Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Feb 2014, at 20:06, Chris de Morsella wrote: From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com ] On Behalf Of John Clark Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2014 8:01 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Suicide Words God and Ideas The invention of

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-09 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 9 February 2014 15:10, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: It's an assumption in science that the language difference is due to brain difference. That's not to say that our techniques are at present refined enough to see a difference, but there must be one if language is due to the

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-09 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 9 February 2014 15:11, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, February 8, 2014 8:47:26 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 7 February 2014 07:47, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Well, I *could* be a zombie and still say that, unless you consider the idea of zombies

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-09 Thread LizR
On 9 February 2014 17:10, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, February 8, 2014 8:55:43 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 8 February 2014 05:03, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: If there were identical triplets, and one of them grew up on the other side of the world

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Feb 2014, at 02:47, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 7 February 2014 07:47, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Well, I *could* be a zombie and still say that, unless you consider the idea of zombies contradictory (which maybe it is). I bet you are not a zombie. But you seem to

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Feb 2014, at 05:10, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 8, 2014 8:55:43 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 8 February 2014 05:03, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: If there were identical triplets, and one of them grew up on the other side of the world and spoke a

Re: Turing Reductio ad Absurdum

2014-02-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Feb 2014, at 05:25, Craig Weinberg wrote: How do you know that you are really reading these words? The question is ambiguous. If really reading these words refer to the quale of reading those words, then I agree I can know that. But if it means that there is a some 3p real reality

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Feb 2014, at 10:27, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 9 February 2014 15:11, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, February 8, 2014 8:47:26 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 7 February 2014 07:47, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Well, I *could* be a zombie and

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Feb 2014, at 10:35, LizR wrote: On 9 February 2014 17:10, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, February 8, 2014 8:55:43 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 8 February 2014 05:03, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: If there were identical triplets, and one of them

Re: Turing Reductio ad Absurdum

2014-02-09 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 9, 2014 5:39:58 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Feb 2014, at 05:25, Craig Weinberg wrote: How do you know that you are really reading these words? The question is ambiguous. If really reading these words refer to the quale of reading those words, then I agree I

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-09 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 9, 2014 4:27:57 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 9 February 2014 15:11, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Saturday, February 8, 2014 8:47:26 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 7 February 2014 07:47, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.be wrote:

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-09 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 9, 2014 4:28:09 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 9 February 2014 15:10, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: It's an assumption in science that the language difference is due to brain difference. That's not to say that our techniques are at present

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-09 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Sunday, February 9, 2014, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 February 2014 17:10, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comjavascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','whatsons...@gmail.com'); wrote: On Saturday, February 8, 2014 8:55:43 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 8 February 2014 05:03, Craig Weinberg

Re: Modal Logic (Part 3: summary + 1 exercise)

2014-02-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Feb 2014, at 22:05, LizR wrote: On 8 February 2014 08:43, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 07 Feb 2014, at 02:29, LizR wrote: On 7 February 2014 09:14, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 06 Feb 2014, at 07:39, LizR wrote: snip OK, having had a look at what you say

Re: Turing Reductio ad Absurdum

2014-02-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Feb 2014, at 12:35, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, February 9, 2014 5:39:58 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Feb 2014, at 05:25, Craig Weinberg wrote: How do you know that you are really reading these words? The question is ambiguous. If really reading these words refer to

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-09 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 9, 2014 7:23:12 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On Sunday, February 9, 2014, LizR liz...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On 9 February 2014 17:10, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, February 8, 2014 8:55:43 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 8 February 2014

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Craig, Of course science is supposed to make assumptions. It's done all the time and rightfully so. But those assumptions are then supposed to be tested to see if they are reasonable. This is done in two ways. One by testing against empirical evidence. Two by seeing if they are logically

Re: Turing Reductio ad Absurdum

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Craig, This is basically a question of epistemology. What is knowledge, and how do we know what is true knowledge. Ultimately, since there is no direct knowledge of actual reality since it's all filtered through and interpreted within our own minds, the only true test of true knowledge is

Re: Turing Reductio ad Absurdum

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Craig, The logical proof that we have accurate knowledge of the world is our very existence. If our belief was completely wrong we could not function or even exist. Therefore all extant species have sufficient true knowledge (beliefs) of the world to function and exist within it. Edgar On

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Craig, I explain both OBE's and NDE's in my book on Reality. The key to understanding OBE's is to first understand why normally the brain constructs a view of reality in which we seem to be INSIDE our body, inside our heads. When you understand how that works, it's easy to understand how the

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, et al, A Propros of our discussion of determining same past moments of P-time let me now try to present a much deeper insight into P-time, that illustrates and explains that, and see if it makes sense. I will show how relativity itself implicitly assumes and absolutely requires P-time

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jesse, et al, A Propros of our discussion of determining same past moments of P-time let me now try to present a much deeper insight into P-time, that illustrates and explains that, and see if it makes sense. I will show

