Re: Unput and Onput

2014-02-03 Thread Craig Weinberg
) Terren On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 12:40 AM, LizR liz...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: On 2 February 2014 06:47, David Nyman da...@davidnyman.com javascript: wrote: On 1 February 2014 16:55, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: If you don't see how my 'theory' automatically trumps

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-03 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 3, 2014 3:17:46 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 02 Feb 2014, at 20:31, meekerdb wrote: On 2/2/2014 5:37 AM, David Nyman wrote: Craig, nothing you have said so far diminishes by a single iota the significance of the paradox to your theory. It's not so easy to

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-03 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 3, 2014 3:21:21 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 02 Feb 2014, at 20:48, Craig Weinberg wrote: I have no problem with (what I understand of) Bruno's schema, except that like all computational or information-theoretic schemas, it places logical objects before sensory

Re: How to define finite

2014-02-03 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 2, 2014 10:46:34 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 2/2/2014 2:36 PM, John Mikes wrote: You just scolded John Mikes for assuming he knew what reality is. Brent Brent: could you refresh my aging memory and 'quote me' with this stupid misunderstanding? It was last

Re: Edgar, Personal Attacks, and the Real Consequences of Comp

2014-02-03 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, January 16, 2014 3:19:40 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 15 Jan 2014, at 20:14, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Liz, (and Dan) When people die they vanish from existence. To believe otherwise may be comforting, but it's just superstition.. In your theory perhaps. But then my body

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-03 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 3, 2014 4:25:14 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 4 February 2014 02:26, David Nyman da...@davidnyman.com javascript: wrote: On 3 February 2014 12:06, Stathis Papaioannou stat...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: If consciousness is epiphenomenal I don't see how that

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-03 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 12:17:46 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 4 February 2014 09:29, David Nyman da...@davidnyman.com javascript: wrote: Does it? You still haven't explained why bodies emit utterances that appear to refer to this putative epiphenomenon. Or are you saying

Re: The Robot and the Wizard

2014-02-02 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 2, 2014 6:51:32 AM UTC-5, telmo_menezes wrote: On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Friday, January 31, 2014 3:54:54 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: Like, wow. Nice picture (I'm tempted to say it makes a lot more sense

Re: Unput and Onput

2014-02-02 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 2, 2014 10:04:35 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 2 February 2014 03:52, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: It's because you don't listen, and then project that quality onto me. It's very common I've found. Not everyone is that way though. I have many

Re: Unput and Onput

2014-02-02 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 2, 2014 4:36:46 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 01 Feb 2014, at 21:12, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 1, 2014 2:16:43 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 01 Feb 2014, at 13:13, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 1, 2014 4:54:47 AM UTC-5

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-02 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 2, 2014 6:18:28 AM UTC-5, telmo_menezes wrote: On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Friday, January 31, 2014 8:28:38 AM UTC-5, telmo_menezes wrote: On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Craig Weinberg whats

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-02 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 2, 2014 7:43:33 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 2 February 2014 19:48, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: What do you mean by laying claim to conscious phenomena? In what way does a brain or body lay claim to conscious phenomena? Let me restate

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-02 Thread Craig Weinberg
are a side view of experience which represent participation. Craig David On Sunday, February 2, 2014 7:43:33 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 2 February 2014 19:48, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: What do you mean by laying claim to conscious phenomena? In what way does a brain or body

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 1, 2014 12:15:26 AM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 1 February 2014 13:22, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Friday, January 31, 2014 5:32:49 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: It emerges along the time axis. Evolution, for example, can operate in a block

Re: Unput and Onput

2014-02-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 1, 2014 12:26:34 AM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 1 February 2014 17:30, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: It's not an assumption, it is a question. I am asking, what good is computation without input/output and isn't the fact of i/o completely

Re: Unput and Onput

2014-02-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 1, 2014 5:09:05 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 31 Jan 2014, at 22:58, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, January 31, 2014 4:16:12 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 1 February 2014 09:39, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any instance in which

Re: Unput and Onput

2014-02-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 1, 2014 4:54:47 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 31 Jan 2014, at 21:39, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, January 31, 2014 2:47:01 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 31 Jan 2014, at 03:23, Craig Weinberg wrote: Maybe it will help to make the sense-primitive

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 1, 2014 2:05:34 AM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: There seems to be a bit of confusion about this idea. Some people on the list seem to abhor the idea of a block universe, but when they attack the concept, they invariably go for straw men, making statements like change can't

