Re: What is 'Existence'?

2012-09-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Sep 2012, at 20:05, Stephen P. King wrote: With comp, all the exists comes from the ExP(x) use in arithmetic, and their arithmetical epistemological version, like []Ex[]P(x), or []Ex[]P(x), etc. Can not you see, Bruno, that this stipulation makes existence contingent upon

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-23 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 22.09.2012 22:49 meekerdb said the following: On 9/22/2012 6:29 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 22.09.2012 14:58 Bruno Marchal said the following: ... It is part of what a machine is that we cannot know what we are doing in building them, so human might as well build a conscious machine

Re: Prime Numbers

2012-09-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Sep 2012, at 22:10, Stephen P. King wrote: On 9/22/2012 7:32 AM, Roger Clough wrote: How could mathematics be fiction ? If so, then we could simply say that 2+2=5 because it's saturday. How could we have a world we many minds can, on rare occasions, come to complete agreement if that

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Sep 2012, at 15:29, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 22.09.2012 14:58 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 21 Sep 2012, at 21:27, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 19.09.2012 00:57 meekerdb said the following: On 9/17/2012 11:27 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Do you mean that the meaning in a guided

Re: What is 'Existence'?

2012-09-23 Thread Alberto G. Corona
This is my schema. Can you complete/ammend it? Things in themselves (noumena) - - Have a computational nature (Bruno) : few components: numbers, + * - Is just a mathematical manyfold(Me), few components: equations

Re: Re: Physics, Metaphysics, and Realism

2012-09-23 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg Yes, time and space have to be together to be in spacetime. This is just basic astrophysics. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 9/23/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg

Re: Thought Doesn’t Think That It Feels

2012-09-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, September 22, 2012 11:55:35 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Sep 2012, at 17:08, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, September 22, 2012 9:10:30 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Sep 2012, at 22:48, Craig Weinberg wrote: Post from my blog: Simple as that, really.

Re: Re: Physics, Metaphysics, and Realism

2012-09-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
Hi Roger, My hypothesis is that the grouping of space and time together is a function of the exterior public realism view, not a primitive reality. The bigger picture is that while quantitatively seamless, time and space are (obviously) experientially perpendicular qualities. Astrophysics

Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-09-23 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 3:53 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: If anyone is not familiar with David Chalmers Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia You should have a look at it first. I confess I

Re: Re: Physics, Metaphysics, and Realism

2012-09-23 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Evgenii Rudnyi Phenomena are the how physical processes appear to our senses. So they are appearances, not the processes themselves. But scientific experiments and measurements are not made on the appearances, they are made on the processes. Thus the appearences areor [phenomena are said to

Re: music on my mind

2012-09-23 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: On Saturday, September 22, 2012 8:01:14 AM UTC-4, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: Nothing would work except the ontological primitive that I use (sense). Glad that works for you. Linguistically I am flexible

Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-09-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, September 22, 2012 1:54:11 PM UTC-4, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: If anyone is not familiar with David Chalmers Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia You should have a look at

Re: Re: Physics, Metaphysics, and Realism

2012-09-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, September 23, 2012 9:06:55 AM UTC-4, rclough wrote: Hi Evgenii Rudnyi Phenomena are the how physical processes appear to our senses. So they are appearances, not the processes themselves. But scientific experiments and measurements are not made on the appearances, they

Re: music on my mind

2012-09-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, September 23, 2012 9:08:14 AM UTC-4, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Saturday, September 22, 2012 8:01:14 AM UTC-4, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: Nothing would work except the

Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-09-23 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: What I see that he has not considered is that consciousness is a the function of uniqueness itself, and propagates through time as experience, not as as a product of mechanism. It's qualities are accessed and focused

Re: Prime Numbers

2012-09-23 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/23/2012 3:42 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Sep 2012, at 22:10, Stephen P. King wrote: On 9/22/2012 7:32 AM, Roger Clough wrote: How could mathematics be fiction ? If so, then we could simply say that 2+2=5 because it's saturday. How could we have a world we many minds can, on rare

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Sep 2012, at 09:31, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 22.09.2012 22:49 meekerdb said the following: On 9/22/2012 6:29 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 22.09.2012 14:58 Bruno Marchal said the following: ... It is part of what a machine is that we cannot know what we are doing in building them,

Re: What is 'Existence'?

2012-09-23 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/23/2012 6:18 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: This is my schema. Can you complete/ammend it? Things in themselves (noumena) - - Have a computational nature (Bruno) : few components: numbers, + * - Is just a mathematical manyfold(Me),

Re: Physics, Metaphysics, and Realism

2012-09-23 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 23.09.2012 15:05 Roger Clough said the following: Hi Evgenii Rudnyi Phenomena are the how physical processes appear to our senses. So they are appearances, not the processes themselves. But scientific experiments and measurements are not made on the appearances, they are made on the

Re: What is 'Existence'?

2012-09-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Sep 2012, at 12:18, Alberto G. Corona wrote: This is my schema. Can you complete/ammend it? Things in themselves (noumena) - - Have a computational nature (Bruno) : few components: numbers, + * OK, for the chosen basic ontology. Numbers, and theor additive and multiplicative

Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-09-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Sep 2012, at 23:04, meekerdb wrote: On 9/22/2012 10:53 AM, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: If anyone is not familiar with David Chalmers Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia You should have a look at it

Re: Physics, Metaphysics, and Realism

2012-09-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Sep 2012, at 15:05, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Evgenii Rudnyi Phenomena are the how physical processes appear to our senses. So they are appearances, not the processes themselves. But scientific experiments and measurements are not made on the appearances, they are made on the processes.

Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-09-23 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: What I see that he has not considered is that consciousness is a the function of uniqueness itself For me to understand what you mean by this you need to answer one question, was the Email message that you sent to the

Re: Thought Doesn’t Think That It Feels

2012-09-23 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: We have very often dismissed emotion Nothing mysterious about emotion, its just a condition that predisposes a computer or a human to behave in one way rather than another. feelings and consciousness in human.

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-23 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 23.09.2012 16:51 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 23 Sep 2012, at 09:31, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 22.09.2012 22:49 meekerdb said the following: ... In the past, Bruno has said that a machine that understands transfinite induction will be conscious. But being conscious and

Re: Re: Re: IMHO conscousness is an activity not a thing

2012-09-23 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: mind can also operate on brain (through the will or an intention). I have no idea at the present of what such a monadic structure might be like. Will or Intention is a high level description as is pressure, but it's not

Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-09-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, September 23, 2012 11:52:40 AM UTC-4, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: What I see that he has not considered is that consciousness is a the function of uniqueness itself For me to understand what you

Re: Thought Doesn’t Think That It Feels

2012-09-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, September 23, 2012 12:32:51 PM UTC-4, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.bejavascript: wrote: We have very often dismissed emotion Nothing mysterious about emotion, its just a condition that predisposes a computer or a human to

Re: Physics, Metaphysics, and Realism

2012-09-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, September 23, 2012 11:28:49 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 23 Sep 2012, at 15:05, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Evgenii Rudnyi Phenomena are the how physical processes appear to our senses. So they are appearances, not the processes themselves. But scientific

Re: IMHO conscousness is an activity not a thing

2012-09-23 Thread John Mikes
Roger, no matter how hard I tried: here is my reply; is your material world THE reality? I think it is our figment of our changing levels of a developing mentlity. Do you really believe that all those additional items we learned over the past millennia are products of an ideal(?) world? (Btw I