Re: Does Platonia exist ?

2012-09-21 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Hi, Anyone serious about knowing truths must either spend its life trying to define the concept of existence and fighting for it or to discard it for all uses. The concept of phisical exsitence has a primitive utilitary nature: Are there men in the other side of the mountain?. This urgent need to

Re: What is 'Existence'?

2012-09-23 Thread Alberto G. Corona
This is my schema. Can you complete/ammend it? Things in themselves (noumena) -> - Have a computational nature (Bruno) : few components: numbers, + * - Is just a mathematical manyfold(Me), few components: equations

Re: What is 'Existence'?

2012-09-24 Thread Alberto G. Corona
:18 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > > This is my schema. > > Can you complete/ammend it? > > Things in themselves (noumena) -> - Have a computational nature (Bruno) > : few components: numbers, + * > - Is jus

Re: What is 'Existence'?

2012-09-24 Thread Alberto G. Corona
istence of somethig. 2012/9/24 Alberto G. Corona > Hi Stephen, > Any idea about whatever is outside of the mind (noumena, thing it itself > as Kant named it)before it is experienced as phenomena is and will > remain speculative forever. By definition. But this does not prohi

Re: What is 'Existence'?

2012-09-24 Thread Alberto G. Corona
ep 2012, at 12:18, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > > This is my schema. > > Can you complete/ammend it? > > Things in themselves (noumena) -> - Have a computational nature (Bruno) : > few components: numbers, + * > > > OK, for the chosen basic ontology. Numbers, and theor

Re: Nonsense!

2012-09-24 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Hi John This crater has been observed, so there are a current observed phenomenon about this crater: our memory of it. I observe that others had observed it, and I trust these people. This indirect account is also an "observation" . I believe because I trust these people and trust science. But th

From nominalism to Scientifc Materialism Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-06 Thread Alberto G. Corona
A greath truth. Every human knowledge has also social consequiences. When I say "A". I don´t only say "A is true". I say also that because A is true and you must accept it because a set of my socially reputated fellows of me did something to affirm it, you must believe it, and, more important, I de

Re: Question: Robotic truth

2013-01-06 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Your robot do not have time to know the true truth. He would not speculate on the nature of his programmer, or why he is here. At least until the problems of survival are solved by means of a stable collaboration. Even so, he never could have the opportunity to know the programmer. He don´t know th

Re: Question: Robotic truth

2013-01-06 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I read some workd of Gintis,. but the experimental game theorists give up when things get complicated. The dynamic of groups stability and cooperation and their mechanisms is an field which has not even started. They do not study the vital role of public cult and rites, for example that are critica

Re: Question: Robotic truth

2013-01-06 Thread Alberto G. Corona
limitation in our knowledge and the flawed nature of our communications have moral, epistemological and in general philosophical implications. 2013/1/6 meekerdb > On 1/6/2013 12:42 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > >> I read some workd of Gintis,. but the experimental game theorists

Re: From nominalism to Scientifc Materialism Re: Is Sheldrake credible? Ipersonally think so.

2013-01-07 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I still don't know if Roger refer to the ,modern materialistic state or my initial paragraph about human nature. I do not know how this nominalism-materialism has derived in a "hole" such is Fascism. Fascism is a political term, not a philosophical term. To stop a discussion because something in h

Re: Question: Robotic truth

2013-01-07 Thread Alberto G. Corona
se NS is how we, as temporal beings perceive the very long term coherence between the mind and the anthropicallly selected mathematical reality 2013/1/6 Alberto G. Corona > The expression "Socila construction of reality" is an expression that hold > any kind or relativism. This is

Re: Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-07 Thread Alberto G. Corona
it is perfectly possible to accept natural selection with all the implication in genetics without being a materialist. The materialism is a superfluous ideological substrate. Sheldrake is right about this critic of materialism. I´m not materialist, and I accept Natural selection. Materialism is

Re: Question: Robotic truth

2013-01-08 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2013/1/8 Richard Ruquist > At the most basic level reality is a discrete digital particle arithmetic > with no need for further calculations in a block universe. > > Then it is indistinguishable from a contiuous or discrete mathematical manifold of some kind. This manifold is anthropically select

Re: Atheists are those that refuse to worship the false gods they invent.

