Re: Euthanasia

2022-12-12 Thread Samiya Illias
Non-Living & Living https://signsandscience.blogspot.com/2019/09/non-living-living.html Time, Death & Decay https://signsandscience.blogspot.com/2021/12/time-death-decay.html > On 13-Dec-2022, at 5:25 AM, John Clark wrote: > >  > Spud boy wrote > >> > Tain't about Youth In Asia, tis

Re: Euthanasia

2022-12-12 Thread Brent Meeker
On 12/12/2022 4:14 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: Tain't about Youth In Asia, tis about progressive bureaucrats who presume people don't want to live, Where do bureaucrats and presumption come into it.  People choose suicide, and not only in Canada but also in Washington and

Re: Euthanasia

2022-12-12 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
out, but instead, a way upstairs.  -Original Message- From: John Clark To: 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List Sent: Mon, Dec 12, 2022 7:25 pm Subject: Euthanasia Spud boy wrote  > Tain't about Youth In Asia, tis about progressive bureaucrats who presume > people don't want t

Euthanasia

2022-12-12 Thread John Clark
Spud boy wrote > > Tain't about Youth In Asia, tis about progressive bureaucrats who > presume people don't want to live, They presume somebody doesn't want to live because between their screams of agony they clearly state that they don't want to live. Do you really think politicians should be

Euthanasia

2022-12-12 Thread John Clark
After a New York Times columnist complained about a new law in Canada that allows people to have control over their own bodies and die if they want to die, I wrote this letter to the newspaper. As I expected they didn't print it so I'm going to send it here: Ross Douthat is appalled that last

Re: New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients

2020-11-08 Thread Tomasz Rola
cure (I am not sure about cure, it was Bruno who wrote about it) but hey man, I have no problem. The way the events went did not change my opinion about the world. > *> For me eugenics is a natural next step after adopting euthanasia.* > > > It's odd how you are super concern

Re: New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients

2020-11-08 Thread John Clark
may not be making the correct choice but it's her choice because it's her life not yours that we're talking about. *> For me eugenics is a natural next step after adopting euthanasia.* It's odd how you are super concerned about hypothetical negative consequences of euthanasia that may or may not ac

Re: New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients

2020-11-08 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 12:08:31PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 1 Nov 2020, at 19:32, Tomasz Rola wrote: > > [...] > > harmony. > > I am not sure I understand. Defending euthanasia is not defending > murder, I think it depends on who is defending.

Re: New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients

2020-11-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
has >>> reported more COVID-19 cases than the entire country of New Zealand, I >>> guess New Zealanders are just more civilized and competent than Americans. >>> >>> New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients >>> <https://www.

Re: New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients

2020-11-02 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 07:50:24PM +, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: > Very Aristotelian! [...] "Plato is my friend but my bigger friend is truth" - why, he sounds like very amiable guy. Maybe for men whose name is Plato, not so amiable, but other than those, I am sure he was universally loved by

Re: New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients

2020-11-01 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 2:21 PM wrote: > A study from politicized Stanford economists doesn't work for me. Well of course it doesn't convince you, no finite amount of scientific evidence could convince you to change your world view, ma

Re: New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients

2020-11-01 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Very Aristotelian! The golden mean made flesh. Reminds me of the ancient Yes tune, You and I. You guys do know that in the same decision about euthanasia, marijuana legalization was turned down. Sad preacher nailed upon the coloured door of time Insane teacher be there reminded of the rhyme

Re: New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients

2020-11-01 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 2:21 PM wrote: *> A study from politicized Stanford economists doesn't work for me.* > Well of course it doesn't convince you, no finite amount of scientific evidence could convince you to change your world view, maybe an infinite amount could but I rather doubt it. For

Re: New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients

2020-11-01 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
k? No idea.  -Original Message- From: John Clark To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Cc: marc...@ulb.ac.be Sent: Sun, Nov 1, 2020 11:03 am Subject: Re: New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 9:44 AM spudboy100 via Everything List wr

Re: New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients

2020-11-01 Thread Tomasz Rola
I > > guess New Zealanders are just more civilized and competent than Americans. > > > > New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients > > <https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/30/asia/new-zealand-euthanasia-intl-hnk/index.html> > > > I

