Re: MODAL 5 (was Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Feb 2014, at 00:30, LizR wrote: On 21 February 2014 00:06, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Thanks for telling me, so that I avoid any paranoia, like did I say something impolite or what Never that! OK, thanks. Best, Bruno -- You received this message because you

Re: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-20 Thread Quentin Anciaux
To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 20:45:39 +0100 On 20 Feb 2014, at 16:59, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I can say today that I am the guy having

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-19 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-02-19 0:22 GMT+01:00 David Nyman da...@davidnyman.com: On 18 February 2014 22:34, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 02:06:37PM +, David Nyman wrote: I must admit it hasn't been entirely clear to me why you decided that the MGA can go through

Re: MODAL 5 (was Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
Liz, Others, I was waiting for you to answer the last questions to proceed. Any problem? I give the correction of the last exercise. On 14 Feb 2014, at 19:18, Bruno Marchal wrote: snip On 13 Feb 2014, at 22:23, LizR wrote: On 14 February 2014 07:49, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-19 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 18/02/2014, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: The deficit is that it won't be alive. The parts won't integrate into a whole. Every examination will yield only more levels of where the copy is incomplete. The primary sequence of DNA is right, but the tertiary protein folding

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-19 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 18/02/2014, David Nyman da...@davidnyman.com javascript:; wrote: I think if I say consciousness is an epiphenomenon of biochemistry I should also say that life is. And should you not go on to say that biochemistry is an epiphenomenon of physics and physics is an epiphenomenon of

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-19 Thread David Nyman
On 19 February 2014 16:18, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote: I'm making a case for reductionism. If biochemistry necessarily leads to consciousness then I don't think this is any different to the situation where biochemistry necessarily leads to life. OK, I think you're making a

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-19 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 10:12:52 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 18/02/2014, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: The deficit is that it won't be alive. The parts won't integrate into a whole. Every examination will yield only more levels of where the copy is

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-19 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:36:31 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 19 February 2014 16:18, Stathis Papaioannou stat...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: I'm making a case for reductionism. If biochemistry necessarily leads to consciousness then I don't think this is any different to the

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Feb 2014, at 17:18, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 18/02/2014, David Nyman da...@davidnyman.com wrote: I think if I say consciousness is an epiphenomenon of biochemistry I should also say that life is. And should you not go on to say that biochemistry is an epiphenomenon of

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-19 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 12:46:40 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Feb 2014, at 17:18, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 18/02/2014, David Nyman da...@davidnyman.com wrote: I think if I say consciousness is an epiphenomenon of biochemistry I should also say that life is.

Re: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-19 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: Be consistent reject MWI on the same ground... don't bother adding the argument that you can't meet your doppelganger, So you want me to defend my case but specifically ask me not to use logic in doing so. No can do.

Re: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-19 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-02-19 19:36 GMT+01:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: Be consistent reject MWI on the same ground... don't bother adding the argument that you can't meet your doppelganger, So you want me to defend my case but

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-19 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Wednesday, February 19, 2014, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 10:12:52 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 18/02/2014, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: The deficit is that it won't be alive. The parts won't integrate into a whole. Every

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-19 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Thursday, February 20, 2014, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 19 Feb 2014, at 17:18, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 18/02/2014, David Nyman da...@davidnyman.com wrote: I think if I say consciousness is an epiphenomenon of biochemistry I should also say that life is.

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-19 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 4:28:15 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On Wednesday, February 19, 2014, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 10:12:52 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 18/02/2014, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: The

RE: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-19 Thread chris peck
Chris. From: allco...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 20:53:46 +0100 Subject: Re: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room) To: everything-list@googlegroups.com 2014-02-19 19:36 GMT+01:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com

Re: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-19 Thread LizR
You are looking at a geiger counter pointing at a radioactive source. On average, it clicks about once every other second. Do you expect to hear it click in the next second? What is wrong with the above question? It seems to me exactly equivalent in probability terms to do you expect to see

RE: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-19 Thread Quentin Anciaux
:53:46 +0100 Subject: Re: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room) To: everything-list@googlegroups.com 2014-02-19 19:36 GMT+01:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: Be consistent reject MWI on the same

Re: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-19 Thread Quentin Anciaux
' in the mistaken belief that it has a legitimate place in Everettian MWI. All the best Chris. -- From: allco...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 20:53:46 +0100 Subject: Re: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room) To: everything-list@googlegroups.com

