Re: Democracy

2015-01-09 Thread Kim Jones
at the world already... Kim Jones B. Mus. GDTL Email: kimjo...@ozemail.com.au Web: http://www.eportfolio.kmjcommp.com I'm not saying there aren't a lot of dangerous people out there. I am saying a lot of them are in government - Russell Brand -- You received this message because you

Re: S=0

2015-01-05 Thread Kim Jones
On 5 Jan 2015, at 6:13 pm, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: For me the crux has always also been how does anything at all emerge from an all-encompassing universal nothingness. Well, you've read Larry Krauss on this by now for the

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-05 Thread Kim Jones
On 6 Jan 2015, at 12:09 pm, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds a bit like sophistry. The question could be rephrased 'why/how does anything exist?' - which is a natural continuation of the questions scientists have been asking for a while. If you aren't interested in why and how

Re: Democracy

2015-01-05 Thread Kim Jones
On 6 Jan 2015, at 6:06 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: But surely, The False exists? False proposition exists, but, well, thanks to God, they are not true, and thus not realized in any reality. But in the cul-de-sac world, false is necessary, which still does not lead

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-04 Thread Kim Jones
On 3 Jan 2015, at 5:17 pm, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: If everything exists, what doesn't exist? Nothing. If nothing existed; would it remain nothing? -Chris Brent You are both missing the main question: what was

Re: Democracy

2015-01-04 Thread Kim Jones
On 5 Jan 2015, at 2:57 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 04 Jan 2015, at 00:30, Kim Jones wrote: On 4 Jan 2015, at 2:47 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: But this fearing of God is a mystery to me. God should be good. Only the devil should be feared

Re: Democracy

2015-01-03 Thread Kim Jones
On 4 Jan 2015, at 2:47 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: But this fearing of God is a mystery to me. God should be good. Only the devil should be feared. (between us). Is the devil not-God? Is it not that fear of the devil is the same as the fear of God (in some sense)? Who or

Re: Evolution of pro-social religions

2015-01-03 Thread Kim Jones
Why would you recommend others read something you have not? You don't see that as being just a little strange? Anyway I read the paper. The authors' conclusion? That pro-social religion (which I understand to mean institutionalised religion is probably here to stay. They kind of just

Re: A paranormal prediction for the next year

2015-01-02 Thread Kim Jones
the proof of God in S4Grz1? Open problem (at least for me). You really seem to act like a bishop of religious atheism, although your position on the ontological status of the physical universe remains unclear. Do you believe in a PRIMARY physical universe? Or are you agnostic on this? Bruno Kim Jones

Re: A paranormal prediction for the next year

2014-12-31 Thread Kim Jones
Yes, I think we are all sufficiently aware of how bereft of the ravages of imagination you are. Take a bow. You need the adulation, clearly. Kim Jones On 1 Jan 2015, at 3:42 am, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: One year ago I sent the following post to the list, I did not change one

Re: Animals think like autistic humans

2014-12-31 Thread Kim Jones
It's not about thinking. It's about perception. Savants and animals have a perception of reality that others may have lost, yes. As always, you need to be clear about what is perception (pattern recognition) and what is thinking (designing some form of action in the future). All living things

Re: Democracy

2014-12-31 Thread Kim Jones
On 31 Dec 2014, at 6:17 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Then, when the science theology has been recuperated by politics, and when religion get institutionalized, the term God has become the name of some hero in some fairy tale, Like Zeus and Poseid0n and Hermes and Jupiter.

Re: Democracy

2014-12-31 Thread Kim Jones
On 31 Dec 2014, at 6:17 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Eventually I conclude that atheism is *really* the religious mirror of christianity. They have the same notion of God (even if it is used only to be denied) and they have the same notion of primary matter (modulo some

Re: A paranormal prediction for the next year

2014-12-31 Thread Kim Jones
I predict John Clark will make this prediction again exactly one year from now unless his computer develops arms and throttles him before he can do it. I also predict that some one will tell me that this has already happened in universes with perhaps exceedingly low measure. For the rest of

Re: Democracy

2014-12-31 Thread Kim Jones
On 1 Jan 2015, at 11:46 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/31/2014 4:22 PM, Kim Jones wrote: On 31 Dec 2014, at 6:17 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Eventually I conclude that atheism is *really* the religious mirror of christianity. They have the same notion

