Introduction to Univalent Foundations of Mathematics with Agda

2020-01-03 Thread Philip Thrift
*Introduction to Univalent Foundations of Mathematics with Agd*a (4 March 2019, version of 18 December 2019) Martín Hötzel Escardó https://cs.bham.ac.uk/~mhe/HoTT-UF-in-Agda-Lecture-Notes/HoTT-UF-Agda.html @philipthrift -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: Combinators 1 (Introduction)

2018-09-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 17 Sep 2018, at 05:55, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 2:05 PM Bruno Marchal > wrote: > Hi Jason, > > >> On 5 Aug 2018, at 05:24, Jason Resch > > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 2:19 PM Bruno Marchal

Re: Combinators 1 (Introduction)

2018-09-16 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 2:05 PM Bruno Marchal wrote: > Hi Jason, > > > On 5 Aug 2018, at 05:24, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 2:19 PM Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> Hi Jason, people, >> >> > Hi Bruno, > > Thank you for this. I've been trying to digest it over the past few days. >

Re: Combinators 1 (Introduction)

2018-08-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Jason, > On 5 Aug 2018, at 05:24, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 2:19 PM Bruno Marchal > wrote: > Hi Jason, people, > > > Hi Bruno, > > Thank you for this. I've been trying to digest it over the past few days. No problem. It was hard to b

Re: Combinators 1 (Introduction)

2018-08-04 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 2:19 PM Bruno Marchal wrote: > Hi Jason, people, > > Hi Bruno, Thank you for this. I've been trying to digest it over the past few days. > > I will send my post on the Church-Turing thesis and incompleteness later. > It is too long. > > So, let us proceed with the combi

Combinators 1 (Introduction)

2018-07-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Jason, people, I will send my post on the Church-Turing thesis and incompleteness later. It is too long. So, let us proceed with the combinators. Two seconds of historical motivation. During the crisis in set theory, Moses Schoenfinkel publishes, in 1924, an attempt to found mathematics on

Re: Introduction

2011-06-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi, On 06 Jun 2011, at 11:31, whitespectre wrote: Hello, I just joined here and I am excited to explore the world of knowledge of everything and nothing, I am 22 years old and a computer science graduate and I recently had a "psychotic episode" where I realised that everything is a computation

Introduction

2011-06-06 Thread whitespectre
Hello, I just joined here and I am excited to explore the world of knowledge of everything and nothing, I am 22 years old and a computer science graduate and I recently had a "psychotic episode" where I realised that everything is a computation driven by some kind of force called mathematical inevi

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-16 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Hi Bruno, 2009/3/15 Bruno Marchal > > > Hi Günther, > > > > > Hi Bruno, > > > > thanks for your interesting answer, I have some questions though. > > > >> course, as I said, this will depend of what you mean by "you". In > >> case > >> you accept the idea of surviving with amnesia, you can even

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Günther, > > Hi Bruno, > > thanks for your interesting answer, I have some questions though. > >> course, as I said, this will depend of what you mean by "you". In >> case >> you accept the idea of surviving with amnesia, you can even get to a >> state where you "know" you are immortal, bec

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-13 Thread Günther Greindl
Hi Bruno, thanks for your interesting answer, I have some questions though. > course, as I said, this will depend of what you mean by "you". In case > you accept the idea of surviving with amnesia, you can even get to a > state where you "know" you are immortal, because your immortality is a

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Günther, >> 1-OM, (by step 7, correspond to infinity (aleph_zero) of 3-OMs, >> themselves embedded in bigger infinities (2^aleph_zero) of >> computations going trough their corresponding states. >> Between you-in-the-living room, and you-in-the-kitchen there is >> already a continuum of sto

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-12 Thread John Mikes
Gunther wrote: "...assuming that _every_ computation is conscious qua computation? " brings up in my mind: thinking in comp (at least: in numbers) translates 'conscious' into 'computed' ?? (That would imply an elevation from the binary embryonic contraption as our "computer" into more sophisti

