Re: Re: Re: Can computers be conscious ? Re: Zombieopolis ThoughtExperiment

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
seem to believe, it can think without considering it as a monad. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Roger Clough Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-08, 09:25:50

The fundamental problem

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Alberto G. Corona IMHO the bottom line revolves around the problem of solipsism, which is that we cannot prove that other people or objects have minds, we can only say at most that they appear to have minds. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially

I believe that comp's requirement is one of as if rather than is

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
is as if rather than is. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Alberto G. Corona Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-08, 15:12:22 Subject: Re: What Kant did

Experiences are not provable because they are private, personal.

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
to others, but certain to oneself. 3. Numbers, being other than oneself, might possibly have experiences, but they cannot share them with us. They can only share descriptions of experiences, not the experiences themselves (or even if those experiences exist). Roger rclo...@verizon.net 10

Re: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-08, 10:19:35 Subject: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment Hi

Re: Conjoined Twins

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-08, 12:02:27 Subject: Conjoined Twins Have a look

Re: Conjoined Twins

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg The subjective aspect (Firstness), some of which apparently each twin has, is not shareable, only descriptions of it (Thirdness) are shareable. Firstness. What is shareable is Thirdness. What cannot be shared is Firstness. Thirdness is the description of Roger Clough, rclo

Re: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg Consciousness had to arise before language. Apes are conscious. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list

Re: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-08, 14:25:15 Subject: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

Re: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg They can only disagree about experiences that are spoken. -- 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

Re: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg There are three things: 1) The experiences of each twin, which may be the same or differ (we'll never know). 2) What they describe or interpret of their experiences in words. 3) They may the same experience but describe it differently. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net

Consciousness is a faraway land

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
. The experience of religion is called faith, what we can share is called beliefs. So we can truly know things about religion that we can only partly explain or prove. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving

Re: AGI

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi John Mikes Intelligence is the ability to make decisions without outside help. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: John Mikes Receiver: yanniru Time: 2012-10

Can AGI be proven ?

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
of that private experience. Proveable yes or no. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-08, 14:22:20 Subject: Re: The real

Only you can know if you actually have intelligence

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb Only you can know if you actually have intelligence, although you can appear to have intelligence (as if). You can be tested for it. Thus comp is not different from us, or at least it has the same limitations. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time

A clearer definition of the self

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
above. In the meeting place of the above and the below there exists, analogous to Maxwell's Demon, the active agent called the self. The self makes sense of sensual data and stores that in memory. We have learned something. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time

On Beauty

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Platonist Guitar Cowboy The definition of beauty that I like is that beauty is unity in diversity. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Platonist Guitar Cowboy

Nature's firewall

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stathis, The separation you missed is that mind and consciousness are subjective entities(not shareable), while computations are objective (shareable). Nature put a firewall between these so we don't get them confused. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time

Re: Re: Re: On complexity and bottom-up theories and calculations

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Roger Clough Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Roger Clough Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-08, 09:19:40 Subject: Re: Re: On complexity and bottom-up

Has man created an AGI ? Maybe ?

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb We don't know, nor can we ever know for certain, that man has created an AGI, because actual intelligence is subjective, so only the AGI itself can know if it is truly intelligent. The best we can do is test it to see if it acts as if it has intelligence. Roger Clough, rclo

Re: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: meekerdb Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-08, 17:18:59 Subject: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment On 10/8/2012

more firewalls

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist Nature has put a firewall between subjective entities such as monads and objective entities such as BECs or the manifolds. When I said attached I should have said associated to. There's no physical, only logical connections. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012

Popper's faulty epistemology

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
already know and either identifies it as such or modifies it to another, newly invented or associated description. If you see two apples, it then calls the image two apples. Thirdness is what you then call it and can express to others. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long

the self as active agent

2012-10-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb IMHO self is an active agent, something like Maxwell's Demon, that can intelligently sort raw experiences into meaningful bins, such as Kant's categories, thus giving them some meaning. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/9/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end

Re: Re: On Beauty

2012-10-10 Thread Roger Clough
being. But with the last note it is quiet. I reach over and straighten an imprecision of the flowers. - Roger Clough If you wish to unsubscribe from these occasional postings, simply reply with unsubscribe in the subject line. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/10/2012 Forever

Re: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-10 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb 1) If you do not have subjective experience, you are dead. So subjectivity is necessary for evolution. 2) The self cannot be an illusion, for it is the perceiver. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/10/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen

Re: Yes, Doctor!

