Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-28 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, February 27, 2014 7:30:22 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 28 February 2014 12:36, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: Identity isn't self contained in MSR. All identity is leased within some perspective. The more common the perspective, the longer the lease, and

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Feb 2014, at 17:31, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, February 24, 2014 9:13:26 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014 02:43, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: How do you turn your desire to move your hand into the neurological changes which move them? The neurological

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-27 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, February 27, 2014 9:38:05 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 24 Feb 2014, at 17:31, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, February 24, 2014 9:13:26 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014 02:43, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: How do you turn your desire to move

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Feb 2014, at 18:36, meekerdb wrote: On 2/25/2014 7:00 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: admitting simply that indexical notion are modal notion, and thus don't need to obey to Leibniz identity rule. I don't understand that remark. Are you saying that there is some modal notion that makes

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Feb 2014, at 18:44, meekerdb wrote: On 2/25/2014 7:15 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 23 Feb 2014, at 20:38, meekerdb wrote: On 2/23/2014 4:35 AM, David Nyman wrote: Not my consciousness, no. I'm just suggesting that CTM ultimately relies on some transcendent notion of perspective

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Feb 2014, at 23:30, Craig Weinberg wrote: 0 doesn't = 0 in my theory. I was beginning suspecting this. Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-27 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, February 27, 2014 12:52:41 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 25 Feb 2014, at 23:30, Craig Weinberg wrote: 0 doesn't = 0 in my theory. Identity isn't self contained in MSR. All identity is leased within some perspective. The more common the perspective, the longer the lease,

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-27 Thread LizR
On 28 February 2014 12:36, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: Identity isn't self contained in MSR. All identity is leased within some perspective. The more common the perspective, the longer the lease, and the more 'seems like' or 'has a similar quality' appears stabilized as 'is

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Feb 2014, at 13:54, David Nyman wrote: On 23 February 2014 09:22, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 February 2014 20:48, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/22/2014 9:21 PM, LizR wrote: On 23 February 2014 17:40, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/22/2014 5:49 PM, David

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Feb 2014, at 20:07, meekerdb wrote: On 2/23/2014 1:13 AM, LizR wrote: On 23 February 2014 20:48, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/22/2014 9:21 PM, LizR wrote: On 23 February 2014 17:40, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/22/2014 5:49 PM, David Nyman wrote: No, I don't

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Feb 2014, at 20:38, meekerdb wrote: On 2/23/2014 4:35 AM, David Nyman wrote: Not my consciousness, no. I'm just suggesting that CTM ultimately relies on some transcendent notion of perspective itself. IOW, the sensible world is conceived as the resultant of the inter- subjective

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Feb 2014, at 20:57, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, February 23, 2014 7:07:21 PM UTC, Brent wrote: On 2/23/2014 1:13 AM, LizR wrote: On 23 February 2014 20:48, meekerdb meek...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/22/2014 9:21 PM, LizR wrote: On 23 February 2014 17:40, meekerdb

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Feb 2014, at 04:23, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, February 23, 2014 11:50:57 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Feb 2014, at 18:36, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 22, 2014 11:27:45 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Feb 2014, at 15:25, Craig Weinberg wrote:

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-25 Thread meekerdb
On 2/25/2014 7:00 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: admitting simply that indexical notion are modal notion, and thus don't need to obey to Leibniz identity rule. I don't understand that remark. Are you saying that there is some modal notion that makes identity of indiscernibles wrong? I think of

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-25 Thread meekerdb
On 2/25/2014 7:15 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 23 Feb 2014, at 20:38, meekerdb wrote: On 2/23/2014 4:35 AM, David Nyman wrote: Not my consciousness, no. I'm just suggesting that CTM ultimately relies on some transcendent notion of perspective itself. IOW, the sensible world is conceived as

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-24 Thread David Nyman
On 24 February 2014 02:43, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: How do you turn your desire to move your hand into the neurological changes which move them? The neurological change is the expression of what you actually are. These primitive levels of sense are beyond the question of

