Re: Time and Concurrency Platonia?

2012-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Feb 2012, at 21:32, acw wrote: On 2/10/2012 13:54, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/9/2012 3:40 PM, acw wrote: [SPK] I do not see how this deals effectively with the concurrency problem! :-( Using the Platonia idea is a cheat as it is explicitly unphysical. But physics by itself does

Re: Intelligence and consciousness

2012-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2012, at 06:50, L.W. Sterritt wrote: I don't really understand this thread - magical thinking? The neural network between our ears is who / what we are, and everything that we will experience. If that was the case, we would not survive with an artificial brain. Comp would

Re: 1p 3p comparison

2012-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2012, at 01:01, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Feb 11, 3:51 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 11 Feb 2012, at 15:56, Craig Weinberg wrote: Dennett's Comp: Human 1p = 3p(3p(3p)) - What do you mean precisely by np(np) n = 1 or 3. ? I'm using 1p or 3p as names only, first

Re: The free will function

2012-02-12 Thread 1Z
On Feb 11, 8:33 pm, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 11, 12:01 pm, 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote: On Feb 11, 1:24 am, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not trying to convince anyone that I'm brilliant, I'm explaining why the popular ideas and

Re: The free will function

2012-02-12 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 11, 8:04 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/2/11 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com All computers are as dumb as anything could be. Any computer will run the same loop over and over forever if you program them to do that. It's not because you can program's them to

Re: The free will function

2012-02-12 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 12, 7:14 am, 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote: And not of you don't.. We have made a little progress here. You think computers are dumb because you think in terms of the hardware, and not in terms of the software, despite the fact that the latter can be of any degree of complexity.

Re: Truth values as dynamics?

2012-02-12 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/11/2012 5:15 PM, acw wrote: On 2/11/2012 05:49, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/9/2012 3:40 PM, acw wrote: I think the idea of Platonia is closer to the fact that if a sentence has a truth-value, it will have that truth value, regardless if you know it or not. Sure, but it is not just you

Re: COMP theology

2012-02-12 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/11/2012 5:09 PM, Joseph Knight wrote: On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net mailto:stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 2/11/2012 6:29 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Feb 2012, at 07:32, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi ACW, Thank you for

The Anthropic Trilemma - Less Wrong

2012-02-12 Thread Stephen P. King
Hi Folks, I would like to bring the following to your attention. I think that we do need to revisit this problem. http://lesswrong.com/lw/19d/the_anthropic_trilemma/ The Anthropic Trilemma http://lesswrong.com/lw/19d/the_anthropic_trilemma/ 21Eliezer_Yudkowsky

Re: 1p 3p comparison

2012-02-12 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 12, 6:54 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 12 Feb 2012, at 01:01, Craig Weinberg wrote: Dennett's Comp: Human 1p = 3p(3p(3p)) - What do you mean precisely by np(np) n = 1 or 3. ? I'm using 1p or 3p as names only, first person direct phenomenology or third person

Re: The free will function

2012-02-12 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: Apparently what's next is imagining that machines are people and people are machines. I certainly hope so. In the last 3 or 4 centuries we have gradually (too gradually for my taste) gotten away from the idea that

Re: Intelligence and consciousness

2012-02-12 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 2:13 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Not only that, a computer implementing AI would be able to learn from it's discussion. Even if it started with an astronomically large look-up table, the look-up table would grow. That is very true! John K Clark --

Re: COMP theology

2012-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Feb 2012, at 23:09, Joseph Knight wrote: On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net wrote: The diagram is strictly 3p. It would be helpful if you wrote up an informal article on the octolism. It is very difficult to comprehend it from just

Re: The free will function

2012-02-12 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 12, 12:55 pm, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: Apparently what's next is imagining that machines are people and people are machines. I certainly hope so. In the last 3 or 4 centuries we have gradually

Re: The free will function

2012-02-12 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/12/2012 7:56 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Feb 12, 12:55 pm, John Clarkjohnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Craig Weinbergwhatsons...@gmail.comwrote: Apparently what's next is imagining that machines are people and people are machines. I certainly hope so. In the

Re: COMP theology

2012-02-12 Thread Joseph Knight
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote: On 2/11/2012 5:09 PM, Joseph Knight wrote: On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote: On 2/11/2012 6:29 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Feb 2012, at 07:32, Stephen P.

Re: COMP theology

2012-02-12 Thread Joseph Knight
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 11 Feb 2012, at 23:09, Joseph Knight wrote: On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote: The diagram is strictly 3p. It would be helpful if you wrote up an informal

Re: The free will function

2012-02-12 Thread Terren Suydam
Stephen, In my mind, autopoeitic cognitive systems (advanced enough to use symbols to do cognition) do not have a symbol grounding problem. In these organizationally-closed systems, symbols can only be grounded in internal patterns - patterns that emerge from the way the world perturbs its