Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Jan 2014, at 18:32, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Terren, Don't tell me what's in my theory. There are NO infinity of logical realities being computed. There is no Platonia You seem to be referencing Bruno's comp. There is NO 'Platonia' in my theory. Comp needs only the arithmetical

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Jan 2014, at 19:05, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Jason, We cannot keep adding 1 forever to get an infinity. The universe where addition is possible is only 13.7 billion years old. So you assume the usual physical universe? Your comp space (which I have still no clue at all of it consists)

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Jan 2014, at 19:47, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Stephen, PS: In spite of your knee jerk reaction my treatment of 'Realization' deals not with 'New Age' type nonsense but mainly with serious insights on how to directly experience reality as it actually is such as: 1. The fundamental

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Jan 2014, at 20:37, Edgar L. Owen wrote: William, No, it's not the reification fallacy, unless you apply the same definition to all theories, none of which are real. Of course theories aren't reality. In any case the quantum vacuum, out of which real particles can appear, is a

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Jan 2014, at 21:27, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi, Someone wrote, not sure if it was Terren or Bruno: ... from their own 1-1 points of view, they are in the UD*, and will follow the path with the greater measure. This looks like some form of a self-selection!? OK. Like in the

Re: A Theory of Consciousness

2014-01-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Jan 2014, at 20:27, meekerdb wrote: On 1/13/2014 7:17 AM, Gabriel Bodeen wrote: On Friday, January 10, 2014 8:17:13 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: On 1/10/2014 10:49 AM, Gabriel Bodeen wrote: On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 4:25:04 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: As you've explained it above your

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Jan 2014, at 22:27, LizR wrote: On 14 January 2014 08:07, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 13 Jan 2014, at 14:17, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, No contradiction. As I clearly stated, but which apparently didn't register, the computations take place in Present Moment P-time

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Jan 2014, at 23:26, meekerdb wrote: On 1/13/2014 11:37 AM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: William, No, it's not the reification fallacy, unless you apply the same definition to all theories, none of which are real. Of course theories aren't reality. In any case the quantum vacuum, out of

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jan 2014, at 00:42, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Liz, Sigh Now we have several people complaining because I haven't offered a 'formal theory'. However not a single one of the complainers has themselves offered a formal theory even though they are continually offering theories of their

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jan 2014, at 04:38, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Jason, A good question, that's why I've already listed a number of the most basic axioms and concepts of the theory. 1. Existence must exist because non-existence cannot exist. So you assume: 0. non-existence cannot exist. That is too

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jan 2014, at 04:42, LizR wrote: On 14 January 2014 16:38, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: 1. Existence must exist because non-existence cannot exist. This sounds like St Anselm's ontological argument put into a nutshell. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontological_argument You are

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jan 2014, at 06:47, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason, A good question, that's why I've already listed a number of the most basic axioms and concepts of the theory. Okay, thanks. Could you clarify which are axioms

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014/1/14 Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net Liz, That's one possibility but more likely is that you just don't take the time to read and consider what I've actually written in your over eagerness to criticize... The more likely is that you just talking garbage since the beginning... your

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, Not at all. The list of all possible things in a real world is NOT infinite. The possibilities are restricted by the intrinsic nature of the quantum vacuum. For example, you can't get an infinite number of different TYPES of particles out of the quantum vacuum. The set is very

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, Thanks for clarifying this for the group. Please let Liz know that she was wrong in stating that physics was on a formal basis long ago... Edgar On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 5:01:51 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 14 Jan 2014, at 00:42, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Liz,

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread Terren Suydam
By the way, those looking for perhaps a little more substance for Edgar's theories might enjoy his public blog at http://edgarlowen.info/edgar.shtml, there is some material there that presumably also appears in his book. Terren On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Thanks Terren, However I should point out that the stuff on this site is way out of date. I added nothing to it during the several years I was writing my book, and almost everything there in the way of the topics germane to this group has been extensively revised in the book and in my posts

Why our fine tuning and not some other?

