Re: Re: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
ROGER: > 2) I can be aware of having experiences that occur in a specific temporal order only if I perceive > something permanent by reference to which I can determine their > temporal order. (premise) RUSSELL: What motivates this premise? ROGER: > The permanent entity could

Re: Re: wave function collapse

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal 1) OK, so particles don't need a probe to be created from the wave ? What's different about consciousness ? 2) If comp or materialism could work, I'd be happy. But they'd have to be able to handle the self specifically, not just imply it. Roger Clough,

Re: Re: Solipsism = 1p

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal Anything that the brain does is or could be experience. For computers, experience can only be simulated because experience = self + qualia Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/24/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Rec

Re: Re: Can you think of an experiment to verify comp ?

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal I follow leibniz's idealism, not e. So the existing universe is just as it is, a "well founded phenomenon." I can stub my toe and measure the speed of light. The experiment that proves my consciousness-- to me at least-- is that I know that I know. Rog

Re: Re: Solipsism = 1p

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal The simulated experience is not a real experience. OK ? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/24/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-l

Re: Re: Solipsism = 1p

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg No, the computer can simulate knowledge by description but not knowledge by acquaintance that you could experience. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/24/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the followi

Re: Re: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Russell Standish I agree. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/24/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Russell Standish Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-23, 18:20:35 Subject:

Re: Re: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stathis Papaioannou OK, but I think you are still left with the "I". "I doubted' still means there's an I present. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/24/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving

Re: Re: Solipsism = 1p

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King How can you know that the simulation is exact ? Solipsim prevents that. And who or what experiences the computer output ? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/24/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the

Can comp simulate an experience ? What does that require ?

2012-10-25 Thread Roger Clough
ception of an event. The raw experience is Firstness The synthezation and unification of that Firstness is called 2nd-ness ansd 3rd-ness by Peirce. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/25/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen -- You received

Dennett and others on qualia

2012-10-25 Thread Roger Clough
would not have a subjective phenomenology. It is worth noting that a necessary condition for the possibility of philosophical zombies is that there be no specific part or parts of the brain that directly give rise to qualia—the zombie can only exist if subjective consciousness is causally separate

Leibniz's monads and comp as functionalisms

2012-10-26 Thread Roger Clough
that perform computations on inputs to give outputs, so brains are physical devices with neural substrate that perform computations on inputs which produce behaviours." Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/26/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Al

Re: Re: Dennett and others on qualia

2012-10-26 Thread Roger Clough
appropriate way to understand the mind. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/26/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Alberto G. Corona Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-25, 09:11:40 S

Re: Re: Dennett and others on qualia

2012-10-26 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb Please explain why the criticism of Dennett is wrong. This is another drive-by shooting of yours. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/26/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From

Re: Re: Dennett and others on qualia

2012-10-26 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb Quanta do exist, and can be measured, but by definition they can only be experienced as qualia, (another word for experience) which can't be measured. Quanta are within spacetime, qualia are beyond spacetime. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/26/2012 "Forever is a

Re: Re: Compact dimensions and orthogonality

2012-10-26 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard, Is there some way, such as reducing the dimensions of strings to zero, that one can transverse from the world of extension (the physical world) to that of inextended experience or theory? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/26/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially nea

Even more compact dimensions Re: Re: Compact dimensions and orthogonality

2012-10-26 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Brent, What happens -- or is it even possible -- to collapse the dimensions down to one (which I conjecture might be time), or zero (Platonia or mind). Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/26/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Rec

comp and functionalism

2012-10-26 Thread Roger Clough
s, so brains are physical devices with neural substrate that perform computations on inputs which produce behaviours" Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/26/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From:

Wow! Re: Re: Strings are not in space-time, they are on space-time

2012-10-26 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King Wow ! This connects up with what I have been speculating, namely that comp or at least some sort of calculation, can, if not recreate the brainmind, at least simulate what it does. I need to study more about your theory. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/26/2012

Monads as mental/physical "occasions of experience". Re: Re: Strings are not in space-time, they are on space-time

2012-10-26 Thread Roger Clough
ndles and sheaf transform groups on n-genus topological manifolds and so on Where are all of the sparticles and bosinos that are supposed to exist if SUSY is correct? Occam's razor keeps me from believing in them... -- Onward! Stephen ROGER: Unlike Aristotle, Leibniz's monads do

A mirror of the universe.

