Artificial Hippocampus

2009-05-07 Thread Jason
Perhaps it won't be long before real life yes/no doctor scenarios are realized: http://wireheading.com/misc/brain-prosthesis.html Jason --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-11-02 Thread Jason
On Friday, November 2, 2012 10:07:36 AM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Jason Resch jason...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: let's presume that in 999 out of 1,000 almost identical standard models that exist in string theory, the half-life is 1 us. But in 1 out

JOINING post

2007-01-03 Thread Jason
, Konrad Zuse, Daniel Dennett, Burkhard Heim, Stephen Wolfram, and Jürgen Schmidhuber. I've recently put together a cohesive paper regarding my ideas which can be found here http://home.gcn.cx/users/jason/ideas.html I am curious about other's opinions regarding one of my ideas in particular

Re: JOINING post

2007-01-05 Thread Jason
Bruno Marchal wrote: I will take a look once I get enough time. It seems you belong to the ASSA group, that is you accept some form of bayesianism for fundamental probability question. Hope you will wake them up ... (ASSA = absolute self-sampling assumption). You should read Nick Bostrom and

Evidence for the simulation argument

2007-01-13 Thread Jason
It's been known since the 1970s that arbitrarily efficient computers could be constructed that could perform an infinite number of computations with a finite amount of energy, but only if the computations done on that computer are logically reversible. Performing a non-reversible computation

Re: Evidence for the simulation argument

2007-01-14 Thread Jason
Mark Peaty wrote: Hello Jason, please excuse my ignorant interjections here but, as a non-mathematician, non-philosopher, I need to work things into a plain English version before I can feel that I understand them, and even then the edges of things get fuzzy with far more ease than they get

Re: Evidence for the simulation argument

2007-01-14 Thread Jason
Wei Dai wrote: Jason, I think there may be some incorrect assumptions behind your argument. Let me state the facts as I understand them and you can check them against your assumptions or correct me if I'm wrong. The only reason we need reversible computation to do an infinite number

Re: Evidence for the simulation argument

2007-01-15 Thread Jason
Wei Dai wrote: Jason wrote: I assumed bounded memory due to the limited amount of matter and energy available to build the computer. For instance I've seen it said that the total information content of this universe is about 10^90 bits. If a civilization gathered all the mass and energy

ASSA and Many-Worlds

2007-01-17 Thread Jason
in an apparently early phase of the universe's life. The only reconciliation I have come up with is that the branching histories not only occur in one direction of time but occur in both directions. I am hoping others on this list could help resolve this apparent conflict. Jason

Re: ASSA and Many-Worlds

2007-01-19 Thread Jason
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: That is, once you are a conscious entity, you will follow a constrained branching path through the multiverse giving the illusion of a single linear history. Measure is redefined at every branching point: the subjective probability of your next moment. Since

Re: ASSA and Many-Worlds

2007-01-19 Thread Jason
William wrote: A simple way of picturing this, would be that at the big bang; the universe is 1 piece of paper, and from then on, every second, the piece(s) of paper is cut in half; giving 1, 2, 4, 8, ... universes. The total area of paper remains the same and all the pieces get smaller all

Re: ASSA and Many-Worlds

2007-01-21 Thread Jason
. Perhaps a species whose brains were wired this way would be maximally moral, as they would be intolerant to any suffering and would operate at great risk to themselves to aid other individuals. Jason --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

Re: ASSA and Many-Worlds

2007-01-23 Thread Jason
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Jason Resch writes: Let's say being spared is neutral while being tortured is obviously bad, even if you are tortured for only a few minutes. Also, assume the intensity of the torture and the quality of life on being spared is the same in duplication/ coin

Re: ASSA and Many-Worlds (correction)

2007-01-23 Thread Jason
Jason wrote: Here the replication is only the optimal choice for neutral life times. If a lifetime is very positive, the 999,999 good lives outweigh the one tortured. If the spared lifetimes were very negative, the 999,999 lifetimes would only add to the negative observer moments created

