--- rwas rwas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Of course we are hard-wired to perceive the
passage
of time,
three-dimensional space, and the pleasure of sex.
Physics and Darwin
provide explanations of this. What's your
explanation?...oh, never
mind, I know...It just is.
Brent
I think the problem is that folks are assuming that
the only way you can tell whether you are awake or
dreaming is by sensory input limited physical senses,
ie., 5 senses.
If one pays attention, one can be aware of a number of
senses that are not quantified by popular
understanding.
One of
Hello,
--- Joel Dobrzelewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Russell and Brent:
I understand this is an extreme position, but I
state it this way on
purpose: to bring the issue to the foreground and
get to the heart of the
problem of science today.
As long as we insist that continuous
You must have a particular problem in mind to have
made this
comment.
I do, a set of problems:
1. Machine cooperation in fabrication
robots and other agents that can cooperate in
complex tasks such as manufacturing
non-robot-friendly components.
2. Synthetic Autonomous Agent
Just as an example, he says most philosophers
would agree that
[]A-A, where []A is interpreted as knowing A. This
is clearly a
different meaning of the word to know that we use
here in
Australia.
I get the impression folks here assume that when one
person knows something, that only
--- Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Robert W. wrote:
[...]
Logic is a powerful tool for analysis. Some use it
intuitively, you people seem to have mastered
formalized, symbolic logic. That's great.
Logic is just a branch of mathematics which studies
discourse and their
I was'nt aware if was a diadic operator.
My boolean interpretation of what's been presented:
OR:
AB:C
00 0
01 1
10 1
11 1
IF:
AB:C
11 1
10 0
01 1
00 1
Can someone explain the IF table?
Robert W.
--- Scott D. Yelich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 [EMAIL
. It seems to require forming specifics for
things lost in the translation to specifics. For me,
understanding of AI and consciousness is the kind of
thing one interprets, knowing it's only a limited
expression.
Robert W.
--- Brent Meeker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 05-Mar-01, rwas rwas wrote:
I
Hello,
I'm new in here. I apologize in advance for any
inadvertent transgressions...
Second, there is no way of knowing whether
you are in a so called
real world or in a virtual world. So if I
don't care about virtual
people, I don't even know whether or not I care
about myself.
--- rwas rwas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had proposed an experiment very similar to a
friend
some years back concerning identity and
consciousness.
We start with a machine that can download, upload,
and
run consciousness. It can also manipulate the
functioning of the brain
Prove is a strong word. I don't think you can
prove that we perceive
3-space...
I guess it depends on what you mean by perceive.
If I develop software that behaves a certain way in
3-space combining observations, a plan, and then
demonstrating an action in that 3-space, I'd say that
system
--- rwas rwas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
versions of many-worlds theories, one might
consider a different approach.
By deleting certain sectors of one's memory
one
should be able to travel
to different branches of the multiverse.
Suppose
you are diagnosed
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