Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 26 Jan 2015, at 23:59, Kim Jones wrote: On 27 Jan 2015, at 4:44 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 26 Jan 2015, at 00:02, Kim Jones wrote: On 26 Jan 2015, at 7:43 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I study the consequences of a common assumption, and assuming a

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 26 Jan 2015, at 00:02, Kim Jones wrote: On 26 Jan 2015, at 7:43 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I study the consequences of a common assumption, and assuming a universal person is natural in this context. Here is the big sell, then. You have to somehow demonstrate to the

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 26 Jan 2015, at 01:52, meekerdb wrote: On 1/25/2015 3:02 PM, Kim Jones wrote: Here is the big sell, then. You have to somehow demonstrate to the human race that we are a universal person. Best of British, old son! The math alone maybe will convince another mathematician, but without

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-26 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Evolution favours nothing. That is incorrect. Evolution favors getting genes into the very next generation and Evolution favors absolutely positively NOTHING else. By saying favours you are already attempting

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-26 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: On 26 Jan 2015, at 7:43 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I study the consequences of a common assumption, and assuming a universal person is natural in this context. Here is the big sell, then. You have

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-26 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 6:15 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: That is incorrect. Evolution will favor whichever strategy is better in the *SHORT* run. There is a point where the

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-26 Thread Kim Jones
On 27 Jan 2015, at 4:44 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 26 Jan 2015, at 00:02, Kim Jones wrote: On 26 Jan 2015, at 7:43 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I study the consequences of a common assumption, and assuming a universal person is natural in this

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-25 Thread Kim Jones
On 26 Jan 2015, at 7:43 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I study the consequences of a common assumption, and assuming a universal person is natural in this context. Here is the big sell, then. You have to somehow demonstrate to the human race that we are a universal person.

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-25 Thread meekerdb
On 1/25/2015 3:02 PM, Kim Jones wrote: Here is the big sell, then. You have to somehow demonstrate to the human race that we are a universal person. Best of British, old son! The math alone maybe will convince another mathematician, but without your guiding values, they will fail to see the big

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-25 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 5:27 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Insofar as they are expressed in words it seems that logical contradictions are beyond belief. I don't think so. If it's pleasant to believe in X and it's also pleasant to believe in Y I think it's possible for some people

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Jan 2015, at 19:50, meekerdb wrote: On 1/24/2015 1:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: In fact it is a benign move to bet that we are the same universal person (S4Grz(PA) or S4Grz(M))(*) with diverging experiences, like the W and M guy. Is it? Does that apply to all sentient beings? Is

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Jan 2015, at 15:54, Rex Allen wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 22 Jan 2015, at 05:58, Rex Allen wrote: I think my main problem with platonism is that I don't see why a mathematical universe would generate beings who then develop

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-24 Thread Rex Allen
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:09 AM, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: On 22 Jan 2015, at 3:58 pm, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote: Which was also my problem with physicalism - in that why would a random (i.e., not specially chosen) set of physical laws and initial conditions

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-24 Thread meekerdb
On 1/24/2015 1:39 PM, Rex Allen wrote: But the simulation could make you think or believe anything - anything at all. Do you think there is any limit to the possible craziness of simulated thoughts and beliefs? It somewhat depends on what you mean by thought and by belief. Insofar as they

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-24 Thread Kim Jones
On 25 Jan 2015, at 8:39 am, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:09 AM, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: On 22 Jan 2015, at 3:58 pm, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote: Which was also my problem with physicalism - in that why would a

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-24 Thread meekerdb
On 1/24/2015 1:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: In fact it is a benign move to bet that we are the same universal person (S4Grz(PA) or S4Grz(M))(*) with diverging experiences, like the W and M guy. Is it? Does that apply to all sentient beings? Is it a benign bet that I'm the same person as the

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Jan 2015, at 10:27, Kim Jones wrote: On 22 Jan 2015, at 6:07 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/21/2015 10:09 PM, Kim Jones wrote: But the laws surely are not random. Laws cannot be random. Look, the universe is a setup job. Either we are simulated and the limitation

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Jan 2015, at 13:51, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 20 Jan 2015, at 13:43, Telmo Menezes wrote: Hi Rex, Interesting read. I will just start with something I've been thinking about, along these lines (I believe).

