Hi Richard Ruquist  

What makes you think it is false ? 
Please be specific. 


Roger Clough, [email protected] 
10/10/2012  
"Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen 


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Time: 2012-10-09, 08:25:10 
Subject: Re: more firewalls 


Hi Roger, 
What makes you think that what you claim is true? 
Richard 

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Roger Clough  wrote: 
> 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, [email protected] 
> 10/9/2012 
> "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen 
> 
> 
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> Time: 2012-10-08, 12:35:34 
> Subject: Re: Re: Can computers be conscious ? Re: Zombieopolis 
> ThoughtExperiment 
> 
> 
> Roger, 
> Monads are everywhere, inside computers 
> as well as humans, rocks and free space. 
> Whatever allows monads to connect to physical objects 
> may be operative for inanimates as well as animates. 
> 
> So the first step is to identify the connecting mechanism. 
> 
> For physical consciousness I conjecture the connection 
> is based on BECs (Bose-Einstein Condensates) 
> in the monadic mind entangled with BECs in the brain. 
> 
> It has been demonstrated experimentally 
> that BECs of disparate substances can still be entangled. 
> So once a computer is designed with BECs as in the human brain 
> then it may be capable of consciousness. 
> Richard 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Roger Clough wrote: 
>> Hi Richard Ruquist 
>> 
>> I may have given that impression, sorry, but 
>> a monad can only make what's "inside" do what it can do. 
>> 
>> Human and animal monads can both feel, so they can be conscious. 
>> But a rock is at best unconscious as it cannot feel or think.\ 
>> 
>> There's no way to tell what faculties a computer has. 
>> 
>> Roger Clough, [email protected] 
>> 10/8/2012 
>> "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen 
>> 
>> 
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>> Time: 2012-10-07, 11:06:17 
>> Subject: Re: Can computers be conscious ? Re: Zombieopolis Thought 
>> Experiment 
>> 
>> 
>> Roger, 
>> 
>> If human consciousness comes from attached monads, as I think you have 
>> claimed, 
>> then why could not these monads attach to sufficiently complex computers 
>> as well. 
>> Richard 
>> 
>> On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Roger Clough wrote: 
>>> Hi John Clark 
>>> 
>>> Unless computers can deal with inextended objects such as 
>>> mind and experience, they cannot be conscious. 
>>> 
>>> Consciousness is direct experience, computers can only deal in descriptions 
>>> of experience. 
>>> 
>>> Everything that a computer does is, to my knowledge, at least 
>>> in principle 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, [email protected] 
>>> 10/7/2012 
>>> "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen 
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> Time: 2012-10-06, 13:56:30 
>>> Subject: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ?>>I'm openly saying that a high school kid can make a robot that behaves 
>>> sensibly with just a few transistors.? ? 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Only because he lives in a universe in which the possibility of teleology 
>>>> is fully supported from the start. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> We know with absolute certainty that the laws of physics in this universe 
>>> allow for the creation of consciousness, we may not know how they do it but 
>>> we know for a fact that it can be done. So how on Earth does that indicate 
>>> that a conscious computer is not possible? Because it doesn't fart?? 
>>> 
>>> ? 
>>>> you have erroneously assumed that intelligence is possible without sense 
>>>> experience. 
>>> 
>>> No, I am assuming the exact OPPOSITE! In fact I'm not even assuming, I know 
>>> for a fact that intelligent behavior WITHOUT consciousness confers a 
>>> Evolutionary advantage, and I know for a fact that intelligent behavior 
>>> WITH consciousness confers no additional Evolutionary advantage (and if you 
>>> disagree with that point then you must believe that the Turing Test works 
>>> for consciousness too and not just intelligence). And in spite of all this 
>>> I know for a fact that Evolution DID produce consciousness at least once, 
>>> therefore the only conclusion is that consciousness is a byproduct of 
>>> intellagence. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Adenine and Thymine don't have purpose in seeking to bind with each other? 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I don't even know what a question like that means, who's purpose do you 
>>> expect Adenine and Thymine to serve? 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> How do you know? 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I know because I have intelligence and Adenine and Thymine do not know 
>>> because they have none, they only have cause and effect. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> How is it different from our purpose in staying in close proximity to 
>>>> places to eat and sleep? 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> And to think that some people berated me for anthropomorphizing future 
>>> supercomputers and here you are ? anthropomorphizing simple chemicals. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>> Why is everything aware, why isn't everything not aware? 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Because then we wouldn't be aware of having this conversation. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> And we are aware of having this conversation because everything is aware, 
>>> except of course for computers. 
>>> ? 
>>> 
>>>>> Robots are something? 
>>> 
>>>> No, they aren't something. 
>>> 
>>> That is just a little too silly to argue. 
>>> 
>>> ? 
>>> 
>>>> Everything is awareness 
>>> 
>>> Are you certain, I thought everything is klogknee, or maybe its everything 
>>> is 42. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> evolution requires that something be alive to begin with. 
>>> 
>>> Evolution requires something that can reproduce itself, there is no 
>>> universally agreed on definition of "life" so if you want to say that 
>>> viruses and RNA strings and crystals and clay patterns and Von Neumann 
>>> Machines are alive I won't argue with you and will agree that Evolution 
>>> requires that something be alive to get started. 
>>> 
>>> ? John K Clark 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ? 
>>> 
>>> 
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