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 24, 2014 9:13:26 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014 02:43, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: How do you turn your desire to move your hand into the neurological changes which move them? The neurological change is the expression of what

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-24 Thread David Nyman
On 24 February 2014 16:31, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, February 24, 2014 9:13:26 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014 02:43, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: How do you turn your desire to move your hand into the neurological changes which

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 24, 2014 3:32:03 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014 16:31, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Monday, February 24, 2014 9:13:26 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014 02:43, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: How

RE: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 11:37 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Turning the tables on the doctor I wouldn't ride in the damn thing! -- Larry Niven, The theory

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread LizR
On 23 February 2014 20:48, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/22/2014 9:21 PM, LizR wrote: On 23 February 2014 17:40, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/22/2014 5:49 PM, David Nyman wrote: No, I don't think that follows. The indefinite continuation of consciousness is

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread LizR
On 23 February 2014 20:48, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/22/2014 9:21 PM, LizR wrote: On 23 February 2014 17:40, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/22/2014 5:49 PM, David Nyman wrote: No, I don't think that follows. The indefinite continuation of consciousness is

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread David Nyman
On 23 February 2014 04:40, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: No, I don't think that follows. The indefinite continuation of consciousness is directly entailed by CTM. In fact it is equivalent to the continuing existence of the sensible world (i.e. per comp, the world is what is observed).

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread David Nyman
On 23 February 2014 09:22, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 February 2014 20:48, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/22/2014 9:21 PM, LizR wrote: On 23 February 2014 17:40, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/22/2014 5:49 PM, David Nyman wrote: No, I don't think that

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread David Nyman
On 23 February 2014 03:12, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, February 22, 2014 8:49:33 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 23 February 2014 00:27, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, February 22, 2014 4:06:39 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 22

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Feb 2014, at 18:36, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 22, 2014 11:27:45 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Feb 2014, at 15:25, Craig Weinberg wrote: If you say yes to the doctor, you are saying that originality is an illusion Not at all. Your 1p-originality is

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread meekerdb
On 2/23/2014 1:13 AM, LizR wrote: On 23 February 2014 20:48, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/22/2014 9:21 PM, LizR wrote: On 23 February 2014 17:40, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/22/2014 5:49

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread meekerdb
On 2/23/2014 4:35 AM, David Nyman wrote: Not my consciousness, no. I'm just suggesting that CTM ultimately relies on some transcendent notion of perspective itself. IOW, the sensible world is conceived as the resultant of the inter-subjective agreement of its possible observers, each of which

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread ghibbsa
On Sunday, February 23, 2014 7:07:21 PM UTC, Brent wrote: On 2/23/2014 1:13 AM, LizR wrote: On 23 February 2014 20:48, meekerdb meek...@verizon.net javascript:wrote: On 2/22/2014 9:21 PM, LizR wrote: On 23 February 2014 17:40, meekerdb meek...@verizon.net javascript:wrote: On

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread David Nyman
On 23 February 2014 19:38, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/23/2014 4:35 AM, David Nyman wrote: Not my consciousness, no. I'm just suggesting that CTM ultimately relies on some transcendent notion of perspective itself. IOW, the sensible world is conceived as the resultant of the

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread David Nyman
On 23 February 2014 19:04, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: After all, the standard objection to starting from the putative universality of consciousness is why does it appear that so much of the world of appearance is *unconscious*? That is the only criticism that I have come

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread meekerdb
On 2/23/2014 2:45 PM, David Nyman wrote: On 23 February 2014 19:38, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/23/2014 4:35 AM, David Nyman wrote: Not my consciousness, no. I'm just suggesting that CTM ultimately relies on some transcendent notion of

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread David Nyman
On 24 February 2014 00:05, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: The point I was getting at was whether you're supposing there are *insensible^ parts to the world, which we may infer from the sensible part or from mathematics? In short, yes. David -- You received this message because you