2012-10-26 Thread Roger Clough
the class of computations that it belongs to such that any incomplete string has a completion in the collections of others like it. This is like an error correction or compression mechanism. -- Onward! Stephen ROGER: For what it's worth--- like Mach's inertia, each monad

Re: Re: Re: Compact dimensions and orthogonality

2012-10-26 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist Thank you, but monads are not extended in space, they are mental and so inextended. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/26/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Richa

Putnam on computationalism (a-f)

2012-10-27 Thread Roger Clough
alism (f) in the search box. There is apparently also Q&A after the f lecture. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/27/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everyth

Re: Re: Re: Re: Compact dimensions and orthogonality

2012-10-27 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist Yes, the strings themselves are extended, but theoretical strings (string theory itself) are not. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/27/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - Fro

Re: Re: Dennett and others on qualia

2012-10-28 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal Yes, my error, quanta are in spacetime too. I'm still adjusting to some of these concepts. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/28/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From

Hurricane

2012-10-28 Thread Roger Clough
Hi everything-list If things go as expected, meaning that the power goes off, I may be offline for a couple of days. Washington DC is just about to be hit by a hurricane. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/28/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Alle

Re: Re: A mirror of the universe.

2012-10-28 Thread Roger Clough
like ideas, they can be in the minds of individual homunculi in individual monads, but that doesn't sound satisfactoriy to me. Not universakl enough. My best guess for now is that the supreme monad (the One) undoubtedly somehow possesses the numbers. Hurricane coming. Roger Clough, rclo...@ver

Numbers in Leibniz

2012-10-28 Thread Roger Clough
each head. Numbers would no doubt be the same, both everywhere and in individual minds at times. So numbers are universal and can be treated mathematically as always. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/29/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen

Re: Re: Solipsism = 1p

2012-10-29 Thread Roger Clough
small things. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/29/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stathis Papaioannou Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-28, 05:47:58 Subject: Re: Solipsism = 1p

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

2012-10-29 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb How about social justice for zombies ? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/29/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: meekerdb Receiver: EveryThing Time: 2012-10-27, 15:59:03 Sub

Re: Re: A mirror of the universe.

2012-10-29 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal OK, let's suppose that the numbers can be considered as ideas in the mind of the One or the Supreme monad, which is the monad for the universe. Then the universe would be the corporeal body. Or something like that. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/29/2012 "

Re: Re: A mirror of the universe.

2012-10-29 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal I think you're right. Anyway, I've since decided that the numbers have to be simply a priori. Like the pre-established (a priori) Harmony. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/29/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen

Re: Self-ascription and "Perfect Model Model"

2012-10-29 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Evgenii Rudnyi Science cannot give us the absolute truth because the foundation on which science rests is contingent. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/29/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content --

All is well

2012-10-30 Thread Roger Clough
The storm has passed and all is well. Luckily Rockville was hardly affected by the storm. My electric power never even went out. I hope everybody else is OK also. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/30/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen -- Yo

Downward causation- the correct paradigm for science

2012-10-30 Thread Roger Clough
wrong, but it opens the door to new (and now perfectly logical) scientific explanations for unexplained phenomena such as gravity and the interactions between brain and mind. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/30/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody All

Computationalism -- Leibniz's new paradigm for science

2012-10-30 Thread Roger Clough
ens the door to previously unexplainable phenomena such as gravity. Another way to say this is that, although they may appear to be a posteriori (in the world), all causes are actually theoretical (a priori). Numbers being a priori (given), this gives a completely new solidity to computationalism.

Re: Re: Computationalism -- Leibniz's new paradigm for science

2012-10-31 Thread Roger Clough
tions themselves appear "as if" they would in Newton's physics. Hmmm. I've never considered that there might be comparable submonads in Plato's realm. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/31/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen

Could universes in a multiverse be solipsistic ? Would this be a problem ?

