

2013-12-07 Thread Roger Clough
Some basic principles of mind - a wakeup call for materialists. 1. There are two forms of knowledge: a) knowledge by acquaintance, such as you have met Obama, and b) knowledge by description, such as you have been told that Obama is president of the USA. 2. Knowledge by acquaintance is

From Leibniz: gravity is the universal striving toward a more perfect beauty

2013-12-07 Thread Roger Clough
From Leibniz: gravity is the universal striving toward a more perfect beauty James Collins, in chapter III, section 3 of The Continental Rationalists, [Bruce publishing, 1967] discusses the metaphysics of Leibniz, in particular Leibniz's belief that the universe is striving toward a more

Dialogue between two believing scientists on how the universe is run

2013-12-06 Thread Roger Clough
Dialogue between two believing scientists on how the universe is run JOHN-- Funny thought [universal government, which is Plato's universe] coming from a staunch Republican conservative govt minimizer. Perhaps an atheist is just someone who thinks something the size of the whole universe can

Bertrand Russell's complete misunderstanding of Plato's theory of knowledge and perception

2013-12-05 Thread Roger Clough
Bertrand Russell's gross misunderstanding of Plato's theory of knowledge and perception In http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1EiQEwn1lc Plato believed that truth is a conceptual form of knowledge, which is a priori and so not obtained through the senses. Truth obtained through the senses, Plato

Reality is not matter, it's Heidegger's dasein, which is Leibniz's monad

2013-12-05 Thread Roger Clough
Reality is not matter, it's Heidegger's dasein, which is Leibniz's monad Materialists spend much effort on trying to show that reality is simply physics. But the philosophy of Plato, Leibniz, Kant, and now Heidegger shows that materialism and analytic philosophy is incomplete, since it omits

Advaita Vedanta and Leibnizian Metaphysics

2013-12-04 Thread Roger Clough
Advaita Vedanta and Leibnizian Metaphysics This is a huge, daunting subject which I can only scratch the surface of. A book or PhD thesis could easily be written on it and do a much better job than I can here. Keep in mind also that I am not an expert on Advaita. A brief summary of the

Some basic principles of Leibniz's Idealism

2013-12-01 Thread Roger Clough
Some basic principles of Leibniz's Idealism 1. Everything that exists has two aspects, essence (mind or monad) and existent (object). This is a localized version of Berkeley's overall Idealism. Essence, being mental, is outside of spacetime while the existent (a corporeal body) is

A conjecture- Quantum physics, Relativity and Leibniz's Idealism

2013-12-01 Thread Roger Clough
A conjecture: Quantum physics, Relativity and Leibniz's Idealism According to Leibniz's Idealism, everything that exists has two aspects, 1, essence (mind or monad or what we here conjecture is a quantum wave), which is outside of spacetime, and 2. existent (physical particle or

How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-01 Thread Roger Clough
How can a grown man be an atheist ? An atheist is a person who believes that the universe can function without some form of government. How silly. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This email is free from viruses

How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-01 Thread Roger Clough
How can a grown man be an atheist ? An atheist is a person who believes that the universe can function without some form of government. How silly. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This email is free from viruses

Online opinions of Dennett and Chalmers-- the clueless two

2013-11-30 Thread Roger Clough
Online opinions of Dennett and Chalmers-- the clueless two Dennett never tells us what conscilousness is, because conciouness rwequires a perceiver, and he hasn't a clue as to what that is, because that concept is foreign to his materialism. He's clueless. And famous as well maybe because with

Berkeley and Leibniz- where the monads came from

2013-11-30 Thread Roger Clough
Berkeley and Leibniz- where the monads came from In Berkeley's philosophy of idealism, a subject is needed to perceive objects, otherwise they could not exist. Leibniz got around the problem of what happens if nobody's there (a tree falls in a wood...) by dividing up the world into physical

Why consciousness is not possible in materialism

2013-11-30 Thread Roger Clough
Why consciousness is not possible in materialism Two related definitions of consciousness are: 1. Consciousness is experience by the first person singular. 2. Consciousness is self-referential awareness. So consciousness requires that there be a self, or first person singular, to be aware.