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-11 Thread Günther Greindl
Hi Bruno, > 1-OM, (by step 7, correspond to infinity (aleph_zero) of 3-OMs, > themselves embedded in bigger infinities (2^aleph_zero) of > computations going trough their corresponding states. > Between you-in-the-living room, and you-in-the-kitchen there is > already a continuum of storie

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Mar 2009, at 02:25, Günther Greindl wrote: > > Hi Bruno, > >>> The idea was that the numbers encode moments which don't have >>> successors >>> (the guy who transports), that's why there exist alien-OMs encoded >>> in >>> numbers which destroy all the machines (if we assume that arithmet

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-10 Thread Günther Greindl
Hi Bruno, >> The idea was that the numbers encode moments which don't have >> successors >> (the guy who transports), that's why there exist alien-OMs encoded in >> numbers which destroy all the machines (if we assume that arithmetic >> is >> consistent). > > Hmmm (Not to clear for me, I

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-09 Thread John Mikes
Bruno, - again the bartender... * Initial remark: I like Gunther's parenthetical condition of arithmetic consistency - which I find not assured in DIFFERENT universes. As I said axioms (2+2=4) are in my opinion *thought - conditions* to make one's theory workable and so they are conditioned by the

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Mar 2009, at 18:09, Günther Greindl wrote: > > Hi Bruno, > >>> With COMP it is not so clear. >> >> explicit appeal to self-consistency (= the move from Bp to Bp & Dt; >> the >> "Dt" suppresses the cul-de-sac). With comp, to believe in a next >> instant or in a successor state is already

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Mar 2009, at 18:06, Günther Greindl wrote: > The idea was that the numbers encode moments which don't have > successors > (the guy who transports), that's why there exist alien-OMs encoded in > numbers which destroy all the machines (if we assume that arithmetic > is > consistent).

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-06 Thread Günther Greindl
Hi Bruno, >> With COMP it is not so clear. > > explicit appeal to self-consistency (= the move from Bp to Bp & Dt; the > "Dt" suppresses the cul-de-sac). With comp, to believe in a next > instant or in a successor state is already based on an act of faith. Please bear in mind that I have not

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-06 Thread Günther Greindl
Bruno, >> My idea was rather that the instantiations would not correspond to >> numbers in the first place > > But that would violate the comp assumption. No, you still misunderstand me ;-) not correspond in the sense of non-existing, not in the sense of existing but not number. >> - that is

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-05 Thread Brent Meeker
Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 05 Mar 2009, at 12:43, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > >> 2009/3/5 Bruno Marchal : >> >>> Sure. But note that "a lot of things happens", including the white >>> rabbits and aberrant histories. Quantum intefrence and decoherence >>> explains why those aberrant histories a

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-05 Thread russell standish
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 04:10:15PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > Of course keyboard-dragon types of transformations are utterly NOT > verifiable, even in the ironical first person way of quantum or comp > suicide. If you decide to kill yourself until your keyboard transforms > itself into

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Mar 2009, at 12:43, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > 2009/3/5 Bruno Marchal : > >> Sure. But note that "a lot of things happens", including the white >> rabbits and aberrant histories. Quantum intefrence and decoherence >> explains why those aberrant histories are relatively rare. > > Could

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-05 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2009/3/5 Bruno Marchal : > Sure. But note that "a lot of things happens", including the white > rabbits and aberrant histories. Quantum intefrence and decoherence > explains why those aberrant histories are relatively rare. Could it be that some things which seem physically possible, like the ma

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 05-mars-09, à 11:15, Günther Greindl a écrit : > > Hi Stathis, > >>> It is at least conceivable that the collection of particles that is >>> me >>> could undergo some environmental interaction such that *all* the >>> following entangled branches decohere into states that do *not* map >>> to

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 05-mars-09, à 11:10, Günther Greindl a écrit : > > HI Bruno, > Indeed, that would be like if a number could make disappear another number. Even a God cannot do that! >>> The idea would be rather that some continuations would correspond >>> to non-existent numbers, like, say, the nat