2013-01-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
It would say that they worship, and worship very hard. But his worship does adopt different forms. All of them primitive, since their impulses are not moderated by an assumption of tradition, so they lack the knowledge of best practices due to previous failures. It is necessary to take into account

Re: Atheists are those that refuse to worship the false gods they invent.

2013-01-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I meant: That´s why PROTECTION FROM bloody offenses demand blood as sacrifice 2013/1/10 Alberto G. Corona > That´s why bloody offenses demand blood as sacrifice -- Alberto. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" grou

Re: Quantum Suicide and World War 3

2013-01-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Perhaps we must worship Everett. Maybe he is with Einstein in a superdimensional throne of quarks. Aleluya. 2013/1/10 John Clark > Perhaps the Quantum Suicide experiment has already been performed and on a > global scale. After Hugh Everett developed the many Worlds interpretation > in his doct

Re: Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-01-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Space and time may be only on the mind in the Kantian sense. I don´t find that space must be independent of the mind. space and time may be the way we perceive a space-time manifold which is pure mathematic and nothing else. Maybe we can see space out there and we can think on geometry in a spat

Re: Whoever invented the word "God" invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Dear Bruno: - As I tried to show in robotic Truth, religion is a neccesity for the operation of social beings. For all machines, actually. Even when isolated. the "robotic truth" can be > approached by introspection when the machine complexity is above the Löbian > threshold. > > > That´s absolu

Re: Math-> Computation-> Mind -> Geometry -> Space -> Matter

2013-01-13 Thread Alberto G. Corona
since the mind or in your case consciousness is the selector of existence. n your case, I think that consciousness would "cause-back" Arithmetic and computation:* Math<-> Computation<-> Mind -> Geometry -> Space -> Matter 2013/1/13 Bruno Marchal > > On 12 Jan

Re: Re: Re: The unpredictability of solar energy

2013-01-14 Thread Alberto G. Corona
THe problem with solar energy is that it is strongly subsidized. Instead of you being stolen by "monopolistic" energy companies, you can steal the taxpayer thank to state planning. Most solar panels are installed because they receive subsidies by KW. As a logical consequience a boost in production

Re: Re: Re: The unpredictability of solar energy

2013-01-14 Thread Alberto G. Corona
You are californian its'nt? 2013/1/14 Platonist Guitar Cowboy > > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > >> THe problem with solar energy is that it is strongly subsidized. >> > > Yes, but this is lessening. Protectionism is crumbling.

Re: The unpredictability of solar energy

2013-01-14 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Neither the state neither the market can build a society. It a question of something more, that has a fundamental ingredient: the contact with reality. When a person believe that receiving from the taxpayer two three four times the market price for his solar electricity, and still think that he i

Re: Math-> Computation-> Mind -> Geometry -> Space -> Matter

2013-01-15 Thread Alberto G. Corona
'that there is something fundamental that has particular properties is unscientific dogma'. Then everything is unscientific. because no human knowledge can be expressed without unproven premises at the bottom. Dogmas are not axioms neither premises, neither assumption, but the latter tend to bec

Re: Math-> Computation-> Mind -> Geometry -> Space -> Matter

2013-01-16 Thread Alberto G. Corona
democatic principle becomes a dogma an a source of wishdom. so the democratic decissions can not go wrong. Many people says: The people can not go wrong!! economy and simplicity homogeneity principle 2013/1/16 Stephen P. King > On 1/15/2013 9:13 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > > &#

Re: The unpredictability of solar energy

2013-01-16 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I have to say that in the countries where lobbies are not permitted, they are stronger and operate without the voter knowledge, so they have much more freedom for corruption. Prohibition by law is not a magic way to make things dissapear. Unless omniscient, incapable of doing evil inspectors revi

