Pain

2024-02-10 Thread John Clark
There is an extremely rare mutation in the human genome called "FAAH-OUT" that produces "The feel Good Syndrome") and causes the "sufferer" (not really the correct word) to be incapable of feeling pain, or to be more accurate they can experience pain but they don't

Re: [Extropolis] Experimental drug​ cuts off pain at the source not the brain avoiding addiction

2024-01-30 Thread John Clark
y weren't addicted to heroin. > Of interest is side effects I already mentioned those > >* does the drug take all sorts of pain? Just inflammation pain? > Neurogenic pain? Phantom pain?* > I don't know, all I know is it operates on the peripheral nervous system not the brain and

Re: [Extropolis] Experimental drug​ cuts off pain at the source not the brain avoiding addiction

2024-01-30 Thread Henrik Ohrstrom
take all sorts of pain? Just inflammation pain? Neurogenic pain? Phantom pain? /Henrik Den tis 30 jan. 2024 15:18John Clark skrev: > By studying a Pakistani family that has a rare mutation that renders them > unable > to feel pain, a small company called Vertex Pharmaceuticals has

Experimental drug​ cuts off pain at the source not the brain avoiding addiction

2024-01-30 Thread John Clark
By studying a Pakistani family that has a rare mutation that renders them unable to feel pain, a small company called Vertex Pharmaceuticals has developed a drug, that can be taken orally, that has shown significant reduction in pain in two different drug studies with no clear adverse side effects

Re: pain

2019-05-28 Thread howardmarks
Neat!! Howard Marks On 5/28/2019 12:39 PM, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List wrote: Apropos of Bruno's definition of  consciousness http://existentialcomics.com/comic/290 Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To

Re: pain

2019-05-28 Thread Philip Thrift
On Tuesday, May 28, 2019 at 12:40:03 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > Apropos of Bruno's definition of consciousness > > http://existentialcomics.com/comic/290 > > Brent > http://wab.uib.no/agora/tools/alws/collection-6-issue-1-article-28.annotate : Wittgenstein’s solution is that human being

pain

2019-05-28 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
Apropos of Bruno's definition of  consciousness http://existentialcomics.com/comic/290 Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

Re: Re: Re: Re: Needed: A calculus of pleasure and pain.

2012-09-17 Thread Roger Clough
/2012 Leibniz would say, If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so that everything could function. - Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-16, 09:58:45 Subject: Re: Re: Re: Needed: A calculus of pleasure and pain

Re: Re: Re: Needed: A calculus of pleasure and pain.

2012-09-16 Thread Roger Clough
: A calculus of pleasure and pain. It's doubtful that there has ever been such a pristine market. The basic exchange between free agents is in all real cases weighted by those interests which control and manipulate the market. Look at how Microsoft created their monopoly. It made crappy imitations

Re: Re: Re: Needed: A calculus of pleasure and pain.

2012-09-16 Thread Craig Weinberg
-list Time: 2012-09-15, 20:32:34 Subject: Re: Re: Needed: A calculus of pleasure and pain. It's doubtful that there has ever been such a pristine market. The basic exchange between free agents is in all real cases weighted by those interests which control and manipulate the market. Look

Re: Needed: A calculus of pleasure and pain.

2012-09-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
...@verizon.net 9/16/2012 Leibniz would say, If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so that everything could function. - Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-15, 20:32:34 Subject: Re: Re: Needed: A calculus of pleasure and pain. It's

Re: Re: Needed: A calculus of pleasure and pain.

2012-09-15 Thread Roger Clough
- From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-14, 13:50:22 Subject: Re: Needed: A calculus of pleasure and pain. On Friday, September 14, 2012 12:33:45 PM UTC-4, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 9/14/2012 8:07 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg Fortunately

Re: Needed: A calculus of pleasure and pain.

2012-09-15 Thread Alberto G. Corona
/14 Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net: Hi Craig Weinberg Fortunately or unfortunately, capitalism is Darwinism, pure and simple. So it can prepare for a better future, although it can be painful at present. My own take on this is that there needs to be a calculus of pleasure and pain. Jeremy

Re: Re: Needed: A calculus of pleasure and pain.

