Re: Hell on Earth

2014-03-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Mar 2014, at 12:50, Kim Jones wrote: Something tells me these researchers have snorted some Salvia Divinorum. A way of emptying prisons has arrived: you go to prison for some horrible murder or atrocity you commit and the prison sentence is two hundred years. If you are really bad

RE: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-16 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR If we could just get away from one planet ... but the difficulty is, well, astronomical. Before now we could always leave the place where disaster struck, move from the valley where the

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Mar 2014, at 13:22, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, March 15, 2014 7:39:21 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 14 Mar 2014, at 21:40, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: I've asked questions about method. You have not answered them. You say you have been trying to understand me. I believe

RE: The Dalai Lama's Ski Trip

2014-03-16 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2014 7:00 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The Dalai Lama's Ski Trip Hence, we have nothing to fear but fear itself. Franklin D Roosevelt got

Re: The Dalai Lama's Ski Trip

2014-03-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Mar 2014, at 18:48, Chris de Morsella wrote: You know I love the french (a bit cynical) poem: 'man had the good, but he sought the best, he found the bad, and kept it, by fear of the worst.' Kind regards, Bruno Nice... I mean bad :) Fear becomes, within the hidden unexamined

Re: Universal Programming

2014-03-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Mar 2014, at 20:04, meekerdb wrote: On 3/14/2014 7:21 PM, Matt Bell wrote: This may very possibly be an idea that has already been discussed (I am very new to this topic, so I'm still exploring the landscape of ideas), but it has been on my mind recently. If you subscribe to the

Re: Universal Programming

2014-03-16 Thread Richard Ruquist
Bruno: That's correct, but we assume usually classical quantum mechanics. Then, even if GR digitalizes the access to futures, it seems to me that QM will still provide the rooms for immortality (not necessarily a good news). Then, in such reasoning, QM uses comp, and comp by itself leads to many

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-16 Thread Pierz
On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 3:55:41 AM UTC+11, spudb...@aol.com wrote: I think that if extinction rates was 10k, you would already see silent spring round the globe. WHA?? You think that? Based on what analysis? I imagine that you, like me, live in a metropolis where in the course of a

Re: Video of VCR

2014-03-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Mar 2014, at 23:09, Craig Weinberg wrote: http://www.jesseengland.net/index.php?/project/vide-uhhh/ Have a look at this quick video (or get the idea from this_) Since the VCR can get video feedback of itself, is there any computational reason why this doesn't count as a degree of

Re: Video of VCR

2014-03-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Mar 2014, at 05:17, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, March 15, 2014 7:00:48 PM UTC-4, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Craig, Hmmm, let me see. If I just take my eye out of its socket and turn it around then I guess by your theory I'd have self awareness? It's not my theory, but does

Re: Video of VCR

2014-03-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Mar 2014, at 05:35, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 16 March 2014 09:09, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.jesseengland.net/index.php?/project/vide-uhhh/ Have a look at this quick video (or get the idea from this_) Since the VCR can get video feedback of itself,

RE: Quick video about materialism

2014-03-16 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Stathis Papaioannou Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2014 10:02 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Quick video about materialism On 14 March 2014 13:12, Craig Weinberg

RE: The Dalai Lama's Ski Trip

2014-03-16 Thread Chris de Morsella
-Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 12:31 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The Dalai Lama's Ski Trip On 15 Mar 2014, at 18:48, Chris de Morsella

Re: Universal Programming

2014-03-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Mar 2014, at 08:39, Richard Ruquist wrote: Bruno: That's correct, but we assume usually classical quantum mechanics. Then, even if GR digitalizes the access to futures, it seems to me that QM will still provide the rooms for immortality (not necessarily a good news). Then, in such

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-16 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, How is going to another planet and screwing that one up too going to help. The problem is not astronomical, it's human nature. The very success of humans as a species depended on the ruthless exploitation of nature and repression of competition. But those exact same aspects of human

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-16 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Richard, Yes, it's fun to watch everyone who was dumping on Edgar now dumping on each other even more viciously! So maybe it wasn't Edgar after all, but those who were doing the dumping? :-) Edgar On Saturday, March 15, 2014 10:23:28 PM UTC-4, yanniru wrote: The situation at everything

Re: Video of VCR

2014-03-16 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Craig, Depends on what you mean by 'self-awareness'. Do you mean awareness that you are a separate 'thing' in the world with special attributes? Or do you mean the self monitoring awareness of your actual functions as you perform them? These are two very different meanings of self-awareness.

