Re: Theories that explain everything explain nothing

2015-05-15 Thread Colin Hales
). In order to talk to you I have to make the same mistakes as you and I won't do that. Look. I am so over this. Just forget I ever said anything. On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 3:41 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 15 May 2015, at 00:44, colin hales wrote: Your suggestion

Re: Theories that explain everything explain nothing

2015-05-14 Thread Colin Hales
acronym. :-) On 15 May 2015 at 09:32, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: Colin: wouldn't it fit to call TOE - Theory of Everything WE KNOW ABOUT? or: Everything in our reach? I mentioned my agnostic views. Greetings John Mikes On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 8:40 PM, colin hales col.ha

RE: Theories that explain everything explain nothing

2015-05-14 Thread colin hales
mentioned my agnostic views. Greetings John Mikes On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 8:40 PM, colin hales col.ha...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps better All posited (so far) scientific TOE are actually wrongly named. They would be correctly named: Theories predicting how the universe appears

RE: Theories that explain everything explain nothing

2015-05-13 Thread colin hales
 Perhaps better All posited (so far) scientific TOE are actually wrongly named. They would be correctly named: Theories predicting how the universe appears to an assumed scientific observer inside it Or maybe Theories of everything except the scientific observer By Scientific observer

RE: The dovetailer disassembled

2015-05-08 Thread colin hales
to get the degree. I may call it adjustment, not necessarily a cave-in. I still hold you in high esteem. Thanks for your post, I did not give up yet. John Mikes On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Colin Hales col.ha...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 11:21 AM, LizR lizj

RE: The dovetailer disassembled

2015-05-05 Thread colin hales
Hi, I've been watching this if COMP is true then discussion for over 10 years. In that time my thinking has evolved to the point where I can express what COMP now looks like to me, from my perspective. Comp appears to be trivially true. That is, the resultant computing entity would be

Re: The dovetailer disassembled

2015-05-05 Thread Colin Hales
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 11:21 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: It also appears to me that the computing entity would not be conscious for the same reason computed flight physics is not flight. I don't have the benefit of thinking about this for ten years, but it does seem that there is a

RE: Origin of mathematics

2015-04-22 Thread colin hales
Really interesting! Good to find someone that concurs with a one-at-a-time universe. I think this will emerge as being right, in the end. Thanks. Colin -Original Message- From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net Sent: ‎23/‎04/‎2015 5:36 AM To: EveryThing everything-list@googlegroups.com

RE: America: Bankrupt Living on Borrowed Time

2015-04-08 Thread colin hales
We can change things. Everything these predatory self-interested oligarchs have (and their soul-less, ethics-less zombie proxy humans ... corporations) only exists because we believe it exists. The zombie apocalypse is happening as we speak! And we allow it because we believe in zombies.

RE: Fwd: Global Warming Hoax Confirmed

2015-04-01 Thread colin hales
Yeah.. For about hmm Dozens of microseconds ... you had me... On the 2nd! I experienced the qualia ... that frisson of misplaced credulousness that an old fart like me needs every now and then  Cheers Colin -Original Message- From: Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au Sent:

RE: Is Consciousness Computable?

2014-05-18 Thread Colin Hales
Hi Folk, A little more you may find interesting. RE: The much-discussed arXiv paper Maguire, Phil, Moser Philippe, Maguire, Rebecca and Griffith, Virgil 2014 'Is Consciousness Computable? Quantifying Integrated Information Using Algorithmic Information Theory'.

Re: COMP refutation paper - finally out

2011-06-16 Thread Colin Hales
Hi Russel, 1) Strong CT/Deutch...will look it up...Sounds like one of the conflations in operation: confusing the natural world with some kind of computer running rules, rather than something natural merely behaving rule-ly to an observing scientist. 2) Re: angry popperians...the role of

Re: COMP refutation paper - finally out

2011-06-13 Thread Colin Hales
confusing. I guess that I understand what you means but the term Computation sounds ambiguously, because then it is completely unclear what it means in such a context. Evgenii On 07.06.2011 09:42 Colin Hales said the following: Hi, Hales, C. G. 'On the Status of Computationalism as a Law