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Jan 2015, at 00:24, meekerdb wrote: On 1/22/2015 9:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Jan 2015, at 20:27, meekerdb wrote: On 1/21/2015 3:48 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: If you completely discard the concept of truth and replace it entirely with evolutionary usefulness - does that change

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Jan 2015, at 13:27, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote: I think my main problem with platonism is that I don't see why a mathematical universe would generate beings who then develop true beliefs about the mathematical

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Jan 2015, at 22:17, meekerdb wrote: On 1/22/2015 1:00 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Jan 2015, at 04:53, meekerdb wrote: On 1/20/2015 5:54 PM, Rex Allen wrote: Hi Telmo, Is there a better starting point than consciousness? My main thought was to suggest that the theory of

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-24 Thread Rex Allen
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 22 Jan 2015, at 05:58, Rex Allen wrote: I think my main problem with platonism is that I don't see why a mathematical universe would generate beings who then develop true beliefs about the mathematical nature of the

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-24 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Jan 24, 2015 9:54 am Subject: Re: Manifesto Rex On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 22 Jan 2015, at 05:58, Rex Allen wrote: I think my main problem with platonism is that I don't see why a mathematical universe would

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-23 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 7:33 AM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: So yes, Evolution invented the brain that invented condoms, and if Evolution had any foresight it would have certainly taken steps to ensure that the brain never even thought of the idea of a condom; We don't

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-23 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 02:44:43PM -0500, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 7:33 AM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: So yes, Evolution invented the brain that invented condoms, and if Evolution had any foresight it would have certainly taken steps to ensure that

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-23 Thread Kim Jones
On 24 Jan 2015, at 8:15 am, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Evolution will favour whichever strategy is better in the long run That is incorrect. Evolution will favor whichever strategy is better in

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-23 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Evolution will favour whichever strategy is better in the long run That is incorrect. Evolution will favor whichever strategy is better in the *SHORT* run. That's why Evolution is such a dreadful designer and was

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-23 Thread meekerdb
On 1/23/2015 2:21 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:34 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/22/2015 4:05 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:27 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-23 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 09:00:13AM +1100, Kim Jones wrote: On 24 Jan 2015, at 8:15 am, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Evolution will favour whichever strategy is better in the long run

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-23 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:15 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Evolution will favour whichever strategy is better in the long run That is incorrect. Evolution will favor whichever strategy is better

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-23 Thread meekerdb
On 1/23/2015 11:44 AM, John Clark wrote: A jet engine works better than a prop engine in an airplane. I give you a prop engine and tell you to turn it into a jet, but you must do it while the engine is running, you must do it in one million small steps, and you must do it so every single one of

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-23 Thread meekerdb
On 1/23/2015 11:44 AM, John Clark wrote: Not that I can see. And in addition to condoms is lifetime celibacy also a reproductive strategy, It is for memes - that's why we still have priests. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-23 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:28 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/23/2015 11:44 AM, John Clark wrote: A jet engine works better than a prop engine in an airplane. I give you a prop engine and tell you to turn it into a jet, but you must do it while the engine is running, you must

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-23 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Well I was referring to long run as being multigenerational timescales. Evolution is not interested in multigenerational timescales. to me short run means within my lifetime. To Evolution short run is the

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-23 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: That is incorrect. Evolution will favor whichever strategy is better in the *SHORT* run. There is a point where the antropomorphisation of evolution breaks, Yes, but I'm very far from that point. Evolution

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-23 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:34 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/22/2015 4:05 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:27 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/21/2015 3:48 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: If you completely discard the concept of truth and replace

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-23 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Moreover, I think that you are inconsistent. If consciousness precedes everything including logic, truth existence etc. Then you can not demote what consciousness perceive to mere usefulness. Neiter you can call what is consciously perceived as false, and posit something unknown and external as

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 20 Jan 2015, at 13:43, Telmo Menezes wrote: Hi Rex, Interesting read. I will just start with something I've been thinking about, along these lines (I believe). It is interesting that there are a number of models

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:27 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/21/2015 3:48 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: If you completely discard the concept of truth and replace it entirely with evolutionary usefulness - does that change anything? I think it might. For example, suppose we all

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:49 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: the man who invented the condom transcend Darwinism. I disagree. We are all still all the product of Darwinist processes. We are all at

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote: I think my main problem with platonism is that I don't see why a mathematical universe would generate beings who then develop true beliefs about the mathematical nature of the universe. The purpose of brains is to

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi John, I just have a simple question then. Do you know you're conscious? Cheers! Telmo. Brent, Telmo and all others 'consciousness' anchored members: It is an easy cop-out to say the c term is too complicated to be identified. If we want to use it we better knowWHAT we wnt to use. My

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
anything above the machine's interview, just listen to the machine and taken her seriously enough. Bruno -Original Message- From: Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Jan 20, 2015 7:43 am Subject: Re: Manifesto Rex Hi

