Re: Re: Subjectivity is no longer a dirty word! A nice video discussingthe dual aspect theory

2012-10-06 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal

I understand that comp does not include subjectivity, 
but that's just explicitly. Perhaps something can be made of the 
results, like extract energy (structure, which I take to be an
essential of consciousness) from the results. Hmmm.
That would be a numerical caclulation.  Could you be wrong ?  


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Hi Richard, Stephen, Roger, 

Dual aspect theories are plausibly incompatible with comp. In that  
sense Craig is more coherent, but Stephen, and Chalmers, seems not.  
They avoid the comp necessary reformulation of the mind-body problem.  
It is still Aristotle theory variants, unaware of the first person  
indeterminacy. 
It might be compatible with comp, but then this asks for a non trivial  
derivation, and some conspiracy of the numbers. 

Bruno 


On 05 Oct 2012, at 13:15, Richard Ruquist wrote: 

 Along the theme of a dual-aspect theory of reality, 
 I recommend the book 
 Mind and Cosmos:Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of 
 Nature Is Almost Certainly False by Nagel, Thomas. 
 It actually has little to do with Darwin but rather discusses how 
 consciousness, cognition, etc. cannot not be explained by materialism. 
 Richard 
 
 
 On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Roger Clough   
 wrote: 
 Hi Stephen P. King 
 
 Many thanks, Stephan ! 
 
 I should have known it before, but 
 double-aspect and/or dual-aspect theories 
 of mind aren't afraid of using the word 
 subjectivity. 
 
 Now all they have to do is find out 
 who or what is the subjectr of subjectivity ! 
 
 
 
 
 Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 
 10/5/2012 
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Re: Subjectivity is no longer a dirty word! A nice video discussingthe dual aspect theory

2012-10-06 Thread Bruno Marchal

Hi Roger Clough,


On 06 Oct 2012, at 12:46, Roger Clough wrote:


Hi Bruno Marchal

I understand that comp does not include subjectivity,
but that's just explicitly.


?

Comp is defined by the invariance of subjectivity for some transforms,  
so it includes subjectivity at the start.
And, in the conclusion, it gives to subjectivity and consciousness the  
quasi primary goal for everything, except the numbers that we, and all  
scientists, have to postulate initially.


I have no clue why you think that comp does not include subjectivity.  
Comp is the theological believe in the possibility in a form of  
technological reincarnation. This assumes subjectivity and persons in  
an important way.


The consequence is that you survive anyway, and that dying is no  
more logically possible or even meaningfull, but that is in the  
consequence. I don't know if it is true, but the whole theory (comp)  
is testable, as physics is entirely retrievable in comp (and up to  
now, it gives the correct quantum logic).






Perhaps something can be made of the
results, like extract energy (structure, which I take to be an
essential of consciousness) from the results. Hmmm.
That would be a numerical caclulation.  Could you be wrong ?


Sure. Comp can be wrong, and my argument can be wrong too, but then  
the argument is precise enough so that you if you assert that it is  
wrong, you have to find where (if enough polite 'course).




Perhaps mind, like Maxwell's Demon, makes sense of
raw experience. Finds structure or whatever. That's
called Secondness.



Yes. That is what all universal systems do all the time, almost  
everywhere, in arithmetic. They build sense from patterns, in a  
variated inexhaustible number of manner, and this by participating  
simultaneously to infinities of computations (that is special number  
relations).



I wonder if something like this, used as a (Secondness) filter on  
the (Firstness)

output of comp , could provide (Thirdness) structured consciousness.


It is not entirely meaningless, but it still assumes Aristotle, and  
does not really approach the question in philosophy of mind/matter. It  
assumes the basic Aristotelian metaphysics which I argue to be  
logically incompatible with comp.


There is not output to comp, as comp is not a program or a machine,  
but a theory, which just postulates that your subjective life is  
invariant for a a digital change made at some description level of  
your brain or body. The consequence is that the brain and your body  
are emergent relative patterns in arithmetic. It makes the whole  
physics a branch of the theology of numbers, itself part of arithmetic.