Re: COMP refutation paper - finally out

2011-06-11 Thread Colin Hales
should prefer (ii), because (i) is loaded with unjustified, unproven presupposition and has 60 years of failure. All other issues are secondary. I start building this year. cheers Colin Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi Colin, On 07 Jun 2011, at 09:42, Colin Hales wrote: Hi, Hales, C. G

COMP refutation paper - finally out

2011-06-07 Thread Colin Hales
Hi, Hales, C. G. 'On the Status of Computationalism as a Law of Nature', International Journal of Machine Consciousness vol. 3, no. 1, 2011. 1-35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S1793843011000613 The paper has finally been published. Phew what an epic! cheers Colin -- You received this

Re: COMP refutation paper - finally out

2011-06-07 Thread Colin Hales
wrote: Even an affiliation doesn't seem to help. Brent On 6/7/2011 1:49 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Colin, Any chance that us non-university affiliated types can get a copy of your paper? Onward! Stephen -Original Message- From: Colin Hales Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 3:42 AM

Request: computation=thermodynamics paper(s)

2011-04-14 Thread Colin Hales
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone out there knows of any papers that connect computational processes to thermodynamics in some organized fashion. The sort of thing I am looking for would have statements saying cooling is (info/computational equivalent) pressure is ..(info/computational

Re: Neurobiologists Find that Weak Electrical Fields in the Brain Help Neurons Fire Together

2011-02-06 Thread Colin Hales
of the neurobiology of consciousness (Koch). cheers colin hales === In my PhD I it took 150,000 hours of supercomputing to show that the EM fields have a whole degree of freedom not in existing neural modelling. The exact same action potential firing can

Re: Are our brains in that VAT? Yep.

2011-02-04 Thread Colin Hales
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Colin Hales c.ha...@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au wrote: Can the behaviour of the neurons including the electric fields be simulated? For example, is it possible to model what will happen in the brain (and what output will ultimately go

Re: Are our brains in that VAT? Yep.

2011-02-03 Thread Colin Hales
Stathis (Down below...) Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Colin Hales c.ha...@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au wrote: This means we are hooked into the external world in ways that are not present in the peripheral nerves. Looking at the (nerves pulses) signals

Are our brains in that VAT? Yep.

2011-02-02 Thread Colin Hales
based on choices. My research suggests that replacing the fields, emulating the brain, is the way to go. That's why my PhD is all about how neurons originate the endogenous field system measured by scalp EEG/MEG. Having nutted it out, time to make hardware to do it. Gotta go. Colin Hales

Re: Maudlin How many times does COMP have to be false before its false?

2011-02-01 Thread Colin Hales
. BE the thing, don't merely pretend to be the thing to an observer. I have that level of certainty at least. I guess a word of thanks is in order. Thanks! :-) Colin David Nyman wrote: On 1 February 2011 22:53, Colin Hales c.ha...@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au wrote: Colin Do forgive me for butting

Re: Maudlin How many times does COMP have to be false before its false?

2011-01-31 Thread Colin Hales
suspect this is not the COMP you are speaking of... As far as I can tell we're not even on the same page. Maybe others here are in a similar position and don't know it. I hope you can help. cheers colin hales NOTE: When I say I want to build an artificial general intelligence, I say I can build

Re: Maudlin How many times does COMP have to be false before its false?

2011-01-30 Thread Colin Hales
Interleaved... John Mikes wrote: Hi, Colin, I enjoyed your diatribe. (From time to time I accept some of your ideas and even include them into my ways of thinking - which may be a praise or a threat). Question: Could you briefly identify your usage of science - even scientist? The

Re: Maudlin How many times does COMP have to be false before its false?

2011-01-30 Thread Colin Hales
Interleaved ... Bruno Marchal wrote: On 29 Jan 2011, at 06:27, ColinHales wrote: Now say humans are conscious? Prove it. To which I say COMP is true? Prove it Been around this loop many times. :-) COMP is a solution of x - ~Bx, like consciousness, and consistency. If COMP is true, it

Re: Bruno-Colin-dicussion Jan-2011

2011-01-22 Thread Colin Hales
Hi John, Sorry to hear about your 2010. I hope that 2011 allows your flavour of feist to resume here on 'everything'. I am at the very end of my PhD writeup and have been more flaky than usual here. I was amused to see that I appeared to be advocating any sort of XYXism or to be an 'XYZist'.