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-05 Thread Günther Greindl
Hi Stathis, >> It is at least conceivable that the collection of particles that is me >> could undergo some environmental interaction such that *all* the >> following entangled branches decohere into states that do *not* map to >> the emergent class of "me, being conscious." Then I would be dead

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-05 Thread Günther Greindl
HI Bruno, >>> Indeed, that would be like if a number could make disappear another >>> number. Even a God cannot do that! >> The idea would be rather that some continuations would correspond >> to non-existent numbers, like, say, the natural number between 3 and >> 4. > > I am not sure I unders

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Günther, On 05 Mar 2009, at 00:50, Günther Greindl wrote: > > Bruno, > >> Indeed, that would be like if a number could make disappear another >> number. Even a God cannot do that! > > The idea would be rather that some continuations would correspond > to non-existent numbers, like, say, the n

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-04 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2009/3/5 Johnathan Corgan : > It is at least conceivable that the collection of particles that is me > could undergo some environmental interaction such that *all* the > following entangled branches decohere into states that do *not* map to > the emergent class of "me, being conscious."  Then I w

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-04 Thread Günther Greindl
Bruno, > Indeed, that would be like if a number could make disappear another > number. Even a God cannot do that! The idea would be rather that some continuations would correspond to non-existent numbers, like, say, the natural number between 3 and 4. Cheers, Günther --~--~-~--~---

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-04 Thread Günther Greindl
Stathis, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >> Imagine the sequence: >> >> Scan - Annihilate - Signal - Reconstitute > The no-cul-de-sac hypothesis is false if you allow that there is some > means of destroying all copies in the multiverse. But there is > probably no such means, no matter how advanced t

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-04 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 12:25 +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > The no-cul-de-sac hypothesis is false if you allow that there is some > > means of destroying all copies in the multiverse. But there is > > probably no such means, no matter how advanced the aliens. > > Indeed, that would be like if a n

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Mar 2009, at 07:08, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > 2009/3/4 Bruno Marchal : > >> That is why the B people made a law, for helping those who >> misunderstand the probability. If you decide (before duplication) to >> kill the copy, the choice of victim/torturer is still decided through >> a

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Mar 2009, at 07:13, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > 2009/3/4 Günther Greindl : > >> Imagine the sequence: >> >> Scan - Annihilate - Signal - Reconstitute >> >> Now consider that the Signal travels for 100 000 lightyears >> before it hits the reconstitution chamber (just to >> have a big dis

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-03 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2009/3/4 Günther Greindl : > Imagine the sequence: > > Scan - Annihilate - Signal - Reconstitute > > Now consider that the Signal travels for 100 000 lightyears > before it hits the reconstitution chamber (just to > have a big distance, the concern is causal disconnection in spacetime). > > Now,

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-03 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2009/3/4 Bruno Marchal : > That is why the B people made a law, for helping those who > misunderstand the probability. If you decide (before duplication) to > kill the copy, the choice of victim/torturer is still decided through > a throw of a fair coin. This makes the decision unbiased by fake >

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-03 Thread Günther Greindl
Hi, > better: this is just the "usual" comp-suicide self-selection (assuming > of course we can really kill the copies, which is in itself not an > obvious proposition). I have been thinking along these lines lately, in a somewhat different context: the teleportation with annihilation exper

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 03 Mar 2009, at 13:40, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > 2009/3/3 Bruno Marchal : > >> I think that comp practitioners will divide, in the long run, along >> three classes: >> >> A: majority. Accept teleportation but disallow overlap of >> "individuals": annihilation first, reconstitution afte

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-03 Thread ronaldheld
Stathis This was mentioned in the TNG technical manual. I do not recall, right, now, which post TOS episodes mentioned it. Ronald On Mar 2, 8:42 am, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > 2009/3/2 ronaldheld : > > > > > Maybe the terminology does not fit

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-03 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2009/3/3 Bruno Marchal : > I think that comp practitioners will divide, in the long run,  along > three classes: > > A:  majority. Accept teleportation but disallow overlap of > "individuals": annihilation first, reconstitution after. No right to > self-infliction. In case of accidental or except