Re: Animals think like autistic humans

2014-12-31 Thread Kim Jones
On 1 Jan 2015, at 11:30 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/31/2014 4:00 PM, Kim Jones wrote: Thinking, however, is a highly evolved skill of many parts involving values and beliefs and motivations and agendas and theories and risk-taking. Lifting a cup to your lips

Re: Animals think like autistic humans

2014-12-31 Thread Kim Jones
On 1 Jan 2015, at 1:13 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/31/2014 5:52 PM, Kim Jones wrote: On 1 Jan 2015, at 11:30 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/31/2014 4:00 PM, Kim Jones wrote: Thinking, however, is a highly evolved skill of many parts involving

Re: Animals think like autistic humans

2014-12-31 Thread Kim Jones
@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Animals think like autistic humans On 12/31/2014 4:00 PM, Kim Jones wrote: Thinking, however, is a highly evolved skill of many parts involving values and beliefs and motivations and agendas and theories and risk-taking. Lifting a cup to your lips to swallow

Re: Democracy

2014-12-27 Thread Kim Jones
On 27 Dec 2014, at 11:44 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 27 Dec 2014, at 03:11, Kim Jones wrote: Democracy is a concept. It can be implemented in various ways. I like Liz's conceptualisation of it as communist-style sharing of astcronomical wealth and resources among

Re: Democracy

2014-12-27 Thread Kim Jones
. Whenever the majority legislate against the anthropological, economical or physical reality. (There have been democratic decrees to render flu illegal) 2014-12-27 3:11 GMT+01:00 Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au: Democracy is a concept. It can be implemented in various ways. I like Liz's

Re: William Stanley Jevons

2014-12-27 Thread Kim Jones
On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Tee hee. So you are saying - are you not - that it never makes sense to worry in any naked sense about our tendency to gobble everything up like bacteria in a petri dish The bacteria shouldn't worry

Re: William Stanley Jevons

2014-12-27 Thread Kim Jones
On 28 Dec 2014, at 1:07 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/27/2014 5:42 PM, Kim Jones wrote: Had we not dropped the bomb on Japan we would certainly be in a different universe now. Probably one in which I as a citizen of an extended Japanese empire in the Pacific would

Re: I signed up to be cryogenically frozen

2014-12-26 Thread Kim Jones
On 23 Dec 2014, at 5:46 pm, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Stathis: Perhaps, but some may prefer Hell to oblivion, while others try to kill themselves after a minor setback. It depends on the person. Bruce: An odd notion, that: some people might prefer Hell to Oblivion.

Re: William Stanley Jevons

2014-12-26 Thread Kim Jones
On 27 Dec 2014, at 12:05 pm, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: I recently became aware of a book written by William Stanley Jevons that may strike a responsive cord with some members of this list, here are some quotes: Are we wise in allowing the commerce of this country to rise

Re: Democracy

2014-12-26 Thread Kim Jones
Democracy is a concept. It can be implemented in various ways. I like Liz's conceptualisation of it as communist-style sharing of astcronomical wealth and resources among the elites with cockroaches and urine for breakfast for the rest of us (that's what prisoners in North Korea get given for

Re: William Stanley Jevons

2014-12-26 Thread Kim Jones
On 27 Dec 2014, at 1:34 pm, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 26, 2014, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Clearly the guy was right. Yes long-continued progress in such a manner is altogether impossible, and that is why the standard of living and total

Re: Long term memory is extra-corporeal

2014-12-25 Thread Kim Jones
Haven't read it yet but just wanted to say that I have never had trouble wih his idea On 25 Dec 2014, at 8:17 pm, Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru wrote: In paper Forsdyke, D.R. (2009). Samuel Butler and human long term memory: is the cupboard bare? Journal of Theoretical Biology

Re: Long term memory is extra-corporeal

2014-12-25 Thread Kim Jones
Good one. Haven't read it yet but just wanted to say that I have never had trouble with this idea - clearly Platonic in nature but beyond that, possibly the most clearly intuitive and ancient notion known to Man. Bruno's idea still strikes me as the best formulation of it, but most are yet to

Re: Long term memory is extra-corporeal

2014-12-25 Thread Kim Jones
On 26 Dec 2014, at 1:43 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/25/2014 1:17 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: In paper Forsdyke, D.R. (2009). Samuel Butler and human long term memory: is the cupboard bare? Journal of Theoretical Biology 258(1), 156-164. (see

Re: Seeking astrophysicist willing to help an author

2014-12-21 Thread Kim Jones
On 22 Dec 2014, at 9:33 am, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 1:51 AM, Pierz pier...@gmail.com wrote: Right. I've been looking into that and decided around 150ly would be about right for the effects he wants. WR-104 is 2 Wolf Rayet stars in a very tight

Re: real A.I.

