Re: Losing Control

2013-03-22 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: There is surely a difference between living and non-living, but nevertheless it is possible to get living from non-living. Not without the potential for life already present in the universe. If there was a universe

Re: 'Brain Waves' Challenge Area-Specific View of Brain Activity

2013-03-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi John, On 21 Mar 2013, at 21:40, John Mikes wrote: Dear Bruno, it is so fascinating to read about universal machines. Is there a place where I could learn in short, understandable terms what they may be? Then again the difference between a 'Turing machine' and a 'physical computer'

Re: Mind is a quantum computer

2013-03-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Mar 2013, at 23:04, Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 01:46:11PM +0100, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: But still, I tend to bet that creativity, if he can exploit it, is still independent of it. I still

Religious Robots

2013-03-22 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
Quotes from Robert Geraci, Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality p. 133 Ray Kurzweil believes that intelligent machines will be more spiritual than human being and believes that the future will include real and virtual houses of worship

Re: Religious Robots

2013-03-22 Thread Alberto G. Corona
These beliefs in robotic religión has some reasons behind or it is simply wishful thinking? 2013/3/22 Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru Quotes from Robert Geraci, Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality p. 133 Ray Kurzweil believes that

Leibniz and this nonlocal, relativistic world

2013-03-22 Thread Roger Clough
Leibniz and this nonlocal, relativistic world Leibniz was centuries ahead of his time when he deduced by simple logic (in his Monadology) that the world is nonlocal (although he did not use that word). Science would be much further ahead of where it is today had it followed Leibniz instead of

Re: G.K. Chesterton on Materialism

2013-03-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, March 22, 2013 1:15:58 AM UTC-4, Brent wrote: On 3/19/2013 11:24 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 19.03.2013 19:17 Craig Weinberg said the following: On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 1:38:21 PM UTC-4, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Craig Weinberg

Re: Religious Robots

2013-03-22 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: These beliefs in robotic religión has some reasons behind or it is simply wishful thinking? 2013/3/22 Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru Quotes from Robert Geraci, Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics,

Re: Religious Robots

2013-03-22 Thread Stephen P. King
On 3/22/2013 7:16 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Quotes from Robert Geraci, Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality p. 133 Ray Kurzweil believes that intelligent machines will be more spiritual than human being and believes that the future will

Re: Religious Robots

2013-03-22 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 22.03.2013 13:06 Alberto G. Corona said the following: These beliefs in robotic religión has some reasons behind or it is simply wishful thinking? In the book, the author just describes/documents what other people say. The reason from others, as far as I have understood it correctly, is

Re: Religious Robots

2013-03-22 Thread Stephen P. King
On 3/22/2013 8:06 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: These beliefs in robotic religión has some reasons behind or it is simply wishful thinking? I share this question! 2013/3/22 Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru mailto:use...@rudnyi.ru Quotes from Robert Geraci, Apocalyptic AI: Visions

Re: Religious Robots

2013-03-22 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 22.03.2013 13:41 Richard Ruquist said the following: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: These beliefs in robotic religión has some reasons behind or it is simply wishful thinking? ... Religious beliefs will be programmed just as they are in

Re: Religious Robots

2013-03-22 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 22.03.2013 13:47 Stephen P. King said the following: On 3/22/2013 7:16 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Quotes from Robert Geraci, Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality ... Dear Evgennii, In your reading of Kurzweil, does he ever explain

Re: Losing Control

2013-03-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, March 22, 2013 4:08:10 AM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: There is surely a difference between living and non-living, but nevertheless it is possible to get living from non-living. Not

Re: Good video on telepathy studies

2013-03-22 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi Craig, Thanks for this. On a somewhat related note, TED recently censured two talks by Rupert Sheldrake and Graham Hancock. Did did it one the grounds of classifying their claims as pseudo-science. I find this disturbing because they are just proposing hypothesis based on experience. One can

Re: Religious Robots

2013-03-22 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru wrote: On 22.03.2013 13:41 Richard Ruquist said the following: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: These beliefs in robotic religión has some reasons behind or it is simply wishful

Re: Religious Robots

2013-03-22 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I a previous discussion in this list (robotic truth) I argue that a robot in a competitive environment has to develop (or be programmed for) all the elements of religión and beliefs to cooperate and survive. 2013/3/22 Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru On 22.03.2013 13:47 Stephen P. King said

Re: Good video on telepathy studies

2013-03-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
Thanks Telmo, Yes I've been following the TED fiasco, and chiming in here and there. Actually that's where I saw this video posted was on that thread. I agree completely that it is disturbing (though not surprising) to see the censorship, although I'm impressed with so many smart people

Re: Religious Robots

2013-03-22 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 22.03.2013 14:41 Richard Ruquist said the following: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru wrote: On 22.03.2013 13:41 Richard Ruquist said the following: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: These beliefs in robotic

Re: Religious Robots

2013-03-22 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 22.03.2013 15:31 Alberto G. Corona said the following: I a previous discussion in this list (robotic truth) I argue that a robot in a competitive environment has to develop (or be programmed for) all the elements of religión and beliefs to cooperate and survive. The goal of the book of

Re: Religious Robots

2013-03-22 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru wrote: On 22.03.2013 14:41 Richard Ruquist said the following: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru wrote: On 22.03.2013 13:41 Richard Ruquist said the following: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:06 AM,

Re: G.K. Chesterton on Materialism

2013-03-22 Thread Alberto G. Corona
This extract from Chesterton has little sense without what precedes and follows. 2013/3/16 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com For we must remember that the materialist philosophy (whether true or not) is certainly much more limiting than any religion. In one sense, of course, all

Re: Good video on telepathy studies

2013-03-22 Thread Stephen P. King
On 3/22/2013 9:15 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: Hi Craig, Thanks for this. On a somewhat related note, TED recently censured two talks by Rupert Sheldrake and Graham Hancock. Did did it one the grounds of classifying their claims as pseudo-science. I find this disturbing because they are just

Re: Mind is a quantum computer

2013-03-22 Thread John Clark
The following article about Quantum Computers was on page one of the business section of today's New York Times: VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Our digital age is all about bits, those precise ones and zeros that are the stuff of modern computer code. But a powerful new type of computer

Re: Mind is a quantum computer

2013-03-22 Thread Stephen P. King
On 3/22/2013 1:22 PM, John Clark wrote: The following article about Quantum Computers was on page one of the business section of today's New York Times: VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Our digital age is all about bits, those precise ones and zeros that are the stuff of modern

Re: Good video on telepathy studies

2013-03-22 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: TED recently censured two talks by Rupert Sheldrake and Graham Hancock. Did did it one the grounds of classifying their claims as pseudo-science. My respect for TED just went up several notches. I find this disturbing

Re: Good video on telepathy studies

2013-03-22 Thread Stephen P. King
On 3/22/2013 2:20 PM, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com mailto:te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: TED recently censured two talks by Rupert Sheldrake and Graham Hancock. Did did it one the grounds of classifying their claims as

Re: Religious Robots

2013-03-22 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Ok. I understand. Well this eartly salvation is not only typical of AI. Voegelin coined the term inmanentization of the eschaton as the common caracteristic of the modern political and scientific movements. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanentize_the_eschaton which means the belief of a heaven

Re: Good video on telepathy studies

2013-03-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, March 22, 2013 2:20:36 PM UTC-4, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com javascript:wrote: TED recently censured two talks by Rupert Sheldrake and Graham Hancock. Did did it one the grounds of classifying their claims as pseudo-science.