Re: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Feb 2014, at 19:49, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: what exactly is the question? Be specific and DON'T HIDE BEHIND PRONOUNS WITH NO CLEAR REFERENT. The question is what do you [blah blah] DON'T HIDE BEHIND PRONOUNS

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-18 Thread David Nyman
On 17 February 2014 17:46, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 17 Feb 2014, at 14:13, David Nyman wrote: On 16 February 2014 16:17, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: The whole schema - physics included - would then have to be considered an epiphenomenon of some inaccessible

Re: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-18 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 17 Feb 2014, at 19:49, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: what exactly is the question? Be specific and DON'T HIDE BEHIND PRONOUNS WITH NO CLEAR REFERENT.

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-18 Thread David Nyman
On 17 February 2014 06:07, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 February 2014 08:39, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/16/2014 5:14 PM, David Nyman wrote: On 17 February 2014 00:12, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I don't think so. We know where the values

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Feb 2014, at 15:06, David Nyman wrote: On 17 February 2014 17:46, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 17 Feb 2014, at 14:13, David Nyman wrote: On 16 February 2014 16:17, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: The whole schema - physics included - would then have to be

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-18 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 02:06:37PM +, David Nyman wrote: I must admit it hasn't been entirely clear to me why you decided that the MGA can go through without addressing the counterfactuals, especially since Maudlin felt he had to address them in his alternative formulation. I appreciate

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-18 Thread David Nyman
On 18 February 2014 22:34, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 02:06:37PM +, David Nyman wrote: I must admit it hasn't been entirely clear to me why you decided that the MGA can go through without addressing the counterfactuals, especially since

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-18 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:22:55PM +, David Nyman wrote: On 18 February 2014 22:34, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 02:06:37PM +, David Nyman wrote: I must admit it hasn't been entirely clear to me why you decided that the MGA can go

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-18 Thread David Nyman
On 19 February 2014 00:15, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:22:55PM +, David Nyman wrote: On 18 February 2014 22:34, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 02:06:37PM +, David Nyman wrote: I must admit

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-18 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:39:59AM +, David Nyman wrote: On 19 February 2014 00:15, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:22:55PM +, David Nyman wrote: On 18 February 2014 22:34, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Tue, Feb

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-18 Thread David Nyman
On 19 February 2014 01:09, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Anyway, hopefully I can get to that paper so that we can discuss this more. I look forward to it :) David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To

Re: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Feb 2014, at 19:52, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 3:33 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: if Mr. he is the fellow who is experiencing Helsinki right now then the correct prediction would be Mr. he will see neither Washington NOR Moscow. Simple calculus

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Feb 2014, at 21:56, David Nyman wrote: On 16 February 2014 16:17, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 16 Feb 2014, at 15:32, David Nyman wrote: On 16 February 2014 09:39, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: snip From thought cannot act on matter we arrive at thought

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Feb 2014, at 22:32, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, February 16, 2014 2:18:54 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 16 February 2014 17:48, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, but then you would be faced with the questions posed by the UDA/ MWI arguments, because there would then

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Feb 2014, at 00:44, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, February 16, 2014 2:23:11 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Feb 2014, at 18:56, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, February 16, 2014 9:58:24 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Feb 2014, at 13:45, Craig Weinberg wrote: On

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-17 Thread David Nyman
On 17 February 2014 06:07, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote: snip I and I would agree with Stathis - except for the merely. I think Bruno was right when he observed that epi doesn't mean anything in this context. Stathis doesn't think that consciousness is separable from

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-17 Thread David Nyman
On 17 February 2014 09:02, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: May be I should not have, as we can use the intensional Church's thesis, for the UD. But we can formally make a difference, and some can exploit it. In fact the difference between computation and computability is more general

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-17 Thread David Nyman
On 16 February 2014 16:17, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: The whole schema - physics included - would then have to be considered an epiphenomenon of some inaccessible ur-physics. Exactly. I'm not sure that it's exactly a contradiction just because of that, though, as in practice

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-17 Thread meekerdb
On 2/16/2014 10:07 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: I can't imagine all the biochemistry being there but life absent, but I can imagine all the biochemistry being there but consciousness absent (though further reasoning may show that that to be impossible). But maybe that is just a failure of

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Feb 2014, at 14:13, David Nyman wrote: On 16 February 2014 16:17, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: The whole schema - physics included - would then have to be considered an epiphenomenon of some inaccessible ur-physics. Exactly. I'm not sure that it's exactly a contradiction

