Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Jan 2014, at 02:06, meekerdb wrote: On 1/17/2014 10:49 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 17 Jan 2014, at 07:10, meekerdb wrote: On 1/16/2014 4:55 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 13 January 2014 04:42, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: I'm a lump of dumb matter arranged in

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Jan 2014, at 21:01, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, I think that you are setting up a false dichotomy with the notion of a finite unique physical universe in Step 8 of the UDA! In my thinking each and every observer has its own unique finite unique physical universe Why?

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, Could you ever stop being obtuse? On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 17 Jan 2014, at 21:01, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, I think that you are setting up a false dichotomy with the notion of a finite unique physical universe

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-18 Thread LizR
On 19 January 2014 05:26, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear Bruno, Could you ever stop being obtuse? Dear Stephen, Please don't start sounding like Edgar... Please don't imply that everyone who disagrees with you is stupid! -- You received this message because you

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear LizR, I know. I deserved that. It is just frustrating to explain something and get a blank look in response. On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 5:14 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 January 2014 05:26, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear Bruno, Could you ever stop

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-18 Thread LizR
On 19 January 2014 11:16, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear LizR, I know. I deserved that. It is just frustrating to explain something and get a blank look in response. Do you have any teenage kids?!? :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
Yes, and friends that are teenagers in mental age. On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 5:29 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 January 2014 11:16, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear LizR, I know. I deserved that. It is just frustrating to explain something and get a blank

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Jan 2014, at 00:01, John Mikes wrote: ...just take the 'infinite' seriously. That's a wise suggestion. 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: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Jan 2014, at 01:51, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 13 January 2014 02:23, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 12 Jan 2014, at 06:21, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: I'm a lump of dumb matter arranged in a special way and I am conscious, I think this is misleading. Are you really

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-17 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, There is a movie Surrogateshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogates_(film), that involves the ability to rest a body in far away locations or for specific events/jobs/dates, just as we would rest a car. You might enjoy it. I did. :-) On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Bruno Marchal

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Jan 2014, at 07:10, meekerdb wrote: On 1/16/2014 4:55 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 13 January 2014 04:42, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: I'm a lump of dumb matter arranged in a special way and I am conscious, so I don't see why another lump of dumb matter

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-17 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, I think that you are setting up a false dichotomy with the notion of a finite unique physical universe in Step 8 of the UDA! In my thinking each and every observer has its own unique finite unique physical universe (thus each 1p is unique and FPI follows from the inability to

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-17 Thread meekerdb
On 1/17/2014 10:49 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 17 Jan 2014, at 07:10, meekerdb wrote: On 1/16/2014 4:55 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 13 January 2014 04:42, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: I'm a lump of dumb matter arranged in a special way and I am conscious, so I don't

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-17 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Brent, I think step 8 uses a false premise that one can anticipate all the counterfactual events. Or looked at another way, it implies that to show consciousness could be realized without physics requires creating a whole physics. I could not say better myself! Bravo! On Fri, Jan 17,

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jan 2014, at 23:09, John Mikes wrote: Brent: thanks for submitting Colin Hales' words! I lost track of him lately in the West-Australian deserts (from where he seemed to move to become focussed on being accepted for scientific title(s) by establishment-scientist potentates - what

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-16 Thread John Mikes
Liz: the first that came to mind was Edgar's isn't it obvious'? but I did not want to make fun of him. Of you: maybe. How do you expect me to give you examples from BEYOND our knowable circumstances to illustrate what is beyond our knowable? Physix works with the boundaries of our present

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-16 Thread John Mikes
Bruno, as I recall my recollection of Colin was an oldie one from his young-age ideas. Many many years ago. John On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 14 Jan 2014, at 23:09, John Mikes wrote: Brent: thanks for submitting Colin Hales' words! I lost

