Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-11-10 Thread Bruno Marchal


Le 09-nov.-08, à 20:29, Brent Meeker a écrit :


 You don't get the point. Mechanism is incompatible with naturalism. To
 solve the mind body problem, keeping mechanism, the laws of physicist
 have to be explained from computer science, even from the gap between
 computer science and computer's computer science ...
 Physics is the fixed point of universal machine self observation.

 That would be a very impressive result if you could prove it - and you 
 could
 prove that there is no other empirically equivalent model.


As I said, you don't get yet the whole point. UDA+MGA *is* the proof. 
You seem very near though.

I will come back on this and on your post and Kory's one,  once I am a 
little less busy. Probably the day after tomorrow.

But UDA (including MGA) is really presented (at least) as a definite 
proof that IF I am a digitalisable machine (whatever I am beside that) 
THEN there is no more choice in the matter: Physics is the fixed point 
of universal machine introspection, and any verifiable empîrical model 
which would contradict the unique comp-physics would give an empirical 
reason to believe that comp is false. This is what I try to say in the 
list since the beginning.

I am, for sure,  open to the idea that there is an error in the proof, 
but up to now, I have heard only of rumors (mainly made by some 
dogmatic materialist who seems never to have really studied the 
argument).

The proof is easy, because it is non constructive. The interview with 
the lobian machine makes it constructive. This is more technical and 
actually it is not needed to get the proof. It is needed only to derive 
explicitly physics from comp. The logic Z1* gives already the logic of 
the observable propositions, and Z1*, that very special non classical 
logic,  is confirmed up to now by the empirical work (quantum physics).

Best regards,

Bruno

PS I think I see the point that you are still missing. I will have to 
explain that whatever the physical universe is, in the case I am Turing 
emulable, the physical universe is NOT turing emulable. Up to now, the 
apparent emulability of Everett Universe, and its lack of first person 
rabbits does contradict comp. But again, this moves is shown 
technically weak once we take incompleteness seriously into account in 
the picture. This is also why it is hard for me not to mention the 
technical part. Without that part, I would have stop to assume comp 
since a long time!  I know that I am saying something terribly 
counter-intuitive, especially after 1500 years of Aristotelianism in 
the science of matter. We will come back on this asap.


http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/


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2008-11-10 Thread Joao Leao

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2008-11-10 Thread Michael Rosefield
Look at it this way, you probably did unsubscribe. Just not in this
universe. Sorry.

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2008-11-10 Thread Quentin Anciaux

first laugh on this list :) or maybe on this list and this universe only /o\

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2008-11-10 Thread Michael Rosefield
Hmm.

/ checks

Yeah, I just tossed a coin 5 times and it came up 'edge' each darned one.
Expect lions, tigers and bears in smart suits and copies of The Watchtower
to be paying visits.


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 /o\

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Re: Re:

2008-11-10 Thread Kim Jones

Yes - humour is according to thinking guru Edward de Bono The most  
significant activity of the human mind. If anyone is interested in  
why, we could start a thread over that. It relates, of course, to all  
the stuff on the mind and consciousness.

Humour is occasionally deployed on this list as simple sarcasm. There  
are more evolved ways of using it


cheers


Kim Jones




On 11/11/2008, at 11:42 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote:


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Re: QTI euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-10 Thread Kory Heath


On Nov 9, 2008, at 3:24 PM, Brent Meeker wrote:
 I'm with you and Dennett - except I'm reserved about the use of  
 logical
 possibility.

Fair enough. I might be misusing that term. Maybe a better way to  
state my position would be that I think the standard conception of  
philosophical zombie is incoherent. I tend to use the terms  
logically impossible and incoherent interchangeably, but that's  
probably sloppy philosophizing.

-- Kory


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