Re: Free will in MWI

2012-05-09 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2012/5/9 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 5/9/2012 2:15 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Maybe we need to number these: (1)...an external agent directly injected chemicals or electrical signals into your brain thereby causing a choice actually made by the external agent. To which you

Re: Free will in MWI

2012-05-09 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2012/5/9 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 5/9/2012 2:19 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: So: 1- If someone is threatening me via my senses (via a weapons he holds, on some forces he acts upon me... I still have free will, I've still the ability to choose, some choices are more dangerous, I'm

Re: Free will in MWI

2012-05-17 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2012/5/17 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com On May 17, 12:01 am, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote I don't say that [the free will noise] means you're not deterministic, I would be glad to hear you

Re: Honey Bee

2014-05-04 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-05-04 6:24 GMT+02:00 LizR lizj...@gmail.com: On 4 May 2014 15:20, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: I have forwarded your query to an expert in Arabic Grammar. Your quote from Wikipedia is correct. What I can inform you, based on my understanding, is that the pronoun 'ha' used

Re: Evolution from Scripture

2014-05-05 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-05-05 10:30 GMT+02:00 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com: On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:48 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 May 2014 13:57, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: It creates a parallel medium of exchange in which those who make bitcoins first hope to profit from

Re: TRONNIES

2014-05-06 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-05-06 17:32 GMT+02:00 John Ross jr...@trexenterprises.com: All 101 of my “predictions” are predictions. I looked up “prediction”. It means: “Something foretold or predicted”. You do not predict anything about observed things... your points are about things in your theory... What does

Re: TRONNIES

2014-05-07 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-05-07 11:13 GMT+02:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 06 May 2014, at 20:22, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 6:07:27 PM UTC+1, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 May 2014, at 18:08, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 4:59:12 PM UTC+1, ghi...@gmail.com

Re: TRONNIES

2014-05-07 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-05-07 17:20 GMT+02:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 07 May 2014, at 11:41, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-05-07 11:13 GMT+02:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 06 May 2014, at 20:22, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: snip But you do not ever make a hard prediction Bruno

Re: Is Consciousness Computable?

2014-05-10 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-05-11 0:58 GMT+02:00 LizR lizj...@gmail.com: On 10 May 2014 23:30, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 May 2014 20:12, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 8:30 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 May 2014 17:30, Stathis Papaioannou

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-20 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-05-20 8:28 GMT+02:00 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com: What about the waste tails he alludes to. I had not known that they had actually constructed and tested U233 bombs – had always thought it was a hypothetical problem rather than an actual and

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-20 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-05-20 17:55 GMT+02:00 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com: *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Quentin Anciaux *Sent:* Monday, May 19, 2014 11:49 PM *To:* everything-list

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-20 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-05-20 18:44 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 5/19/2014 11:48 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: These are valid criticisms that are very much not administrative nature but cut right to the core [pun intended] of a world in which a multitude of thorium U233 breeder reactors

Re: TRONNIES

2014-05-27 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-05-27 23:46 GMT+02:00 John Ross jr...@trexenterprises.com: Thank you, whoever it was that wrote the long paragraph. It reminds me of the only lawyer joke that I can remember. “Why do they bury Lawyers 8 feet deep.” “Because down deep they are not too bad.” I did learn the Law of

Re: So, a new kind of non-boolean, non-digital, computer architecture

2014-05-28 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-05-28 17:45 GMT+02:00 ghib...@gmail.com: On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 3:13:44 AM UTC+1, Stephen Paul King wrote: To detect someone with Down's syndrome, sequence data is completely useless. Please elaborate! I do know of other ways that data can be organized...all I was actually

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-05 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Maybe it's when people post directly via googlegroups and not via their email client ? 2014-06-05 19:28 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: Why do these posts appear with the From line EveryThing instead of with the senders name? Brent On 6/5/2014 10:04 AM, spudboy100 via

