Re: Plurality

2012-11-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Nov 2012, at 21:07, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/7/2012 10:39 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 07 Nov 2012, at 13:48, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/5/2012 1:49 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: [SPK] You are considering only one entity. This is incorrect. For example the first person plural is

Re: Communicability

2012-11-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Nov 2012, at 01:38, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/7/2012 12:44 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 07 Nov 2012, at 17:13, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/7/2012 9:41 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Arithmetic explains why they are observers and how and why they make theories. Dear Bruno, This is a

Re: On the ontological status of elementary arithmetic

2012-11-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Nov 2012, at 01:42, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/7/2012 12:46 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 07 Nov 2012, at 17:16, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/7/2012 9:43 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Nov 2012, at 17:05, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/6/2012 8:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: snip

Re: Re: Peirce's concept of logical abduction-- a possible moneymaker

2012-11-08 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal My principal interest over the years has been to come up with some self-sustaining self-generating method of autopoeisis. That's why I found the I Ching fascinating. It contains sensible links between binary numbers and metaphors. When I look up methods of data mining, all

IMHO Our own perception is similar to but at a lower level form of the perception of the One

2012-11-08 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb, Leibniz's monads each contain all of the other possible view or observation points in the universe, meaning that all one person can see is the phenomenol world-- the world from one viewpoint. Only the supreme monad or the One can see all clearly as one, which of course is beyond us.

Leibniz vs Dennett on perception

2012-11-08 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen, From Leibniz, our individual perceptions are both wideband (seeing all, from all angles, at least locally) but also somehow unified and focused to a single point of observation. I believe that the unification and focussing must be done by the supreme monad, which is at a higher

Comp, Dennett and cognitivism

2012-11-08 Thread Roger Clough
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_Drafts_Model Daniel Dennett's multiple drafts model of consciousness is a physicalist theory of consciousness based upon cognitivism, which views the mind in terms of information processing. The theory is described in depth in his book, Consciousness

Re: Re: Arithmetic doesn't even suggest geometry, let alone awareness.

2012-11-08 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg That was only a clue, not an explanation. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/8/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-07,

Re: RE: RE: Consciousness = life = intelligence

2012-11-08 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Hal Ruhl Since life in the form of photosynthesis creates order in the form of cell structure out of a random (entropic) environment, life seems to reverse time's arrow, and hence slow down the heat death of the universe. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/8/2012 Forever is a long

Leibniz's pre-composed harmonic orchestral performance

2012-11-08 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Russell Standish Yes, the orchestra with the supreme monad as composer/conductor playing a pleasing orchestra composition (not 12-tone !) that he dug up out of his a priori files works fine. I think Leibniz's harmony is the traditional one: har穖o穘y [hahr-muh-nee] noun, plural

Re: Re: Life: origin, purpose, and qualia spectrum

2012-11-08 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Hal, Just look at the metaphors you use to see that your idea below is wrong. You say that life hastens death. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/8/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King

Leibniz: Reality as Dust

2012-11-08 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King Time and space don't exist as substances so they don't influence the monads, which as you say are eternal. Further, there is no substance space. So the monads are not organized in any way. The monads can be thought of as a collection of an infinite number of mathematical

Re: Re: Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems

2012-11-08 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King The prime numbers were somehow calculated without access to the physical world. Euclids' geometry as well, the natural numbers, etc. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/8/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the

Re: Re: Communicability

2012-11-08 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King Libertarians aren't weird. They're essentially conservatives without a military. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/8/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver:

Re: Re: Communicability

2012-11-08 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King Who are these entities and how can they exist a priori as does 2+2=4 ? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/8/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver:

Re: Re: On the ontological status of elementary arithmetic

2012-11-08 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King You don't need to throw anything. Parabolas are completely described mathematically. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/8/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King

Re: Re: Communicability

2012-11-08 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King There are no accidents in Platonia. There are also perfect parabolas, because Platonia is the realm of necessary logic, of pure reason and math, which are inextended. Thrown earthly objects are extended and thus fly contingently, since spin, humidity and dust particles

Re: Re: Communicability

2012-11-08 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb So how does Platonia's perfect necessary classes restrain or contain this world of contingency ? Or does it ? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/8/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From:

Re: Leibniz's pre-composed harmonic orchestral performance

2012-11-08 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
Hi Roger, Harmony is also, as part of several music theory traditions, the management of dissonance, without which you can't have harmony. Did Leibniz treat dissonance specifically or suggest say, that well placed dissonance leads to a more satisfying harmony of the piece as a whole? 12-Tone

Re: Leibniz: Reality as Dust

2012-11-08 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/8/2012 6:19 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King Time and space don't exist as substances so they don't influence the monads, which as you say are eternal. Further, there is no substance space. So the monads are not organized in any way. The monads can be thought of as a collection