Comp is just the assumption that we are machine. It is the favorite  
hypothesis of the materialist, which are understandably not happy with  
the result which is that comp is incompatible with even very weak  
version of materialism (the belief in the existence of Matter or  
primary matter and that is a relation with the matter we can observe).


COMP+ WEAK-MATERIALISM == 0 = 1.

To be sure, COMP is still compatible, logically, with the existence of  
primary matter as an epinoumenon (that is a Matter not related to  
anything we can subjectively observe).


Assuming comp things should be like that:

NUMBER === CONSCIOUSNESS  MATTER


IMHO mind is constructive mathematics,
creating meaningful structures from raw experience.


That intuition is confirmed by the math of comp + the classical theory  
of knowledge (Plato, Theaetetus, ...): the third hypostase (Bp  p)  
describe a constructivist intuitionist subject close to Brouwer theory  
of consciousness. Indeed. Like the logic of matter justifies quantum  
logic (without assuming anything physical).


Bruno






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Hi Richard, Stephen, Roger,

Dual aspect theories are plausibly incompatible with comp. In that
sense Craig is more coherent, but Stephen, and Chalmers, seems not.
They avoid the comp necessary reformulation of the mind-body problem.
It is still Aristotle theory variants, unaware of the first person
indeterminacy.
It might be compatible with comp, but then this asks for a non trivial
derivation, and some conspiracy of the numbers.

Bruno


On 05 Oct 2012, at 13:15, Richard Ruquist wrote:


Along the theme of a dual-aspect theory of reality,
I recommend the book
Mind and Cosmos:Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of
Nature Is Almost Certainly False by Nagel, Thomas.
It actually has little to do with Darwin but rather discusses how
consciousness, cognition, etc. cannot not be explained by  
materialism.

Richard


On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Roger Clough
wrote:

Hi Stephen P. King


Re: Re: Subjectivity is no longer a dirty word! A nice video discussingthe dual aspect theory

2012-10-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist  

I appreciate your suggestion, but I am already convinced, 
and have other sources besides that. 

What I'm looking for is a book which gives the central 
mechanism of  abiogenesis, the production of living
matter from nonliving matter. If indded there is
such a thing.


Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 
10/5/2012  
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Subject: Re: Subjectivity is no longer a dirty word! A nice video discussingthe 
dual aspect theory 


Along the theme of a dual-aspect theory of reality, 
I recommend the book 
Mind and Cosmos:Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of 
Nature Is Almost Certainly False by Nagel, Thomas. 
It actually has little to do with Darwin but rather discusses how 
consciousness, cognition, etc. cannot not be explained by materialism. 
Richard 


On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Roger Clough  wrote: 
 Hi Stephen P. King 
 
 Many thanks, Stephan ! 
 
 I should have known it before, but 
 double-aspect and/or dual-aspect theories 
 of mind aren't afraid of using the word 
 subjectivity. 
 
 Now all they have to do is find out 
 who or what is the subjectr of subjectivity ! 
 
 
 
 
 Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 
 10/5/2012 
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Re: Re: Subjectivity is no longer a dirty word! A nice video discussingthe dual aspect theory

2012-10-05 Thread lennartn
I recommend: Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged From Matter by
Terrence Deacon, a professor of neuroscience and anthropology at the
University of California, Berkeley

LN

On Fri, 5 Oct 2012 07:33:53 -0400, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net
wrote:
 Hi Richard Ruquist  
 
 I appreciate your suggestion, but I am already convinced, 
 and have other sources besides that. 
 
 What I'm looking for is a book which gives the central 
 mechanism of  abiogenesis, the production of living
 matter from nonliving matter. If indded there is
 such a thing.
 
