Tim Maudlin

2013-02-25 Thread Stephen P. King
Dear Bruno, Have you seen how Tim Maudlin is now a vigorous proponent of the existence of Time as Fundamental? Could subsets of your UD be the Stone dual of a line, as Maudlin defines them? -- Onward! Stephen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Born Rule in MWI

2013-02-22 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/22/2013 12:10 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Feb 2013, at 11:55, Richard Ruquist wrote: Do you get separate universes from comp alone? We get many separate dreams. It is an open question if some collections of sharable dreams define an unique complete physical reality. Hi, If

Re: the character of the god of comp

2013-02-20 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/20/2013 1:08 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net mailto:stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 2/19/2013 8:08 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net mailto:stephe

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-02-19 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/19/2013 12:05 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 10:39:14 AM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: I would assume that geometric truths don't contradict arithmetic truths.

Re: “The brain is not computable and no engineering can reproduce it,”

2013-02-19 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/19/2013 12:26 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 9:02:36 AM UTC-5, telmo_menezes wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, February 18,

Re: the character of the god of comp

2013-02-19 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/19/2013 12:26 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com mailto:yann...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com mailto:jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at

Re: the character of the god of comp

2013-02-19 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/19/2013 11:16 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 2/19/2013 5:22 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi Jason, It seems to me that the demi-gods would not be motivated to have Platonist-like ontologies. As I see things, only we of finite resources concoct such Platonist theories to give ourselves

Re: “The brain is not computable and no engineering can reproduce it,”

2013-02-19 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/19/2013 11:34 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 7:58:15 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 2/19/2013 12:26 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Tuesday, February

Re: the character of the god of comp

2013-02-18 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/18/2013 2:54 PM, John Mikes wrote: Terren, (without taking the connotation seriously) */... if God did not have a sense of humor, could we exist?... /* does that mean: we are just a joke? JM Who would be the one to laugh? On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Terren Suydam

Re: “The brain is not computable and no engineering can reproduce it,”

2013-02-18 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/18/2013 9:30 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/511421/the-brain-is-not-computable/ There is no argument presented in this article. The stock market and brain and indeed most natural systems are chaotic, but that is not the same as being not

Re: Simulated Intelligence Mini-Manifesto

2013-02-17 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/17/2013 7:17 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net wrote: Umm, are you OK with anthropomorphication... ? Let me ask a different question: In your opinion, does the universe 'out there' have to have properties that match

Re: About the Infinite Repetition of Histories in Space

2013-02-17 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/17/2013 9:41 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Feb 2013, at 03:22, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/4/2013 11:57 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 01 Feb 2013, at 20:25, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/1/2013 5:20 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Stephen P. King stephe

Re: Science is a religion by itself.

2013-02-17 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/17/2013 10:56 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Yes. Euler identity is wonderful. It amazes me also that it makes the square of any complex number into a (non normalized) gaussian: (e^ix)^2 = e^(-x^2) I love also Euler even deeper identity relating the square of the integers and the prime

Re: Simulated Intelligence Mini-Manifesto

2013-02-17 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/17/2013 1:10 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 2/17/2013 4:17 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Stephen P. Kingstephe...@charter.net wrote: Umm, are you OK with anthropomorphication... ? Let me ask a different question: In your opinion, does the universe 'out

Re: Simulated Intelligence Mini-Manifesto

2013-02-16 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/16/2013 2:17 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, February 15, 2013 7:23:28 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 2/15/2013 4:07 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 11:01:30 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 2/13/2013 9:41 PM, Craig

Re: Simulated Intelligence Mini-Manifesto

2013-02-15 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/15/2013 6:26 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net wrote: I meant if the table talks to you just like a person does, giving you consistently interesting conversation and useful advice on a wide variety of subjects. Unless

Re: Simulated Intelligence Mini-Manifesto

2013-02-15 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/15/2013 11:12 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 14 Feb 2013, at 22:00, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/14/2013 11:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2013, at 23:37, Stephen P. King wrote, to Craig Weinberg Baudrillard is not talking about consciousness in particular, only the sum

Re: Simulated Intelligence Mini-Manifesto

2013-02-15 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/15/2013 4:07 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 11:01:30 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 2/13/2013 9:41 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 5:37:08 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 2/13/2013 5:21 PM, Craig

Re: Does p make sense?

