Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:12 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 February 2014 17:16, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:45 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 February 2014 16:33, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-02-12 1:17 GMT+01:00 chris peck chris_peck...@hotmail.com: Hi Chris dM and Bruno etc Once, Chris Peck said that he was convinced by Clark's argument) and I invited him to elaborate, as that might give possible lightening. He did not comply, and I was beginning that UDA was

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Feb 2014, at 14:55, meekerdb wrote: On 2/11/2014 12:42 AM, LizR wrote: On 11 February 2014 17:21, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 04:57:50PM +1300, LizR wrote: You wouldn't need to say that if you could show what's wrong with it! :-)

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Feb 2014, at 17:07, Edgar L. Owen wrote: All, In a computational reality everything consists of information in the computational space of reality/existence, whose presence within it gives it its reality. By taking place within reality these computations produce real universe

Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Feb 2014, at 17:35, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, February 2, 2014 6:36:24 PM UTC, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 4:29 AM, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Although it doesn't necessarily follow the digital transformation of consciousness is perfectly

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Feb 2014, at 18:20, meekerdb wrote: On 2/11/2014 8:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Feb 2014, at 04:15, meekerdb wrote: On 2/10/2014 3:18 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: The laws of physics or arithmetic makes it possible for you to express your point, but the content of your post

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Feb 2014, at 19:47, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: My question was what is the unique consistent definition of the 1p after the duplication has been performed?. In the 3-1 view, that does not exist, Then the 1p is of

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Feb 2014, at 19:58, Craig Weinberg wrote: I think that the opposite of everything that you are saying makes more sense.: On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 11:07:07 AM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: So the take away is that : 1. The universe, and everything in it, consists of information

Re: Nagel on Explanation

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Feb 2014, at 22:13, Craig Weinberg wrote: Explanation, unlike causation is not just of an event but of an event under a description. An explanation must show why it was likely than an event of that type occurred. - Thomas Nagel This quote applies to my rejection of Comp since Comp

Re: Human brain artificially created in laboratory

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Feb 2014, at 22:52, Richard Ruquist wrote: ASK A PHYSICIAN. I went to med school until I was too sick to continue. But I learned enough to never ASK A PHYSICIAN. I agree. To be sick is bad, but to be sick and meet a doctor can be real bad, very often. Few doctor are well prepared

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 6:01 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 12 Feb 2014, at 01:17, chris peck wrote: Hi Chris dM and Bruno etc Once, Chris Peck said that he was convinced by Clark's argument) and I invited him to elaborate, as that might give possible lightening. He did

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2014, at 01:50, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 07:46:48AM +1300, LizR wrote: On 12 February 2014 02:55, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: My problem with this is that I don't believe in arithmetical realism in the sense required for this argument. I think

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2014, at 02:02, Russell Standish wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 07:31:24PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: You are right, the qualia are in X1* \ X1, like we get quanta in S4Grz1, Z1*, X1*. The only thing you can say is that qualia ought to obey the axioms of X1*\X1, (and even that

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-02-12 12:17 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 12 Feb 2014, at 01:50, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 07:46:48AM +1300, LizR wrote: On 12 February 2014 02:55, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: My problem with this is that I don't believe in

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2014, at 02:22, meekerdb wrote: On 2/11/2014 10:21 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: What Everett did for the quantum universal wave, we can do that on any universal system, and comp predicts that this will always give the same physics. How does it predict that? All universal systems

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2014, at 02:28, meekerdb wrote: On 2/11/2014 10:21 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: But I think what is shown is that there can be a world including conscious beings which does not require physical events in our world, i.e. they can be merely arithmetical or Turing machince events. In

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2014, at 02:40, meekerdb wrote: On 2/11/2014 4:50 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 07:46:48AM +1300, LizR wrote: On 12 February 2014 02:55, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: My problem with this is that I don't believe in arithmetical realism in the sense