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread meekerdb
On 2/23/2014 4:57 PM, LizR wrote: But it raises the question, given complete amnesia and then growing up with different experiences and memories in what sense could you be the same person. I John Clark and Bruno's back and forth, the one thing they always agree on is that as

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 23, 2014 6:51:21 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 23 February 2014 19:04, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: After all, the standard objection to starting from the putative universality of consciousness is why does it appear that so much of the

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread LizR
On 24 February 2014 15:04, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/23/2014 4:57 PM, LizR wrote: But it raises the question, given complete amnesia and then growing up with different experiences and memories in what sense could you be the same person. I John Clark and Bruno's back and

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 23, 2014 11:50:57 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Feb 2014, at 18:36, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 22, 2014 11:27:45 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Feb 2014, at 15:25, Craig Weinberg wrote: If you say yes to the doctor, you are saying

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
If you say yes to the doctor, you are saying that originality is an illusion and simulation is absolute. Arithmetic can do so many things, but it can't do something that can only be done once. Think of consciousness as not only that which can't be done more than once, it is that which cannot

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread David Nyman
On 22 February 2014 14:25, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: If you say yes to the doctor, you are saying that originality is an illusion Not an illusion, an invariant. and simulation is absolute. Not absolute, but hopefully sufficient (i.e. the idea of a level of substitution).

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 22, 2014 9:34:08 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 22 February 2014 14:25, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: If you say yes to the doctor, you are saying that originality is an illusion Not an illusion, an invariant. If it is invariant then it

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Feb 2014, at 02:39, David Nyman wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdxucpPq6Lc Ha ha! I love when he shows the identity cards! Note that this is among the thought experiences that I call forbidden on this list, some years ago. They are shortcuts, and can also provide arguments

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 22, 2014 11:27:45 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Feb 2014, at 15:25, Craig Weinberg wrote: If you say yes to the doctor, you are saying that originality is an illusion Not at all. Your 1p-originality is preserved all the time. I'm not thinking of 1p

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread David Nyman
On 22 February 2014 15:09, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, February 22, 2014 9:34:08 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 22 February 2014 14:25, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: If you say yes to the doctor, you are saying that originality is an illusion

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 22, 2014 4:06:39 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 22 February 2014 15:09, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Saturday, February 22, 2014 9:34:08 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 22 February 2014 14:25, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread David Nyman
On 23 February 2014 00:27, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, February 22, 2014 4:06:39 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 22 February 2014 15:09, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, February 22, 2014 9:34:08 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 22

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 22, 2014 8:49:33 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 23 February 2014 00:27, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Saturday, February 22, 2014 4:06:39 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 22 February 2014 15:09, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread meekerdb
On 2/22/2014 5:49 PM, David Nyman wrote: No, I don't think that follows. The indefinite continuation of consciousness is directly entailed by CTM. In fact it is equivalent to the continuing existence of the sensible world (i.e. per comp, the world is what is observed). Hence any observer can

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread LizR
On 23 February 2014 17:40, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/22/2014 5:49 PM, David Nyman wrote: No, I don't think that follows. The indefinite continuation of consciousness is directly entailed by CTM. In fact it is equivalent to the continuing existence of the sensible world (i.e.

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Feb 2014, at 06:21, LizR wrote: On 23 February 2014 17:40, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/22/2014 5:49 PM, David Nyman wrote: No, I don't think that follows. The indefinite continuation of consciousness is directly entailed by CTM. In fact it is equivalent to the

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread meekerdb
On 2/22/2014 9:21 PM, LizR wrote: On 23 February 2014 17:40, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/22/2014 5:49 PM, David Nyman wrote: No, I don't think that follows. The indefinite continuation of consciousness is directly entailed by CTM. In fact

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-21 Thread LizR
I wouldn't ride in the damn thing! -- Larry Niven, The theory and practice of teleportation (from memory, I may not have got that quote 100% right) On 22 February 2014 14:39, David Nyman da...@davidnyman.com wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdxucpPq6Lc -- You received this message