Re: Maudlin How many times does COMP have to be false before its false?

2011-02-23 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:32 PM, 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote: On Feb 18, 3:06 pm, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:15 AM, 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote: On Feb 18, 5:30 am, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: Peter, Correct me if I am

Re: Observers Class Hypothesis

2011-02-23 Thread stephenk
Hi! On Feb 22, 12:22 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 22 Feb 2011, at 07:58, Russell Standish wrote: snip When observing data, it is important that observers are relatively insensitive to error. It does not help to not recognise a lion in the African savannah, just because

Re: Maudlin How many times does COMP have to be false before its false?

2011-02-23 Thread benjayk
1Z wrote: On Feb 18, 3:07 pm, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.com wrote: 1Z wrote: On Feb 17, 8:52 pm, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.com wrote: 1Z wrote: On Feb 17, 6:14 pm, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.com wrote: 1Z wrote: On Feb 17, 3:10 pm, benjayk

Re: Platonia

2011-02-23 Thread benjayk
Bruno Marchal wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: Brent Meeker-2 wrote: The easy way is to assume inconsistent descriptions are merely an arbitrary combination of symbols that fail to describe something in particular and thus have only the content that every utterance has by virtue of

Re: Maudlin How many times does COMP have to be false before its false?

2011-02-23 Thread benjayk
1Z wrote: On Feb 18, 4:00 pm, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.com wrote: 1Z wrote: On Feb 17, 10:38 pm, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.com wrote: Brent Meeker-2 wrote: On 2/17/2011 12:27 PM, benjayk wrote: Brent Meeker-2 wrote: On 2/17/2011 10:14 AM, benjayk

Re: How embryogenesis fits in the mind-body problem?

2011-02-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Feb 2011, at 19:53, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Thank you for your answers. I have still a coupled of questions. But with computer science, intuition can be misleading. Intuition could be misleading not only in computer science. I know. Moreover my first person view assumes that there are

To extract physics, you need only the self-referential invariant?

2011-02-23 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, Could you explain this a bit more? “The ideally correct machine is to the human what a material point is to the sun. My answer tries only to help you to understand what I mean by a knowing machine, not really a knowing human. Human have non-monotonic layers, they can

Re: Maudlin How many times does COMP have to be false before its false?

2011-02-23 Thread 1Z
On Feb 23, 4:10 pm, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.com wrote: 1Z wrote: On Feb 18, 3:07 pm, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.com wrote: 1Z wrote: On Feb 17, 8:52 pm, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.com wrote: 1Z wrote: On Feb 17, 6:14 pm, benjayk

Re: Maudlin How many times does COMP have to be false before its false?

2011-02-23 Thread 1Z
On Feb 23, 4:10 pm, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.com wrote: 1Z wrote: Then God does not exist as an actor in the world, but God does still exists as an idea.   1Z wrote: 1Z wrote: something existing or simply existence exists, if it is meaningful to use the word not,

Re: Maudlin How many times does COMP have to be false before its false?

2011-02-23 Thread 1Z
On Feb 23, 3:02 pm, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:32 PM, 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote: On Feb 18, 3:06 pm, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:15 AM, 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote: On Feb 18, 5:30 am, Jason Resch

Re: Platonia

2011-02-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Feb 2011, at 22:14, benjayk wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: Now, just recall that Platonia is based on classical logic where the falsity f, or 0 = 1, entails all proposition. So if you insist to say that 0 = 1, I will soon prove that you owe to me A billions

Re: How embryogenesis fits in the mind-body problem?

2011-02-23 Thread Dick Gordon
Dear Evgenii Bruno, Half tongue in cheek, in: Tuszynski, J.A. R. Gordon (2008). A mean field Ising model for cortical rotation in amphibian one cell stage embryos. In. Eds. Toronto, Society for Mathematical Biology Conference, July 30 - August 2, 2008. I used the following reasoning: IF

Re: Platonia

2011-02-23 Thread 1Z
On Feb 23, 9:46 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 22 Feb 2011, at 22:14, benjayk wrote: Molecules and Cells are formal things. Form is matter, in *some*   sense. Form is not *primary* matter in any sense. People having problem with numbers have been victim of a traumatic