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-03 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2009/3/3 Bruno Marchal : > I think that comp practitioners will divide, in the long run,  along > three classes: > > A:  majority. Accept teleportation but disallow overlap of > "individuals": annihilation first, reconstitution after. No right to > self-infliction. In case of accidental or except

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-02 Thread Brent Meeker
To have strict continuity you would certainly need the state, but not at the quantum level, see Tegmark's paper. But you could probably do without most of the state information if you were willing to accept a gap - as in anesthesia. Brent ronaldheld wrote: > Maybe the terminology does not f

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Mar 2009, at 23:48, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > 2009/3/2 Bruno Marchal : > >> All right, I understand. The question now is: are you sure it is in >> "your" interest to be that selfish. It is not a moral question: can >> you be coherent, take the full piece of botter "dead is not big dea

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-02 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2009/3/2 ronaldheld : > > Maybe the terminology does not fit here, to make a copy of my brain, > wouldn't you need more than memories, but the state of the brain at > one time to "quantum resolution" (TNG transporter term). The question is what level of resolution is needed in order to copy the m

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-02 Thread ronaldheld
Maybe the terminology does not fit here, to make a copy of my brain, wouldn't you need more than memories, but the state of the brain at one time to "quantum resolution" (TNG transporter term). Ronald On Feb 23, 9:04 pm, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > 2009/2/24 Brent Me

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-01 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2009/3/2 Bruno Marchal : > All right, I understand. The question now is: are you sure it is in > "your" interest to be that selfish. It is not a moral question: can > you be coherent, take the full piece of botter "dead is not big deal" > of the midazolam argument, and keep that sort of selfishne

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-01 Thread Günther Greindl
Stathis, Bruno, >> It leads to a very complex question: should we allow people to torture >> their doppelganger, for example as a ritual or sexual practice? Of >> course not without their consent, given that the golden ethical rule >> with comp is "don't do to the other what the other does not wa

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Mar 2009, at 09:54, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > 2009/2/28 Bruno Marchal : > >> It leads to a very complex question: should we allow people to >> torture >> their doppelganger, for example as a ritual or sexual practice? Of >> course not without their consent, given that the golden eth

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-01 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2009/2/28 Bruno Marchal : > It leads to a very complex question: should we allow people to torture > their doppelganger, for example as a ritual or sexual practice? Of > course not without their consent, given that the golden ethical rule > with comp is "don't do to the other what the other does

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Feb 2009, at 03:02, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > 2009/2/28 Günther Greindl : > >> The issue that we are very reluctant to die if our backup is ten >> years >> old but need not worry so much if we backed up one hour ago is simply >> the heuristic that in one hour we don't change so much

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-27 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > 2009/2/28 Günther Greindl : > > >> The issue that we are very reluctant to die if our backup is ten years >> old but need not worry so much if we backed up one hour ago is simply >> the heuristic that in one hour we don't change so much, but in ten years >> we often

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-27 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2009/2/28 Günther Greindl : > The issue that we are very reluctant to die if our backup is ten years > old but need not worry so much if we backed up one hour ago is simply > the heuristic that in one hour we don't change so much, but in ten years > we often change so much that we indeed become a

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-27 Thread russell standish
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 08:34:48PM +1100, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > 2009/2/27 Bruno Marchal : > > > Gosh!  And what if the backup has been done last year, or one minute ago? I > > will be dead too? Less dead? > > This shows a potential problem the psychological criterion for > personal ide

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-27 Thread Günther Greindl
> John Mikes wrote: >> Brent: >> who is making that 'backup' or 'replica' of you? and why? It is only a thought experiment to make clear what we care about regarding personal identity. And if computationalism is true, this thought experiment will be practically quite relevant in the near(?) fu

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-27 Thread Brent Meeker
John Mikes wrote: > Brent: > who is making that 'backup' or 'replica' of you? and why? Ask Bruno, he's the one who brought it up. Brent --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To p