2014-01-14 Thread Edgar L. Owen
All, My Existence Axiom 'Existence exists because non-existence cannot exist', answers the first fundamental question, namely, 'Why does something rather than nothing exist?' The second fundamental question is, 'Why does what actually exists exist instead of something else?' Why is our

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jan 2014, at 15:13, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, Not at all. The list of all possible things in a real world is NOT infinite. In what real world? In all real worlds? To define not finite, you need second order logic. To assume *one* finite reality is close to a blaspheme (grin) in

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2014-01-14 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Jesse Mazer laserma...@gmail.com wrote: We know better than to think classical physics represents an exact description of our universe, but it certainly describes a logically possible mathematical universe Maybe but we don't know that with certainty, if we

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 4:39 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 14 Jan 2014, at 06:47, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason, A good question, that's why I've already listed a number of the most basic axioms and

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jan 2014, at 15:17, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, Thanks for clarifying this for the group. Please let Liz know that she was wrong in stating that physics was on a formal basis long ago... She was not really wrong. She alluded to the equations that Newton provided. She was

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, There is only one reality because I define reality as all that exists. It is conceivable there is more than one physical universe in that reality but until you give me some evidence of it I'm not going to waste my time thinking about it. As I've pointed out most of the reasons

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2014-01-14 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 6:41 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Retro-causality (time symmetry is a better term) only exists at the quantum level. Why? Where is the dividing line? And with a Schrodinger's Cat type device a quantum event can easily be magnified to a macro-event as large as

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, Glad you aren't criticizing my theory! Thanks! How could I have gotten that idea I wonder? :-) There is only one ACTUAL world or reality which includes everything that exists by definition. There are NO POSSIBLE worlds except the one that is ACTUAL. It's existence falsifies all others.

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jan 2014, at 17:31, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 4:39 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 14 Jan 2014, at 06:47, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason, A good question, that's why I've

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, Again, you are making the mistake of thinking consciousness is some single state that things either have or don't have. There is actually a continuous non-linear spectrum from a thermostat through a mars rover through all biological organisms to a human and possibly beyond. Each of

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, Sorting out which are irreducible (axioms) and which derivable is an ongoing process. Yes, i understand what an axiom is. Remember Euclid in Jr. High School? By logically complete, I mean that in the same sense as Godel does in his Incompleteness Theorem. Reality computations are

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, I disagree. A universal number is still a number and this is an idea of a mind. Even if such a mind is degenerate in that it cannot be ever complete, it still have finite subsets that are indistinguishable from finite minds. The eternal running of the UD is such a eternal process.

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, Correct. Most reality math is likely fairly simple and fairly limited. That's why Bruno's 'comp' that assumes all math exists out there somewhere is so extraordinarily wrong and excessive and non-parsimonious. As for the grid cells on the GR rubber sheet model just imagine a mass-energy

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, See my response to Brent on consciousness of an hour ago. It answers this question... Actually to answer your question properly you have to define 'person', what you mean by an 'AI' and what you mean by a 'simulation'. In the details of those definitions will be your answer... It's

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, 'Non-existence cannot exist', obviously refers to the existence of reality itself, not to milk in your refrigerator! Existence must exist means something must exist, whether it's milk or whatever. Individual things have individual localized existences, but existence (reality) itself is

Donald Hoffman Video on Interface Theory of Consciousness

2014-01-14 Thread Craig Weinberg
Donald Hoffman Video on Interface Theory of Consciousnesshttp://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dqDP34a-epI A very good presentation with lot of overlap on my views. He proposes similar ideas about a sensory-motive primitive and the nature of the world as experience rather than “objective”. What is

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Thanks Terren, However I should point out that the stuff on this site is way out of date. I added nothing to it during the several years I was writing my book, and almost everything there in the way of the topics germane

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason, There is only one reality because I define reality as all that exists. That's fine and I agree with it, but I asked how you know there is only one physical universe. It is conceivable there is more than one

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: I never said there is only one POSSIBLE world, I clearly stated there is only one ACTUAL world and many actual simulations of that world in the minds of biological organisms. OK, but is the world you and I are familiar

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2014-01-14 Thread meekerdb
On 1/14/2014 8:33 AM, John Clark wrote: but rather as the number of possible microstates the system might be in at this moment given that we only know the macrostate We don't even know for a fact that some macroscopic objects, like Black Holes for example, even contain

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread meekerdb
On 1/14/2014 8:23 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Alas, I dream often of people doing that to convince me on the reality of something, and I have developed, apparently, an immunity on that kind of argument, at least when made public. So in private you are convinced, but as a professor of logic you