Russell's abandonment of Leibniz's platonism after his conversion to the cult of materialism

2013-11-30 Thread Roger Clough
Russell's abandonment of Leibniz's platonism after his conversion to the cult of materialism. Three related definitions of consciousness not possible in materialism or analytic philosophy: 1. Consciousness is experience by the first person singular. 2. Consciousness is self-referential

Perception and cionsciousness according to Leibniz

2013-11-28 Thread Roger Clough
Perception and consciousness according to Leibniz- The secret of perception. Particular minds and how they relate to the overall or Cosmic Mind The problem of perception in materialistic thinking is that it forces us to think that there is a fleshly homunculus Leibniz has a more

An account of the historical suppression of Leibniz's forbidden knowledge

2013-11-28 Thread Roger Clough
An account of the historical (and continuing) suppression of Leibniz's forbidden ideas Leibniz was an anti-materialist so that his inclusion of Mind and deity into his philosophy were forbidden ideas, and stillo are, to our detriment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTiztUNrhhM Dr. Roger B

The death of analytic philosophy and the birth of consciousness

2013-11-27 Thread Roger Clough
The death of analytic philosophy and the birth of consciousness Consciousness, which is experience by the first person singular, is by definition outside of the scope of analytic philosophy, which is limited to be able to only deal in descriptions of experience. Definition of ANALYTIC

The passing on of a paradigm--analytic philosophy

2013-11-26 Thread Roger Clough
-- the basis of materialism and atheism-- which are cults that have have degenerated Western thought - have passed on or are at an advanced age. Bertram Russell - Died 1970 Donald Davidson - Died 2003 Hilary Putname -- alive but at age 87 - Roger Clough Willard V.O. Quine -- died 2000 Richard Rorty

The whole enchilada: Leibniz, the first person, third person, and the brain

2013-11-26 Thread Roger Clough
The whole enchilada: Leibniz, the first person, third person, and the brain. A new mind-brain model for the post-analytic post-materialist world. [Please feel free to use whatever I have written on the topic of Leibniz to advance your own theory of the mind and brain. All copyrights are released

A slight revision- The whole enchilada: Leibniz, the first person, third person, and the brain.

2013-11-26 Thread Roger Clough
The whole enchilada: Leibniz, the first person, third person, and the brain. A new mind-brain model for the post-analytic post-materialist world. [Please feel free to use whatever I have written on the topic of Leibniz to advance your own theory of the mind and brain. All copyrights are

Re: Re: Why computer consciousness and artificial intelligence areimpossible.

2013-11-26 Thread Roger Clough
computer consciousness and artificial intelligence areimpossible. 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

Why computer consciousness and artificial intelligence are impossible.

2013-11-25 Thread Roger Clough
Why computer consciousness and artificial intelligence are impossible. Acccording to Bertrand Russell, there are two types of knowledge: a) Knowledge by description. It is common knowledge that Obama is president. Example: Computer code. Artificial intelligence. Third person singular. b)

The difference between computer and human perception

2013-11-25 Thread Roger Clough
The difference between computer and human perception Computer consciousness and perception is by description only, such as 42. Underwater perfection as given below. Human perception is an experience such as shown in the photograph. 42. UNDERWATER PERFECTION Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.)

Re: The difference between computer and human perception

2013-11-25 Thread Roger Clough
://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough - Receiving the following content - From: Roger Clough Receiver: - Roger Clough Time: 2013-11-25, 08:00:56 Subject: The difference between computer and human perception The difference between computer and human perception Computer consciousness

ai and atheism

2013-11-23 Thread Roger Clough
What I find curious is that so much time and vitriol is spent on the web attacking theism, while so much money is spent on ai and computers to simulate humans, when nobody has ever shown or proven that computers can be conscious. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site

Atheism is wish fuklfillment.

2013-11-23 Thread Roger Clough
Atheism is wish fulfillment. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

Athism is wish fuklfillment.

2013-11-23 Thread Roger Clough
Athism is wish fulfillment. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-11-23 Thread Roger Clough
Atheism is wish fulfillment. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

Why analytic (British) philosophy (Bertrand Russell) has led humanity and ai astray

2013-11-23 Thread Roger Clough
Analytic (British) philosophy (Bertrand Russell, Anthony Flew. etc.) has led humanity and ai astray, because it limits philosophy to word and logic puzzles. Thus it cannot tell us about experiential human affairs such as consciousness and true ai. However, continental philsophy can.

Why analytic philosophers are atheists and materialists

2013-11-23 Thread Roger Clough
Analytic (British) philosophy (Bertrand Russell, Anthony Flew. etc.) has led humanity and ai astray, because it limits philosophy to word and logic puzzles and thus legitimizes atheism and materialism. Humanity has been sold short because British analytical philosophy cannot tell us about

Pre-established harmony ? Computers programs exhibit pre-established harmony.

2013-11-22 Thread Roger Clough
Pre-established harmony ? Computers programs exhibit pre-established harmony. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To

revised corrected version of Leibniz's imploied dictum, I think, therefore there is an I.