Re: Observers and Church/Turing

2011-01-13 Thread Colin Hales
in Borges' Library of Babel. What would be the analogous ideas in your own approach? David On 12 January 2011 22:50, Colin Hales c.ha...@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au wrote: I confess to the usual level of exasperation. Yet again the great culturally maintained mental block subverts real progress

Re: Observers and Church/Turing

2011-01-12 Thread Colin Hales
for a while. I'll be OK soon enough! :-) Colin Hales if you can't formulaically predict/build an observer with what you produced, you haven't explained observation and you don't really understand it ronaldheld wrote: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1101/1101.2198v1.pdf Any comments

Re: A paper by Bas C. van Fraassen

2010-10-24 Thread Colin Hales
Brent Meeker wrote: On 10/23/2010 2:37 PM, Colin Hales wrote: I am pretty sure that there is a profound misinterpretation and/or unrecognized presupposition deeply embedded in the kinds of discussion of which Van F and your reply and Bruno's fits. It's so embedded that there appears

Re: A paper by Bas C. van Fraassen

2010-10-23 Thread Colin Hales
of such a situation, just as an exercise.. cheers colin hales Bruno Marchal wrote: HI Stephen, Just a short reply to your post to Colin, and indirectly to your last posts. On 22 Oct 2010, at 10:53, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Colin, Let me put you are ease, van Fraassen has

Re: A paper by Bas C. van Fraassen

2010-10-21 Thread Colin Hales
! :-) Colin Hales. Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Friends, Please check out the following paper by Bas C. van Fraassen for many ideas that have gone into my posts so far, in particular the argument against the idea of a “view from nowhere”. www.princeton.edu/~fraassen/abstract

Re: PSYCHE Vol 16 #1 ... essay

2010-06-14 Thread Colin Hales
Bruno Marchal wrote: Colin, I think we have always agreed on this conclusion. We may differ on the premises. It just happen that I am using a special hypothesis, which is very common, but not so well understood, and which is the digital mechanist hypothesis. I think things are more subtle

Re: PSYCHE Vol 16 #1 ... essay

2010-06-12 Thread Colin Hales
this. This is the position I am gradually building. I am going to go so far as to formally demand a summit on the matter. I believe things are that screwed up. 300 years of this confinement in the (A) prison is long enough. cheers colin hales -- You received this message because you

Re: PSYCHE 16(1) ... essay results

2010-06-12 Thread Colin Hales
received from 'reality and indiviually colored to one's personal background and mental-built. Now I have some remarks - not argumentative mostly (except for the 'Science of Quale') on that beautifully crafted (short!) writing that reaped the award. Here it goes: Colin Hales was named a 'winner

PSYCHE Vol 16 #1 ... essay

2010-06-11 Thread Colin Hales
short (1500 words!) * Enjoy. Colin Hales -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr

Re: New Paper by Thomas Hertog and Stephen Hawking

2009-12-29 Thread Colin Hales
Jason Resch wrote: Described in this article: http://www.bioedonline.org/news/news.cfm?art=2617 This summation of all paths, proposed in the 1960s by physicist Richard Feynman and others, is the only way to explain some of the bizarre properties of quantum particles, such as their

OFF LIST Re: Emulation and Stuff - The Ross Model of our Universe

2009-08-18 Thread Colin Hales
Hi, Can you please send a .PDF or a .DOC I can't read .DOCX and I can't upgrade my PC to read ituni rules... :-( regards Colin Hales --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group

Re: Can mind be a computation if physics is fundamental?

2009-08-12 Thread Colin Hales
will do... I refute it thus! -Dr. Johnson http://www.samueljohnson.com/refutati.html Onward! Stephen - Original Message - *From:* Colin Hales mailto:c.ha...@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com mailto:everything-list

Re: Can mind be a computation if physics is fundamental?

2009-08-12 Thread Colin Hales
Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2009/8/12 Colin Hales c.ha...@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au: My motivation to kill COMP is purely aimed at bring a halt to the delusion of the AGI community that Turing-computing will ever create a mind. They are throwing away $millions based on a false belief

Re: Can mind be a computation if physics is fundamental?

2009-08-12 Thread Colin Hales
Bruno Marchal wrote: Colin, We agree on the conclusion. We disagree on vocabulary, and on the validity of your reasoning. Let us call I-comp the usual indexical mechanism discussed in this list (comp). Let us call m-comp the thesis that there is a primitive natural world, and that it

Re: Can mind be a computation if physics is fundamental?

