Re: The ASSA leads to a unique utilitarism

2007-10-04 Thread marc . geddes
On Oct 3, 12:23 pm, Russell Standish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that beauty is effectively a channel from our unconscious. When we think that something is beautiful (or conversely ugly), some unconscious processing has taken place according to some criterion and presented to the

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2007-10-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi George, Le 03-oct.-07, à 01:52, George Levy a écrit : Hi Bruno, Yes I am still on the list, barely trying to keep up, but I have been very busy. Actually the ball was in my court and I was supposed to answer to your last post to me about a year ago!!!. Generally I agree with you

Re: The ASSA leads to a unique utilitarism

2007-10-04 Thread Wei Dai
Youness Ayaita wrote: Directly speaking: Since all observers must expect to get their next observer moments out of the same ensemble of observer moments, there is no reason to insist on different preferences. Youness, ASSA does not mean what you think, that all observers must expect to get

Re: The ASSA leads to a unique utilitarism

2007-10-04 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 06:11:32PM -0700, Wei Dai wrote: Youness Ayaita wrote: Directly speaking: Since all observers must expect to get their next observer moments out of the same ensemble of observer moments, there is no reason to insist on different preferences. Youness, ASSA does