2013-11-21 Thread Roger Clough
Corrected version of Leibniz's implied dictum- I think, therefore there is an I Although previously I refered to propositional subject:predicate logic in reference to an implied dictum of Leibniz's ? ? think, therefore there is an I?, that is incorrect. The true meaning of Descartes'

Corrected version of Leibniz's implied dictum- I think, therefore

2013-11-21 Thread Roger Clough
Corrected version of Leibniz's implied dictum- I think, therefore there is an I Although previously I refered to propositional subject:predicate logic in reference to an implied dictum of Leibniz's – “I think, therefore I am”, that is incorrect. The true meaning of Descartes' famous dictum,

Leibniz: I think, therefore there is an I

2013-11-20 Thread Roger Clough
Leibniz: I think, therefore there is an I The true meaning of Descartes' famous dictum, I think, therefore I am can be clarified further by restating it using Leibniz' model of being (essence+existent) if the proposition is restated as I think, therefore there is an I, or equivalently as I

Spinoza, Leibniz and Descartes on the mind-body problem

2013-11-18 Thread Roger Clough
Spinoza, Leibniz and Descartes are completely different on the relationship between mind and matter See http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/substance/#DesSpiLei Spinoza was a monist, who believed that mind and matter were one. Descartes believed that mind and matter are totally different Leibniz

The self as lens: Leibniz's lens-like model of perception and reality

2013-11-15 Thread Roger Clough
The self as lens: Leibniz's lens-like model of perception and reality. Although I cannot find a direct reference in Leibniz's writings, they have not all been translated. Nevertheless Leibniz's model of perception is seemingly based on the high technology of the 17th century, Huygen's

We need to bring Leibniz out of the closet

2013-11-14 Thread Roger Clough
Hi - Roger Clough All current theories of mind are objective (materialist) since they do not include the first person singular. Consciousness or Mind is nonobjective or subjective, since it is the perceptions by the first person singular. Only Leibniz has a philosophy of mind (subjectivity

Why we need to bring Leibniz out of the closet if progress is to be made

2013-11-14 Thread Roger Clough
Why we need to bring Leibniz out of the closet if progress is to be made Materialism, the philosophy that the universe is made only of matter, and nothing else, is the basic philosophy of science. So Idealism, the philosophy that only ideas, not matter, are real, seems to be a fantasy world.

Rupert Sheldrake and animal hyper senstivity to the environment

2013-11-13 Thread Roger Clough
(ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough - Receiving the following content - From: George K. Lucey Jr. Receiver: Fred Lipscomb,Laszlo Kish,Royce Wist,Roger Clough Time: 2013-11-12, 18:29:51 Subject: Animal help needed I am working

Max Planck on (internet) scientists as atheists

2013-11-13 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Allen Francom Good for you. Similarly I have been involved in the consciousness market with Leibniz's platonism. But same as you, no reponses, silence. Max Planck had the same problem: Die Wahrheit triumphiert nie, ihre Gegner sterben nur aus. Truth never triumphs ,

Why materialistic theories of consciousness are quackery

2013-11-13 Thread Roger Clough
Why materialistic theories of consciousness (the science of consciousness) are quackery Bertrand Russell said that there are two forms of knowledge example: you know who Obamn is, he is the US president. a) Knowledge by descriptions (objective knowledge) example: you know who Obamn is,

How the people of Iceland solved their debt crisis:

2013-11-12 Thread Roger Clough
How the people of Iceland solved their debt crisis: They said, wait a minute. We didn't cause this problem. The govt and the bankers caused ity. So they threw the bankers and other causers of the debt into jail. Hmmm. Sounds tempting. - Roger Clough http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-BJgwWx57U

To understand consciousness, you have to get personal. Otherwise it's hearsay.

2013-11-11 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Hans, Your mind has been self-limited due to your materialism. Consider this: Bertrand Russell said (correctly) that there are two forms of knowledge: a) knowledge by description (anything in language, impersonal, third person singular, public knowledge, hearsay) This is all that

Re: Re: [4DWorldx] Is mass mental or physical ?

2013-11-09 Thread Roger Clough
proof is not enough. Anna From: Roger Clough Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 5:36 AM To: everything-list ; mailto:mindbr...@yahoogroups.com ; 4dworldx ; theoretical_physics_board Subject: [4DWorldx] Is mass mental or physical ? I need some help. Yesterday I made the claim

Consciousness is simply the perceptions of the first person singular, which are not available to materialist philosophy.

2013-11-09 Thread Roger Clough
Dear Dr. Hameroff, I mean no disrespect, and with my only credential being that of common sense, I would like to suggest that you consider abandoning materialist solutions to the problem of consciousness in your series of seminars on the science of consciousness, for these can never work.

