On Jul 8, 12:59 am, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote:
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 10:12:45PM -0700, meekerdb wrote:
One that happens to be incompatible with
theory that our minds are computer programs.
Can you explain that? It seems to be Bruno's central claim, but so
far as I
On Jul 8, 5:53 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
On 08 Jul 2011, at 02:35, meekerdb wrote:
On 7/7/2011 4:59 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 10:12:45PM -0700, meekerdb wrote:
One that happens to be incompatible with
theory that our minds are computer
On Jul 6, 12:44 pm, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote:
Constantine, this is a rather trollish comment coming from an ignorant
position.
Let me put the following gedanken experiment - consider the
possibility that T. Rex might be either green or blue creatures, and
that either
On 20 Jul 2011, at 15:21, 1Z wrote:
On Jul 8, 5:53 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
On 08 Jul 2011, at 02:35, meekerdb wrote:
On 7/7/2011 4:59 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 10:12:45PM -0700, meekerdb wrote:
One that happens to be incompatible with
Bruno:
You may be correct that it is only an intellectual exercise. How many
lines of LISP code comprises the UD?
I may have been infomally exposed to LISP in college, but that was
decades ago.
Ronald
On Jul 20, 5:01 am, Bruno Marchal
What does consciousness require?
On Jul 20, 3:07 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
On 7/20/2011 11:40 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
Chickens can walk around for a while without a head also. It doesn't
mean that air is a viable substitute for a head, and it doesn't mean
that the head
On 7/20/2011 2:59 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
What does consciousness require?
Interaction with the world. Information processing. Memory. A point
of view; i.e. model of the world including self. Purpose/values.
Brent
On Jul 20, 3:07 pm, meekerdbmeeke...@verizon.net wrote:
On
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote:
Chickens can walk around for a while without a head also. It doesn't
mean that air is a viable substitute for a head, and it doesn't mean
that the head isn't producing a different quality of awareness than it
does
Sounds like a fancy cash register to me.
On Jul 20, 6:14 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
On 7/20/2011 2:59 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
What does consciousness require?
Interaction with the world. Information processing. Memory. A point
of view; i.e. model of the world including
Since it's not possible to know what the point of view of biological
neurons would be, we can't rule out the contents of the cell. You
can't presume to know that behavior is independent of context. If you
consider the opposite scenario, at what point do you consider a
microelectronic configuration
Or, imagine you were to replace a city with empty cars that drive the
streets following sophisticated models of urban traffic. Is a group of
empty buildings that produce empty cars which drive around the streets
convincingly a city?
On Jul 20, 6:58 pm, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com
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