Re: Unput and Onput

2014-02-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 1, 2014 8:54:12 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 1 February 2014 12:13, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: No. The UD has no output. It is a non stopping program. everything physical and theological appears through its intensional activity

Re: Unput and Onput

2014-02-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 1, 2014 11:32:03 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 1 February 2014 15:44, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote Neither comp nor any other TOE can consistently make reference to input or output extrinsic to itself, Unless, like mine, your TOE makes I

Re: Unput and Onput

2014-02-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 1, 2014 12:47:31 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 1 February 2014 16:55, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: If you don't see how my 'theory' automatically trumps any logical objection then you don't understand my theory fully. That is truly

Re: Unput and Onput

2014-02-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 1, 2014 12:54:10 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 1 February 2014 16:55, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: I must have lost the thread. This Google Groups format is always burying threads for me. If I can find it, I'll definitely reply. I see

Re: Unput and Onput

2014-02-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 1, 2014 2:16:43 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 01 Feb 2014, at 13:13, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 1, 2014 4:54:47 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 31 Jan 2014, at 21:39, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, January 31, 2014 2:47:01 PM UTC-5

Re: Unput and Onput

2014-02-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 1, 2014 2:53:30 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 1 February 2014 16:55, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: I get around that with perceptual relativity. When flying over a city, it doesn't look like there are millions of conscious entities

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
Found it! On Friday, January 31, 2014 11:45:24 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 31 January 2014 01:52, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: The we of individual human beings relies on physical consistency because that is a common sensory experience

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 1, 2014 5:48:04 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 2 February 2014 08:41, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.be javascript: wrote: There can be no zombies if consciousness is epiphenomenal. Just to be sure, I agree with that. I asked why? because I was thinking at

Re: Unput and Onput

2014-02-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 1, 2014 7:56:29 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 1 February 2014 20:33, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Saturday, February 1, 2014 2:53:30 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 1 February 2014 16:55, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 1, 2014 6:30:52 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 1 February 2014 21:49, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Found it! On Friday, January 31, 2014 11:45:24 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 31 January 2014 01:52, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com

Re: Unput and Onput

2014-02-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
) but your reluctance to confront the real difficulties faced by your type of theory makes further discussion too frustrating to sustain, at least for me. Sorry if that seems harsh, but there it is. Over and out. David On 2 Feb 2014 02:20, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote

Re: The Robot and the Wizard

2014-01-31 Thread Craig Weinberg
with ideas (and cannibalizing clipart). On 1 February 2014 08:40, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-jOYKKp02FSU/Uuv8Dx3eOmI/AdU/bjA76WPypzU/s1600/robotwiz3.jpg -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Unput and Onput

2014-01-31 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, January 31, 2014 4:09:38 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 1 February 2014 01:33, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Friday, January 31, 2014 2:15:55 AM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 31 January 2014 17:13, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, January

Re: Unput and Onput

2014-01-31 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, January 31, 2014 4:16:12 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 1 February 2014 09:39, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Is there any instance in which a computation is employed in which no program or data is input and from which no data is expected as output

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-31 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, January 31, 2014 5:32:49 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 1 February 2014 01:40, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Friday, January 31, 2014 2:22:12 AM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 31 January 2014 17:19, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, January

Re: Unput and Onput

2014-01-31 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, January 31, 2014 11:03:14 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 1 February 2014 10:52, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Right, but that's my point. Computationalism overolooks its own instantiation through input. It begins assuming that code is running. It begins

Re: Unput and Onput

2014-01-31 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, January 31, 2014 2:15:55 AM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 31 January 2014 17:13, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:32:02 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: It isn't *essential. *Technically, I believe I/O can be added to a computer

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-31 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, January 31, 2014 2:22:12 AM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 31 January 2014 17:19, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:24:48 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: Why do some people have such a problem with how change can emerge from something

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-31 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, January 30, 2014 7:14:18 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 31 January 2014 02:51, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Had we not already discovered the impossibility of resurrecting a dead person with raw electricity, would your position offer any insight

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-31 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, January 31, 2014 8:08:32 AM UTC-5, telmo_menezes wrote: Hi Edgar, On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Liz, Your mouth sure has to move a lot to tell us it's not moving! The problem is not that static equations DESCRIBE

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-31 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, January 31, 2014 8:28:38 AM UTC-5, telmo_menezes wrote: On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Friday, January 31, 2014 8:08:32 AM UTC-5, telmo_menezes wrote: Hi Edgar, On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Edgar L

