Hi John, > Bruno, > I wanted to submit some reflections to M.A. but you did it better. > Two words, however, I picked out: > > 1. bifurcate > I consider it a human narrowness to expect "anything" to split in TWO > (only) - Nature (the existence?) does not 'count'. > It has unlimited varants and the choices come under the 2nd word I > picked out:
Doesn't amoebas split in two? Assuming Everett is correct, doesn't observers split in many when observing a superposed states? Assuming comp, am I not splitting in two, from a third person perpective in the duplication Washington-Moscow? > > 2. (free?) WILL > The 'Free Will' is the invention of the religious trend to invoke > responsibility and punishment. Or of any justice system. If not, we should substitute all jails for asylums. Perhaps we should? > In 'my' position-kind even 'Will" implies some personal(?) decision > instead of a deterministic consequence of relations all over acting > upon the observed change of the observed item. I believe that "free-will" is compatible with determinism (old discussion). Free will is a form of self-determinism. > > As for the elusive consciousness? > 'my' attempt to find some generalized and widened identification for > all those different things people (as is said) 'everybody knows what > it is' (but many in different ways <G>), I ended up with the ID (first > published 1992): > Acknowledgement of and response > to information (changes?) > (considering it rather a process than only an 'awareness'.) I posted > this on several lists for psych, mind, consciousness, even diverse > complexities and did NOT get a refusal over the 15 years). Acceptance > neither. So I thought: Si tacent, clamant (or dormiunt?) > I hold one thing for sure: Ccness (whatever it may be) is NOT a > 'thing' callable 'physical'. We agree on this. Best, Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