Re: ASSA and Many-Worlds (correction)

2007-01-23 Thread Jason
Jason wrote: Jason wrote: Here the replication is only the optimal choice for neutral life times. If a lifetime is very positive, the 999,999 good lives outweigh the one tortured. If the spared lifetimes were very negative, the 999,999 lifetimes would only add to the negative observer

Re: ASSA and Many-Worlds

2007-01-27 Thread Jason
sensory information collected over the course of perhaps a 10th - 20th of a second. This could explain why a flip book appears to have smooth motion if you see more than 10 to 20 frames per second, and why a low frequency sound below 10-20 Hz sounds like individal beats as opposed to a tone. Jason

Re: ASSA and Many-Worlds

2007-01-27 Thread Jason
for purely ASSA reasons, I see no reason for it to exist for any anthropic reasons, but due to the exponential growth in observer moments defined by many-world universes, it makes great sense. Jason --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

Re: ASSA and Many-Worlds

2007-02-01 Thread Jason
could be said to be unconscious. If a brain is a certain state is said to be unconscious at some small interval, then when can it ever said to be conscious? Jason If you could then the finer you divided it, the less information it contained, then the more histories it would be consistent

Re: ASSA and Many-Worlds

2007-02-05 Thread Jason
of some states, to me, creates a probability question. Therefore it becomes meaningful to consider what programs will contain the largest number of observer moments, and how common will those programs be within the UD. Best Regards, Jason

Re: Everything List FAQ/Glossary/Wiki

2007-02-09 Thread Jason
On Feb 9, 7:59 am, John M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason, the site is great, maybe greater than I can realize today. I, as a practical computer illiterate, (never learned any computerese courses, not even from books) sat before it with awe, - admiring that it works! I might have missed

Everything List FAQ/Glossary/Wiki

2007-02-09 Thread Jason
the wiki being used to explain the various concepts, acronyms, and theories so often mentioned on this list. Every account created on the wiki has its own dedicated page, which I think would be an ideal place for people to describe their backgrounds and the theories they subscribe to. Jason

Re: Searles' Fundamental Error

2007-02-19 Thread Jason
because the mystery of consciousness would have no way of communicating itself to the brain. Therefore, I don't see how anything external to the functioning of the brain could be responsible for consciousness. Jason --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

Re: Searles' Fundamental Error

2007-02-19 Thread Jason
On Feb 19, 7:50 am, John M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pls see after Jason's remark John - Original Message - From: Jason To: Everything List Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 3:42 AM Subject: Re: Searles' Fundamental Error On Feb 18, 5:46 pm, Stathis Papaioannou [EMAIL

Re: God and the plenitude (was:The Meaning of Life)

2007-03-05 Thread Jason
(perfectly simulated) would also necessarily be conscious, short of accepting a dualist position. Jason --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything

Re: The Meaning of Life

2007-03-12 Thread Jason
of instances of the UD created by an infinite number of very different Gods. Jason --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list

Re: Statistical Measure, does it matter?

2007-03-18 Thread Jason
as an infinitesmally small and rare occurance among the unlimited set of possible observer moments. Jason --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email

Re: Speaking about Mathematicalism

2007-04-04 Thread Jason
wiring? Or are our brains wired that way because the world is mathematical in that way? Max Tegmark has several publications about the expected physical properties needed for complex life, including why 3+1 spacetime on the bottom of this page: http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/press.html Jason

RSSA / ASSA / Single Mind Theory

2007-04-19 Thread Jason
With ASSA/RSSA there is the assumption that there is a sampling, that of all observers (or observer moments) one is selected and experienced. Consider momentarily, that no sampling was taking place? Is this view consistent and valid? Note that by no sampling I mean no discrimination. Instead