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Kim Jones
On 22 Jan 2015, at 6:07 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/21/2015 10:09 PM, Kim Jones wrote: But the laws surely are not random. Laws cannot be random. Look, the universe is a setup job. Either we are simulated and the limitation to our minds is intentional or we are

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Jan 2015, at 13:43, Telmo Menezes wrote: Hi Rex, Interesting read. I will just start with something I've been thinking about, along these lines (I believe). It is interesting that there are a number of models of reality that are prima facie as plausible as any other but are more

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Jan 2015, at 04:53, meekerdb wrote: On 1/20/2015 5:54 PM, Rex Allen wrote: Hi Telmo, Is there a better starting point than consciousness? My main thought was to suggest that the theory of evolution, taken to it's logical conclusion, supports a Kantian division of reality into

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Jan 2015, at 21:43, Kim Jones wrote: On 20 Jan 2015, at 11:43 pm, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: These models tend to have something in common: they suggest that we are not what we appear to be, that we are not mortal or immortal because time itself is a dream.

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 3:17 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/22/2015 1:00 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Jan 2015, at 04:53, meekerdb wrote: On 1/20/2015 5:54 PM, Rex Allen wrote: Hi Telmo, Is there a better starting point than consciousness? My main thought was to

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread meekerdb
On 1/22/2015 4:05 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:27 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/21/2015 3:48 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: If you completely discard the concept of truth and replace it entirely with

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread meekerdb
On 1/22/2015 4:27 AM, Jason Resch wrote: False beliefs are detrimental to survival. E.g. if a society believed that winter would not come again, they might not store food away for those harder times. If another society didn't believe in GR, they wouldn't have been able to make GPS satellites

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Kim Jones
On 23 Jan 2015, at 10:24 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/22/2015 9:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Jan 2015, at 20:27, meekerdb wrote: On 1/21/2015 3:48 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: If you completely discard the concept of truth and replace it entirely with evolutionary

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread meekerdb
On 1/22/2015 7:58 PM, Kim Jones wrote: On 23 Jan 2015, at 2:15 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/22/2015 6:57 PM, Kim Jones wrote: On 23 Jan 2015, at 10:24 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/22/2015

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread meekerdb
On 1/22/2015 6:57 PM, Kim Jones wrote: On 23 Jan 2015, at 10:24 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/22/2015 9:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Jan 2015, at 20:27, meekerdb wrote: On 1/21/2015 3:48 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: If you completely

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Kim Jones
On 23 Jan 2015, at 2:15 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/22/2015 6:57 PM, Kim Jones wrote: On 23 Jan 2015, at 10:24 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/22/2015 9:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Jan 2015, at 20:27, meekerdb wrote: On 1/21/2015 3:48

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread meekerdb
On 1/22/2015 9:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Jan 2015, at 20:27, meekerdb wrote: On 1/21/2015 3:48 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: If you completely discard the concept of truth and replace it entirely with evolutionary usefulness - does that change anything? I think it might. For

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Kim Jones
On 23 Jan 2015, at 4:06 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/22/2015 7:58 PM, Kim Jones wrote: On 23 Jan 2015, at 2:15 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/22/2015 6:57 PM, Kim Jones wrote: On 23 Jan 2015, at 10:24 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Jan 2015, at 20:27, meekerdb wrote: On 1/21/2015 3:48 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: If you completely discard the concept of truth and replace it entirely with evolutionary usefulness - does that change anything? I think it might. For example, suppose we all share the same

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Jan 2015, at 05:58, Rex Allen wrote: I think my main problem with platonism is that I don't see why a mathematical universe would generate beings who then develop true beliefs about the mathematical nature of the universe. But Gödel + Church + Kleene + Post + Turing +

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread meekerdb
On 1/22/2015 1:00 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Jan 2015, at 04:53, meekerdb wrote: On 1/20/2015 5:54 PM, Rex Allen wrote: Hi Telmo, Is there a better starting point than consciousness? My main thought was to suggest that the theory of evolution, taken to it's logical conclusion,

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread meekerdb
On 1/22/2015 9:44 PM, Kim Jones wrote: On 23 Jan 2015, at 4:06 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/22/2015 7:58 PM, Kim Jones wrote: On 23 Jan 2015, at 2:15 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/22/2015 6:57

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-21 Thread meekerdb
On 1/21/2015 3:48 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: If you completely discard the concept of truth and replace it entirely with evolutionary usefulness - does that change anything? I think it might. For example, suppose we all share the same consciousness. It is evolutionary useful to

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-21 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: the man who invented the condom transcend Darwinism. I disagree. We are all still all the product of Darwinist processes. We are all at the end of a long line of machines that successfully produced viable