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread meekerdb
On 1/14/2014 9:10 AM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Brent, Glad you aren't criticizing my theory! Thanks! How could I have gotten that idea I wonder? :-) There is only one ACTUAL world or reality which includes everything that exists by definition. There are NO POSSIBLE worlds except the one that is

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread meekerdb
On 1/14/2014 9:32 AM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Brent, Again, you are making the mistake of thinking consciousness is some single state that things either have or don't have. There is actually a continuous non-linear spectrum from a thermostat through a mars rover through all biological organisms

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread Edgar L. Owen
John, The simplest and by far most likely answer is to assume that the world we appear to live in IS the real actual world (though heavily filtered through our own internal simulation as I've explained before). To assume otherwise in the absence of any actual evidence is a waste of time. We

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, Please, please, please! Read my New Topic on How Spacetime emerges from computational reality. I answer that QM question in considerable detail. I explain why the spin entanglement paradox is not actually paradoxical. It's the real complete answer to your question but nobody even

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: John, The simplest and by far most likely answer is to assume that the world we appear to live in IS the real actual world (though heavily filtered through our own internal simulation as I've explained before). To assume

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, Of course not. Characters in video games are not real. They know nothing, and have zero consciousness. Do you think Santa Claus is real and knows things and is conscious? I can't believe you'd even ask such a dumb question Edgar On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 2:33:35 PM UTC-5, Brent

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 16:10, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Brent, The elements of the set are the information encoding the current state of the universe and how it is evolving - whatever that may be. What that may be needs to be further clarified. So let me get this right. You have a

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 16:38, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: There are hundreds of other basic concepts... Which come from which you can judge... I generally consider that *dualism* has too many basic concepts (as Stephen will tell you :) And anyone who understands their own ideas should

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Brent, Of course not. Characters in video games are not real. They know nothing, and have zero consciousness. Edgar, 1. Do you believe an atom-for-atom replacement of you would be conscious? 2. Do you believe replacing

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 23:01, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Physicists have not yet formal theory. Like all scientists they work informally. You don't consider Newton's Law of Gravitation to be a formal theory? How much more formal can you get than defining space and time and mass and

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread LizR
On 15 January 2014 08:21, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/14/2014 8:23 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Alas, I dream often of people doing that to convince me on the reality of something, and I have developed, apparently, an immunity on that kind of argument, at least when made public.

Re: Why our fine tuning and not some other?

2014-01-14 Thread LizR
On 15 January 2014 04:40, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: All, My Existence Axiom 'Existence exists because non-existence cannot exist', answers the first fundamental question, namely, 'Why does something rather than nothing exist?' Next you need to explain why nothing can't exist.

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2014-01-14 Thread LizR
On 15 January 2014 05:33, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Jesse Mazer laserma...@gmail.com wrote: We know better than to think classical physics represents an exact description of our universe, but it certainly describes a logically possible

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2014-01-14 Thread LizR
On 15 January 2014 06:11, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 6:41 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Retro-causality (time symmetry is a better term) only exists at the quantum level. Why? Where is the dividing line? And with a Schrodinger's Cat type device

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2014-01-14 Thread LizR
Sorry, I realise that last sentence could be misconstrued by someone who's being very nitpicky and looking for irrelevant loopholes to argue about, so let's try again. Now how about discussing what I've actually claimed, that the time symmetry of fundamental physics could account for the results

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread LizR
On 15 January 2014 06:53, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, See my response to Brent on consciousness of an hour ago. It answers this question... Actually to answer your question properly you have to define 'person', what you mean by an 'AI' and what you mean by a 'simulation'.

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread LizR
On 15 January 2014 09:08, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: John, The simplest and by far most likely answer is to assume that the world we appear to live in IS the real actual world (though heavily filtered through our own internal simulation as I've explained before). To assume

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread Terren Suydam
condescending dismissal in 3... 2... 1... On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 4:27 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 January 2014 06:53, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, See my response to Brent on consciousness of an hour ago. It answers this question... Actually to answer your

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread LizR
On 15 January 2014 09:20, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Brent, Please, please, please! Read my New Topic on How Spacetime emerges from computational reality. I answer that QM question in considerable detail. I explain why the spin entanglement paradox is not actually paradoxical.