Re: RSSA / ASSA / Single Mind Theory

2007-04-19 Thread Jason
On Apr 19, 6:27 am, Russell Standish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:48:06PM -, Jason wrote: With ASSA/RSSA there is the assumption that there is a sampling, that of all observers (or observer moments) one is selected and experienced. Consider momentarily

Re: RSSA / ASSA / Single Mind Theory

2007-04-20 Thread Jason
through time, but across branches in the multiverse. Jason --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send

Re: RSSA / ASSA / Single Mind Theory

2007-04-20 Thread Jason
between OM's (i.e. You experience now AND you will experience 10 seconds from now) then you must conclude there is only one mind. This is just my viewpoint on the issue and I invite others to give their opinions on it and poke holes in it. Jason

Re: RSSA / ASSA / Single Mind Theory

2007-04-20 Thread Jason
On Apr 20, 12:52 pm, Brent Meeker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason wrote: On Apr 19, 10:34 pm, Stathis Papaioannou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even if there is in a sense just one mind perceiving all OM's simultaneously (Platonia, the mind of God, the Universe), there is still the fact

Re: Replay to Jason that bounced

2007-04-20 Thread Jason
the continuation of an observer's consciousnes in the multiverse through waking up to find oneself an uploaded mind of a transhuman (or even a transalien for that matter). Jason --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: RSSA / ASSA / Single Mind Theory

2007-04-29 Thread Jason
because observers have memories of experiencing the same observer's past perspectives in no way implies there is a single consciousness that follows a person as they evolve through time (even though it very much seems that way subjectively). Jason On Apr 26, 3:11 pm, John Mikes [EMAIL PROTECTED

Mouse brain simulated on a computer

2007-04-29 Thread Jason
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6600965.stm Jason --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group

Interesting talk about how our minds shape our perception of reality

2007-05-31 Thread Jason
I found interesting was his ideas of how other animal's brains might represent reality, and discusses bats seeing colors with their ears, or dogs being able to judge the size of molecules they smell. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6308228560462155344 Jason

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-03 Thread Jason
variety of levels and types of consciousness. Source: http://www.edge.org/q2007/q07_7.html Jason On Jun 3, 6:11 am, Stathis Papaioannou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/06/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you derive (a) ethics and (b) human-friendly ethics from

Re: Asifism

2007-06-09 Thread Jason
of physical events - there is nothing magical or special about - their reality is an illusion - they don't exist. However even if qualia/consciousness is an elaborate illusion then it is that illusion they are referring to when they claim to be conscious. Jason

Justifying the Theory of Everything

2007-06-29 Thread Jason
in hearing it. Thanks, Jason --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Penrose and algorithms

2007-07-06 Thread Jason
in stone. Jason --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options

Re: Information content of multiverse

2007-07-09 Thread Jason
of information required to describe what we observe is due to fact that what is observed in any particular observer moment is finite, therefore requiring some information to define its bounds. I hope I have understood that part correctly; if not Russell can correct me. Jason

Conscious States vs. Conscious Computations

2007-09-26 Thread Jason
, states may be interrelated to produce illusions of time to observers, observers exist in interactive environments, etc. In other words an OM requires more than the data describing the mind, it requires a specification of a state machine and the state which corresponds to the OM. Jason

Quantum Interference and the Plentitude

2007-12-20 Thread Jason
is quantum interference accommodated? Thanks, Jason --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send

Re: Ants are not conscious

2008-03-18 Thread Jason
of sophistication? I look forward to your response, Jason On Feb 27, 9:48 pm, Russell Standish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just submitted my ants are not conscious argument to a journal, and to arXiv. If you're interested, the arXiv identifier is arXiv:0802.4121. Please wait a few hours before

Re: Ants are not conscious

2008-03-25 Thread Jason
of it is that it says consciousness is the result of strange loops. Jason On Mar 22, 1:15 am, Russell Standish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 02:24:40AM -0700, Jason wrote: Hello Russell, Congratulations on your latest publication. Today on my way home I begin to question whether

Observer Moment or Observer Space?

