Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Feb 2014, at 18:51, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 12:46:40 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Feb 2014, at 17:18, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 18/02/2014, David Nyman da...@davidnyman.com wrote: I think if I say consciousness is an epiphenomenon of

Re: Wikipedia-size maths proof too big for humans to check

2014-02-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Feb 2014, at 19:13, Telmo Menezes wrote: If no human can check a proof of a theorem, does it really count as mathematics? That's the intriguing question raised by the latest computer-assisted proof. It is as large as the entire content of Wikipedia, making it unlikely that will ever

Re: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Feb 2014, at 19:36, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: Be consistent reject MWI on the same ground... don't bother adding the argument that you can't meet your doppelganger, So you want me to defend my case but

Re: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Feb 2014, at 20:53, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-19 19:36 GMT+01:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: Be consistent reject MWI on the same ground... don't bother adding the argument that you can't meet

Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-02-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Feb 2014, at 21:53, John Mikes wrote: Another silly question: Bruno and List: how on Earth can we talk aboput TOE? (unless we restrict it to the presently knowable inventory of physically identified E). Why should we restrict ourselves to the knowable inventory of physically

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Feb 2014, at 22:50, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Thursday, February 20, 2014, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 19 Feb 2014, at 17:18, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 18/02/2014, David Nyman da...@davidnyman.com wrote: I think if I say consciousness is an epiphenomenon

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Feb 2014, at 05:06, meekerdb wrote: On 2/18/2014 7:10 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 02:34:57PM +1300, LizR wrote: On 19/02/2014, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Which ones? How can unobserved facts exist? You can observe their consequences without

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Feb 2014, at 06:59, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 08:53:23PM -0800, meekerdb wrote: On 2/19/2014 8:44 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 08:06:31PM -0800, meekerdb wrote: I think we're talking past one another. You're talking about ontology as the

Re: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Feb 2014, at 02:57, chris peck wrote: Hi Quentin They don't pose problem in this experiment and in the question asked. So I'll try one last time, and will try à la Jesse, with simple yes/no questions and explanation from your part. So I will first describe the setup and will

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-20 Thread David Nyman
On 20 February 2014 09:58, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 20 Feb 2014, at 05:06, meekerdb wrote: On 2/18/2014 7:10 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 02:34:57PM +1300, LizR wrote: On 19/02/2014, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Which ones? How

Re: MODAL 5 (was Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Liz, On 20 Feb 2014, at 08:49, LizR wrote: On 19 February 2014 23:00, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Liz, Others, I was waiting for you to answer the last questions to proceed. Any problem? Well, nothing apart from going on a mini holiday with an old friend for the last 4

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Feb 2014, at 11:55, David Nyman wrote: On 20 February 2014 09:58, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 20 Feb 2014, at 05:06, meekerdb wrote: On 2/18/2014 7:10 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 02:34:57PM +1300, LizR wrote: On 19/02/2014, Russell Standish

Re: Wikipedia-size maths proof too big for humans to check

2014-02-20 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: But is it possible to write program checking the proof (not finding it) ? I guess it must be, because a proof, is just following rules... so it should be possible to devise two independent different proof checker... if

Re: Wikipedia-size maths proof too big for humans to check

2014-02-20 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 19 Feb 2014, at 19:13, Telmo Menezes wrote: If no human can check a proof of a theorem, does it really count as mathematics? That's the intriguing question raised by the latest computer-assisted proof. It is as large

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-20 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, More notes from the asylum? What is your mouth for LIz? If you claim it's not for communicating with external reality perhaps it needn't be wagged so much? Edgar On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 10:21:16 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 20 February 2014 08:31, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net

The Road to MSR: Philosophy of Mind Flowchart

2014-02-20 Thread Craig Weinberg
http://multisenserealism.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/flowchartfinal.jpg http://multisenserealism.com/2014/02/20/philosophy-of-mind-flowchart/ The idea here is that if we want to take the full spectrum of phenomena into account, we have to either begin with a reductionist realism and work

Re: Cool Cuttlefish footage

2014-02-20 Thread ghibbsa
On Thursday, February 20, 2014 9:00:25 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Feb 2014, at 19:54, ghi...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 4:42:57 PM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 18 Feb 2014, at 23:53, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, February 16, 2014