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-16 Thread Pierz
Umm... no. It was you. Great big smiley face. On Sunday, March 16, 2014 10:15:24 PM UTC+11, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Richard, Yes, it's fun to watch everyone who was dumping on Edgar now dumping on each other even more viciously! So maybe it wasn't Edgar after all, but those who were doing

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-16 Thread ghibbsa
On Sunday, March 16, 2014 7:24:10 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 15 Mar 2014, at 13:22, ghi...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Saturday, March 15, 2014 7:39:21 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 14 Mar 2014, at 21:40, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: I've asked questions about method. You have

Re: Video of VCR

2014-03-16 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, March 16, 2014 3:41:30 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Mar 2014, at 05:17, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, March 15, 2014 7:00:48 PM UTC-4, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Craig, Hmmm, let me see. If I just take my eye out of its socket and turn it around then I guess by

Re: The Dalai Lama's Ski Trip

2014-03-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Mar 2014, at 09:13, Chris de Morsella wrote: -Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 12:31 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The Dalai Lama's

Re: Video of VCR

2014-03-16 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, March 16, 2014 7:20:19 AM UTC-4, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Craig, Depends on what you mean by 'self-awareness'. Do you mean awareness that you are a separate 'thing' in the world with special attributes? Or do you mean the self monitoring awareness of your actual functions as you

Re: Video of VCR

2014-03-16 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, March 16, 2014 3:40:49 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 15 Mar 2014, at 23:09, Craig Weinberg wrote: http://www.jesseengland.net/index.php?/project/vide-uhhh/ Have a look at this quick video (or get the idea from this_) Since the VCR can get video feedback of itself, is

Re: Quick video about materialism

2014-03-16 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, March 16, 2014 1:02:08 AM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: On 14 March 2014 13:12, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH2QXQu-HGE A brief, handy rebuttal to materialistic views of consciousness. I would go further, and say that

Re: Quick video about materialism

2014-03-16 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Monday, March 17, 2014, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 1:02:08 AM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: On 14 March 2014 13:12, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH2QXQu-HGE A brief, handy rebuttal to materialistic views

Re: Quick video about materialism

2014-03-16 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, March 16, 2014 10:02:04 AM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: On Monday, March 17, 2014, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 1:02:08 AM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: On 14 March 2014 13:12, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Quick video about materialism

2014-03-16 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: On 15 Mar 2014, at 8:25 am, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: So one could play you some Ferneyhough, say Shadowtime, and you'd be able to score it on first listen? I know nobody that has an

Re: Quick video about materialism

2014-03-16 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: On Friday, March 14, 2014 5:11:56 AM UTC-4, Kim Jones wrote: On 14 Mar 2014, at 1:12 pm, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: Information must be made evident through sensory participation, or it is nothing at

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-16 Thread John Clark
Jesse Mazer laserma...@gmail.com on Sat, Mar 15, 2014 wrote: I think debate is like a sport where it's OK to be aggressive within some very circumscribed bounds, do you see it differently? No I agree. And I don't mind if you call me an asshole but don't call me a creationist, that's going

Re: Quick video about materialism

2014-03-16 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, March 16, 2014 11:05:45 AM UTC-4, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Friday, March 14, 2014 5:11:56 AM UTC-4, Kim Jones wrote: On 14 Mar 2014, at 1:12 pm, Craig Weinberg

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-16 Thread John Clark
Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com on Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 1:44 AM Are you trying to imply that species are not dying off at alarming rate? I hate to see any species go extinct (except for the Smallpox virus) but there are other things that alarm me more. I don't think so but even if

Re: Quick video about materialism

2014-03-16 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 11:05:45 AM UTC-4, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comwrote: On Friday, March 14, 2014 5:11:56 AM UTC-4, Kim Jones wrote:

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Mar 2014, at 13:03, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 7:24:10 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 15 Mar 2014, at 13:22, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: I don't feel so much cloaked in the Popperian view. It has been been refuted by John Case, notably (showing that Popper was

Re: Quick video about materialism

2014-03-16 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, March 16, 2014 11:38:41 AM UTC-4, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 11:05:45 AM UTC-4, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Craig