2008-03-26 Thread Jason
experience. This reasoning implies that OM's can be different lengths of times for different observers, and no OM can be instantaneous. Simpler brained organisms such as flies might have an OM that spans much less time than a human brian's OM. Jason

Re: UDA Step 7

2008-03-27 Thread Jason
light cone for a given extent of time. If this universe is one mind, then the universal dovetailer would be a maximally conscious omega point, conscious of everything that can be perceived. Jason On Mar 25, 7:35 am, Günther Greindl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Bruno, I have used the Easter

Re: Observer Moment or Observer Space?

2008-03-28 Thread Jason
. protozoa or bacteria. I hope that I have bot burdened you with all these e-mails, this one will likely be my last on the topic of Ants are not conscious unless you or others have further questions about my view. Best Regards, Jason Resch On Mar 28, 2:17 am, Russell Standish [EMAIL PROTECTED

BBC Documentary on Hugh Everett by his son

2008-10-23 Thread Jason
and the former colleagues of his father—Hugh Everett— about his father's many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. Jason --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group

Re: Maudlin How many times does COMP have to be false before its false?

2011-02-03 Thread Jason
in the rock, for instance, is the function for determining if some word is known by the dictionary or not? Does the rock contain such a dictionary? Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email

Re: Maudlin How many times does COMP have to be false before its false?

2011-02-11 Thread Jason
On Feb 11, 1:39 pm, 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote: On Feb 10, 3:18 am, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: Brent and 1Z, The paper you referenced says the following: No doubt life, as we know it, depends sensitively on the parameters of our universe. However, other forms

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-04-20 Thread Jason Resch
lie: during the computation of information, the computed result, or in the computations upon the computed results. Maybe it requires a loop of such hierarchies as Douglas Hofstadter suggests. I don't have an answer but it is something I too wonder about. Jason On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:47 AM

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-04-22 Thread Jason Resch
. Jason --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-04-26 Thread Jason Resch
is important. Jason --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-04-26 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Kelly harmon...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 26, 2:01 pm, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: I am not sure that the measure problem can be so easily abandoned/ignored.  Assuming every Observer Moment had has an equal measure, then the random/white-noise

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-04-27 Thread Jason Resch
exclusive with happening more than once. The question is whether or not that makes any difference to the observer(s?). Jason On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Kelly harmon...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: In fact I used that same

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-04-29 Thread Jason Resch
the senses it looks like it gives up and invents patterns of its own. Jason --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-05-01 Thread Jason Resch
. This is a theorem in math. The rock? Show me just the 30 first steps of a computation of square-root(2). ... Bruno, I am interested about your statement regarding the Mandelbrot set implementing all computations, could you elaborate on this? Thank you, Jason

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-05-05 Thread Jason Resch
and multiplication are needed. Why is it that it stops at multiplication, and not exponentiation or tetration? Is it enough to say some form of iteration + succession are required? (e.g. a for loop with succession gives addition, a for loop with addition yields multiplication, etc.) Jason

Re: Temporary Reality

2009-05-07 Thread Jason Resch
experiences, meaning each of us is a small part of God. Interestingly you can somewhat map these different god definitions to the trinity from Christianity. Jason --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-05-12 Thread Jason Resch
to hopefully become more correct. I think it is good mental exercise to ponder the questions people on this list raise, and despite all the disagreement, chains of assumptions, and inability to test many of the conjectures I think this list is slowly making progress toward truth. Jason On Tue, May 12

Re: No MWI

2009-05-14 Thread Jason Resch
phenomenon in all of physics that violates CPT symmetry, Liouville's Theorem, and Special Relativity. In your original version, collapse would also have been the only phenomenon in all of physics that was inherently mental. Have I left anything out? Jason On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:06 AM, ronaldheld

Re: No MWI

2009-05-15 Thread Jason Resch
the computational feats of such computers are puny, people can choose to ignore the multiverse. But something will happen when the number of parallel calculations becomes very large, says Deutsch. If the number is 64, people can shut their eyes but if it's 1064, they will no longer be able to pretend. Jason

