Re: Re: Subjective states can be somehow extracted from brains via acomputer

2013-01-07 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg Sorry, everybody, I was snookered into believing that they had really accomplished the impossible. So you think this paper is fiction and the video is fabricated? Do people here know something I don't

Re: Question: Robotic truth

2013-01-07 Thread Alberto G. Corona
In the case of multigroup collaboration, where each group in made by smaller groups that collaborate in a lesser degree than in each group internally, the survival program to ascertain what is truth or not would be as follows: (IMHO). Any comunication has two main components of truth: The first

Re: Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-07 Thread Alberto G. Corona
it is perfectly possible to accept natural selection with all the implication in genetics without being a materialist. The materialism is a superfluous ideological substrate. Sheldrake is right about this critic of materialism. I´m not materialist, and I accept Natural selection. Materialism is

Re: Re: Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-07 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Alberto G. Corona I have no problem with natural selection, it is a reasonable hypothesis. But natural selection implies some form of intelligence, which materialism cannot explain. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/7/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -

Re: Re: From nominalism to Scientifc Materialism Re: Is Sheldrakecredible? Ipersonally think so.

2013-01-07 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King I agree. And would add that structurally liberalism is fascist. Mainly in government control and control of beliefs. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/7/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content

Re: Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-07 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King Its simple. Quantum mechanics is nonphysical (is only mathematical). [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/7/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list

Re: Re: Re: Subjective states can be somehow extracted from brains viaacomputer

2013-01-07 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Telmo Menezes Well then, we have at least one vote supporting the results. I remain sceptical because of the line sync issue. The brain doesn't provide a raster line sync signal. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/7/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody

Re: Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-07 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb OK. I overreacted. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/7/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: meekerdb Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-06, 16:19:52 Subject: Re: Is Sheldrake credible ?

Re: Re: The best of all possible Worlds.

2013-01-07 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb There are some errors in fact in the Bible, but IMHO it is inerrant with regard to faith and practice. By inerrant, I mean that it is completely consistent along those lines. You have to take it as a whole. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/7/2013 Forever is a long time,

Re: Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-07 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb Quantum fields are nonphysical, since they do not exist in spacetime. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/7/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: meekerdb Receiver: everything-list Time:

Re: Re: From nominalism to Scientifc Materialism Re: Is Sheldrakecredible? Ipersonally think so.

2013-01-07 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb So much irritation about my use of the word fascism ! There must have been a dozen postings complaining about its use here. Could that not be a sign that liberalism, so prevalent here, is a hidden form of fascism ? It seeks to control us. To change us and society to conform to

Liberal Fascism

2013-01-07 Thread Roger Clough
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Fascism Not everybody agrees, but... Liberal Fascism In the book, Goldberg argues that fascist movements were and are left-wing. He claims that both modern liberalism and fascism descended from progressivism, and that prior to World War II,

Re: Re: Question: Robotic truth

2013-01-07 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Alberto G. Corona Wiords are socially constructed, so anything in words is suspect. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/7/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Alberto G. Corona Receiver: everything-list

Re: From nominalism to Scientifc Materialism Re: Is Sheldrake credible? Ipersonally think so.

2013-01-07 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:56 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/6/2013 3:45 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote: On 1/6/2013 4:56 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 1/6/2013 1:33 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On

Re: Re: Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-07 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Platonist Guitar Cowboy You're allowed to have that opinion, or any opinion. We're different. I am a retired laboratory scientist and a pragmatist to boot. So to me, data trumnps everything. So I will believe

Re: Re: Re: Subjective states can be somehow extracted from brains viaacomputer

2013-01-07 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi Roger, On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Telmo Menezes Well then, we have at least one vote supporting the results. Scientific results are not supported or refuted by votes. I remain sceptical because of the line sync issue. The brain

Re: Re:

2013-01-07 Thread Richard Ruquist
Hi Roger Clough, The reason for this is that a hard problem theory doesn't have to actually do anything, but a easy problem theory most certainly does. Any hard problem theory will work just fine, any at all, but the wrong easy problem theory will send a start-up company into bankruptcy. So the

Re: From nominalism to Scientifc Materialism Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Jan 2013, at 20:07, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/6/2013 6:56 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: A greath truth. Every human knowledge has also social consequiences. When I say A. I don´t only say A is true. I say also that because A is true and you must accept it because a set of my

Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Jan 2013, at 21:59, Roger Clough wrote: Hi meekerdb Not all physicists are materialists, or if they are, they are inconsistent if they deal with quantum physics, which is nonphysical. All theories are non physical, but this does not make a materialist theory inconsistent. With

Re: Re: Re: Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-07 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Platonist Guitar Cowboy Better data connected to opinion than opinion alone. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/7/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Platonist Guitar Cowboy Receiver: everything-list

Re: Re: Re: Re: Subjective states can be somehow extracted from brainsviaacomputer

2013-01-07 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Telmo Menezes Yes, but the display they show wouldn't work if there were no sync signal embedded in it. There's nothing in the brain to provide that, so they must have. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/7/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen -

Re: Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-07 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal Yes, the theories are nonphysical, and in addition, quantum theories quantum theory applies to quantum fields, which are nonphysical. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/7/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following

Re: Re: Re:

2013-01-07 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist Neither hard or soft solutions are valid since they fantasize a meterial connection between mind and brain. Which is absurd. Leibniz is the only one to have solved the problem successfully. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/7/2013 Forever is a long time, especially

Re: Science is a religion by itself.