2009-08-11 Thread Colin Hales
Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Aug 2009, at 09:08, Colin Hales wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Aug 2009, at 04:37, Colin Hales wrote: Man this is a tin of worms! I have just done a 30 page detailed refutation of computationalism. It's going through peer review at the moment. The basic

Re: Can mind be a computation if physics is fundamental?

2009-08-10 Thread Colin Hales
Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Aug 2009, at 04:37, Colin Hales wrote: Man this is a tin of worms! I have just done a 30 page detailed refutation of computationalism. It's going through peer review at the moment. The basic problem that most people fall foul of is the conflation of 'physics

Re: Can mind be a computation if physics is fundamental?

2009-08-09 Thread Colin Hales
ronaldheld wrote: As a formally trained Physicist, what do I accept? that Physics is well represented mathematically? That the Multiverse is composed of mathematical structures some of which represent physical laws? Or something else? Ronald

Re: Can mind be a computation if physics is fundamental?

2009-08-09 Thread Colin Hales
regrettable snips to get at the heart of it. One thing at a time. Hope you don't mind. russell standish wrote: Nobody is suggesting that brains are Turing machines. All that is being suggested (by COMP) is that brains perform computations (and nothing but), hence can be perfectly emulated by

Re: Can mind be a computation if physics is fundamental?

2009-08-06 Thread Colin Hales
Brent Meeker wrote: Colin Hales wrote: Man this is a tin of worms! I have just done a 30 page detailed refutation of computationalism. It's going through peer review at the moment. The basic problem that most people fall foul of is the conflation of 'physics-as-computation

Re: Can mind be a computation if physics is fundamental?

2009-08-06 Thread Colin Hales
Rex Allen wrote: If computationalism is true, and computation is the source of conscious experience, then shouldn't we expect that what is ontologically real is the simplest possible universe that can develop and support physical systems that are Turing equivalent? Does our universe look

Re: Can mind be a computation if physics is fundamental?

2009-08-06 Thread Colin Hales
Brent Meeker wrote: Colin Hales wrote: Brent Meeker wrote: Colin Hales wrote: Man this is a tin of worms! I have just done a 30 page detailed refutation of computationalism. It's going through peer review at the moment. The basic problem that most people fall foul

Re: Can mind be a computation if physics is fundamental?

2009-08-05 Thread Colin Hales
that artificial light is light. R.I.P. COMP = Strong AI (a computer can be a mind) is false. = Weak AI (A computer model of cognition can never be actual cognition) is true. It's nice to finally have at least one tiny little place (X) where the seeds of clarity can be found. Cheers colin hales 1Z

Re: Dreaming On

2009-07-27 Thread Colin Hales
their outcome projections/expectations reviewed? cheers colin hales --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com

Re: Dreaming On

2009-07-26 Thread Colin Hales
David Nyman wrote: Thanks to everyone who responded to my initial sally on dreams and machines. Naturally I have arrogated the right to plagiarise your helpful comments in what follows, which is an aphoristic synthesis of my understanding of the main points that have emerged thus far. I

Re: No MWI

2009-05-14 Thread Colin Hales
this cultural schism operating? regards Colin Hales Jason Resch wrote: The following link shows convincingly that what one gains by accepting MWI is far greater than what one loses (an answer to the born probabilities) http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/05/if-many-worlds.html The only law in all

Re: No MWI

2009-05-14 Thread Colin Hales
Brent Meeker wrote: Colin Hales wrote: Hi, When I read quantum mechanics and listen to those invested in the many places the mathematics leads, What strikes me is the extent to which the starting point is mathematics. That is, the entire discussion is couched as if the mathematics

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-04-25 Thread Colin Hales
definitely not computation in the 'computation BY' sense. Enjoy! colin hales --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list

Dual Aspect Science

2009-04-03 Thread Colin Hales
colin hales *ABSTRACT*. Our chronically impoverished explanatory capacity in respect of P-consciousness is highly suggestive of a problem with science itself, rather than its lack of acquisition of some particular knowledge. The hidden assumption built into science is that science itself

Re: Cellular automata @ home?

