Re: Good video on telepathy studies

2013-03-27 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
Well, I'm with Telmo, and Bruno on the prohibition issue, no surprise, and with Craig here in being open to other worldviews, even if their odds seem low + I think our tendency to institutionalize and say these are relevant branches of science AND THAT is quackery deserves a halting problem kick

Any human who has played a bit of Arimaa can beat a computer hands down.

2013-03-27 Thread Craig Weinberg
From the Quora http://www.quora.com/Board-Games/What-are-some-fun-games-to-play-on-an-8x8-Checkerboard-besides-chess-checkers This is interesting because I think it shows the weakness of the one-dimensional view of intelligence as computation. Whether a program can be designed to win or not is

Re: Good video on telepathy studies

2013-03-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Mar 2013, at 15:02, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: Well, I'm with Telmo, and Bruno on the prohibition issue, no surprise, and with Craig here in being open to other worldviews, even if their odds seem low + I think our tendency to institutionalize and say these are relevant branches

Re: Good video on telepathy studies

2013-03-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Mar 2013, at 17:29, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 27 Mar 2013, at 15:02, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: Well, I'm with Telmo, and Bruno on the prohibition issue, no surprise, and with Craig here in being open to other worldviews, even if their odds seem low + I think our tendency to

Re: Any human who has played a bit of Arimaa can beat a computer hands down.

2013-03-27 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi Craig, On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: From the Quora http://www.quora.com/Board-Games/What-are-some-fun-games-to-play-on-an-8x8-Checkerboard-besides-chess-checkers This is interesting because I think it shows the weakness of the

Re: Good video on telepathy studies

2013-03-27 Thread Telmo Menezes
PCG for President! :) On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I'm with Telmo, and Bruno on the prohibition issue, no surprise, and with Craig here in being open to other worldviews, even if their odds seem low + I think our tendency to

Re: Any human who has played a bit of Arimaa can beat a computer hands down.

2013-03-27 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 1:03:27 PM UTC-4, telmo_menezes wrote: Hi Craig, On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: From the Quora

Re: Why physics is not physical

2013-03-27 Thread Craig Weinberg
Spewing some notes here...thinking about how efficient cause correlates to bodies in public space, since they are the actual representation of past events. Final cause correlates to private experiences through time since the opportunity to participate directly and act upon the public world is

Re: Any human who has played a bit of Arimaa can beat a computer hands down.

2013-03-27 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: From the Quora http://www.quora.com/Board-Games/What-are-some-fun-games-to-play-on-an-8x8-Checkerboard-besides-chess-checkers This is interesting because I think it shows the weakness of the one-dimensional view of