Re: Communicability

2012-11-08 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/8/2012 6:23 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King Libertarians aren't weird. They're essentially conservatives without a military. Many people that claim to be libertarian imagine that all disagreements can be settled w/o violence. That is where they fail to comprehend the

Re: Communicability

2012-11-08 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/8/2012 6:26 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King Who are these entities and how can they exist a priori as does 2+2=4 ? Monads are eternal. That implies that there will always be a set of monads that agree that 2+2=4. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/8/2012 Forever

Re: On the ontological status of elementary arithmetic

2012-11-08 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/8/2012 6:29 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King You don't need to throw anything. Parabolas are completely described mathematically. OK, what is the connection between the particular case of throwing and a mathematical description? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net

Re: Communicability

2012-11-08 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/8/2012 6:38 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King There are no accidents in Platonia. There are also perfect parabolas, because Platonia is the realm of necessary logic, of pure reason and math, which are inextended. Hi Roger, There are no accidents in and all is perfect and

Re: Communicability

2012-11-08 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/8/2012 6:43 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi meekerdb So how does Platonia's perfect necessary classes restrain or contain this world of contingency ? Or does it ? Hi Roger, That is exactly my question! How does Platonism show the contingent to be necessary? As far as I have found, it

Fwd: Leibniz: Reality as Dust

2012-11-08 Thread Richard Ruquist
Stephan, If the compact manifolds of string theory are all different and distinct (as I claim in my paper from observations of a variable fine structure constant across the universe), then the manifolds should form a Stone space if each manifold instantly maps all the others into itself, my (BEC

Re: Fwd: Leibniz: Reality as Dust

2012-11-08 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/8/2012 8:51 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: Stephan, If the compact manifolds of string theory are all different and distinct (as I claim in my paper from observations of a variable fine structure constant across the universe), then the manifolds should form a Stone space if each manifold

Re: Fwd: Leibniz: Reality as Dust

2012-11-08 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 11/8/2012 8:51 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: Stephan, If the compact manifolds of string theory are all different and distinct (as I claim in my paper from observations of a variable fine structure constant across

Re: Communicability

2012-11-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Nov 2012, at 14:42, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/8/2012 6:38 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King There are no accidents in Platonia. There are also perfect parabolas, because Platonia is the realm of necessary logic, of pure reason and math, which are inextended. Hi Roger,

Re: Communicability

2012-11-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Nov 2012, at 14:45, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/8/2012 6:43 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi meekerdb So how does Platonia's perfect necessary classes restrain or contain this world of contingency ? Or does it ? Hi Roger, That is exactly my question! How does Platonism show the

Re: Leibniz: Reality as Dust

2012-11-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Nov 2012, at 14:51, Richard Ruquist wrote: Stephan, If the compact manifolds of string theory are all different and distinct (as I claim in my paper from observations of a variable fine structure constant across the universe), then the manifolds should form a Stone space if each manifold

Re: Leibniz: Reality as Dust

2012-11-08 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 08 Nov 2012, at 14:51, Richard Ruquist wrote: Stephan, If the compact manifolds of string theory are all different and distinct (as I claim in my paper from observations of a variable fine structure constant across

Re: Peirce's concept of logical abduction-- a possible moneymaker

2012-11-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Roger Clough , On 08 Nov 2012, at 11:03, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal My principal interest over the years has been to come up with some self-sustaining self-generating method of autopoeisis. That's why I found the I Ching fascinating. It contains sensible links between binary

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-11-08 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: After the duplication all the John Clark realise that they are in only one city, And that is exactly what John Clark predicted would happen. And John Clark is correct on this. But that was not yet the question asked, which

Re: Leibniz: Reality as Dust

2012-11-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Nov 2012, at 16:35, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 08 Nov 2012, at 14:51, Richard Ruquist wrote: Stephan, If the compact manifolds of string theory are all different and distinct (as I claim in my paper from

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-11-08 Thread Jason Resch
On Nov 8, 2012, at 9:44 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: After the duplication all the John Clark realise that they are in only one city, And that is exactly what John Clark predicted would happen. And John Clark is

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-11-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Nov 2012, at 16:44, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: After the duplication all the John Clark realise that they are in only one city, And that is exactly what John Clark predicted would happen. And John Clark is correct on this. But

RE: RE: RE: Consciousness = life = intelligence

2012-11-08 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Roger: You have to look at the net effect of the entire biosphere. I am not a biologist and can't speak to the total net effect of photosynthesis. But it does store some part of the energy flow it encompasses. Humans are rather substantial energy hang-up barrier busters. We also store

RE: Life: origin, purpose, and qualia spectrum

2012-11-08 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Stephen: -Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Stephen P. King Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 6:56 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Life: origin, purpose, and qualia spectrum On

RE: Re: Life: origin, purpose, and qualia spectrum

2012-11-08 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Roger: -Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Roger Clough Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 6:09 AM To: everything-list Subject: Re: Re: Life: origin, purpose, and qualia spectrum Hi Hal, Just look at the