Re: No MWI

2009-05-16 Thread Jason Resch
Right, I copied and pasted it and it must have lost the superscript. Thanks for catching that. Jason On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:48 PM, russell standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 05:40:09PM -0500, Jason Resch wrote: Deutsch. If the number is 64, people can shut

Re: Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe

2009-06-01 Thread Jason Resch
the existence of god, souls, and life after death, but I don't know if he's ever revealed those proofs. It seems with Bruno's testable comp hypothesis we can do the same, depending on your definitions of god, souls, and life after death. Jason On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 2:20 PM, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-06-03 Thread Jason Resch
one that mind will find itself in is not knowable? The consequence being that all observers everywhere live in QM-like environments? Thanks, I look forward to your reply. Jason or do you count all appearance of matter to be only a description of a computation and not capable of true

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-06-04 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 03 Jun 2009, at 20:11, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Do you believe if we create a computer in this physical universe that it could be made conscious

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries 2

2009-06-04 Thread Jason Resch
and the result will always be 1 less than a square number. For example, 5*6*7*8 = 1680, which is 1 less than 1681, which is 41*41. Isn't that neat? Jason --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-04 Thread Jason Resch
Torngy, How many numbers do you think exist between 0 and 1? Certainly not only the ones we define, for then there would be a different quantity of numbers between 1 and 2, or 2 and 3. Jason On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Torgny Tholerus tor...@dsv.su.se wrote: Brian Tenneson skrev

Re: Ants are not conscious

2009-09-12 Thread Jason Resch
. If its level of surprise is greater than when repeated without the mirror, then one might conclude the animal anticipated being poked by the probe as it saw its reflection about to be touched. Jason On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Dr Nick m...@dtech.fsnet.co.uk wrote: Russell I notice

Re: Why I am I?

2009-12-06 Thread Jason Resch
software ran within the same computer? Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr

Re: Why I am I?

2009-12-10 Thread Jason Resch
, what do you mean by those close to the unique one? Would these be observers which appear early on in the Dovetailer Algorithm? Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l

Re: Why I am I?

2009-12-13 Thread Jason Resch
themselves must be treated as independent entities, as well as recursively applied relations for every number. Is there a simpler or more obvious way the existence of numbers yields the dovetailer? Thanks, Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything

New Paper by Thomas Hertog and Stephen Hawking

2009-12-28 Thread Jason Resch
over all possible histories. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com

Re: R/ASSA query

2010-01-13 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.comwrote: 2010/1/14 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com: Given the ways ASSA has been defined, I think there are two possible camps within ASSA. One that believes there is a next moment for you to experience, chosen

Everything List Survey

2010-01-13 Thread Jason Resch
for other questions, I could consolidate them into a more in-depth survey. Thanks, Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this g

Re: Everything List Survey

2010-01-13 Thread Jason Resch
There have been 9 responses so far, I've attached a preview of the results to this e-mail. Unfortunately there does not seem to be a way to make the results publicly viewable. With this free service, the survey will remain live until 10 days pass or until there are 50 responses. Jason On Wed

Re: R/ASSA query

2010-01-14 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:22 PM, russell standish li...@hpcoders.com.auwrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:21:34AM -0600, Jason Resch wrote: If you don't believe they are you, that would imply when you put a pot of coffee on the stove, you do so out of altruism. Since it only benefits those

Re: Everything List Survey

2010-01-16 Thread Jason Resch
On time, 73% take a block time perspective, while 19% believe in presentism, and 8% in possibilism (past and present only exist). Was there anyone who believed everything exists, but not in block time? Thanks to everyone for your participation. Jason On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Torgny

Re: R/ASSA query

2010-01-16 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Rex Allen rexallen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com wrote: Rex Allen wrote: What caused it to exist? Who said it needs a cause? Why this reality as opposed to nothing? Given the principle of