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-21 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote: Consciousness precedes axioms. Consciousness precedes logic. That would be consistent with my idea that consciousness is easy but intelligence is hard and is the reason Evolution developed animals that were conscious of

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-21 Thread John Mikes
Brent, Telmo and all others 'consciousness' anchored members: It is an easy cop-out to say the c term is too complicated to be identified. If we want to use it we better knowWHAT we wnt to use. My definition is response to relations - another cop-out, because it is hard to identify RELATION (and

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-21 Thread Rex Allen
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:53 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/20/2015 5:54 PM, Rex Allen wrote: Hi Telmo, Is there a better starting point than consciousness? My main thought was to suggest that the theory of evolution, taken to it's logical conclusion, supports a Kantian

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-21 Thread Rex Allen
I think my main problem with platonism is that I don't see why a mathematical universe would generate beings who then develop true beliefs about the mathematical nature of the universe. Which was also my problem with physicalism - in that why would a random (i.e., not specially chosen) set of

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-21 Thread Rex Allen
That is not what I was thinking, but it makes a certain amount of sense. Rex On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 4:43 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote: Consciousness precedes axioms. Consciousness precedes logic. That would be

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-21 Thread Kim Jones
On 22 Jan 2015, at 3:58 pm, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote: I think my main problem with platonism is that I don't see why a mathematical universe would generate beings who then develop true beliefs about the mathematical nature of the universe. Under Bruno's neoplatonic

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-21 Thread Rex Allen
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 6:48 AM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:54 AM, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Telmo, Is there a better starting point than consciousness? No. My main thought was to suggest that the theory of evolution,

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-21 Thread meekerdb
On 1/21/2015 8:58 PM, Rex Allen wrote: If we say that GR+QFT+IC+Evo is true - this is a problem, since evolution seems to only care about survival and reproduction - not truth. So how do evolved beings like us arrive at a true theory like that? Because inferring from one thing to another

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-21 Thread meekerdb
On 1/21/2015 10:09 PM, Kim Jones wrote: But the laws surely are not random. Laws cannot be random. Look, the universe is a setup job. Either we are simulated and the limitation to our minds is intentional or we are enjoying a ride of some sort where we are real and the ride is the simulation.

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-21 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 3:55 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: I would say the point here is not so much that we need to transcend Darwinism in the sense that the theory is insufficient, but because evolution has

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-21 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: On 20 Jan 2015, at 11:43 pm, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: These models tend to have something in common: they suggest that we are not what we appear to be, that we are not mortal or immortal because

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-21 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:54 AM, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Telmo, Is there a better starting point than consciousness? No. My main thought was to suggest that the theory of evolution, taken to it's logical conclusion, supports a Kantian division of reality into

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-21 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I used to think that way. If you examine previous posts, you will see my posts reasoning along these natural-selection lines (evolution is a very very bad name for natural selection). But now I think that this is incomplete. More or less your point of view is similar to the Konrad Lorentz when he

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-20 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi Rex, Interesting read. I will just start with something I've been thinking about, along these lines (I believe). It is interesting that there are a number of models of reality that are prima facie as plausible as any other but are more consistently rejected as lunacy, woo,

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-20 Thread Telmo Menezes
Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Jan 20, 2015 7:43 am Subject: Re: Manifesto Rex Hi Rex, Interesting read. I will just start with something I've been thinking about, along these lines (I believe). It is interesting

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-20 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
of Digital Physics and Philosophy. Digi seems to rationally explain things. -Original Message- From: Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Jan 20, 2015 7:43 am Subject: Re: Manifesto Rex Hi Rex, Interesting read. I will just

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-20 Thread Rex Allen
Hi Telmo, Is there a better starting point than consciousness? My main thought was to suggest that the theory of evolution, taken to it's logical conclusion, supports a Kantian division of reality into phenomenal and noumenal realms. We are entities whose consciousnesses are shaped only with an

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-20 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: I would say the point here is not so much that we need to transcend Darwinism in the sense that the theory is insufficient, but because evolution has other plans for the machinery that we use to do science. The idea that being

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-20 Thread meekerdb
On 1/20/2015 5:54 PM, Rex Allen wrote: Hi Telmo, Is there a better starting point than consciousness? My main thought was to suggest that the theory of evolution, taken to it's logical conclusion, supports a Kantian division of reality into phenomenal and noumenal realms. We are entities

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-20 Thread Kim Jones
On 20 Jan 2015, at 11:43 pm, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: These models tend to have something in common: they suggest that we are not what we appear to be, that we are not mortal or immortal because time itself is a dream. That there is only one consciousness and we are