Re: COMP refutation paper - finally out

2011-08-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Aug 2011, at 17:27, benjayk wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: On 15 Aug 2011, at 20:50, benjayk wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: All I can say to the debate whether your TOE is dependent on consciousness is that it may not assume consciousness, but this doesn't

Re: Unconscious Components

2011-08-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Aug 2011, at 06:47, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Aug 16, 1:49 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 16 Aug 2011, at 05:55, Craig Weinberg wrote: Can you give me an example that supports this? We're embedded in a reality whether we like it or not. I'm saying that the more similar

Re: question for Bruno

2011-08-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hello Terren, On 18 Aug 2011, at 03:52, Terren Suydam wrote: Hey Bruno, Given a machine's inability to prove its own consistency, OK. That is Gödel's second incompleteness theorem. and how this result gives rise to the many logical distinctions that map to the hypostases (per Plotinus)

Re: Turing Machines

2011-08-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Aug 2011, at 19:49, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 17.08.2011 02:01 Jason Resch said the following: On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Evgenii Rudnyiuse...@rudnyi.ru wrote: On 15.08.2011 23:42 Jason Resch said the following: ... But all of this is an aside from point that I was making

Re: Turing Machines

2011-08-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Aug 2011, at 20:07, meekerdb wrote: On 8/17/2011 10:36 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 16.08.2011 20:47 meekerdb said the following: On 8/16/2011 11:03 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Yes, this is why in my first post, I said consider God's Turing machine (free from our limitations). Then it

Re: Automated serial sectioning of brains

2011-08-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Stephen, On 17 Aug 2011, at 16:08, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi, Recently a link was referenced that discussed how serial sectioning of brains is being automated: http://www.mcb.harvard.edu/lichtman/ATLUM/ATLUM_web.htm I have a question about this. Will this technology yield a model

Re: bruno list

2011-08-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Aug 2011, at 13:49, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: You miss my point. the brain is not replaced. It is just not functionning at all. The cosmic rays supplies only the motor control ouputs. It is much less

Re: Automated serial sectioning of brains

2011-08-18 Thread Stephen P. King
On 8/18/2011 10:31 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi Stephen, On 17 Aug 2011, at 16:08, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi, Recently a link was referenced that discussed how serial sectioning of brains is being automated: http://www.mcb.harvard.edu/lichtman/ATLUM/ATLUM_web.htm I have a question

Re: Automated serial sectioning of brains

2011-08-18 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote: On 8/18/2011 10:31 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi Stephen, On 17 Aug 2011, at 16:08, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi, Recently a link was referenced that discussed how serial sectioning of brains is being automated:

Re: Turing Machines

2011-08-18 Thread meekerdb
On 8/18/2011 7:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I agree with that sentiment. That's why I often try to think of consciousness in terms of what it would mean to provide a Mars Rover with consciousness. According to Bruno the ones we've sent to Mars were already conscious, since their computers

Re: Automated serial sectioning of brains

2011-08-18 Thread meekerdb
On 8/18/2011 8:26 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 8/18/2011 10:31 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi Stephen, On 17 Aug 2011, at 16:08, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi, Recently a link was referenced that discussed how serial sectioning of brains is being automated:

Re: Turing Machines

2011-08-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Aug 2011, at 19:05, meekerdb wrote: On 8/18/2011 7:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I agree with that sentiment. That's why I often try to think of consciousness in terms of what it would mean to provide a Mars Rover with consciousness. According to Bruno the ones we've sent to Mars

Re: Turing Machines

2011-08-18 Thread meekerdb
On 8/18/2011 10:50 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 18 Aug 2011, at 19:05, meekerdb wrote: On 8/18/2011 7:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I agree with that sentiment. That's why I often try to think of consciousness in terms of what it would mean to provide a Mars Rover with consciousness.

Re: Automated serial sectioning of brains

2011-08-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Stephen, On 18 Aug 2011, at 17:26, Stephen P. King wrote: On 8/18/2011 10:31 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi Stephen, On 17 Aug 2011, at 16:08, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi, Recently a link was referenced that discussed how serial sectioning of brains is being automated:

Re: COMP refutation paper - finally out

2011-08-18 Thread benjayk
Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Aug 2011, at 17:27, benjayk wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: On 15 Aug 2011, at 20:50, benjayk wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: All I can say to the debate whether your TOE is dependent on consciousness is that it may not assume

Re: Automated serial sectioning of brains

2011-08-18 Thread Stephen P. King
On 8/18/2011 1:40 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 8/18/2011 8:26 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 8/18/2011 10:31 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi Stephen, On 17 Aug 2011, at 16:08, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi, Recently a link was referenced that discussed how serial sectioning of brains is being

Re: Automated serial sectioning of brains

2011-08-18 Thread meekerdb
On 8/18/2011 11:30 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 8/18/2011 1:40 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 8/18/2011 8:26 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 8/18/2011 10:31 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi Stephen, On 17 Aug 2011, at 16:08, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi, Recently a link was referenced that discussed

Re: bruno list

2011-08-18 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: Good, so you agree that the idea of a partial zombie is absurd! So do you now have an alternative explanation for what would happen if a fuctionally identical part were substituted into your visual cortex, where

Re: bruno list

2011-08-18 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru wrote: I'm not saying we shouldn't do science, just that we can't be *sure* that something which behaves as if it's conscious is actually conscious. A thermostat may have a primitive consciousness or it might not; I don't know.

Re: bruno list

2011-08-18 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru wrote: I'm not saying we shouldn't do science, just that we can't be *sure* that something which behaves as if it's conscious is actually

Re: bruno list

2011-08-18 Thread meekerdb
On 8/18/2011 8:12 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Evgenii Rudnyiuse...@rudnyi.ru wrote: I'm not saying we shouldn't do science, just that we can't be *sure* that something which behaves as if it's conscious is actually conscious. A thermostat may have a