2012-10-31 Thread Roger Clough
verse could not access (the mind of) ours ? Would this be a problem for multiverse theories ? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/31/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver:

Applying Kant's categories to Platonia

2012-10-31 Thread Roger Clough
ding), it would not seem unreasonable to assign them anthromorphically to cosmic mind such as the One or the supreme monad. I have not studied these much and need to look further into it as I cannot understand anything myselof without the additional category of "examples" :-). Roger

Re: Re: Numbers in the Platonic Realm

2012-10-31 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb I think the = sign allows a concept to be predicated, such as 2 = 1+1 where 1+1 is the predicate. A concept and a predicate form a proposition, and you need a proposition to judge whether something is true or false. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/31/2012 "Forever

Information theory, computationalism and the science of Platonia

2012-11-02 Thread Roger Clough
s to be the sum of those in e). This is suggestive again of Bohm or holography. etc. etc. etc. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/2/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: Re: Could universes in a multiverse be solipsistic ? Would this be aproblem ?

2012-11-02 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal Thanks. Then the numbers are noit separate but included in the truth. My feeling is that the truth then may be the truth(s) of information theory. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/2/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -W

Re: Re: Self-ascription and "Perfect Model Model"

2012-11-02 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno, Could it not be that there is nothing especially sacred about the natural numbers, that these are, as Hobbes put it regarding words, "but counterfeit tokens" ? And the real controlling force which uses them is information theory ? That is to say, intelligence. Roger Cl

Isn't intelligence more basic than numbers ?

2012-11-02 Thread Roger Clough
be the ultimate. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/2/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Evgenii Rudnyi Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-01, 07:13:12 Subject: What is reality A

IMHO the properties of life

2012-11-02 Thread Roger Clough
niz's "Monadology". Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/2/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Hal Ruhl Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-31, 21:48:37 Subject: Life: origin

numbers as not the primary entities- because they can do nothing by themselves

2012-11-02 Thread Roger Clough
indicate what the driving force of intelligence is doing to them. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/2/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012

numbers are static, geometry is dynamic

2012-11-02 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King et al, For what it's worth, in the philosophy of mathematics, numbers are considered as static entities (they don't change). Instead, change is a property of geometry. I suppose because angles can change. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/2/2012 "Fo

Re: Re: Could universes in a multiverse be solipsistic ? Would this be aproblem ?

2012-11-02 Thread Roger Clough
ROGER: > Hi Bruno Marchal > > 1) Yes, numbers float in a sea of universal mind (the One). BRUNO: The ONE is much more than the universal mind, as it is where the universal minds compete, perhaps before eventually recognizing themselves and reuniting, or fusing, and coming back t

computationalism and the construction of ideas

2012-11-02 Thread Roger Clough
laughter 001 = thunder or anger 100 = mountain or halting etc. so that snippets of binary sequences can have meaning. Another way of stating this is that perhaps the only the binary 0 and 1 may be used to construct ideas. But the other numbers can be expressed in binary form. Roger Clough, rclo

Making meaningful computations

2012-11-02 Thread Roger Clough
omputation ? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/2/2012 "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 everyt

Does your monad (your 1p) survive artificial changes to the brain ?

2012-11-03 Thread Roger Clough
;s alterations (either with digital hardware or signals) to your brain. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/3/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Tim

arithmetic truth and 1p truth

2012-11-03 Thread Roger Clough
arithmetic truth pass the 1p test ? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/3/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-02, 13:23:36 Subject: Re: Numb

Necessary truth and contingent truth

2012-11-03 Thread Roger Clough
s it works on real signals (in the contingent world). That would be a pragmatic or contingent truth. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/3/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal

On uniqueness

2012-11-03 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal Yes, and keep in mind that there may be more than one theory that gives the same results in the form of data. So in this world, the truth must lie in the data, which is unique, and not the theory, which may not be unique. In this world, data is king. Roger Clough, rclo

Re: Re: The One is not a number but a metaphor

2012-11-03 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal Sorry, I misconstrued the river/man analogy. Heraclitus said instead that a man cannot stand in the same river twice (or even from moment to moment). It's just a statement of contingency. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/3/2012 "Forever is a long time, espec

heraclitus and leibniz on washington vs moscow

2012-11-03 Thread Roger Clough
s local sensors, for the God who knows all. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/3/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-03, 05:18:25 Subjec

The contingency of theories

2012-11-03 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal All theories are based on the a priori but can only give contingent results (this world results). However, arithmetic is not a theory, it is arithmetical (permanent, necessary, logical) truth. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/3/2012 "Forever is a long

The two types of truth

2012-11-03 Thread Roger Clough
iness and logical inconsistency of propositions which deny them. Truths of fact have their sufficient reason in being more perfect than propositions which deny them." Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/3/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen

knowledge by description vs knowledge by acquaintance

2012-11-03 Thread Roger Clough
me. But it is not those descriptors. There are two types of knowledge: knowledge by description (you know who I am in words, by my descriptors). knowledge by acquaintance (you have actually met me). Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/3/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near t