Re: Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-16 Thread Alberto G. Corona
This is the best introduction to quantum mechanics: https://www.google.es/search?q=susskind+quantum+mechanics&aq=f&oq=susskind+quantum+mechanics&aqs=chrome.0.57j0l3.11316&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 disclaimer: I have not seen it. but I saw some other lectures of this series "the theoretical minim

Re: The unpredictability of solar energy

2013-01-16 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Oh, two planet-saviors. I´m more simpatetic to the "make French chess legal in america" movement. Waiting for the next paranoia 2013/1/16 meekerdb > e is great uncertainty about the problem. Of course they are not going to > do anything about a problem they are -- Alberto. -- You

Re: Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-16 Thread Alberto G. Corona
relativistic mathematics lacks a corresponding qualia of the mind that make them intuitive and "real". They are efective and predictive, but we can not make it apparent and intuitive in our reality. 2013/1/16 Alberto G. Corona > This is the best introduction to quantum mechanics

Re: The unpredictability of solar energy

2013-01-17 Thread Alberto G. Corona
u have been surpassed. Come on Brent > Brent > > > On 1/17/2013 2:57 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > > Count me as an heretic denialist of the ecological Apocalipsis. The > Michael Mann hockey stick is a fraud as you can verify in the mails leaked > in the Climate Research Un

Re: Re: The unpredictability of solar energy

2013-01-17 Thread Alberto G. Corona
> human population is only possible because of fossil fuel energy. If we > don't find an alternative, we will eventually face a mass extinction event. > I'm not sure such an alternative exists, but maybe I'll be proven wrong (at > least for my 1p) by MWI and QS. > > &g

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-24 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I though that, this was not a site for enhancing the self esteem of self-proclaimed rationalists neither an insult-you-an-infidel theraphy group. 2013/1/24 John Clark > I sincerely hope that nobody believes I'm picking on Catholics because > Protestant "thinking" is every bit as brain dead dumb

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-24 Thread Alberto G. Corona
All these things are part of the myths of modernity. The reality is quite different. The idea that the medievals though that the earth was flat is larguely a myth, as true as the fact that now a fair amount of the people in the world believe that Man has not been in the Moon. Inquisition, for examp

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-24 Thread Alberto G. Corona
In fact it is just the opposite: the position of Luther, like the one of Ocham or Duns Scoto, which were strongly anti-reason, created the modern science and were precursors of the most radical forms of Positivism. Why? It is simple to understand: The three of them were against the use of reason

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-24 Thread Alberto G. Corona
killed by the scientific socialists. (or the 5+30 millions killed by the modern eugenesists). The selection of stories in a biased way is a proof of nothing but the own prejudices. 2013/1/24 meekerdb > > > On 1/24/2013 9:12 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > > All these things are part

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-24 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2013/1/24 meekerdb > On 1/24/2013 9:41 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > >> In fact it is just the opposite: the position of Luther, like the one of >> Ocham or Duns Scoto, which were strongly anti-reason, created the modern >> science and were precursors of the most rad

Re: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-25 Thread Alberto G. Corona
not extend this, to avoid to mention the G-world and induce another rant by Pavlovian conditioning). 2013/1/25 Roger Clough > Hi Alberto G. Corona > > Luther wasn't a rationalist, and so contributed nothing to modern science. > > > > - Receiving the following conte

Re: mega-consciousness,created by bio-electrical circuitry?

2013-01-25 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Hi Telmo. Group selection It is no longer controversial. Naive group selection do not work, but selection between groups where internal deletereous behaviours are repressed to a certan level (but never eliminated) does work. The theory is called multilevel selection. where selection operates at a

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-26 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Dear Bruno, I can not agree with you. neither with anyone that contemplate a minimalistic extract of the ideas of the past from the point of view and the knowledge (and ignorance) of the present. Natural theology and the conquest of nature has been ever a part of Christianity not because that was

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-27 Thread Alberto G. Corona
of reason: it can see its own limitations. > > Machines are born with a form of necessary faith and necessary intuition. > > Bruno > > > > > Faith opens the inner eye, which science wants to blind. > So it is said that with faith, you have everything, without faith > you h

Re: No Wonder philosophers suck!

