Platonia and Contingia

2012-09-29 Thread Roger Clough
of order (Platonia) and one of disorder or entropy (Contingia). Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 9/29/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group

What is a monad ?

2012-09-29 Thread Roger Clough
of these as the energy states of a monad. 2) The monad also has a stack of appetites, which you might think of its potential desire or will. Hence L's reference to the internally viewed appetite as free will. Besides the appetites, the monad also has an internal energy source. Roger Clough, rclo

Pre-established harmony comp in relation to Platonia and Contingia

2012-09-29 Thread Roger Clough
?v=fJ-D5AUGVcI I believe that entropy begins to eventually diminish as gravity. It may be that comp and the Turing machine have analogous behaviors. Have received the following content - Sender: Roger Clough Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-29, 04:18:28 Subject: Platonia

Einstein and space

2012-09-30 Thread Roger Clough
. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 9/30/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-29, 19:54:56 Subject: Re: Epiphenomenalism On 9/29/2012 10:11 AM, Bruno

Re: Re: Epiphenomenalism

2012-09-30 Thread Roger Clough
divisible. Or one might substitute Einstein's principle of the relativity of spacetime. The uncertainties left with us by Heisenberg on the small scale and Einstein on the large scale ought to cause materialists to base their beliefs on something less elusive than matter. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net

Numbers and other inhabitants of Platonia are also inhabitants of monads

2012-09-30 Thread Roger Clough
. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 9/30/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-29, 10:29:23 Subject: Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness

Re: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-09-30 Thread Roger Clough
Only life evolves, and steel claws, being made of steel, are not alive, at least in the ordinary sense (Leibniz believed that everything in the universe is alive). So what you propose couldn't happen. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 9/30/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near

evolution is a cosmic crap shoot

2012-09-30 Thread Roger Clough
. 5. So evolution is a cosmic crap shoot with an variably intelligent player. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 9/30/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012

Evolution according to Platonia and Contingia

2012-09-30 Thread Roger Clough
monad, which might represent a species. Or perhaps the tree of life itself. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 9/30/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Alberto G. Corona Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012

Numbers vs monads

2012-10-01 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal My responses are indicated with s - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-30, 13:58:19 Subject: Re: Einstein and space Hi Roger Clough, I have regrouped my comments because they are related

Re: Re: Numbers and other inhabitants of Platonia are also inhabitants ofmonads

2012-10-01 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King Good idea, but unfortunately monads are not numbers, numbers will now guide them or replace them. Monads have to be associated with corporeal bodies down here in contingia, where crap happens. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/1/2012 Forever is a long time

Attacking the brain transplant experiment

2012-10-01 Thread Roger Clough
in the definition of the self, I prefer to use the term self-determination, meaning that our will and thought and desifre is affected by everything within our skin. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/1/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following

Re: Re: Evolution outshines reason by far

2012-10-01 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stathis Papaioannou Numbers were there before man. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/1/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stathis Papaioannou Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-30, 11:04:19

Re: Re: Einstein and space

2012-10-01 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King Good luck with improving Leibniz, but I see no problem with his ideas. He even has nonlocal QM in his schema. Materialists hate that. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/1/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving

Re: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-01 Thread Roger Clough
for evolution. Imperfect things evolve, they are part of Contingia. But perfect things always were. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/1/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver

Re: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-01 Thread Roger Clough
design or structure. Fill in the dots. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/1/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-30, 20:29:55 Subject: Re: Zombieopolis

The Good, the Bad and the weirdly computable

2012-10-01 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal Responses indicated by $$s Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/1/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-01, 11:26:24

Re: Re: Attacking the brain transplant experiment

2012-10-01 Thread Roger Clough
say it this alternate way. The output of an algorithm (let's say a choice, given an input) is always dependent on what the algorithm did. And algorithms are software. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/1/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving

The meaning of subjectivity and the importance of self (1p)

2012-10-02 Thread Roger Clough
at the raw stuff without filtering it through an individual's eyes-- the objective account-- will not completely tell you how well that raw account emulates life. You need to 1p filter it to get its meaning. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/2/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near