Re: RE: Life: origin, purpose, and qualia spectrum

2012-11-03 Thread Roger Clough
harmony. By the hand of God. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/3/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Hal Ruhl Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-02, 23:47:05 Subject: RE: Life: origin, pu

Re: Re: Numbers in the Platonic Realm

2012-11-03 Thread Roger Clough
ntradicted, may not be always true or false. Today it is raining is such. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/3/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Quentin Anciaux Receiver: everything-list Tim

Re: Re: On the ontological status of elementary arithmetic

2012-11-03 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King Bertrand Russell was a superb logician but he was not infallible with regard to metaphysics. He called Leibniz's metaphysics "an enchanted land" and confessed that he hadn't a clue to what the meaning of pragmatism is. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net

Re: Re: Numbers in the Platonic Realm

2012-11-03 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King The Platonic Realm doesn't exactly exist, because it is non-contradictory truth beyond spacetime. It is the a priori, the One, from which all things come. Sometimes I think of it as Cosmic Mind, Universal Intelligence, which has the attributes of God. Roger Clough,

Re: Re: Numbers in the Platonic Realm

2012-11-03 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King 1 + 1 =2 is a necessary truth, not a fact. It is always true. A priori. So there are necessary truths such as arithmetical truths which were here before the contingent world of facts was created. And will always be. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/3/2012 "Forev

Re: Re: Numbers in the Platonic Realm

2012-11-03 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King The platonic realm is nothing. Intelligence is nothing. Life itself is nothing. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/3/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King

Re: Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-03 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King The properties of spacetime things are what can be measured (ie facts). The properties of beyond spacetime things are propositions that can't be contradicted (necessary truths). Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/3/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially ne

Re: Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-03 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King Those are psychological versions of numbers etc,. The innate properties are arithmetical. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/3/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Steph

Re: Re: (mathematical) solipsism

2012-11-03 Thread Roger Clough
perhaps some day a proof against it may be found. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/3/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-03, 08:00:1

Re: Re: On the ontological status of elementary arithmetic

2012-11-03 Thread Roger Clough
metic or had to exist before man or the Big Bang woujld not have worked. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/3/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list T

Re: Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-03 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen, ' Yes, Aristotle's substances and their properties do not change with time. But Leibniz's do very rapidly. And they are individual to each substance, meaning to each monad (from his aspect). The actual properties are collective data of the universe. Rog

which kind of truth are you talking about ?

2012-11-03 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb There are all kinds of "truth", depending on which you have faith in or which seems most appropriate. There's arithmetical truth, necessary truth, contingent truth, pragmatic truth, truth by correspondence, truth by coherency the list is long. Roger Clough, rclo

Re: Re: Weyl on mathematics vs. reality

2012-11-04 Thread Roger Clough
know "now " or reality descriptively from any theory, only by subjective acquaintance. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/4/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Alberto G. Corona

truth and reality cannot be expressed in words, only experienced

2012-11-04 Thread Roger Clough
. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/4/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Evgenii Rudnyi Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-03, 14:01:41 Subject: Weyl on mathematics vs. reality Some m

Re: Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-04 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King All that we can know of reality is in the experience of "now." Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/4/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Recei

A higher truth than that of arithmetic

2012-11-04 Thread Roger Clough
is. Prayer teaches this. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/4/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-03, 13:29:09 Subject: Re: Numbers in the

Why religious truth is the highest truth

2012-11-04 Thread Roger Clough
necessary and contingent truths, subjective and objective truths, truths by correspondence, or through coherency, pragmatic truth, eye witness truth, and so forth. In the end, one accepts the truth he has the most faith in. So faith again rules. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/4/2012

3-view truth vs 1-view truth

2012-11-04 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal 3-view is descriptive truth, 1-view truth is truth by acquaintance. Descriptive truth is similar to your knowing about Bertrand Russell. Or to know that in principle 1+1 =2. Truth by acquaintance is that you have met Bertrand Russell. Or you accept that 1 +1 = 2. Roger

Heraclitus gets his feet wet

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
river (such as the mississippi), he meant that the river (whatever river) would not be the same, even a movie would show visually that it has changed. And force, velocity, temperature-- none of these remains constant, as the appropriate sensors would show. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5