Re: New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients

2020-11-01 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 9:44 AM spudboy100 via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *>NZ also has a "somewhat" smaller population, * > On the contrary, the country of New Zealand has a somewhat larger population than the White House and the 18.7 acres that surround it, but

Re: New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients

2020-11-01 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
un, Nov 1, 2020 3:50 am Subject: Re: New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients On 30 Oct 2020, at 11:42, John Clark wrote: And for the last three weeks the 18.7 acres around the White House has reported more COVID-19 cases than the entire country of New Zealand, I g

Re: New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients

2020-11-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
gt; > New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients > <https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/30/asia/new-zealand-euthanasia-intl-hnk/index.html> I have been an advocate of euthanasia for a long time, until the law pass and in my country (Belgium), euthanasia has been f

Re: New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients

2020-10-30 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
infections. This also would apply to Care homes.  -Original Message- From: John Clark To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, Oct 30, 2020 6:42 am Subject: New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients And for the last three weeks the 18.7 acres around

Re: New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients

2020-10-30 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
You can imagine it, but it hasn't happened in the states where euthanasia is already legal. Brent On 10/30/2020 4:31 AM, Lawrence Crowell wrote: The only way I could support something like this in USA is if there is a single payer healthcare system. As things stand now I can well imagine

Re: New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients

2020-10-30 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 8:05 AM Lawrence Crowell < goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> wrote: *> It is a hypothetical that easily could be made real. * The already real does not need to be made real. And for some paralized people in agony the pressure put upon them to stay alive by the

Re: New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients

2020-10-30 Thread Lawrence Crowell
single payer healthcare system is probably a good idea, it's worked > well in other countries, but it has little to do with euthanasia. > > >> > I can well imagine there will be insurance weasels pressuring family >> members to "terminate" a patient the compan

Re: New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients

2020-10-30 Thread John Clark
ell in other countries, but it has little to do with euthanasia. > > I can well imagine there will be insurance weasels pressuring family > members to "terminate" a patient the company finds too expensive to pay for. I think it's illogical to worry about hypothetical problems tha

Re: New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients

2020-10-30 Thread Lawrence Crowell
. > > New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients > <https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/30/asia/new-zealand-euthanasia-intl-hnk/index.html> > > John K Clark > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "

New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients

2020-10-30 Thread John Clark
And for the last three weeks the 18.7 acres around the White House has reported more COVID-19 cases than the entire country of New Zealand, I guess New Zealanders are just more civilized and competent than Americans. New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients <ht

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-23 Thread John Mikes
And how much is that 2 kg in that 'other' universe? JM On 11/23/08, Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Nov 2008, at 19:08, m.a. wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: Let us go back to the point. The point of MGA is to show that MEC + MAT implies a contradiction. You can see that it is

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Nov 2008, at 17:46, John Mikes wrote: And how much is that 2 kg in that 'other' universe? Like two kg, when weighted on Earth. I was literal for the sake of the reasoning. Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-22 Thread Günther Greindl
Brent, thanks for the paper recommendations! I will have a look at them. Cheers, Günther Brent Meeker wrote: Günther Greindl wrote: Hello Brent, That was my point. The SWE indicates that every microscopic event that happens or doesn't happen stochastically splits the wave function.

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Nov 2008, at 22:16, m.a. wrote: Bruno, I was just quoting you: And if you do the math, you get a physics extracted from mechanism, and you can use it to confirm mechanism or to refute it. Did you mean refutes materialism? Thanks for quoting the entire sentence,

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-20 Thread m.a.
Bruno Marchal wrote: Let us go back to the point. The point of MGA is to show that MEC + MAT implies a contradiction. You can see that it is equivalent with - the proposition saying that MEC implies NON MAT (mechanism refutes materialism). - the proposition saying that MAT implies NON

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Nov 2008, at 16:01, m.a. wrote: So you're saying that a physics extracted from mechanism which (let's assume) refutes mechanism, If a physics extracted from mechanism refutes mechanism, then mechanism is refuted. (p implies not p) is equivalent with (not p). I guess you meant

