Re: Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland

2013-01-23 Thread Roger Clough
it be conscious of ? The code it is running, which would be like a stream of consciousness, ie an experience ? - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-22, 12:00:41 Subject: Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland On 22 Jan 2013

Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland

2013-01-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-22, 12:00:41 Subject: Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland On 22 Jan 2013, at 12:36, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal You said: God, matter, consciousness are never computable Is that because the above are nonphysical ? Matter

Re: Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland

2013-01-22 Thread Roger Clough
a computation. You get a number or a bunch of numbers. How can you say what they mean ? - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-21, 09:36:34 Subject: Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland On 20 Jan 2013, at 20:44, meekerdb

Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland

2013-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Jan 2013, at 23:14, John Mikes wrote: Bruno: ...I have identified, in the comp context, God with Arithmetical Truth, does that mean: complying with human logic (any)? Not really. Arithmetical truth is independent of the humans. 17 would be prime even if the humans did not exist.

Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland

2013-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Jan 2013, at 12:36, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal You said: God, matter, consciousness are never computable Is that because the above are nonphysical ? Matter is physical, by definition, yet non computable. This follows from the UD Argument. If consciousness is not

Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland

2013-01-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Jan 2013, at 20:44, meekerdb wrote: On 1/20/2013 3:41 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I agree. It is always better to stick to the most common sense of the words. That's funny coming from a guy who used God to designate abstract computations. ? God, matter, consciousness are never

Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland

2013-01-21 Thread meekerdb
On 1/21/2013 6:36 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 20 Jan 2013, at 20:44, meekerdb wrote: On 1/20/2013 3:41 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I agree. It is always better to stick to the most common sense of the words. That's funny coming from a guy who used God to designate abstract computations. ?

Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland

2013-01-21 Thread John Mikes
Bruno: *...I have identified, in the comp context, God with Arithmetical Truth, * * * does that mean: complying with human logic (any)? Just imagine a world (universe) without logically THINKING beings (humans?) with no math to formulate (numbers, to express): is there a God there? JM * * On

Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland

2013-01-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Jan 2013, at 23:17, Russell Standish wrote: Hi John, My suspicion is that Roger is so keen to impose a Piercean triadic view on things that he has omitted to make the necessary connection with the normal meaning of 1p/3p as standing for subjective/objective. I agree. It is always

Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland

2013-01-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
- Receiving the following content - From: Russell Standish Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-17, 17:17:11 Subject: Re: Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland Hi John, My suspicion is that Roger is so keen to impose a Piercean triadic view on things that he has omitted to make

Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland

2013-01-20 Thread meekerdb
On 1/20/2013 3:41 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I agree. It is always better to stick to the most common sense of the words. That's funny coming from a guy who used God to designate abstract computations. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland

2013-01-20 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb All computations are abstract. - Receiving the following content - From: meekerdb Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-20, 14:44:33 Subject: Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland On 1/20/2013 3:41 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I agree. It is always better to stick

Re: Re: Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland

2013-01-18 Thread Roger Clough
, 17:17:11 Subject: Re: Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland Hi John, My suspicion is that Roger is so keen to impose a Piercean triadic view on things that he has omitted to make the necessary connection with the normal meaning of 1p/3p as standing for subjective/objective. Cheers

Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland

2013-01-18 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: we cannot do without 1p and 2p Especially 2p, most posts on this topic contain a extraordinary large amount of pee pee. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Re: Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland

2013-01-18 Thread Craig Weinberg
from the world of 3p Flatland Hi John, My suspicion is that Roger is so keen to impose a Piercean triadic view on things that he has omitted to make the necessary connection with the normal meaning of 1p/3p as standing for subjective/objective. Cheers On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 04:55

Re: Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland

2013-01-17 Thread Russell Standish
Hi John, My suspicion is that Roger is so keen to impose a Piercean triadic view on things that he has omitted to make the necessary connection with the normal meaning of 1p/3p as standing for subjective/objective. Cheers On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 04:55:17PM -0500, John Mikes wrote: Russell, I

Re: Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland

2013-01-15 Thread John Mikes
Russell, I reflect after a long-long time to your post. I had a war on my hand about objective and subjective, fighting for the latter, since we are 'us' and cannot be 'them'. I never elevated to the mindset of Lady Welby 1904, who - maybe? - got it what 2p was. My vocabulary allows me to consider

Re: Re: Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland

2012-12-29 Thread Roger Clough
: 2012-12-29, 01:21:53 Subject: Re: Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 08:29:52AM -0500, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Russell Standish 2p should be a necessary part of comp, espcially if it uses synthetic logic. It doesn't seem to be needed for deductive logic

Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland

2012-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Dec 2012, at 07:21, Russell Standish wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 08:29:52AM -0500, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Russell Standish 2p should be a necessary part of comp, espcially if it uses synthetic logic. It doesn't seem to be needed for deductive logic, however. The following

Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland

2012-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
...@verizon.net] 12/29/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Russell Standish Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-12-29, 01:21:53 Subject: Re: Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 08:29:52AM -0500

Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland

2012-12-29 Thread meekerdb
On 12/29/2012 4:11 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: 3p is when we agree that the coffee is too hot. 1p is when we find it tastes very bad. 2p is when your wife ask you to clean the coffee machine. So THAT'S why philosophers don't talk about 2p. Brent -- You received this message because you are

Re: Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland

2012-12-28 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 08:29:52AM -0500, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Russell Standish 2p should be a necessary part of comp, espcially if it uses synthetic logic. It doesn't seem to be needed for deductive logic, however. The following equivalences should hold between comp and Peirce's

Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland

2012-12-27 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 06:21:06AM -0500, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Russell Standish Good point. You are right, but we cannot do without 1p and 2p unless we want to live in Flatland (Thirdness, the publicly available world of 3p logic). Truths are stated in words, so it includes