Re: A profound lack of profundity (and soon "the starting point")
You folks want Profundity-If this is fact, it is, Profundity itself. A Japanese team came up with a super-duper quantum computing architecture, that looks to be able to eat the Protein Folding Problem, with pepper and salt. I don't feel this news is too good to be true. Needs much work, development, bottleneck fixing, progging, but, am guessing that you wanted a Singularity? Ya got a Singularity. https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/09/japanese-researchers-work-out-theoretical-universal-quantum-computer-that-could-scale-to-millions-of-qubits.html -Original Message- From: John ClarkTo: everything-list Sent: Mon, Sep 25, 2017 3:37 pm Subject: Re: A profound lack of profundity (and soon "the starting point") On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> The only identity criteria I remember agreeing to is " the Moscow man" means the man who saw Moscow . > You have agreed that the Moscow Man (like the Washington Man) is an honorable Helsinki Man survivor. I have agreed that the Helsinki Man is a proper subset of the Moscow man but the two are NOT equivalent, if they were it would be stupid to give them different names. I also said the Helsinki man survives because the Moscow man remembers being the Helsinki man and remembering is how I define "survival", but how you define survival I don't know. > Yes, the Helsinki man is in two places, Then what are we arguing about? > but the point is that he does not feel that way. Oh yes now I remember, we are arguing about the identity of the mysterious Mr. He. > nobody can feel to be in two places at once with computationalism That is not a sacred axiom of computationalism! The Moscow man and the Washington man could be merged back together and the resulting Moscow/Washington man would have vivid memories of being in both cities at exactly the same time, as well as having memories of being just the Helsinki man. In fact you could feel to be in 2 cities at the same time even without a people duplicating machine, just feed in detailed sensory data from Moscow and Washington back to the fellow in Helsinki. "I" is the usual indexical. You can duplicate it in the 3-1 picture, but not in the 1p view, viewed from that 1p view. Good old "the"! Misusing personal pronouns is not the only way to sweep illogical thinking under the rug, forgetting that there is a difference between the English articles "the" and "a" also does a good job at muddying the waters. >> All the copies were NOT asked the question yesterday back in Helsinki, > The prediction is asked to the Helsinki guy before the duplication. The copies are the Helsinki guy, Yes the copies are the Helsinki guy because they are everything the Helsinki man was, but the Helsinki guy was never everything the copies are, one is a proper subset of the other. Not all connections between things have the Equivalence Relation , equality does but "is grater than" does not, 4 is grater than 3 but 3 is not grater than 4. Personal identity also does not have the Equivalence Relation , the Moscow man is the Helsinki man but the Helsinki man is not the Moscow man. >> you ask "Which one will become the Moscow man?" and the answer of course is "the one the sees Moscow". > That does not help the Helsinki man, Well I could add that the one the sees Moscow will turn out to be the Moscow man. That's all the help I can give the Helsinki man because I don't understand what he is asking. > given that in helsinki he still doesn't know if he will feel to be being the M-man or not. That's right, "he" still doesn't know and "he" will NEVER know because nobody will ever know what "he" means in the above. > > Yes that's a trivial answer but then it was a trivial question, and at least it's true just like all tautologies. > But can be false when used to predict "moscow" in helsinki. So the Moscow man didn't see Moscow?! Well then who did see Moscow, the Washington man?? > Answer this before we proceed, please. Should the H-man expect or not to drink tea when tea is promised to be given to both copies? I still don't understand why you're more interested in expectations than reality but if you insist in a answer I will give you one. N o, he should not expect to get tea he should expect the promise to be broken and it would be better if he expected to end up in Santa Claus's workshop instead. Why should he expect that? Because he will happier if he does, Santa Claus's workshop sounds like more fun than drinking tea. Of course expectations need not turn out to be correct to bring happiness John K Clark --
Re: A profound lack of profundity (and soon "the starting point")
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 1:51 PM, John Clarkwrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Terren Suydam > wrote: > > > >> Then we agree that expectations are important, since the wrong ones can >> kill us. >> > > > Forget important, expectations are not even meaningful in thought > experiments involving people duplicating machines if > > it is not clearly stated what is being expected. > You're arguing against things I haven't said. To be frank, I tuned out of the John Clark/Bruno Marchal wars sometime last year... after a few dozen times around that carousel I wanted off. So don't assume I'm going to say something Bruno is saying. I do expect (ahem) to be able to clearly state was is being expected in the thought experiment, without requiring personal pronouns. But before we continue, I need to be sure we agree that from your first-person perspective, when it comes to making decisions based on some future state, you only have the contents of your mind to work with. Your mental model, your worldview, pick whatever language you like, it's what gives you a sense of what to expect, and therefore the only basis one has for placing bets. Do you disagree? Terren -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: A profound lack of profundity (and soon "the starting point")