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-19 Thread m.a.
Bruno, I was just quoting you: And if you do the math, you get a physics extracted from mechanism, and you can use it to confirm mechanism or to refute it. Did you mean refutes materialism? Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Nov 2008, at 16:01, m.a. wrote: *So you're saying that a

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-19 Thread Kory Heath
On Nov 16, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Günther Greindl wrote: nicely put (the below), it captures my current metaphysical position quite accurately :-) Thanks, Günther! It'll be interesting to see if we continue to agree as the MGA thread progresses. :) -- Kory

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-18 Thread m.a.
*So you're saying that matter is as much a delusion as the luminiferous aether and could be a logical extension of Kant's subjective definitions of space and time? And the splitting of the MWI is just permutations of equations? Gosh.

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Nov 2008, at 15:30, m.a. wrote: So you're saying that matter is as much a delusion as the luminiferous aether Yes. If you mean matter by fundamental matter. It does not mean the Higgs boson is an illusion (in case the LHC shows it). It means that the idea that there are

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi m.a. On 18 Nov 2008, at 20:18, m.a. wrote: Dear Bruno, Needless to say I feel honored that you've taken the time to answer my naive questions. Naive questions I love. But since you invite such questions, I do have a problem with the phrase highlighted

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Nov 2008, at 00:29, Michael Rosefield wrote: If there is a split, does it create differentiated consciousnesses? I doubt it. I guess you are talking about the QM splitting, and not the comp- splitting. In both case it is better to talk about consciousness differentiation instead

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Nov 2008, at 04:41, Brent Meeker wrote: But does un-implemented mean not implemented in any language? This is a vague question depending of the context. If you have find a beautiful algorithm, and your boss asks you if you have implemented it, well, if you have not implemente,

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon

2008-11-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
the arithmetic truth by looking inside' (pardon my poetic distortion). How close can we look? The light is on but nobody's home? Gordon --- On Thu, 11/13/08, Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-17 Thread Kory Heath
On Nov 16, 2008, at 6:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Some believe that for having a real conscious person, you have to implement it in a real primary material universe. It is clearly what Peter Jones thinks. I am saying that a person can be fully conscious like you or me, even when implemented

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Nov 2008, at 11:20, Kory Heath wrote: On Nov 15, 2008, at 5:22 PM, m.a. wrote: Isn't some sort of substrate necessary for any mathematical event, whether it be a brain or a screen or a universe? And isn't that substrate sufficiently different from the math to be called physical

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Nov 2008, at 04:41, Brent Meeker wrote: But all possible implementations is a logical concept that exists only in platonia - Any program for the universal dovetailer like this one GEN DU implements all computations in our (apparently) material world we are sharing now. so what

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Nov 2008, at 09:52, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: It's computations supporting consciousness that makes this idea interesting. Otherwise, it's like claiming that a block of marble contains any given statue: in a sense it's true, but you need a sculptor to allow the statue to interact

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Nov 2008, at 16:22, Kory Heath wrote: On Nov 16, 2008, at 6:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Some believe that for having a real conscious person, you have to implement it in a real primary material universe. It is clearly what Peter Jones thinks. I am saying that a person can be fully

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-17 Thread Brent Meeker
Günther Greindl wrote: Hello Brent, That was my point. The SWE indicates that every microscopic event that happens or doesn't happen stochastically splits the wave function. But these events don't generally cause a split of Kory or other classical objects. Those objects are not in

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-16 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2008/11/16 Kory Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But if any computation can be mapped onto any physical state, then every computation can be mapped onto one physical state; and why not the null state? I guess I don't really have a clear picture of why the fact that any computation can be mapped

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-16 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2008/11/16 Brent Meeker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But if any computation can be mapped onto any physical state, then every computation can be mapped onto one physical state; and why not the null state? I'm not sure that works. In the original idea the mapping was to be one-to-one (which is

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-16 Thread Kory Heath
On Nov 15, 2008, at 5:22 PM, m.a. wrote: Isn't some sort of substrate necessary for any mathematical event, whether it be a brain or a screen or a universe? And isn't that substrate sufficiently different from the math to be called physical existence? That's certainly the prevailing