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread LizR
On 15 January 2014 09:23, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Brent, Of course not. Characters in video games are not real. They know nothing, and have zero consciousness. Do you think Santa Claus is real and knows things and is conscious? I can't believe you'd even ask such a dumb

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread LizR
On 15 January 2014 10:29, Terren Suydam terren.suy...@gmail.com wrote: condescending dismissal in 3... 2... 1... Teehee. Not a condescending *dismissal* in anyone else's mind, however, just more hand-waving nonsense that only Edgar could possibly think is a dismissal. This is fun, in a

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-14 Thread John Mikes
Brent: thanks for submitting Colin Hales' words! I lost track of him lately in the West-Australian deserts (from where he seemed to move to become focussed on being accepted for scientific title(s) by establishment-scientist potentates - what I never believed of him indeed). I loved (and tried

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-14 Thread LizR
On 15 January 2014 11:09, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: It depends on the boundaries *WE CHOSE. *Consider different boundaries and the LAW will change immediately, even within our unchanged ignorance of the totality. I think I follow this but I'm not sure. Could you explain further, or

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, There are no 'synthetic neurons' that could replace biological ones one by one. When there are let me know and I'll check them out and answer your question. You are letting your imagination run wild here imagining things with no basis in reality as if they were true. When we study

Re: Why our fine tuning and not some other?

2014-01-14 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, That is the explanation Edgar On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 3:44:00 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 15 January 2014 04:40, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote: All, My Existence Axiom 'Existence exists because non-existence cannot exist', answers the first fundamental

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, If your question is whether or not it is possible to determine whether we are living in a matrix type simulation I believe it is because we would not just be living in the simulation but in the entire reality in which the simulation is being produced. Thus given human level intelligence,

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, Thanks for confirming what I've long suspected, that you actually live in the 19th century! I have some good news for you, flying machines, robots, and rockets to the moon are actually real now. If you read my book you'll discover some other things that are real as well - but not

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread LizR
On 15 January 2014 14:37, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, If your question is whether or not it is possible to determine whether we are living in a matrix type simulation I believe it is because we would not just be living in the simulation but in the entire reality in which the

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread freqflyer07281972
On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 8:24:31 PM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Jason, There are no 'synthetic neurons' that could replace biological ones one by one. When there are let me know and I'll check them out and answer your question. You are letting your imagination run wild here

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, It's a lot less of hunch than the simulation theory in the first place. Why don't you just go back to the Bible and accept the theory that God created man and the world 4000 years ago? It's EXACTLY the same theory as the simulation theory, and equally unlikely, just without the modern

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread LizR
Wow, did you really misunderstand what I was saying to that extent? You are starting to remind me of those people who come to the door to persuade me to accept Jesus as my saviour. They're also incapable of spotting the intent of a satirical comment, or a metaphor, or drawing a parallel, or - of

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Freq, Yes it is too easy. Do you actually read anything before you respond? Note I said that could replace biological neurons one by one. Send me a few links referencing that being possible please :-) Edgar On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 8:51:13 PM UTC-5, freqflyer07281972 wrote: On

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, Are you describing YOUR inability to understand MY satirical comment perchance? I even included a smiley to indicate that which you didn't... Lighten up and smile! :-) Edgar On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 8:52:46 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: Wow, did you really misunderstand what I was

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread LizR
On 15 January 2014 14:51, freqflyer07281972 thismindisbud...@gmail.comwrote: On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 8:24:31 PM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Jason, There are no 'synthetic neurons' that could replace biological ones one by one. When there are let me know and I'll check them out and

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread freqflyer07281972
OK. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.201200640/abstract On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 8:56:09 PM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Freq, Yes it is too easy. Do you actually read anything before you respond? Note I said that could replace biological neurons one by one. Send me a

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread LizR
So, all is explained. No wonder he doesn't get special relativity, with its free-falling elevators and trains travelling at half the speed of light! I can almost picture his response... Albert, There are no 'relativistic trains' that can travel near light speed. When there are let me know, and

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread freqflyer07281972
Also, I am really starting to understand why you have difficulty with finding a life partner. On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 9:02:30 PM UTC-5, freqflyer07281972 wrote: OK. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.201200640/abstract On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 8:56:09 PM UTC-5,