2009-03-09 Thread Colin Hales
What you have here is a phenomenon which has been described a lot for 50 years. It appears in the literature in the descriptions of the synchronous behaviour of crickets, cicadas and fireflies. Eg: D. E. Kim, A spiking neuron model for synchronous flashing of fireflies, Biosystems, vol. 76,

Re: The Amoeba's Secret - English Version started

2009-03-05 Thread Colin Hales
Hi Bruno, I feel your angst. The received view is a blunt and frightened beast, guarded by the ignorant and uncreative in wily protection of turf and co-conspirator. I recently did a powerpoint presentation called rejection 101. It sounds like you have been through exactly what I have been

Re: The Amoeba's Secret - English Version started

2009-03-05 Thread Colin Hales
The file. sorry use *Rejection 101.pdf* enjoy! colin Colin Hales wrote: Hi Bruno, I feel your angst. The received view is a blunt and frightened beast, guarded by the ignorant and uncreative in wily protection of turf and co-conspirator. I recently did a powerpoint presentation

A scientifically sound, objective test for consciousness

2009-01-27 Thread Colin Hales
. It is hoped that in opening a discussion of a novel approach, the artificial intelligence community may eventually find a viable contender for its long overdue scientific basis. cheers colin hales --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

Re: Mind and personhood. Was: Kim 1

2008-12-14 Thread Colin Hales
to deny self-awareness as a marker of self awareness. You can use this as a logical bootstrap to sort things out. I like it! cheers colin hales --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group

Re: MGA for DUMMIES

2008-11-29 Thread Colin Hales
Hi, Computationalsim pronounced dead here: Bringsjord, S. (1999). The Zombie Attack on the Computational Conception of Mind. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LIX(1), 41-69. cheers colin Kim Jones wrote: A representation of a thing (say MGA) is as good (ie as authentic) as the

Re: Confirmed: Reality is the dream of NUMBERS

2008-11-24 Thread Colin Hales
Kim Jones wrote: On 24/11/2008, at 1:50 PM, Colin Hales wrote: It seems that the last thing physicists want to do is predict themselves. They do absolutely everything except that. When they say everything in a Theory of Everything, that's what they actually mean: Everything

Re: Confirmed: Reality is the dream of NUMBERS

2008-11-23 Thread Colin Hales
back in boat, assuming merrily mode. It's as if I am rowing, downstream. :-) cheers, colin hales Kim Jones wrote: Oh, somebody will stick their head up soon and disagree. Where would all the fun and games be if some rash, working scientist actually confirmed something? Counting angels

Re: Confirmed: Reality is the dream of NUMBERS

2008-11-23 Thread Colin Hales
Kim Jones wrote: On 24/11/2008, at 10:29 AM, Colin Hales wrote: OK. I was rowing my apparently virtual boat merrily down the stream. But apparently that's not interesting enough. :-) It's more interesting when you get a barbershop quartet to sing it as a round - then you get polyphony

Re: Confirmed: Reality is the dream of NUMBERS

2008-11-23 Thread Colin Hales
Tom Caylor wrote: On Nov 23, 4:29 pm, Colin Hales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to this article, the best we can do is to VIRTUALLY CONFIRM something. But since reality is VIRTUAL, according to this VIRTUAL CONFIRMATION, is not VIRTUAL CONFIRMATION equivalent, in reality

Re: Confirmed: Reality is the dream of NUMBERS

2008-11-22 Thread Colin Hales
I knew it Row row row your boat Gently down the stream Merrily Merrily Merrily Merrily Life is but a dream. Is actually a law of nature... cheers Colin Hales Kim Jones wrote: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16095-its-confirmed-matter-is-merely-vacuum-fluctuations.html

Re: What the B***P do quantum physicists know?

2008-10-13 Thread Colin Hales
Michael Rosefield wrote: And of course you could always add ASPECT 0 - all possible instances of ASPECT 1 Yeah.. a new 'science of universe construction'? I wonder if there's a name for something like that? unigenesis? As I said in my post to Jesse: - - -- - - - - - aspect 1 is NOT

Re: What the B***P do quantum physicists know?

2008-10-12 Thread Colin Hales
ridden maths rapture rules...something I cannot do. regards, Colin Hales --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe

Re: What the B***P do quantum physicists know?