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Bruno Marchalwrote: >> >> The only >> >> identity criteria >> >> I remember agreeing to is >> " >> the Moscow man" means the man who saw Moscow >> . >> > > > > You have agreed that the Moscow Man (like the Washington Man) is an > honorable Helsinki Man survivor. > I have agreed that the Helsinki Man is a proper subset of the Moscow man but the two are NOT equivalent, if they were it would be stupid to give them different names. I also said the Helsinki man survives because the Moscow man remembers being the Helsinki man and remembering is how I define "survival", but how you define survival I don't know. > > > Yes, the Helsinki man is in two places, > Then what are we arguing about? > > > but the point is that he does not feel that way. > Oh yes now I remember, we are arguing about the identity of the mysterious Mr. He. > > > nobody can feel to be in two places at once with computationalism > That is not a sacred axiom of computationalism! The Moscow man and the Washington man could be merged back together and the resulting Moscow/Washington man would have vivid memories of being in both cities at exactly the same time, as well as having memories of being just the Helsinki man. In fact you could feel to be in 2 cities at the same time even without a people duplicating machine, just feed in detailed sensory data from Moscow and Washington back to the fellow in Helsinki. "I" is the usual indexical. You can duplicate it in the 3-1 picture, but > not in the 1p view, viewed from that 1p view. > Good old "the"! Misusing personal pronouns is not the only way to sweep illogical thinking under the rug, forgetting that there is a difference between the English articles "the" and "a" also does a good job at muddying the waters. >> >> >> All the copies were NOT asked the question yesterday back in Helsinki, > > > > > The prediction is asked to the Helsinki guy before the duplication. The > copies are the Helsinki guy, > Yes the copies are the Helsinki guy because they are everything the Helsinki man was, but the Helsinki guy was never everything the copies are, one is a proper subset of the other. Not all connections between things have the Equivalence Relation , equality does but "is grater than" does not, 4 is grater than 3 but 3 is not grater than 4. Personal identity also does not have the Equivalence Relation , the Moscow man is the Helsinki man but the Helsinki man is not the Moscow man. >> >> >> you ask "Which one will become the Moscow man?" and the answer of course >> is "the one the sees Moscow". > > > > > That does not help the Helsinki man, > Well I could add that the one the sees Moscow will turn out to be the Moscow man. That's all the help I can give the Helsinki man because I don't understand what he is asking. > > > given that in helsinki he still doesn't know if he will feel to be being > the M-man or not. > That's right, "he" still doesn't know and "he" will NEVER know because nobody will ever know what "he" means in the above. > > >> > >> Yes that's a trivial answer but then it was a trivial question, and at >> least it's true just like all tautologies. > > > > But can be false when used to predict "moscow" in helsinki. > So the Moscow man didn't see Moscow?! Well then who did see Moscow, the Washington man?? > > Answer this before we proceed, please. Should the H-man expect or not to > drink tea when tea is promised to be given to both copies? I still don't understand why you're more interested in expectations than reality but if you insist in a answer I will give you one. N o, he should not expect to get tea he should expect the promise to be broken and it would be better if he expected to end up in Santa Claus's workshop instead. Why should he expect that? Because he will happier if he does, Santa Claus's workshop sounds like more fun than drinking tea. Of course expectations need not turn out to be correct to bring happiness John K Clark > > > >> >>> > >> > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Andrei Linde on consciousness
Great analogy... The degrees of freedom of consciousness which constitute gravity and all the thermostats of space time which in turn gives the relativity of observation and quantum mechanics. If everything emerged from it we can actually solve the problem. If it is emergent, then! On 25-Sep-2017 8:06 PM, "David Nyman"wrote: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc89m2SaOAc=youtu.be > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: A profound lack of profundity (and soon "the starting point")
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Terren Suydamwrote: > > Then we agree that expectations are important, since the wrong ones can > kill us. > Forget important, expectations are not even meaningful in thought experiments involving people duplicating machines if it is not clearly stated what is being expected. And if there is no way to tell if the prediction made before the duplication turned out to be correct or not even AFTER the duplication is completed because of the frequent use of personal pronouns in a world that contains personal pronoun duplicating machines then the entire exercise is useless. Bruno says there is a thing that can't be predicted because of something he calls first person indeterminacy, but he is unable to say exactly what it is that can't be predicted, but maybe you can do what Bruno can't. Nobody can give a answer if there is no question so precisely what is it that Terren Suydam challenges John Clark to predict and claims can't be done? But please don't do what Bruno does and start talking about "*THE* 1p" without specifying which "*THE *1p" is being referred to because remember, there are "*THE* 1p" duplicating machines on every street corner in this thought experiment. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Andrei Linde on consciousness
