Re: Autonomy?

2012-06-26 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: It's not that we don't know what we are going to do, but we don't know what we are going to experience A distinction without a difference, experiencing something is doing something. it is impossible to have complete information

Re: Autonomy?

2012-06-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Jun 2012, at 21:01, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: The question is do you agree with it, or not. So that we can move to step 4. I've lost track, is step 3 the trivial observation that sometimes we don't know what we're going to do,

Re: Autonomy?

2012-06-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Jun 2012, at 21:19, meekerdb wrote: On 6/25/2012 12:01 PM, John Clark wrote: or to two identical (similar at the subst. level) machine put in different environment, If they were in different environments then the machines would not be identical or even functionally identical and

Re: Autonomy?

2012-06-26 Thread meekerdb
On 6/26/2012 10:26 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 25 Jun 2012, at 21:01, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: The question is do you agree with it, or not. So that we can move to step 4. I've lost track, is step 3 the

Re: I am the de-phlogistonator!

2012-06-26 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 26.06.2012 04:14 meekerdb said the following: On 6/25/2012 6:22 PM, Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote: Hi, Hales, C. G. 2012 The modern phlogiston: why 'thinking machines' don't need computers TheConversation. The Conversation media Group.

Re: I am the de-phlogistonator!

2012-06-26 Thread meekerdb
On 6/26/2012 11:49 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Here there is a big question whether an engineer has free will (is an engineer different in this respect from a scientist?). I think we've already elucidated several different possible meanings for 'free will'. Which one do you refer to? In

Re: I am the de-phlogistonator!

2012-06-26 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 26.06.2012 20:56 meekerdb said the following: On 6/26/2012 11:49 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Here there is a big question whether an engineer has free will (is an engineer different in this respect from a scientist?). I think we've already elucidated several different possible meanings for

Craig's Post-Boltzmann Cosmology

2012-06-26 Thread Craig Weinberg
I have an idea which reconfigures the concepts of Boltzmann’s entropy curve as follows: http://blogs.discovermagaBackground: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/08/01/boltzmanns-anthropic-brain/ Boltzmann’s idea, as I understand it, is to explain Loschmidt’s Paradox, which