Re: Two apparently different forms of entropy

2014-11-25 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote: meekerdb wrote: ISTM there are two ways of looking at it. In one you say before the event there were several possibilities x,y,z,... with probabilites a,b,c,... and one of them, x, happened. The energy before

Re: Is Dark Energy Gobbling Dark Matter, and Slowing Universe's Expansion?

2014-11-25 Thread Richard Ruquist
The article was about the bad fit. On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 5:58 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 November 2014 at 11:53, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: The continuing tests have been done. The results are in. That is what the article is about. I only saw references to a

Re: Two apparently different forms of entropy

2014-11-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Nov 2014, at 23:07, Bruce Kellett wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: On 24 Nov 2014, at 11:35, Richard Ruquist wrote: With MWI thinking, every detector will detect a photon at the same energy and frequency as the original photon but in a different world. So the total energy in the

Re: Two apparently different forms of entropy

2014-11-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Nov 2014, at 16:58, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 24 Nov 2014, at 11:35, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 4:05 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 23 Nov 2014, at 18:11, Richard

Re: Edge: Myth of A.I.

2014-11-25 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 , LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: If intelligent behavior is not a test for consciousness then how do you know that such machines are not conscious? For that matter how do you know that a rock is not conscious but your fellow human beings are conscious when they're not

Re: Edge: Myth of A.I.

2014-11-25 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I don't think John's post implied that conscious was another word for intelligence. I think his position is that a being could be conscious without being intelligent (which would be consistent with aware of one's self and

Re: Edge: Myth of A.I.

2014-11-25 Thread zibbsey
On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 3:27:35 PM UTC, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 , LizR liz...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: If intelligent behavior is not a test for consciousness then how do you know that such machines are not conscious? For that matter how do you know that a rock

Re: Edge: Myth of A.I.

2014-11-25 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 zibb...@gmail.com wrote: I believe that too, but then I think that intelligent behavior is the test for consciousness, it's not a perfect test but it's the only test we have. Is that more accurate than saying we do not have a test for consciousness ? No, a test

Re: Two apparently different forms of entropy

2014-11-25 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 24 Nov 2014, at 16:58, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 24 Nov 2014, at 11:35, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 4:05 AM, Bruno

My latest crossword

2014-11-25 Thread LizR
http://mayaofauckland.wordpress.com/2014/11/25/do-quantum-mechanics-overcharge-not-after-renormalisation/ In case anyone out there is into cryptic crosswords. This has a bit of a science theme :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List

Re: Is Dark Energy Gobbling Dark Matter, and Slowing Universe's Expansion?

2014-11-25 Thread LizR
And I said that it seemed to me that if dark matter was being destroyed galaxies should be expanding, and asked if there was any observational evidence to support this. On 25 November 2014 at 23:44, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: The article was about the bad fit. -- You received

Re: Edge: Myth of A.I.

2014-11-25 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I donĀ“t though it very much. But it is applicable to any imaginable goal. Since certain self interests will go against any collective interest that we can imagine. And the best way to advance self interest is indeed to use ideology to hide deleterious self interests behind any true or false good

Re: Edge: Myth of A.I.

2014-11-25 Thread LizR
On 26 November 2014 at 04:27, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 , LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: If intelligent behavior is not a test for consciousness then how do you know that such machines are not conscious? For that matter how do you know that a rock is not

Re: Edge: Myth of A.I.

2014-11-25 Thread LizR
On 26 November 2014 at 04:38, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I don't think John's post implied that conscious was another word for intelligence. I think his position is that a being could be conscious without being

Re: Edge: Myth of A.I.

2014-11-25 Thread meekerdb
On 11/25/2014 2:00 PM, LizR wrote: On 26 November 2014 at 04:38, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com mailto:johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I don't think John's post implied that conscious was