2013-01-29 Thread Alberto G. Corona
A great post Stephen thanks Well, in fact what the post says is that the ones that sucks are the logical positivists (and their dwarfs, the scientists), who took over the power in Modernland. I take this phrase, which IMHO describes very well what is inside of what "In fact, the opposite is tru

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-30 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2013/1/30 meekerdb > On 1/29/2013 7:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> >> On 27 Jan 2013, at 19:53, Alberto G. Corona wrote: >> >> Bruno, >>> You sill say interesting things even in a thread that has fallen deep >>> in the boring hole of Reductio

Re: Re: Facts vs values

2013-01-30 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2013/1/30 Roger Clough > Hi Bruno Marchal, > > When I read the Bible, it is a subjective act, > but not my own subjective act alonw, it is > contained in the subjectivity of the Holy Spirit. > > I´m afraid that when the bible and the Holy Spirit is put away by more radical movements of a tradit

Re: Re: Lessons from the Block Universe

2013-02-02 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Hi 2013/1/30 Richard Ruquist > > It is to me. I think it is very unlikely that the motions and > evolutions of star and galaxies and in my model even universes could > be strongly affected by biological consciousness > > But then, what is the anthropic principle about? > > > > -- > > Stathis P

Re: Re: Lessons from the Block Universe

2013-02-02 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I do think that a block universe can contain minds in a certain way. The objections against that are based in the absence of time, but space(3D geometry) and time can and should be a product of the machinery of the mind, in the kantian sense. But while in Kant things in themselves are unreachable,

Re: Re: Re: Lessons from the Block Universe

2013-02-02 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Hi Alberto G. Corona > > Does your version of mind actually do anything ? > > > - Receiving the following content - > *From:* Alberto G. Corona > *Receiver:* everything-list > *Time:* 2013-02-02, 04:43:54 > *Subject:* Re: Re: Lessons from the Block Universe > >

Re: Re: Lessons from the Block Universe

2013-02-02 Thread Alberto G. Corona
rmitted in existence (And I´m saying a lot), then we still can think, that the block universes is made of things that exist, that we observe and things that don´t exist. It depends on the notion of existence. 2013/2/2 Richard Ruquist > On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 4:18 AM, Alberto G.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Lessons from the Block Universe

2013-02-03 Thread Alberto G. Corona
time, his 3d space, his macroscopical laws, is a product of the mind when he contemplate the mathematical structure from inside. 2013/2/3 Roger Clough > Hi Alberto G. Corona > > My understanding is that the block universe is the physical universe, > so it does not include the w

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-02-04 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I think that geometry is a form of accelerated calculation and presentation of distances and angles by/in the mind, of the external mathematical reality. Within this mental geometrical representation, we locate the rest of the elements of the mathematical reality that are relevant for survival, t

Re: Why I love the Jews

2013-02-04 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I think that Roger said nothing agains Jews. simply, ethnic personal tastes are not a topic for this group. 2013/2/4 freqflyer07281972 > Is there a way Roger can be banned for a comment like that? Or should the > moderators/admins of this list simply change it to the 'Everything-Nazi > List'?