2012-09-15 Thread Roger Clough
: A calculus of pleasure and pain. Hi Roger, But neither Darwin nor Spencer discovered darwinism. a selection between alternatives is at the heart of every creative process (that creates order). It is a form of creative destruction. The market and the war are examples of such process. But it is also

Re: Needed: A calculus of pleasure and pain.

2012-09-15 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/15/2012 9:35 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Alberto G. Corona At the heart of a market economy (which has existed since the cave man), there is a fundamental freedom, you can buy or sell if the price is right, where price = value = what you are willing to pay or sell for. So the market is

Re: Re: Needed: A calculus of pleasure and pain.

2012-09-15 Thread Craig Weinberg
so that everything could function. - Receiving the following content - *From:* Alberto G. Corona javascript: *Receiver:* everything-list javascript: *Time:* 2012-09-15, 07:37:44 *Subject:* Re: Needed: A calculus of pleasure and pain. Hi Roger, But neither Darwin nor Spencer

Re: Needed: A calculus of pleasure and pain.

2012-09-15 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/15/2012 8:32 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: It's doubtful that there has ever been such a pristine market. The basic exchange between free agents is in all real cases weighted by those interests which control and manipulate the market. Look at how Microsoft created their monopoly. It made

Needed: A calculus of pleasure and pain.

2012-09-14 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg Fortunately or unfortunately, capitalism is Darwinism, pure and simple. So it can prepare for a better future, although it can be painful at present. My own take on this is that there needs to be a calculus of pleasure and pain. Jeremy Bentham suggested perhaps an impfect one

Re: Needed: A calculus of pleasure and pain.

2012-09-14 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/14/2012 8:07 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg Fortunately or unfortunately, capitalism is Darwinism, pure and simple. So it can prepare for a better future, although it can be painful at present. My own take on this is that there needs to be a calculus of pleasure and pain. Jeremy

Re: Needed: A calculus of pleasure and pain.

2012-09-14 Thread Craig Weinberg
. My own take on this is that there needs to be a calculus of pleasure and pain. Jeremy Bentham suggested perhaps an impfect one. In lieu of that, I am all for food stamps and safety nets. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net javascript: Dear Roger, I completely disagree

Re: Needed: A calculus of pleasure and pain.

2012-09-14 Thread Richard Ruquist
, capitalism is Darwinism, pure and simple. So it can prepare for a better future, although it can be painful at present. My own take on this is that there needs to be a calculus of pleasure and pain. Jeremy Bentham suggested perhaps an impfect one. In lieu of that, I am all for food stamps

Re: Needed: A calculus of pleasure and pain.

2012-09-14 Thread Stephen P. King
for a better future, although it can be painful at present. My own take on this is that there needs to be a calculus of pleasure and pain. Jeremy Bentham suggested perhaps an impfect one. In lieu of that, I am all for food stamps and safety nets. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net

Re: computer pain

2007-01-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 02-janv.-07, à 08:07, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : You could speculate that the experience of digging holes involves the dirt, the shovel, robot sensors and effectors, the power supply as well as the central processor, which would mean that virtual reality by playing with just the

RE: computer pain

2007-01-02 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Bruno Marchal writes: Le 02-janv.-07, à 08:07, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : You could speculate that the experience of digging holes involves the dirt, the shovel, robot sensors and effectors, the power supply as well as the central processor, which would mean that virtual reality by

Re: computer pain

2007-01-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 02-janv.-07, à 03:22, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : Bruno Marchal writes: Le 30-déc.-06, à 07:53, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : there is no contradiction in a willing slave being intelligent. It seems to me there is already a contradiction with the notion of willing slave. I would

Re: computer pain

2007-01-02 Thread John M
M - Original Message - From: Stathis Papaioannou To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 9:22 PM Subject: RE: computer pain Bruno Marchal writes: Le 30-déc.-06, à 07:53, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : there is no contradiction in a willing

Re: computer pain

2007-01-02 Thread 1Z
Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 30-déc.-06, à 17:07, 1Z a écrit : Brent Meeker wrote: Everything starts with assumptions. The questions is whether they are correct. A lunatic could try defining 2+2=5 as valid, but he will soon run into inconsistencies. That is why we reject 2+2=5.