Is mass mental or physical ?

2013-11-08 Thread Roger Clough
I need some help. Yesterday I made the claim that strings are massless and so are nonphysical (mental, by my definition). But you can show theoretically that strings have mass, based on line tension and other variables. So is mass physical ? Unless I am mistaken, mass is always defined in

Re: Re: [Mind and Brain] A definition of existence (being twofold)

2013-11-08 Thread Roger Clough
the following content - From: Cass Silva Receiver: MindBrain Time: 2013-11-07, 18:49:59 Subject: Re: [Mind and Brain] A definition of existence (being twofold) Does Gravity have mass? Cass On Wed, 6/11/13, Roger Clough wrote

A clarification: nonphysical mental strings (massless) and physical strings (with mass)

2013-11-08 Thread Roger Clough
Sorry for so many postings, I'll try to refrain, but this is a critical clarification. Sorry my confusion A clarification: nonphysical mental strings (massless) and physical strings (having actual mass) There are (possibly) physical strings which have mass and strings,as mental entities

Leibniz's Platonic Physics

2013-11-07 Thread Roger Clough
Leibniz's Platonic Physics Leibniz's idealistic or platonic physics seems to me, a nonphysicist, to possibly obviate the need for quantum mechanics due to the preestablished harmony. I apologize for any errors. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz-physics/ To partly summarize Leibniz's

String theory in Leibniz's platonic physics

2013-11-07 Thread Roger Clough
String theory in Leibniz's platonic physics Strings, being massless, are Leibniz's monads (mental) in his platonic physics (see below). In platonic physics, each monad is attached to its relevant physical particle, contains information on all of the other monads (strings) in the universe.

Computers, code and consciousness

2013-11-06 Thread Roger Clough
Computers, code and consciousness Cumputers cannot simulate human activities or experiences or consciousness because they have to deal in code. Code is not magic, have no inherent intelligence. Computers are not magic, they are just machines. Computers can only deal in code, which is impersonal

Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-06 Thread Roger Clough
Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind I am shocked to find that so far I have not found a scientist anywhere that understands that spacetime, being just lawful behavior (laws) is platonic (is mind). Perhaps they consider it to be quantum gravity. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000]

A definition of existence (being twofold)

2013-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Leibniz said that space, being massless, is a nonphysical nonentity. All that physically exists then consists of physical objects with mass-- these together with their nonphysical mental massless representations (as mind or will, consciousness, monads). Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.)

Ternary (platonic) perception in Leibniz and Peirce

2013-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough Hi - Roger Clough Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from

Ryle's category mistake and why spacetime, to a platonist, is contained in Mind

2013-11-04 Thread Roger Clough
Ryle's category mistake and why spacetime, to a platonist, is contained in Mind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_mistake This is a very subtle issue. The term category-mistake was introduced by Gilbert Ryle in his book The Concept of Mind (1949) to remove what he argued to be a

What do you do if your Obamacare is too expensive ?

2013-11-04 Thread Roger Clough
What do you do if your Obamacare is too expensive ? No matter what your age, most people will find Obamacare way too expensive. But there's no penalty for a pre-existing illness. So most people are going to dodge the bullet, take the penalty, and just wait until they get sick. That changes the

Leibniz : What is beyond the spacetime barrier ? Mind.

2013-11-03 Thread Roger Clough
Leibniz : What is beyond the spacetime barrier ? Mind. Leibniz's Philosophy of Physics http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz-physics/ Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough -- You received this message because you are

Is language learned by inherited primordial or by platonic language structures ?

2013-10-31 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Dr.d Although he called it inherited primordial language, Chomsky proposed what I would instead call platonic language structures in view of the philosophies of Plato, Kant and Leibniz, this apparent in view of the rapidity at which language can be learned and communicated. Chinese

Leibniz's platonism and the false problem of reductionism in mind and quantum theory

2013-10-29 Thread Roger Clough
Leibniz's platonism and the false problem of reductionism In physics and psychology we have two enigmas if materialism rules, those of spontaneous mental intentions (so that there is no free will) and also that of spontaneous (probabililistic) events such as we find in statistical mechanics

Hello, I thought this might be of interest to you!

2013-10-19 Thread Roger Clough
A message from Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net. Forget the welfare politics. Redistributing leftover food instead of income. All over the world, activists are working directly to help the poor and hungry by redistributing leftover food to soup kitchens etc. I would think that the govt

A Platonic, singularity theory of mind.

