Re: The Meaning of Life

2007-03-23 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
This study recent published in Nature suggests not only a neural basis for morality, but a specific neural basis for a specific kind of morality: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nature05631.html

Re: Janus [was Evidence for the simulation argument ]

2007-03-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
Mark, I appreciate your post, and I take any feeling, that what is said here is incompatible with the computationalist hypothesis, as a misunderstanding of what comp could be, or as an absence of knowledge of how computer science and mathematical logic force us to revise our opinion on

Re: Believing ...

2007-03-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 21-mars-07, à 22:18, John Mikes a écrit : Academic - tenure - even Nobel type conventional science is rfeductionistic in this sense.. I agree: SCIENCE should be as you identified it. Thanks for telling. I thought, a bit naively perhaps, that after Descartes and Popper, say, it was

Re: Believing ...

2007-03-23 Thread John M
Bruno, those 'idealistic' definitions from Leibnitz and Descartes are not experienced in - - what is called usually as science. Look at the Laws of physics, does engineering doubt them? The statements of 'logic', arithmetic, etc. etc. are all believed as FIRM laws. Now that is what I call