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Nov 2008, at 12:12, Michael Rosefield wrote: Yeah, I think that was meat to be either short-sightedness, racketeering, or just an attempt to push his own reality in a certain direction on the character's part. For me, though, the thing about a stone implementing all possible

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-16 Thread Günther Greindl
Hi Kory, nicely put (the below), it captures my current metaphysical position quite accurately :-) Cheers, Günther Imagine again the mathematical description of Conway's Life applied to the binary digits of PI. Somewhere within that description there may be descriptions of beings who

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-16 Thread Michael Rosefield
If there is a split, does it create differentiated consciousnesses? I doubt it. Perhaps there are two main causes of splitting: where an event would cause different 'observables', or where an event by necessity breaks the mechanism of consciousness into different streams. In the latter case, there

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-16 Thread m.a.
*I wonder whether my selves, after a split, retain their memories from the world before the split or now have all the memories appropriate to the self in the new universe. Theoretically of course, they wouldn't know the difference, but it seems strange to think that we might perceive entirely

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-16 Thread Michael Rosefield
Surely the split is from a single history to multiple histories consistent with the original? Sure, you could say we move from identity to identity at random, but that is unlikely under QM and should be similarly improbable from any other metatheory. 2008/11/17 m.a. [EMAIL PROTECTED] *I wonder

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-16 Thread Brent Meeker
Bruno Marchal wrote: On 14 Nov 2008, at 19:46, Brent Meeker wrote: That was my point. The SWE indicates that every microscopic event that happens or doesn't happen stochastically splits the wave function. But these events don't generally cause a split of Kory or other classical

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-15 Thread Michael Rosefield
Yeah, I think that was meat to be either short-sightedness, racketeering, or just an attempt to push his own reality in a certain direction on the character's part. For me, though, the thing about a stone implementing all possible computations is that you end up with no possible way of knowing

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-15 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2008/11/15 Kory Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Actually, I think my formulation already goes further than the theory outlined in PC. Although it's a subtle point, I get the feeling that reality in PC is still materialist, in the sense that at the root there still is material stuff which is

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-15 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2008/11/15 Michael Rosefield [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yeah, I think that was meat to be either short-sightedness, racketeering, or just an attempt to push his own reality in a certain direction on the character's part. For me, though, the thing about a stone implementing all possible computations

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-15 Thread Michael Rosefield
2008/11/15 Stathis Papaioannou [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/11/15 Michael Rosefield [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 'Nothing' := 'Something' - 'Everything' Just what I was saying! I was about to say that... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon

2008-11-15 Thread John Mikes
is on but nobody's home? Gordon --- On Thu, 11/13/08, Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008, 9:38 AM On 13 Nov 2008, at 00:16, Kory Heath wrote: On Nov 12

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-15 Thread m.a.
*Is it wrong to ask what the lattice is made of? Isn't some sort of substrate necessary for any mathematical event, whether it be a brain or a screen or a universe? And isn't that substrate sufficiently different from the math to be called physical existence? m.a. * Kory Heath wrote

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-15 Thread Kory Heath
On Nov 15, 2008, at 5:12 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: But if any computation can be mapped onto any physical state, then every computation can be mapped onto one physical state; and why not the null state? I guess I don't really have a clear picture of why the fact that any computation

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-15 Thread Michael Rosefield
If you look at the structure and relationships of maths, it's all rather an incestuous family tree anyway. You can get from any one point to another if you try hard enough. It's like 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon. Now think of any physical system embedded in the maths. It's easy enough to get to other

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-15 Thread Brent Meeker
Kory Heath wrote: On Nov 15, 2008, at 5:12 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: But if any computation can be mapped onto any physical state, then every computation can be mapped onto one physical state; and why not the null state? I'm not sure that works. In the original idea the

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-14 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2008/11/14 Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Perhaps the time has come I explain the MGA on the list? Would you be interested? It seems that both you and Stathis already accept the conclusion. So ... Yes, I'd be interested in an explanation of the MGA in English; I read French only with

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-14 Thread Michael Rosefield
I've always thought - and this might just be betraying my lack of understanding - that these are simply two sides of the same coin: we can't distinguish between these quantum events, so we can consider ourselves as either being a classical being 'above' a sea of quantum noise, or as being a bundle

