Re: for Cosmin

2019-04-25 Thread 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List
Thanks for reminding me. I didn't see them. On Wednesday, 24 April 2019 18:15:41 UTC+3, Terren Suydam wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 3:03 AM 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List < > everyth...@googlegroups.com > wrote: > >> For this you don't even need idealism. You can just take the brain as a

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems (a symposium at the AAAI Stanford Spring Symposium 2019)

2019-04-25 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 9:57 AM Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 23 Apr 2019, at 03:32, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 7:51 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < > everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On 4/22/2019 4:24 PM, Jason Resch wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tue, No

Re: Everything List Conference

2019-04-25 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
A festschrift for Vic? Brent On 4/25/2019 5:01 PM, Jason Resch wrote: This list has been active for over 20 years (since 1998), but to my knowledge there has never been an organized event for for members of this list to meet and discuss topics in person. Is this something any participants of

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems (a symposium at the AAAI Stanford Spring Symposium 2019)

2019-04-25 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 9:45 AM Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 23 Apr 2019, at 01:24, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 3:16 AM Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> >> On 5 Nov 2018, at 02:56, Martin Abramson >> wrote: >> >> Consciousness is a program. >> >> >> Consciousness might be related

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems (a symposium at the AAAI Stanford Spring Symposium 2019)

2019-04-25 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 2:48 AM Philip Thrift wrote: > > > On Monday, April 22, 2019 at 6:24:37 PM UTC-5, Jason wrote: >> >> >>> The above reminded me of this quote from Alan Turing: >> >> Personally I think that spirit is really eternally connected with matter >> but certainly not always by the

Re: My book "I Am" published on amazon

2019-04-25 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 4/25/2019 1:42 PM, cloudver...@gmail.com wrote: The one-and-only code of nature is a hidden entity. We may "approximate" it with our own code (like the Marcolli code above), but unless there is some sort of unforeseen revolution coming, that's the way things will always be. Right.?? But

Everything List Conference

2019-04-25 Thread Jason Resch
This list has been active for over 20 years (since 1998), but to my knowledge there has never been an organized event for for members of this list to meet and discuss topics in person. Is this something any participants of this list be interested in, attending and perhaps presenting at, should suc

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-25 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 1:49 PM 'Cosmin Visan' < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > >> it would be perfectly correct to say I scratched my nose because I >> wanted to, but it would be equally correct to say the nerves in my nose >> triggered the nerves in my hand to move. >> > > > > *Ex

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-25 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 4/25/2019 9:30 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Can you derive today a dark-matter theory from The Standard Model + General Relativity? No, so what ? I just said theories change to explain new datas or they propose test that gives rise to new results. If

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-25 Thread cloudversed
On Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 3:55:50 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > > On 4/25/2019 7:50 AM, cloud...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 8:34:30 AM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: >> >> >> >> Le??jeu. 25 avr. 2019 15:23, a ??crit??: >> >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, April 25, 2

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-25 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 4/25/2019 7:50 AM, cloudver...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 8:34:30 AM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Le??jeu. 25 avr. 2019 15:23, > a ??crit??: On Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 1:18:44 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 a

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-25 Thread cloudversed
On Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 11:30:57 AM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > > Le jeu. 25 avr. 2019 à 17:44, > a écrit : > >> >> >> On Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 10:21:04 AM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Le jeu. 25 avr. 2019 à 16:50, a écrit : >>> On Thursday, A

Re: My book "I Am" published on amazon

2019-04-25 Thread cloudversed
On Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 10:34:25 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 24 Apr 2019, at 19:29, Philip Thrift > > wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 11:51:06 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> >> With mechanism, there is no choice: physics must be explained in term of >>

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-25 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
You forgot the point before that where a perception triggered a memory and the signal. Brent On 4/25/2019 3:38 AM, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List wrote: You forgot the last point where consciousness initiate the signal. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goog

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-25 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 4/25/2019 12:00 AM, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List wrote: Also airplanes can fly better than birds. Does that mean that airplanes are alive ? No, but it means flying is a physical process, not an quale of birds. Nobody moves the goalpost of intelligence anywhere. Intelligence is what

Re: for Cosmin

2019-04-25 Thread Terren Suydam
Cosmin: do you have any answers to the questions below? On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 11:15 AM Terren Suydam wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 3:03 AM 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List < > everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > >> For this you don't even need idealism. You can just take the brain

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-25 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 4/24/2019 11:33 PM, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List wrote: Exactly. Those experiments are not valid. The "brain" does not exist. But I exist. I think you are making a category confusion. You equate by default brain with consciousness, and because brain doesn't exist, you conclude that c

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-25 Thread 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List
On Thursday, 25 April 2019 19:56:17 UTC+3, John Clark wrote: > > And it would be perfectly correct to say I scratched my nose because I > wanted to, but it would be equally correct to say the nerves in my nose > triggered the nerves in my hand to move. > > Except that this is not what happ

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-25 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 3:00 AM 'Cosmin Visan' < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > *it happens all the time. How do you think you move your body if not by > top-down influence in levels from consciousness ?* The existence of a top-down explanation does not preclude the existence of a b

Re: My book "I Am" published on amazon

2019-04-25 Thread 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List
On Thursday, 25 April 2019 18:21:33 UTC+3, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > You forget the quote. I am not sure what is not self-reference, given that > I have given two definitions (third person self-reference and first person > self-reference, and I have explained the link between (G* proves that t