Re: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-17 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: what exactly is the question? Be specific and DON'T HIDE BEHIND PRONOUNS WITH NO CLEAR REFERENT. The question is what do you [blah blah] DON'T HIDE BEHIND PRONOUNS WITH NO CLEAR REFERENT. You = the unique 1p

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-17 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 17, 2014 12:44:43 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On Sunday, February 16, 2014, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Sunday, February 16, 2014 4:45:13 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On Sunday, February 16, 2014, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Sunday, February 16, 2014, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, February 15, 2014 10:49:56 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 16 February 2014 01:32, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: No, the copy of the experience has no belief or experience at all. The

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Feb 2014, at 00:06, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 15, 2014 3:43:29 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 15 February 2014 18:32, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: You can't copy awareness. Awareness is what is uncopyable, not just because awareness is special, but

Re: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Feb 2014, at 19:30, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: The 3-1 view is the 3p view on the 1p views, note the plural, after the duplication. That is far more convoluted than it need to be, it's really not all that

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Feb 2014, at 05:08, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 15, 2014 10:40:17 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 16 February 2014 01:41, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: To extend your metaphor, in my view, since the characters in a drama can build an LCD screen as part of

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Feb 2014, at 14:14, David Nyman wrote: On 15 February 2014 02:45, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote: If that is so (and I agree that it is, since I am not a physical eliminativist) it is still consistent with the physical processes still being *sufficient* to produce

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 16, 2014 5:29:09 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Feb 2014, at 00:06, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 15, 2014 3:43:29 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 15 February 2014 18:32, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: You can't copy awareness.

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread David Nyman
On 16 February 2014 12:45, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: Copy and self-copy are different, for machines too, but in the case under study, this does not entail any observable difference, and if you are right, it means that the copy doll will be a zombie. The reproduction of the

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread David Nyman
On 16 February 2014 03:36, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote: The difference between the movie and the conscious entity is that the movie has meaning to an external observer, while the conscious entity creates its own observer and hence its own meaning. Yes, that's what I said. OK,

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 16, 2014 4:45:13 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On Sunday, February 16, 2014, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Saturday, February 15, 2014 10:49:56 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 16 February 2014 01:32, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread David Nyman
On 16 February 2014 14:06, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: If there were some way to copy a fully developed body so that it lived, it would still not be a copy of the original, but just a new original that reminds us of the copy from the outside perspective. Ah, but then you would

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread David Nyman
On 16 February 2014 09:39, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: If the foregoing is to make any sense, we are forced to the view that all references to such dramatis personae are, in the end, merely a manner of speaking, and that consequently *all* such gross or macroscopic references are,

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Feb 2014, at 13:45, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, February 16, 2014 5:29:09 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Feb 2014, at 00:06, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 15, 2014 3:43:29 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 15 February 2014 18:32, Craig Weinberg

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Feb 2014, at 15:32, David Nyman wrote: On 16 February 2014 09:39, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: If the foregoing is to make any sense, we are forced to the view that all references to such dramatis personae are, in the end, merely a manner of speaking, and that consequently

Re: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-16 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 , Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: A typical observation will be the diary of the guy in W assess that he is in W, and (perhaps) that he could not have predicted that, That is incorrect, the Helsinki Man could have successfully predicted that the Washington

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread meekerdb
On 2/15/2014 7:40 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 16 February 2014 01:41, Craig Weinbergwhatsons...@gmail.com wrote: To extend your metaphor, in my view, since the characters in a drama can build an LCD screen as part of the show, but an LCD screen can't build a show as part of its function,

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 16, 2014 9:12:03 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 16 February 2014 14:06, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: If there were some way to copy a fully developed body so that it lived, it would still not be a copy of the original, but just a new original

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 16, 2014 9:58:24 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Feb 2014, at 13:45, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, February 16, 2014 5:29:09 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Feb 2014, at 00:06, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 15, 2014 3:43:29 PM UTC-5,

Re: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Feb 2014, at 17:46, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 , Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: A typical observation will be the diary of the guy in W assess that he is in W, and (perhaps) that he could not have predicted that, That is incorrect, the Helsinki Man could have

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread David Nyman
On 16 February 2014 17:48, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, but then you would be faced with the questions posed by the UDA/MWI arguments, because there would then be two conscious originals who claimed equal possession of the same history to that point. That is all you need for