2013-02-14 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/14/2013 10:40 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2013, at 23:08, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/13/2013 2:46 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 2/13/2013 8:04 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2013, at 03:03, meekerdb wrote: On 2/12/2013 5:28 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2013

Re: Simulated Intelligence Mini-Manifesto

2013-02-14 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/14/2013 10:49 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2013, at 23:51, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/13/2013 5:40 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: [SPK wrote} What difference that makes a difference does that make in the grand scheme of things? The point is that we cannot 'prove' that we

Re: Simulated Intelligence Mini-Manifesto

2013-02-14 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/14/2013 11:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2013, at 23:37, Stephen P. King wrote, to Craig Weinberg Baudrillard is not talking about consciousness in particular, only the sum of whatever is in the original which is not accessible in the copy. His phrase 'profound reality' is apt

Re: Simulated Intelligence Mini-Manifesto

2013-02-14 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/14/2013 5:45 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 10:46:26 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 2/13/2013 8:09 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: [SPK wrote: ]I like the idea of a Matrix universe exactly for that reason; it takes resources to 'run'

Re: Simulated Intelligence Mini-Manifesto

2013-02-14 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/14/2013 6:08 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: I don't think there are any models or systems at all. Not physically. There are only presentations and re-presentations. Habits and inertia. I agree, they cannot be physical at all, they are representations not things-in-themselves (objects).

Re: Simulated Intelligence Mini-Manifesto

2013-02-14 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/14/2013 6:45 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: I think you're conflating intelligence with consciousness. Funny, someone else accused me of the same thing already today: You've conflating 'real intelligence' with

Re: Simulated Intelligence Mini-Manifesto

2013-02-14 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/14/2013 9:43 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, February 14, 2013 6:52:21 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 2/14/2013 6:08 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: I don't think there are any models or systems at all. Not physically. There are only presentations and

Re: Simulated Intelligence Mini-Manifesto

2013-02-14 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/14/2013 11:34 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, February 14, 2013 11:17:08 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 2/14/2013 9:43 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, February 14, 2013 6:52:21 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 2/14/2013 6:08 PM, Craig

Re: Chosen-ness

2013-02-14 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/15/2013 12:05 AM, freqflyer07281972 wrote: Sure, but they are ontological conjugates, i.e. you can be chosen locally without having the ability to make choices yourself (theoretically anyways), but you can't be chosen without the presence of some choosing agency in the

Re: Simulated Intelligence Mini-Manifesto

2013-02-14 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/15/2013 12:23 AM, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com mailto:whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: * *Wouldn’t Simulated Intelligence be a more appropriate term than Artificial Intelligence? Yes that euphemism could have advantages, it might make

Re: Chosen-ness

2013-02-14 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/15/2013 12:38 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/15/2013 12:05 AM, freqflyer07281972 wrote: Sure, but they are ontological conjugates, i.e. you can be chosen locally without having the ability to make choices yourself (theoretically anyways), but you can't be chosen without

Re: The duplicators and the restorers

2013-02-13 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/13/2013 10:26 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2013, at 06:45, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 10:09:40 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: 1. Do you consider yourself to

Re: The duplicators and the restorers

2013-02-13 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/13/2013 2:36 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 2/13/2013 7:26 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Experiences cannot be duplicated literally, because I suspect that unique is the only thing that experiences can literally be. I agree with this, in the sense that this follows also from computationalism, and

Re: Does p make sense?

2013-02-13 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/13/2013 2:46 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 2/13/2013 8:04 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2013, at 03:03, meekerdb wrote: On 2/12/2013 5:28 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:05:37AM -0800, Craig Weinberg wrote: When we talk about a Bp, relating to consciousness is that

Re: Simulated Intelligence Mini-Manifesto

2013-02-13 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/13/2013 2:58 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 2/13/2013 8:35 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: *Wouldn’t Simulated Intelligence be a more appropriate term than Artificial Intelligence?* Thinking of it objectively, if we have a program which can model a hurricane, we would call that hurricane a

Re: Simulated Intelligence Mini-Manifesto

2013-02-13 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/13/2013 5:40 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: [SPK wrote} What difference that makes a difference does that make in the grand scheme of things? The point is that we cannot 'prove' that we are not in a gigantic simulation. Yeah, we cannot prove a negative, but we can extract a lot