Re: Quick video about materialism

2014-03-16 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 11:05:45 AM UTC-4, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: Maybe one day you will have the class to acknowledge that Bruno and comp have helped you articulate or conceive of certain things in

Re: Video of VCR

2014-03-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Mar 2014, at 13:52, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 3:41:30 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Mar 2014, at 05:17, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, March 15, 2014 7:00:48 PM UTC-4, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Craig, Hmmm, let me see. If I just take my eye out of its

Re: Quick video about materialism

2014-03-16 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 11:38:41 AM UTC-4, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: If there is nothing other than sensing, then why use all the pronouns and nouns you do? There are no objects... so why would we need nouns

Re: Universal Programming

2014-03-16 Thread meekerdb
On 3/16/2014 12:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 15 Mar 2014, at 20:04, meekerdb wrote: On 3/14/2014 7:21 PM, Matt Bell wrote: This may very possibly be an idea that has already been discussed (I am very new to this topic, so I'm still exploring the landscape of ideas), but it has been on my

Re: Video of VCR

2014-03-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Mar 2014, at 14:10, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 3:40:49 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 15 Mar 2014, at 23:09, Craig Weinberg wrote: http://www.jesseengland.net/index.php?/project/vide-uhhh/ Have a look at this quick video (or get the idea from this_) Since

Re: Quick video about materialism

2014-03-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Mar 2014, at 16:38, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 11:05:45 AM UTC-4, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com

Re: Quick video about materialism

2014-03-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Mar 2014, at 17:00, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 11:38:41 AM UTC-4, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 11:05:45 AM UTC-4, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote:

Re: Universal Programming

2014-03-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Mar 2014, at 17:31, meekerdb wrote: On 3/16/2014 12:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 15 Mar 2014, at 20:04, meekerdb wrote: On 3/14/2014 7:21 PM, Matt Bell wrote: This may very possibly be an idea that has already been discussed (I am very new to this topic, so I'm still exploring

Re: Quick video about materialism

2014-03-16 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, March 16, 2014 12:08:00 PM UTC-4, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 11:38:41 AM UTC-4, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: If there is nothing other than sensing,

Re: Video of VCR

2014-03-16 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, March 16, 2014 12:05:50 PM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Mar 2014, at 13:52, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 3:41:30 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Mar 2014, at 05:17, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, March 15, 2014 7:00:48 PM UTC-4, Edgar L.

Re: Quick video about materialism

2014-03-16 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 12:08:00 PM UTC-4, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comwrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 11:38:41 AM UTC-4, Platonist

Re: Quick video about materialism

2014-03-16 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, March 16, 2014 3:26:46 PM UTC-4, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 12:08:00 PM UTC-4, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Craig

Re: Quick video about materialism

2014-03-16 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 3:26:46 PM UTC-4, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: At this point my impression is: with a bucket so personalized and leaky, I can see how everything just goes in MSR, as long as Craig says

Re: Universal Programming

2014-03-16 Thread LizR
On 17 March 2014 05:31, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/16/2014 12:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: That's correct, but we assume usually classical quantum mechanics. Then, even if GR digitalizes the access to futures, it seems to me that QM will still provide the rooms for immortality

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-16 Thread LizR
On 16 March 2014 15:23, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: The situation at everything list seems to be deteriorating. Teehee. Time to send in the clean-up squad...? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from

Re: Quick video about materialism

2014-03-16 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, March 16, 2014 4:38:42 PM UTC-4, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 3:26:46 PM UTC-4, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: At this point my impression is: with a

Re: Quick video about materialism

2014-03-16 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Monday, March 17, 2014, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 10:02:04 AM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: On Monday, March 17, 2014, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 1:02:08 AM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: On 14 March 2014

Re: Quick video about materialism

2014-03-16 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, March 16, 2014 6:21:18 PM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: On Monday, March 17, 2014, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 10:02:04 AM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: On Monday, March 17, 2014, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday,

RE: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-16 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 8:37 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com

Re: Quick video about materialism

2014-03-16 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 17 March 2014 10:43, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 6:21:18 PM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: On Monday, March 17, 2014, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2014 10:02:04 AM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: On Monday, March 17,

RE: The Dalai Lama's Ski Trip

2014-03-16 Thread Chris de Morsella
-Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 2:14 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The Dalai Lama's Ski Trip On 16 Mar 2014, at 09:13, Chris de Morsella