2008-10-12 Thread Colin Hales
Brent Meeker wrote: Colin Hales wrote: From the everything list FYI Brent Meeker wrote: Why would you take Stapp as exemplifying the state of QM? ISTM that the decoherence program plus Everett and various collapse theories represents the current state of QM. Brent

Re: What the B***P do quantum physicists know?

2008-10-12 Thread Colin Hales
calls it a 'reflexive monism', but he does not apply the concept to science itself. cheers colin hales */- Terminology /* */Neuroscience and cognitive science have a highly developed and well documented system used to discuss the subjectively delivered, privately presented

Re: What the B***P do quantum physicists know?

2008-10-12 Thread Colin Hales
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Re: The Super-Intelligence (SI) speaks: An imaginary dialogue

2008-09-02 Thread Colin Hales
NOT be a COMP entity. This is more doable in the shorter term. So I can think of multiple reasons 'why you can't...X'..Thanks for forcing me to verbalise the argument...in yet another way... regards, Colin Hales == Jesse Mazer wrote: Colin Hales

Re: The Super-Intelligence (SI) speaks: An imaginary dialogue

2008-09-01 Thread Colin Hales
Hi Marc, */Eliezer/*'s hubris about a Bayesian approach to intelligence is nothing more than the usual 'metabelief' about a mathematics... or about computation... meant in the sense that cognition is computation, where computation is done BY the universe (with the material of the universe

Re: The Super-Intelligence (SI) speaks: An imaginary dialogue

2008-09-01 Thread Colin Hales
). cheers, colin Jesse Mazer wrote: Colin Hales wrote: Computationalism is FALSE in the sense that it cannot be used to construct a scientist. A scientist deals with the UNKNOWN. If you could compute a scientist you would already know everything! Science would be impossible. So you can

Re: An Equivalence Principle

2008-04-07 Thread Colin Hales
is the most general - the physicist and in particular the cosmologist. regards, Colin Hales [1] Lisi, G. (2007) An exceptionally simple theory of everything. http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0770 == Youness Ayaita wrote: By this contribution

The Principle of Natural Ontic Genesis

2007-06-23 Thread Colin Hales
are necessarily unified scientific activities. In that unification the answers await us. regards, Colin Hales = The Principle of Natural Ontic Genesis (Version_0) It is a fundamentally necessary and implicit fact of the natural world, regardless

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-20 Thread Colin Hales
down a wys.. === Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 03:47:19PM +1000, Colin Hales wrote: Hi, RUSSEL All I can say is that I don't understand your distinction. You have introduced a new term necessary primitive - what on earth

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-19 Thread Colin Hales
work... and I am fiendishly empirical to the bitter end... Before I re-deliver my X... I'd like to leave the discussion at the META-X level (about any X or about all possible Xs)over to you cheers colin hales --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-17 Thread Colin Hales
of MON_STUFF have nothing to do with any other dance. That is the organisational level where the visibility finally manifests to non-zero...why neural soma are fat - it's all about signal to noise ratio. weirdness time over. Gotta go. Colin Hales

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-17 Thread Colin Hales
Dear Brent, If you had the most extravagent MRI machine in history, which trapped complete maps of all electrons, neuclei and any photons and then plotted them out - you would have a 100% complete, scientifically acquired publishable description and in that description would be absolutely no

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-16 Thread Colin Hales
Hi, I am going to have to be a bit targetted in my responses I am a TAD whelmed at the moment. COLIN 4) Belief in 'magical emergence' qualitative novelty of a kind utterly unrelated to the componentry. RUSSEL The latter clause refers to emergence (without the magical qualifier),

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-16 Thread Colin Hales
Hi, RUSSEL All I can say is that I don't understand your distinction. You have introduced a new term necessary primitive - what on earth is that? But I'll let this pass, it probably isn't important. COLIN Oh no you don't!! It matters. Bigtime... Take away the necessary primitive: no

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-13 Thread Colin Hales
as science? (B) of course. (B) is science and has an empirical future. Belief (A) is religion, not science. Bit of a no-brainer, eh? Cheers colin hales --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-13 Thread Colin Hales
Hi Stathis, Colin The bogus logic I detect in posts around this area... 'Humans are complex and are conscious' 'Humans were made by a complex biosphere' therefore 'The biosphere is conscious' Stathis That conclusion is spurious, but it is the case that non-conscious

