Re: Any human who has played a bit of Arimaa can beat a computer hands down.

2013-03-28 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 1:03:27 PM UTC-4, telmo_menezes wrote: Hi Craig, On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comwrote: From the Quora http://www.quora.com/Board-**

Re: Any human who has played a bit of Arimaa can beat a computer hands down.

2013-03-28 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, March 28, 2013 5:52:04 AM UTC-4, telmo_menezes wrote: On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 1:03:27 PM UTC-4, telmo_menezes wrote: Hi Craig, On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Craig Weinberg

Re: Any human who has played a bit of Arimaa can beat a computer hands down.

2013-03-28 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 9:32:46 PM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: From the Quora http://www.quora.com/Board-Games/What-are-some-fun-games-to-play-on-an-8x8-Checkerboard-besides-chess-checkers This is

Re: Losing Control

2013-03-28 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: If the right atoms are placed in the right configuration then life or consciousness occurs. You don't know that, you just assume it. It's like saying that if the right cars are placed in the right configuration

Re: 'Brain Waves' Challenge Area-Specific View of Brain Activity

2013-03-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 26 Mar 2013, at 18:19, meekerdb wrote: On 3/26/2013 4:21 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I can explain why if a machine can have experience and enough reflexivity, then the machine can already understand that she cannot justify rationally the presence of its experience. No machine, nor us,

Re: 'Brain Waves' Challenge Area-Specific View of Brain Activity

2013-03-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 26 Mar 2013, at 18:33, meekerdb wrote: On 3/26/2013 7:13 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: It is a bit what happens, please study the theory. Qualia are useful to accelerate information processing, and the integration of that processing in a person. And they are unavoidable for machines in

Re: 'Brain Waves' Challenge Area-Specific View of Brain Activity

2013-03-28 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 26 Mar 2013, at 18:19, meekerdb wrote: On 3/26/2013 4:21 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I can explain why if a machine can have experience and enough reflexivity, then the machine can already understand that she cannot

Re: 'Brain Waves' Challenge Area-Specific View of Brain Activity

2013-03-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Mar 2013, at 16:08, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 26 Mar 2013, at 18:19, meekerdb wrote: On 3/26/2013 4:21 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I can explain why if a machine can have experience and enough reflexivity, then

Re: 'Brain Waves' Challenge Area-Specific View of Brain Activity

2013-03-28 Thread meekerdb
On 3/28/2013 7:52 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Intelligence, in my opinion is rather easy too. It is a question of abstract thermodynamic, intelligence is when you get enough heat while young, something like that. It is close to courage, and it is what make competence possible. ?? Competence

Re: 'Brain Waves' Challenge Area-Specific View of Brain Activity

2013-03-28 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 28 Mar 2013, at 16:08, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 26 Mar 2013, at 18:19, meekerdb wrote: On 3/26/2013 4:21 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I can

Re: Free-Will discussion

2013-03-28 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, March 28, 2013 5:26:23 PM UTC-4, JohnM wrote: Stathis wrote: *I also have a very simple and straightforward idea of free will: I exercise my free will when I make a choice without being coerced* * * And how do you know that you are *not* coerced? your mind works on both

Re: My estimation of Daniel Dennett continues to improve

2013-03-28 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:55 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I exercise my free will when I make a choice without being coerced. If you alter your path to avoid walking face first into a brick wall has the wall coerced you to do so, or more precisely have the photons that entered