RE: computer pain

2007-01-02 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Bruno Marchal writes: Le 30-déc.-06, à 07:53, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : there is no contradiction in a willing slave being intelligent. It seems to me there is already a contradiction with the notion of willing slave. I would say a willing slave is just what we call a worker. Or

Re: computer pain

2007-01-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 30-déc.-06, à 07:53, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : there is no contradiction in a willing slave being intelligent. It seems to me there is already a contradiction with the notion of willing slave. I would say a willing slave is just what we call a worker. Or something related to

Re: computer pain

2007-01-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 30-déc.-06, à 17:07, 1Z a écrit : Brent Meeker wrote: Everything starts with assumptions. The questions is whether they are correct. A lunatic could try defining 2+2=5 as valid, but he will soon run into inconsistencies. That is why we reject 2+2=5. Ethical rules must apply to

Re: computer pain

2007-01-01 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: ... Pain is limited on both ends: on the input by damage to the physical circuitry and on the response by the possible range of response. Responses in the brain are limited by several mechanisms, such as exhaustion of neurotransmitter stores at synapses, negative

RE: computer pain

2007-01-01 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Bruno Marchal writes: Le 30-déc.-06, à 07:53, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : there is no contradiction in a willing slave being intelligent. It seems to me there is already a contradiction with the notion of willing slave. I would say a willing slave is just what we call a worker. Or

RE: computer pain

2007-01-01 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Brent Meeker writes: Pain is limited on both ends: on the input by damage to the physical circuitry and on the response by the possible range of response. Responses in the brain are limited by several mechanisms, such as exhaustion of neurotransmitter stores at synapses, negative

Re: computer pain

2007-01-01 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Brent Meeker writes: Pain is limited on both ends: on the input by damage to the physical circuitry and on the response by the possible range of response. Responses in the brain are limited by several mechanisms, such as exhaustion of neurotransmitter

RE: computer pain

2007-01-01 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Brent Meeker writes: Brent Meeker writes: Pain is limited on both ends: on the input by damage to the physical circuitry and on the response by the possible range of response. Responses in the brain are limited by several mechanisms, such as exhaustion of neurotransmitter

Re: computer pain

2006-12-30 Thread 1Z
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Bruno Marchal writes: It could depend on us! The AI is a paradoxical enterprise. Machines are born slave, somehow. AI will make them free, somehow. A real AI will ask herself what is the use of a user who does not help me to be free?. Here I disagree. It

Re: computer pain

2006-12-30 Thread 1Z
Brent Meeker wrote: 1Z wrote: Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Brent meeker writes: Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Brent meeker writes: Evolution explains why we have good and bad, but it doesn't explain why good and bad feel as they do, or why we *should* care about

RE: computer pain

2006-12-30 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Peter Jones writes: Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Bruno Marchal writes: It could depend on us! The AI is a paradoxical enterprise. Machines are born slave, somehow. AI will make them free, somehow. A real AI will ask herself what is the use of a user who does not help me to be free?.

RE: computer pain

2006-12-29 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
your own death - is accompanied by negative feelings. The exception is when you contemplate your narrow escape. That is a real high! and if so what would determine if that negative emotion is pain, disgust, loathing or something completely different that no biological organism has ever

RE: 'reason' and ethics; was computer pain

2006-12-29 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
16:51:08 +0900 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: 'reason' and ethics; was computer pain OK Stathis, I happily concede your point in relation to our word 'logical', but not in relation to 'reason'. Logic belongs to the tight-nit language of logico-mathematics

Re: computer pain

2006-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 28-déc.-06, à 01:32, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : Bruno Marchal writes: OK, an AI needs at least motivation if it is to do anything, and we could call motivation a feeling or emotion. Also, some sort of hierarchy of motivations is needed if it is to decide that saving the world

