Re: Re: Is consciousness just an emergent property of overly complexcomputations ?

2012-10-17 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 6:33:15 AM UTC-4, rclough wrote: > > Hi Craig Weinberg > > By sense do you mean Firstness, Secondness or Thirdness? > Or all three as a process ? > > Using these as a guide: (from http://www.helsinki.fi/science/commens/terms/thirdness.html) Firstness is th

Re: Re: Is consciousness just an emergent property of overly complexcomputations ?

2012-10-17 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg By sense do you mean Firstness, Secondness or Thirdness? Or all three as a process ? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/17/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver

Re: Re: Is consciousness just an emergent property of overly complexcomputations ?

2012-10-16 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Magic emergence from magic enough complexity has been advocated for almost anything. Most of the time as an excuse for not saying "I don´t know", that is the prerequisite for thinking deeper about the problem. I prefer to say I don´t know. 2012/10/16 Roger Clough > Hi Stephen P. King > > Thank

Re: Re: Is consciousness just an emergent property of overly complexcomputations ?

2012-10-16 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King This may have little connection to what you said, but in one of Brain Greene's talks (on time) he made mention that the subjective state, the experiential state, always just experiences "now." Similarly calculations flow in time as they are made, and the one being made is ma

Re: Re: Is consciousness just an emergent property of overly complexcomputations ?

2012-10-16 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King Thanks. My mistake was to say that P's position is that consciousness, arises at (or above ?) the level of noncomputability. He just seems to say that intuiton does. But that just seems to be a conjecture of his. ugh, rclo...@verizon.net 10/16/2012 "Forever is a long time

Re: Re: Is consciousness just an emergent property of overly complexcomputations ?

2012-10-16 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg You said, " Computation is an overly simplified emergent property of sense. If you could have computation without sense, then there would be no consciousness." That sounds potent, I'm but not sure what it means. Could you expand on it a little ? Roger Clough, rclo...@veri

Re: Re: Is consciousness just an emergent property of overly complexcomputations ?

2012-10-16 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist I'm well aware of that, except you don't need Godel to reach an impossibly complex state of calculations. My own position is that if you can't calculate upward any more, you calculate downward. From Platonia, except that you begin to use the forms, numbers, reason, all of t