From: Adam A. Ford
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 7:30 PM
To: Wei Dai
Subject: H+ Summit @Melbourne 25-26th of June 2011 (Australia)
Hi Wei Dai,
I saw your everything list, and wanted to post an event there, but I am not a
member, and even if I became one would just be a newbie.
So if you feel l
Hi guys,
Time travel is actually possible, as long as you are consistent (i.e.
Novikov self-consistency principle). Please consider the argument for
it, beginning at:
http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/hr4x2/physicists_what_do_you_think_of_the_following/
Continue the discussion there a
Hi everything-list guys, does anyone have any suggestions for our
friend Pete down here? He is eager to learn physics!
Contact him directly if you have any suggestions.
Stephen
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From: Felix Hoenikker
Date: Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: Physics
To
Hi,
JoMC is relatively new. My own institution (Unimelb) doesn't
subscribe the Journal is very specialized as well
The ISI search engine won't see it either. It takes time for the
journals to earn enough cred to get visible and accessible... even the
Journal of Consciousness Studies has
Dear Bruno,
I agree with your assessment of that Wiki article. In most universities the
prevalent ontological doctrine is “dialectical materialism” and such has no
allowance for any competition in the realm of ideas. I have pointed out that
your result is similar to solipsism but never as a
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 08:31:35PM -0400, Stephen Paul King wrote:
> Hi Russell,
>
>I would like to be sure that I understand your point here. Would
> you say that "true determinism", as opposed to "true indeterminism",
> requires one-to-one mappings between any two adjoining links in the
> ca
Self aware in what sense?
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Felix Hoenikker wrote:
> Sorry again, but I want to add one thing:
>
> The broadest mathematical closure of "the existence of computation",
> "the observation of consciousness anywhere" suggests the following, in
> my mind: all possible nu
On 07 Jun 2011, at 16:32, Jason Resch wrote:
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Bruno Marchal
wrote:
On 07 Jun 2011, at 04:00, Jason Resch wrote:
I guess you mean some sort of "spiritualism" for immaterialism,
which is a consequence of comp (+ some Occam). Especially that you
already d
Even an affiliation doesn't seem to help.
Brent
On 6/7/2011 1:49 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote:
Hi Colin,
Any chance that us non-university affiliated types can get a copy
of your paper?
Onward!
Stephen
-Original Message- From: Colin Hales
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 3:42 AM
To:
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Pete Hughes wrote:
> Jason,
>
> I found this compelling, are you saying that the difficulty of explaining
> qualia is due to the language centre of the brain being able to access only
> an abstract 'interface' (I'm a object oriented thinker) of the sensors? then
>
Dear Bruno,
From: Bruno Marchal
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 9:00 AM
To: everything-list@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Mathematical closure of consciousness and computation
Hi Stephen,
On 06 Jun 2011, at 05:27, Stephen Paul King wrote:
Hi Bruno, Rex and Friends,
My .002$...
[BM]
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>
> On 07 Jun 2011, at 04:00, Jason Resch wrote:
>
> I guess you mean some sort of "spiritualism" for immaterialism, which is a
> consequence of comp (+ some Occam). Especially that you already defend the
> idea that the computations are in (ar
On 07 Jun 2011, at 05:58, Richard Ruquist wrote:
Rex,
Is not what you attribute to Bruno just standard MWI (Many Worlds)
thinking?
Many Worlds usually assumes the existence of (a) physical world(s).
The point is that digital mechanism *entails* already a testable form
of many-worlds/man
On 07 Jun 2011, at 04:00, Jason Resch wrote:
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Rex Allen
wrote:
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Jason Resch
wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Rex Allen
wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Jason Resch
wrote:
>>> Perhaps so, perhaps there
On 07 Jun 2011, at 00:52, Rex Allen wrote:
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Russell Standish > wrote:
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 04:42:46PM -0400, Rex Allen wrote:
How can any of those questions be approached by conscious entities
in
a deterministic computational framework?
Everything you’ll
Hi Colin,
Any chance that us non-university affiliated types can get a copy of
your paper?
Onward!
Stephen
-Original Message-
From: Colin Hales
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 3:42 AM
To: everything-list@googlegroups.com
Subject: COMP refutation paper - finally out
Hi,
Hales, C.
Hi,
Hales, C. G. 'On the Status of Computationalism as a Law of Nature',
International Journal of Machine Consciousness vol. 3, no. 1, 2011. 1-35.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S1793843011000613
The paper has finally been published. Phew what an epic!
cheers
Colin
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