2014-12-19 Thread Kim Jones
Kim Jones B. Mus. GDTL Email: kimjo...@ozemail.com.au kmjco...@icloud.com Mobile: 0450 963 719 Phone: 02 93894239 Web: http://www.eportfolio.kmjcommp.com I'm not saying there aren't a lot of dangerous people out there. I am saying a lot of them are in government - Russell

Re: real A.I.

2014-12-19 Thread Kim Jones
to the idea that their biggest flaw is the design-deficient nature of human thinking. Technology, science and art are the only games humans play well. All of ther games played by humans end in tragedy and bloodshed. Kim Jones -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Democracy

2014-12-19 Thread Kim Jones
since Ugh's day and only now played with better special effects). Kim Jones B. Mus. GDTL Email: kimjo...@ozemail.com.au Web: http://www.eportfolio.kmjcommp.com I'm not saying there aren't a lot of dangerous people out there. I am saying a lot of them are in government - Russell Brand

Re: Democracy

2014-12-19 Thread Kim Jones
On 20 Dec 2014, at 2:31 pm, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: No. I would call the police, not the army. (And the chances are fairly good that whoever broke in wouldn't have a gun either.) A..New Zealand. How are house prices around the Tao area, Liz? I might shoot over from

Re: Democracy

2014-12-19 Thread Kim Jones
On 20 Dec 2014, at 2:54 pm, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: A..New Zealand. How are house prices around the Tao area, Liz? I might shoot over from Sydney for a lookette. Aotearoa. Safest place on Oith. Kim Oops. Taupo -- You received this message because

Re: Democracy

2014-12-19 Thread Kim Jones
On 20 Dec 2014, at 3:23 pm, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 December 2014 at 16:56, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Oops. Taupo Damn, for a moment I thought that Raymond Smullyan had moved here and started his own town (not difficult in NZ) Yes the Tao is very silent

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2014-12-15 Thread Kim Jones
What about a prophecy? Does that exist? Should I take the red pill or the blue pill? Kim On 15 Dec 2014, at 4:56 pm, 'Roger' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Peter, Hi. I've read parts of a few of your blog posts and found them very interesting and

Re: Edge: Myth of A.I.

2014-11-29 Thread Kim Jones
On 29 Nov 2014, at 6:27 pm, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: If nature came up with feeling first and high level intelligence only much much later, I don't see why the opposite would be true for our computers. So this is the the meat in your sandwich. It is so revealing. It requires

Re: Edge: Myth of A.I.

2014-11-28 Thread Kim Jones
On 29 Nov 2014, at 2:42 am, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: Kim Jones: Yes but tell me of the examples you have found of Evolution producing intelligence without consciousness. iPhones. Smart fridges. Self-driving cars. Computers. Space probes etc. etc. If you

Re: Edge: Myth of A.I.

2014-11-28 Thread Kim Jones
On 29 Nov 2014, at 1:37 pm, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brent I seem to remember saying that I thought perhaps consciousness is something like awareness of yourself and your environment and asking if you had a better definition a couple of days ago. Did you reply? I don't

Re: Edge: Myth of A.I.

2014-11-28 Thread Kim Jones
On 29 Nov 2014, at 10:08 am, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: It may just be herding instinct or projection on my part, but it seems that my chickens are more intelligent as a group than individually. I attribute that to a group mind due to entanglement in a mind/matter

Re: Edge: Myth of A.I.

2014-11-27 Thread Kim Jones
On 27 Nov 2014, at 7:28 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Sometimes intelligence itself can be an handicap for getting the competence. A stupid student can study the course better than a clever student, because the clever student want to understand the details, and get stuck on

Re: Edge: Myth of A.I.

2014-11-27 Thread Kim Jones
On 27 Nov 2014, at 7:28 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Sometimes intelligence itself can be an handicap for getting the competence. A stupid student can study the course better than a clever student, because the clever student want to understand the details, and get stuck on

Re: Edge: Myth of A.I.

