Thanks John, that helped me more than those links. So does it have a
connection to physics at all or is it more like a "pure mental substance"
theory as opposed to the physical "pure material substance" theories? If it
is purely mental, again thanks for the heads up.

Then I am intrigued. Are there other ones in the same vein? Maybe with
fewer axioms? Well now that I think of it the standard model needs a lot of
axioms as well if you were to list them all at once I guess... So tell me
guys is there more like that out there? I only know about physicalist
formal theories. Must be my education....

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Ben Goertzel via AGI <[email protected]>
wrote:

> The Extended Mind hypothesis isn't really nonsense; Andy Clark and
> others have made a pretty strong case that it's valuable to contain
> tools and other parts of an agent's nearby, habitual environment as
> part of the agent's mind (since they are engaged in tight feedback
> loops w/ the other parts of the agent's mind, and the other parts of
> the agent's mind have specifically adapted to them)
>
> It's hard to effectively analyze the average Hongkongese girl's mind
> without considering her smartphone as part of the system, for example
> ;-)
>
> -- Ben G
>
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Matt Mahoney via AGI <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > That's being kind. Actually it is complete nonsense.
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Ben Goertzel via AGI <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> Yes, that's interesting.  More consideration of the Extended Mind
> >> aspects of consciousness would probably be valuable to incorporate in
> >> the paper...
> >>
> >> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:44 PM, John Rose via AGI <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>> Adding to my comment, one could characterize human-like consciousness
> in terms of relationships and beliefs borrowed from social systems theory
> including ideas and things similar to Deontical Impure Systems, Alysidal
> algebra, gnorpsic functions, etc.. Consciousness you could say is relations
> between systems and in this particular case human belief systems, see:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/Tesis_Nescolarde.pdf
> >>> http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajss/2/2/2/
> >
> > --
> > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected]
> >
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