On 13 Jul 2011, at 20:21, meekerdb wrote:
On 7/13/2011 3:03 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 13 Jul 2011, at 10:28, Kim Jones wrote:
What does the pronoun its refer to in this sentence? The UD or
the universe? How can something be the result of a process going
through it? It has to exist
On 11 Jul 2011, at 19:56, meekerdb wrote:
On 7/10/2011 8:16 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
You confuse perhaps with Schmidhuber's position, or some digital
physicist (DP). But as I have explained many times here that this
position does not work. Computationalism or digital mechanism (DM)
is
Evgenii,
Why don't you make a course for dummies about this? (For example in
Second Life)
Because in the second life, the students already know that they are in
a virtual reality :)
It looks more difficult to explain this with first life inquirers.
But is it, really? Got the feeling
On 13 Jul 2011, at 01:49, Craig Weinberg wrote:
Not sure what you mean in either sentence. A plastic flower behaves
differently than a biological plant.
Sure. But they have not the same function.
They both decorate a vase. How do we know when we build a chip that
it's performing the same
You're misunderstanding what I meant by internal, I wasn't talking about
subjective interiority (qualia), but *only* about the physical processes in
the spatial interior of the cell. I am trying to first concentrate on
external behavioral issues that don't involve qualia at all, to see
You're misunderstanding what I meant by internal, I wasn't talking about
subjective interiority (qualia), but *only* about the physical processes in
the spatial interior of the cell. I am trying to first concentrate on
external behavioral issues that don't involve qualia at all, to see whether
Hi Terren
Apology for commenting your post with some delay.
On 06 Jul 2011, at 19:54, Terren Suydam wrote:
Hey Bruno,
Thanks for your comments... I'm a little clearer now on your stance on
consciousness and intelligence, I think. I have a few more questions
and concerns.
Regarding
The experience of seeing yellow might be, although its stability will
needs the global structure of all computations.
If you believe the contrary, you need to speculate on an unknown
physics.
I don't consider it an unknown physics, just a physics that doesn't
disqualify 1p phenomena. I don't get
What is a person? What can a person be but the continuos response of a wet
chemical neural network to exogenous and endogenous inputs. The response will
be modified by changes in the networks chemical environment, and now we learn
by strong external pulsed magnetic fields. In a series of
But a person also makes changes to their chemical network by
exercising their will out of purely semantic conscious intent, having
no biochemical rationale or specific neurogeographical constraint. You
don't have to get from one part of your brain to another part to think
about something else,
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