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Re: A profound lack of profundity (and soon "the starting point")
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 1:54 PM, John Clarkwrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 6:20 PM, Terren Suydam > wrote: > > >> >>> My expectation is after I enter the duplicator >>> is >>> I will be in Santa Claus's workshop >>> >> >> > >> On what basis would you expect that? >> > > Freud > > would say it's because I had bad potty training when I was a > n > infant > , but > who know > s and > who > cares what > caused > me to expect that > ; > whatever the cause > the fact remains I > do > expect to be in > > Santa Claus's workshop > , I may be wrong but that's what I expect. But How anybody's expectations > have any relevance to the computational theory of mind is a utter mystery > to me. > > >> >> Even if you ask "what one and only one city will I be in?", your answer >> is a reflection of what you *expect* to happen. >> > > Who cares what I expect!!! What anybody expects to happen is irrelevant, > what does happen is not. > > > >> Almost every choice we make can be traced to an expectation of one kind >> or another. We live and die by expectations. >> > > And very ofter we make bad choices because our expectations turn out to > be dead wrong. > > Then we agree that expectations are important, since the wrong ones can kill us. Even more so, because when it comes to making decisions about the future, expectations are *all we have*. So for any theory of mind, computational or otherwise, understanding how we come to expect or predict what the world is going to do, is clearly of great importance. Terren -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Infinities
On 24 Sep 2017, at 21:02, smitra wrote: On 23-09-2017 10:34, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Sep 2017, at 13:47, David Nyman wrote: https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-measure-infinities-find-theyre-equal-20170912/ [1] A rare progress on the continuum hypothesis (CH). Shelah is amazingly smart. There is that story that he arrived one week to early at a congress of logic, and decided to follow a congress on group theory instead, and depressed everybody by solving most open problems of that congress! His first question was "what is a group?", and people taught he was retarted! Now, this does not necessarily concern us. I think. Even ZF and ZF+Choice proves the same theorems in arithmetic. That is probably not the case for ZF and ZF + CH, but the comp ontology will not change. For the phenomenology, that might change something though, making the measure problem more easy or more difficult. We are not yet enough advanced on this to decide, i think. model theory and set theory are *quite* complex compared to arithmetic! Bruno Everything in physics suggests that infinities don't actually exists, so perhaps more progress can be made if you use a finitistic logics system. That is the case for computationalism. It belongs to finitism. You can interpret all the infinities which appears at the phenomenological level as machine's inventions to study the finite realm. That is what I do actually in the math treatment. In fact, contrary to what I have thought some years ago, it even admits an ultrafinist reading, although you need again some infinities at the meta-level to prove this. Computationalism is consistent with "there is a highest natural number". But no need of this to proceed, unless we met a genuine ultra-finitist (that is very rare!). Note that you cannot invoke a God or a Physical Universe to decide what exists or not, or you beg the (metaphysical) question. Someone could say that everything in physics suggest that there is no physical reality existing per se, but only statistically interfering computations "seen from inside". Look how quick people like Bohr and Heisenberg were to abandon realism in physics. Fortunately Einstein and Everett were not that quick, and computationalism go in that same direction. Bruno Saibal -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list [2]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout [3]. Links: -- [1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-measure-infinities-find-theyre-equal-20170912/ [2] https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list [3] https://groups.google.com/d/optout [4] http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Infinities
