Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, March 1, 2013 12:46:55 AM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 2/28/2013 5:30 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, February 28, 2013 8:01:48 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 2/28/2013 4:11 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, February 28, 2013 5:37:50 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On

Fw: [Mind and Brain] News: Brain-to-brain interface allows transmission oftactile and motor information between rats

2013-03-01 Thread Roger Clough
- Have received the following content - Sender: Robert Karl Stonjek Receiver: Psychiatry-Research,Cognitive NeuroScience,Mind and Brain Time: 2013-03-01, 00:21:49 Subject: [Mind and Brain] News: Brain-to-brain interface allows transmission oftactile and motor information between

Re: Fw: [Mind and Brain] News: Brain-to-brain interface allows transmission oftactile and motor information between rats

2013-03-01 Thread Telmo Menezes
I was going to send that article to annoy Craig but then decided to leave him in alone :) On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: - Have received the following content - *Sender:* Robert Karl Stonjek ston...@ozemail.com.au *Receiver:*

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Feb 2013, at 14:58, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/28/2013 7:46 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Feb 2013, at 05:04, meekerdb wrote: You are assuming that justification comes from logic; and indeed it is too much to expect from such a weak source. I look for such justification as can

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Feb 2013, at 19:03, meekerdb wrote: On 2/28/2013 4:46 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Feb 2013, at 05:04, meekerdb wrote: On 2/27/2013 7:17 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 27 Feb 2013, at 20:40, meekerdb wrote: On 2/27/2013 2:59 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 26 Feb 2013, at 21:40,

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Feb 2013, at 19:09, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, February 28, 2013 1:03:40 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 2/28/2013 4:46 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Feb 2013, at 05:04, meekerdb wrote: On 2/27/2013 7:17 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 27 Feb 2013, at 20:40, meekerdb wrote: On

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Feb 2013, at 20:29, meekerdb wrote: On 2/28/2013 10:59 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/28/2013 10:33 AM, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: It is a basic law of logic that if X is not Y and X is not not Y then X is

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Mar 2013, at 01:11, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, February 28, 2013 5:37:50 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 2/28/2013 1:50 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: You have no way of knowing what I can't know about you either. You have no way of knowing what ways I have of knowing what you know

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread meekerdb
On 3/1/2013 7:13 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Feb 2013, at 20:29, meekerdb wrote: On 2/28/2013 10:59 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/28/2013 10:33 AM, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com mailto:whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: It

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread meekerdb
On 3/1/2013 7:05 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I don't think that what you ask is possible, even if I am pretty sure that x + 0 = x, x + s(y) = s(x + y), etc. I'm not at all sure that there is successor for every x. Then you adopt ultrafinitism, and indeed comp does not make sense with such

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread meekerdb
On 3/1/2013 3:09 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, March 1, 2013 12:46:55 AM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 2/28/2013 5:30 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, February 28, 2013 8:01:48 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 2/28/2013 4:11 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday,

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, March 1, 2013 10:23:24 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 01 Mar 2013, at 01:11, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, February 28, 2013 5:37:50 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 2/28/2013 1:50 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: You have no way of knowing what I can't know about you either.

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, March 1, 2013 10:39:05 AM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 3/1/2013 3:09 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, March 1, 2013 12:46:55 AM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 2/28/2013 5:30 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, February 28, 2013 8:01:48 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread meekerdb
On 3/1/2013 7:48 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: The point of this thread was to show that even geometry is not at all indicated from math or computation, and derives solely from sensory experiences of shapes. Can you dispute this? Sure. Can you prove it? Prove what, that

Why physics is not physical

2013-03-01 Thread Roger Clough
As I observed previously, there was a fork in the road of the path of science back in the 17th century at which, given the Cartesian choice, Newton considered reality to consist of the physical-- which means entities such as matter which are extended in space. Leibniz, on the other hand,

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, March 1, 2013 10:58:34 AM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 3/1/2013 7:48 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: The point of this thread was to show that even geometry is not at all indicated from math or computation, and derives solely from sensory experiences of shapes. Can you dispute this?

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Mar 2013, at 16:28, meekerdb wrote: On 3/1/2013 7:13 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Feb 2013, at 20:29, meekerdb wrote: On 2/28/2013 10:59 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/28/2013 10:33 AM, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Mar 2013, at 16:37, meekerdb wrote: On 3/1/2013 7:05 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I don't think that what you ask is possible, even if I am pretty sure that x + 0 = x, x + s(y) = s(x + y), etc. I'm not at all sure that there is successor for every x. Then you adopt ultrafinitism, and

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Mar 2013, at 16:42, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, March 1, 2013 10:23:24 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 01 Mar 2013, at 01:11, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, February 28, 2013 5:37:50 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 2/28/2013 1:50 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: You have no way of

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread meekerdb
On 3/1/2013 8:17 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, March 1, 2013 10:58:34 AM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 3/1/2013 7:48 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: The point of this thread was to show that even geometry is not at all indicated from math or computation, and derives solely