Re: Re: Re: Attacking the brain transplant experiment

2012-10-02 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stathis Papaioannou The self is not the brain, which is objective. The self is the subjective or personal view of what the brain does. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/2/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content

Re: Re: Re: Re: Attacking the brain transplant experiment

2012-10-02 Thread Roger Clough
Statis, A more concise response would be that the self is the brain's activity from a certain point of view (yours). Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/2/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Roger

On creating Golem

2012-10-02 Thread Roger Clough
On 01 Oct 2012, at 19:37, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal A brain in a vat would probably have an autonomous self, which is needed for everything the brain does. I don't see how an autonomous self can be present in a computer, because autonomous means it can't depend

Re: Re: The Good, the Bad and the weirdly computable

2012-10-02 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal My understanding of personal or subjective or 1p filtering has little to do with where the person is (Washington or Moscow). it has to do (if I might say it this way) with where the person has been. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/2/2012 Forever is a long time

autonomous means a priori

2012-10-02 Thread Roger Clough
must be based mostly on the inside = the selector's mind. In other words, autonomous = a priori Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/2/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver

Re: Re: The Good, the Bad and the weirdly computable

2012-10-02 Thread Roger Clough
consists of monads within monads within monads within. Would that overcome your objection ? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/2/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything

Re: Re: Numbers and other inhabitants of Platonia are also inhabitantsofmonads

2012-10-02 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist Absolutely. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/2/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Richard Ruquist Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-01, 16:51:44 Subject: Re: Numbers

Re: Re: The meaning of subjectivity and the importance of self (1p)

2012-10-02 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal Responses in ** We're pretty much aligned. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/2/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-02

OBE's etc.

2012-10-03 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal Responses at == Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/3/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen I think so (except perhaps on Jesus, but we can come back on this later ... I don't think it is so important, now

Re: Re: The meaning of subjectivity and the importance of self (1p)

2012-10-03 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg My responses as Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/3/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-02, 15:54:01

On complexity and bottom-up theories and calculations

2012-10-04 Thread Roger Clough
not aware of any attempts to specify a self. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/4/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything

Subjectivity is no longer a dirty word! A nice video discussing the dual aspect theory

2012-10-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King Many thanks, Stephan ! I should have known it before, but double-aspect and/or dual-aspect theories of mind aren't afraid of using the word subjectivity. Now all they have to do is find out who or what is the subjectr of subjectivity ! Roger Clough, rclo

A grand hypothesis about order, life, and consciousness

2012-10-05 Thread Roger Clough
not referring here to chaos theory, as it only seems to work with nonlinear mathematical functions, not real entities. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/5/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: John Clark Receiver

Re: Re: On complexity and bottom-up theories and calculations

2012-10-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stathis Papaioannou You left out the guy who puts together the pieces. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/5/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stathis Papaioannou Receiver: everything-list Time

Re: Re: Subjectivity is no longer a dirty word! A nice video discussingthe dual aspect theory

2012-10-05 Thread Roger Clough
consciousness, cognition, etc. cannot not be explained by materialism. Richard On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King Many thanks, Stephan ! I should have known it before, but double-aspect and/or dual-aspect theories of mind aren't afraid of using

(w)holes in mind from matter

2012-10-06 Thread Roger Clough
Hi lennartn Thanks, LN, I ordered a copy. Stephen might be insterested in looking at the table of contents at amazon , it has a chapter on (w)holes. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/6/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following

Re: Re: Subjectivity is no longer a dirty word! A nice video discussingthe dual aspect theory

2012-10-06 Thread Roger Clough
. Could you be wrong ? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/6/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-05, 11:13:06 Subject: Re: Subjectivity is no longer

Secondness---Maxwell's demon in the mind making sense (structure) of raw experience (entropy)

2012-10-06 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal Perhaps mind, like Maxwell's Demon, makes sense of raw experience. Finds structure or whatever. That's called Secondness. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/6/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content

Possibly mathematically making Thirdness (meaning) out of Secondness (information) out of firstness (comp raw experience)

2012-10-06 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal I wonder if something like this, used as a (Secondness) filter on the (Firstness) output of comp , could provide (Thirdness) structured consciousness. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/6/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen

Re: Re: Subjectivity is no longer a dirty word!