The Robot and the Wizard

2014-01-31 Thread Craig Weinberg
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-jOYKKp02FSU/Uuv8Dx3eOmI/AdU/bjA76WPypzU/s1600/robotwiz3.jpg -- 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: Unput and Onput

2014-01-31 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, January 31, 2014 2:47:01 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 31 Jan 2014, at 03:23, Craig Weinberg wrote: Maybe it will help to make the sense-primitive view clearer if we think of sense and motive as input and output. This is only a step away from Comp, so it should

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-30 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, January 30, 2014 12:19:56 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 30 January 2014 16:00, meekerdb meek...@verizon.net javascript: wrote: On 1/29/2014 5:06 PM, David Nyman wrote: On 29 January 2014 22:15, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: The problem

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-30 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 11:26:17 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 30 January 2014 13:30, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: What's wrong with the way a cadaver functions? Many changes occur after death, the end result of which is that in a cadaver

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-30 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, January 30, 2014 6:46:52 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 29 Jan 2014, at 23:24, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 1:34:48 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comwrote: NO ROOM CAN BE CONSCIOUS

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-30 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:48:55 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 30 January 2014 02:19, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: But how then could any such sequence of extrinsic events possibly be linked to anything outside its causally-closed circle of explanation

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-30 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, January 30, 2014 4:08:31 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 30 January 2014 16:33, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.be javascript:wrote: Not really. Somehow, you conflate levels and points of view. It is a sin of reductionism :) You do the mistake of those who deny compatibilistic

Unput and Onput

2014-01-30 Thread Craig Weinberg
Maybe it will help to make the sense-primitive view clearer if we think of sense and motive as input and output. This is only a step away from Comp, so it should not be construed to mean that I am defining sense and motive as merely input and output. My purpose here is just to demonstrate that

Re: Unput and Onput

2014-01-30 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:32:02 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: It isn't *essential. *Technically, I believe I/O can be added to a computer programme as some sort of initial settings (for any given run of the programme). Added how though? By inputting code, yes? Obviously this isn't

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-30 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:24:48 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: Why do some people have such a problem with how change can emerge from something static ? It's as simple as F = ma - a static equation describing something changing. Change is by definition things being different at different

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 3:56:34 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 28 January 2014 18:25, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: That's because the theory prevents the truth about it from being accessed. The theory of comp is blind to its blindness, and demands

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 1:34:48 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: NO ROOM CAN BE CONSCIOUS. And we know that because we can say it in all capital letters, or possibly from the teachings of two

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 5:38:04 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 30 January 2014 11:24, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 1:34:48 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comwrote

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 5:46:25 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 30 January 2014 09:39, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 5:38:04 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 30 January 2014 11:24, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 5:46:25 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 30 January 2014 09:39, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 5:38:04 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 30 January 2014 11:24, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 6:01:19 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 30 January 2014 11:39, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 5:38:04 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 30 January 2014 11:24, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 6:13:35 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 30 January 2014 12:09, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 6:01:19 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 30 January 2014 11:39, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 6:22:43 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 30 January 2014 12:21, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 6:13:35 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 30 January 2014 12:09, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 6:38:22 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 30 January 2014 12:32, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 6:22:43 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 30 January 2014 12:21, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 7:10:30 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 30 January 2014 12:45, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 6:38:22 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 30 January 2014 12:32, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 8:06:03 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 29 January 2014 22:15, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: The problem that concerns me about this way of looking at things is that any and all behaviour associated with consciousness - including

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 9:21:44 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 30 January 2014 10:00, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 5:46:25 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 30 January 2014 09:39, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-28 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 5:23:02 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 27 Jan 2014, at 22:22, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, January 27, 2014 5:57:55 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 27 Jan 2014, at 06:07, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, January 25, 2014 11:36:11 PM UTC-5

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-28 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 1:52:47 AM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 28 January 2014 17:35, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Monday, January 27, 2014 5:24:06 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 28 January 2014 10:59, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: I think that 0+1=1

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-28 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 6:09:33 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Jan 2014, at 07:52, LizR wrote: On 28 January 2014 17:35, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Monday, January 27, 2014 5:24:06 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 28 January 2014 10:59, Craig Weinberg

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-28 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 12:31:07 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Jan 2014, at 13:36, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 5:23:02 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 27 Jan 2014, at 22:22, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, January 27, 2014 5:57:55 AM UTC-5