2014-11-27 Thread Kim Jones
On 28 Nov 2014, at 6:59 am, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: On 27 Nov 2014, at 7:28 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Sometimes intelligence itself can be an handicap for getting the competence. A stupid student can study the course better than a clever student

Re: Edge: Myth of A.I.

2014-11-27 Thread Kim Jones
) that the Intelligence Trap is alive and kicking. Kim On 28 Nov 2014, at 7:35 am, zibb...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, November 27, 2014 8:15:59 PM UTC, Kim Jones wrote: On 28 Nov 2014, at 6:59 am, Kim Jones kimj...@ozemail.com.au wrote: On 27 Nov 2014, at 7:28 pm

Re: Edge: Myth of A.I.

2014-11-27 Thread Kim Jones
On 28 Nov 2014, at 8:35 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 November 2014 at 22:52, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: You need consciousness to develop intelligence, and you need intelligence to develop competence. IN my humble opinion you don't need consciousness to develop

Re: Edge: Myth of A.I.

2014-11-27 Thread Kim Jones
On 28 Nov 2014, at 8:41 am, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: On 28 Nov 2014, at 8:35 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 November 2014 at 22:52, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: You need consciousness to develop intelligence, and you need intelligence

Re: Edge: Myth of A.I.

2014-11-27 Thread Kim Jones
On 28 Nov 2014, at 9:01 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 November 2014 at 10:56, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: On 28 Nov 2014, at 8:41 am, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: On 28 Nov 2014, at 8:35 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 November 2014 at 22:52

Re: Edge: Myth of A.I.

2014-11-27 Thread Kim Jones
On 28 Nov 2014, at 1:43 pm, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: Yes but tell me of the examples you have found of Evolution producing intelligence without consciousness. John K Clark iPhones. Smart fridges. Self-driving cars. Computers. Space probes etc. etc. Evolution has

Re: Universal Inflation

2014-11-21 Thread Kim Jones
On 17 Nov 2014, at 11:02 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 16 Nov 2014, at 23:06, Kim Jones wrote: On 17 Nov 2014, at 4:53 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 16 Nov 2014, at 03:31, Kim Jones wrote: I wonder if by now it's worth considering

Re: Universal Inflation

2014-11-21 Thread Kim Jones
On 22 Nov 2014, at 4:59 am, zibb...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, November 16, 2014 10:06:47 PM UTC, Kim Jones wrote: On 17 Nov 2014, at 4:53 am, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 16 Nov 2014, at 03:31, Kim Jones wrote: I wonder if by now it's worth considering

Re: Universal Inflation

2014-11-16 Thread Kim Jones
On 17 Nov 2014, at 4:53 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 16 Nov 2014, at 03:31, Kim Jones wrote: I wonder if by now it's worth considering in information-theoretic terms how the evolution of academe tends to result in universes in which most and possibly all information

Universal Inflation

2014-11-15 Thread Kim Jones
. Question: in evolutionary terms, what is a system-cheat? Shouldn't we be studying this more? There is a clear advantage in being one... Kim Jones B. Mus. GDTL Email: kimjo...@ozemail.com.au kmjco...@icloud.com Mobile: 0450 963 719 Phone: 02 93894239 Web: http

Re: Do all forces derive from repulsionattraction?

2014-10-31 Thread Kim Jones
On 31 Oct 2014, at 4:47 pm, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 1:23 AM, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Agreement and disagreement are not aspects of real thinking. So if I assume you do real thinking then I must conclude that you don't agree

Re: Do all forces derive from repulsionattraction?

2014-10-31 Thread Kim Jones
On 1 Nov 2014, at 1:22 am, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: Agreement and disagreement are not aspects of real thinking. So if I assume you do real thinking then I must conclude that you don't agree with what you wrote above. you seek to find a logical contradiction as a

Re: Do all forces derive from repulsionattraction?