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2014, at 02:43, meekerdb wrote: On 2/11/2014 4:56 PM, LizR wrote: On 12 February 2014 13:50, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 07:46:48AM +1300, LizR wrote: On 12 February 2014 02:55, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: My problem with

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2014, at 04:12, LizR wrote: On 12 February 2014 14:43, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/11/2014 4:56 PM, LizR wrote: On 12 February 2014 13:50, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 07:46:48AM +1300, LizR wrote: On 12 February 2014 02:55,

Re: Nagel on Explanation

2014-02-12 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 5:19:38 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Feb 2014, at 22:13, Craig Weinberg wrote: Explanation, unlike causation is not just of an event but of an event under a description. An explanation must show why it was likely than an event *of that type*

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-12 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 5:18:21 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Feb 2014, at 19:58, Craig Weinberg wrote: Our internal experience is informed directly by opportunities for quasi-veridical sensory entanglement from within, without, and beyond our neurology. It is the idea

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-12 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 10:26:51 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 12 February 2014 05:21, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Monday, February 10, 2014 7:51:58 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 11 February 2014 11:23, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-12 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, Not at all. I pointed out maybe a week ago with examples why your notion of a same point in SPACEtime is not the same as a same point in p-TIME. They are the same is true only when A and B are at the same point in SPACE, but every observer is ALWAYS at the same point in p-TIME because

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-12 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, But I just pointed out in my previous reply that your example is NOT even correct relativity. Non-accelerated relative motion does NOT cause any actual age differences because it's symmetric. A and B are in the exact same relative motion with respect to each other so the effect has to

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-12 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jesse, Not at all. I pointed out maybe a week ago with examples why your notion of a same point in SPACEtime is not the same as a same point in p-TIME. They are the same is true only when A and B are at the same point in

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-12 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, He's another way to understand it which might be clearer. It's from the perspective of an arbitrary observer A. 1. A (me) is always in the current moment of P-time as P-time progresses, because that is the only locus of actual reality because it's only in this current moment of p-time

Re: Nagel on Explanation

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2014, at 13:18, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 5:19:38 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Feb 2014, at 22:13, Craig Weinberg wrote: Explanation, unlike causation is not just of an event but of an event under a description. An explanation must show why

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2014, at 13:24, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 5:18:21 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Feb 2014, at 19:58, Craig Weinberg wrote: Our internal experience is informed directly by opportunities for quasi-veridical sensory entanglement from within,

Re: Nagel on Explanation

2014-02-12 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 11:23:14 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Feb 2014, at 13:18, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 5:19:38 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Feb 2014, at 22:13, Craig Weinberg wrote: Explanation, unlike causation is not just of

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-12 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, and Craig, Computational reality doesn't need any notion of primes, or 17 is a prime. In fact I don't see any reason why reality needs any concept even of 17 to compute its current state. If this is true then individual numbers such as 17 are not necessary for reality to compute the

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:43 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: I'm assured a sackful of doorknobs can be used as a computer... Yes but to do that you'd need to arrange the doorknobs so that they interacted with each other in a way that Turing would approve of, and to make such an arrangement

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
Edgar, On 12 Feb 2014, at 17:57, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, and Craig, Computational reality doesn't need any notion of primes, or 17 is a prime. Which confirms that you are using computational in a mysterious idiosyncratic personal sense, and I recall you that you have never

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread meekerdb
On 2/12/2014 1:30 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Feb 2014, at 14:55, meekerdb wrote: On 2/11/2014 12:42 AM, LizR wrote: On 11 February 2014 17:21, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au mailto:li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 04:57:50PM +1300, LizR wrote:

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:42 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Bell's assumption that time is fundamentally asymmetric If Bell had made the opposite assumption then Bell would have been a fool. Bell was not a fool. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: Nagel on Explanation

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2014, at 17:55, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 11:23:14 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Feb 2014, at 13:18, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 5:19:38 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Feb 2014, at 22:13, Craig Weinberg

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-12 Thread meekerdb
On 2/12/2014 1:47 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Feb 2014, at 18:20, meekerdb wrote: On 2/11/2014 8:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Feb 2014, at 04:15, meekerdb wrote: ... Brent That which can explain *anything* fails to explain at all. With physicalism, QM explains everything.