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-06 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-06-06 16:57 GMT+02:00 spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com: This is fascinating, and I have had such experiences as well. I was warned against certain areas and I went there anyway. They looked more grimy, but never had a problem. I fondly remember a poor

Re: O-machines

2014-06-18 Thread Quentin Anciaux
It seems to me Olympia is a simple table lookup for the input, the argument he uses to place it in the oracle camp seems invalid to me, he posits that he is able to construct a lookup table that contains the result of the halting problem... and because such table is a lookup table, all lookup

Re: O-machines

2014-06-18 Thread Quentin Anciaux
, the lookup plays the role of an oracle... that doesn't mean every lookup is an oracle. Quentin Or does it??? On 18 June 2014 18:37, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: It seems to me Olympia is a simple table lookup for the input, the argument he uses to place it in the oracle camp

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-06-19 19:25 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: You mean that you made many attempts to find a blunder, but we were more than three to show you that in each case, you were confusing 1-views and 3-views.

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-06-19 21:10 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: you accept 1/3 distinction in MWI Forget MWI, EVERYBODY who is not in a padded cell accepts the 1/3 distinction. please do not come again

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-06-19 21:55 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: No the I before measuring the spin, is as clear as the I pushing the button, no confusion... When I ask that I what is the probability he'll see spin up

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-06-19 22:52 GMT+02:00 Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com: 2014-06-19 21:55 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: No the I before measuring the spin, is as clear as the I pushing the button

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-20 Thread Quentin Anciaux
You're so full of it... well I won't enter with you again on this debate... I've waited too much years... so ok. Byebye 2014-06-20 21:28 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: And in the MWI how will YOU know

Re: Disproving physicalism from COMP

2014-06-25 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-06-25 6:52 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 6/24/2014 2:29 AM, LizR wrote: On 24 June 2014 17:04, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: If primitive matter existed, and if it has a role for consciousness, or for consciousness instantiation, step 8, and the argument above,

Re: Disproving physicalism from COMP

2014-06-25 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-06-25 10:15 GMT+02:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 25 Jun 2014, at 09:40, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-06-25 6:52 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 6/24/2014 2:29 AM, LizR wrote: On 24 June 2014 17:04, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: If primitive matter

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-29 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 29 juin 2014 18:33, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com a écrit : On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:54 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: the H-guy cannot be sure about its future 1-view *from the unique 1-view Unique? That implies that there is one and only one correct answer to the

Re: American Intelligence

2014-06-30 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-06-30 14:38 GMT+02:00 spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com: Well, I somehow do remember MAD, and it worked with the Sovs, but I suspect less so with Iran, Isis and North Kor. Do you disagree? Yes, from what I've read, a local nuclear conflict is pretty sure to

Re: American Intelligence

2014-06-30 Thread Quentin Anciaux
those countries, China and Russia (and others who have the bomb) will do nothing ? Quentin -Original Message- From: Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Jun 30, 2014 10:16 am Subject: Re: American Intelligence

Re: American Intelligence

2014-06-30 Thread Quentin Anciaux
:07 GMT+02:00 Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com: The USA has the capacity to destroy the missile before it even touch the US... USA has not the capacity to do this for all the Russian ICBM *by treaties* not because it's too difficult... USA has enough anti-ICBM to destroy any north korean ICBM

Re: American Intelligence

2014-07-02 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-02 3:30 GMT+02:00 LizR lizj...@gmail.com: On 2 July 2014 11:09, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: SMad will likely not work with say, an Iranian guv mint, but it worked ok with the Sovs. You fear a Pyrrhic victory, I fear capitulation. Yes,

Re: Tyson is not atheist (was Re: So, a new kind of non-boolean, non-digital, computer architecture

2014-07-02 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-02 17:08 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Atheism, as I know it, is a slight variant of christianism. Therefore I repeat what I said before, at least one of the following two statements must be true:

Re: Tyson is not atheist (was Re: So, a new kind of non-boolean, non-digital, computer architecture