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Feb 2014, at 18:56, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, February 16, 2014 9:58:24 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Feb 2014, at 13:45, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, February 16, 2014 5:29:09 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Feb 2014, at 00:06, Craig Weinberg wrote: On

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread David Nyman
On 16 February 2014 17:42, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I don't disagree, but I think this formulation leaves meaning as mysterious and one may ask why consciousness creates meaning. I think meaning comes from being able to act in the world to realize values. And it doesn't require

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread David Nyman
On 16 February 2014 16:17, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 16 Feb 2014, at 15:32, David Nyman wrote: On 16 February 2014 09:39, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: snip From thought cannot act on matter we arrive at thought cannot refer to matter, and well, this is almost

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 16, 2014 2:18:54 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 16 February 2014 17:48, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: Ah, but then you would be faced with the questions posed by the UDA/MWI arguments, because there would then be two conscious originals who

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread David Nyman
Have you forgotten now that I was responding to your own contention in response to Stathis that if a living person could be duplicated both of the resulting persons would be original? Perhaps you would care to respond to my comment with respect to what might be inferred from this contention of

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 16, 2014 2:23:11 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Feb 2014, at 18:56, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, February 16, 2014 9:58:24 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Feb 2014, at 13:45, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, February 16, 2014 5:29:09 AM UTC-5,

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 16, 2014 7:12:33 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 2/16/2014 11:34 AM, David Nyman wrote: On 16 February 2014 17:42, meekerdb meek...@verizon.net javascript:wrote: I don't disagree, but I think this formulation leaves meaning as mysterious and one may ask why

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread David Nyman
On 17 February 2014 00:12, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I don't think so. We know where the values of the Mars Rover are encoded and how they affect its behavior and we know how we could change them. That's about as good as reductionism gets. But now aren't you just substituting

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread meekerdb
On 2/16/2014 5:14 PM, David Nyman wrote: On 17 February 2014 00:12, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I don't think so. We know where the values of the Mars Rover are encoded and how they affect its behavior and we know how we could change them. That's

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread David Nyman
On 17 February 2014 01:39, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I and I would agree with Stathis - except for the merely. I think Bruno was right when he observed that epi doesn't mean anything in this context. Stathis doesn't think that consciousness is separable from the physics; it's just

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Sunday, February 16, 2014, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, February 16, 2014 4:45:13 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On Sunday, February 16, 2014, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, February 15, 2014 10:49:56 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 16

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 17 February 2014 02:34, David Nyman da...@davidnyman.com wrote: On 16 February 2014 17:42, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I don't disagree, but I think this formulation leaves meaning as mysterious and one may ask why consciousness creates meaning. I think meaning comes from being

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-16 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 17 February 2014 08:39, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/16/2014 5:14 PM, David Nyman wrote: On 17 February 2014 00:12, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I don't think so. We know where the values of the Mars Rover are encoded and how they affect its behavior and we know how

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-15 Thread David Nyman
On 15 February 2014 02:45, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote: If that is so (and I agree that it is, since I am not a physical eliminativist) it is still consistent with the physical processes still being *sufficient* to produce consciousness. It would only not be sufficient if some

Re: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-15 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: The 3-1 view is the 3p view on the 1p views, note the plural, after the duplication. That is far more convoluted than it need to be, it's really not all that complicated. After the duplication both the Washington Man

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-15 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, February 14, 2014 9:45:34 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 13 February 2014 19:19, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 9:30:25 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 12 February 2014 23:47, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-15 Thread Craig Weinberg
To extend your metaphor, in my view, since the characters in a drama can build an LCD screen as part of the show, but an LCD screen can't build a show as part of its function, it makes more sense that the drama is fundamental and that from an absolute perspective, it is the pixels which are

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-15 Thread David Nyman
On 15 February 2014 18:41, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: To extend your metaphor, in my view, since the characters in a drama can build an LCD screen as part of the show, but an LCD screen can't build a show as part of its function, it makes more sense that the drama is

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-15 Thread David Nyman
On 15 February 2014 18:32, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: You can't copy awareness. Awareness is what is uncopyable, not just because awareness is special, but because it is ontologically perpendicular to the possibility of simulation. All attempts to copy awareness result in a

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-15 Thread LizR
On 15 February 2014 18:32, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: You can't copy awareness. Awareness is what is uncopyable, not just because awareness is special, but because it is ontologically perpendicular to the possibility of simulation. All attempts to copy awareness result in a

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-15 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 15, 2014 3:43:29 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 15 February 2014 18:32, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: You can't copy awareness. Awareness is what is uncopyable, not just because awareness is special, but because it is ontologically

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-15 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 15, 2014 5:48:12 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 15 February 2014 18:32, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: You can't copy awareness. Awareness is what is uncopyable, not just because awareness is special, but because it is ontologically perpendicular

Fwd: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-15 Thread David Nyman
-- Forwarded message -- From: David Nyman david.ny...@gmail.com Date: 15 February 2014 23:45 Subject: RE: Better Than the Chinese Room To: Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com Can you give me a principled distinction between reproducing and copying? David Sent from my Windows

Re: Fwd: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-15 Thread Russell Standish
message -- From: David Nyman david.ny...@gmail.com Date: 15 February 2014 23:45 Subject: RE: Better Than the Chinese Room To: Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com Can you give me a principled distinction between reproducing and copying? David Sent from my Windows Phone

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-15 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 15, 2014 7:02:21 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: David Nyman david...@gmail.com javascript: Date: 15 February 2014 23:45 Subject: RE: Better Than the Chinese Room To: Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: Can you

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-15 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 15 February 2014 20:14, David Nyman da...@davidnyman.com wrote: On 15 February 2014 02:45, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote: If that is so (and I agree that it is, since I am not a physical eliminativist) it is still consistent with the physical processes still being

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-15 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 15 February 2014 20:14, David Nyman da...@davidnyman.com wrote: On 15 February 2014 02:45, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote: If that is so (and I agree that it is, since I am not a physical eliminativist) it is still consistent with the physical processes still being

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-15 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 16 February 2014 01:41, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: To extend your metaphor, in my view, since the characters in a drama can build an LCD screen as part of the show, but an LCD screen can't build a show as part of its function, it makes more sense that the drama is

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-15 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 16 February 2014 01:32, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: No, the copy of the experience has no belief or experience at all. The reflection of the fire doesn't burn anything. Are you saying that the copy will be dead? A pathologist would examine it and declare that it cannot

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-15 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 15, 2014 10:40:17 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 16 February 2014 01:41, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: To extend your metaphor, in my view, since the characters in a drama can build an LCD screen as part of the show, but an LCD screen can't

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-15 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 15, 2014 10:49:56 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 16 February 2014 01:32, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: No, the copy of the experience has no belief or experience at all. The reflection of the fire doesn't burn anything. Are you saying that

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Feb 2014, at 22:08, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 5:11 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: My question was what is the unique consistent definition of the 1p after the duplication has been performed?. In the 3-1 view, that does not exist, Then the 1p is

Re: MODAL 5 (was Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Feb 2014, at 22:23, LizR wrote: On 14 February 2014 07:49, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Liz, and others, On 13 Feb 2014, at 10:04, LizR wrote: On 13 February 2014 21:38, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: If I reported that there was a flying pig, wouldn't comp just

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-14 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 13 February 2014 19:19, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 9:30:25 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 12 February 2014 23:47, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think that my experience can be replaced with a copy though. So how

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Feb 2014, at 04:08, meekerdb wrote: snip That doesn't mean it can explain ghosts, leprechauns, gods and other things *not* observed. Why not consciousness and other things that we do not see, but at least believe in? There's a difference between being able to explain anything

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-13 Thread LizR
On 13 February 2014 21:38, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: If I reported that there was a flying pig, wouldn't comp just explain, That's the way arithmetic looks from inside.? Why? No. Not at all. You must (using G Co.) looks at the way arithmetic looks from inside, and if you find

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-13 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 9:30:25 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 12 February 2014 23:47, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: I don't think that my experience can be replaced with a copy though. So how would you know you were a copy? It has nothing to

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-13 Thread meekerdb
On 2/13/2014 1:04 AM, LizR wrote: On 13 February 2014 21:38, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: If I reported that there was a flying pig, wouldn't comp just explain, That's the way arithmetic looks from inside.? Why? No. Not at all. You must

MODAL 5 (was Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
Liz, and others, On 13 Feb 2014, at 10:04, LizR wrote: On 13 February 2014 21:38, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: If I reported that there was a flying pig, wouldn't comp just explain, That's the way arithmetic looks from inside.? Why? No. Not at all. You must (using G Co.) looks

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