Re: Turing Test (was: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness)

2015-03-24 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 6:03 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/23/2015 1:24 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 5:50 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: I said it before I'll say it

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-03-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2015-03-24 1:57 GMT+01:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 3/23/2015 5:44 PM, LizR wrote: On 24 March 2015 at 13:07, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Yes, as I understand it that's the argument. It's consistent with Platonism. A computer program's execution written out on paper is

Re: Turing Test (was: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness)

2015-03-24 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:52 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: In my opinion the fundamental problem with the Turing Test is that passing it is an act of deception. The computer has to fake being a human. Lying

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

2015-03-24 Thread Alberto G. Corona
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Re: The MGA revisited

2015-03-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 25 mars 2015 00:11, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net a écrit : On 3/24/2015 2:23 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2015-03-24 1:57 GMT+01:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 3/23/2015 5:44 PM, LizR wrote: On 24 March 2015 at 13:07, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Yes, as I understand it

Re: Turing Test (was: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness)

2015-03-24 Thread LizR
On 25 March 2015 at 06:23, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: Most people can't do that either. And researchers at the University of Edinburgh made a machine that can write jokes such as I like my relationships like I like my source, open. Well OK maybe it's not a particularly funny

Re: Turing Test (was: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness)

2015-03-24 Thread LizR
On 25 March 2015 at 06:23, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: And anyway the really important thing isn't if you can detect if the thing you're talking to is a human but if you can detect if the thing you're talking to

Re: Turing Test (was: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness)

2015-03-24 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 6:23 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: And anyway the really important thing isn't if you can detect if the thing you're talking to is a human but if you can detect if the thing you're

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-03-24 Thread meekerdb
On 3/24/2015 2:23 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2015-03-24 1:57 GMT+01:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net: On 3/23/2015 5:44 PM, LizR wrote: On 24 March 2015 at 13:07, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Yes, as I

Re: Turing Test

2015-03-24 Thread meekerdb
On 3/24/2015 2:34 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: This does not mean that gigantic search trees cannot be used to create generic intelligence, but I am quite skeptical that they can. This skepticism comes from the observation that the human brain is highly associative, distributed and asynchronous. So

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Mar 2015, at 18:12, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: We can't detect intelligence in machine, does not mean that machine are not intelligent. We can't detect intelligence in human too. Thus Sarah Palin could be more intelligent than

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-24 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: John-before-he-looks can still reflect on his possible futures. On who's possible future? Please please please stop with the damn ambiguous personal pronouns! That is what you are being asked. What is your personal feeling,

Re: Turing Test (was: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness)

2015-03-24 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: it will be more than human. I'm not sure what that means. It means that a future machine can perform any task in a way that is superior to way that any human who ever lived could using any definition of superior that you care

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-03-24 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 12:25:04AM +0100, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Le 25 mars 2015 00:11, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net a écrit : When rerunning the program with the recorded initial input, by hypothesis the second run must be as conscious as the first when the inputs came from the 'real'

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-24 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: Then the john-before-he-measures-the-photon-spin can't measure the photon spin, Photons have polarization not spin, electrons spin but obviously john-before-he-measures-the-electron-spin can't measure it, but John can. However

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Mar 2015, at 19:58, meekerdb wrote: On 3/23/2015 9:46 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Mar 2015, at 22:45, LizR wrote: On 23 March 2015 at 07:37, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I don't think step 3 is at all essential to the argument. It's nothing but setting up an analogy to

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Mar 2015, at 19:51, meekerdb wrote: On 3/23/2015 9:36 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: To admit it is theology consists in admitting that we need some act of faith, so it is a type of religion. It is a belief in the possibility of some reincarnation. The trouble with needing some act of

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Mar 2015, at 20:36, John Mikes wrote: Bruno wrote: The problem is that there are few people serious in logic, in QM and in philosophy of mind. And defamation does not help especially in interdisciplinary field. Which logic? (you mentioned the math-one) Good question. For some

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Mar 2015, at 20:02, meekerdb wrote: On 3/23/2015 9:59 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Mar 2015, at 22:57, meekerdb wrote: On 3/22/2015 11:25 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Who? (Jean-Paul Delahaye? Bill Taylor? Invite them to present themselves an argument, because if it is a valid

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

2015-03-24 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Telmo Menezes Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 1:53 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: TEPCO admits Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 core completely melted down On Mon, Mar 23,

Re: Turing Test (was: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness)

2015-03-24 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: And anyway the really important thing isn't if you can detect if the thing you're talking to is a human but if you can detect if the thing you're talking to is intelligent. Yes, that is the important thing. That is not

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Mar 2015, at 02:58, Bruce Kellett wrote: meekerdb wrote: On 3/23/2015 5:11 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: LizR wrote: On 24 March 2015 at 08:02, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: That every number has a unique successor for one. Let's call the first

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Mar 2015, at 01:50, meekerdb wrote: On 3/23/2015 5:02 PM, LizR wrote: On 24 March 2015 at 08:02, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: That every number has a unique successor for one. Let's call the first number that doesn't have a unique successor n... That's one possible form of

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-03-24 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 24 March 2015 at 16:31, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote: meekerdb wrote: On 3/23/2015 10:05 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: Russell Standish wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 02:17:40PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: If you take the block universe model seriously then we are nothing

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-03-24 Thread Bruce Kellett
meekerdb wrote: On 3/23/2015 10:31 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: meekerdb wrote: Aye, there's the rub. Bruno claims that such capricious sequences of experience must have small measure. But I think the must means so that my theory will hold water. Anyway he admits it's an open problem to

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-03-24 Thread Bruce Kellett
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 24 March 2015 at 16:31, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote: meekerdb wrote: On 3/23/2015 10:05 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: Russell Standish wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 02:17:40PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: If you take the block universe model

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-24 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: the John-before-he-looks will be uncertain of what he will see People just can't get over that damn pronoun addiction! If he is the John-before-he-looks then he will see nothing because he hasn't looked yet. If the

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

2015-03-24 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 5:41 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of * On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 3:48 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-24 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 , meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: If you really want it to be like the MWI explanation of the 2 slit experiment (the one when the photons end up hitting a photographic plate rater than continue into infinite space) then you'd have to modify Bruno's thought

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Mar 2015, at 20:32, meekerdb wrote: On 3/23/2015 10:30 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: OK, but people are also unaware that logicians have made tremendous progress in metamathematics-alias mathematical logic, so we can talk on things non provable by this or that machine, and that some

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-03-24 Thread LizR
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Re: The MGA revisited

2015-03-24 Thread Bruce Kellett
LizR wrote: What's wrong with Last Thursdayism? Nothing that I know of. But people tend not to like the idea. Bruce -- 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

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-24 Thread LizR
So the recombination explicitly knits together the brains to preserve both sets of memories. This would work OK if brains were hard drives, I guess! I don't know how feasible-in-theory it is with real ones. (Or what it would prove.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2015-03-24 21:44 GMT+01:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: the John-before-he-looks will be uncertain of what he will see People just can't get over that damn pronoun addiction! If he is the John-before-he-looks then he will see

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-24 Thread Kim Jones
On 25 Mar 2015, at 7:44 am, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: the John-before-he-looks will be uncertain of what he will see People just can't get over that damn pronoun addiction! If he is the John-before-he-looks