On Friday, September 28, 2012 12:56:23 AM UTC-4, John Clark wrote:
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript:wrote:
But you don't need a living cell to transmit a signal.
Yes, so there is nothing unique about biology.
That is my point. Why have a cell?
On 28 Sep 2012, at 11:56, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Bruno Marchal and all, from Leibniz's point of view:
1) Free will is possible with L's determinism if defined
in the following way: if the monad sees the appetite,
then the action is free will. If not, not.
I would have said that this is
On 27 Sep 2012, at 19:18, meekerdb wrote:
On 9/27/2012 9:52 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
I object to the idea that consciousness will cause a brain or other
machine to behave in a way not predictable by purely physical laws.
But this cannot be entirely correct. Consciousness will make your
On 27 Sep 2012, at 18:46, meekerdb wrote:
On 9/27/2012 1:19 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 26 Sep 2012, at 19:29, meekerdb wrote:
On 9/25/2012 9:51 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Sep 25, 2012, at 11:05 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net
wrote:
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So you mean if some mathematical
On 9/28/2012 10:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 27 Sep 2012, at 19:18, meekerdb wrote:
On 9/27/2012 9:52 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
I object to the idea that consciousness will cause a brain or other
machine to behave in a way not predictable by purely physical laws.
But this cannot be
On 9/27/2012 11:57 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
Are you saying that you expect replacing someone's brain would be
no more problematic than replacing any other body part?
Craig
Hi Craig,
I kinda have to side with Stathis a bit here. The problem that
you are hinging
On 9/28/2012 12:56 AM, John Clark wrote:
Because Evolution couldn't figure out how to make a microchip, but
people can.
Isn't this really just an evasion of the point that evolution made
people so that it could make micro-chips? Evolution is ether universal
or it is a bad and not even
On Friday, September 28, 2012 2:44:32 PM UTC-4, Stephen Paul King wrote:
On 9/27/2012 11:57 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
Are you saying that you expect replacing someone's brain would be no
more problematic than replacing any other body part?
Craig
Hi Craig,
I kinda have to
Brent, I 'experienced' such situation in 1944 when the Nazi Gendarme's Pol.
Police arrested me on suspicion to be part of the underground anti-Nazis
(what was true). I made them 'believe' about being an at least 'neutral'
grad student so they asked questions before torture started. I was
John Clark at least will appreciate this. :-)
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On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday, September 27, 2012 8:10:37 PM UTC-4, stathisp wrote:
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com
wrote:
But you don't need a living cell to transmit a signal. That is my
Hi Bruno Marchal and all, from Leibniz's point of view:
1) Free will is possible with L's determinism if defined
in the following way: if the monad sees the appetite,
then the action is free will. If not, not.
2) Consciousness does not emerge from matter, it
is a fulgeration of the All (the
Hi Craig Weinberg
I never picked up on this Zombie debate
and acting, but the world according to
Leibniz is a theater in which everything
happens as if there are actual forces and masses,
but which is actually controlled by a different
form of logic than Newtonian mechanics etc.
Roger
Hi Craig Weinberg and Stathisp,
You identity is only partly in your brain, it
is in your dna, your body and your history.
The sum totality of your identity is called your soul,
which suggests a serious shortcoming of materialis.
So far materialists deny that there is such a thing as a soul.
And
The second book has the explanation, the first, is the mechanism. The
oxitocin as many other hormones, are a mechanism that fix or promotes a set
of behaviours instead of others. Hormonal discharge is the mechanism that
the mammals have for modulating middle-long term responses. (For short term
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