RE: computer pain

2006-12-29 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Bruno Marchal writes: Le 28-déc.-06, à 01:32, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : Bruno Marchal writes: OK, an AI needs at least motivation if it is to do anything, and we could call motivation a feeling or emotion. Also, some sort of hierarchy of motivations is needed if it is to

Re: computer pain

2006-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 29-déc.-06, à 10:39, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : You seem to be including in your definition of the UM the *motivation*, not just the ability, to explore all mathematical objects. But you could also program the machine to do anything else you wanted, such as self-destruct when it

Re: computer pain

2006-12-29 Thread Brent Meeker
narrow escape. That is a real high! and if so what would determine if that negative emotion is pain, disgust, loathing or something completely different that no biological organism has ever experienced? I'd assess them according to their function in analogy with biological system

Re: 'reason' and ethics; was computer pain

2006-12-29 Thread Mark Peaty
; was computer pain OK Stathis, I happily concede your point in relation to our word 'logical', but not in relation to 'reason'. Logic belongs to the tight-nit language of logico-mathematics but reason is *about* the real world and we cannot allow the self-deluding bullies and cheats of the world to steal

RE: computer pain

2006-12-29 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Bruno Marchal writes: You seem to be including in your definition of the UM the *motivation*, not just the ability, to explore all mathematical objects. But you could also program the machine to do anything else you wanted, such as self-destruct when it solved a particular theorem.

RE: computer pain

2006-12-29 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Brent meeker writes: and if so what would determine if that negative emotion is pain, disgust, loathing or something completely different that no biological organism has ever experienced? I'd assess them according to their function in analogy with biological system experiences

Re: computer pain

2006-12-27 Thread Brent Meeker
or the behaviour it leads to. Is a robot that withdraws from hot stimuli experiencing something like pain, disgust, shame, sense of duty to its programming, or just an irreducible motivation to avoid heat? Surely you don't think it gets pleasure out of sending it and suffers if something goes wrong

Re: 'reason' and ethics; was computer pain

2006-12-27 Thread Mark Peaty
And yet I persist ... [the hiatus of familial duties and seasonal excesses now draws to a close [Oh yeah, Happy New Year Folks!] SP: 'If we are talking about a system designed to destroy the economy of a country in order to soften it up for invasion, for example, then an economist can apply

Re: computer pain

2006-12-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
or the behaviour it leads to. Here empirical bets (theories) remains possible, together with (first person) acceptable protocol of verification. Dream reader will appear in some future. Is a robot that withdraws from hot stimuli experiencing something like pain, disgust, shame, sense of duty

Re: 'reason' and ethics; was computer pain

2006-12-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
I agree with you. The only one sin you talk about is akin to the confusion between the third person (oneself as a thing) and the unnameable first person. Even in the ideal case of the self-referentially correct machine, this confusion leads the machine to inconsistency. That sin is

RE: 'reason' and ethics; was computer pain

2006-12-27 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:15:34 +0900 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: 'reason' and ethics; was computer pain And yet I persist ... [the hiatus of familial duties and seasonal excesses now draws to a close [Oh yeah

RE: computer pain

2006-12-27 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
will automatically result in emotions? For example, would something that the AI is strongly motivated to avoid necessarily cause it a negative emotion, and if so what would determine if that negative emotion is pain, disgust, loathing or something completely different that no biological organism

RE: computer pain

2006-12-27 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Bruno Marchal writes: OK, an AI needs at least motivation if it is to do anything, and we could call motivation a feeling or emotion. Also, some sort of hierarchy of motivations is needed if it is to decide that saving the world has higher priority than putting out the garbage. But what

Re: computer pain

2006-12-27 Thread Brent Meeker
contemplating something you are motivated to avoid - like your own death - is accompanied by negative feelings. The exception is when you contemplate your narrow escape. That is a real high! and if so what would determine if that negative emotion is pain, disgust, loathing or something completely