Dualism as a cover-up "solution" to the mind-body problem

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
absurdity. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-02, 08:05:41 Subject: Re: Solipsism = 1p O

1p=now, 3p = then

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
l. Or you accept that 1 +1 = 2. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/4/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-04, 08:07:16 Subject: Re:

The supreme monad is the only actor, the only agent

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
meal. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-04, 08:36:10 Subject: Re: heraclitus and leibniz o

why IMHO arithmetic is not a theory

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
are invented, but arithmetic is not, arithmetic is discovered. It is most certainly a priori. On 03 Nov 2012, at 12:34, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal All theories are based on the a priori but can only give contingent results (this world results). Hmm OK

Is Nietzsche's shade wandering in platonia ?

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
he variety and number of possible copntradictions is possibly vast. Shades of Nietzsche ! Tell me it isn't so ! I guess that's the same as saying that you can never be sure of contingency either. I need to lie down for a while. This is beginning to look like existentialism. Roger Clough,

Re: Re: The two types of truth

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal Is sigma_6 truth truth with only a 6 sigma possibility of error ? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: every

Re: Re: (mathematical) solipsism

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal Isn't strong AI just an assumption ? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-

Re: Re: On the ontological status of elementary arithmetic

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen, I wouldn't be too hard on Russell, at least as far as logic goes. He had no way of knowing of Godel's proof. And Whitehead had joined him in the principia project. Certainly two of the brightest minds that ever lived. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5/2012 &qu

Re: Re: Dualism as a cover-up "solution" to the mind-body problem

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg What they say about economists is also appropriate to say about philosophers: "If all of the philosophers in the world were laid end to end, they'd never come to a conclusion." Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5/2012 "Forever is a long time, esp

Re: Life: origin, purpose, and qualia spectrum

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
st disaster, as it is a strong motivation for accepting their own utopian diasters instead. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Hal Ruhl Receiver: everything-l

Re: Re: On the ontological status of elementary arithmetic

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King Science is based on and produces facts. I don't think you would want to call these facts opinions unless they referred to global warming. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen

Re: Re: On the ontological status of elementary arithmetic

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King Do you know of any comp outputs that we could examine ? I myself worship data. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King

Re: Re: Why religious truth is the highest truth

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
important, as well as immediate context. Note that this follows Kant's definitions of existence: consisting of two joined factors: time for when an event occurs, and space (context) for what happens. By themselves neither one is a substance. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5/2012 &qu

Re: Re: Communicability

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King A truth exists dependent only on the One, who creates all truth. But not on other minds: E=mc^2 before man arrived, from the very getgo (and before), and will remain after man. Truth is foreign to us. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5/2012 "Forever is a long

On objective and subjective forms of perceptions

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
"apperceptions", but I have not completely figured these out. The bottom line is that the apperceptions are what we "normally" see and identify of as actual in the usual sense. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near

Re: Re: Re: Dualism as a cover-up "solution" to the mind-body problem

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg I must be a philosopher then, for everything seems to be a work in progress, if not immediately then afterwards. But I am for the truth and sometimes, temporarily, seem to have found it. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially nea

Re: Re: Is Nietzsche's shade wandering in platonia ?

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King That might be what I think Bruno referred to as 6 sigma truth, namely truth that has a probability within std dev of 6 sigma of being true. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Rec

Nietzsche's ghost

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King Hmmm. I suppose there might be a multiple persons understanding, but I am having enough problems right now with one person up against the horrors of Nietzsche's ghost. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially ne

Re: Re: Dualism as a cover-up "solution" to the mind-body problem

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King But the course of true love never did run smooth :-) Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list

Re: Re: Against Mechanism

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb The dilemma is that 1p is subjective and hence solipsistic, but when spoken about it is objective (3p, 2p; he, or you). And as far as dualisms go, the only important one is subjective/objective. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5/2012 "Forever is a long

Re: Re: Weyl on mathematics vs. reality

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist Engineering advantages ? A decade before the Wright brothers flew their airplane, people would have said, "You're going to do WHAT ?" Many if not all innovations like that seem at present to be crazy or impossible. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5/

Re: Re: Dualism as a cover-up "solution" to the mind-body problem

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist Indeed, dualism is -- has to be-- science fiction. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/5/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Richard Ruquist Receiver: everything-list

<    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >