Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?
On 2/10/2019 10:47 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 04:24:40PM -0800, Brent Meeker wrote:
On 2/10/2019 3:34 PM, Philip Thrift wrote:
9. Consciousness began when human culture became advanced, around 3000
years ago (Julian Jaynes).
The date more usually given is 40,000 years bp. There was an explosion
of advanced culture that occurred at that time. Steven Pinker promotes
this idea ("the brain's big bang") IIRC.
As I recall, Jaynes put it at the beginning of trade between tribes.
Because when you're bargaining you have to keep your thoughts to
yourself and learn to lie.
Brent
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Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?
On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 04:24:40PM -0800, Brent Meeker wrote:
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> On 2/10/2019 3:34 PM, Philip Thrift wrote:
> > 9. Consciousness began when human culture became advanced, around 3000
> > years ago (Julian Jaynes).
The date more usually given is 40,000 years bp. There was an explosion
of advanced culture that occurred at that time. Steven Pinker promotes
this idea ("the brain's big bang") IIRC.
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Re: Coherent states of a superposition
On Tuesday, February 5, 2019 at 8:43:59 PM UTC, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Monday, February 4, 2019 at 8:56:57 AM UTC-7, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 3 Feb 2019, at 00:03, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Saturday, February 2, 2019 at 2:59:30 PM UTC-7, agrays...@gmail.com >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Saturday, February 2, 2019 at 1:40:29 AM UTC-7, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 1 Feb 2019, at 21:29, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, February 1, 2019 at 5:55:30 AM UTC-7, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 31 Jan 2019, at 21:10, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 6:47:12 AM UTC-7, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 31 Jan 2019, at 01:28, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, January 30, 2019 at 2:38:58 PM UTC-7, agrays...@ >> gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, January 30, 2019 at 5:16:05 AM UTC-7, Bruno Marchal >>> wrote: On 30 Jan 2019, at 02:59, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, January 29, 2019 at 4:37:34 AM UTC-7, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 28 Jan 2019, at 22:50, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Friday, January 25, 2019 at 7:33:05 AM UTC-7, Bruno Marchal > wrote: >> >> >> On 24 Jan 2019, at 09:29, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sunday, January 20, 2019 at 11:54:43 AM UTC, agrays...@ >> gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sunday, January 20, 2019 at 9:56:17 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal >>> wrote: On 18 Jan 2019, at 18:50, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, January 18, 2019 at 12:09:58 PM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 17 Jan 2019, at 14:48, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Thursday, January 17, 2019 at 12:36:07 PM UTC, Bruno > Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 17 Jan 2019, at 09:33, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thursday, January 17, 2019 at 3:58:48 AM UTC, Brent wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 1/16/2019 7:25 PM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Monday, January 14, 2019 at 6:12:43 AM UTC, Brent wrote: On 1/13/2019 9:51 PM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: This means, to me, that the arbitrary phase angles have absolutely no effect on the resultant interference pattern which is observed. But isn't this what the phase angles are supposed to effect? AG The screen pattern is determined by *relative phase angles for the different paths that reach the same point on the screen*. The relative angles only depend on different path lengths, so the overall phase angle is irrelevant. Brent >>> >>> >>> *Sure, except there areTWO forms of phase interference in >>> Wave Mechanics; the one you refer to above, and another >>> discussed in the >>> Stackexchange links I previously posted. In the latter case, >>> the wf is >>> expressed as a superposition, say of two states, where we >>> consider two >>> cases; a multiplicative complex phase shift is included prior >>> to the sum, >>> and different complex phase shifts multiplying each component, >>> all of the >>> form e^i (theta). Easy to show that interference exists in the >>> latter case, >>> but not the former. Now suppose we take the inner product of >>> the wf with >>> the ith eigenstate of the superposition, in order to calculate >>> the >>> probability of measuring the eigenvalue of the ith eigenstate, >>> applying one >>> of the postulates of QM, keeping in mind that each eigenstate >>> is multiplied >>> by a DIFFERENT complex phase shift. If we further assume the >>> eigenstates >>> are mutually orthogonal, the probability of measuring each >>> eigenvalue does >>> NOT depend on the different phase shifts. What ha
Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?