2013-01-07 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:47 AM, socra...@bezeqint.net socra...@bezeqint.net wrote: Science is a religion by itself. Why? Becouse the God can create and govern the Universe only using physical laws, formulas, equations. Then God must get very board because that really doesn't leave much for

Re: Liberal Fascism

2013-01-07 Thread spudboy100
Because of the dominance of Leftists, people forget, sometimes deliberately, about the murderousness, of Stalin and Mao. My peeps were burned up by ugly, Adolf, but it doesn't excuse people from overlooking other mass killing systems. A great historical compilation of Hitler and Stalin's

Re: Science is a religion by itself.

2013-01-07 Thread spudboy100
Well, another writer/scientist Bernardo Kastrup considered the universe a run, like computation, because It/He/She is not complete. Hence, our lives, the past, the future, and all that. Consider God, a word for Mind, and then pretend that mind is a space alien, because It probably is, from

Re: Re: Science is a religion by itself.

2013-01-07 Thread Roger Clough
Hi spudboy100 Theism, like atheism, is unprovable. So you have to treat it as an experimental hypothesis. Assume that, and see how you life is changed. If at all. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/7/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen -

Re: Re: Liberal Fascism

2013-01-07 Thread Roger Clough
Hi spudboy100 While Hitler was the far Right, and Stalin of the far Left, they were silmilar in that both creating dominating Big Government types. Similar in that respect to today's liberals. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/7/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the

Re: Science is a religion by itself.

2013-01-07 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Consider God, a word for Mind OK, I have a mind therefore I am God. I said it before I'll say it again, for some strange reason that is unknown to me many people are willing to abandon the idea of God but not the word G-O-D. Those letters and in

Re: Re: Science is a religion by itself.

2013-01-07 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Theism, like atheism, is unprovable. Why is that? You're saying that even though God is omnipotent He is incapable of proving His existence to us. I can prove my existence to you but God can not. That seems a bit odd to me. John K

Re: Re: Re: Re: Subjective states can be somehow extracted from brainsviaacomputer

2013-01-07 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi Roger, Imagine a very simple brain that can recognise two things: a cat and a mouse. Furthermore, it can recognise if an object is still or in motion. So a possible perceptual state could be cat(still) + mouse(in motion). The visual cortex of this brain is complex enough to process the input

Re: The best of all possible Worlds.

2013-01-07 Thread meekerdb
On 1/7/2013 4:43 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi meekerdb There are some errors in fact in the Bible, but IMHO it is inerrant with regard to faith and practice. By inerrant, I mean that it is completely consistent along those lines. You have to take it as a whole. By which you really mean that

Re: Question: Robotic truth

2013-01-07 Thread meekerdb
On 1/7/2013 3:30 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: In the case of multigroup collaboration, where each group in made by smaller groups that collaborate in a lesser degree than in each group internally, the survival program to ascertain what is truth or not would be as follows: (IMHO). Any

Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-07 Thread meekerdb
On 1/7/2013 3:57 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Platonist Guitar Cowboy You're allowed to have that opinion, or any opinion. We're different. I am a retired laboratory scientist and a pragmatist to boot. So to me, data trumnps everything. So I will believe that the moon is made of green cheese if

Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-07 Thread meekerdb
On 1/7/2013 4:16 AM, Roger Clough wrote: But natural selection implies some form of intelligence, You don't understand evolution. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Liberal Fascism

2013-01-07 Thread meekerdb
On 1/7/2013 4:58 AM, Roger Clough wrote: See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Fascism Not everybody agrees, but... Liberal Fascism In the book, Goldberg argues that fascist movements were and are left-wing. He claims that both modern liberalism and fascism descended from progressivism,

Re: Science is a religion by itself.

2013-01-07 Thread meekerdb
Becouse the God can create and govern the Universe only using physical laws, formulas, equations. Then God must get very board because that really doesn't leave much for Him to do. Why do you even bother to invent Him? John K Clark Any eternal God would be so bored after one eternity

Re: From nominalism to Scientifc Materialism Re: Is Sheldrake credible? Ipersonally think so.

2013-01-07 Thread meekerdb
On 1/7/2013 5:09 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:56 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/6/2013 3:45 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net

Re: Subjective states can be somehow extracted from brains viaacomputer

2013-01-07 Thread meekerdb
On 1/7/2013 6:33 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: The way the brain encodes images is surely very complex and convoluted. Why not? There wasn't ever any adaptive pressure for the encoding to be easily translated from the outputs of an MRI machine. If we require all contact between males and females

Re: Re: Subjective states can be somehow extracted from brains via acomputer

2013-01-07 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, January 7, 2013 6:19:33 AM UTC-5, telmo_menezes wrote: On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Roger Clough rcl...@verizon.netjavascript: wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg Sorry, everybody, I was snookered into believing that they had really accomplished the impossible. So you

Re: Re: Subjective states can be somehow extracted from brains via acomputer

2013-01-07 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi Craig, On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: On Monday, January 7, 2013 6:19:33 AM UTC-5, telmo_menezes wrote: On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Roger Clough rcl...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg Sorry, everybody, I was snookered into

Re: Science is a religion by itself.

2013-01-07 Thread meekerdb
On 1/7/2013 10:47 AM, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 spudboy...@aol.com mailto:spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Consider God, a word for Mind OK, I have a mind therefore I am God. I said it before I'll say it again, for some strange reason that is unknown to me many people are willing

Re: Re: Subjective states can be somehow extracted from brains via acomputer

2013-01-07 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, January 7, 2013 7:24:24 PM UTC-5, telmo_menezes wrote: Hi Craig, On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Monday, January 7, 2013 6:19:33 AM UTC-5, telmo_menezes wrote: On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Roger Clough