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-27 Thread Günther Greindl
Stathis, List, > if a backup was made an hour ago, since I (the presently speaking I) > will not be able to anticipate any future experiences. Only if there As Bruno said in a previous post, what we should care about in personal survival is not concrete memories (although memories are essential

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-27 Thread Günther Greindl
Bruno, List, > in awaked state. Yet I do distinguish dying and forgetting. Let us say that we have a measure of continuation (of psychological) identity from 1 to 0, where 1=full continuation and 0=death, and we apply this measure from one OM to the next. Then forgetting would be everything be

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Feb 2009, at 15:57, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > 2009/2/27 Bruno Marchal > > On 26 Feb 2009, at 18:41, Quentin Anciaux wrote: >> >> There is no identity without memories... makes no sense to me. > > I take it as a superficial part of identity, with respect to > surviving. Personal identi

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-27 Thread John Mikes
Brent: who is making that 'backup' or 'replica' of you? and why? you people take it for granted that a (supernatural???) authority has nothing else to do except making replicas of members of the Everything List. And you observe, how good - or bad - "its" work is. Some teleological view of pantheism

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-27 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2009/2/27 Bruno Marchal > > On 26 Feb 2009, at 18:41, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > There is no identity without memories... makes no sense to me. > > > I take it as a superficial part of identity, with respect to surviving. > Personal identity, I think is more and less than personal memories. > B

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-27 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2009/2/27 Bruno Marchal : > Gosh!  And what if the backup has been done last year, or one minute ago? I > will be dead too? Less dead? This shows a potential problem the psychological criterion for personal identity. If I am facing death it is little consolation to me if a backup was made an hou

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-26 Thread Brent Meeker
Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 26 Feb 2009, at 18:32, Brent Meeker wrote: > >> Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> On 23 Feb 2009, at 17:15, Quentin Anciaux wrote: >>> 2009/2/23 Bruno Marchal >>> > The copy could be you in the deeper sense that it cou

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-26 Thread Brent Meeker
Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 27 Feb 2009, at 01:57, Günther Greindl wrote: > >> Hi, >> >>> Personal identity and memory could be a useful fiction for living. >>> Here >>> I was alluding to possible deeper sense of the self, which makes me >>> conceive that indeed there is only one person playin

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Feb 2009, at 01:57, Günther Greindl wrote: > > Hi, > >> Personal identity and memory could be a useful fiction for living. >> Here >> I was alluding to possible deeper sense of the self, which makes me >> conceive that indeed there is only one person playing a trick to >> itself. >> Li

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 26 Feb 2009, at 18:32, Brent Meeker wrote: > > Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> On 23 Feb 2009, at 17:15, Quentin Anciaux wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> 2009/2/23 Bruno Marchal >> > >>> >>> >>> >>>The copy could be you in the deeper sense that it could be you >>> even in >>>

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 26 Feb 2009, at 18:41, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > There is no identity without memories... makes no sense to me. I take it as a superficial part of identity, with respect to surviving. Personal identity, I think is more and less than personal memories. By loosing memory "I" would be wounde

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-26 Thread Günther Greindl
Hi, > Personal identity and memory could be a useful fiction for living. Here > I was alluding to possible deeper sense of the self, which makes me > conceive that indeed there is only one person playing a trick to itself. > Like if our bodies where just disconnected windows giving to that uni

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-26 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Hi, 2009/2/26 Bruno Marchal > > On 23 Feb 2009, at 17:15, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > > 2009/2/23 Bruno Marchal > >> >> >> The copy could be you in the deeper sense that it could be you even in >> the case where he loses some memory, all memories, or in case he got >> new memories, including f

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-26 Thread Brent Meeker
Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 23 Feb 2009, at 17:15, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > >> >> >> 2009/2/23 Bruno Marchal mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be>> >> >> >> >> The copy could be you in the deeper sense that it could be you even in >> the case where he loses some memory, all memories, or in case he g

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Feb 2009, at 17:15, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > 2009/2/23 Bruno Marchal > > > The copy could be you in the deeper sense that it could be you even in > the case where he loses some memory, all memories, or in case he got > new memories, including false souvenirs. But then it is like in the