Re: Reality as Dust

2012-11-08 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/8/2012 10:04 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: The compact manifolds, what I call string theory monads, are more fundamental than strings. Strings with spin, charge and mass, as well as spacetime, emerge from the compact manifolds, perhaps in the manner that you indicate below. Hi Richard,

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-11-08 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: it is still not clear who you refers to and that is why pronouns should not be used. If you refers to the Helsinki man then you will experience no city at all because according to Bruno Marchal's thought experiment the Helsinki

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-11-08 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2012/11/8 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: it is still not clear who you refers to and that is why pronouns should not be used. If you refers to the Helsinki man then you will experience no city at all because according to Bruno

Re: Heraclitus gets his feet wet

2012-11-08 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2012/11/8 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/8/2012 1:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 07 Nov 2012, at 19:25, meekerdb wrote: On 11/7/2012 7:53 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: How can you be in two places at once ? Your soul, or 1p-you, cannot. A viewpoint implies a certain place, but I

Re: Communicability

2012-11-08 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/8/2012 10:15 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Nov 2012, at 14:42, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/8/2012 6:38 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King There are no accidents in Platonia. There are also perfect parabolas, because Platonia is the realm of necessary logic, of pure reason and

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-11-08 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/11/8 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: it is still not clear who you refers to and that is why pronouns should not be used. If you refers to the

Re: Communicability

2012-11-08 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/8/2012 10:22 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi Roger, That is exactly my question! How does Platonism show the contingent to be necessary? As far as I have found, it cannot show necessity of the contingent. In the rush to define the perfect, all means to show the necessity of contingency

Re: Entanglement Makes Quantum Batteries Almost Perfect

2012-11-08 Thread meekerdb
'Transferring' energy isn't the same as doing something with it. 100% energy transfer is like saying you can transfer gasoline from a can to your car without spilling any of it. It's the conversion from photons to biomass that is inefficient. The following is a breakdown of the energetics of

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-11-08 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: By step 1 we already know that only the body of the Helsinki man can be said to be destroyed. With step one we know that the Helsinki man will survive, I agree, so all that's happened is that nobody is experiencing

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-11-08 Thread meekerdb
On 11/8/2012 9:44 AM, John Clark wrote: A correct prediction would have been W or M. No! If that or is the exclusive or then that would have been quite obviously a INCORRECT prediction. If you don't believe John Clark about this then just interview the parties after it's all over and

Re: Heraclitus gets his feet wet

2012-11-08 Thread meekerdb
On 11/8/2012 1:14 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2012/11/8 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net On 11/8/2012 1:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 07 Nov 2012, at 19:25, meekerdb wrote: On 11/7/2012 7:53 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: How can you be in two places at

Re: Communicability

2012-11-08 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/8/2012 10:22 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Nov 2012, at 14:45, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/8/2012 6:43 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi meekerdb So how does Platonia's perfect necessary classes restrain or contain this world of contingency ? Or does it ? Hi Roger, That is exactly my

Re: Life: origin, purpose, and qualia spectrum

2012-11-08 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/8/2012 12:02 PM, Hal Ruhl wrote: Hi Stephen: -Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Stephen P. King Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 6:56 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Life: origin,

Re: Leibniz's pre-composed harmonic orchestral performance

2012-11-08 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 05:59:15AM -0500, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Russell Standish Yes, the orchestra with the supreme monad as composer/conductor playing a pleasing orchestra composition (not 12-tone !) that he dug up out of his a priori files works fine. That is what is incompatible with

Re: Arithmetic doesn't even suggest geometry, let alone awareness.

2012-11-08 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 8:19:03 AM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Craig, Comp is not false, IMHO, it is just looked as through a very limited window. It's notion of truth is what occurs in the limit of an infinite number of mutually agreeing observers. 1+1=2 has no

Re: Arithmetic doesn't even suggest geometry, let alone awareness.

2012-11-08 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, November 8, 2012 2:57:35 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 07 Nov 2012, at 19:04, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 10:49:35 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 07 Nov 2012, at 13:42, Craig Weinberg wrote: Can anyone explain why

Re: Arithmetic doesn't even suggest geometry, let alone awareness.

2012-11-08 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/8/2012 7:42 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 8:19:03 AM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Craig, Comp is not false, IMHO, it is just looked as through a very limited window. It's notion of truth is what occurs in the limit

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-11-08 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:48 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Is this controversial? Calling it indeterminate when one thing divides and becomes two because there are now two things and not one is very controversial, especially if it's supposed to be so deep and profound that it

Re: Arithmetic doesn't even suggest geometry, let alone awareness.

2012-11-08 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: Can anyone explain why geometry/topology would exist in a comp universe? If numbers exist then so does geometry, that is to say numbers can be made to change in ways that exactly corresponds with the way objects move