On 25 Sep 2017, at 02:01, Russell Standish wrote: On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 10:34:14AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: Now, this does not necessarily concern us. I think. Even ZF and ZF +Choice proves the same theorems in arithmetic. That is probably not the case for ZF and ZF + CH, but the comp ontology will not change. For the phenomenology, that might change something though, making the measure problem more easy or more difficult. We are not yet enough advanced on this to decide, i think. model theory and set theory are *quite* complex compared to arithmetic! If comp ontology does not depend on CH (seems plausible), but there is an effect of phenomenology, then so much the worse for comp. Comp predicts that phenomenology is purely derivable from comp. The existence of the phenomenology is derivable. Then it happens that its propositional part is entirely derivable, due to Solovay arithmetical completeness of G and G*. But the first order part can be shown being highly undecidable and incomplete. For a theology, the contrary would have been embarrassing. However, I tend to agree with Saibal that things like the CH will prove irrelevant to phenomenology. I agree for CH, which has no application at all (but of course: who knows?, and Kiesler' work might change this, although I am not sure). It is a different matter for the axiom of choice (needed for having a base in all Hilbert spaces, for example). Anyway: the phenomenology, and the ONE have a complexity which is unboundable from "inside arithmetic". With Mechanism, all theories of mind are incomplete, and cannot be completed effectively. Bruno -- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: A profound lack of profundity (and soon "the starting point")
On 24 Sep 2017, at 20:02, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 4:13 AM, Bruno Marchalwrote: >> We agreed that "the Moscow man" means the man who saw Moscow, but yesterday nobody saw Moscow. > That contradicts the identity criteria on which we have agreed. What agreed on identity criteria does that violate? The only identity criteria I remember agreeing to is "the Moscow man" means the man who saw Moscow. You have agreed that the Moscow Man (like the Washington Man) is an honorable Helsinki Man survivor. The Moscow man is the Helsinki man, like the Washington Man is the Helsinki Man. Yes, the Helsinki man is in two places, but the point is that he does not feel that way. In both places, he feels like being in only once city, as nobody can feel to be in two places at once with computationalism and that protocol. > The answer is simply: I expect [...] Simple indeed if one refuses to consider just what "I" means and what the consequences of stepping into a "I" duplicating machine would be, but not simple in a good way. "I" is the usual indexical. You can duplicate it in the 3-1 picture, but not in the 1p view, viewed from that 1p view. > to find myself either in M or in W. And it is so much simpler not to think about just what "myself" means with regards to the future. Not thinking is easier than thinking. Yes, it is simpler to not answer the question asked, if the goal is to not understand the conclusion of the reasoning. >> and which THE first person experience are you talking about? > All the unicity experience of all copies. If its all of them why do you express surprise and claim that all sorts of deep philosophical consequences can be drawn from the fact that one and only one answer is insufficient to describe the fate of several different things. How could it be otherwise? > I remind you the criteria: all copies must confirms the prediction rule in the finite duplication, All the copies were NOT asked the question yesterday back in Helsinki, The prediction is asked to the Helsinki guy before the duplication. The copies are the Helsinki guy, so they were asked too, as confirmed in all the diaries and personal memories. When the M-man open his diary in Moscow, he saw and remember his prediction written in the diary. only Bruno Marchal was asked the question yesterday back in Helsinki; and we know today that Bruno Marchal ended up seeing both cities. ... only in the 3-1p view. Nobody ends up seeing two cities from the 1p view. Yes yes I know what you will say "you confuse the 1p and the 3p" but you are the one who is confused, it is you who hasn't thought deeply about what a people duplicating machine really means. If the body of Bruno Marchal is duplicated there will still be only one conscious entity if the two of them are in identical environments, it is only when the environments differs, such as being in different cities, that the two start to form different memories and become different conscious beings. But you ask "Which one will become the Moscow man?" and the answer of course is "the one the sees Moscow". That does not help the Helsinki man, given that in helsinki he still doesn't know if he will feel to be being the M-man or not. Yes that's a trivial answer but then it was a trivial question, and at least it's true just like all tautologies. But can be false when used to predict "moscow" in helsinki. > "THE" is used, because all those experience are incompatible from the first pov. Which THE first pov is "THE" incompatible with? Both are incompatible with the view of their corresponding doppleganger. >> THE first person experience of the Helsinki man today? THE first person experience of the Helsinki man tomorrow? > Yes, that one. That has been said since the start. That one? Which one? You quoted two. Because both lives the unique experience of being in a unique city. Each time you ask "which one lives the experience of seeing *the* city", the answer is always the same: both, but only one from their first person point of view. Indeed, that is the reason why in Helsinki only "W v M" is correct. Which first person experience Is Mr. You, which ONE is different from all the others and uniquely deserves the noble title of "THE"? > All of them deserves the title of "THE" And that is why your notation has the precision of a dogs breakfast. Only because you subtract the key ingredient: the distinction between 1p and 3p. >> We had agreed that "the Moscow man" means the man who saw Moscow, but yesterday nobody saw Moscow so obviously yesterday the Moscow man DID NOT EXIST. > That contradicts the identity criterion. The identity criterion, what a joke! If "The Moscow man" no longer means the man who saw