RE: 'reason' and ethics; was computer pain

2006-12-29 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
16:51:08 +0900 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: 'reason' and ethics; was computer pain OK Stathis, I happily concede your point in relation to our word 'logical', but not in relation to 'reason'. Logic belongs to the tight-nit language of logico-mathematics

Re: 'reason' and ethics; was computer pain

2006-12-29 Thread Mark Peaty
:15:34 +0900 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: everything-list@googlegroups.commailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: 'reason' and ethics; was computer pain And yet I persist ... [the hiatus of familial duties and seasonal excesses now draws to a close [Oh yeah

Re: 'reason' and ethics; was computer pain

2006-12-27 Thread Mark Peaty
And yet I persist ... [the hiatus of familial duties and seasonal excesses now draws to a close [Oh yeah, Happy New Year Folks!] SP: 'If we are talking about a system designed to destroy the economy of a country in order to soften it up for invasion, for example, then an economist can apply

Re: 'reason' and ethics; was computer pain

2006-12-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
I agree with you. The only one sin you talk about is akin to the confusion between the third person (oneself as a thing) and the unnameable first person. Even in the ideal case of the self-referentially correct machine, this confusion leads the machine to inconsistency. That sin is

RE: 'reason' and ethics; was computer pain

2006-12-27 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:15:34 +0900 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: 'reason' and ethics; was computer pain And yet I persist ... [the hiatus of familial duties and seasonal excesses now draws to a close [Oh yeah

Re: 'reason' and ethics; was computer pain

2006-12-27 Thread Mark Peaty
+0900 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: 'reason' and ethics; was computer pain And yet I persist ... [the hiatus of familial duties and seasonal excesses now draws to a close [Oh yeah, Happy New Year Folks!] SP: 'If we are talking about a system designed