2014-07-02 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-02 19:23 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: Atheism, as I know it, is a slight variant of christianism. Therefore I repeat what I said before, at least one of the following two statements must

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-03 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-03 21:51 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I predict that the H-guy will see Helsinki, unless you destroy him immediately after duplication That is indeed the case in the step 3 protocol. Fine,

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-08 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-08 21:23 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/8/2014 11:56 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-07-08 20:47 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/8/2014 10:43 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 07 Jul 2014, at 21:13, meekerdb wrote: On 7/7/2014 8:14 AM, David Nyman

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-08 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 8 juil. 2014 22:56, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net a écrit : On 7/8/2014 12:57 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-07-08 21:23 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/8/2014 11:56 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-07-08 20:47 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/8/2014

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-08 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 9 juil. 2014 01:09, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net a écrit : On 7/8/2014 3:26 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Le 8 juil. 2014 22:56, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net a écrit : On 7/8/2014 12:57 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-07-08 21:23 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-09 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-09 2:36 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/8/2014 4:26 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Le 9 juil. 2014 01:09, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net a écrit : On 7/8/2014 3:26 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Le 8 juil. 2014 22:56, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net a écrit : On 7

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-09 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-09 20:35 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/8/2014 11:13 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: That's what I said. And I think it fails to show that no physical instantiation is necessary because it relies on the meaning given to the original computational sequence to impute

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-09 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-10 1:44 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/9/2014 11:38 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-07-09 20:35 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/8/2014 11:13 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: That's what I said. And I think it fails to show that no physical

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-09 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-10 1:51 GMT+02:00 Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com: 2014-07-10 1:44 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/9/2014 11:38 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-07-09 20:35 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/8/2014 11:13 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: That's what

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-09 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 10 juil. 2014 03:12, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net a écrit : On 7/9/2014 4:51 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-07-10 1:44 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/9/2014 11:38 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-07-09 20:35 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/8/2014 11

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-09 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 10 juil. 2014 03:15, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net a écrit : On 7/9/2014 4:59 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-07-10 1:51 GMT+02:00 Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com: 2014-07-10 1:44 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/9/2014 11:38 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-07

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-10 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-10 8:06 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/9/2014 10:54 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: That means if the digital brain needed to interact with our environment, the program would be linked to sensors giving it inputs to interact with the world out there (the sensors

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-10 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-10 20:39 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/10/2014 4:08 AM, David Nyman wrote: In short, under physicalism, a 'computation' *just is* a particular sequence of physical states. Indeed what else could it be? The states, so to speak, come first and hence the notion that

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-10 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-10 21:56 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/10/2014 12:19 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-07-10 20:39 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/10/2014 4:08 AM, David Nyman wrote: In short, under physicalism, a 'computation' *just is* a particular sequence

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-10 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-10 22:21 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/10/2014 12:49 PM, David Nyman wrote: On 10 July 2014 19:39, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: In short, under physicalism, a 'computation' *just is* a particular sequence of physical states. Indeed what else could it be?

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-10 Thread Quentin Anciaux
ni Le 10 juil. 2014 22:49, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net a écrit : On 7/10/2014 1:24 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-07-10 22:21 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/10/2014 12:49 PM, David Nyman wrote: On 10 July 2014 19:39, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: In short

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-10 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 10 juil. 2014 22:46, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net a écrit : On 7/10/2014 1:21 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-07-10 21:56 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/10/2014 12:19 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-07-10 20:39 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/10

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-10 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 10 juil. 2014 23:40, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net a écrit : On 7/10/2014 2:08 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Le 10 juil. 2014 22:46, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net a écrit : On 7/10/2014 1:21 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-07-10 21:56 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-10 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 11 juil. 2014 01:55, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net a écrit : On 7/10/2014 2:46 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Le 10 juil. 2014 23:40, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net a écrit : On 7/10/2014 2:08 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Le 10 juil. 2014 22:46, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net a écrit

