How does complex behavior spontaneously emerge in the brain?
http://phys.org/news/2013-08-complex-behavior-spontaneously-emerge-brain.html
Quoting from article: In a new study published in Nature Physics, a team of
researchers from Spain has shown that emergence in neuronal networks can be
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From: John Clark
To: everything-list@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Chris de Morsella
wrote:
> I say quite clearly that and I repeat
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote:
> > I say quite clearly that and I repeat -- I am not interested in nor do
> I much care whether humans are superior or inferior to computers. Take me
> at my word when I say I don’t really care one way or the other, that this
> horse race
John -- Not interested in placing any more wear and tear on your brain.
Either we discuss or we don't. I was correcting your mischaracterization of
two democratically elected and popular leaders who were overthrown in bloody
CIA backed coups and replaced by fascist dictators (one of whom had dynast
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote:
> >> And yes half a century ago the CIA over through some 2 bit leaders in
>> Chile and Iran, big deal.
>>
> > John you are either grossly ignorant of history, or squeeze it like
> toothpaste through the aperture of your ideological point o
A professional ass who goes by the pseudonym because
he's understandably too embarrassed to give his real name wrote:
> Agree or disagree with me, but it's something that can be debated.
>
Dear Mr. Ass
I'm a bit confused by your use of the word "debated". In your previous post
you proved your
Hi Roger
Just persevere. It took ages before he listened to me regarding black holes.
All the best.
> From: rclo...@verizon.net
> To: spudboy...@aol.com; everything-list@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: Re: Leibniz's two types of existence based on the two types of
> logic
> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 20
Hi spudboy100
Yes, but Penrose ignores all of my attempts to help him, if that's the right
word.
Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000]
See my Leibniz site at
http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough
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On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 06:26:36AM -0400, Richard Ruquist wrote:
> It should be mentioned that final causation requires downward causation to
> be operative.
Why?
The principle of least action in Lagrangian dynamics is an apparent
final causation, but no downward causation is in play, as there ar
It should be mentioned that final causation requires downward causation to
be operative.
See George Ellis for examples of downward causation at the human level.
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1212/1212.2275.pdf
Recognising Top-Down Causation
George Ellis, University of Cape Town
Abstract: One
Leibniz's final causation as the Self, the active agent of change
So far, materialistic models of the mind, such as Dennett's,
are essentially passive. There is no internal active agent of change,
which one might call the Self.
The internal active agent of change is desire, which we might
de
Leibniz's final causation as the Self, the active agent of change
So far, materialistic models of the mind, such as Dennett's,
are essentially passive. There is no internal active agent of change,
which one might call the Self.
The internal active agent of change is desire, which we might
de
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