On Sunday, 20 September 2015, Brian Tenneson wrote:
> I wonder what would happen to someone's mind if they were born in a white
> (or any color) isolation tank. What would happen as years wore on? Would
> the person ever hallucinate anything? It has only seen the tank for his
> whole life. So wha
If you raise kittens in complete darkness for a few weeks they never
develop vision. I don't think people who are born blind hallucinate
visions. Those are couple of data points. I suspect that if a person
were to grow up without any sensory input, or extremely impoverished
ones, they would
On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at Bruno Marchal wrote:
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> Yes, arithmetic can simulates a Turing machine,
>
Arithmetic can't simulate anything unless it has access to something
physical like a biological brain or a electronic microprocessor.
> >
> But a primary physical reality, well I have
Hi Brian,
That's an interesting question. My take is this: I think trying to
understand that experience is like trying to understand what it feels like
to be an amoeba. It's just too alien.
We have some clues. For example, it is known that if children don't learn a
language until a certain age, t
I wonder what would happen to someone's mind if they were born in a white
(or any color) isolation tank. What would happen as years wore on? Would
the person ever hallucinate anything? It has only seen the tank for his
whole life. So what would inspire him to hallucinate something? Can he
hallucina
On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 Bruno Marchal wrote:
>> >>
>> You need to know how generic atoms should be placed in relation to other
>> generic atoms.
>
>
>
> That is a low level,
>
Yes a very low level, probably much lower than necessary; the molecular
level would be more than enough, maybe
Brent, you wrote:
*...You also need such an organization to say who owns what and who has
violated a contract and who has committed murder and who has committed
fraud, etc.Brent...*
would you please write your OWN* Bible*? a* "Noch Nie Dagewesene"*? (one
that so far never existed here-around)
JM
On 20 Sep 2015, at 03:17, John Clark wrote:
On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 , Bruno Marchal wrote:
>> Theorems don't make calculations, physical microprocessor
chips do.
> Physical computer are implementation, in the math sense, of
turing universality by physical devices.
What makes you s
On 19 Sep 2015, at 19:41, John Clark wrote:
On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 Bruno Marchal wrote:
> You need an infinitely expanding brain to live an eternity,
if not, you will cycle.
To prevent cycling a mind wouldn't need to be infinite just
unlimited, whenever you start to run low you just a
On 19 Sep 2015, at 21:16, John Mikes wrote:
Bruno,
even before (your?) prohibition-S there was some capitalistic system
in the US,
leading to inequality and injustice in the economical status of the
population.
I am not talking Marxism.
The diverse prohibition-S (and other installments) j
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