Re: Simulated Intelligence Mini-Manifesto

2013-02-13 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/13/2013 5:21 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 2:58:28 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 2/13/2013 8:35 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: *Wouldn�t Simulated Intelligence be a more appropriate term than Artificial Intelligence?* Thinking of it objectively, if we

Re: Simulated Intelligence Mini-Manifesto

2013-02-13 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/13/2013 5:40 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: [SPK wrote: ]'reality = best possible simulation. I just realized how to translate that into my view: Reality = making the most sense possible. Same thing really. That's why I talk about multisense Realism, with Realism being the quality of

Re: Simulated Intelligence Mini-Manifesto

2013-02-13 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/13/2013 8:09 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: [SPK wrote: ]I like the idea of a Matrix universe exactly for that reason; it takes resources to 'run' it. No free lunch, even for universes!!! You can still have the idea of resources if the universe isn't a simulation though. No

Re: Simulated Intelligence Mini-Manifesto

2013-02-13 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/13/2013 9:41 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 5:37:08 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 2/13/2013 5:21 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 2:58:28 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 2/13/2013 8:35 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote:

Re: Comp: Geometry Is A Zombie

2013-02-11 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/11/2013 10:23 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Feb 2013, at 20:36, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, February 10, 2013 11:16:31 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Feb 2013, at 22:07, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 9, 2013 3:32:52 PM UTC-5, Simon Forman wrote: But then

Re: About the Infinite Repetition of Histories in Space

2013-02-11 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/4/2013 11:57 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 01 Feb 2013, at 20:25, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/1/2013 5:20 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net mailto:stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 1/31/2013 4:46 PM, Telmo Menezes

Re: How can intelligence be physical ?

2013-02-07 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/7/2013 7:04 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net wrote: Hi Stathis, The simulation of our 'self' that our brain generates *is* good enough to fool oneself! I speculate that schizophrenia and autism are caused

Re: How can intelligence be physical ?

2013-02-07 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/7/2013 9:42 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, February 7, 2013 8:50:09 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: You're avoiding the question. What is your definitive test for consciousness? If

Re: Lee Smolin and Darwin's Uncommon Success

2013-02-06 Thread Stephen P. King
exists because everything cannot happen simultaneously'. On 06/02/2013, at 11:48 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net mailto:stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 2/5/2013 3:27 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2013/2/5 Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net mailto:stephe...@charter.net

Re: Lee Smolin and Darwin's Uncommon Success

2013-02-06 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/6/2013 4:22 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2013/2/6 Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net mailto:stephe...@charter.net On 2/5/2013 3:27 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2013/2/5 Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net mailto:stephe...@charter.net Hi, ISTM

Re: How can intelligence be physical ?

2013-02-06 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/6/2013 7:18 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: You're saying that a robot behaving like a human may fool you, but how do you know that your apparently fellow humans are not robots? Because I live in 2013 AD, where I

Re: Lee Smolin and Darwin's Uncommon Success

2013-02-05 Thread Stephen P. King
Hi, ISTM that purpose is a 1p, so to ask the question in a 3p sense is to make it meaningless. On 2/5/2013 6:23 AM, Russell Standish wrote: Only in the same sense that evolution is teleological, ie not really. Cheers On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 06:59:01PM +1100, Kim Jones wrote: So does

Re: context, comp, and multiverses

2013-02-05 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/5/2013 7:47 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Bruno Marchalmarc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Hi Roger, On 04 Feb 2013, at 16:43, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Brunio, I agree with Craig. And I've never understood how there can be any consequence of an emulation, or how it can

Re: Lee Smolin and Darwin's Uncommon Success

2013-02-05 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/5/2013 12:41 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 7:53:22 AM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi, ISTM that purpose is a 1p, so to ask the question in a 3p sense is to make it meaningless. Yeah, I don't see how noting that the 3p mechanism of

Re: Lee Smolin and Darwin's Uncommon Success

2013-02-05 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/5/2013 3:27 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2013/2/5 Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net mailto:stephe...@charter.net Hi, ISTM that purpose is a 1p, so to ask the question in a 3p sense is to make it meaningless. That´s it. But to insist into make the question

Re: Science is a religion by itself.