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-10 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 11 juil. 2014 02:15, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net a écrit : On 7/10/2014 5:01 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: It's my example and ex hypothesi they do go through the same states, they're just *about* different things. Either both are the same computation and goes through the same state

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-11 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-11 8:10 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/10/2014 10:45 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Le 11 juil. 2014 02:15, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net a écrit : On 7/10/2014 5:01 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: It's my example and ex hypothesi they do go through the same states

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-11 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-11 8:48 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/10/2014 11:45 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-07-11 8:10 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/10/2014 10:45 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Le 11 juil. 2014 02:15, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net a écrit : On 7/10

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-11 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 11 juil. 2014 19:41, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com a écrit : On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:37 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: If the MWI is correct, the electron spin question is equivalent to the teleporter question. No it is not and I've given my reasons why it is not over and over

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-12 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 12 juil. 2014 19:34, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com a écrit : On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: If there are two (and there are) why didn't Bruno Marchal ask what cities John Clark will see from *a* 1p? That is the 3p view *on* the future 1-views. The?

Re: Brent's circular ontology [was: Is Consciousness Computable?]

2014-07-12 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-12 21:17 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/12/2014 1:23 AM, LizR wrote: Brent, You left me hanging a week or so ago, and never got back to me about something I'm interested in finding out more about. On 2 July 2014 23:14, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 July

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-12 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-12 21:28 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/12/2014 2:16 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Jul 2014, at 22:26, meekerdb wrote: On 7/11/2014 11:21 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Jul 2014, at 09:41, David Nyman wrote: On 11 July 2014 00:54, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net

Re: Atheist

2014-07-12 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-12 21:34 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/12/2014 4:23 AM, LizR wrote: On 12 July 2014 07:58, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: Liz, you missed my words about 'atheist' and 'agnostic'. Fighting AGAINST something reqires SOME concept of the enemy, so an atheist

Re: Brent's circular ontology [was: Is Consciousness Computable?]

2014-07-12 Thread Quentin Anciaux
' those marvels. The most is: 'which MAY BE true (or not). On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-07-12 21:17 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/12/2014 1:23 AM, LizR wrote: Brent, You left me hanging a week or so ago, and never

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-13 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 13 juil. 2014 03:31, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au a écrit : On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 02:01:38AM +0200, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Either both are the same computation and goes through the same state computing the same thing or they're not and don't go through the same state

Re: What's the answer? What's the question?

2014-07-13 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 13 juil. 2014 09:58, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com a écrit : Le 13 juil. 2014 03:31, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au a écrit : On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 02:01:38AM +0200, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Either both are the same computation and goes through the same state

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

2014-07-13 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 13 juil. 2014 10:21, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com a écrit : 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. Don't be worried, fascists

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

2014-07-13 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 13 juil. 2014 10:34, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com a écrit : 2014-07-13 10:24 GMT+02:00, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com: Le 13 juil. 2014 10:21, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com a écrit : Comrades: Textile plants demand also a lot of energy. Do will be allowed

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

2014-07-13 Thread Quentin Anciaux
comrades, and maybe more capable to grasp one day the terrible consequences of this evil planetarian cult. 2014-07-13 10:54 GMT+02:00, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com: Le 13 juil. 2014 10:34, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com a écrit : 2014-07-13 10:24 GMT+02:00, Quentin Anciaux allco

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-13 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 13 juil. 2014 12:42, LizR lizj...@gmail.com a écrit : On 12 July 2014 23:14, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 July 2014 05:41, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:37 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: If the MWI is correct, the electron spin question is

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

2014-07-13 Thread Quentin Anciaux
. 2014-07-13 11:24 GMT+02:00, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com: Le 13 juil. 2014 11:11, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com a écrit : No doubt you have evil inside. And your sense of humorI know some famous political psychopaths that would sign that joke. You're a joke. Don't

