Re: TEPCO admits Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 core completely melted down

2015-03-21 Thread meekerdb
On 3/20/2015 9:18 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: *From:*everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *meekerdb *Sent:* Friday, March 20, 2015 5:20 PM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: TEPCO admits Fukushima

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-21 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 6:36 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/20/2015 3:43 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:25 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 March 2015 at 20:57, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: A fundamental difference in science is

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Mar 2015, at 03:31, PGC wrote: On Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 2:32:55 AM UTC+1, Bruno Marchal wrote: If three people asks me to no more answer to Clark, I will avoid it. There is something like not feeding the troll. Asking you to do such would imply that there is something to

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Mar 2015, at 04:00, meekerdb wrote: On 3/20/2015 6:32 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 20 Mar 2015, at 20:51, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Then the Turing Test works for consciousness and not just for intelligence. It can give an

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness--

2015-03-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Mar 2015, at 04:37, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com ] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 5:28 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Michael Graziano's

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-21 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 2:30 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 March 2015 at 08:51, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: Because I spotted a blunder in the proof about 3 years ago and despite reams of blather in hundreds of posts you were unable to fix it. Only a fool would keep

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-21 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: I remember a long discussion where John ended up changing his claim that step 3 was wrong to it just being trivial. But then he still refused to keep reading. At this point I decided he was not serious about the issue. It's

Re: TEPCO admits Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 core completely melted down

2015-03-21 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
We can yap about technology but it's all out of our hands. Nuclear fission has taken permanent hit because of its cost$. It's not safety that halted uranium, but money. In a darwinian fashion, natural gas has superseded uranium, from a cost-price ratio. Could fission or solar re-take the hill

RE: TEPCO admits Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 core completely melted down

2015-03-21 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2015 9:56 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: TEPCO admits Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 core completely melted down On Fri, Mar 20, 2015

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Mar 2015, at 01:19, PGC wrote: On Friday, March 20, 2015 at 10:23:20 AM UTC+1, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2015-03-19 23:44 GMT+01:00 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everyth...@googlegroups.com: - Forwarded Message - From: Kim Jones kimj...@ozemail.com.au To:

Re: TEPCO admits Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 core completely melted down

2015-03-21 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:55 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Reactors are either water cooled or air cooled. Graphite is used as a moderator to slow the neutrons and increase fission I know that. not as a coolant. Slowing the neutrons is also called cooling them. Heavy

Re: TEPCO admits Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 core completely melted down

2015-03-21 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: I disagree. Assuming the above is true, and it probably is, that would be WONDERFUL news. In a water cooled reactor, the sort that is used everywhere ( except for Chernobyl and other

RE: TEPCO admits Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 core completely melted down

2015-03-21 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2015 9:06 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: TEPCO admits Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 core completely melted down We can yap about technology but it's all out of

Re: Transgressing the boundaries...

2015-03-21 Thread Alberto G. Corona
It seems that the fabian-gnostic apocalypticist sectarians that kidnapped Harward are preparing other possible apocalyptic alternatives just in case the favorite one is not convincing. Note that all the scenarios are due to the existence of human beings. 2015-03-21 3:45 GMT+01:00 meekerdb

RE: TEPCO admits Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 core completely melted down

2015-03-21 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 10:44 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: TEPCO admits Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 core completely melted down On 3/20/2015 8:57 PM, 'Chris

Re: TEPCO admits Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 core completely melted down

2015-03-21 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Its all driven by cash as we all agree. The competition between the oil and nat gas producers has driven prices way down. I am guessing this is a temporary thing. Perhaps if the Gulf of Hormuz closes, prices will climb horribly, (for us). Uranium fission, unless there is a technical advance in

RE: TEPCO admits Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 core completely melted down

2015-03-21 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb On 3/20/2015 9:18 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: From: On Behalf Of meekerdb On 3/20/2015 10:43 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List From: On

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-21 Thread meekerdb
On 3/21/2015 1:28 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Mar 2015, at 04:00, meekerdb wrote: On 3/20/2015 6:32 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 20 Mar 2015, at 20:51, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Then the Turing

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-21 Thread Telmo Menezes
It is the p in []p p, which makes machine's knowledge not definable in term of number and machine. S4Grz formalizable at a level, what the machine cannot formalize about herself (but can bet on, ...). Thanks to incompleteness, the Theaetetus' definition makes sense, and distinguish the

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-21 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 6:31 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: I remember a long discussion where John ended up changing his claim that step 3 was wrong to it just being trivial. But then he still refused to keep

Re: TEPCO admits Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 core completely melted down

2015-03-21 Thread meekerdb
On 3/21/2015 9:05 AM, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: We can yap about technology but it's all out of our hands. Nuclear fission has taken permanent hit because of its cost$. It's not safety that halted uranium, but money. In a darwinian fashion, natural gas has superseded uranium, from

Re: TEPCO admits Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 core completely melted down

2015-03-21 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 10:08 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/21/2015 9:05 AM, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: We can yap about technology but it's all out of our hands. Nuclear fission has taken permanent hit because of its cost$. It's not safety that halted uranium,

Re: Transgressing the boundaries...

2015-03-21 Thread LizR
On 21 March 2015 at 15:45, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/20/2015 6:25 PM, ...but not in a good way. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6223/1259855.abstract That's actually more sanguine that I expected. I would have estimated climate change as high risk (does beyond

Re: TEPCO admits Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 core completely melted down

2015-03-21 Thread meekerdb
On 3/21/2015 12:04 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: Its all driven by cash as we all agree. The competition between the oil and nat gas producers has driven prices way down. I am guessing this is a temporary thing. Perhaps if the Gulf of Hormuz closes, prices will climb horribly, (for

Re: Transgressing the boundaries...

2015-03-21 Thread LizR
On 22 March 2015 at 00:55, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: Note that all the scenarios are due to the existence of human beings. That isn't too surprising, given that we're the only technologically advanced race ever to appear on the planet (Lovecraft aside). -- You received

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-21 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Competence and intelligence are different things If something made of protoplasm does it then it's intelligent, but if something made of silicon and does the exact same thing then it's only competent; I said it before I'll say it

Re: TEPCO admits Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 core completely melted down

2015-03-21 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Your reasoning seems good about environmental damage, but I feel that the tech being employed is not as robust, that is to say rugged as we need it. I would rather have supposedly safer, small scale uranium boxes everywhere, that need zero coolant, then what has so far been produced. The

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-21 Thread LizR
On 21 March 2015 at 22:35, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: I remember a long discussion where John ended up changing his claim that step 3 was wrong to it just being trivial. But then he still refused to keep reading. At this point I decided he was not serious about the issue.

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-21 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 10:23 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: John appears to just not want to think about it, he's sure it's wrong and he refuses to contemplate the possibility that *he's* wrong, Just give me some reason the think it might not be worthless, but for the last 3 years nobody

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-21 Thread Kim Jones
On 22 Mar 2015, at 10:56 am, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Competence and intelligence are different things If something made of protoplasm does it then it's intelligent, but if something made of silicon and does

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-21 Thread LizR
On 22 March 2015 at 15:40, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 10:23 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: John appears to just not want to think about it, he's sure it's wrong and he refuses to contemplate the possibility that *he's* wrong, Just give me some