2012-10-10 Thread Roger Clough
bother me. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/10/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Kim Jones Receiver: Everything List Time: 2012-10-10, 02:54:07 Subject: Yes, Doctor! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news

Re: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-10 Thread Roger Clough
/ \ / \ / \ / life \ /\ / \ free will--intelligence Roger

Re: Re: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-10 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Roger Clough Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/10/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Roger Clough Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-10, 07:31:58 Subject: Re: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

Re: Re: Experiences are not provable because they are private, personal.

2012-10-10 Thread Roger Clough
ROGER: Hi Bruno Marchal and Stathis, 1. Only entities in spacetime physically exist, and thus can be measured and proven. BRUNO: Too much vague to me. I am OK, and I am not OK, for different reasonable intepretations of what you say here. I doubt something in physics can be proved

Re: Re: Only you can know if you actually have intelligence

2012-10-10 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stathis Papaioannou You can be tested for intelligence, but the enduring solipsist problem shows that you cannot be tested for consciousness. At least nobody seems to have come up with such a test. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/10/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near

Re: Re: Nature's firewall

2012-10-10 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stathis Papaioannou Only the computation could know that. We can only know our own minds. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/10/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stathis Papaioannou Receiver

Re: Re: more firewalls

2012-10-10 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist What makes you think it is false ? Please be specific. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/10/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Richard Ruquist Receiver: everything-list Time

Re: Re: more firewalls

2012-10-10 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/10/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Richard Ruquist Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-09, 08:25:10 Subject: Re: more firewalls Hi Roger, What

Confusions of types

2012-10-11 Thread Roger Clough
of idealism. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/11/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Richard Ruquist Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-10, 15:52:29 Subject: Re: Re: more firewalls Craig

Impossible connections

2012-10-11 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist Here you go again. Monads are basically ideas. The BECs are physical. No physical connection is possible between ideas and things. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/11/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following

The non-existence of spacetime

2012-10-11 Thread Roger Clough
a formality. So neither space and time nor spacetime physically exist, and can't appear as monads. That being so, the universe consists only of monads in Leibniz's philosophy, an infinite overlay of dots of true reality. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/11/2012 Forever is a long time

Some light at the end of Solipsism's tunnel.

2012-10-11 Thread Roger Clough
(ie they both see a bluebird or the number 4848475) they can publicly check their personal experiences. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/11/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver

All life is conscious because all life has to make decisions.

2012-10-11 Thread Roger Clough
with). For fight or flight among higher animals, the animal in an encounter has to ask itself, if only visually: 1. Is it dangerous ? 2. Is it bigger than I am ? 3. Can it run faster than I can ? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/11/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody

Re: Re: Only you can know if you actually have intelligence

2012-10-11 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal I was thinking of, say, a gnat, the intelligence perhaps being yes or no in favor of survival. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/11/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal

can you test the intelligence of an aig ?

2012-10-11 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal You would have to set up a carefully selected intelligence test to test the intelligence of an AIG. Would it then really have intelligence ? I don't think so. You'd have to cheat with pre-supplied answers. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/11/2012 Forever is a long

Re: Survey of Consciousness Models

2012-10-11 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg Cool. I just signed up at tumblr previously. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/11/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-10

Leibniz: How to avoid the need for a firewall

2012-10-11 Thread Roger Clough
a materialist and simply ignore the incompatibility of interactions between the nonphysical mind and the physical brain. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/11/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg

Monads, dreams and NDEs

2012-10-11 Thread Roger Clough
and there are always distortions. It's sometimes called the dream state or the collective unconscious. I believe that myth and story are integral parts of it. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/11/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following

John Doe's monad

2012-10-11 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg A whole man has a monad called, let's say, John Doe. That's the unchanging identity of his soul= monad. Technically a man's soul is called a spirit by L, but I just use soul to avoid confusion. Within John's monad=soul is a homunculus that has its own homunculus mind that

On monads and vitalism

2012-10-11 Thread Roger Clough
signs of life than nature shows you. No magic involved. Bounce a ball, eat a cake, etc. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/11/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list

I think Monads may be the strategy to allow internal changes within Platonia

2012-10-11 Thread Roger Clough
, each of which contains rapidly changing data. The the data in each file instantly reflects the data in all of the other files, each data set from a unique perspective. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/11/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen -- You received

Re: Re: Impossible connections

2012-10-11 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist Only the path is warped. If there's anything in it, it will be accordingly displaced. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/11/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Richard Ruquist

Re: Re: Conscious robots

2012-10-11 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Evgenii Rudnyi The following components are inextricably mixed: life, consciousness, free will, intelligence you can't have one without the others, and (or because) they're all nonphysical, all subjective. So only the computer can know for sure if it has any of these. Roger Clough, rclo

Re: Re: Impossible connections

2012-10-11 Thread Roger Clough
, must therefore be wrong.[8] Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/11/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-11, 08:11:17 Subject: Re: Impossible

Re: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment

2012-10-11 Thread Roger Clough
Hi John Clark Free Will-- You need enough freedom to make a choice of your own. Or apparently of your own choice. Strictly speaking, I prefer the term self-determination meaning by anything inside your skin. That's the self. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/11/2012 Forever

Re: Re: On monads and vitalism

2012-10-11 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist He didn't in so many words, you have to study his philosophy. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/11/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Richard Ruquist Receiver: everything-list

Re: Re: Re: Impossible connections

2012-10-12 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist So what's your problem ? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/12/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Richard Ruquist Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-11, 11:35:29 Subject

Simulation and comp

2012-10-12 Thread Roger Clough
to bode well for comp. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/12/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-11, 11:08:04 Subject: Re: Universe on a Chip

Re: Re: I believe that comp's requirement is one of as if rather thanis

2012-10-12 Thread Roger Clough
Hi John Clark I have no money on this issue. I'd be very happy if you could tell me how to determine if a computer has intelligence, free will, consciousness or life. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/12/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen

The missing agent of materialism

2012-10-12 Thread Roger Clough
, the self is a monad. Materialism does not seem to have such an agent. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/12/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: John Clark Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-11, 13:14:54

Re: Re: Re: Conscious robots

2012-10-12 Thread Roger Clough
of intelligence. QED Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/12/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Russell Standish Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-11, 16:53:42 Subject: Re: Re: Conscious robots On Thu

Re: Re: Simulation and comp

2012-10-12 Thread Roger Clough
locally flow backwards. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/12/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Richard Ruquist Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-12, 07:45:19 Subject: Re: Simulation and comp

Re: Re: Re: Re: Impossible connections

2012-10-12 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist I don't think he meant that spacetime physically exists. Spacetime is a formalism. Formalisms don't physically exist. In fact nothing theoretical physically exists. The pythagorean theorem doesn't physically exist. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/12/2012 Forever

How many monads are there ?

2012-10-12 Thread Roger Clough
. In the same way neither substance nor attribute can enter from without into a monad. --- Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/12/2012 Forever

The bdi model of life-- as assigned to the monad

2012-10-12 Thread Roger Clough
intelligence. It is not general intelligence.We have also a focused curiosity but it is not so narrow.? Alberto 2012/10/11 Russell Standish On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:13:06AM -0400, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Evgenii Rudnyi The following components are inextricably mixed: life, consciousness

The monad somewhat resembles a platonic form (platonic substance)

2012-10-12 Thread Roger Clough
monad must be the whole man. Which is indicated by his monads' rating as being a soul (here technically called a spirit by Leibniz) . Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/12/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen -- You received this message because you

Re: Re: Simulation and comp

2012-10-12 Thread Roger Clough
ROGER: Hi Bruno Marchal Not all simulations that work in Platonia can work down here in Contingia. BRUNO: I doubt this. ROGER: Things do not change in Platonia but they do on earth. (previously) For example, time in principle can flow backward up there but it can not flow

Re: Re: more firewalls

2012-10-12 Thread Roger Clough
(as they supposedly do) that are unpredictable. But whether this is truly free is the big question. Perhaps it may only depend on your definition of freedom. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/12/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following

Re: Re: Continuous Game of Life

2012-10-12 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal Life is whatever operates autonomously, not following any rules, laws, or programs. Thus a Turing machine cannot be part of a live creature. Even if it reprograms itself, it must be constrained by the computer language and operating system. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net

Re: Re: Continuous Game of Life

2012-10-12 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg I would begin to believe that that life-game is conscious if there is some sort of shepherding done by a shepherd. A watcher and director. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/12/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving

Re: Re: The missing agent of materialism

2012-10-12 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg There's no proof, only a very reasonable expectation. Science could not work if things happened for no reason. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/12/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From

Cause and sufficient reason.

2012-10-13 Thread Roger Clough
, it doesn't matter. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/13/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: John Clark Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-12, 16:25:16 Subject: Re: The missing agent of materialism

Re: Re: Re: Re: Conscious robots

2012-10-13 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Russell Standish I should stay away from discussing bacteria. Brownian motion and chemical actions could in fact make intelligence (free choice-making) unnecessary, as you may have suggested. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/13/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end

Re: Re: Conscious robots

2012-10-13 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb That's exactly the point. Intelligence can't be intelligent if it's defined. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/13/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: meekerdb Receiver: everything-list

Re: Re: Re: I believe that comp's requirement is one of as if ratherthanis

2012-10-13 Thread Roger Clough
Hi John Clark snip ROGER: if you could tell me how to determine if a computer has intelligence JOHN: The same way I determine if one of my fellow human beings is intelligent, if he beats me at a intellectual task then he's intelligent, in fact he's more intelligent than I am

Re: Re: Yes, Doctor!

2012-10-13 Thread Roger Clough
Hi John Clark This is supposed to be a scientific discussion. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/13/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: John Clark Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-13, 12:50:23

autopoesis

2012-10-14 Thread Roger Clough
a description of this projection.[2] Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/14/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen -- 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

Computational Autopoetics 1

2012-10-14 Thread Roger Clough
of an algorithm or structure that reproduces more creation algorithms. Etc. etc. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/14/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group

Computational Secondness 1 (formerly Computational Autopoetics 1)

2012-10-15 Thread Roger Clough
be alive or not be alive. Intelligence in my machine is pure Secondness. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/15/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Russell Standish Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012

CS 2-- Platonic intelliegence or choice in Computational Secondness

2012-10-15 Thread Roger Clough
or ordered output, which may be alive or not be alive. Intelligence in my machine is pure Secondness. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/15/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Russell Standish Receiver

Re: Re: Re: Re: I believe that comp's requirement is one of as ifratherthanis

2012-10-15 Thread Roger Clough
to act as long as it obeys reason. I'm still trying to figure this out. The choice is made cooperatively, by three parties, platonically, in secondness by the All (reason) comparing thirdness with firstness. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/15/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near

scientific idealism

2012-10-15 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg I think that comp is a form of scientific idealism. I don't know exactly what that means, but there are clues at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealism#Idealism_in_the_philosophy_of_science Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/15/2012 Forever is a long time, especially

Re: Re: Re: Yes, Doctor!

2012-10-15 Thread Roger Clough
Hi John Clark Contempt prior to investigation is not a scientific attitude. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/15/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: John Clark Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012

Re: Re: autopoesis

2012-10-15 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Platonist Guitar Cowboy I agree. I was wrong about autopoesis. It is a mind-boggling definition of life, maybe not even that. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/15/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From

Re: Re: Re: Re: I believe that comp's requirement is one of as ifratherthanis

2012-10-15 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stathis Papaioannou I think heredity also plays a role. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/15/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stathis Papaioannou Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-13

Re: Re: Re: autopoesis

2012-10-15 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Terren Suydam You needn't agree with me. I respect that. It wasn't really a thought process, I just couldn't find anything to hold on to, something that works, and I am a pragmatist. Hence my use of the term mind-boggling. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/15/2012 Forever is a long time

Is consciousness just an emergent property of overly complex computations ?

2012-10-16 Thread Roger Clough
. = Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/16/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group

Re: Re: Computational Secondness 1 (formerly Computational Autopoetics 1)

2012-10-16 Thread Roger Clough
, it looked like the solution to everything, but then I just couldn't find anything to grasp. With the exception of Peirce, I found semiotics to be similar. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/16/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content

Re: Re: Is consciousness just an emergent property of overly complexcomputations ?

2012-10-16 Thread Roger Clough
of that stuff. Consciousness is created from Platonia, probably more form philosophy than math. After some study, it turns out that Leibniz's substances are not based on physical materials but on their forms. Just like Plato except that there are an infinite types of materials. Roger Clough, rclo

Re: Re: Is consciousness just an emergent property of overly complexcomputations ?

2012-10-16 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg You said, Computation is an overly simplified emergent property of sense. If you could have computation without sense, then there would be no consciousness. That sounds potent, I'm but not sure what it means. Could you expand on it a little ? Roger Clough, rclo

Re: Re: Is consciousness just an emergent property of overly complexcomputations ?

2012-10-16 Thread Roger Clough
, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-16, 08:55:23 Subject: Re: Is consciousness just an emergent property of overly complexcomputations ? Hi Roger, On 10/16/2012 7:48 AM, Roger

Re: Re: Is consciousness just an emergent property of overly complexcomputations ?

2012-10-16 Thread Roger Clough
is made now. There seems to be a connection but I can't express what it is. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/16/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10

Re: Re: Is consciousness just an emergent property of overly complexcomputations ?

2012-10-17 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg By sense do you mean Firstness, Secondness or Thirdness? Or all three as a process ? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/17/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver

Re: Re: Is consciousness just an emergent property of overlycomplexcomputations ?

2012-10-17 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb 1p = Firstness 3p = Thirdness Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/17/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: meekerdb Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-16, 16:19:29 Subject: Re

Why self-organization programs cannot be alive

2012-10-17 Thread Roger Clough
and no free will. In short, they have no self. Instead, they are slaved to a computer programmer. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/17/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Russell Standish Receiver: everything-list

Re: Re: Is consciousness just an emergent property of overlycomplexcomputations ?

2012-10-17 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King Nothing that is in spacetime can think. Thinking or reasoning is a property of mind, or intelligence, which is outside of spacetime. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/17/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving

Solipsism = 1p

2012-10-17 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Solipsism is a property of 1p= Firstness = subjectivity Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/17/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Alberto G. Corona Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-16

Re: Re: Computational Autopoetics 1

2012-10-17 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal My problem with autopoesis is that it only deals with 3p (the outer, objective world) but not with 1p (the inner, subjective world). Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/17/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following

Peirce's Categories

2012-10-17 Thread Roger Clough
, “this”.Reference to a correlate (by its relate).Essentially dyadic (the relate and the correlate). Thirdness.[13]Representation, mediation.Habits, laws, necessity.Generality, continuity, all.Reference to an interpretant*.Essentially triadic (sign, object, interpretant*). Roger Clough, rclo

The objective world of autopoesis

2012-10-17 Thread Roger Clough
15, 2012 at 11:45:47AM -0400, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Terren Suydam You needn't agree with me. I respect that. It wasn't really a thought process, I just couldn't find anything to hold on to, something that works, and I am a pragmatist. Hence my use of the term mind-boggling. Roger

A test for solipsism

2012-10-17 Thread Roger Clough
that it is in intense pain). My guess is that this is the solipsism issue, to which I would say that if it has no mind, it cannot converse with you, which would be a test for solipsism,-- which I just now found in typing the first part of this sentence. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/17/2012

Re: Re: Continuous Game of Life

2012-10-17 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal IMHO all life must have some degree of consciousness or it cannot perceive its environment. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/17/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal

The meanings of Peirce's three OBJECTIVE Categories

2012-10-17 Thread Roger Clough
of an interpretive process or a content in which an interpretive relation culminates, though this product or content may itself be an act, a state of agitation, a conduct, etc. Such is what is summed up in saying that the sign stands for the object to the interpretant. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10

two types of structure creation- subjective and objective

2012-10-18 Thread Roger Clough
is objective) or life which would apply to comp and it looks like Peirce's categories and also self-organizing systems. This would be sumulated life. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/18/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content

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