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, Same thing as I'm saying. My other clock time is just a clock centered in your coordinate system. It's the same idea. If you look at the equations of relativistic clock time they are always of the general form dt'/dt = f( ). I just note that the dt with respect to which dt' is

Re: Turing Reductio ad Absurdum

2014-02-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Feb 2014, at 15:37, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Craig, The logical proof that we have accurate knowledge of the world is our very existence. The logical evidence (not proof) that we might have accurate knowledge of a possible world is, indeed, perhaps related to the feeling that

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jesse, The ages are the only 'real' clocks here because they are not arbitrary but real and actual and cannot be reset. They show different clock times in the same present moment. All other clocks are arbitrary. I don't

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jesse, Same thing as I'm saying. My other clock time is just a clock centered in your coordinate system. It's the same idea. If you look at the equations of relativistic clock time they are always of the general form

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, It's not clear to me what you mean by, in every coordinate system the time-coordinate of A = the time-coordinate of B. Are you actually disagreeing with that (please answer clearly yes or no). The way I understand that the answer is clearly NO. The whole idea of relativity is that the

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-09 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: What is inconsistent with the definition of 3p and 1p? 3p = the content of the diary of the guy which observes the teleportation experience. So 3p is the stuff that I see and 1p is the stuff you see. But the words I and

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, No, the definition of p-time simultaneity itself depends on the arbitrary choice of coordinate system is NOT true. I clearly stated otherwise and explained why. Please reread if it isn't clear. As for your last example, establishing past p-time simultaneity across multiple frames is

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-09 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 3:24 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: The invention of language was obviously of great benefit to the species called Homo sapiens, but like all tools it is not perfect and sometimes the brain can waste a great deal of processing power spinning its wheels

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread LizR
On 10 February 2014 07:44, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jesse, No, the definition of p-time simultaneity itself depends on the arbitrary choice of coordinate system is NOT true. I clearly stated otherwise and explained why. Please reread if it isn't clear. You haven't *explained

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jesse, It's not clear to me what you mean by, in every coordinate system the time-coordinate of A = the time-coordinate of B. Are you actually disagreeing with that (please answer clearly yes or no). The way I

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Feb 2014, at 19:27, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: What is inconsistent with the definition of 3p and 1p? 3p = the content of the diary of the guy which observes the teleportation experience. So 3p is the stuff that I see

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, I did explain it in considerable detail. As usual you either aren't paying attention or things aren't registering Read my previous posts for the explanation Edgar On Sunday, February 9, 2014 2:02:25 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 10 February 2014 07:44, Edgar L. Owen

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jesse, No, the definition of p-time simultaneity itself depends on the arbitrary choice of coordinate system is NOT true. I clearly stated otherwise and explained why. Please reread if it isn't clear. Rereading doesn't

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, Let me try to clarify my response to your A, B, C past p-time simultaneity example, because I think I misstated it in my previous post. Assume three observers A, B, C, with three clock times t, t' and t''. It is important to specify these are the clock time readings of their OWN clocks

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, The crux of my answer to the crossed tapes question was that yes that would be true of clock time but not for p-time. Again you are using the question to argue against clock time simultaneity. And I agree with that 100%. It's just not p-time... Edgar On Sunday, February 9, 2014

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, 1. is correct. There is an objective truth that past events are simultaneous in p-time. Recall I also gave the exact same answer yesterday or the day before. 2. is INcorrect. However the question of what clock times in different frames correspond to that objective same time in p-time

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Feb 2014, at 19:56, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 3:24 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: The invention of language was obviously of great benefit to the species called Homo sapiens, but like all tools it is not perfect and sometimes the brain can waste a

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jesse, 1. is correct. There is an objective truth that past events are simultaneous in p-time. Recall I also gave the exact same answer yesterday or the day before. Thanks. So how about the issue of transitivity? If

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jesse, The crux of my answer to the crossed tapes question was that yes that would be true of clock time but not for p-time. Again you are using the question to argue against clock time simultaneity. And I agree with that

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, My answer to your last paragraph is yes, as I understand it... For transitivity ignore my first post on that, and just read the second that concludes there IS transitivity.. Edgar On Sunday, February 9, 2014 3:22:28 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Edgar L.

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, Both, but you completely ignored my broad conceptual argument I gave first thing this morning of why relativity itself assumes an unstated present moment background to all relativistic relationships. Sorry, but I disagree on your second point. P-time simultaneity does NOT have purely

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, PS: Because P-time doesn't have an intrinsic metric like clock time and space do Edgar On Sunday, February 9, 2014 3:29:39 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, The crux of my answer to the crossed

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-09 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2014-02-08 17:00 GMT+01:00, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: The invention of language was obviously of great benefit to the species called Homo sapiens, but like all tools it is not perfect and sometimes the brain can waste a great deal of processing power spinning its wheels over questions

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-09 Thread LizR
On 10 February 2014 07:56, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 3:24 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: The invention of language was obviously of great benefit to the species called Homo sapiens, but like all tools it is not perfect and sometimes the