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread LizR
On 15 January 2014 14:59, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, Are you describing YOUR inability to understand MY satirical comment perchance? I even included a smiley to indicate that which you didn't... Lighten up and smile! Actually I'm trying to restrain myself from ROFL at the

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread meekerdb
On 1/14/2014 5:56 PM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Freq, Yes it is too easy. Do you actually read anything before you respond? Note I said that could replace biological neurons one by one. But then why do you suppose that replacing the biological neurons with artificial neurons having the same

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread Edgar L. Owen
LIz, Good one! Thanks for the chuckles! Best, Edgar On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 9:01:38 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 15 January 2014 14:51, freqflyer07281972 thismind...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 8:24:31 PM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Jason, There are

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, I didn't say that... Edgar On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 9:11:37 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/14/2014 5:56 PM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Freq, Yes it is too easy. Do you actually read anything before you respond? Note I said that could replace biological neurons one by one.

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Freq, But I have a life partner, a truly wonderful one. You? Edgar On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 9:03:55 PM UTC-5, freqflyer07281972 wrote: Also, I am really starting to understand why you have difficulty with finding a life partner. On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 9:02:30 PM UTC-5,

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread freqflyer07281972
*SEEKING A COMPATIBLE WOMAN OR LONG TERM COMPANION:* I'm seeking a compatible, loyal, caring, natural, affectionate, non-feminist woman who believes that male female relationships should not be adversarial or selfish, but based on mutual love, trust and benefit. Hopefully young and healthy

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread freqflyer07281972
P.S. for Liz: TAKE NOTE! While you might be out of the running to be Edgar's companion, perhaps you might know some non-feminist women who could be? On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 9:26:02 PM UTC-5, freqflyer07281972 wrote: *SEEKING A COMPATIBLE WOMAN OR LONG TERM COMPANION:* I'm seeking a

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread LizR
On 15 January 2014 15:29, freqflyer07281972 thismindisbud...@gmail.comwrote: P.S. for Liz: TAKE NOTE! While you might be out of the running to be Edgar's companion, perhaps you might know some non-feminist women who could be? Probably not in my neck of the woods (New Zealand) -- us Kiwi

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread LizR
On 15 January 2014 15:16, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: LIz, Good one! Thanks for the chuckles! Thanks! It's the least I can do considering the hours of amusement you've provided. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group.

Fwd: The Singularity Institute Blog

2014-01-14 Thread meekerdb
A long, rambling but often interesting discussion among guys at MIRI about how to make an AI that is superintelligent but not dangerous (FAI=Friendly AI). Here's an amusing excerpt that starts at the bottom of page 30: *Jacob*: Can't you ask it questions about what is believes will be true

Re: Why our fine tuning and not some other?

2014-01-14 Thread Gabriel Bodeen
So you're assuming that nothing must mean non-existence? Why? In any case, Existence exists because non-existence cannot exist is really more of a slogan than an axiom, as we can't make deductions from it. While I'm quite sympathetic to Platonic-style ideas, I don't assume them

Re: Why our fine tuning and not some other?

2014-01-14 Thread LizR
You won't get a sensible answer. Edgar is just playing with words. He might as well have said We're here because we're here because we're here because we're here. On 15 January 2014 18:20, Gabriel Bodeen gabebod...@gmail.com wrote: So you're assuming that nothing must mean non-existence?

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-14 Thread LizR
Assuming this is genuine (and the phraseology certainly sounds like our Mr Owen) ... all I can say is, anyone who asks for a non-feminist in the 21st century deserves to be shot. So it's fortunate for Edgar that his ego, if not his theory, appears to be bullet-proof. On 15 January 2014 15:26,

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-01-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Dec 2013, at 16:12, Stephen Paul King wrote: I think that you are reading too much into what I wrote. Interleaving. On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 28 Dec 2013, at 17:07, Stephen Paul King wrote: I agree with what you wrote to

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jan 2014, at 18:42, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Jason, Sorting out which are irreducible (axioms) and which derivable is an ongoing process. Yes, i understand what an axiom is. Remember Euclid in Jr. High School? By logically complete, I mean that in the same sense as Godel does in his