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-26 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2009/2/26 Brent Meeker : > If they are all distinct, then in what sense does S1-S2-S3 form a stream > of consciousness, rather than S1-S2-B3 or even S1-B1-S3-B2.  Supposedly > it is that S3 includes some memory of S1 (or earlier Si), but in that > case why couldn't B3 also include some memory of

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-25 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > 2009/2/25 meekerdb @dslextreme.com : > > >> It is the potential "fusion" that bothers me. It would seem to imply that >> after Stathis and I have a simultaneous moment of thinking of nothing our >> "closest continuations" might be mixtures, each having some memorie

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-25 Thread Brent Meeker
russell standish wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:00:39PM -0800, meekerdb @dslextreme.com wrote: > >> I think I am often *not* self-aware. But aside from that, I have definitely >> been unconscious several times in my life and I'm sure other people (though >> probably not Stathis) were unco

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Feb 2009, at 03:39, russell standish wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 05:51:49PM -0800, meekerdb @dslextreme.com > wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Bruno Marchal >> wrote: >>> Exactly (assuming comp). That is even the reason why amnesia can led >>> to fusion of first perso

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-25 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2009/2/25 meekerdb @dslextreme.com : > It is the potential "fusion" that bothers me.  It would seem to imply that > after Stathis and I have a simultaneous moment of thinking of nothing our > "closest continuations" might be mixtures, each having some memories > belonging to Stathis and some belo

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Feb 2009, at 02:51, meekerdb @dslextreme.com wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Bruno Marchal > wrote: > > > On 24 Feb 2009, at 03:04, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > > > 2009/2/24 Brent Meeker : > > > >> I tend to agree with Quentin that memories are an essential > >> compon

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-24 Thread russell standish
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:00:39PM -0800, meekerdb @dslextreme.com wrote: > > I think I am often *not* self-aware. But aside from that, I have definitely > been unconscious several times in my life and I'm sure other people (though > probably not Stathis) were unconscious at the same time. So a

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-24 Thread meekerdb @dslextreme.com
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:39 PM, russell standish wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 05:51:49PM -0800, meekerdb @dslextreme.com wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Bruno Marchal > wrote: > > > Exactly (assuming comp). That is even the reason why amnesia can led > > > to fusion of first pe

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-24 Thread russell standish
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 05:51:49PM -0800, meekerdb @dslextreme.com wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > Exactly (assuming comp). That is even the reason why amnesia can led > > to fusion of first persons. > > And given that there is (or should be) a notion of first p

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-24 Thread meekerdb @dslextreme.com
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 24 Feb 2009, at 03:04, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > > > 2009/2/24 Brent Meeker : > > > >> I tend to agree with Quentin that memories are an essential > >> component of > >> personal identity. But that also raises a problem with i

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Feb 2009, at 03:04, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > 2009/2/24 Brent Meeker : > >> I tend to agree with Quentin that memories are an essential >> component of >> personal identity. But that also raises a problem with ideas like >> "observer moments" and "continuity". Almost all my memori

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Feb 2009, at 13:22, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > 2009/2/24 Bruno Marchal : > From a logical point of view Shoemaker is right. You can say "no" for many reasons to the doctor. The copy will not even behave as you. The copy will behave like you, but is a phi-zomb

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-24 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2009/2/24 Bruno Marchal : >>> From a logical point of view Shoemaker is right. You can say "no" for >>> many reasons to the doctor. >>> The copy will not even behave as you. >>> The copy will behave like you, but is a phi-zombie. >>> The copy behaves like you and as a soul/personality/consciousne

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-23 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2009/2/24 Brent Meeker : > I tend to agree with Quentin that memories are an essential component of > personal identity. But that also raises a problem with ideas like > "observer moments" and "continuity". Almost all my memories are not > being remembered at an given time. Some I may not reca

