Re: Dreaming On

2009-07-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 26 Jul 2009, at 16:52, David Nyman wrote: Thanks to everyone who responded to my initial sally on dreams and machines. Naturally I have arrogated the right to plagiarise your helpful comments in what follows, which is an aphoristic synthesis of my understanding of the main points that

Re: Seven Step Series

2009-07-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Jul 2009, at 03:04, m.a. wrote: Bruno, I am indeed ready to pursue further and since we'll be covering both topics anyhow, I would prefer that you choose which would be the most natural next step for us. Hmm... The problem is that it is natural or not according to

Re: Dreaming On

2009-07-27 Thread Kim Jones
On 27/07/2009, at 11:40 AM, Brian Tenneson wrote: Hi Kim, RITSIAR means real in the sense that I am real. Cheers Brian Kim Jones wrote: Could somebody kindly tell me/explain to me what RITSIAR means? I cannot find any explanation of this in the threads which mention it. Sorry to be

Re: Dreaming On

2009-07-27 Thread David Nyman
On 27 July, 02:45, Colin Hales c.ha...@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au wrote: The assumption in your comments is that there is/needs to be 'mind stuff' is wrong. /ALL/ of it is some undescribed stuff, not just that resulting in mind. The assumption in your statement is that we need something extra

Re: Dreaming On

2009-07-27 Thread David Nyman
On 27 July, 12:25, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Hopefully, by the end of this conversation without end I will know in what sense I am real!! Don't count on it ;-) D On 27/07/2009, at 11:40 AM, Brian Tenneson wrote: Hi Kim, RITSIAR means real in the sense that I am

Re: Dreaming On

2009-07-27 Thread David Nyman
On 27 July, 09:31, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: The UDA is a reasoning which shows that once we postulate an ontological physical universal, it is impossible to recover the first person from it Do you mean to say that we can't recover the 1-person from a physical universe on the

Re: Dreaming On

2009-07-27 Thread David Nyman
On 27 July, 12:25, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Could somebody kindly tell me/explain to me what RITSIAR means? I cannot find any explanation of this in the threads which mention it. On a (slightly) more serious note, to the best of my recollection the expression 'real in the

Re: Dreaming On

2009-07-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Jul 2009, at 14:57, David Nyman wrote: On 27 July, 09:31, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: The UDA is a reasoning which shows that once we postulate an ontological physical universal, it is impossible to recover the first person from it Do you mean to say that we can't

Re: Seven Step Series

2009-07-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Jul 2009, at 16:25, David Nyman wrote: On 27 July, 09:46, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: ... yet, the shadows of braids and links(*) appear somehow in the two matter hypostases, and this in a context where space (not juts time) has to be a self-referential context, in that

Re: Dreaming On

2009-07-27 Thread Brent Meeker
Bruno Marchal wrote: On 26 Jul 2009, at 16:52, David Nyman wrote: Thanks to everyone who responded to my initial sally on dreams and machines. Naturally I have arrogated the right to plagiarise your helpful comments in what follows, which is an aphoristic synthesis of my understanding

Re: The seven step series

2009-07-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Jul 2009, at 16:07, ronaldheld wrote: I am following, but have not commented, because there is nothing controversal. Cool. Even the sixth first steps of UDA? When you are done, can your posts be consolidated into a paper or a document that can be read staright through? I

Re: The seven step series

2009-07-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi, OK, I will come back on the square root of 2 later. We have talked on sets. Sets have elements, and elements of a set define completely the set, and a set is completely defined by its elements. Example: here is a set of numbers {1, 2, 3} and a set of sets of numbers {{1, 2}, {3}, { }}.

Re: Dreaming On

2009-07-27 Thread David Nyman
2009/7/27 Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com That's a bit of a straw man you're refuting. I've never heard anyone claim that the mind is the brain. The materialist claim is that the mind is what the brain does, i.e. the mind is a process. That's implicit in COMP, the idea that

Re: Dreaming On

2009-07-27 Thread David Nyman
2009/7/27 Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com: So the brain (i.e. what the eye can see) can't be the mind; but the intuition remains that mind and brain might be correlated by some inclusive conception that would constitute our ontology: Kant's great insight stands. It's more than an

Re: Seven Step Series

2009-07-27 Thread David Nyman
2009/7/27 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: Actually, the real axiom is a self-duplicability principle. According to the duplicability, you will have the whole of AUDA remaining correct and even complete, at the propositional level, for many gods (non emulable entities). The theology of the

Re: Dreaming On

2009-07-27 Thread Colin Hales
http://www.mindmatter.de/mmabstracts7_1.htm http://www.mindmatter.de/mmabstracts7_1.htm *Intentionality and Computationalism: A Diagonal Argument * Laureano Luna Cabanero, Department of Philosophy, IES Francisco Marin, Siles, Spain, and Christopher G. Small, Department of Statistics and

Re: Dreaming On

2009-07-27 Thread Brent Meeker
David Nyman wrote: 2009/7/27 Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com That's a bit of a straw man you're refuting. I've never heard anyone claim that the mind is the brain. The materialist claim is that the mind is what the brain does, i.e. the mind is a process. That's implicit in COMP,

Re: Dreaming On

2009-07-27 Thread Rex Allen
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Brent Meekermeeke...@dslextreme.com wrote: I think that's a misuse of ontology. When we discuss the atomic theory of matter the ontology is a set of elementary particles, including their couplings and dynamics. I think most of us are using ontology in

Re: Dreaming On

2009-07-27 Thread Rex Allen
Brent, Another example of your somewhat non-standard definition 2 usage: First of all I think epistemology precedes ontology. We first get knowledge of some facts and then we create an ontology as part of a theory to explain these facts. On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Rex