Re: R/ASSA query

2010-01-17 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Rex Allen rexallen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Rex Allen rexallen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Brent Meeker meeke

Re: measure again '10

2010-01-27 Thread Jason Resch
in the average. I think applying one of these philosophies could shed some light on the inherent goodness or badness when it comes to ending a copy. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email

Re: problem of size '10

2010-01-27 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Jack Mallah jackmal...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm replying to this bit seperately since Bruno touched on a different issue than the others have. My reply to the main measure again '10 thread will follow under the original title. --- On Wed, 1/27/10, Bruno Marchal

Re: the redness of the red

2010-01-31 Thread Jason Resch
the redness of red, but the software simulation would not. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list

Re: the redness of the red

2010-01-31 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:10 PM, soulcatcher☠ soulcatche...@gmail.comwrote: I see a red rose. You see a red rose. Is your experience of redness the same as mine? 1. Yes, they are identical. 2. They are different

Re: the redness of the red

2010-01-31 Thread Jason Resch
, the more room there is for possible difference. Jason My (naive) answer is (3). Our experiences are identical (would a correct term be 'ontologically identical'?) as long as they have the same symbolic representation and the symbols have the same grounding in the physical world. The part about

Re: the redness of the red

2010-02-01 Thread Jason Resch
within the code that informs the simulation how to evolve, just as the laws of physics would in a physical world. Do you see the meaning of physical laws being somehow different from the programmed laws that simulate an environment? Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: the redness of the red

2010-02-01 Thread Jason Resch
of red, when the robot brain would? Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr

Re: the redness of the red

2010-02-01 Thread Jason Resch
of red light or an internal property of you (the organization of neurons in your brain)? Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from

Re: the redness of the red

2010-02-01 Thread Jason Resch
given input from a video game) and you agree that a robot body with a software brain would be conscious, why would it stop working when you put a software brain in the same position as the brain in a vat? Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Definition of universe

2010-02-02 Thread Jason Resch
functions/machines? Thanks, Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com

Re: Definition of universe

2010-02-04 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 03 Feb 2010, at 15:49, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 03 Feb 2010, at 03:00, Jason Resch wrote: Is your point that with addition, multiplication

Many-worlds vs. Many-Minds

2010-02-21 Thread Jason Resch
evidence and the predicted probabilities? How does many-minds lead to interference patterns, or only allow a photon one exit path from an interferometer? Is this the primary question for computationalism to answer? Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: Many-worlds vs. Many-Minds

2010-02-21 Thread Jason Resch
of objective snapshots of universes also seems to conflict with the spacetime concept in relativity, which he says is only useful as an approximation. Has this been established or is it a theory of Deutsch's? Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Many-worlds vs. Many-Minds

2010-02-25 Thread Jason Resch
. Thus life evolves and we remember new things in the same direction of time. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send

Re: Many-worlds vs. Many-Minds

2010-02-25 Thread Jason Resch
On Feb 25, 2010, at 2:46 PM, Charles charlesrobertgood...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 26, 6:38 am, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: One approach to the problem that I heard regarding the arrow of time relates to the fact that storing information (either by the brain or in a DNA

Re: [Fwd: The Brain's Dark Energy Scien amer]

2010-02-26 Thread Jason Resch
to take the fact that there is some base level of neural activity and assume that it unlocks the key to Alzheimer's or consciousness, however. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email

Re: everything-list and the Singularity

2010-04-04 Thread Jason Resch
to create complex fitness tests, but evolution would hit a wall if it reached a point where DNA molecules couldn't get any longer. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l

Re: everything-list and the Singularity

2010-04-07 Thread Jason Resch
, there is nothing any uploaded person could do that would harm another uploaded person. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email

Re: everything-list and the Singularity

2010-04-09 Thread Jason Resch
it. When China tries to censor what its citizens see its populace can turn to technologies such as Tor, or secure proxies. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com

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