John,
On 26 May 2013, at 00:54, John Mikes wrote:
Bruno and others:
did you read
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/do_the_math/2013/05/yitang_zhang_twin_primes_conjecture_a_huge_discovery_about_prime_numbers.single.html
the information about prof. Zhang's discovery (U of New
On 26 May 2013, at 04:00, meekerdb wrote:
Whether or not it is recorded or extractable in this universe is
immaterial. If the universe is infinitely large or infinitely
varied, we each reappear an infinite number of times. There are a
countably infinite number of programs, and for any
The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from
experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates that
non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and
neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the
capacity to exhibit
On a peculiar blind spot in materialists
Materialists have a peculiar blind spot
in that they do not understand what is meant by
the subject/object distinction. The difference
between subjective and objective being.
That is the ddiference between mind and brain in that
mind is a subjective
Materialism fails to account for the first person
Sentience or sentient experience or experience
or consciousness all require a subject who is
conscious. The first person in grammatical language.
I.
This is missing in materialistic accounts of consciousness,
but present in Leibniz's monads.
On Sun, May 26, 2013 Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote:
Materialism fails to account for the first person
Can non-materialism do better and if so how?
John K Clark
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On 5/26/2013 1:18 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 26 May 2013, at 04:00, meekerdb wrote:
Whether or not it is recorded or extractable in this universe is
immaterial. If
the universe is infinitely large or infinitely varied, we each reappear an
infinite number of times. There are
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 05:05:28PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 26 May 2013, at 13:29, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an
organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence
indicates that non-human animals have the
On May 26, 2013, at 6:12 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au
wrote:
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 05:05:28PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 26 May 2013, at 13:29, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an
organism from experiencing affective
Understood, Jason. I became familiar with this digital universe
concept, first, through Hans Moravec, in Mind Children. I wonder how
possible it is to discover that we are part of an ancestor simulation?
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On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 10:05 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote:
Understood, Jason. I became familiar with this digital universe concept,
first, through Hans Moravec, in Mind Children. I wonder how possible it is
to discover that we are part of an ancestor simulation?
If computationalism is true
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