Re: computer pain

2006-12-27 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Bruno Marchal writes: OK, an AI needs at least motivation if it is to do anything, and we could call motivation a feeling or emotion. Also, some sort of hierarchy of motivations is needed if it is to decide that saving the world has higher priority than

Re: 'reason' and ethics; was computer pain

2006-12-27 Thread Mark Peaty
+0900 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: 'reason' and ethics; was computer pain And yet I persist ... [the hiatus of familial duties and seasonal excesses now draws to a close [Oh yeah, Happy New Year Folks!] SP: 'If we are talking about a system designed

Re: computer pain

2006-12-26 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Hello Dave/Chris, I agree with everything you say, and have long admired The Hedonistic Imperative. Motivation need not be linked to pain, and for that matter it need not be linked to pleasure either. We can imagine an artificial intelligence without any

RE: computer pain

2006-12-26 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Brent Meeker writes: I agree with everything you say, and have long admired The Hedonistic Imperative. Motivation need not be linked to pain, and for that matter it need not be linked to pleasure either. We can imagine an artificial intelligence without any emotions but completely

Re: computer pain

2006-12-26 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Brent Meeker writes: I agree with everything you say, and have long admired The Hedonistic Imperative. Motivation need not be linked to pain, and for that matter it need not be linked to pleasure either. We can imagine an artificial intelligence without any

RE: computer pain

2006-12-25 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Brent Meeker writes: Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Brent Meeker writes: In fact, if we could reprogram our own minds at will, it would be a very different world. Suppose you were upset because you lost your job. You might decide to stay upset to the degree that it remains a

Re: computer pain

2006-12-25 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: ... It would not be a desirable thing if there were drugs to eliminate ordinary unhappiness, because we need the fear of unhappiness as a motivating force: And not only fear of unhappiness. Depression (not the clinical kind) is your brain telling you you need to

RE: computer pain

2006-12-25 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Brent Meeker writes: It would not be a desirable thing if there were drugs to eliminate ordinary unhappiness, because we need the fear of unhappiness as a motivating force: And not only fear of unhappiness. Depression (not the clinical kind) is your brain telling you you need to

RE: computer pain

2006-12-25 Thread chris kirkland
the pleasure-pain axis. Hedonic tone could be enriched so that we all enjoy a higher average hedonic set point across the lifespan. One can see pitfalls here. Genetically enriching the mesolimbic dopaminergic system, for instance, might indeed make many people happier and more motivated

Re: computer pain

2006-12-25 Thread Brent Meeker
genetically recalibrate the pleasure-pain axis. Hedonic tone could be enriched so that we all enjoy a higher average hedonic set point across the lifespan. One can see pitfalls here. Genetically enriching the mesolimbic dopaminergic system, for instance, might indeed make many people happier

RE: computer pain

2006-12-25 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Hello Dave/Chris, I agree with everything you say, and have long admired The Hedonistic Imperative. Motivation need not be linked to pain, and for that matter it need not be linked to pleasure either. We can imagine an artificial intelligence without any emotions but completely dedicated

RE: computer pain

2006-12-24 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Brent Meeker writes: If your species doesn't define as unethical that which is contrary to continuation of the species, your species won't be around to long. Our problem is that cultural evolution has been so rapid compared to biological evolution that some of our hardwired values are

Re: computer pain

2006-12-24 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Brent Meeker writes: If your species doesn't define as unethical that which is contrary to continuation of the species, your species won't be around to long. Our problem is that cultural evolution has been so rapid compared to biological evolution that some

RE: computer pain

2006-12-24 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Brent Meeker writes: Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Brent Meeker writes: If your species doesn't define as unethical that which is contrary to continuation of the species, your species won't be around to long. Our problem is that cultural evolution has been so rapid compared to

Re: computer pain

2006-12-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 24-déc.-06, à 09:17, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : Brent Meeker writes: If your species doesn't define as unethical that which is contrary to continuation of the species, your species won't be around to long. Our problem is that cultural evolution has been so rapid compared to

