Re: Symposium on axioms of consciousness

2019-05-22 Thread Philip Thrift
On Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at 3:38:47 AM UTC-5, Cosmin Visan wrote: > > IIT is just a materialistic fairy-tale. > But isn't Hedda's response in the symposium: IIT is a physicalistic fairy-tale ? @philipthrift -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: Symposium on axioms of consciousness

2019-05-22 Thread 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List
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Re: Symposium on axioms of consciousness

2019-05-22 Thread Philip Thrift
foundations of the integrated information theory of > consciousness* > Tim Bayne [ https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/timothy-bayne ] > https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2018/1/niy007/5047367 > > *Symposium on Bayne, “On the axiomatic foundations of the int

Re: Symposium on axioms of consciousness

2019-05-21 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 5/21/2019 2:57 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: via Hedda Hassel Mørch @heddamorch https://twitter.com/heddamorch/status/113048705070737817 A lot to read: *On the axiomatic foundations of the integrated information theory of consciousness* Tim Bayne [ https://research.monash.edu/en/persons

Symposium on axioms of consciousness

2019-05-21 Thread Philip Thrift
via Hedda Hassel Mørch @heddamorch https://twitter.com/heddamorch/status/113048705070737817 A lot to read: *On the axiomatic foundations of the integrated information theory of consciousness* Tim Bayne [ https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/timothy-bayne ] https://academic.oup.com/nc

Re: Are AI fanboys aware of the fact that consciousness is a unity ?

2019-05-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 18 May 2019, at 10:12, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > Consciousness monism is incoherent if one maintains that there is an > objective reality at all. > > If one rejects objective reality (a reality independent of oneself, or any > self-aware conscious en

Re: Are AI fanboys aware of the fact that consciousness is a unity ?

2019-05-19 Thread 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List
On Saturday, 18 May 2019 18:55:29 UTC+3, Brent wrote: > > Did you? Have you not heard of synesthesia? > > That is of course a case of cosciousness unification. "Processing" means forming memories and drawing conclusions about action > (including not taking action). Mere measuring or

Re: Are AI fanboys aware of the fact that consciousness is a unity ?

2019-05-18 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
Visan' via Everything List wrote: Did you understand what I just wrote ? On Saturday, 18 May 2019 01:45:25 UTC+3, Brent wrote: On 5/17/2019 2:25 PM, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List wrote: > Are AI fanboys aware of the fact that consciousness is a unity ? For > example, h

Re: Are AI fanboys aware of the fact that consciousness is a unity ?

2019-05-18 Thread Philip Thrift
Consciousness monism is incoherent if one maintains that there is an objective reality at all. If one rejects objective reality (a reality independent of oneself, or any self-aware conscious entity) then all bets are off. But I guess there are "AI fanboys" (as I understand what you

Re: Are AI fanboys aware of the fact that consciousness is a unity ?

2019-05-18 Thread 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List
Did you understand what I just wrote ? On Saturday, 18 May 2019 01:45:25 UTC+3, Brent wrote: > > > > On 5/17/2019 2:25 PM, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List wrote: > > Are AI fanboys aware of the fact that consciousness is a unity ? For > > example, hearing something an

Re: Are AI fanboys aware of the fact that consciousness is a unity ?

2019-05-17 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 5/17/2019 2:25 PM, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List wrote: Are AI fanboys aware of the fact that consciousness is a unity ? For example, hearing something and seeing something don't happen in 2 independent consciousnesses, but happen in only 1 consciousness. Also, split brain patients

Are AI fanboys aware of the fact that consciousness is a unity ?

2019-05-17 Thread 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List
Are AI fanboys aware of the fact that consciousness is a unity ? For example, hearing something and seeing something don't happen in 2 independent consciousnesses, but happen in only 1 consciousness. Also, split brain patients show 2 different consciousness, for example one being theist

Re: Bernardo Kastrup: "Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology) '

2019-05-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
no Marchal wrote: >>>> ll sciences are born from theology, which remind us that the belief in >>>> any reality out of personal consciousness requires an act of faith. >>> This is false. Belief in an external reality is not "an act of faith". >>> I

Re: Bernardo Kastrup: "Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology) '

2019-05-10 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 5/10/2019 6:24 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, May 9, 2019, at 17:53, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List wrote: On 5/9/2019 2:50 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ll sciences are born from theology, which remind us that the belief in any reality out of personal consciousness requires an act