Re: Atheist

2014-07-14 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-14 12:09 GMT+02:00 Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com: Why do you need to see God to believe in God? Why should you believe if you can know ? If you can't, why should you believe instead of not believing or go eating an hamburger ? Quentin On 14-Jul-2014, at 2:14 am, meekerdb

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

2014-07-14 Thread Quentin Anciaux
-13 14:30 GMT+02:00, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com: Le 13 juil. 2014 14:22, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com a écrit : I see Ladies and gentleman: this is the shape of things to come. Nothing new under the sun. To appease your sadness, me and my evil friends will ensure

Re: Atheist

2014-07-14 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-14 17:13 GMT+02:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 14 Jul 2014, at 12:53, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-07-14 12:09 GMT+02:00 Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com: Why do you need to see God to believe in God? Why should you believe if you can know ? If you can't, why should

Re: Atheist

2014-07-14 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-14 17:50 GMT+02:00 Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com: On 14-Jul-2014, at 11:25 am, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-07-14 17:13 GMT+02:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 14 Jul 2014, at 12:53, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-07-14 12:09 GMT+02:00 Samiya

Re: Atheist

2014-07-14 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 14 juil. 2014 22:34, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com a écrit : On 14-Jul-2014, at 12:00 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-07-14 17:50 GMT+02:00 Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com: On 14-Jul-2014, at 11:25 am, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Atheist

2014-07-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
May I suggest you try water instead of corona ? Or maybe coconut water ? it may help you to climb faster... 2014-07-15 13:44 GMT+02:00 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com: Poor you. It must be very hard to live with such insane hate against men. It must hurt you a lot. You need help.

Re: Atheist

2014-07-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
are. Perhaps too much atheism can endanger the cognitive hability for creating good jokes. I don´t know. Or it may be the consequences of too much exposition to this particular atheists affirmation group. Some controlled experiments are necessary. 2014-07-15 13:49 GMT+02:00, Quentin Anciaux

Re: Atheist

2014-07-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-15 14:39 GMT+02:00 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com: This new joke is even worse Try burning something. Hmm good idea, are you free for dinner ? You are sick of hate, and you also are badly in need of help. 2014-07-15 14:24 GMT+02:00, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com

Re: Atheist

2014-07-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-15 22:10 GMT+02:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 14 Jul 2014, at 17:25, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-07-14 17:13 GMT+02:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 14 Jul 2014, at 12:53, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-07-14 12:09 GMT+02:00 Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com

Re: Atheist

2014-07-16 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-16 19:22 GMT+02:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 15 Jul 2014, at 22:14, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-07-15 22:10 GMT+02:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 14 Jul 2014, at 17:25, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-07-14 17:13 GMT+02:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be

Re: Atheist

2014-07-17 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-17 17:04 GMT+02:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 16 Jul 2014, at 19:31, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-07-16 19:22 GMT+02:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 15 Jul 2014, at 22:14, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-07-15 22:10 GMT+02:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be

Re: John Searle on consciousness

2014-07-30 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-29 16:30 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:22 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: whatever a computer does is just the movement of electrons around circuits And whatever a human brain does is just the movement of molecules and ions around

Re: The game explained to soft ecologist, ecoalarmist and alternative energy lovers

2014-08-07 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-08-07 3:47 GMT+02:00 Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au: She lost me at about 6 minutes, which was all I was prepared to give her to convince me she is not a total fruitloop. mass surveillance by smart power meters? carbon tax inpingin on civil liberties? mass drug programmes of the

Re: The game explained to soft ecologist, ecoalarmist and alternative energy lovers

2014-08-07 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-08-07 8:57 GMT+02:00 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com: I see that not only Chris and Quentin will receive their bicycle and their police badge. See what I mean ... You should take your pill (we will then come for you with our police badge). 2014-08-07 3:47 GMT+02:00 Russell

Re: The game explained to soft ecologist, ecoalarmist and alternative energy lovers