Re: My book "I Am" published on amazon

2019-04-25 Thread 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List
What does "I survive a functional digital substitution at that level." mean ? On Thursday, 25 April 2019 18:13:58 UTC+3, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 23 Apr 2019, at 20:06, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List < > everyth...@googlegroups.com > wrote: > > So what does "computer science" has to do w

Re: My book "I Am" published on amazon

2019-04-25 Thread 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List
I don't understand anything. Where is consciousness in all that you said ? On Thursday, 25 April 2019 18:04:49 UTC+3, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 23 Apr 2019, at 19:54, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List < > everyth...@googlegroups.com > wrote: > > That's just a random definition that doesn't me

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-25 Thread 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List
That's how existence is: miraculous. And we have evidence for it: just get out of the chair and move around the room and there's your evidence. On Thursday, 25 April 2019 15:27:17 UTC+3, stathisp wrote: > > > > On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 8:38 pm, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List < > everyth...@goog

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-25 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le jeu. 25 avr. 2019 à 17:44, a écrit : > > > On Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 10:21:04 AM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: >> >> >> >> Le jeu. 25 avr. 2019 à 16:50, a écrit : >> >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 8:34:30 AM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Le jeu. 25 avr. 20

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-25 Thread cloudversed
On Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 10:21:04 AM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > > Le jeu. 25 avr. 2019 à 16:50, > a écrit : > >> >> >> On Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 8:34:30 AM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Le jeu. 25 avr. 2019 à 15:23, a écrit : >>> On Thursday, Ap

Re: My book "I Am" published on amazon

2019-04-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 24 Apr 2019, at 21:28, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > wrote: > > > > On 4/24/2019 9:51 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> Until we get evidence for some matter (like observing a discrepancy between >> the physics extracted from arithmetic) > > Which is unlikely because no physics is ex

Re: My book "I Am" published on amazon

2019-04-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 24 Apr 2019, at 19:29, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 11:51:06 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > With mechanism, there is no choice: physics must be explained in term of > number’s dream statistics. The logic of this gives a quantum logic, mincing > na

Re: My book "I Am" published on amazon

2019-04-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 23 Apr 2019, at 20:41, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List > wrote: > > > > On Friday, 19 April 2019 13:27:58 UTC+3, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 18 Apr 2019, at 12:17, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List >> > wrote: >> recursion. > > That's precisely what self-reference is not. And I

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-25 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le jeu. 25 avr. 2019 à 16:50, a écrit : > > > On Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 8:34:30 AM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: >> >> >> >> Le jeu. 25 avr. 2019 à 15:23, a écrit : >> >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 1:18:44 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 2:4

Re: My book "I Am" published on amazon

2019-04-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 23 Apr 2019, at 20:06, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List > wrote: > > So what does "computer science" has to do with consciousness ? It seems to me > that you just make a random connection. I assume the indexical digital mechanist hypothesis, which assume that there exists a level of d

Re: My book "I Am" published on amazon

2019-04-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 23 Apr 2019, at 19:54, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List > wrote: > > That's just a random definition that doesn't mean anything. > > On Friday, 19 April 2019 12:27:18 UTC+3, Bruno Marchal wrote: > With mechanism, the observer is just a number/machine, relative to some > other numbers/

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-25 Thread cloudversed
On Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 8:34:30 AM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > > Le jeu. 25 avr. 2019 à 15:23, > a écrit : > >> >> >> On Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 1:18:44 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 2:42 pm, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List < >>> everyth...

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-25 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le jeu. 25 avr. 2019 à 15:23, a écrit : > > > On Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 1:18:44 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 2:42 pm, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List < >> everyth...@googlegroups.com> wrote: >> >>> But it happens all the time. How do you think you move your

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-25 Thread cloudversed
On Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 1:18:44 AM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: > > > > On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 2:42 pm, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List < > everyth...@googlegroups.com > wrote: > >> But it happens all the time. How do you think you move your body if not >> by top-down influence in levels fro

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-25 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 8:38 pm, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > You forgot the last point where consciousness initiate the signal. That would mean, at some point in this causal chain, something miraculous happening, like a bone moving without any m

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-25 Thread 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List
You forgot the last point where consciousness initiate the signal. -- 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.co

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-25 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 16:38, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > You are randomly extrapolating. I think this is called "strawman logical > error". Things are not random. There are reasons for why consciousness only > exercises its powers in certain con

Re: My book "I Am" published on amazon

2019-04-25 Thread 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List
On Tuesday, 23 April 2019 09:52:14 UTC+3, telmo wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2019, at 21:35, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List wrote: > > 1) You raise an interesting point. Can you give another example in that > direction beside the qualia of good and bad ? Because you made me think > about the

Re: My book "I Am" published on amazon

2019-04-25 Thread 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List
That's precisely what exists: experiences. And there can be more said about existence. How I also detail in the book, existance is first the act of self-reference of looking-back-at-itself and thus creating the first object: "I am". Then because of emergence where you have qualities inheritance

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

2019-04-25 Thread 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List
On Wednesday, 24 April 2019 20:12:19 UTC+3, John Clark wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 9:57 AM 'Cosmin Visan' < > everyth...@googlegroups.com > wrote: > > *> If you obtain consciousness, that consciousness will have free will, so* >> [...] > > > Free Will?! In the entire history of philosoph