2013-02-04 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/4/2013 10:22 AM, socra...@bezeqint.net wrote: Brain – Consciousness , Consciousness – Brain. =. Is consciousness a result of evolution or it is its fuel ? # ‘ Contrary to what everyone knows it is so, it may not be the brain that produce consciousness, but rather consciousness that

Re: A state with more than one governor ?

2013-02-02 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/2/2013 9:13 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 2, 2013 8:55:18 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: Hi Stephen, A state with more than one governor is perhaps best described as a civil war. And you can only have one pilot on a boat. In short, any living entity can only

Re: Big Bang is the simplest possible state?

2013-02-02 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/2/2013 6:19 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:13 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net mailto:stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 1/27/2013 6:54 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net

Re: About the Infinite Repetition of Histories in Space

2013-02-01 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/1/2013 5:20 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net mailto:stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 1/31/2013 4:46 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: What's an entity? Any system whose canonical description can be associated

Re: About the Infinite Repetition of Histories in Space

2013-02-01 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/1/2013 8:07 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, February 1, 2013 12:12:17 AM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 1/31/2013 6:12 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, January 31, 2013 5:38:28 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 1/31/2013 4:46 PM, Telmo Menezes

Re: About the Infinite Repetition of Histories in Space

2013-02-01 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/1/2013 3:52 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, February 1, 2013 2:29:21 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 2/1/2013 8:07 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, February 1, 2013 12:12:17 AM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 1/31/2013 6:12 PM, Craig Weinberg

Re: The least and best means of controlling gun violence

2013-01-31 Thread Stephen P. King
at the same level as the individual. Look at the often quoted example of a BEC. In such, the aggregate becomes one entity, a new individual and the previous individual (from the point of view of behaviors) vanishes. On 1/31/2013 8:05 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King IMHO morals imply

Re: About the Infinite Repetition of Histories in Space

2013-01-31 Thread Stephen P. King
, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net mailto:rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Stephen P. King � It's easier to believe in salvation through faith or UFOs than infinite universes. � � - Receiving the following content - *From

Re: The least and best means of controlling gun violence

2013-01-31 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/31/2013 12:53 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, January 31, 2013 8:05:00 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King IMHO morals imply that you have somebody looking over your shoulder. So they are collective. Interesting. In a sense I agree, but I also agree

Re: About the Infinite Repetition of Histories in Space

2013-01-31 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/31/2013 4:46 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: What's an entity? Any system whose canonical description can be associated with some kind of fixed point theorem. On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net mailto:stephe...@charter.net wrote: IMHO more

Re: About the Infinite Repetition of Histories in Space

2013-01-31 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/31/2013 6:12 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, January 31, 2013 5:38:28 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 1/31/2013 4:46 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: What's an entity? Any system whose canonical description can be associated with some kind of fixed point

Re: No Wonder philosophers suck!

2013-01-30 Thread Stephen P. King
what is inside of what In fact, the opposite is true: science is a particular research program within philosophy — what was formerly called natural philosophy or experimental philosophy, or what we today would call methodological naturalism 2013/1/30 Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net

Re: The least and best means of controlling gun violence

2013-01-30 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/30/2013 12:41 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 11:09:49 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: What is the least powerful means of controlling gun violence ? By legal means, as if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. Just like if you outlaw biological

Re: The fairness argument and women in the infantry

2013-01-30 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/30/2013 1:03 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 6:26:51 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: Hi John Mikes That's the argument of the Far Left, that miltary strength induces our enemies to attack us, so we should cut back on defense spending. And any defensive

Re: The least and best means of controlling gun violence

2013-01-30 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/30/2013 2:15 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 1:44:45 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 1/30/2013 12:41 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 11:09:49 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: What is the least powerful means of

Re: meditation

2013-01-29 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/29/2013 8:37 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 27 Jan 2013, at 07:09, meekerdb wrote: On 1/26/2013 9:53 PM, Jason Resch wrote: I think what you are describing comes automatically with comp, as any observer only knows their direct observations, which could be created by any one of an infinite

Re: Science is a religion by itself.