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-28 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 8:37:04 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 27 January 2014 16:07, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Do you think Barack Obama is conscious? If you do, then in whatever sense you understand that, can the Chinese Room also be conscious? Or do

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-27 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, January 27, 2014 5:57:55 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 27 Jan 2014, at 06:07, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, January 25, 2014 11:36:11 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 26 January 2014 01:35, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: But that doesn't answer

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-27 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, January 27, 2014 6:15:35 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 27 Jan 2014, at 06:28, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, January 26, 2014 5:18:53 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 25 Jan 2014, at 15:35, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, January 25, 2014 1:41:30 AM UTC-5

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-26 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, January 25, 2014 11:36:11 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 26 January 2014 01:35, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: But that doesn't answer the question: do you think (or understand, or whatever you think the appropriate term is) that the Chinese Room COULD POSSIBLY

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-26 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, January 26, 2014 5:18:53 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 25 Jan 2014, at 15:35, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, January 25, 2014 1:41:30 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 25 January 2014 00:26, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: Tell me what you believe so we can

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-25 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, January 25, 2014 1:41:30 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 25 January 2014 00:26, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Tell me what you believe so we can be clear: My understanding is that you believe that if the parts of the Chinese Room don't understand

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, January 24, 2014 12:31:33 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 24 January 2014 01:15, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Thursday, January 23, 2014 5:39:08 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 13 January 2014 00:40, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote

Re: what is the definition of computation?

2014-01-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 5:46:26 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 23 January 2014 03:13, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Consciousness uses computation to offload that which is too monotonous to find meaningful any longer. That is the function of computation

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, January 23, 2014 5:39:08 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 13 January 2014 00:40, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Here then is simpler and more familiar example of how computation can differ from natural understanding which is not susceptible to any

Re: A humble suggestion to the group

2014-01-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 6:14:35 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: Consider the posts by Craig. He said clearly no to that question, making his assumption (existence of a primitive sense) coherent. But he used his assumption to justify his negation of comp, but that is usually

Re: A humble suggestion to the group

2014-01-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, January 23, 2014 2:18:50 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 23 Jan 2014, at 15:29, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 6:14:35 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: Consider the posts by Craig. He said clearly no to that question, making his

Re: what is the definition of computation?

2014-01-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
2014 17:08, LizR liz...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On 22 January 2014 15:04, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: Computation is the nested, recursive enumeration of uniform symbolic bodies. The effectiveness of computation derives from its metaphorical application

Re: what is the definition of computation?

2014-01-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 11:08:45 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 22 January 2014 15:04, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Computation is the nested, recursive enumeration of uniform symbolic bodies. The effectiveness of computation derives from its metaphorical

Re: what is the definition of computation?

2014-01-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 11:08:45 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 22 January 2014 15:04, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Computation is the nested, recursive enumeration of uniform symbolic bodies. The effectiveness of computation derives from its metaphorical

Re: Donald Hoffman Video on Interface Theory of Consciousness

2014-01-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 5:26:15 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Craig, On Thursday, January 16, 2014 2:54:19 PM UTC-5, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 2:59:50 PM UTC-5, freqflyer07281972 wrote: Hey Craig! I watched the video... very cool! Hi Dan

Re: what is the definition of computation?

2014-01-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 5:17:25 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Craig, On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 9:19:54 AM UTC-5, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 11:08:45 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 22 January 2014 15:04, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote

Re: The Singularity Institute Blog

2014-01-17 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 4:06:19 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 15 Jan 2014, at 05:33, meekerdb wrote: A long, rambling but often interesting discussion among guys at MIRI about how to make an AI that is superintelligent but not dangerous (FAI=Friendly AI). Here's an amusing

Re: The Singularity Institute Blog

2014-01-17 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, January 17, 2014 6:14:13 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Jan 2014, at 20:12, meekerdb wrote: On 1/16/2014 3:42 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The singularity is in the past, and is the discovery of the universal machine. In a sense, we can make it only more stupid, like when

Sum of all natural numbers = -1/12?

2014-01-17 Thread Craig Weinberg
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/the-sum-of-1-2-3-4-5-until-infinity-is-so-1503066071 -- 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: Sum of all natural numbers = -1/12?