Re: Bernardo Kastrup: "Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology) '

2019-05-10 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, May 9, 2019, at 17:53, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List wrote: > > > On 5/9/2019 2:50 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > ll sciences are born from theology, which remind us that the belief in > > any reality out of personal consciousness requires an act of fait

Re: Bernardo Kastrup: "Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology) '

2019-05-09 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 5/9/2019 2:50 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ll sciences are born from theology, which remind us that the belief in any reality out of personal consciousness requires an act of faith. This is false.  Belief in an external reality is not "an act of faith".  It's not an "act&quo

Re: Bernardo Kastrup: "Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology) '

2019-05-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
t. Smullyan too. But, as Cohen explained, the theological motivation of mathematical logic has been forced to be hidden to permit the professionalisation of mathematics in the 18th century. All sciences are born from theology, which remind us that the belief in any reality out of personal consciousness

Re: Bernardo Kastrup: "Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology) '

2019-05-06 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 10:47 AM Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 3 May 2019, at 20:09, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < > everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > On 5/3/2019 7:53 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> The current darkness comes from the separation of theology from >

Re: Bernardo Kastrup: "Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology"

2019-05-06 Thread cloudversed
On Monday, May 6, 2019 at 10:35:44 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: With mechanism we don’t have a body, only relative “Gödel number”, ... > > Bruno > > > This always reminds me of The Prisoner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcaxlxgnvf0 @philipthrift -- You received this message

Re: Bernardo Kastrup: "Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology) '

2019-05-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 3 May 2019, at 20:09, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > wrote: > > > > On 5/3/2019 7:53 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> The current darkness comes from the separation of theology from science, >> making exact science inexact and human science inhuman. >> >> Religion is the only goal,

Re: Bernardo Kastrup: "Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology"

2019-05-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
on. Or does it at least lead to any retrodictions, based on less >> hypothesis (simpler)? >> >> Bruno >> >> >>> >>> Brent >>> >>> On 5/1/2019 12:28 AM, cloudver...@gmail.com <mailto:cloudver...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: &

Re: Bernardo Kastrup: "Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology"

2019-05-03 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
alism: A consciousness-only ontology" I once corresponded with Greg Stone (https://www.near-death.com/science/articles/dying-brain-theory.html), who advanced a similar theory and claimed that he could detach from his body and be present at places remote from it.  I offered to  fund a research prog

Re: Bernardo Kastrup: "Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology) '

2019-05-03 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 5/3/2019 7:53 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The current darkness comes from the separation of theology from science, making exact science inexact and human science inhuman. Religion is the only goal, That's the kind of absolutist pronouncement that priests and despots have used to justify

Re: Bernardo Kastrup: "Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology"

2019-05-03 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
of course, but here is *Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology* Bernardo Kastrup Dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen (2019) https://philpapers.org/rec/KASAIA-3 pdf: https://philpapers.org/archive/KASAIA-3.pdf Abstract This thesis articulates an analytic version of the ontology of

Re: Bernardo Kastrup: "Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology) '

2019-05-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
s). As long as some people claim to know the fundamental truth, there will be problems. Bruno > > > -Original Message- > From: 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > To: everything-list > Sent: Wed, May 1, 2019 12:15 pm > Subject: Re: Bernardo Kastrup: &quo

Re: Bernardo Kastrup: "Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology"

2019-05-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
/2019 12:28 AM, cloudver...@gmail.com <mailto:cloudver...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Not my view of course, but here is >> >> Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology >> Bernardo Kastrup >> Dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen (2019) >> https://phi

Re: Bernardo Kastrup: "Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology) '

2019-05-01 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Kastrup: "Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology" But does Kastrup's TOE yield any testable predictions? Brent On 5/1/2019 12:28 AM, cloudver...@gmail.com wrote: Not my view of course, but here is  Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology Bernar

Re: Bernardo Kastrup: "Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology"

2019-05-01 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
But does Kastrup's TOE yield any testable predictions? Brent On 5/1/2019 12:28 AM, cloudver...@gmail.com wrote: Not my view of course, but here is *Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology* Bernardo Kastrup Dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen (2019) https://philpapers.org/rec

Bernardo Kastrup: "Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology"