2012-10-06 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal IMHO mind is constructive mathematics, creating meaningful structures from raw experience. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/6/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal

What Kant did: Consciousness is a top-down structuring of bottom-up sensory info

2012-10-06 Thread Roger Clough
must be processed, i.e. recognized, or it would just be noise -- less even than a dream or nothing to us, as Kant alternatively puts it. . Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/6/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content

Re: Re: Re: On complexity and bottom-up theories and calculations

2012-10-06 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stathis Papaioannou Where did the laws of physics and chemistry come from that enable it to work ? The Tooth Fairy ? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/6/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stathis

Re: Consciousness and NWF sets

2012-10-06 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King I'm no mathematician, so what do I know, but Russell's paradox would seem to be an alternate incompleteness theorem to Godel's. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/6/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following

Re: Re: Epiphenomenalism

2012-10-06 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King IMHO A universe with 0 objects could still contain Mind-- which had to be there before the universe was created. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/6/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content

Isn't this a false dilemma ?

2012-10-06 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb and all, Perhaps I am missing something. Isn't this a false dilemma ? Why couldn't evolution and reason exist together ? For there must be a reason for everything that happens. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/6/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody

On the empty or missing pieces to the jigsaw puzzle.

2012-10-06 Thread Roger Clough
causation, not the traditional effective causation. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/6/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Richard Ruquist Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-05, 14:22:12 Subject: Re

Re: Re: Subjectivity is no longer a dirty word! A nice video discussingthedual aspect theory

2012-10-06 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb No, I haven't read them, but if they had a sensible explanation of the creation of life from inert matter, we'd all have heard of it by now. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/6/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving

Re: Re: Subjectivity is no longer a dirty word! A nice video discussingthedual aspect theory

2012-10-06 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal How does comp include subjectivity ? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/6/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-06, 08:48:04

Re: Re: Re: Re: On complexity and bottom-up theories and calculations

2012-10-06 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stathis Papaioannou Don't avoid my question please. Where do the laws of physics come from ? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/6/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stathis Papaioannou Receiver

Re: Maxwell on Metaphysics and Theology

2012-10-07 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Evgenii Rudnyi He's got it all mixed up. Physics deals with objects extended in space. Things. Metaphysics deals with inextended objects. Ideas. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/7/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following

Re: Maxwell on Metaphysics and Theology

2012-10-07 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Evgenii Rudnyi Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/7/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Evgenii Rudnyi Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-06, 13:25:53 Subject: Maxwell on Metaphysics and Theology

Can computers be conscious ? Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-07 Thread Roger Clough
publicly available, since it uses publicly available symbols or code. Consciousness is direct experience, which cannot be put down in code any more than life can be put down in code. It is personal and not publicly available. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/7/2012 Forever is a long time

Re: Re: Re: Re: On complexity and bottom-up theories and calculations

2012-10-07 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist Then where do the CYMs and their properties come from ? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/7/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Richard Ruquist Receiver: everything-list Time

Re: Re: Maxwell on Metaphysics and Theology

2012-10-07 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Evgenii Rudnyi I know that, but his theory of electromagnetism is a physical theory, even if it's hard to pin down the extension property. Physical theories can tell us nothing about philosophy or mind or God, since they cannot deal with meaning. Physics is meaningless. Roger Clough

Leibniz on consciousness and the self as non-materialistic

2012-10-08 Thread Roger Clough
is infinitely divisible. Hence, matter cannot form a true unity. Hence, matter cannot explain (be identical with, give rise to) perception. If matter cannot explain (be identical to, give rise to) perception, then materialism is false. Hence, materialism is false. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net

experiences vs descriptions of experiences

2012-10-08 Thread Roger Clough
. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/8/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Alberto G. Corona Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-07, 09:11:29 Subject: Re: What Kant did: Consciousness is a top-down

consciousness, order out of chaos = the collapsed quantum wave (?)

