Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jul 2012, at 21:29, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 10.07.2012 09:47 Bruno Marchal said the following: ... The whole of the human sciences is perverted since theology get out of the academy. Philosophy is often just a religious reaction to institutionalized religion. God id dead, said

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jul 2012, at 21:35, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 10.07.2012 18:03 John Clark said the following: On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Evgenii Rudnyiuse...@rudnyi.ru wrote: I do not not understand in this respect your analogy with chess. You may know all the rules of chess but that does not

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jul 2012, at 19:49, Alberto G. Corona wrote: There is something deeply religious in many scientifics in his quest to expand their Truth. And there is also something very philosophical indeed. But they ignore both. They ignore their beliefs and their positivistic metaphisics, born in

Re: Oh no!

2012-07-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jul 2012, at 20:38, Stephen P. King wrote: Say that it is not so! http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428428/higgs-boson-may-be-an-imposter-say-particle/?ref=rss -- Given the complexity of the experimental device, we can be sure that e have to wait before having any reasonnable

Re: Oh no!

2012-07-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jul 2012, at 22:28, John Mikes wrote: Stephen, a 'belief system' may be reassuring. I spent a lifetime in active RD exercising conventional science, till I lost by belief in many figments of it. It came gradually like one's losing a religious faith: trying to THINK 'outside the box'

Re: Oh no!

2012-07-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jul 2012, at 23:33, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi John, What I have been doing is exploring the soft underbelly of physics, those sets of truths that are just assumed to be true. For example, I have become convinced that a lot of the difficulties in physics are due to its

Re: Oh no!

2012-07-11 Thread Noon Silk
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: [...] Also, we could say that the discovery of the Higgs boson, if confirmed, is disappointing, as it only confirms the theory, and so we learn nothing (to think in the Deustch's manner). This is wrong. Of course in

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/7/10 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net Why would you not expect a theory-of-everything to include the behavior of people? Note that 'govern' does not imply 'predictable'. A phisicinst theory of everithing , despite the popular belief, does not govern the behaviour of the people. No longer

Re: Oh no!

2012-07-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jul 2012, at 10:12, Noon Silk wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: [...] Also, we could say that the discovery of the Higgs boson, if confirmed, is disappointing, as it only confirms the theory, and so we learn nothing (to think in the

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
So the world of the mind in which we live, is a second reality different form the phenomena governed by physical laws. it has been shaped to permit our bodies to survive in the first world of phenomena, by natural selection, but is in this second world of shared conscience created from the mind

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread David Nyman
On 11 July 2012 09:55, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: Even the phisical TOE is part of this second world. there are no countries, no cars, no persons, no electrons outside of the world of the mind. Outside of the mind there is only mathematics. And this math has been

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread David Nyman
On 11 July 2012 09:55, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: but is in this second world of shared conscience created from the mind where we find any meaning. Alberto, do you mean conscience in the sense of the inner ethical or moral sense, or sentience per se, i.e. consciousness?

Re: Oh no!

2012-07-11 Thread Stephen P. King
On 7/11/2012 4:07 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Jul 2012, at 20:38, Stephen P. King wrote: Say that it is not so! http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428428/higgs-boson-may-be-an-imposter-say-particle/?ref=rss -- Given the complexity of the experimental device, we can be sure that e

Re: esse est percipi?

2012-07-11 Thread Stephen P. King
On 7/11/2012 4:10 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Jul 2012, at 23:33, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi John, What I have been doing is exploring the soft underbelly of physics, those sets of truths that are just assumed to be true. For example, I have become convinced that a lot of the

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread Stephen P. King
On 7/11/2012 4:29 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2012/7/10 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net Why would you not expect a theory-of-everything to include the behavior of people? Note that 'govern' does not imply 'predictable'. A phisicinst theory of everithing

Re: Oh no!

2012-07-11 Thread smitra
Citeren Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net: On 7/11/2012 4:07 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Jul 2012, at 20:38, Stephen P. King wrote: Say that it is not so! http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428428/higgs-boson-may-be-an-imposter-say-particle/?ref=rss -- Given the complexity of

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru wrote: I understand but the question in principle still remains. Who play the chess, I or the M-theory? There is no logical reason to think those two ways of explaining the same phenomenon are incompatible. It's true that the reason a

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru wrote: It is hard to imagine how free will can operate if our behavior is determined by physical law Does that mean you CAN imagine how free will can operate if our behavior is NOT determined by physical law??!! John K Clark

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru wrote: In Germany theology still belongs to universities. What I like is that you will find as a department of theoretical theology as well as a department of practical theology. I disagree, I don't like it. You are assuming

Re: Oh no!

2012-07-11 Thread John Clark
A new particle has certainly been found and in the unlikely event it is not the Higgs the response of most physicists would not be oh, no but pure delight because then it is something unexpected and even more exotic than the Higgs helping us find new knowledge. If 15 years from now the LHC finds

Re: Oh no!

