Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
Destroying your species runs counter to evolution.
That doesn't mean it can't happen - it only means you weren't the dominant
species.
I'll rephrase that: everything that happens in
nature is by definition in accordance with evolution, but those species that
Le 06-juil.-06, à 07:38, Norman Samish a écrit :
Anyway, all this is beside the point I wanted to make, which is that True Believers, whether Muslim, Christian, or heathen, cause harm, destruction or misfortune, and are therefore evil.
I am not so sure. Perhaps I am just over-optimistic but I
Le 06-juil.-06, à 21:49, Lennart Nilsson a écrit :
x-tad-biggerBruno;/x-tad-bigger
x-tad-biggerAccording to Cooper classical analysis is plain bad biology,
/x-tad-bigger
?
x-tad-biggerand not a matter of subjective judgement or philosophical preferens (such as taking atithmetical truth for
Le 06-juil.-06, à 23:32, 1Z a écrit :
Bruno Marchal wrote:
Remember that comp relies on arithmetical platonism.
Your version does. Computationalism is standardly
the thesis that cognition is computation.
Could you define or explain computation without believing that the
relations
Le 06-juil.-06, à 23:56, 1Z a écrit :
The Yes-Doctor scenario using Bruno-comp should really be
a case of saying yes to the proposal:
I'm just going to shoot you. I'm
not going to make the slightest effort to reconsitute you,
teleport you, computerise you, or anything else.
You already
I
see from your questionmarks that an idea like Coopers, that logic is a branch of biology (the subtitle of the book The
Evolution of reason) is out of bounds.
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Le 07-juil.-06, à 06:45, Lee Corbin a écrit :
Bruno writes
Actually I was about to say that nominal question are suggestive
(anybody can answer by principle of a mailing list), and nominal
question when thread interferes makes possible to send less
mails. But I agree here I miss
Bruno Marchal wrote:
Le 06-juil.-06, à 23:32, 1Z a écrit :
Bruno Marchal wrote:
Remember that comp relies on arithmetical platonism.
Your version does. Computationalism is standardly
the thesis that cognition is computation.
Could you define or explain computation without
Le 07-juil.-06, à 07:23, Tom Caylor a écrit :
Exercise: show that the functions from N to {0,1} are not enumerable,
by a similar proof. Hint: find the appropriate slight change in the
definition of g.
Change g to
g(n) = (Rn(n) + 1) mod 2
OK. other solution, change g to
g(n) = 1 -
Bruno Marchal wrote:
Le 06-juil.-06, à 07:38, Norman Samish a écrit :
Anyway, all this is beside the point I wanted to make, which is that
True Believers, whether Muslim, Christian, or heathen, cause harm,
destruction or misfortune, and are therefore evil.
I am not so sure. Perhaps
Hi Peter,
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Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 5:47 PM
Subject: Existence, individuation, instantiation
Stephen Paul King wrote:
Dear Quentin et al,
I keep reading this claim
Hi Peter,
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Subject: Re: Only Existence is necessary?
1Z wrote:
Remember that comp relies on arithmetical platonism.
Your version does.
Stephen Paul King wrote:
Hi Peter,
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Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 5:47 PM
Subject: Existence, individuation, instantiation
Stephen Paul King wrote:
Dear Quentin et
Dear George,
Could it be that Consciousness is more
related and identifiable with the "processing" of Information than with
Information itself? Consider the example often raised (I do not know the
original source) of a Book that contained a "complete description" of Einstein's
Brain. It
Hi Lee,
I am reminded of the old saw from the Westerns: This town is too small
for the both of us!
;-)
Could it be that consciousness is statistically Fermionic?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi-Dirac_statistics
Stephen
- Original Message -
From: Lee Corbin [EMAIL
Bruno:
I speculated about my problems why I follow your (and
others') expressions with difficulty. I was capable to
understand concepts in diverse sciences and now I have
to reflect about fitting 'comp', 'UDA', 'YesDoctor',
even 'arithmetical Plationism' etc. into the flowing
considerations.
Dear Lee and Bruno,
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From: Lee Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: everything-list@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 12:45 AM
Subject: RE: A calculus of personal identity
Bruno writes
Actually I was about to say that nominal question are suggestive
--- Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
FALSE Believers cause harm, destruction ... Faith is
not a problem,...
And who decides what is a 'false' belief? Do the
religious leaders of harm-doing 'believers' educate
them that their action is 'false'? Do the US
protestant leaders condemn
--- Stathis Papaioannou
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Destroying your species runs counter to evolution.
Stathis,
'evolution' does not follow good manners and may not
be chisled in stone, I for one identified it (in my
narrative) as the entire history of the unioverse from
its appearance till its
Hi Stephen
Stephen Paul King wrote:
Dear George,
Could it be that Consciousness is more
related and identifiable with the "processing" of Information than with
Information itself?
I agree that consciousness is not just information. As you say,
consciousness seems to be
Hi Stephen
Stephen Paul King wrote:
I would like to point out that you may have inadvertently veered into
the problem that I see in the Yes Doctor belief! It is entirely
unverifiable.
It is unverifiable from the 3rd person perspective. From the first
person perspective it is perfectly
George Levy wrote:
Hi Stephen
Stephen Paul King wrote:
Dear George,
Could it be that Consciousness is more related and identifiable
with the processing of Information than with Information itself?
I agree that consciousness is not just information. As you say,
consciousness
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