2012-10-08 Thread Roger Clough
producesorder out of chaos. It collapses the many into the one, perhaps as Penrose envisions consciousness to be, the collapse of the quantum form of the brain states into one Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/8/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen

Re: Re: Subjectivity is no longer a dirty word! A nicevideodiscussingthedual aspect theory

2012-10-08 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal I was just trying to formulate my view of subjectivity into terms you use, like 1p, but I only seem to have confused things. Apparently 1p is not the state of living subjectivity, at best it is a description of that. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/8/2012 Forever

Re: Re: Can computers be conscious ? Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-08 Thread Roger Clough
be experienced as one. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/8/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-07, 10:12:50 Subject: Re: Can computers be conscious ? Re

inside and outside of spacetime

2012-10-08 Thread Roger Clough
On 07 Oct 2012, at 14:44, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Evgenii Rudnyi I know that, but his theory of electromagnetism is a physical theory, even if it's hard to pin down the extension property. Physical theories can tell us nothing about philosophy or mind or God, since they cannot deal

Re: Re: Maxwell on Metaphysics and Theology

2012-10-08 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Evgenii Rudnyi Yes. But alone, the equations have no human meaning. Each individual will invent that for himself. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/8/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Evgenii

Re: Re: On complexity and bottom-up theories and calculations

2012-10-08 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stathis Papaioannou Computation can give you letters on a page. Are they conscious ? There's no way that I can think of however, to prove or disprove that objects are conscious or not, only that they may simulate consciousness. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/8/2012 Forever

Re: Re: Can computers be conscious ? Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-08 Thread Roger Clough
a computer has. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/8/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Richard Ruquist Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-07, 11:06:17 Subject: Re: Can computers be conscious ? Re

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: On complexity and bottom-up theories and calculations

2012-10-08 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/8/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Richard Ruquist Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-07, 11:17:19 Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: On complexity

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: On complexity and bottom-up theories and calculations

2012-10-08 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist Fine, except I think that intelligence, since it was needed for the Big Bang, had to be there beforehand, where time did not yet exist. But intelligence is beyond spacetime anyway, so it always was. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/8/2012 Forever is a long time

intelligence and the improbable

2012-10-08 Thread Roger Clough
, not just random chance. So it would seem that our current universe was created by some humungous intelligence. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/8/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stathis Papaioannou

Re: Re: Re: Maxwell on Metaphysics and Theology

2012-10-08 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stathis Papaioannou An atheist with any intelligence would agree with me because it's just logic. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/8/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stathis Papaioannou

Re: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-08 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stathis Papaioannou I would put it that mind is superphysical. Beyond spacetime. Supernatural as a word carries too much baggage. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/8/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content

Heisenberg and Leibniz

2012-10-08 Thread Roger Clough
, because there can never be some final cutting event, even though the fundamental particles cannot be divided. There's no there there. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/8/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From

Re: Re: experiences vs descriptions of experiences

2012-10-08 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist True, but to be a monad, you have to be inextended. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/8/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Richard Ruquist Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012

Re: Re: Re: Can computers be conscious ? Re: Zombieopolis ThoughtExperiment

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
seem to believe, it can think without considering it as a monad. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Roger Clough Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-08, 09:25:50

The fundamental problem

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Alberto G. Corona IMHO the bottom line revolves around the problem of solipsism, which is that we cannot prove that other people or objects have minds, we can only say at most that they appear to have minds. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially

I believe that comp's requirement is one of as if rather than is

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
is as if rather than is. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Alberto G. Corona Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-08, 15:12:22 Subject: Re: What Kant did

Experiences are not provable because they are private, personal.