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread meekerdb
On 2/12/2014 3:41 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Actually yes, but that is not relevant, as arithmetic simulate all digital approximation of all physical universe, (and the real physical universe is a non Turing emulable sum on all those computations), so arithmetic provides the worlds you need to be

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread meekerdb
On 2/12/2014 3:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Feb 2014, at 02:40, meekerdb wrote: On 2/11/2014 4:50 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 07:46:48AM +1300, LizR wrote: On 12 February 2014 02:55, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: My problem with this is that I don't

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: Bell's Inequality in my opinion does not explain the mechanism of EPR. True, Bell couldn't explain it but he did prove that if his inequality is violated then there is something that needs to be explained. Bell said

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread meekerdb
On 2/12/2014 3:27 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Feb 2014, at 02:22, meekerdb wrote: On 2/11/2014 10:21 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: What Everett did for the quantum universal wave, we can do that on any universal system, and comp predicts that this will always give the same physics. How does

3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
John, I add a comment to my preview post. On 11 Feb 2014, at 19:47, John Clark wrote: Then the 1p is of no use to anyone and neither is the 3-1 view whatever the hell that is supposed to be. It is a bit unfair, as I introduced that 3-1 notation exactly to reply to your first attempt of

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 7:17 PM, chris peck chris_peck...@hotmail.comwrote: I will say though that I find it astonishing if people work their way through Bruno's steps and claim to understand them and then maintain that Clark's erudite and ofttimes witty criticisms are in some way obtuse or

Re: Nagel on Explanation

2014-02-12 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 12:32:20 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Feb 2014, at 17:55, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 11:23:14 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Feb 2014, at 13:18, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 5:19:38 AM

Modal logic 4 (was Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas).

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
Liz, if Brent don't mind, my answer to Brent here contains a bit on modal logic, directly related to the machine discourse (and this will be justified later, as it is not obvious at all). On 12 Feb 2014, at 18:28, meekerdb wrote: On 2/12/2014 1:30 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Feb

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2014, at 18:34, meekerdb wrote: On 2/12/2014 1:47 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Feb 2014, at 18:20, meekerdb wrote: On 2/11/2014 8:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Feb 2014, at 04:15, meekerdb wrote: ... Brent That which can explain anything fails to explain at all.

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-12 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 11:36:29 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Feb 2014, at 13:24, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 5:18:21 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Feb 2014, at 19:58, Craig Weinberg wrote: Our internal experience is informed

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2014, at 18:59, meekerdb wrote: On 2/12/2014 3:17 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Feb 2014, at 01:50, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 07:46:48AM +1300, LizR wrote: On 12 February 2014 02:55, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: My problem with this is that I

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:58 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.comwrote: Bell's Inequality in my opinion does not explain the mechanism of EPR. True, Bell couldn't explain it but he did prove that if his inequality

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2014, at 18:54, meekerdb wrote: On 2/12/2014 3:41 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Actually yes, but that is not relevant, as arithmetic simulate all digital approximation of all physical universe, (and the real physical universe is a non Turing emulable sum on all those computations),

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-12 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 11:57:11 AM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, and Craig, Computational reality doesn't need any notion of primes, or 17 is a prime. In fact I don't see any reason why reality needs any concept even of 17 to compute its current state. If this is true then

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2014, at 18:55, meekerdb wrote: On 2/12/2014 3:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Feb 2014, at 02:40, meekerdb wrote: On 2/11/2014 4:50 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 07:46:48AM +1300, LizR wrote: On 12 February 2014 02:55, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2014, at 18:58, meekerdb wrote: On 2/12/2014 3:27 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Feb 2014, at 02:22, meekerdb wrote: On 2/11/2014 10:21 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: What Everett did for the quantum universal wave, we can do that on any universal system, and comp predicts that this

