On complexity and bottom-up theories and calculations

2012-10-04 Thread Roger Clough
Hi everything-list The current paradigm for understanding the brain and mind and their relationship appears to be bottom-up theories and calculations, that is, starting with the body and hoping to reach I'm not sure what. Eventually in these theories one reaches a state of complexity that

Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-04 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 11:56:59 PM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: 1) I understand and respect your argument here 100%. 2) I think that I have a better explanation The better explanation is the

Re: Evolution outshines reason by far

2012-10-04 Thread John Clark
Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com Wrote: Mother Nature (Evolution) is a slow and stupid tinkerer, it had over 3 billion years to work on the problem but it couldn't even come up with a macroscopic part that could rotate in 360 degrees! First of all, 360 degrees rotation is present in

A nice video discussing the dual aspect theory

2012-10-04 Thread Stephen P. King
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ3Z-Y99wW0 -- 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 unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-04 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: When you say Random mutation can wire together a small number of cells such that if there is a sudden change in the light levels in the environment, like a shadow covering it, a snail will retreat into its shell, you

Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-04 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, October 4, 2012 3:18:51 PM UTC-4, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: When you say Random mutation can wire together a small number of cells such that if there is a sudden change in the light levels in the

Re: On complexity and bottom-up theories and calculations

2012-10-04 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi everything-list The current paradigm for understanding the brain and mind and their relationship appears to be bottom-up theories and calculations, that is, starting with the body and hoping to reach I'm not sure

Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-04 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 11:56:59 PM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: 1) I understand and respect your argument here 100%. 2) I think that I

Re: On complexity and bottom-up theories and calculations

2012-10-04 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 07:51:37AM +1000, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi everything-list The current paradigm for understanding the brain and mind and their relationship appears to be bottom-up theories and

Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-04 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, October 4, 2012 6:55:47 PM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 11:56:59 PM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Craig Weinberg

Re: Evolution outshines reason by far

2012-10-04 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 09:01:14AM -0400, John Clark wrote: Yes, so a human can jump directly from the tangled mess of DOS to a clean streamlined operating system like LINUX, but Evolution can only add even more tangled bells and whistles to DOS. John K Clark Actually, one could argue

Re: Evolution outshines reason by far

2012-10-04 Thread meekerdb
On 10/4/2012 6:52 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 09:01:14AM -0400, John Clark wrote: Yes, so a human can jump directly from the tangled mess of DOS to a clean streamlined operating system like LINUX, but Evolution can only add even more tangled bells and whistles to DOS.

Re: Evolution outshines reason by far

2012-10-04 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 07:02:59PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: On 10/4/2012 6:52 PM, Russell Standish wrote: Both are examples of evolutionary design than revolutionary design, as it were. Another example is the design of x86_64 processors by Intel. It is debatable whether anything _really_ complex

Re: Evolution outshines reason by far

2012-10-04 Thread meekerdb
On 10/4/2012 7:31 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 07:02:59PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: On 10/4/2012 6:52 PM, Russell Standish wrote: Both are examples of evolutionary design than revolutionary design, as it were. Another example is the design of x86_64 processors by Intel. It

Re: Evolution outshines reason by far

2012-10-04 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 07:48:01PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: If it is crucially different, then that difference ought to be measurable. Got any ideas? Sure, the ratio of the number of new designs built that didn't work compared to those that did. It's a difference of process. It doesn't have

Re: Evolution outshines reason by far

2012-10-04 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.auwrote: Yes, so a human can jump directly from the tangled mess of DOS to a clean streamlined operating system like LINUX, but Evolution can only add even more tangled bells and whistles to DOS. John K Clark Actually,

Re: Evolution outshines reason by far

2012-10-04 Thread meekerdb
On 10/4/2012 8:54 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 07:48:01PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: If it is crucially different, then that difference ought to be measurable. Got any ideas? Sure, the ratio of the number of new designs built that didn't work compared to those that did.

Re: Evolution outshines reason by far

2012-10-04 Thread meekerdb
On 10/4/2012 9:24 PM, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au mailto:li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Yes, so a human can jump directly from the tangled mess of DOS to a clean streamlined operating system like LINUX, but Evolution