2014-01-17 Thread Craig Weinberg
/wiki/Deep_Thought_(The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy)#Deep_Thought 2014/1/17, Alberto G. Corona agoc...@gmail.com javascript:: That is absolutely wrong. Everyone know that the result is 42 ;) 2014/1/17, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript:: http://sploid.gizmodo.com

Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-17 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, January 17, 2014 1:03:15 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 17 Jan 2014, at 03:11, LizR wrote: On 17 January 2014 14:17, Stathis Papaioannou stat...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: Historically, AI researchers did not consider the question of whether a computer that behaves

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-17 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, January 17, 2014 11:30:16 AM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Quentin, No, not at all. They are NOT at the same spacetime coordinates because their clock time t values are different. Only if their clocktime t values as well as their x,y,z values were the same would they be at the

Re: everything list note :)

2014-01-17 Thread Craig Weinberg
At least the music metaphor has aesthetic appreciation, performance, and an audience. Information/computation has none of those things unless we arbitrarily add them. Craig On Friday, January 17, 2014 4:10:50 AM UTC-5, cdemorsella wrote: Mostly lurking here… and have off and on for years

Re: Sum of all natural numbers = -1/12?

2014-01-17 Thread Craig Weinberg
That's pretty much what I thought. The idea that the sum of such a series *equals* 1/2 I think is only one way to make sense of it. Who says that a rational number is even an option? What if +1 and -1 are absolute, like 'moving' and 'static'. There is no 1/2 moving. Still, it's interesting to

Re: Donald Hoffman Video on Interface Theory of Consciousness

2014-01-16 Thread Craig Weinberg
of the universe, in my view, is self-nesting sensory-motive phenomena...represented by more of the same. Thanks, Craig Cheers, Dan On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 1:31:56 PM UTC-5, Craig Weinberg wrote: Donald Hoffman Video on Interface Theory of Consciousnesshttp://m.youtube.com/watch?v

Donald Hoffman Video on Interface Theory of Consciousness

2014-01-14 Thread Craig Weinberg
Donald Hoffman Video on Interface Theory of Consciousnesshttp://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dqDP34a-epI A very good presentation with lot of overlap on my views. He proposes similar ideas about a sensory-motive primitive and the nature of the world as experience rather than “objective”. What is

Re: The Scale of Digital

2014-01-13 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, January 12, 2014 5:02:07 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 13 January 2014 02:35, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: How large does a digital circle have to be before the circumference seems like a straight line? That depends on who is viewing it and where from

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-12 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, January 12, 2014 12:21:48 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: I'm a lump of dumb matter arranged in a special way and I am conscious, so I don't see why another lump of dumb matter arranged in a special way might not also be conscious. What is it about that idea that you see as not

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-12 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, January 12, 2014 5:41:15 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Jan 2014, at 05:12, Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote: RE: arXiv: 1401.1219v1 [quant-ph] 6 Jan 2014 Consciousness as a State of Matter Max Tegmark, January 8, 2014 Hi Folk, Grrr! I confess that after

The Scale of Digital

2014-01-12 Thread Craig Weinberg
How large does a digital circle have to be before the circumference seems like a straight line? Digital information has no scale or sense of relation. Code is code. Any rendering of that code into a visual experience of lines and curves is a question of graphic formatting and human optical

Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-12 Thread Craig Weinberg
Here then is simpler and more familiar example of how computation can differ from natural understanding which is not susceptible to any mereological Systems argument. If any of you have use passwords which are based on a pattern of keystrokes rather than the letters on the keys, you know

Re: The Scale of Digital

2014-01-12 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, January 12, 2014 10:45:13 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Jan 2014, at 14:35, Craig Weinberg wrote: How large does a digital circle have to be before the circumference seems like a straight line? Digital information has no scale or sense of relation. Code is code. Any

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-01-12 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, January 12, 2014 10:51:37 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Jan 2014, at 14:40, Craig Weinberg wrote: Here then is simpler and more familiar example of how computation can differ from natural understanding which is not susceptible to any mereological Systems

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-12 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, January 12, 2014 10:43:41 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Jan 2014, at 14:18, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, January 12, 2014 5:41:15 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Jan 2014, at 05:12, Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote: RE: arXiv: 1401.1219v1 [quant-ph] 6 Jan 2014

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-11 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, January 11, 2014 11:12:46 PM UTC-5, ColinHales wrote: RE: arXiv: 1401.1219v1 [quant-ph] 6 Jan 2014 Consciousness as a State of Matter Max Tegmark, January 8, 2014 Hi Folk, Grrr! I confess that after 12 years of deep immersion in science’s grapplings

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