Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Mar 2014, at 21:14, meekerdb wrote: On 3/12/2014 8:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hello Terren, On 12 Mar 2014, at 04:34, Terren Suydam wrote: Hi Bruno, Thanks, that helps. Can you expand a bit on t? Unfortunately I haven't had the time to follow the modal logic threads, so please

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Mar 2014, at 21:51, LizR wrote: On 13 March 2014 04:33, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Hello Terren, On 12 Mar 2014, at 04:34, Terren Suydam wrote: Hi Bruno, Thanks, that helps. Can you expand a bit on t? Unfortunately I haven't had the time to follow the modal logic

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread meekerdb
On 3/13/2014 8:19 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Mar 2014, at 21:14, meekerdb wrote: On 3/12/2014 8:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hello Terren, On 12 Mar 2014, at 04:34, Terren Suydam wrote: Hi Bruno, Thanks, that helps. Can you expand a bit on t? Unfortunately I haven't had the time to

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread meekerdb
On 3/13/2014 8:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Mar 2014, at 21:51, LizR wrote: On 13 March 2014 04:33, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Hello Terren, On 12 Mar 2014, at 04:34, Terren Suydam wrote: Hi Bruno, Thanks, that helps. Can you

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Mar 2014, at 17:56, meekerdb wrote: On 3/13/2014 8:19 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Mar 2014, at 21:14, meekerdb wrote: On 3/12/2014 8:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hello Terren, On 12 Mar 2014, at 04:34, Terren Suydam wrote: Hi Bruno, Thanks, that helps. Can you expand a bit on

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Mar 2014, at 18:03, meekerdb wrote: On 3/13/2014 8:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Mar 2014, at 21:51, LizR wrote: On 13 March 2014 04:33, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Hello Terren, On 12 Mar 2014, at 04:34, Terren Suydam wrote: Hi Bruno, Thanks, that helps. Can you

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread meekerdb
On 3/13/2014 11:43 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Mar 2014, at 18:03, meekerdb wrote: On 3/13/2014 8:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Mar 2014, at 21:51, LizR wrote: On 13 March 2014 04:33, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Hello Terren, On 12 Mar

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread LizR
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Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Mar 2014, at 20:05, meekerdb wrote: On 3/13/2014 11:43 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Mar 2014, at 18:03, meekerdb wrote: On 3/13/2014 8:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Mar 2014, at 21:51, LizR wrote: On 13 March 2014 04:33, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Hello Terren,

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Mar 2014, at 22:10, LizR wrote: (Do everyone see a lozenge here: ◊ ?) Yes I do! Nice, I hope everyone see it. Does someone not see a lozenge? Here: ◊ Do someone not see Gödel's second theorem here: ◊t - ~[]◊t ? Bruno -- You received this message because you are

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Mar 2014, at 01:49, Russell Standish wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:10:45AM +1300, LizR wrote: (Do everyone see a lozenge here: ◊ ?) Yes I do! Not me (alas). Damned. I will need to use the more ugly instead of the cute ◊ ! No problem. Bruno Although it is visible when

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread meekerdb
On 3/13/2014 9:54 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: which was my objection to writing t. In such a formula, t can only be regarded as shorthand for some tautology. If you want. Any simple provable proposition would do. Then f also occurs in every world since (p ~p) can be formed in every world. But

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Mar 2014, at 06:08, meekerdb wrote: On 3/13/2014 9:54 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: which was my objection to writing t. In such a formula, t can only be regarded as shorthand for some tautology. If you want. Any simple provable proposition would do. Then f also occurs in every world

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
the main thing (the truth of the experience) without needing to define it. Also, for the physical first person *experience*, Bp p, which is only the knower, is not enough, you will need Bp t p, which by incompleteness has its own logic, quantum like when restricted to the sigma_1 truth

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-12 Thread meekerdb
On 3/12/2014 8:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hello Terren, On 12 Mar 2014, at 04:34, Terren Suydam wrote: Hi Bruno, Thanks, that helps. Can you expand a bit on t? Unfortunately I haven't had the time to follow the modal logic threads, so please forgive me but I don't understand how you

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-12 Thread LizR
On 13 March 2014 04:33, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Hello Terren, On 12 Mar 2014, at 04:34, Terren Suydam wrote: Hi Bruno, Thanks, that helps. Can you expand a bit on t? Unfortunately I haven't had the time to follow the modal logic threads, so please forgive me but I don't

truth of experience

2014-03-11 Thread Terren Suydam
Hi Bruno, Sure, consciousness here-and-now is undoubtable. But the p refers to the contents of consciousness, which is not undoubtable in many cases. I am in pain cannot be doubted when one is feeling it, but other felt sensations can be doubted, e.g. see

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-11 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 12:10:31 PM UTC-4, Terren Suydam wrote: Hi Bruno, Sure, consciousness here-and-now is undoubtable. But the p refers to the contents of consciousness, which is not undoubtable in many cases. I am in pain cannot be doubted when one is feeling it, but other felt

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
dissociative pathologies. OK. For me it all casts doubt on whether Bp p is an accurate formalization for experience, but I might be missing something. As I said above, it is a simplest meta definition which capture the main thing (the truth of the experience) without needing to define

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-11 Thread Terren Suydam
dissociative pathologies. OK. For me it all casts doubt on whether Bp p is an accurate formalization for experience, but I might be missing something. As I said above, it is a simplest meta definition which capture the main thing (the truth of the experience) without needing to define it. Also