2013-01-29 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/29/2013 8:49 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:33 AM, socra...@bezeqint.net socra...@bezeqint.net wrote: .Everybody creates his God according to his own image and spirit If triangles made a God they would give him three sides / Charles de Montesquieu . Persian Letters,

Re: Lessons from the Block Universe

2013-01-29 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/29/2013 9:04 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: A block universe does not allow for consciousness. Indeed! How is it even possible for any part of the block to have anything like something that is it is like to be conscious of some other portion of the block? The fact the we all possess

Re: meditation

2013-01-29 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/29/2013 9:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 27 Jan 2013, at 18:27, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/27/2013 7:19 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The big bang remains awkward with computationalism. It suggest a long and deep computations is going through our state, but comp suggest that the big bang

A real Cyborg

2013-01-29 Thread Stephen P. King
http://vimeo.com/51920182 Comments? -- Onward! Stephen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To

Re: Lessons from the Block Universe

2013-01-29 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/29/2013 4:19 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 03:46:18PM -0500, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/29/2013 9:04 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: A block universe does not allow for consciousness. Indeed! How is it even possible for any part of the block to have anything like

Re: Hateful

2013-01-29 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/29/2013 11:13 PM, Kim Jones wrote: This is a pretty well-worn, oft-used, school prayer. Given it is recited or sung by the entire student body and staff at a good many schools and other institutions you would have to assume that it's all fundamentally good stuff. Teach us, good Lord,

Re: Hateful

2013-01-29 Thread Stephen P. King
, Omnipresent and Omnipotent Kim, this is a bad straw man... why are you writing it? On 30/01/2013, at 4:01 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 1/29/2013 11:13 PM, Kim Jones wrote: This is a pretty well-worn, oft-used, school prayer. Given it is recited or sung

About the Infinite Repetition of Histories in Space

2013-01-28 Thread Stephen P. King
Hi, I think this paper might be fodder for a nice discussion! http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.5295 About the Infinite Repetition of Histories in Space Francisco José Soler Gil http://arxiv.org/find/physics/1/au:+Gil_F/0/1/0/all/0/1,Manuel Alfonseca

Re: About the Infinite Repetition of Histories in Space

2013-01-28 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/28/2013 4:22 PM, meekerdb wrote: Hi, I think this paper might be fodder for a nice discussion! http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.5295 About the Infinite Repetition of Histories in Space Francisco José Soler Gil http://arxiv.org/find/physics/1/au:+Gil_F/0/1/0/all/0/1,Manuel Alfonseca

Re: meditation

2013-01-27 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/27/2013 7:19 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The big bang remains awkward with computationalism. It suggest a long and deep computations is going through our state, but comp suggest that the big bang is not the beginning. Dear Bruno, I think that comp plus some finite limit on resources =

Re: a system of oppression?

2013-01-27 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/27/2013 10:15 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, January 27, 2013 6:20:45 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: Opression ? Consider socialism. Like Scandinavian-style socialism? Sounds pretty good to me. If I could get a job in Sweden or Norway I would love to do that. Craig

Re: Facts vs values

2013-01-27 Thread Stephen P. King
Dear John, Hear Hear emotions are biases that are imposed on senses, ISTM. On 1/27/2013 12:09 PM, John Mikes wrote: Dear Bruno, a brilliant statement. I use the more polite word *'agnosticism'* for /'ignorance'/. In our 'absence of knowledge' (how 'bout that?) we try hard to develop

Re: a system of oppression?

2013-01-27 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/27/2013 2:14 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, January 27, 2013 12:34:37 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: What I really what to know is: what motivates the need to find oppression? What motivates the need to deny oppression? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppression

Re: a system of oppression?

2013-01-27 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/27/2013 4:39 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, January 27, 2013 2:51:04 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 1/27/2013 2:14 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, January 27, 2013 12:34:37 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: What I really what to know is:

Re: Big Bang is the simplest possible state?

2013-01-27 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/27/2013 6:07 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: Dear Bruno and Stephen, On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net mailto:stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 1/27/2013 7:19 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The big bang remains awkward with computationalism

Re: Big Bang is the simplest possible state?

2013-01-27 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/27/2013 6:54 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net mailto:stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 1/27/2013 6:07 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: Dear Bruno and Stephen, On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Stephen P. King

Re: a system of oppression?

2013-01-26 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/26/2013 11:45 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, January 26, 2013 11:36:45 AM UTC-5, JohnM wrote: Craig, I read many of your posts, none was so pessimistic so far. Ah, maybe I was being more sarcastic than the internet allows. I was intending to mock those ideas by quoting

Re: a system of oppression?