Re: Lee Smolin and Darwin's Uncommon Success

2013-02-05 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I doubt that meaning, existence, creation, purpose makes sense when applied to the mathematical nature of the external reality. I think that these concepts only makes sense when though by a mind. So either we reject these concepts when thinking about the universe (and this makes reasoning almost i

Re: Lee Smolin and Darwin's Uncommon Success

2013-02-05 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2013/2/5 Stephen P. King > Hi, > > ISTM that purpose is a 1p, so to ask the question in a 3p sense is to > make it meaningless. > > > That´s it. But to insist into make the question in 3p may force the introduction of an implicit 1p that contemplate the 3p, that is, a metamind , with a m

Re: Lee Smolin and Darwin's Uncommon Success

2013-02-06 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2013/2/6 Stephen P. King > On 2/5/2013 3:27 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > > > > > 2013/2/5 Stephen P. King > >> Hi, >> >> ISTM that purpose is a 1p, so to ask the question in a 3p sense is to >> make it meaningless. >> >> >>

Re: Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-02-06 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2013/2/5 Roger Clough > Hi Alberto G. Corona > > Your concept is incomplete, because geometry is what Plato called forms, > which he gave the Greek name of ideas. So you have a thought without a > thinker. > > > Yes, the greeks did not conceive an empty space without fo

Re: Saint Thomas Aquinas

2013-02-06 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Another irritating attempt to initiate an of topic discussion. This time the irritation was intended. Please 2013/2/6 John Clark > In his book Summa Theologica that prototypical theologian Saint Thomas > Aquinas speculated on what heaven would be like, Just as santaklausologians > specula

Re: Lee Smolin and Darwin's Uncommon Success

2013-02-06 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2013/2/6 Bruno Marchal > > On 06 Feb 2013, at 10:22, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > > > > > 2013/2/6 Stephen P. King > >> On 2/5/2013 3:27 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: >> >> >> >> >> 2013/2/5 Stephen P. King >> >>> Hi, >

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-02-06 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2013/2/6 Bruno Marchal > > On 05 Feb 2013, at 11:19, Simon Forman wrote: > > On Monday, February 4, 2013 12:22:53 PM UTC-8, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >> >> >> On Monday, February 4, 2013 3:09:16 PM UTC-5, Alberto G.Corona wrote: >> >> >>> but there is a self reference when we try to imagine how th

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-08 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Some initial comments, because I´m very interested on these alterations of conscience. The rest of my comments will appear along the conversation: I´m persuaded, by very simple evolutionary analysis that plants produced whatever chemical substance that stops from eating them. this is their only me

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-08 Thread Alberto G. Corona
list=PLyXtpSZUDSjzBluIm4CL5Dbf4F65B0t24.com/secrets-of-the-mind 2013/2/8 Alberto G. Corona > Some initial comments, because I´m very interested on these alterations of > conscience. The rest of my comments will appear along the conversation: > > I´m persuaded, by very simple evolutionary analysis that p

Re: The Plant Teachers

2013-02-09 Thread Alberto G. Corona
detoxify fast enough. 2013/2/8 Alberto G. Corona > Some initial comments, because I´m very interested on these alterations of > conscience. The rest of my comments will appear along the conversation: > > I´m persuaded, by very simple evolutionary analysis that plants > pr

Re: The LSD Thumbprint

2013-02-13 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Almost the same sensations provoked by a stroke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTrJqmKoveU There is nothing in LSD or any other psychodelical drugs, except the impairement fo the pre-conscious control of what arrives to the conscious produced by the (different modules of the) brain, That is a cl

Re: The duplicators and the restorers

2013-02-20 Thread Alberto G. Corona
if comp and the null hypothesis (everithing exist) is accepted, then a infinity of copies of you are now being kicked by a wild horse while being eaten by bugs in an ocean of acid. So it does not matter what just a single copy of you is doing whatever ;) 2013/2/13 Bruno Marchal > > On 13 Feb 20

Re: The duplicators and the restorers

2013-02-22 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2013/2/21 Bruno Marchal > > On 20 Feb 2013, at 22:38, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > > if comp and the null hypothesis (everithing exist) is accepted, then a > infinity of copies of you are now being kicked by a wild horse while being > eaten by bugs in an ocean of acid. >