Re: Personal Identity and Memory [was Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-23 Thread Brent Meeker
Stephen Paul King wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Brent Meeker" > To: > Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 11:51 AM > Subject: Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A > Brief Introduction] > > > >> Quentin Anci

Re: Personal Identity and Memory [was Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-23 Thread Stephen Paul King
- Original Message - From: "Brent Meeker" To: Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 11:51 AM Subject: Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction] > > Quentin Anciaux wrote: >> >> If the "copy" has no memory

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-23 Thread Brent Meeker
Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > 2009/2/23 Bruno Marchal mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be>> > > > > The copy could be you in the deeper sense that it could be you even in > the case where he loses some memory, all memories, or in case he got > new memories, including false souvenirs. But then it i

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-23 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2009/2/23 Bruno Marchal > > > The copy could be you in the deeper sense that it could be you even in > the case where he loses some memory, all memories, or in case he got > new memories, including false souvenirs. But then it is like in the > movie "the prestige", your brother can be you. This p

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Feb 2009, at 00:39, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > 2009/2/23 Bruno Marchal : > >> From a logical point of view Shoemaker is right. You can say "no" for >> many reasons to the doctor. >> The copy will not even behave as you. >> The copy will behave like you, but is a phi-zombie. >> The copy

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-22 Thread Günther Greindl
Hi Stathis, Bruno, List, >> the copy can be you in deeper and deeper senses (roughly speaking up >> to the unspeakable "you = ONE"). >> I talk here on the first person "you". It is infinite and unnameable. >> Here computer science can makes those term (like "unnameable") much >> more precise. >

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-22 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2009/2/23 Bruno Marchal : > From a logical point of view Shoemaker is right. You can say "no" for > many reasons to the doctor. > The copy will not even behave as you. > The copy will behave like you, but is a phi-zombie. > The copy behaves like you and as a soul/personality/consciousness, but >

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
cal Reviews >> >> 2009-02-26 : View this Review Online >> <http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=15326> : View Other NDPR Reviews >> <http://ndpr.nd.edu/> >> >> David Shoemaker, /Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief >> Introduction/, >> Broad

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-20 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
?id=15326> : View Other NDPR Reviews > <http://ndpr.nd.edu/> > > David Shoemaker, /Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction/, > Broadview Press, 2009, 296pp., $26.95 (pbk), ISBN 9781551118826. > > *Reviewed by Amy Kind, Claremont McKenna College* Thank-you for al

[Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-02-19 Thread Brent Meeker
r, /Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction/, Broadview Press, 2009, 296pp., $26.95 (pbk), ISBN 9781551118826. *Reviewed by Amy Kind, Claremont McKenna College* Although there are many excellent texts dealing with the

Re: All feedback appreciated - An introduction to Algebraic Physics

2008-07-12 Thread Jason Resch
Russell is right, I have been lurking. The wiki is still available and will be for the foreseeable future so you ought not worry about it disappearing without warning. Feel free to add as much content as you wish, the only reason it hasn't become more useful is that participation in article creat

Re: questionnaire (was: All feedback appreciated - An introduction to Algebraic Physics)

2008-07-04 Thread Zen_Ved
Wei Dai: > I'm not sure what questionnaire Zen_Ved is referring to, but maybe it's this > paragraph from the mailing list invitation: > > Because this mailing list attracts people from many different academic > fields, and many posts have high technical content, it is suggested that > after join

questionnaire (was: All feedback appreciated - An introduction to Algebraic Physics)

2008-07-03 Thread Wei Dai
y, July 03, 2008 8:49 AM To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: All feedback appreciated - An introduction to Algebraic Physics > to: Wei Dai: > Please: > How can I find your 'Everything-Questionnaire'? (Not that I have the > answers...) > John Mikes > > On T

Re: All feedback appreciated - An introduction to Algebraic Physics

2008-07-03 Thread John Mikes
to: Wei Dai: Please: How can I find your 'Everything-Questionnaire'? (Not that I have the answers...) John Mikes On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 4:51 AM, Brian Tenneson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is the universe a subset of the set "information" (which I assume is > defined in the article) and why ca

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