 
 Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 
 10/5/2012  
 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen 
 
 
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 Along the theme of a dual-aspect theory of reality, 
 I recommend the book 
 Mind and Cosmos:Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of 
 Nature Is Almost Certainly False by Nagel, Thomas. 
 It actually has little to do with Darwin but rather discusses how 
 consciousness, cognition, etc. cannot not be explained by materialism. 
 Richard 
 
 
 On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Roger Clough  wrote: 
 Hi Stephen P. King

 Many thanks, Stephan !

 I should have known it before, but
 double-aspect and/or dual-aspect theories
 of mind aren't afraid of using the word
 subjectivity.

 Now all they have to do is find out
 who or what is the subjectr of subjectivity !




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Re: Subjectivity is no longer a dirty word! A nice video discussingthe dual aspect theory

2012-10-05 Thread Bruno Marchal


On 05 Oct 2012, at 13:33, Roger Clough wrote:


Hi Richard Ruquist

I appreciate your suggestion, but I am already convinced,
and have other sources besides that.

What I'm looking for is a book which gives the central
mechanism of  abiogenesis, the production of living
matter from nonliving matter. If indded there is
such a thing.


Mind emerges from numbers (or from the combinators, etc.).

Matter emerge from mind.

Comp explains completely why it looks the contrary locally.

Comp might be false, but as matter emerges from mind in a precise way,  
comp (I survive through machine substitution at some level) is made  
refutable.


Bruno






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Along the theme of a dual-aspect theory of reality,
I recommend the book
Mind and Cosmos:Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of
Nature Is Almost Certainly False by Nagel, Thomas.
It actually has little to do with Darwin but rather discusses how
consciousness, cognition, etc. cannot not be explained by materialism.
Richard


On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Roger Clough  wrote:

Hi Stephen P. King

Many thanks, Stephan !

I should have known it before, but
double-aspect and/or dual-aspect theories
of mind aren't afraid of using the word
subjectivity.

Now all they have to do is find out
who or what is the subjectr of subjectivity !




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Re: Subjectivity is no longer a dirty word! A nice video discussingthe dual aspect theory

2012-10-05 Thread Richard Ruquist
Deacon's 600 page book
(http://www.amazon.com/Incomplete-Nature-Mind-Emerged-Matter/dp/0393049914)
flushes out the philosophical outlines of Nagel's much shorter book
(http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Cosmos-Materialist-Neo-Darwinian-Conception).

I found a fairly complete summary of Deacon's book on how life emerges
from non-living matter. (Actually Deacon just presents a teleological
systems analysis of how that could happen). But regarding a
dual-aspect theory, here is a relevant paragraph from that summary
(http://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/3/3/290/htm):

The Cartesian dualism that Deacon criticizes is substance dualism,
the notion that there are two kinds of substance of which the world is
constructed, namely physical substance (res extensa) and mental
substance (res cogitans), the latter of which in Descartes systems
includes God and soul. Deacon’s system is actually one of property
dualism in which there is just one kind of substance but there exist
two distinct kinds of properties, physical and biological the latter
of which also includes sentience and mind or in Deacon’s terminology
physical and ententional. Physical properties are described by
thermodynamics and morphodynamics whereas ententional properties are
described by teleodynamics, which in turn depend on morphodynamics and
thermodynamics.

Deacon's one kind of substance is physical substance. But it seems
that such a systems approach may be of value no matter (pun) what the
substance is or even if there is more than one kind of substance.
Deacon presents mechanisms that could be a guide for emergent
processes in living systems that could apply to physical matter or
even to monads or mind structures from numbers.
Richard

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:

 On 05 Oct 2012, at 13:33, Roger Clough wrote:

 Hi Richard Ruquist

 I appreciate your suggestion, but I am already convinced,
 and have other sources besides that.

 What I'm looking for is a book which gives the central
 mechanism of  abiogenesis, the production of living
 matter from nonliving matter. If indded there is
 such a thing.


 Mind emerges from numbers (or from the combinators, etc.).

 Matter emerge from mind.

 Comp explains completely why it looks the contrary locally.

 Comp might be false, but as matter emerges from mind in a precise way, comp
 (I survive through machine substitution at some level) is made refutable.