Re: Messages Aren't Made of Information

2013-03-05 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Let´s say that what we call "information" is an extended form of sensory input. What makes this input "information" is the usability of this input for reducing the internal entropy of the receiver or increase the internal order. The receiver can be a machine, a cell, a person or a society for examp

Re: Brain teaser

2013-03-08 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2013/3/8 Craig Weinberg > > > On Friday, March 8, 2013 7:41:23 AM UTC-5, Alberto G.Corona wrote: >> >> That may be not enough. suppose that you are starving, and you receive in >> your phone a message describing where is the next source of water but >> somehow the description is interspersed in t

Re: Losing Control

2013-03-15 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Again the shorcomings of nominamism/positivism. The greeks would laugh at these questions. It can be explained if we abandon the monomaniatic reductionistic physicalism and think in terms of just what we are: rational beings: I think that the notion of "lost control of something" in an intelligent

Re: True?

2013-03-19 Thread Alberto G. Corona
No. What means "truth value" of something? in which range of phenomena? in all phenomena applicable? how you can test all phenomena applicable to a theory? you can't. The only thing that you can do is to test a particular prediction that the theory predict that may never happen (Popperian falsabil

Re: Religious Robots

2013-03-22 Thread Alberto G. Corona
These beliefs in robotic religión has some reasons behind or it is simply wishful thinking? 2013/3/22 Evgenii Rudnyi > Quotes from Robert Geraci, Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, > Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality > > p. 133 "Ray Kurzweil believes that intelligent mach

Re: Religious Robots

2013-03-22 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I a previous discussion in this list ("robotic truth") I argue that a robot in a competitive environment has to develop (or be programmed for) all the elements of religión and beliefs to cooperate and survive. 2013/3/22 Evgenii Rudnyi > On 22.03.2013 13:47 Stephen P. King said the following

Re: G.K. Chesterton on Materialism

2013-03-22 Thread Alberto G. Corona
This extract from Chesterton has little sense without what precedes and follows. 2013/3/16 Craig Weinberg > "For we must remember that the materialist philosophy (whether true or >> not) is certainly much more limiting than any religion. In one sense, of >> course, all intelligent ideas are na

Re: Religious Robots

2013-03-22 Thread Alberto G. Corona
the modern uthopias, and share the same basic impulses. So this apocaliptic AI is one more scientist wave in this vast historical process. Almost every scientific discipline has promised a kind of salvation for himself. 2013/3/22 Evgenii Rudnyi > On 22.03.2013 15:31 Alberto G. Corona said

Re: Religious Robots

2013-03-22 Thread Alberto G. Corona
These inmanentist religions (eartly utopianism) it is clear that substitute God by Man (upper case). A divinized man . This has the most evident form of personality cult to the chosen ones that have the knowledge and/or are at the control of the transformation process, that in the modernity is cal

Re: Religious Robots

2013-03-23 Thread Alberto G. Corona
; > On 3/22/2013 6:41 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi > wrote: > >>> > >>> On 22.03.2013 13:41 Richard Ruquist said the following: > >>> > >>>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013

Re: Two Posts About Math

2013-03-25 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I don´t know what Math is. If math is all that is free from contradictions and can be expressed using the language of mathematics, then any description at any level can be math. For example the set of positions and speeds of the particles of a piece of dirt. That description has nothing pure to s

Re: Tarsky's Proof of the undefinability of truth.

2013-03-25 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I suspect that this impossibility is because math uses concept of a model, while truth refers to the match of facts of the model with facts of the reality . Or at least to facts of a metamodel outside of the model. That is AFAIK the Tarsky idea. For example, "All men are mortal is true" . Here s

Re: Religious Robots

2013-03-25 Thread Alberto G. Corona
point that differences natural theology from mathematical theology) Religión is more a form of organization around an admitted theology. 2013/3/24 Bruno Marchal > > On 22 Mar 2013, at 13:06, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > > These beliefs in robotic religión has some reasons behind or

