On 10/21/2011 1:05 AM, Russell Standish wrote:
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 08:00:55PM -0400, Stephen P. King wrote:
There has to be some form of identity thesis between brain and mind
that prevents the Occam catastrophe, and also prevent the full retreat
into solipsism. I think it very much an open
Hi John,
I was not thinking of truth in any absolute sense. I'm not even
sure what that concept means... I was just considering the definiteness
of the so-called truth value that one associates with Boolean logic, as
in it has a range {0,1). There are logics where this can vary over the
On 10/20/2011 11:12 PM, meekerdb wrote:
On 10/20/2011 7:20 PM, nihil0 wrote:
I think most consequentialists, especially utilitarians, consider all
sentient beings to have moral status.
But *equal* moral status? I cannot believe anyone has ever even
attempted to live by such an ethic.
On 19 Oct 2011, at 05:30, Russell Standish wrote:
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 07:03:38PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote:
This, ISTM, is a completely different, and more wonderful beast,
than
the UD described in your Brussells thesis, or Schmidhuber's '97
paper. This latter beast must truly give
On 20 Oct 2011, at 20:46, meekerdb wrote:
On 10/20/2011 11:23 AM, nihil0 wrote:
Hi,
Here is the abstract of Bostrom's Infinitarian Challenge to
Aggregative Ethics
Aggregative consequentialism and several other popular moral theories
are threatened with paralysis: when coupled with some
On 10/21/2011 8:14 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 19 Oct 2011, at 05:30, Russell Standish wrote:
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 07:03:38PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote:
This, ISTM, is a completely different, and more wonderful beast, than
the UD described in your Brussells thesis, or Schmidhuber's '97
On 10/21/2011 8:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 20 Oct 2011, at 20:46, meekerdb wrote:
On 10/20/2011 11:23 AM, nihil0 wrote:
Hi,
Here is the abstract of Bostrom's Infinitarian Challenge to
Aggregative Ethics
Aggregative consequentialism and several other popular moral theories
are
On 10/21/2011 4:09 PM, John Mikes wrote:
*Hi Stephen,*
*it seems you are closing to 'my alley'. *
*First: if you don't think of T R U T H (in any absolute sense,
meaning it's acceptable 'meaning') how can you abide by a version of
it? - What are the REALS? *
Hi John,
I have yet to
On Oct 21, 11:42 am, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.com wrote:
Somehow I am bored by this discussion. I'll still post my reply (as I have
already written it), in case you are interested. I am unlikely to continue
the dicussion, though, so don't bother responding, unless you really want
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