 Bruno






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 Along the theme of a dual-aspect theory of reality,
 I recommend the book
 Mind and Cosmos:Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of
 Nature Is Almost Certainly False by Nagel, Thomas.
 It actually has little to do with Darwin but rather discusses how
 consciousness, cognition, etc. cannot not be explained by materialism.
 Richard


 On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Roger Clough  wrote:

 Hi Stephen P. King

 Many thanks, Stephan !

 I should have known it before, but
 double-aspect and/or dual-aspect theories
 of mind aren't afraid of using the word
 subjectivity.

 Now all they have to do is find out
 who or what is the subjectr of subjectivity !




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Re: Subjectivity is no longer a dirty word! A nice video discussingthe dual aspect theory

2012-10-05 Thread Stephen P. King

On 10/5/2012 2:22 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote:

Deacon's 600 page book
(http://www.amazon.com/Incomplete-Nature-Mind-Emerged-Matter/dp/0393049914)
flushes out the philosophical outlines of Nagel's much shorter book
(http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Cosmos-Materialist-Neo-Darwinian-Conception).

I found a fairly complete summary of Deacon's book on how life emerges
from non-living matter. (Actually Deacon just presents a teleological
systems analysis of how that could happen). But regarding a
dual-aspect theory, here is a relevant paragraph from that summary
(http://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/3/3/290/htm):

The Cartesian dualism that Deacon criticizes is substance dualism,
the notion that there are two kinds of substance of which the world is
constructed, namely physical substance (res extensa) and mental
substance (res cogitans), the latter of which in Descartes systems
includes God and soul. Deacon’s system is actually one of property
dualism in which there is just one kind of substance but there exist
two distinct kinds of properties, physical and biological the latter
of which also includes sentience and mind or in Deacon’s terminology
physical and ententional. Physical properties are described by
thermodynamics and morphodynamics whereas ententional properties are
described by teleodynamics, which in turn depend on morphodynamics and
thermodynamics.

Deacon's one kind of substance is physical substance. But it seems
that such a systems approach may be of value no matter (pun) what the
substance is or even if there is more than one kind of substance.
Deacon presents mechanisms that could be a guide for emergent
processes in living systems that could apply to physical matter or
even to monads or mind structures from numbers.
Richard



Hi Richard,

Nice post! I would only add that the emergence must not be a 
special singular event, it must be an ubiquitous process!


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Re: Re: Subjectivity is no longer a dirty word! A nice video discussingthe dual aspect theory

2012-10-05 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 07:33:53AM -0400, Roger Clough wrote:
 Hi Richard Ruquist  
 
 I appreciate your suggestion, but I am already convinced, 
 and have other sources besides that. 
 
 What I'm looking for is a book which gives the central 
 mechanism of  abiogenesis, the production of living
 matter from nonliving matter. If indded there is
 such a thing.
 
 

I doubt there would be any one book on this. It is a field of great
interest, not only to biologists, but also ALife people, who are
approaching the problem from the opposite direction. Usually,
there will be a smattering of papers in ALife conferences dealing with
the abiogenisis problem. Most of the more recent ALife conference
proceedings are available outside of a paywall, so you could browse
these to see if any papers take your interest.

Cheers


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Re: Subjectivity is no longer a dirty word! A nice video discussingthe dual aspect theory

2012-10-05 Thread meekerdb

On 10/5/2012 5:15 PM, Russell Standish wrote:

On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 07:33:53AM -0400, Roger Clough wrote:

  Hi Richard Ruquist
  
  I appreciate your suggestion, but I am already convinced,

  and have other sources besides that.
  
  What I'm looking for is a book which gives the central

  mechanism of  abiogenesis, the production of living
  matter from nonliving matter. If indded there is
  such a thing.


I suppose you've read the basics: Origins of Life by Freeman Dyson, The Origins of Life by 
John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary, Life's Origin ed. by William Schopf.


Brent

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