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, March 1, 2013 12:41:52 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 01 Mar 2013, at 16:42, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, March 1, 2013 10:23:24 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 01 Mar 2013, at 01:11, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, February 28, 2013 5:37:50 PM UTC-5, Brent

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread meekerdb
On 3/1/2013 9:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: In physics we sometimes get big numbers, like 10^88 or 10^120, but we never need 10^120 + 1. But physics is no more assumed in the TOE derived from comp. I'll bet you've never needed to calculate 10^120 + 1 in the world whose TOE is derived from

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread meekerdb
On 3/1/2013 11:03 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: If we have some written characters is it possible to categorize them optically, but these categories don't lead to discovery of any phonetic information. Sure they do. Just try http://www.naturalreaders.com/howto.php?referp=mainbar Likewise,

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, March 1, 2013 3:10:30 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 3/1/2013 11:03 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: If we have some written characters is it possible to categorize them optically, but these categories don't lead to discovery of any phonetic information. Sure they do. Just try

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread meekerdb
On 3/1/2013 12:20 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: It doesn't matter how many knee-jerk twitches you put together or in what order, they are still always going to be empty, mindless mechanisms. Repeated assertions aren't evidence. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, March 1, 2013 3:33:03 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 3/1/2013 12:20 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: It doesn't matter how many knee-jerk twitches you put together or in what order, they are still always going to be empty, mindless mechanisms. Repeated assertions aren't evidence.

Messages Aren't Made of Information

2013-03-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
Thinking about how information content of a message has an inversely proportionate relationship with the capacity of sender and receiver to synchronize with each other. Think of being in a foreign country, seeing a fellow foreigner who is about your same age. There is: - An implicit

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread meekerdb
On 3/1/2013 12:52 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, March 1, 2013 3:33:03 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 3/1/2013 12:20 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: It doesn't matter how many knee-jerk twitches you put together or in what order, they are still always going to be empty, mindless

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: All that matters is that we understand that there is no presentation quality to a file. Presentation is 100% in the interpreter. And a computer can be and often is the interpreter. You are really saying that we

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, March 1, 2013 4:32:54 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 3/1/2013 12:52 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, March 1, 2013 3:33:03 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 3/1/2013 12:20 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: It doesn't matter how many knee-jerk twitches you put together or in what

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread meekerdb
On 3/1/2013 3:38 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, March 1, 2013 4:32:54 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 3/1/2013 12:52 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, March 1, 2013 3:33:03 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 3/1/2013 12:20 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: It doesn't matter how

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, March 1, 2013 4:37:41 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: All that matters is that we understand that there is no presentation quality to a file. Presentation is 100% in the interpreter. And a

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, March 1, 2013 7:47:14 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 3/1/2013 3:38 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, March 1, 2013 4:32:54 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 3/1/2013 12:52 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, March 1, 2013 3:33:03 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 3/1/2013 12:20

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread Stephen P. King
On 3/1/2013 4:32 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 3/1/2013 12:52 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, March 1, 2013 3:33:03 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 3/1/2013 12:20 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: It doesn't matter how many knee-jerk twitches you put together or in what order, they are still

RE: Messages Aren't Made of Information

2013-03-01 Thread William R. Buckley
Thinking about how information content of a message Big mistake. Information is never contained with but exactly one exception, an envelope. I made this point with Jesper Hoffmeyer regarding a statement in his book Biosemiotics, that information is represented but not contained in that

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread meekerdb
On 3/1/2013 4:57 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, March 1, 2013 7:47:14 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 3/1/2013 3:38 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, March 1, 2013 4:32:54 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 3/1/2013 12:52 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, March 1,

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-03-01 Thread meekerdb
On 3/1/2013 5:04 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 3/1/2013 4:32 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 3/1/2013 12:52 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, March 1, 2013 3:33:03 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 3/1/2013 12:20 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: It doesn't matter how many knee-jerk twitches you put

Re: Messages Aren't Made of Information

2013-03-01 Thread meekerdb
On 3/1/2013 5:27 PM, William R. Buckley wrote: Thinking about how information content of a message Big mistake. Information is never contained with but exactly one exception, an envelope. I made this point with Jesper Hoffmeyer regarding a statement in his book Biosemiotics, that information

RE: Messages Aren't Made of Information

2013-03-01 Thread William R. Buckley
And therein do you see the arbitrariness of either choice. The universe is subjective, not objective. Read on semiotic theory as it will give much enlightenment on this issue, that is *meaning* versus *information* The fact that the interpreter can interpret means that the interpreter already

Re: Messages Aren't Made of Information

2013-03-01 Thread meekerdb
On 3/1/2013 8:39 PM, William R. Buckley wrote: And therein do you see the arbitrariness of either choice. The universe is subjective, not objective. Is that just your opinion...or is it objectively true. Read on semiotic theory as it will give much enlightenment on this issue, that is