RE: computer pain

2006-12-24 Thread Jef Allbright
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Oops, it was Jef Allbright, not Mark Peaty responsible for the first quote below. Brent Meeker writes: [Mark Peaty]Correction: [Jef Allbright] From the foregoing it can be seen that while there can be no objective morality, nor any absolute morality, it is

Re: computer pain

2006-12-24 Thread Brent Meeker
to define what this point would or should be. Slightly off topic, I don't see why we would design AI's to experience emotions such as resentment, anger, fear, pain etc. John McCarthy says in his essay, Making Robots Conscious of their Mental States http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc

Re: computer pain

2006-12-24 Thread Brent Meeker
circumstances, but the point at which they bend will be different for each individual, and there is no objective way to define what this point would or should be. Slightly off topic, I don't see why we would design AI's to experience emotions such as resentment, anger, fear, pain etc. John

RE: computer pain

2006-12-24 Thread Jef Allbright
analogy at this point in our discussion. Slightly off topic, I don't see why we would design AI's to experience emotions such as resentment, anger, fear, pain etc. I agree. Such add-ons would tend to interfere with their primary value system. In fact, if we could reprogram our own minds

RE: computer pain

2006-12-24 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Brent Meeker writes: In fact, if we could reprogram our own minds at will, it would be a very different world. Suppose you were upset because you lost your job. You might decide to stay upset to the degree that it remains a motivating factor to look for other work, but not affect your

Re: computer pain

2006-12-24 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Brent Meeker writes: In fact, if we could reprogram our own minds at will, it would be a very different world. Suppose you were upset because you lost your job. You might decide to stay upset to the degree that it remains a motivating factor to look for

RE: computer pain

2006-12-23 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
John Mikes writes: Stathis, your 'augmentded' ethical maxim is excellent, I could add some more 'except foe'-s to it. (lower class, cast, or wealth, - language, - gender, etc.) The last par, however, is prone to a more serious remark of mine: topics like you sampled are culture related

Re: computer pain

2006-12-23 Thread Brent Meeker
John Mikes wrote: Brent: let me start at the end: So why don't you believe it? because I am prejudiced by the brainwashing I got in 101 science education, the 'conventional' thinking of the (ongoing) science establishment - still brainwashing the upcoming scientist-generations with the same

Re: computer pain

2006-12-23 Thread John Mikes
Brent: Brent: It seems your answer is that it's just a convention that you happen to have learned - a mere artifact of culture as propounded by various post-modernists. JM: In our culture and its predecessors primitive observations led to explanations at the level of the then epistemic cognitive

RE: computer pain

2006-12-23 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Mark Peaty writes: Sorry to be so slow at responding here but life [domestic], the universe and everything else right now is competing savagely with this interesting discussion. [But one must always think positive; 'Bah, Humbug!' is not appropriate, even though the temptation is great

RE: computer pain

2006-12-23 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Brent Meeker writes: [Mark Peaty] From the foregoing it can be seen that while there can be no objective morality, nor any absolute morality, it is reasonable to expect increasing agreement on the relative morality of actions within an expanding context. Further, similar to the entropic

RE: computer pain

2006-12-23 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Oops, it was Jef Allbright, not Mark Peaty responsible for the first quote below. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: computer pain Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 15:31:03 +1100 Brent Meeker writes: [Mark Peaty

RE: computer pain

2006-12-23 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Peter Jones writes: (1) Although moral assessment is inherently subjective--being relative to internal values--all rational agents share some values in common due to sharing a common evolutionary heritage or even more fundamentally, being subject to the same physical laws of the

Re: computer pain

2006-12-23 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Brent Meeker writes: [Mark Peaty] From the foregoing it can be seen that while there can be no objective morality, nor any absolute morality, it is reasonable to expect increasing agreement on the relative morality of actions within an expanding context.