2013-10-01 Thread Roger Clough
A Platonic, singularity theory of mind. Current philosophies of mind debate whether mind and body are a dualism (mind and body) or a monism (mindbody). But these do not address the nature of mind itself. As the pragmatics of language demonstrate, Mind (first person singular) must be a

A Platonic, singularity theory of space,creation and entanglement

2013-10-01 Thread Roger Clough
A Platonic, singularity theory of space Plato envisioned the One, a singularity from which the pluralistic world emerged(s). Big Bang theories of Creation point back to such a singularity from which space emerged, and black hole or white hole theories also point to singularities possibly

The Leibniz difference: Me doesn't have an I, because me is a materialist.

2013-09-30 Thread Roger Clough
The Leibniz difference: Me doesn't have an I, because me is a materialist. An I is first person singular, me is third person singular. I is a subject, me is an object. I is part of mind, me is part of brain. Opposite. Big difference. It doesn't take a genius to see the difference, but

Me doesn't have an I, because me is a materialist.

2013-09-27 Thread Roger Clough
Hi - Me doesn't have an I, because me is a materialist. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this

Re: Re: [4DWorldx] Fw: [BC-FREE-MINERS-AND-MASONS] Global temperature forthe past 5 million years (since the start of Pliocene)

2013-09-16 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Hans Dieter Franke Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough - Receiving the following content - From: Hans Dieter Franke Receiver: 4DWorldx Time: 2013-09-16, 02:50:58 Subject: Re: [4DWorldx] Fw:

Re: Re: Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology

2013-09-15 Thread Roger Clough
. Are we the chuck of matter, or the reflection in the mirror? That kind of thing. -Original Message- From: Roger Clough To: spudboy100 ; everything-list Sent: Sat, Sep 14, 2013 12:09 pm Subject: Re: Re: Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology Hi spudboy100 Sure

Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology

2013-09-14 Thread Roger Clough
Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology Since it is often based on laboratory experiments, parapsychology has a scientific basis. But these results are smeared by proponents of the cult of materialism, which cannot accept the view that there is such a thing as a mind (a Self). That alone makes

Re: Re: Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology

2013-09-14 Thread Roger Clough
this, and so do governments as well. I am guessing that this is a feature of the cosmos-or really, just, hoping that it is so. Mitch -Original Message- From: Roger Clough To: - Roger Clough Sent: Sat, Sep 14, 2013 8:47 am Subject: Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology Leibniz

Leibniz. What's the difference between existence and being ?

2013-09-11 Thread Roger Clough
Leibniz. What's the difference between existence and being ? According to the metaphysics of Leibniz, the universe has two often correlated aspects, existence and being, each usually the flip side of the other. 1. Existence. Physical objects exist in spacetime. This includes the elementary

Help Kickstart World War III

2013-09-11 Thread Roger Clough
Help Kickstart World War III http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-sdO6pwVHQ Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To

Why Platonism (as in Leibniz) is the only complete philosophy.

2013-09-10 Thread Roger Clough
Why Platonism (as in Leibniz) is the only complete philosophy. Materialism seems to be an incomplete philosophy, because while it correctly places reason as the basis of all that is, it doesn't include the reasoner. We all have our heads in the clouds, sotospeak, since Eternity or the One

Obama's pet

2013-09-07 Thread Roger Clough
Obama's pet John Boehner, you're Obamna's pet, you whimper and your cowell, You never show your fangs or bite, you never bark or growl So when we're stuck with BoennerCare, we'll take you to a vet And have you fixed up properly to safely be his pet. - Roger Clough Dr

Kant's disproof of materialism and empiricism

2013-09-04 Thread Roger Clough
Kant's disproof of materialism and empiricism Materialists argue that in essence we are no more than our bodies. Empiricists such as Hume ruled out the possible influence of anything transcendental in our perception of objects. But that position was disproven by Kant, for example in his

Kant's disproof of materialism and empiricism

2013-09-04 Thread Roger Clough
Kant's disproof of materialism and empiricism Materialists argue that in essence we are no more than our bodies. Empiricists such as Hume ruled out the possible influence of anything transcendental in our perception of objects. But that position was disproven by Kant, for example in his

Leibniz view on why why bottom up control cannot work for the brain

2013-09-02 Thread Roger Clough
A Leibnizian view on why bottom up programing cannot work for the brain 1. In order for the brain to control or govern there must be a single governor 2. The single governor must be the single most dominant element in the system and must control downward, not upward 3. Materialistic

Re: Re: Leibniz's final causation as the Self, the active agent of change

2013-08-28 Thread Roger Clough
to have improved tools for better experimentation and observation. The Self may be detectable or comprehendible through better tools, and one of these tools is assuredly mathematics. Mitch -Original Message- From: Roger Clough To: - Roger Clough Sent: Mon, Aug 26, 2013 3:31 am

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