Re: The ASSA leads to a unique utilitarism

2007-10-04 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 06:11:32PM -0700, Wei Dai wrote: > > Youness Ayaita wrote: > > Directly speaking: Since all observers must expect to get their next > > observer moments out of the same ensemble of observer moments, there > > is no reason to insist on different preferences. > > Youness, A

Re: The ASSA leads to a unique utilitarism

2007-10-04 Thread Wei Dai
Youness Ayaita wrote: > Directly speaking: Since all observers must expect to get their next > observer moments out of the same ensemble of observer moments, there > is no reason to insist on different preferences. Youness, ASSA does not mean what you think, that "all observers must expect to ge

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2007-10-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi George, Le 03-oct.-07, à 01:52, George Levy a écrit : > Hi Bruno, > Yes I am still on the list, barely trying to keep up, but I have been > very busy. Actually the ball was in my court and I was supposed to > answer to your last post to me about a year ago!!!. Generally I agree > with y

Re: RSSA / ASSA / Single Mind Theory

2007-10-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 02-oct.-07, à 01:30, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : > > On 02/10/2007, Vladimir Nesov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Also single mind can be regarded as collection of parts interacting >> with each other. If each part can be regarded as its information >> content, each physical implementatio

Re: The ASSA leads to a unique utilitarism

2007-10-04 Thread marc . geddes
On Oct 3, 12:23 pm, Russell Standish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that beauty is effectively a channel from our > unconscious. When we think that something is beautiful (or conversely > ugly), some unconscious processing has taken place according to some > criterion and presented to the