2013-01-26 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/26/2013 12:13 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, January 26, 2013 11:55:22 AM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 1/26/2013 11:45 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, January 26, 2013 11:36:45 AM UTC-5, JohnM wrote: Craig, I read many of your posts, none was so

Re: a system of oppression?

2013-01-26 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/26/2013 1:06 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, January 26, 2013 12:28:01 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 1/26/2013 12:13 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, January 26, 2013 11:55:22 AM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 1/26/2013 11:45 AM, Craig

Re: a system of oppression?

2013-01-26 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/26/2013 9:52 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: If you are born in bondage to a powerful social system, how are you going to defend yourself? It's not even about defense, it's about an economic control. If the only way to make enough money to avoid being in perpetual debt is to already be wealthy,

Re: a system of oppression?

2013-01-26 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/27/2013 12:39 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, January 26, 2013 11:15:54 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 1/26/2013 9:52 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: If you are born in bondage to a powerful social system, how are you going to defend yourself? It's not even about

Generalized Löb's Theorem

2013-01-25 Thread Stephen P. King
Dear Bruno, Have you seen this? What implications does it have? http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1301/1301.5340.pdf -- Onward! Stephen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Hyperloop

2013-01-25 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/25/2013 9:54 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: Search on this list turned up no results and I don't usually pick up this sort of thing so: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop If anybody could offer juicier links without the media speculation, I'd be interested in the tech. PGC

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

2013-01-24 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/24/2013 11:59 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:08:14 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: evolution is complex and counter-intuitive. The basic idea behind Evolution is not

Re: Is there an aether ?

2013-01-23 Thread Stephen P. King
would add that just be cause our language paints a particular picture in our minds, there need not be anything like such 'outside of us'. How fast we forget the lesson we can can find in Descartes /Meditations/... On 1/23/2013 5:18 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King Agreed, the constant

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-23 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/23/2013 6:03 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen, Numbers do have an independent existence, that being nonphysical existence. Hi Roger, I agree but only because I see existence as mere a priori necessary possibility; not contingent upon perception at all... -- Onward! Stephen --

Re: Is there an aether ?

2013-01-22 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/22/2013 7:22 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg If you knew more about the history of philsophy, you'd know that Berkeley finally had to admit that the world out there is real prior to our individual observation because it is all observed by God. Hi Roger, This is a good

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-22 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/22/2013 10:41 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Jan 2013, at 20:05, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/21/2013 8:30 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: If you don't take arithmetic as primitive, I can prove that you cannot derive both addition and multiplication, nor the existence of computer

Re: Robot reading vs human reading

2013-01-22 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/22/2013 3:34 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:44:41 PM UTC-5, yanniru wrote: On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.be javascript: wrote: You seem to not having yet realize that with comp, not only materialism is

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-21 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/21/2013 8:30 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: If you don't take arithmetic as primitive, I can prove that you cannot derive both addition and multiplication, nor the existence of computer. Then everything around me does not make sense. If you believe you can derive them, then do it. But you

Re: A God-limited God - My Theodicy

2013-01-21 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/21/2013 9:19 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg But nothing would exist for a blind man, since he can see nothing. Dear Roger, Why are you hung up on vision? I think that Craig is including all possible senses. -- Onward! Stephen -- You received this message because you

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-21 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/21/2013 2:45 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: I mean if we wanted to get technical I would split the physics of counting into the private motive experience quantitative reasoning from the sensory experiences of figures or forms upon which we project our representations, but yeah numbers need a

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-21 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/21/2013 4:59 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 1/21/2013 11:05 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: Materialism fails since it cannot explain how it is possible for material things to have representations of things, intensionality, such as numbers. That's something evolution explains. Brent Hi Brent

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

2013-01-21 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/21/2013 9:32 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 20 Jan 2013, at 18:34, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/20/2013 7:53 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Jan 2013, at 00:15, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/18/2013 1:08 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 17 Jan 2013, at 19:05, Stephen P. King wrote: Dear

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

2013-01-20 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/20/2013 7:53 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Jan 2013, at 00:15, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/18/2013 1:08 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 17 Jan 2013, at 19:05, Stephen P. King wrote: Dear Bruno, I am discussing ontology, there is no such a process as Turing or 'realities' or objects

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