2009/8/26 David Nyman david.ny...@gmail.com:
On 25 Aug, 14:32, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote:
Let's say the alien brain in its initial environment produced a
certain output when it was presented with a certain input, such as a
red light. The reconstructed brain is in a
On 26 Aug 2009, at 05:26, Rex Allen wrote:
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:50 AM, David Nymandavid.ny...@gmail.com
wrote:
Recalling your interest in Chalmers: I was re-reading Facing Up to
the Problem of Consciousness recently, and I realised - I think for
the first time - that his own
Hi Marty,
thanks a lot for your reply. I was really interested in whether the
lesson would work with you.
I had the pleasure to teach the binary arithmetic to kids in summer
school camps, in the grammar school and to university students as well.
Some kids/students got it quite easily some did
Hello Mirek,
Let us recall that Socrates was famous for setting up
straw men who usually agreed to every step of his proof and were finally
forced by logic, against their previous judgments, to accept his
conclusions. I would dearly love to see an unedited video of the
On 26 Aug 2009, at 13:10, Mirek Dobsicek wrote:
So if you have said that you got hooked-up to math by that socratic
method... Bruno would definitely took the hint in his seveth step
serii.
I appreciate very much the Socratic method, and I apply it as much as
possible. The UDA itself
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
2009/8/26 David Nyman david.ny...@gmail.com:
On 25 Aug, 14:32, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote:
Let's say the alien brain in its initial environment produced a
certain output when it was presented with a certain input, such as a
red light. The
On 26 Aug 2009, at 17:58, Brent Meeker wrote:
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
2009/8/26 David Nyman david.ny...@gmail.com:
On 25 Aug, 14:32, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
I think what I have proposed is consistent with functionalism, which
may or may not be true. A
Hi,
I sum up, a little bit, and then I go quickly, just to provide some
motivation for the sequel.
We have seen the notion of set. We have seen examples of finite sets
and infinite sets.
For example the sets
A = {0, 1, 2},
B = {2, 3}
are finite.
The set N = {0, 1, 2, 3, ...} is
2009/8/26 Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com:
I sometimes have the feeling you're saying something interesting...and
wishing I knew what it was.
Alas, I'm filled with chagrin. On reflection, I share both of those
feelings fairly regularly! I've spent a lot of time over the years -
too
2009/8/26 Rex Allen rexallen...@gmail.com:
To me, 60% of David's posts are intricately worded works of Ciceronian
prose that eloquently make points of great depth and insight...and the
other 40% are intricately worded works of eye-crossingly impenetrable
prose of which I can make neither
2009/8/26 Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com:
With the example of the light, you alter the photoreceptors in the
retina so that they respond the same way when to a blue light that
they would have when exposed to a red light.
Ah, so the alien has photoreceptors and retinas? That's an
David Nyman wrote:
2009/8/26 Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com:
With the example of the light, you alter the photoreceptors in the
retina so that they respond the same way when to a blue light that
they would have when exposed to a red light.
Ah, so the alien has photoreceptors and
2009/8/26 Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com:
I don't see that. I conjectured that with sufficient knowledge of the
environment in which the alien functioned and input-outputs at the
corresponding level, one could provide and account of the alien's
experience. I was my point that simply
David Nyman wrote:
2009/8/26 Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com:
I don't see that. I conjectured that with sufficient knowledge of the
environment in which the alien functioned and input-outputs at the
corresponding level, one could provide and account of the alien's
experience. I was
2009/8/26 Rex Allen rexallen...@gmail.com:
It seems as though we can comprehend 'mind' only in terms of some
self-instantiating, self-interpreting context, in which meaning
depends always on the self-relating logic of differentiation and
interaction. Hence the 'perspective' of mind is
2009/8/27 Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com:
I'm questioning something more subtle here, I think. First, one could
simply decide to be eliminativist about experience, and hold that the
extrinsic PM account is both exhaustive and singular. In this case,
'being' anything is simply an
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