2014-10-30 Thread Kim Jones
On 31 Oct 2014, at 11:31 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Beware of replies that start But... - these appear to often be agreement cunningly disguised to look like argumentation. Excellent point. In fact there is no real need for anyone to play the clever-clever yes, but card wherever

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-10-27 Thread Kim Jones
others to lick your ego because of your deep faith in what you alone consider your superior reasoning ability. Licking egos is an equivalent operation to licking arses. I don’t see anything particularly tasty about either in your case. Kim === Kim Jones B.Mus.GDTL

Re: Con artist petition

2014-10-26 Thread Kim Jones
On 27 Oct 2014, at 9:30 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: This one's UK specific (though I signed from NZ). The USA could do with one too IMHO. http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/70539 It asks for your street address. NEVER sign anything over the Net that asks for your

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-10-25 Thread Kim Jones
On 26 Oct 2014, at 1:28 am, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: If you say so, but I don't care if COMP is dealt a serious blow or not. John K Clark You must care you bloody blowhard because you daily go to considerable lengths to show just how important it is to you. It’s

Re: Non-Genetic Reproduction (telegony)

2014-10-03 Thread Kim Jones
, as it pretty much contradicts our theoretical understanding of embryogenesis. Cheers On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 11:53:29AM +1000, Kim Jones wrote: Fly offspring can resemble their mothers' previous partner. Just rarely, a newspaper throws up something gobsmacking. From today's Sydney Morning

Non-Genetic Reproduction (telegony)

2014-10-01 Thread Kim Jones
said this type of non-genetic inheritance had not been observed in other species, but there were clues from rodent studies that the phenomenon may be more widespread. Kim Jones B. Mus. GDTL Email: kimjo...@ozemail.com.au kmjco...@icloud.com Mobile: 0450 963 719 Phone: 02

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-09-27 Thread Kim Jones
On 27 Sep 2014, at 4:29 pm, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: So I don't see: robust universe = all integers exist Nor do I. But then that is the exact inverse of what I stated: the arithmetic reality assumption in COMP entails a robust reality (one in which the UD runs to

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-09-23 Thread Kim Jones
On 23 Sep 2014, at 10:00 am, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 05:07:07PM +1000, Kim Jones wrote: Are we not conflating slightly (to be) conscious - the fact of being aware and sensate; experiencing being as it were.with consciousness

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-09-22 Thread Kim Jones
On 22 Sep 2014, at 3:21 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: That's why he can say consciousness is all-or-nothing (potentialities are all-or-nothing). That's why he thinks an infant is more conscious than an adult - it has more potential (but less realization). That's why he thinks

Re: BICEP2 results even more in question

2014-09-22 Thread Kim Jones
Dust, damned dust. Told yer. K On 22 Sep 2014, at 10:58 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: So cosmic inflation is apparently even less confirmed. http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.5738 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group.

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-22 Thread Kim Jones
On 20 Sep 2014, at 6:22 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Does this mean evolution is intelligent but (probably) not conscious? The Blind Watchmaker K On 20 September 2014 03:01, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Bruno, I agree, this introduces the

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-09-20 Thread Kim Jones
/Galilean headspace when he did that. He found a much larger reality must exist than is more real than he could perceive. He may not have formalised it but he could not ignore it. Plato didn't so much discover QM as fall headlong into it. K Kim Jones B.Mus.GDTL Email

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-09-20 Thread Kim Jones
On 20 Sep 2014, at 11:08 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 9/19/2014 9:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I think that the cerebral stem + the cortex plays a key role, from the reading of Hobson theory of mind. I say more on this in conscience et mécanisme, where I explained also why

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-09-17 Thread Kim Jones
this as being identical to being conscious. How could it be otherwise? Breathing oxygen, or metabolising carbohydrates is not relevant to being. Consciousness is all or nothing. It is supported by computation (or it isn't.) Kim Kim Jones B.Mus.GDTL Email: kimjo

Re: Book: Revolutions of Scientific Structure (book section 1/2)

2014-09-13 Thread Kim Jones
On 13 Sep 2014, at 4:57 am, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: Zero, even though they were all superstars and doing quite well for themselves. Sure, there are examples

Re: Causing the 2nd revolution of scientific structure

2014-09-13 Thread Kim Jones
On 14 Sep 2014, at 8:33 am, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: I am going to have a go at establishing a forum for the first act of science self-governance in the modern era. Nothing governs itself. Everything is in the clutches of some agenda or other for better or worse -

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-07 Thread Kim Jones
On 6 Sep 2014, at 10:03 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: PS why is a laser like a goldfish? Because neither can whistle K -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