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-16 Thread LizR
On 17 January 2014 12:01, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: Liz: the first that came to mind was Edgar's isn't it obvious'? but I did not want to make fun of him. Perish the thought. Of you: maybe. How do you expect me to give you examples from BEYOND our knowable circumstances to

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-16 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 13 January 2014 00:00, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, January 12, 2014 12:21:48 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: I'm a lump of dumb matter arranged in a special way and I am conscious, so I don't see why another lump of dumb matter arranged in a special way might not

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-16 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 13 January 2014 02:23, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 12 Jan 2014, at 06:21, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: I'm a lump of dumb matter arranged in a special way and I am conscious, I think this is misleading. Are you really a dumb of matter? I think that your body can be a lump

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-16 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 13 January 2014 04:42, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: I'm a lump of dumb matter arranged in a special way and I am conscious, so I don't see why another lump of dumb matter arranged in a special way might not also be conscious. What is it about that idea that you see as not

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-16 Thread meekerdb
On 1/16/2014 4:55 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 13 January 2014 04:42, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: I'm a lump of dumb matter arranged in a special way and I am conscious, so I don't see why another lump of dumb matter arranged in a special way might not also be conscious.

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-14 Thread John Mikes
Brent: thanks for submitting Colin Hales' words! I lost track of him lately in the West-Australian deserts (from where he seemed to move to become focussed on being accepted for scientific title(s) by establishment-scientist potentates - what I never believed of him indeed). I loved (and tried

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-14 Thread LizR
On 15 January 2014 11:09, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: It depends on the boundaries *WE CHOSE. *Consider different boundaries and the LAW will change immediately, even within our unchanged ignorance of the totality. I think I follow this but I'm not sure. Could you explain further, or

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-12 Thread LizR
On 12 January 2014 19:53, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Jan 2014, at 05:12, Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote: RE: arXiv: 1401.1219v1 [quant-ph] 6 Jan 2014 Consciousness as a State of Matter Max Tegmark, January 8, 2014 Hi Folk, Grrr! I confess that after 12 years of deep immersion in science’s grapplings with consciousness, the

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-12 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, January 12, 2014 12:21:48 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: I'm a lump of dumb matter arranged in a special way and I am conscious, so I don't see why another lump of dumb matter arranged in a special way might not also be conscious. What is it about that idea that you see as not

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-12 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, January 12, 2014 5:41:15 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Jan 2014, at 05:12, Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote: RE: arXiv: 1401.1219v1 [quant-ph] 6 Jan 2014 Consciousness as a State of Matter Max Tegmark, January 8, 2014 Hi Folk, Grrr! I confess that after

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Jan 2014, at 06:21, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 12 January 2014 15:12, Colin Geoffrey Hales cgha...@unimelb.edu.au wrote: RE: arXiv: 1401.1219v1 [quant-ph] 6 Jan 2014 Consciousness as a State of Matter Max Tegmark, January 8, 2014 Hi Folk, Grrr! I confess that

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Jan 2014, at 14:18, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, January 12, 2014 5:41:15 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Jan 2014, at 05:12, Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote: RE: arXiv: 1401.1219v1 [quant-ph] 6 Jan 2014 Consciousness as a State of Matter Max Tegmark, January 8, 2014 Hi Folk,

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-12 Thread spudboy100
involving the quantum and plants)? -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, Jan 12, 2014 10:23 am Subject: Re: Tegmark and consciousness On 12 Jan 2014, at 06:21, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 12 January

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-12 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 12 Jan 2014, at 06:21, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 12 January 2014 15:12, Colin Geoffrey Hales cgha...@unimelb.edu.au wrote: RE: arXiv: 1401.1219v1 [quant-ph] 6 Jan 2014 Consciousness as a State of Matter

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
by nature to harness quantum information. That might be clarified in the future. Bruno -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, Jan 12, 2014 10:23 am Subject: Re: Tegmark and consciousness On 12 Jan 2014