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-12 Thread LizR
On 13 February 2014 03:00, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jesse, He's another way to understand it which might be clearer. It's from the perspective of an arbitrary observer A. 1. A (me) is always in the current moment of P-time as P-time progresses, because that is the only locus

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-12 Thread LizR
On 13 February 2014 03:00, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: 5. The easy way is just to pause the experiment at any point and compare clocks (that is in effect what the twins do when they meet) because this immediately re-synchronizes clock rates enabling the real actual age differences

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread LizR
On 12 February 2014 21:21, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:12 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 February 2014 17:16, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:45 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 February 2014 16:33,

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread LizR
On 13 February 2014 09:18, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 12 Feb 2014, at 18:58, meekerdb wrote: That doesn't follow. If there are disjoint worlds, as contemplated in some versions of cosmology, they may have different physics. Nice, comp predicts that this is impossible,

Edging closer to nuclear fusion...

2014-02-12 Thread LizR
apparently. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/feb/12/nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-green-energy-source -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

Re: Edging closer to nuclear fusion...

2014-02-12 Thread Chris de Morsella
Let's check back in 50 years on how that turns out :) From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 2:57 PM Subject: Edging closer to nuclear fusion... apparently.

Re: Edging closer to nuclear fusion...

2014-02-12 Thread LizR
Yeah, exactly. Meanwhile we already have a fusion reactor up and running, should anyone want to use it. [image: Inline images 1] On 13 February 2014 12:10, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: Let's check back in 50 years on how that turns out :) --

Re: Edging closer to nuclear fusion...

2014-02-12 Thread Chris de Morsella
We all do use it already -- even as we burn the fossil fuel banked in coal seams and gas oil bearing formations, all of which ultimately exists because a long time ago some plant had done the work of transforming a minuscule portion of the energy of flux put out by our fusion energy source in

Re: Edging closer to nuclear fusion...

2014-02-12 Thread LizR
On 13 February 2014 12:44, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: We all do use it already -- even as we burn the fossil fuel banked in coal seams and gas oil bearing formations, all of which ultimately exists because a long time ago some plant had done the work of transforming a

Re: Edging closer to nuclear fusion...

2014-02-12 Thread Chris de Morsella
The solar flux at earth orbit is on average (because the earth's orbit is not circular and the solar output is not constant) more or less 1370 W/m2; The Earth's radius isĀ 6.378 X 10^6m; The Earth's albedo is around 0.3. So the total incident solar energy that is obstructed by the earth's disk

Re: Edging closer to nuclear fusion...

2014-02-12 Thread LizR
About 4 million tons of it per second :-) Yes. We need to intercept an appreciable amount of that energy to become a type 1 civilisation... On 13 February 2014 13:53, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: The solar flux at earth orbit is on average (because the earth's orbit is not

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-12 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 12 February 2014 23:47, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think that my experience can be replaced with a copy though. So how would you know you were a copy? It has nothing to do with whether or not I would know, it's because in my understanding, copying is not

Re: Modal logic 4 (was Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas).

2014-02-12 Thread meekerdb
On 2/12/2014 11:37 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Liz, if Brent don't mind, my answer to Brent here contains a bit on modal logic, directly related to the machine discourse (and this will be justified later, as it is not obvious at all). On 12 Feb 2014, at 18:28, meekerdb wrote: On 2/12/2014

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-12 Thread meekerdb
On 2/12/2014 11:41 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Feb 2014, at 18:34, meekerdb wrote: On 2/12/2014 1:47 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Feb 2014, at 18:20, meekerdb wrote: On 2/11/2014 8:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Feb 2014, at 04:15, meekerdb wrote: ... Brent That which can

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:24:18PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Feb 2014, at 02:02, Russell Standish wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 07:31:24PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: You are right, the qualia are in X1* \ X1, like we get quanta in S4Grz1, Z1*, X1*. The only thing you can