On 2/10/2019 4:42 PM, Lawrence Crowell wrote: I do not hold to the idea of panpsychism and the existence of God is something that can be dismissed with no loss of understanding of reality. It is harder to know about consciousness in living things. I hesitate in some ways to think that prokaryotes are conscious in the way we are, just greatly diminished. My dogs are conscious beings I am pretty convinced, but I think their mental landscape is smaller than that of a human. So somewhere in that spectrum consciousness may emerge. Plants may have some form of consciousness, and they do signal and appear to have some level of awareness of their surroundings. I find the case of octopuses to be especially interesting because they are: (1) Quite smart. They engage in play. They recognize individual humans. They are curious. (2) They are very different. An octopus has about 500 million neurons, compared to 700 million in your dog. But in the octopus 2/3 of the neurons are in the arms, which show a lot autonomous responses even when cut off. (3) They are not social (although cuttlefish are). They are short lived. After a female matures she mates and lays a clutch of eggs which she then guards without eating until they hatch, and then she dies. They evolved about 100 mya, probably in a kind of predator/prey arms race. They obviously have a sense of spatial relations similar to ours. They don't have color vision, but they manage to do color camouflage. Brent -- 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: When Did Consciousness Begin?
I do not hold to the idea of panpsychism and the existence of God is something that can be dismissed with no loss of understanding of reality. It is harder to know about consciousness in living things. I hesitate in some ways to think that prokaryotes are conscious in the way we are, just greatly diminished. My dogs are conscious beings I am pretty convinced, but I think their mental landscape is smaller than that of a human. So somewhere in that spectrum consciousness may emerge. Plants may have some form of consciousness, and they do signal and appear to have some level of awareness of their surroundings. Consciousness is in a way a sort of bootstrap process where a being generates an internal representation of themselves and themselves in this world. It is then a sort of virtual process, and one where there being encodes a representation of themselves within themselves. I think it has some form of truncated self-reference such as Gödel's theorem. It might serve to give an estimate on say Chaitin's halting probability so the being is able to take a risk. This may be extended in part to all sort of complex self-adaptive systems, in particular biological organisms. LC On Sunday, February 10, 2019 at 5:34:01 PM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > Two recent books: > > The First Minds: Caterpillars, Karyotes, and Consciousness > Arthur S. Reber > https://books.google.com/books/about/The_First_Minds.html?id=RBLEugEACAAJ > > Brain-Mind: From Neurons to Consciousness and Creativity > Paul Thagard > https://books.google.com/books/about/Brain_Mind.html?id=jJjHvAEACAAJ > > via > When Did Consciousness Begin? > Paul Thagard > > https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/hot-thought/201901/when-did-consciousness-begin > > Thagard's 10 hypotheses: > > 1. Consciousness has always existed, because God is conscious and eternal. > > 2. Consciousness began when the universe formed, around 13.7 billion years > ago. > > 3. Consciousness began with single-celled life, around 3.7 billion years > ago (Reber). > > 4. Consciousness began with multicellular plants, around 850 million years > ago. > > 5. Consciousness began when animals such as jellyfish got thousands of > neurons, around 580 million years ago. > > 6. Consciousness began when insects and fish developed larger brains with > about a million neurons (honeybees) or 10 million neurons (zebrafish) > around 560 million years ago. > > 7. Consciousness began when animals such as birds and mammals developed > much larger brains with hundreds of millions neurons, around 200 million > years ago. [Thagard] > > 8. Consciousness began with humans, homo sapiens, around 200,000 years ago. > > 9. Consciousness began when human culture became advanced, around 3000 > years ago (Julian Jaynes). > > 10. Consciousness does not exist, as it is just a scientific mistake > (behaviorism} or a “user illusion” (Daniel Dennett). > > - pt > > -- 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: When Did Consciousness Begin?
On 2/10/2019 3:34 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: Two recent books: The First Minds: Caterpillars, Karyotes, and Consciousness Arthur S. Reber https://books.google.com/books/about/The_First_Minds.html?id=RBLEugEACAAJ Brain-Mind: From Neurons to Consciousness and Creativity Paul Thagard https://books.google.com/books/about/Brain_Mind.html?id=jJjHvAEACAAJ via When Did Consciousness Begin? Paul Thagard https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/hot-thought/201901/when-did-consciousness-begin Thagard's 10 hypotheses: 1. Consciousness has always existed, because God is conscious and eternal. 2. Consciousness began when the universe formed, around 13.7 billion years ago. 3. Consciousness began with single-celled life, around 3.7 billion years ago (Reber). 4. Consciousness began with multicellular plants, around 850 million years ago. 5. Consciousness began when animals such as jellyfish got thousands of neurons, around 580 million years ago. 6. Consciousness began when insects and fish developed larger brains with about a million neurons (honeybees) or 10 million neurons (zebrafish) around 560 million years ago. 7. Consciousness began when animals such as birds and mammals developed much larger brains with hundreds of millions neurons, around 200 million years ago. [Thagard] 8. Consciousness began with humans, homo sapiens, around 200,000 years ago. 9. Consciousness began when human culture became advanced, around 3000 years ago (Julian Jaynes). 10. Consciousness does not exist, as it is just a scientific mistake (behaviorism} or a “user illusion” (Daniel Dennett). A good exposition, but I wish he had taken some time to consider what is consciousness. I think he recognizes that there are different kinds and levels of consciousness, but he doesn't make it clear what they are; how are they related to memory and communication and planning. It seems clear to me that different kinds and levels of consciousness appeared at different times. Brent -- 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.