Re: Two Posts About Math

2013-03-25 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I mean: ultimately the aestetic pleasure of Math derives from the natural impulse to search for efficient algoritms useful for deduction 2013/3/25 Alberto G. Corona > I don´t know what Math is. > > If math is all that is free from contradictions and can be expressed using > the

Re: Upon reflection

2014-02-07 Thread Alberto G. Corona
No problem. The UDA work without limitation of resources, thanks to Turing and Godel. So you can do whatever weird thing you want without any fear of receiving a big electric bill at the end of the month 2014-02-07 LizR : > On 7 February 2014 16:48, meekerdb wrote: > >> >> Are you thinking of

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-09 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2014-02-08 17:00 GMT+01:00, John Clark : > The invention of language was obviously of great benefit to the species > called Homo sapiens, but like all tools it is not perfect and sometimes the > brain can waste a great deal of processing power spinning its wheels over > questions of words rather th

Re: Modal logic 4 (was Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas).

2014-02-14 Thread Alberto G. Corona
To summarize: there are all possible combinations of 1 and 0's therefore everithing can be made isomorphic or "emergent" from 0 and 1's. So stop thinking and praise 0s and 1s hypothesis. -Why people make apparently weird distincitions? it does not matter: comp says nothing about it. it depends o

Re: Modal logic 4 (was Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas).

2014-02-15 Thread Alberto G. Corona
r on, he discover that it was something trivial, but it was obfuscated and intimidated by the formulas. or 7''- teleportation to another list with a certain substitution level. 2014-02-14 21:39 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal : > > On 14 Feb 2014, at 12:17, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > &g

Re: 15 works of art depicting women in science

2014-03-08 Thread Alberto G. Corona
There is no Monkey day in the UN agenda ? https://www.google.es/search?q=monkeys+space&espv=210&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=lvIaU8TDCcL_ygObkICgCA&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=667 I think that these heroes deserve some rights too. Some of them are female monkeys by the way. 2014-03-08

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-17 Thread Alberto G. Corona
An excellent piece of postmarxist (marxism rephrased as sociological "science") by the church of progressivism. Unless the budget of the NASA and specially these "experts" is increased and a change in global politics and another international bureau of world engineers is created overcoming de

Re: New NASA study predicts high probability of collapse of industrial civilization

2014-03-17 Thread Alberto G. Corona
My only doubt is how long it will take to convert this discussion list, once devoted to science and (some) philosophy, into a pure mambo-jambo babble of left liberals new agers and ecoloalarmists among others 2014-03-17 16:48 GMT+01:00 Alberto G. Corona : > An excellent piece of postmarx

Re: video of Andrei Linde hearing gravity wave news

2014-03-18 Thread Alberto G. Corona
What impressed me is this: "Let's just hope that it is not a trick" 2014-03-18 9:17 GMT+01:00 LizR : > Is it just me? I find things like this make me cry. I saw Alan Guth on the > news earlier today, and I just ... well I almost teared up. This is someone > who came out with this theory 30 year

Re: Chaitin's Metabiology

2014-03-21 Thread Alberto G. Corona
At first sight it seems to me a bad model starting from good stuff. A better model would take algorithmic complexity into account, and living beings as algorithms that utilize universal induction to predict sequences in the environment (using solomonoff theory of universal induction). Fitness wou

Re: Climate models

2014-04-02 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Threads like this have no relation with questions about what this list is about: the ultimate reality. Well...wait... Why questions like this are discussed here? My guess is that yes, indeed. This is a question about the ultimate reality. GW is a question of belief, about where we go, one of the m

Re: My scepticism took a small knock today

2014-04-05 Thread Alberto G. Corona
There must be a pact of non aggression among sects in your neighborhood that your sect of planet saviors has signed with the rest of them. has been Al Gore there lately? ;) 2014-04-05 7:02 GMT+02:00, Chris de Morsella : > > > > > From: everything-list@googlegroups.com > [mailto:everything-list@goo

