Re: Seven Step Series

2009-07-29 Thread David Nyman
2009/7/28 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: Now, the question why this 1-OM and not that other one, is like the questions: - why do I feel myself in W, and not in M which is very natural for the one going out at W. - why do I feel myself in M, and not in W which is very natural for the

Re: The seven step series

2009-07-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
Ronald, On 28 Jul 2009, at 12:51, ronaldheld wrote: Bruno: I meant the mathematical formalism you are teaching us. When we eventually get to the UDA steps, I wil be better able to do that assessment. OK. Note that the first 6 steps have already be done recently, with Kim, and even

Re: Dreaming On

2009-07-29 Thread David Nyman
2009/7/28 John Mikes jami...@gmail.com: Hi John I really do not expect from you to give adequate replies to all these questions - it would make the grandkids of our grandkits scientifically unemployed but you have unusual solutions and ideas and it may be interesting to tape your mind..

Re: The seven step series

2009-07-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
SOLUTIONS OK. I give the solution of the exercises of the last session, on the cartesian product of sets. I recall the definition of the product A X B. A X B= {(x,y) such that x belongs to A and y belongs to B} I gave A = {0, 1}, and B = {a, b}. In this case, A X B = {(0,a), (0,

Re: Seven Step Series

2009-07-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Jul 2009, at 20:06, Brent Meeker wrote: David Nyman wrote: 2009/7/28 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: snip David Nyman wrote: However I have a wacky intuition: despite the platonic criterion of co-existence, 1-person experience of the temporal dynamism (i.e. sequentiality) of the

Re: Seven Step Series

2009-07-29 Thread David Nyman
On 29 July, 17:32, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Gosh, David, you are a champion for the difficult questions. Merci maitre, but I really only meant this rhetorically! On behalf of the One I assume that the cavalcade would be the preferable alternative. I like your answer though.

Re: Dreaming On

2009-07-29 Thread Brent Meeker
David Nyman wrote: ... In my various ramblings, I've tried to cut the whole Gordian knot of what can coherently be said to exist, and within this the whole debate on materialism, panpsychism, mind-body hard problems, causal closure of the physical, etc. by a simple expediency which then

Re: Seven Step Series

2009-07-29 Thread Brent Meeker
Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Jul 2009, at 20:06, Brent Meeker wrote: David Nyman wrote: 2009/7/28 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: snip David Nyman wrote: However I have a wacky intuition: despite the platonic criterion of co-existence, 1-person experience of the temporal dynamism (i.e.

Re: Dreaming On

2009-07-29 Thread David Nyman
2009/7/29 Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com: What do you make of Hume's observation, When I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I can never catch