Re: Religious Robots

2013-03-22 Thread meekerdb
On 3/22/2013 4:16 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Quotes from Robert Geraci, Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality p. 133 Ray Kurzweil believes that intelligent machines will be more spiritual than human being and believes that the future will

Re: Good video on telepathy studies

2013-03-22 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: What did you think of the evidence in the Dean Radin video? Evidence? I saw no evidence, all I saw was a man making noises with his mouth and some slides he made himself. Although it would be great if we all has some hidden

Re: 'Brain Waves' Challenge Area-Specific View of Brain Activity

2013-03-22 Thread John Mikes
I tried to find FOAR - but failed. You kindly advised to 'show me how' get subscribed, but it was missing from your post. Could you repeat it? John M On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:36 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Hi John, On 21 Mar 2013, at 21:40, John Mikes wrote: Dear Bruno, it

Re: Religious Robots

2013-03-22 Thread meekerdb
On 3/22/2013 6:41 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru wrote: On 22.03.2013 13:41 Richard Ruquist said the following: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: These beliefs in robotic religión has

Re: Good video on telepathy studies

2013-03-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, March 22, 2013 5:10:40 PM UTC-4, Brent wrote: On 3/22/2013 6:15 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: Hi Craig, Thanks for this. On a somewhat related note, TED recently censured two talks by Rupert Sheldrake and Graham Hancock. Did did it one the grounds of classifying their claims

Re: Religious Robots

2013-03-22 Thread Stephen P. King
On 3/22/2013 2:42 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Ok. I understand. Well this eartly salvation is not only typical of AI. Voegelin coined the term inmanentization of the eschaton as the common caracteristic of the modern political and scientific movements.

Re: Religious Robots

2013-03-22 Thread Stephen P. King
On 3/22/2013 3:27 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 3/22/2013 4:16 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Quotes from Robert Geraci, Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality p. 133 Ray Kurzweil believes that intelligent machines will be more spiritual than human

Re: Religious Robots

2013-03-22 Thread Stephen P. King
On 3/22/2013 4:42 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 3/22/2013 6:41 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru wrote: On 22.03.2013 13:41 Richard Ruquist said the following: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Good video on telepathy studies

2013-03-22 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi John, On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 7:20 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: TED recently censured two talks by Rupert Sheldrake and Graham Hancock. Did did it one the grounds of classifying their claims as

Re: Religious Robots

2013-03-22 Thread Alberto G. Corona
These inmanentist religions (eartly utopianism) it is clear that substitute God by Man (upper case). A divinized man . This has the most evident form of personality cult to the chosen ones that have the knowledge and/or are at the control of the transformation process, that in the modernity is

Re: Good video on telepathy studies

2013-03-22 Thread meekerdb
On 3/22/2013 5:10 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: Hi John, On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 7:20 PM, John Clarkjohnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 Telmo Menezeste...@telmomenezes.com wrote: TED recently censured two talks by Rupert Sheldrake and Graham Hancock. Did did it one the grounds

Re: Good video on telepathy studies

2013-03-22 Thread Telmo Menezes
My God people don't you have even a rudimentary bullshit detector? Fantastic claims, cries of persecution, irreproducible results, this crap just reeks of junk science! I don't think Sheldrake is correct, but he writes papers and collects experimental results. Maybe he's lying, and maybe other

Re: Religious Robots

2013-03-22 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:42 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/22/2013 6:41 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru wrote: On 22.03.2013 13:41 Richard Ruquist said the following: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Alberto G.

Re: Good video on telepathy studies

2013-03-22 Thread meekerdb
On 3/22/2013 5:54 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: My God people don't you have even a rudimentary bullshit detector? Fantastic claims, cries of persecution, irreproducible results, this crap just reeks of junk science! I don't think Sheldrake is correct, but he writes papers and collects experimental

Re: Good video on telepathy studies

2013-03-22 Thread Stephen P. King
On 3/22/2013 11:30 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 3/22/2013 5:54 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: My God people don't you have even a rudimentary bullshit detector? Fantastic claims, cries of persecution, irreproducible results, this crap just reeks of junk science! I don't think Sheldrake is correct, but

Tarsky's Proof of the undefinability of truth.

2013-03-22 Thread Stephen P. King
In 1936 Tarski proved a fundamental theorem of logic: the *undefinability of truth*. Roughly speaking, this says there's no consistent way to extend arithmetic so that it talks about 'truth' for statements about arithmetic. Why not? Because if we /could/, we could cook up a statement that says