Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 6:27 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: The fact that consciousness and free will can be justified or explained, in some way, in a deterministic framework, does not make those concepts referring to something unreal. True. Unicorns and Harry Potter are

Re: Contra Step 8 of UDA

2012-07-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 23-juil.-12, à 20:30, Stephen P. King a écrit : On 7/23/2012 6:00 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: If this is relevant for UDA, you should show to me. You start from an assumption of some primitive physical reality. Dear Bruno, Could you please explain to me why it is that you make this

Re: Unto Others (very interesting)

2012-07-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Russell, Le 24-juil.-12, à 01:30, Russell Standish a écrit : This one comes through loud and clear. Just curious to know what brand of emailer you have in your office that is so non-standard. Hope your internet connection at home is sorted out soon. I would be ropable if it happened to me

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-24 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: You just evade the definition of free will that I gave to you, You're going to need to be a lot more specific than that. I'd need to use scientific notation to count the number of definitions of the free will noise I've heard over

Re: Contra Step 8 of UDA

2012-07-24 Thread Stephen P. King
On 7/24/2012 7:52 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 23-juil.-12, à 20:30, Stephen P. King a écrit : On 7/23/2012 6:00 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: If this is relevant for UDA, you should show to me. You start from an assumption of some primitive physical reality. Dear Bruno, Could you please

Re: Contra Step 8 of UDA

2012-07-24 Thread Stephen P. King
On 7/24/2012 1:07 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 7/22/2012 2:41 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: Many (as implied by the word plural