When Did Consciousness Begin?
Two recent books: The First Minds: Caterpillars, Karyotes, and Consciousness Arthur S. Reber https://books.google.com/books/about/The_First_Minds.html?id=RBLEugEACAAJ Brain-Mind: From Neurons to Consciousness and Creativity Paul Thagard https://books.google.com/books/about/Brain_Mind.html?id=jJjHvAEACAAJ via When Did Consciousness Begin? Paul Thagard https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/hot-thought/201901/when-did-consciousness-begin Thagard's 10 hypotheses: 1. Consciousness has always existed, because God is conscious and eternal. 2. Consciousness began when the universe formed, around 13.7 billion years ago. 3. Consciousness began with single-celled life, around 3.7 billion years ago (Reber). 4. Consciousness began with multicellular plants, around 850 million years ago. 5. Consciousness began when animals such as jellyfish got thousands of neurons, around 580 million years ago. 6. Consciousness began when insects and fish developed larger brains with about a million neurons (honeybees) or 10 million neurons (zebrafish) around 560 million years ago. 7. Consciousness began when animals such as birds and mammals developed much larger brains with hundreds of millions neurons, around 200 million years ago. [Thagard] 8. Consciousness began with humans, homo sapiens, around 200,000 years ago. 9. Consciousness began when human culture became advanced, around 3000 years ago (Julian Jaynes). 10. Consciousness does not exist, as it is just a scientific mistake (behaviorism} or a “user illusion” (Daniel Dennett). - pt -- 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: The semantic view of theories and higher-order languages
> On 3 Feb 2019, at 04:35, Russell Standish wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 04:06:49PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> But when used in physics, this type of inductive inference assume not only a >> reality, but a “brain-mind” identity, which is not consistent with the >> mechanist hypothesis. >> > > How so? All it assumes is that there is a relationship (correlation if > you will) between elements of phenomenology. If something is > phenomenally true (observed) , then some other thing is likely to be > phenomenally true. > > It is up to the learning algorithm to figure out what the relationships are. > > None of this assumes reality, nor any sort of mind-brain identity. Imagine that you let a ball falling. To compute the probability that it will hit the ground, people will usually assume that there is a ground, that there is ball, and that the ball obeys some law, so as to make the computation/prediction. They will also assume that their mind remains attached to the body doing those computation/prediction. Yet, with mechanism, this does not work, as there is no ball, no ground, and no identification possible between your first person possible experience and some world in which you would be there. The only way is to take into account all computations going through your mental state, as this one is attached to the infinitely many computations doing this in arithmetic, and the statistics will be given roughly by the number of computation which realise the experience of seing the ball falling on the grounds, “divided” by all computation leading to the initial state and where the ball does or not fall on the ground. Mathematically, it is more subtle, because the accessible states of the machine is structured by the logic of self-reference (probability one is given by the mode with “<>t” in the provability variant). That includes the computations involving white rabbits, speed quicker than light, etc. (a bit like the virtual particles on quantum filed theory, which can also “violate” the physical laws, like physical laws can violate in dreams, and thus in the apparence related to some computations. A learning algorithm also supposed some stable stream of inputs, which with mechanism have to be justified from that statistics on *all* computations. It is not a problem in applied AI, but it is the problem we have to solve (and that the Löbian machine do solve in arithmetic) when trying to get a coherent theory of the relation between mind and matter appearance. Just to involve a material universe, or a god, does not work, as it would make such God or Matter into a magical thing capable of making some computations more “real” than other, without changing anything in the computation, and that violates the “yes doctor”, as it call for something not Turing emulable (be it a substantial Matter or a God). Bruno > > Cheers > -- > > > 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. -- 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: The semantic view of theories and higher-order languages
On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 04:06:49PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > But when used in physics, this type of inductive inference assume not only a > reality, but a “brain-mind” identity, which is not consistent with the > mechanist hypothesis. > How so? All it assumes is that there is a relationship (correlation if you will) between elements of phenomenology. If something is phenomenally true (observed) , then some other thing is likely to be phenomenally true. It is up to the learning algorithm to figure out what the relationships are. None of this assumes reality, nor any sort of mind-brain identity. Cheers -- 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.