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Brent, On 14 Nov 2008, at 07:02, Brent Meeker wrote: I think there is a misunderstanding of the MWI. Although the details haven't been worked out (and maybe they won't be, c.f. Dowker and Kent) it is generally thought that you, as a big hot macroscopic body, do not split into

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Nov 2008, at 11:54, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: 2008/11/14 Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Perhaps the time has come I explain the MGA on the list? Would you be interested? It seems that both you and Stathis already accept the conclusion. So ... Yes, I'd be interested in an

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-14 Thread Günther Greindl
Hi Bruno, a very cool series of posts. I would also like to express my interest in your MGA argument (my French is very rusty). I have read the Maudlin Olympia paper, but would like to hear your version. Cheers, Günther --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Nov 2008, at 01:19, Kory Heath wrote: On Nov 13, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Be careful with the term. The MGA is subtle and to explain it we will have to be more precise. For example here it is better to remember that only *person* are conscious. Computations are not

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-14 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Bruno Marchal skrev: For example, a zombie is just some entity which looks like you and me, i.e. has all the appearance of a human, and who has no consciousness. There is no *need* to make them a priori fundamentally material. Now a materialist can and even should interpret this as a

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-14 Thread Brent Meeker
Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi Brent, On 14 Nov 2008, at 07:02, Brent Meeker wrote: I think there is a misunderstanding of the MWI. Although the details haven't been worked out (and maybe they won't be, c.f. Dowker and Kent) it is generally thought that you, as a big hot macroscopic

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
Thanks Günther. A long time ago Russell asks me to explain the UDA, and I have made the first presentation of it into steps for the everything-list. It was UDA in 15 steps, and it has converge to 7 steps, and that has helped a bit. I have also made on the list (with Joel, George and

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-14 Thread Brent Meeker
Bruno Marchal wrote: On 14 Nov 2008, at 01:19, Kory Heath wrote: On Nov 13, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Be careful with the term. The MGA is subtle and to explain it we will have to be more precise. For example here it is better to remember that only *person* are

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Nov 2008, at 18:43, Torgny Tholerus wrote: Bruno Marchal skrev: For example, a zombie is just some entity which looks like you and me, i.e. has all the appearance of a human, and who has no consciousness. There is no *need* to make them a priori fundamentally material. Now a

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-14 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 10:46 -0800, Brent Meeker wrote: That was my point. The SWE indicates that every microscopic event that happens or doesn't happen stochastically splits the wave function. But these events don't generally cause a split of Kory or other classical objects. Those

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-14 Thread Kory Heath
On Nov 13, 2008, at 10:02 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: I think there is a misunderstanding of the MWI. Ok. I wanted to try putting things in terms of the MWI rather than a more extreme version of many-worlds like Bruno's, since a lot more people accept the MWI. But of course, I can make the

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-14 Thread Kory Heath
On Nov 14, 2008, at 9:29 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Now a computationalist cannot say I believe that persons represented by unimplemented computations are conscious for the reason that all computations have to be implemented. Ok, I see your point. Computations are actions that people (or

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-14 Thread Michael Rosefield
Take this level of abstraction much further and what you have essentially is the 'dust theory' from Greg Egan's Permutation City. -- - Did you ever hear of The Seattle Seven? - Mmm. - That was me... and six other guys. 2008/11/15 Kory Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Nov

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-14 Thread Kory Heath
On Nov 14, 2008, at 5:09 PM, Michael Rosefield wrote: Take this level of abstraction much further and what you have essentially is the 'dust theory' from Greg Egan's Permutation City. Actually, I think my formulation already goes further than the theory outlined in PC. Although it's a

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-13 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2008/11/13 Kory Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Second, it happens that sometimes I think the burden his on him to tell us what he means by a physical universe. I totally agree. But most people will just wave their arms and say, What do you mean? We're obviously in a physical universe. What's

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Nov 2008, at 00:16, Kory Heath wrote: On Nov 12, 2008, at 9:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: First, I have never stop to work on that and try to share the argument with people interested in the matter. True. You're tireless! (That's a complement.) Second, it happens that sometimes

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-13 Thread Gordon Tsai
PROTECTED] wrote: From: Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008, 9:38 AM On 13 Nov 2008, at 00:16, Kory Heath wrote: On Nov 12, 2008, at 9:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: First, I have never stop to work

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-13 Thread Kory Heath
On Nov 13, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Be careful with the term. The MGA is subtle and to explain it we will have to be more precise. For example here it is better to remember that only *person* are conscious. Computations are not conscious (be it soft or hard wired). Good point.