2014-08-07 Thread Quentin Anciaux
movement. Cheers -Original Message- From: Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-lisThe t...@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, Aug 7, 2014 2:59 am Subject: Re: The game explained to soft ecologist, ecoalarmist and alternative energy lovers 2014-08-07 3:47

Re: The game explained to soft ecologist, ecoalarmist and alternative energy lovers

2014-08-07 Thread Quentin Anciaux
You see, you're a quick learner... in no time, you'll ask big brother to forgive you... and he will ! Happy bonfire ! 2014-08-07 16:43 GMT+02:00 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com: sorry: ultramegasuperfascist, instead of ultramegsperfascist. and even

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-14 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 15 août 2014 06:41, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net a écrit : On 8/14/2014 8:32 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 08:12:30PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: That does seem strange, but I don't know that it strikes me as *absurd*. Isn't it clearer that a recording is not a

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 15 août 2014 07:29, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au a écrit : On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 06:52:47AM +0200, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Le 15 août 2014 06:41, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net a écrit : OK. So do you think consciousness supervenes on such a simple computation - one

Re: Comp and logical supervenience

2014-08-21 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Surely, it's because computationalism is a theory of the mind... Don't you think? Le 21 août 2014 11:52, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com a écrit : Bruno: We assume comp, which requires consciousness by definition. Richard: I sure did miss that part. I presumed that consciousness required

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-03 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-09-03 18:38 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 7:54 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: on Bruno's theory, consciousness is a binary attribute, all-or-nothing. Intelligence has degrees If that is true (and I'm not saying it is) then we can

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-09-17 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-09-17 19:09 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 3:35 AM, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Consciousness is “all or nothing”. Then why can't you remember the split second before you fall asleep? If it's all or nothing why would anybody say stay

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-09-23 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-09-23 16:20 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Matter is a possible means to implement universal machine. That is of course in need to be explained when we assume comp. And this is a example of why I'm

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-09-23 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-09-23 18:05 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: And this is a example of why I'm so certain that regardless of what you say comp is NOT just a abbreviation for computationalism. Computationalism says

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-09-23 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 23 sept. 2014 22:35, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com a écrit : On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: Please explain how you could organize matter, or organize anything else, without using information. And if it involves information

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-09-23 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-09-24 0:36 GMT+02:00 Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au: On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 04:57:20PM +0200, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-09-23 16:20 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: And this is a example of why I'm so certain that regardless of what you say comp is NOT just

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-09-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-09-24 8:58 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 9/23/2014 10:52 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: And I said it was also functionalism, because it was suggested that copying the arrangement of matter in the same fashion would result in the same consciousness... that could be false even

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-09-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-09-24 18:56 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: George Cantor showed how to organize infinities, how to put them into categories for example; but the method for doing so involves a finite amount

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-09-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-09-24 19:43 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:52 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: basically the idea that consciousness supervenes on matter. Yes sure... but it is not computationalism, materialism does not say anything about the mind

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-09-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-09-24 19:55 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: Do you deny some things are not computable ? As I've already said, Turing proved 85 years ago that some things are not computable. Do you claim

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-09-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 24 sept. 2014 23:37, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com a écrit : On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: If infinite precision is required then you become a new person every time you take a sip of coffee, in fact you become a new person every time a gas

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-10-01 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-10-01 9:09 GMT+02:00 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com: On 30 Sep 2014, at 19:32, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Computationalism is the theory that the human brain is a computer, a type information

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-10-08 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Waouw, the great John Clark got it all... he knows everything in nature is computable, that computationalism is true... and the best, he doesn't need to prove it or provide an argument... it is so self evident. I wonder why he didn't get the Nobel prize. Le 8 oct. 2014 23:16, John Clark

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-10-09 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-10-09 21:11 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: Waouw, the great John Clark got it all... he knows everything in nature is computable All the great John Clark knows is that as of today nobody anywhere

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-10-09 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-10-09 22:02 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: As of todays nobody has shown how consciousness works And what reason do you have to believe that consciousness has anything to do with solving NP

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