Hi Bruno Marchal 1) For wine-tasting -- What one must have is knowing that one knows that the wine tastes good.
Such as one can prove that 1+1 =2 but one still has to accept that as true. 2) mo穘ad (mnd) n. 1. Philosophy An indivisible, impenetrable unit of substance viewed as the basic constituent element of physical reality in the metaphysics of Leibniz. Substance: A being that subsists by itself; a separate or distinct thing. Contingent truth: A truth whose opposite is possible Entelechy: Something having in it "a certain perfection", a completeness- a term taken from Aristotle's definition of the soul Appetition: The internal principle which prepares for change; rudimentary "desire". Monad: The simple substance. Blind and passive by itself, but obtains its perceptions from God who also can animate it and cause it to feel. Roger , rclo...@verizon.net 8/17/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so everything could function." ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-08-16, 11:40:34 Subject: Re: ? On 16 Aug 2012, at 16:21, Roger wrote: BRUNO: I meant that some fixed hardware computer can emulate a virtual self-modifying version of itself, so that your point is not valid. ROGER: What point ? And emulate in what sense ? Ie could a computer ever be a good wine taster ? As I said, it seems they are. the french have succeeded in making a wine testing machine which according to experts in the field is better than the average qualified wine tester. Does such machine get the human qualia of drinking wine. i doubt so, for this you need to have a longer human history, and higher reflexive abilities. But there is no reason why machine could'n get them in principle (obvious for a computationalist which bet that he is himself a machine relatively to its more probable neighborhood). BRUNO: If not you introduce a notion of living matter leading to an infinite regression. ROGER: Infinite regression of what ? Consciousness ? The monad does away with that problem, except of course it's just philosophy, not hardware. It might be math, also. Could you explain what a monad is without too much jargon? BRUNO: It might have a solution, but it begs the question of comp/non-comp, and you are just saying (without arguing) that machines cannot think, and that souls are substantial actual infinities. ROGER: I think I said and believe what you said I said, but I don't understand your main point just above, even vaguely. At any rate, emulation is not the real thing. If the brain is a universal emulator, as it surely is at least, then when a computer emulates an emulation done by the brain, at the right level, emulation is the real thing. Bruno Roger , rclo...@verizon.net 8/16/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so everything could function." ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-08-15, 03:53:59 Subject: Re: Definitions of intelligence possibly useful to computersinAIordescribing life On 14 Aug 2012, at 17:47, Roger wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal You say, "a non living computer can supported a living self-developing life form" Do you mean support instead of supported ? Or what do you mean ? I mean "support". Sorry. I meant that some fixed hardware computer can emulate a virtual self-modifying version of itself, so that your point is not valid. If not you introduce a notion of living matter leading to an infinite regression. It might have a solution, but it beg the question of comp/non-comp, and you are just saying (without arguing) that machines cannot think, and that souls are substantial actual infinities. Bruno Roger , rclo...@verizon.net 8/14/2012 ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-08-12, 05:17:45 Subject: Re: Definitions of intelligence possibly useful to computers inAIordescribing life On 11 Aug 2012, at 13:07, Roger wrote: Hi Russell Standish When I "gave in" to the AI point of view that computers can posess intelligence, I had overlooked the world of experience, which is not quantitative. Only living things can experience the world. You are right. But a non living computer can supported a living self-developing life form, unless you postulate that infinitely complex substances are at play in the mind. 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 everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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