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-13 Thread Brent Meeker
Kory Heath wrote: Sorry for the long delay on this reply. On Nov 2, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: Kory Heath wrote: In this mundane sense, it's perfectly sensible for me to say, as I'm sitting here typing this email, I expect to still be sitting in this room one second from now.

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-12 Thread Kory Heath
On Nov 11, 2008, at 9:31 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The problem with Dennett is that he takes physical reality for granted. I agree. But from his perspective, the burden is on us to explain why we can't take physical reality for granted. I've never seen the arguments laid out quite clearly

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Nov 2008, at 20:10, Brent Meeker wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Nov 2008, at 17:34, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS I think I see the point that you are still missing. I will have to

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Nov 2008, at 22:44, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10 Nov 2008, at 17:34, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS I think I see the point that you are still

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-12 Thread Michael Rosefield
I think the most compelling arguments against a fundamental physical reality go along the lines of starting with one, and showing you can abstract away from it until it becomes just another arbitrary perspective. -- - Did you ever hear of The Seattle Seven? - Mmm. - That

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Nov 2008, at 12:11, Kory Heath wrote: On Nov 11, 2008, at 9:31 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The problem with Dennett is that he takes physical reality for granted. I agree. But from his perspective, the burden is on us to explain why we can't take physical reality for granted.

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-12 Thread Kory Heath
On Nov 12, 2008, at 9:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: First, I have never stop to work on that and try to share the argument with people interested in the matter. True. You're tireless! (That's a complement.) Second, it happens that sometimes I think the burden his on him to tell us what he

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Brent, On 09 Nov 2008, at 20:29, Brent Meeker wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: You don't get the point. Mechanism is incompatible with naturalism. To solve the mind body problem, keeping mechanism, the laws of physicist have to be explained from computer science, even from the gap

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-11 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Bruno Marchal skrev: On 09 Nov 2008, at 20:29, Brent Meeker wrote: Many physicists think that an ultimate theory would be discrete, This is highly implausible, assuming comp. I know that if we want quantize gravitation, then space and time should be quantized, but then I hope

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Nov 2008, at 17:34, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS I think I see the point that you are still missing. I will have to explain that whatever the physical universe is, in the case I am Turing emulable, the physical

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-11 Thread Brent Meeker
Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Nov 2008, at 17:34, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS I think I see the point that you are still missing. I will have to explain that whatever the physical universe

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-11 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10 Nov 2008, at 17:34, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS I think I see the point that you are still missing. I will have to explain that whatever the

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-11 Thread Jason Resch
John, I meant loosely a universe conceivable by anyone (that might conceivably exist [?]), not limited to human conceptions. Jason On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:30 PM, John Mikes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason, I don't have anything against your question just pick one expression from your post:

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 09-nov.-08, à 20:29, Brent Meeker a écrit : You don't get the point. Mechanism is incompatible with naturalism. To solve the mind body problem, keeping mechanism, the laws of physicist have to be explained from computer science, even from the gap between computer science and computer's

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-10 Thread Kory Heath
On Nov 9, 2008, at 3:24 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: I'm with you and Dennett - except I'm reserved about the use of logical possibility. Fair enough. I might be misusing that term. Maybe a better way to state my position would be that I think the standard conception of philosophical zombie

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-09 Thread Kory Heath
On Nov 7, 2008, at 10:07 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Do you understand that if comp is false, then arithmetical truth contains (immaterial) zombies (because it contains already the relative implementations of all solutions of Schroedinger equations and variant, if only that for example ...)?

Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-09 Thread Kory Heath
On Nov 7, 2008, at 9:34 AM, Brent Meeker wrote: I think I agree with Bruno that it is *logically* possible, e.g. accidental zombies. It's just not nomologically possible. I'm not sure what counts as an accidental zombie. Do you mean something like the following: I can write a very short

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