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-08, 10:19:35 Subject: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment Hi Roger, On 08 Oct 2012, at 16:14, Roger Clough

Re: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-08, 10:19:35 Subject: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment Hi

Re: Conjoined Twins

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-08, 12:02:27 Subject: Conjoined Twins Have a look

Re: Conjoined Twins

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg The subjective aspect (Firstness), some of which apparently each twin has, is not shareable, only descriptions of it (Thirdness) are shareable. Firstness. What is shareable is Thirdness. What cannot be shared is Firstness. Thirdness is the description of Roger Clough, rclo

Re: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg Consciousness had to arise before language. Apes are conscious. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list

Re: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-08, 14:25:15 Subject: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

Re: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg They can only disagree about experiences that are spoken. -- 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: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg There are three things: 1) The experiences of each twin, which may be the same or differ (we'll never know). 2) What they describe or interpret of their experiences in words. 3) They may the same experience but describe it differently. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net

Consciousness is a faraway land

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
. The experience of religion is called faith, what we can share is called beliefs. So we can truly know things about religion that we can only partly explain or prove. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving

Re: AGI

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi John Mikes Intelligence is the ability to make decisions without outside help. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: John Mikes Receiver: yanniru Time: 2012-10

Can AGI be proven ?

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
of that private experience. Proveable yes or no. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-08, 14:22:20 Subject: Re: The real

Only you can know if you actually have intelligence

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb Only you can know if you actually have intelligence, although you can appear to have intelligence (as if). You can be tested for it. Thus comp is not different from us, or at least it has the same limitations. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time

A clearer definition of the self

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
above. In the meeting place of the above and the below there exists, analogous to Maxwell's Demon, the active agent called the self. The self makes sense of sensual data and stores that in memory. We have learned something. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time

On Beauty

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Platonist Guitar Cowboy The definition of beauty that I like is that beauty is unity in diversity. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Platonist Guitar Cowboy

Nature's firewall

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stathis, The separation you missed is that mind and consciousness are subjective entities(not shareable), while computations are objective (shareable). Nature put a firewall between these so we don't get them confused. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time

Re: Re: Re: On complexity and bottom-up theories and calculations

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Roger Clough Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Roger Clough Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-08, 09:19:40 Subject: Re: Re: On complexity and bottom-up

Has man created an AGI ? Maybe ?

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb We don't know, nor can we ever know for certain, that man has created an AGI, because actual intelligence is subjective, so only the AGI itself can know if it is truly intelligent. The best we can do is test it to see if it acts as if it has intelligence. Roger Clough, rclo

Re: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: meekerdb Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-08, 17:18:59 Subject: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment On 10/8/2012

more firewalls

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist Nature has put a firewall between subjective entities such as monads and objective entities such as BECs or the manifolds. When I said attached I should have said associated to. There's no physical, only logical connections. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012

Popper's faulty epistemology

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
already know and either identifies it as such or modifies it to another, newly invented or associated description. If you see two apples, it then calls the image two apples. Thirdness is what you then call it and can express to others. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long

the self as active agent

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb IMHO self is an active agent, something like Maxwell's Demon, that can intelligently sort raw experiences into meaningful bins, such as Kant's categories, thus giving them some meaning. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end

Re: Re: On Beauty

2012-10-10 Thread Roger Clough
being. But with the last note it is quiet. I reach over and straighten an imprecision of the flowers. - Roger Clough If you wish to unsubscribe from these occasional postings, simply reply with unsubscribe in the subject line. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/10/2012 Forever

Re: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-10 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb 1) If you do not have subjective experience, you are dead. So subjectivity is necessary for evolution. 2) The self cannot be an illusion, for it is the perceiver. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/10/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen

Re: Yes, Doctor!

2012-10-10 Thread Roger Clough
bother me. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/10/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Kim Jones Receiver: Everything List Time: 2012-10-10, 02:54:07 Subject: Yes, Doctor! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news

Re: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-10 Thread Roger Clough
/ \ / \ / \ / life \ /\ / \ free will--intelligence Roger

Re: Re: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-10 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Roger Clough Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/10/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Roger Clough Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-10, 07:31:58 Subject: Re: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

Re: Re: Experiences are not provable because they are private, personal.

2012-10-10 Thread Roger Clough
- From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-08, 10:19:35 Subject: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment Hi Roger, On 08 Oct 2012, at 16:14, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stathis Papaioannou I would put it that mind is superphysical. Beyond spacetime

Re: Re: Only you can know if you actually have intelligence

2012-10-10 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stathis Papaioannou You can be tested for intelligence, but the enduring solipsist problem shows that you cannot be tested for consciousness. At least nobody seems to have come up with such a test. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/10/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near

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