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-13 Thread Colin Hales
such descriptions are logically necessarily impotent in prescribing why that very consciousness exists at all. Wigner got this in 1960something time to catch up. gotta go cheers colin hales --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-13 Thread Colin Hales
- that will scientifically demonstrate science to us and therefore be justifyably the possessors of qualia. Upon failure of the test the 'STUFF' I have chosen must be the wrong STUFF and that will be scientifically refuted. In any event real science will be done. gotta go. cheers colin hales

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-11 Thread Colin Hales
Hi again, Russel: I'm sorry, but you worked yourself up into an incomprehensible rant. Is evolution creative in your view or not? If it is, then there is little point debating definitions, as we're in agreement. If not, then we clearly use the word creative in different senses, and perhaps

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-07 Thread Colin Hales
colin hales BTW thanks.I now have the BAAS paper on .PDF Baas, N. A. (1994) Emergence, Hierarchies, and Hyperstructures. In C. G. Langton (ed.). Artificial life III : proceedings of the Workshop on Artificial Life, held June 1992 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass. I'll

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-04 Thread Colin Hales
that isn't axiomatically flawed. Everything is scientific evidence of something. Scientists are no exception. cheers, colin hales --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-04 Thread Colin Hales
that isn't axiomatically flawed. Everything is scientific evidence of something. Scientists are no exception. cheers, colin hales --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-03 Thread Colin Hales
to learn. If the computer/scientist can match the human/scientist...it's as conscious as a human. It must be. cheers colin hales --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post

RE: Mouse brain simulated on a computer - NOT

2007-04-29 Thread Colin Hales
Hi, What they did was hook X million simple neural soma models to each other with Y000 models of synaptic interconnects. Very useful for investigating large-scale dynamicsbutthe leap to 'mouse brain'?.presumptuous I think. Perhaps... 'Mouse-brain scale idealised connectionist model'

Re: String theory and Cellular Automata

2007-03-14 Thread Colin Hales
keep looking at it. The trick is to let go of the idea that 'fundamental building blocks' of nature are a meaningful concept (we are tricked into the belief be our perceptual/epistemological goals) ... cheers, colin hales Mohsen Ravanbakhsh wrote: I'm thinking there's some kind of similarity

RE: To observe is to......EC

2006-10-23 Thread Colin Hales
Colin Hales wrote: 3) The current state of the proof is 'now' the thin slice of the present. Just a couple of questions for the moment Colin, until I've a little more time. Actually, that's precisely what it's about - 'time'. Just how thin is this slice of yours

RE: To observe is to......EC

2006-10-22 Thread Colin Hales
=== STEP 6: Initial state, 'axioms' (*) The initial state of the EC axiom set is 1 huge collection of phase related fluctuations. The (*) means that all the axioms are coincident - there is no 'space' yet. No concept of place. The number of spatial

RE: Numbers, Machine and Father Ted

2006-10-19 Thread Colin Hales
of the underlying reality THE physics and the physics of appearances ('traditional empirical physics') the 'aboutness'-physics = 'meta'-physics? Seems to me the nomenclature is backwards. Not that I care... as long as both physics get done... the name does not matter. Cheers Colin Hales

RE: Numbers, Machine and Father Ted

2006-10-19 Thread Colin Hales
It's one of my favourite lines from Hume! but the issue does not live quite so clearly into the 21st century. We now have words and much neuroscience pinning down subjective experience to the operation of small groups of cells and hence, likely, single cells. It's entirely

RE: To observe is to......

2006-10-11 Thread Colin Hales
something!) behind the 'artificial scientist' that must have 'real' observations. Cheers Colin Hales --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything

RE: The difference between a 'chair' concept and a 'mathematical concept' ;)

2006-10-11 Thread Colin Hales
this. I can't wait to play with it... anyone got $100 million? Call me. :-) Colin Hales --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list

RE: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-27 Thread Colin Hales
1Z Colin Hales wrote: So I ask again HOW would we act DIFFERENTLY if we acted as-if MIND EXISTED. So far the only difference I SEE is writing a lot of stuff in CAPS. Brent Meeker FIRSTLY Formally we would investigate new physics of underlying reality

TEST

2006-09-26 Thread Colin Hales
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