Vote to make ecocide illegal

2014-02-09 Thread LizR
http://www.endecocide.eu/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Vote to make ecocide illegal

2014-02-09 Thread ghibbsa
On Sunday, February 9, 2014 9:35:01 PM UTC, Liz R wrote: http://www.endecocide.eu/ I support the idea, but I don't feel like I can trust organizations like that anymore. Often enough their just a money shakedown. Or they have really nasty agenda against his people or someone else's. Or

Re: Turing Reductio ad Absurdum

2014-02-09 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 9, 2014 8:23:21 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Feb 2014, at 12:35, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, February 9, 2014 5:39:58 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Feb 2014, at 05:25, Craig Weinberg wrote: How do you know that you are really reading these

Dark Matter and Energy: Ratios In Ignorance

2014-02-09 Thread Craig Weinberg
If Dark Matter and Dark Energy represents 96% of the “known” universe, even if it paradoxically turns out that we know virtually nothing about it, what other kinds of ratios-in-ignorance lurk as shockingly in our self-significant lives? There are 23% of Dark Matter and 73% of Dark Energy. -

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-09 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 9, 2014 9:27:38 AM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Craig, Of course science is supposed to make assumptions. It's done all the time and rightfully so. But those assumptions are then supposed to be tested to see if they are reasonable. I wouldn't call them

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-09 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 9, 2014 9:41:29 AM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Craig, I explain both OBE's and NDE's in my book on Reality. The key to understanding OBE's is to first understand why normally the brain constructs a view of reality in which we seem to be INSIDE our body, inside our

Re: Vote to make ecocide illegal

2014-02-09 Thread LizR
I've looked at the site and I still can't see who you mean by he - please explain. I agree with you that we need to transform the world economy, however I can't see that it is happening, so I promote all such initiatives on the basis that any small thing might be the last straw. See Robert Anton

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jesse, My answer to your last paragraph is yes, as I understand it... For transitivity ignore my first post on that, and just read the second that concludes there IS transitivity.. Edgar OK, then in the scenario I

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, Before I go the trouble of answering your 4 questions on your example could you please tell me if you agree with the 3 examples I provided, and the p-time simultaneities I stated there? I gave simpler examples to make p-time simultaneity easier to understand, so it makes no sense to

Re: Vote to make ecocide illegal

2014-02-09 Thread ghibbsa
On Sunday, February 9, 2014 10:19:52 PM UTC, Liz R wrote: I've looked at the site and I still can't see who you mean by he - please explain. oh vally good! I agree with you that we need to transform the world economy, however I can't see that it is happening, Whatever hero (sorry

maybe not as long as we think

2014-02-09 Thread ghibbsa
Not stating this as 'theoy', though feel free to batter it, but more you know when sometimes you have a deep insight, and in that moment a lot of things come together and perhaps you see that they are all the same or whatever. A lot of the time - at least for others I mean not on this list -

Re: maybe not as long as we think

2014-02-09 Thread LizR
In the meantime, can I have some of whatever you're on? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post

Re: maybe not as long as we think

2014-02-09 Thread ghibbsa
On Monday, February 10, 2014 1:10:02 AM UTC, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: Not stating this as 'theoy', though feel free to batter it, but more you know when sometimes you have a deep insight, and in that moment a lot of things come together and perhaps you see that they are all the same or

Re: maybe not as long as we think

2014-02-09 Thread ghibbsa
On Monday, February 10, 2014 1:23:27 AM UTC, Liz R wrote: In the meantime, can I have some of whatever you're on? I'm just a junkie love, Edgar's the dealer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jesse, Both, but you completely ignored my broad conceptual argument I gave first thing this morning of why relativity itself assumes an unstated present moment background to all relativistic relationships. You mean the

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jesse, Before I go the trouble of answering your 4 questions on your example could you please tell me if you agree with the 3 examples I provided, and the p-time simultaneities I stated there? What do you mean agree

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-09 Thread meekerdb
On 2/9/2014 1:46 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Feb 2014, at 22:27, meekerdb wrote: On 2/8/2014 12:23 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: An epiphenomenalist would say that consciousness is just a necessary side effect of intelligence. But I don't follow this: it is a phenomena having some role, I

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-09 Thread meekerdb
On 2/9/2014 12:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Even on his argument, that nobody understand but him, against step 3? Then I invite you to attempt to explain it to us. I think I understand it. Asking the question which will you be in the MW experiment is ambiguous because you is duplicated. One

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-09 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 9 February 2014 21:22, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 09 Feb 2014, at 02:47, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 7 February 2014 07:47, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Well, I *could* be a zombie and still say that, unless you consider the idea of zombies contradictory (which

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-09 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 9 February 2014 22:40, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, February 9, 2014 4:27:57 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 9 February 2014 15:11, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, February 8, 2014 8:47:26 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 7 February 2014

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-09 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 9 February 2014 22:50, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: Neuroscientists assume that we think with our brains just as cardiac physiologists assume the heart pumps blood around the body. It's possible they are wrong, but you would have to have a very good reason to challenge these