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-12 Thread Richard Ruquist
...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, Jan 12, 2014 10:23 am Subject: Re: Tegmark and consciousness On 12 Jan 2014, at 06:21, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 12 January 2014 15:12, Colin Geoffrey Hales cgha...@unimelb.edu.au wrote: RE: arXiv: 1401.1219v1 [quant

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-12 Thread Stephen Paul King
Why are we not more interested in the special arrangements? On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: On Sunday, January 12, 2014 12:21:48 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: I'm a lump of dumb matter arranged in a special way and I am conscious, so I don't see

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-12 Thread Stephen Paul King
marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, Jan 12, 2014 10:23 am Subject: Re: Tegmark and consciousness On 12 Jan 2014, at 06:21, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 12 January 2014 15:12, Colin Geoffrey Hales cgha...@unimelb.edu.au wrote: RE: arXiv

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-12 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 January 2014 15:12, Colin Geoffrey Hales cgha...@unimelb.edu.au wrote: RE: arXiv: 1401.1219v1 [quant-ph] 6 Jan 2014 Consciousness as a State of Matter Max Tegmark, January 8, 2014 Hi Folk,

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-12 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, January 12, 2014 10:43:41 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Jan 2014, at 14:18, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, January 12, 2014 5:41:15 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Jan 2014, at 05:12, Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote: RE: arXiv: 1401.1219v1 [quant-ph] 6 Jan 2014

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-12 Thread meekerdb
On 1/12/2014 12:55 AM, LizR wrote: On 12 January 2014 19:53, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-12 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Brent and LizR, Could it be that we are really discussing the Word Problem? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_problem_for_groups Note the relation to computations, via the use of recursively enumerable sets! A pair of words, as defined in the Wiki article, could represent the content of

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-12 Thread meekerdb
On 1/12/2014 9:42 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: I'm sorry I repeat this answer so many times, but this claim is also made so many times. The main problem I see with this idea is that no progress has been made so far in explaining how a lump of matter becomes conscious, as opposed to just being a

RE: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-12 Thread Colin Geoffrey Hales
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Sunday, 12 January 2014 5:54 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Tegmark and consciousness On 1/11/2014 8:12 PM, Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote: RE: arXiv: 1401.1219v1

RE: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-11 Thread Colin Geoffrey Hales
RE: arXiv: 1401.1219v1 [quant-ph] 6 Jan 2014 Consciousness as a State of Matter Max Tegmark, January 8, 2014 Hi Folk, Grrr! I confess that after 12 years of deep immersion in science's grapplings with consciousness, the blindspot I see operating is so obvious and so pervasive and

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-11 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, January 11, 2014 11:12:46 PM UTC-5, ColinHales wrote: RE: arXiv: 1401.1219v1 [quant-ph] 6 Jan 2014 Consciousness as a State of Matter Max Tegmark, January 8, 2014 Hi Folk, Grrr! I confess that after 12 years of deep immersion in science’s grapplings

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-11 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 12 January 2014 15:12, Colin Geoffrey Hales cgha...@unimelb.edu.au wrote: RE: arXiv: 1401.1219v1 [quant-ph] 6 Jan 2014 Consciousness as a State of Matter Max Tegmark, January 8, 2014 Hi Folk, Grrr! I confess that after 12 years of deep immersion in science’s

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-11 Thread Stephen Paul King
Phlogiston!!! Nice to hear from you, Colin! :-) On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Colin Geoffrey Hales cgha...@unimelb.edu.au wrote: RE: arXiv: 1401.1219v1 [quant-ph] 6 Jan 2014 Consciousness as a State of Matter Max Tegmark, January 8, 2014 Hi Folk, Grrr! I

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-11 Thread meekerdb
On 1/11/2014 8:12 PM, Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote: RE: arXiv: 1401.1219v1 [quant-ph] 6 Jan 2014 Consciousness as a State of Matter Max Tegmark, January 8, 2014 Hi Folk, Grrr! I confess that after 12 years of deep immersion in science's grapplings with consciousness, the