Re: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-20 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I can say today that I am the guy having answered your post of last week. But if duplicating chambers exist then there are lots of people who could say exactly the same thing, so more specificity is needed. and

RE: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-02-20 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 7:15 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating On 20 February 2014 00:20,

Re: Wikipedia-size maths proof too big for humans to check

2014-02-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Telmo, On 20 Feb 2014, at 13:40, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 19 Feb 2014, at 19:13, Telmo Menezes wrote: If no human can check a proof of a theorem, does it really count as mathematics? That's the intriguing

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-20 Thread meekerdb
On 2/20/2014 1:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 20 Feb 2014, at 05:06, meekerdb wrote: On 2/18/2014 7:10 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 02:34:57PM +1300, LizR wrote: On 19/02/2014, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Which ones? How can unobserved facts exist?

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Feb 2014, at 14:36, David Nyman wrote: On 20 February 2014 11:50, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 20 Feb 2014, at 11:55, David Nyman wrote: snip I think we're talking past one another. You're talking about ontology as the ur-stuff that's really real. I'm talking about

Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-02-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi ghibbsa, On 20 Feb 2014, at 16:19, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, February 20, 2014 2:59:50 PM UTC, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bruno, You've said somewhere in this thread that by logic comp cannot be incomplete because it's a religious position. Hmm... OK. No doubt

Re: Cool Cuttlefish footage

2014-02-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Feb 2014, at 16:58, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, February 20, 2014 9:00:25 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Feb 2014, at 19:54, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 4:42:57 PM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 18 Feb 2014, at 23:53, ghi...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Feb 2014, at 16:59, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I can say today that I am the guy having answered your post of last week. But if duplicating chambers exist then there are lots of people who could say exactly the

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-20 Thread LizR
On 21 February 2014 02:13, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, More notes from the asylum? What is your mouth for LIz? If you claim it's not for communicating with external reality perhaps it needn't be wagged so much? I see you're still being rude, unpleasant and stupid. OK, I

Re: MODAL 5 (was Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-20 Thread LizR
On 21 February 2014 00:06, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Thanks for telling me, so that I avoid any paranoia, like did I say something impolite or what Never that! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To

RE: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-20 Thread chris peck
Hi Liz Suppose for the sake of argument that the matter transmitter sends you to another solar system where you will live out the reminder of your life. Maybe you committed some crime and this is the consequence, to be transported :) A malfunction causes you to be duplicated and sent to both

RE: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-20 Thread chris peck
Hi Bruno By and large you didn't get my response to Quentin and largely the comments you made didn't actually address the comments I was making, or the questions I was asking Quentin. It seems more as if you were addressing comments you hoped I was making but didn't. With respect then I've

Re: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-20 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 03:48:43AM +, chris peck wrote: My probabilities get assigned in the same way. ie: chance of seeing solar system A is 1. I can't assign a probability of seeing Solar System B if I don't know about the possibility of accidents. But, If I know that there is a

Re: How does acceleration curve space? Can anyone provide an answer?

2014-02-20 Thread meekerdb
On 2/19/2014 10:09 AM, Jesse Mazer wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:42 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com mailto:johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: There is no sense in which an observer in an accelerating elevator in the flat spacetime of special relativity could correctly

RE: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-20 Thread chris peck
Hi Russel This contradicts Kolmogorov's 4th axiom of probability, namely that the probability of the certain event = 1. Yes it does doesnt it. But thats ok. Im not convinced Kolmogorov had MWI in view when he dreamt up his axioms and Im too green behind the ears vis a vis probability axioms

Re: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Feb 2014, at 05:36, chris peck wrote: Hi Bruno By and large you didn't get my response to Quentin and largely the comments you made didn't actually address the comments I was making, or the questions I was asking Quentin. It seems more as if you were addressing comments you hoped

Re: MODAL 5 (was Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Feb 2014, at 00:30, LizR wrote: On 21 February 2014 00:06, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Thanks for telling me, so that I avoid any paranoia, like did I say something impolite or what Never that! OK, thanks. Best, Bruno -- You received this message because you

Re: 3-1 views (was: Re: Better Than the Chinese Room)

2014-02-20 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Ok, then you simply reject probability usage in both scenario... then you're consistent unlike John... but if you reject such usage, that's throwing an axe on MWI explanation... then I can't see how you could still agree with many world interpretation and reject probability, that's not