Re: Higgs Boson particle, a.k.a. the God particle, could end the universe

2014-09-07 Thread Kim Jones
On 8 Sep 2014, at 2:07 pm, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: If I'm allowed to answer (not being a physicist) ... I had the impression that this was already considered to be a possibility - that the current state of the universe might be a false vaccuum (or something like that) which

Re: AI

2014-09-06 Thread Kim Jones
'Means' indicates something happened and you noticed it. You then either recognise this thing or mistake it for something else. Everything means something, but what it means and the fact that it does mean something comes from you, not the thing apprehended. http://youtu.be/zTLkiJUX05A Kim

Re: Artificial Intelligence article

2014-08-30 Thread Kim Jones
On 31 Aug 2014, at 9:04 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: To be absolutely clear - the Artificial in AI refers to the machine which hosts the intelligence, not to the intelligence itself. How can anything be artificial??? What in fact does this word mean? The loose way in which we use

Re: Artificial Intelligence article

2014-08-30 Thread Kim Jones
On 31 Aug 2014, at 10:51 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 August 2014 12:29, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: On 31 Aug 2014, at 9:04 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: To be absolutely clear - the Artificial in AI refers to the machine which hosts the intelligence

Re: Hal Finney

2014-08-29 Thread Kim Jones
On 29 Aug 2014, at 2:01 pm, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote: I just learned that Hal Finney has died. Hal was active on this list in its early days. For the last few years he has suffered from

So What's A Brain For, Then?

2014-08-29 Thread Kim Jones
www.wired.com/2014/08/this-elderly-gentleman-was-born-with-his-brain-hemispheres-disconnected-how-did-it-affect-him-barely-at-all?mbid=social_twitter Kim Jones B. Mus. GDTL Email: kimjo...@ozemail.com.au kmjco...@icloud.com Mobile: 0450 963 719 Phone: 02 93894239 Web

Re: MGA redux (again!)

2014-08-26 Thread Kim Jones
On 26 Aug 2014, at 6:48 pm, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: After some time going trough these topics one reach the conclusion that these explanations are nothing more than computer fashion applied to the wrong kind of problem. One reaches this conclusion. That one is

Re: Comp and logical supervenience

2014-08-19 Thread Kim Jones
On 18 Aug 2014, at 5:33 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Is there a kind of soul that is independent of memory but is a person? Well, you'd want to hope so by now, surely. After all, if there isn't, then What's It All (been) About, Alfie? No cul-de-sacs. Consciousness sails on

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-17 Thread Kim Jones
On 18 Aug 2014, at 8:16 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 August 2014 06:41, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/16/2014 11:02 PM, LizR wrote: Indeed. This is generally my objection to theories that require conscious observers (and also my objection to people who say 1+1=2

Re: August Exam (was Re: Comp Bedtime Stories)

2014-08-08 Thread Kim Jones
On 9 Aug 2014, at 4:34 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Are you OK with Liz? The event eavesdropping and be split, in the non-destructive case, are independent, so the probabilities are multiplied 1/4 * 1/2 = 1/8. Any question PGC, people, John C, John M., anyone? Bruno

Re: Comp Bedtime Stories

2014-08-07 Thread Kim Jones
On 8 Aug 2014, at 4:26 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/7/2014 11:16 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: The trouble with such a theory is that it applies as well to those apoplectic with rage or sobbing in sorrow - maybe they're really happy, we just can't know. But in this case

Re: The game explained to soft ecologist, ecoalarmist and alternative energy lovers

2014-08-06 Thread Kim Jones
On 7 Aug 2014, at 7:58 am, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: Of course because she is progressive, she don´t talk about the promotion of abortion and gay marriage agenda, which is part of the same antihuman box. Gay marriage is anti-human? K -- You received this message

Re: Comp Bedtime Stories

2014-08-06 Thread Kim Jones
this idea off as New Age ditzy nonsense? What if life really was like that ancient Microsoft slogan where do you want to go today? Helps maybe to have lots of selves all going in different directions. Each one comes up with a piece of the big picture. Kim Kim Jones B. Mus. GDTL Email: kimjo

Re: Comp Bedtime Stories

2014-08-05 Thread Kim Jones
On 6 Aug 2014, at 5:19 am, Gabriel Bodeen gabebod...@gmail.com wrote: Isn't it interesting that in these stories, like past-life regressions, it's always better in some other life? Brent Gabe: Nah, the reason for it is too obvious to be interesting. Stories of the faraway lands

