Re: Science is a religion by itself.

2013-02-10 Thread socra...@bezeqint.net
Why?  And why do you think science has made no progress since 1947? Brent- . Science made great technological ( !) progress since 1947, but not ' philosophical progress ' (!). We still haven't answers to the questiohs: What is the negative 4D Minkowski continuum ?, What is the quantum

Re: How can intelligence be physical ?

2013-02-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Feb 2013, at 17:23, John Clark wrote: ... consciousness is a byproduct of intelligence. Consciousness might be the unconscious, i.e. instinctive and automated, belief or bet in a reality, or self-consistency (for machine expressing their beliefs in first order languages), so that

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Feb 2013, at 17:54, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: there is a single result in Bruno's experiment, John K Clark sees Washington and Moscow. But under MWI you agreed you see the photon hit the left or the right plate,

Re: Topical combination

2013-02-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Feb 2013, at 18:49, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, February 8, 2013 12:02:57 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 07 Feb 2013, at 19:43, meekerdb wrote: On 2/7/2013 8:09 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Beyond our view of matter, I would guess that both of them would agree that matter is

Re: Topical combination

2013-02-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Feb 2013, at 23:34, meekerdb wrote: On 2/8/2013 8:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: If you talk about God to people not reading this list, they would never come to your meaning, as such your usage is a misuse and leads to confusion. No, you are wrong on this. All theologians I met

Re: How can intelligence be physical ?

2013-02-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Feb 2013, at 00:49, Craig Weinberg wrote: Outside of consciousness, there is no possibility of discerning any difference between accidental byproducts and selected products. Only consciousness selects. Only consciousness has accidents. Good point. But this does not make

Re: How can intelligence be physical ?

2013-02-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Feb 2013, at 11:05, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/2/8 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com I totally agree with that, what I don't agree is when you say the moment you're becoming Telmo again, you should lose

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Feb 2013, at 15:14, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 9, 2013 8:15:21 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Feb 2013, at 21:38, meekerdb wrote: On 2/8/2013 12:31 AM, Kim Jones wrote: Which is a profound problem that we can lay right at the door of LANGUAGE. Language is

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Feb 2013, at 15:16, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 12:19 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/8/2013 12:04 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 1:23 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/7/2013 3:15 PM, Platonist

Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-02-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Feb 2013, at 17:28, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: you agree that if I ask you the question in the MWI context, what is the probability that you see the photon hit the left plate, you'll say 50%, As I've said before

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-02-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Feb 2013, at 22:07, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 9, 2013 3:32:52 PM UTC-5, Simon Forman wrote: But then doesn't that leave subjectivity fundamentally mysterious? I think that human subjectivity is a range of qualities of experience, some rooted in the sub-personal,

Re: context, comp, and multiverses

2013-02-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Feb 2013, at 22:47, Telmo Menezes wrote: Let's say Wr is a world But this might be ambiguous. If by Wr you mean the real physical world, it can only mean, when we assume comp, that Wr is the real sum on all simulation or computations which exist in arithmetic (by UDA). That real

Re: How can intelligence be physical ?

2013-02-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Feb 2013, at 23:38, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: snip If you're still want to go on the technical detail, then give real technical insight of how the mind works and what can really prevent that One insight is

Re: How can intelligence be physical ?

2013-02-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Feb 2013, at 23:44, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 08 Feb 2013, at 13:45, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Well, yes... with computer you could imagine doing just that... so why not ? Also, the fact that you can't imagine

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Feb 2013, at 02:04, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 9, 2013 6:54:38 PM UTC-5, Kim Jones wrote: What an extraordinarily interesting idea, Craig! I'll have to let Brian Eno know about this. Eno was recently talking about the possibilities of a new kind of inaudible music.

Re: Science is a religion by itself.

2013-02-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Feb 2013, at 07:46, socra...@bezeqint.net wrote: How to describe the Universe as it really is ? You should always be clear if you talk about the physical universe (that we can observe), and the real universe, that we are searching. If you assume that the Universe = the physical

Re: Science is a religion by itself.

2013-02-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Feb 2013, at 11:13, socra...@bezeqint.net wrote: Why? And why do you think science has made no progress since 1947? Brent- . Science made great technological ( !) progress since 1947, but not ' philosophical progress ' (!). We still haven't answers to the questiohs: What is

Re: How can intelligence be physical ?

2013-02-10 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Consciousness might be the unconscious Okey dokey, and if you allow that X is not X you can prove or disprove anything you like. Consciousness accelerates the growing of intelligence Then it would be easier to make a

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-02-10 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: They [mathematicians] are just elaborating existing concepts of geometry, not creating it from mathematical scratch. But all those concepts of geometry, like the trigonometric functions, can be derived from one

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-02-10 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 10, 2013 1:55:15 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: They [mathematicians] are just elaborating existing concepts of geometry, not creating it from mathematical scratch. But all

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-02-10 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 10, 2013 11:16:31 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Feb 2013, at 22:07, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 9, 2013 3:32:52 PM UTC-5, Simon Forman wrote: But then doesn't that leave subjectivity fundamentally mysterious? I think that human subjectivity

Re: How can intelligence be physical ?

2013-02-10 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 10, 2013 12:15:00 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: You are convinced that computers and other machines don't have consciousness, but you can't say what test you will apply to them and

Re: Science is a religion by itself.

2013-02-10 Thread John Mikes
Bruno, you write mystique. First you mention THE REAL UNIVERSE (who said ther IS one?) then you line up a series of IF-s. What about IF NOT? You seem to justify the 'truth' of arithmetics on the basis of human logic (prime #s, 2+2=4, etc.) which may be a flimsy dependence of the Natural Logic

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-10 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 10, 2013 11:49:56 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Feb 2013, at 02:04, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 9, 2013 6:54:38 PM UTC-5, Kim Jones wrote: What an extraordinarily interesting idea, Craig! I'll have to let Brian Eno know about this. Eno was

Re: Science is a religion by itself.

2013-02-10 Thread meekerdb
On 2/10/2013 9:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Feb 2013, at 11:13, socra...@bezeqint.net wrote: Why? And why do you think science has made no progress since 1947? Brent- . Science made great technological ( !) progress since 1947, but not ' philosophical progress ' (!). We

Re: Science is a religion by itself.

2013-02-10 Thread meekerdb
On 2/10/2013 12:14 PM, John Mikes wrote: Bruno, you write mystique. First you mention THE REAL UNIVERSE (who said ther IS one?) then you line up a series of IF-s. What about IF NOT? You seem to justify the 'truth' of arithmetics on the basis of human logic (prime #s, 2+2=4, etc.) which may be

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-10 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 10, 2013 9:43:06 AM UTC-5, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On 08 Feb 2013, at 21:38, meekerdb wrote: It seems to be an interesting fact that all information can be encoded in

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-10 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 10, 2013 10:41:23 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Feb 2013, at 15:14, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 9, 2013 8:15:21 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Feb 2013, at 21:38, meekerdb wrote: On 2/8/2013 12:31 AM, Kim Jones wrote: Which is a

Re: How can intelligence be physical ?

2013-02-10 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: Why would being generated in a single moment through cell fertilization have any bearing on consciousness? Because consciousness is a singularity of perspective through time, or rather through which time is

Re: How can intelligence be physical ?

2013-02-10 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 10, 2013 4:23:52 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: Why would being generated in a single moment through cell fertilization have any bearing on consciousness? Because