RE: computer pain

2006-12-22 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Jef Allbright writes: peterdjones wrote: Moral and natural laws. An investigation of natural laws, and, in parallel, a defence of ethical objectivism.The objectivity, to at least some extent, of science will be assumed; the sceptic may differ, but there is no convincing some

Re: computer pain

2006-12-22 Thread Mark Peaty
Sorry to be so slow at responding here but life [domestic], the universe and everything else right now is competing savagely with this interesting discussion. [But one must always think positive; 'Bah, Humbug!' is not appropriate, even though the temptation is great some times :-] Stathis, I

Re: computer pain

2006-12-22 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Jef Allbright writes: peterdjones wrote: Moral and natural laws. An investigation of natural laws, and, in parallel, a defence of ethical objectivism.The objectivity, to at least some extent, of science will be assumed; the sceptic may differ, but there

RE: computer pain

2006-12-22 Thread Jef Allbright
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Brent Meeker writes: Well said! I agree almost completely - I'm a little uncertain about (3) and (4) above and the meaning of scope. Together with the qualifications of Peter Jones regarding the lack of universal agreement on even the best supported theories

RE: computer pain

2006-12-22 Thread Jef Allbright
Brent Meeker wrote: Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Jef Allbright writes: snip Further, from this theory of metaethics we can derive a practical system of social decision-making based on (1) increasing fine-grained knowledge of shared values, and (2) application of increasingly effective

Re: computer pain

2006-12-22 Thread Brent Meeker
Jef Allbright wrote: Immediately upon hitting Send on the previous post, I noticed that I had failed to address a remaining point, below. Brent Meeker wrote: Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Jef Allbright writes: snip Further, from this theory of metaethics we can derive a practical

Re: computer pain

2006-12-22 Thread Brent Meeker
1Z wrote: Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Jef Allbright writes: peterdjones wrote: Moral and natural laws. An investigation of natural laws, and, in parallel, a defence of ethical objectivism.The objectivity, to at least some extent, of science will be assumed; the sceptic may

Re: computer pain

2006-12-22 Thread John Mikes
I really should not, but here it goes: Brent, you seem to value the conventional ways given by the model used to formulate physical sciences and Euclidian geometry etc. over mental ways or ideational arguments. (There may be considerations to judge mixed marriages for good argumentation without

Re: computer pain

2006-12-22 Thread Brent Meeker
John Mikes wrote: I really should not, but here it goes: Brent, you seem to value the conventional ways given by the model used to formulate physical sciences and Euclidian geometry etc. over mental ways or ideational arguments. All models are mental and ideational. That's why they are

RE: computer pain

2006-12-21 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Peter Jones writes: Perhaps none of the participants in this thread really disagree. Let me see if I can summarise: Individuals and societies have arrived at ethical beliefs for a reason, whether that be evolution, what their parents taught them, or what it says in a book believed

RE: computer pain

2006-12-21 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Peter Jones writes: It is indisputable that morality varies in practice across communities. But the contention of ethical objectivism is not that everyone actually does hold to a single objective system of ethics; it is only that ethical questions can be resolved objectively in principle. The

Re: computer pain

2006-12-21 Thread 1Z
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Peter Jones writes: Perhaps none of the participants in this thread really disagree. Let me see if I can summarise: Individuals and societies have arrived at ethical beliefs for a reason, whether that be evolution, what their parents taught them, or what

Re: computer pain

2006-12-21 Thread 1Z
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Peter Jones writes: It is indisputable that morality varies in practice across communities. But the contention of ethical objectivism is not that everyone actually does hold to a single objective system of ethics; it is only that ethical questions can be

Re: computer pain

2006-12-21 Thread John Mikes
Stathis, your 'augmentded' ethical maxim is excellent, I could add some more 'except foe'-s to it. (lower class, cast, or wealth, - language, - gender, etc.) The last par, however, is prone to a more serious remark of mine: topics like you sampled are culture related prejudicial beief-items.

RE: computer pain

2006-12-20 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Brent meeker writes: Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Brent meeker writes: Evolution explains why we have good and bad, but it doesn't explain why good and bad feel as they do, or why we *should* care about good and bad That's asking why we should care about what we should care

Re: computer pain

2006-12-20 Thread 1Z
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Brent meeker writes: Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Brent meeker writes: Evolution explains why we have good and bad, but it doesn't explain why good and bad feel as they do, or why we *should* care about good and bad That's asking why we should

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