Re: Comp Bedtime Stories

2014-08-05 Thread Kim Jones
On 6 Aug 2014, at 9:18 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/5/2014 4:23 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On the other hand, you talk about usefulness in a very narrow sense. What makes life bearable in this weird reality we find ourselves in is very personal. We all have our

Re: Comp Bedtime Stories

2014-08-04 Thread Kim Jones
On 4 Aug 2014, at 4:06 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: So whatever we can see and discuss and draw inferences from is merely 3p and of no consequence. Well in this context, that's right. The context where the thing observed is a 1p experience happening to someone else. Of no

Re: Comp Bedtime Stories

2014-08-03 Thread Kim Jones
On 4 Aug 2014, at 4:50 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Bruno seems to have a theory, based on his salvia experience, that a person can exist independently of any memories. That's why he says things like, We're all the same person. I find this theory contrary to experience.

Re: Comp Bedtime Stories

2014-08-03 Thread Kim Jones
On 4 Aug 2014, at 5:46 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: What about multiple personality disorder ? Are they the same person? (I'd guess not) Why? There is a weaker, culturally acceptable version of this in the concept of the parallel lives we all lead. Now don't tell me you are all just

Re: Comp Bedtime Stories

2014-08-03 Thread Kim Jones
On 4 Aug 2014, at 10:12 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Sure, maybe they were perfectly aware of the world around them and knew who they were with and and where they were and it was just chance cosmic rays interrupting their motor neurons that caused them to refer people long

Re: Comp Bedtime Stories

2014-08-03 Thread Kim Jones
On 4 Aug 2014, at 10:09 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/3/2014 4:27 PM, Kim Jones wrote: On 4 Aug 2014, at 5:46 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: What about multiple personality disorder ? Are they the same person? (I'd guess not) Why? There is a weaker, culturally

Comp Bedtime Stories

2014-08-01 Thread Kim Jones
Mazy right NOW! Mother: You have understood, sweetness. --- Someone else's go. Probably a certain Liz, I'd predict with certainty near to probability one. Kim Jones B. Mus. GDTL Email: kimjo...@ozemail.com.au kmjco...@icloud.com Mobile: 0450 963 719 Phone: 02

Re: CTM and the UDA (again!)

2014-07-30 Thread Kim Jones
On 31 Jul 2014, at 8:47 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: CTM = Comp (to use with moderation when tired of the sound of comp). Well, it's actuallyC omputationalist Theory (of) M ind. Cheers, Kim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: John Searle on consciousness

2014-07-29 Thread Kim Jones
On 30 Jul 2014, at 7:51 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: I can't comment on that, comp means whatever Bruno wants it to mean, and that changes from day to day. Here I respectfully disagree, he seems more or less consistent to me, give or take the odd ambiguity due to English not being

Re: It Knows That It Knows

2014-07-28 Thread Kim Jones
So do we recognise this thing called a self or a subject or a person or a soul or an I or a whatever as something that is TOTALLY independent of the hosting apparatus? Why should I put up with the ridiculous notion that my brain secretes my mind which somehow projects my person? I don't

Re: It Knows That It Knows

2014-07-28 Thread Kim Jones
On 28 Jul 2014, at 8:14 pm, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 July 2014 22:07, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: So do we recognise this thing called a self or a subject or a person or a soul or an I or a whatever as something that is TOTALLY independent of the hosting

Re: It Knows That It Knows

2014-07-23 Thread Kim Jones
On 23 Jul 2014, at 4:33 am, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: To be unconscious is not merely to lose the faculties which make our quality of life human, but to lose all faculties. Perhaps, but I doubt that you lose your 'self'. A self is immortal. Just like you wake up from the

Re: It Knows That It Knows

2014-07-22 Thread Kim Jones
ideas are a terrific stimulus to thinking about both the function and the origin of consciousness (in the 3p sense). By the way, I once used TOOCITBOTBM in a game of charades. They got it! David On 20 Jul 2014 13:46, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 7/19/2014 11:37 PM, Kim Jones

Re: It Knows That It Knows

2014-07-22 Thread Kim Jones
On 22 Jul 2014, at 2:55 am, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: What part of your brain is more evolved than a cat's brain that allows you to say I know? I'm just guessing but maybe the Neocortex because it's the biggest anatomical difference between a cat's brain and mine. But I

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