2012-07-11 Thread Stephen P. King
On 7/11/2012 1:50 PM, John Clark wrote: A new particle has certainly been found and in the unlikely event it is not the Higgs the response of most physicists would not be oh, no but pure delight because then it is something unexpected and even more exotic than the Higgs helping us find new

Re: esse est percipi?

2012-07-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jul 2012, at 16:32, Stephen P. King wrote: On 7/11/2012 4:10 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Jul 2012, at 23:33, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi John, What I have been doing is exploring the soft underbelly of physics, those sets of truths that are just assumed to be true. For

Re: Oh no!

2012-07-11 Thread meekerdb
On 7/11/2012 1:09 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: If the boson of Higgs exists, by law, it *must* be retrievable from addition and multiplication If comp is true and the argument that everything (arithmetical) is realized holds. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Oh no!

2012-07-11 Thread meekerdb
On 7/11/2012 1:12 AM, Noon Silk wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Bruno Marchalmarc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: [...] Also, we could say that the discovery of the Higgs boson, if confirmed, is disappointing, as it only confirms the theory, and so we learn nothing (to think in the

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread meekerdb
On 7/11/2012 1:29 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2012/7/10 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net Why would you not expect a theory-of-everything to include the behavior of people? Note that 'govern' does not imply 'predictable'. A phisicinst theory of everithing

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread meekerdb
On 7/11/2012 6:23 AM, David Nyman wrote: On 11 July 2012 09:55, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com mailto:agocor...@gmail.com wrote: Even the phisical TOE is part of this second world. there are no countries, no cars, no persons, no electrons outside of the world of the mind.

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jul 2012, at 19:36, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru wrote: In Germany theology still belongs to universities. What I like is that you will find as a department of theoretical theology as well as a department of practical

Re: esse est percipi?

2012-07-11 Thread meekerdb
On 7/11/2012 7:32 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: In your work you seem to posit that numbers have minds (thus they can dream) and that their ideas are passive and yet can reproduce all phenomena that would be explained as being the result of physical acts in materialism. You argue that this

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread meekerdb
On 7/11/2012 7:41 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 7/11/2012 4:29 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2012/7/10 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net Why would you not expect a theory-of-everything to include the behavior of people? Note that 'govern' does not imply

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jul 2012, at 15:23, David Nyman wrote: On 11 July 2012 09:55, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: Even the phisical TOE is part of this second world. there are no countries, no cars, no persons, no electrons outside of the world of the mind. Outside of the mind there is

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jul 2012, at 22:17, meekerdb wrote: On 7/11/2012 6:23 AM, David Nyman wrote: On 11 July 2012 09:55, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: Even the phisical TOE is part of this second world. there are no countries, no cars, no persons, no electrons outside of the world of

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread meekerdb
On 7/11/2012 10:36 AM, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru mailto:use...@rudnyi.ru wrote: In Germany theology still belongs to universities. What I like is that you will find as a department of theoretical theology as well as a

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
sorry. It is consciousness instead of conscience.yes. 2012/7/11 David Nyman da...@davidnyman.com On 11 July 2012 09:55, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: but is in this second world of shared conscience created from the mind where we find any meaning. Alberto, do you mean

Re: Oh no!

2012-07-11 Thread meekerdb
On 7/11/2012 11:14 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 7/11/2012 1:50 PM, John Clark wrote: A new particle has certainly been found and in the unlikely event it is not the Higgs the response of most physicists would not be oh, no but pure delight because then it is something unexpected and even more

Re: esse est percipi?

2012-07-11 Thread John Mikes
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: *Esse is not percipi*. With comp. Esse is more is a solution to a diophantine polynomial equation. *St.:You have merely replaced the Atoms of the materialists with the Numbers of

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread meekerdb
On 7/11/2012 2:22 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Jul 2012, at 22:17, meekerdb wrote: On 7/11/2012 6:23 AM, David Nyman wrote: On 11 July 2012 09:55, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com mailto:agocor...@gmail.com wrote: Even the phisical TOE is part of this second world. there are no

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Stephen: Well it´s not cooperation between computer programs, but cooperation of entities in the abstract level. This can be described mathematically or simulated in a computer program. In both cases, it starts with a game with its rules goals wins and loses is created. If the game is simple

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread David Nyman
On 11 July 2012 21:17, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: *But it isn't uniquely characterized by that. I don't even know what irreducibly synthetic means. I know what synthetic means; it means made (synthesized) of something else, it means artificial, not natural?? But in any case the

Re: esse est percipi?

2012-07-11 Thread Stephen P. King
On 7/11/2012 4:30 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 7/11/2012 7:32 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: In your work you seem to posit that numbers have minds (thus they can dream) and that their ideas are passive and yet can reproduce all phenomena that would be explained as being the result of physical acts in

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread meekerdb
On 7/11/2012 3:47 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Stephen: Well it愀 not cooperation between computer programs, but cooperation of entities in the abstract level. This can be described mathematically or simulated in a computer program. In both cases, it starts with a game with its rules goals