Re: My scepticism took a small knock today

2014-04-05 Thread Alberto G. Corona
: > > > -Original Message- > From: everything-list@googlegroups.com > [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alberto G. Corona > >>>There must be a pact of non aggression among sects in your neighborhood > that your sect of planet saviors has signed with the re

Re: My scepticism took a small knock today

2014-04-05 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Probably you saw people visiting houses in your neighbourhood, but that did not reached consciousnees you were busy thinking about other things. (I will not insert here these funny videos of people failing to recognize a bear in the middle of a scene). But according with a theory of evolutionary p

Re: Apologies to Telmo

2014-07-09 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Congratulations. This message beats any level of politically correct sickness in this self-help group. 2014-07-09 6:10 GMT+02:00 Platonist Guitar Cowboy : > Dear Telmo, > > In light of recent nationalist spikes and troughs on the list, heartfelt > German apologies for the aggression of our c

Re: How will air travel work in a green solar economy?

2014-07-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
The problem is not what a green economy would sustain, but where the mass hysteria of the self appointed planet savers would be redirected when they find that the planet does no longer need to be saved, except from themselves. I guess that they will be inmediately concerned by micro-agressions aga

Re: How will air travel work in a green solar economy?

2014-07-13 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Textile plants demand also a lot of energy. Do will be allowed to use the Mao suit at least? 2014-07-13 5:52 GMT+02:00, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List : > > > > > From: everything-list@googlegroups.com > [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb > Sent: Saturday, Jul

Re: How will air travel work in a green solar economy?

2014-07-13 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Comrades: Textile plants demand also a lot of energy. Do will be allowed to use the Mao suit at least? Just to know better what our Lords though for us, in order to love them even more. 2014-07-13 5:52 GMT+02:00, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List : > > > > > From: everything-list@googleg

Re: How will air travel work in a green solar economy?

2014-07-13 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Comrades: Textile plants demand also a lot of energy. Do will be allowed to dress the Mao suit at least? Just to know better what our Lords though for us, in order to love them even more. 2014-07-13 5:52 GMT+02:00, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List : > > > > > From: everything-list@googl

Re: How will air travel work in a green solar economy?

2014-07-13 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I mean.. I know that preventive abortions of low class people, homosexualization and proletarization of women working 8x7x365 away from home is the solution, but some of us can survive and have to dress something. 2014-07-13 10:21 GMT+02:00, Alberto G. Corona : > Comrades: > > Texti

Re: How will air travel work in a green solar economy?

2014-07-13 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2014-07-13 10:24 GMT+02:00, Quentin Anciaux : > Le 13 juil. 2014 10:21, "Alberto G. Corona" a écrit : >> >> Comrades: >> >> Textile plants demand also a lot of energy. Do will be allowed to >> dress the Mao suit at least? >> >> Just to kno

Re: How will air travel work in a green solar economy?

2014-07-13 Thread Alberto G. Corona
GMT+02:00, Quentin Anciaux : > Le 13 juil. 2014 10:34, "Alberto G. Corona" a écrit : >> >> 2014-07-13 10:24 GMT+02:00, Quentin Anciaux : >> > Le 13 juil. 2014 10:21, "Alberto G. Corona" a > écrit : >> >> >> >> Comrades: >>

Re: How will air travel work in a green solar economy?

2014-07-13 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I see Ladies and gentleman: this is the shape of things to come. Nothing new under the sun. 2014-07-13 11:24 GMT+02:00, Quentin Anciaux : > Le 13 juil. 2014 11:11, "Alberto G. Corona" a écrit : >> >> No doubt you have evil inside. And your sense of humorI know

Re: How will air travel work in a green solar economy?

2014-07-14 Thread Alberto G. Corona
You both are so dumby stupids that are horrorizing your own comrades. Not for what you say, but because this hasn´t to be made explicit. 2014-07-13 14:30 GMT+02:00, Quentin Anciaux : > Le 13 juil. 2014 14:22, "Alberto G. Corona" a écrit : >> >> I see >> >> La

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