2019-05-01 Thread cloudversed
Not my view of course, but here is *Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology* Bernardo Kastrup Dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen (2019) https://philpapers.org/rec/KASAIA-3 pdf: https://philpapers.org/archive/KASAIA-3.pdf Abstract This thesis articulates an analytic version

ASSC 23 (Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness)

2019-03-23 Thread Philip Thrift
https://theassc.org/assc-23/ ASSC 23 (Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness) June 25th - 28th 2019 University of Western Ontario, Canada abstract submissions due April 1, 2019 (no joke) - pt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
why do you criticise the theorem? Maybe you don’t? Bt then why >>>> are you saying that elementary arithmetic is not a TOE? It explain the >>>> coupling consciousness/matter using only elementary arithmetic. >>> >>> My criticism of the theory is different from my

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-07 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
..which I never refer to. But then, why do you criticise the theorem? Maybe you don’t? Bt then why are you saying that elementary arithmetic is not a TOE? It explain the coupling consciousness/matter using only elementary arithmetic. My criticism of the theory is different from my criticis

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
hy do you criticise the theorem? Maybe you don’t? Bt then why are >> you saying that elementary arithmetic is not a TOE? It explain the coupling >> consciousness/matter using only elementary arithmetic. > > My criticism of the theory is different from my criticism o

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-06 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
the coupling consciousness/matter using only elementary arithmetic. My criticism of the theory is different from my criticism of your repeated claim that you have eliminated and matter and attributing anything to it is "Aristotles error".   My criticism of the theory that arithmeti

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
ask them to emulate them. Turing also showed that elementary arithmetic emulates them “already”. You argument is equivalent to saying that we have to enumerate the primes number to make sense of Riemann hypothesis. That looks like extreme physicalism, akin to ultra-finitism. > That's has be

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-05 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
not a TOE in which consciousness appears without matter.  It is a theory in which consciousness and matter must appear together.  Every time I mention this you strike back at the straw man of primitive matter...which I never refer to. Brent -- You received this message because you are

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
: >>> >>> >>> On 2/28/2019 2:14 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 3:48:04 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On 2/28/2019 1:17 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: &g

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
Thrift wrote: >>> >>> >>> The best current philosopher of (and writer about) consciousness is Galen >>> Strawson. >>> >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen_Strawson >>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen_Strawson> >>&

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 4 Mar 2019, at 19:48, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > > On 3/4/2019 3:45 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> Unconsciousness is an illusion of consciousness … It should be obvious that >> “being unconscious” cannot be a first person experience, for logical reason. >&g

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 4 Mar 2019, at 19:47, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > > On 3/4/2019 3:45 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> I have had two relatives die of Alzheimers and they lost their identity >>> gradually as they lost memory. >> They lost they memory. Not their identity, but the apprehension of their >>

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
a in the >>>>> abstract of a potentially infinite set of evolving bacteria interacting >>>>> with their environment. But if a consider a potentially infinite set of >>>>> thermostats interacting with their environment of furnaces and rooms, it >>&

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-04 Thread Brent Meeker
On 3/4/2019 3:45 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Unconsciousness is an illusion of consciousness … It should be obvious that “being unconscious” cannot be a first person experience, for logical reason. To die is not a personal event. That happens only to the others. I agree.  Except I don't

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-04 Thread Brent Meeker
On 3/4/2019 3:45 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I have had two relatives die of Alzheimers and they lost their identity gradually as they lost memory. They lost they memory. Not their identity, but the apprehension of their identity. If not, when you ask where they are in the hospital, the

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-04 Thread Brent Meeker
runo Marchal wrote: On 28 Feb 2019, at 22:47, Brent Meeker <mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote: On 2/28/2019 1:17 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: The best current philosopher of (and writer about) consciousness is *Galen Strawson*. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen_Strawson ht

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 3 Mar 2019, at 20:23, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > > On 3/3/2019 3:45 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> On 1 Mar 2019, at 23:21, Brent Meeker wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 3/1/2019 7:04 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>>>

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
/1/2019 7:08 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 28 Feb 2019, at 22:47, Brent Meeker >>>> <mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 2/28/2019 1:17 PM, Philip

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-03 Thread Brent Meeker
On 3/3/2019 3:45 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 1 Mar 2019, at 23:21, Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/1/2019 7:04 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The “minimal” consciousness require only a weak notion of self. It does not require memory, nor any sense. It is a highly dissociated state of consciousness

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-03 Thread Brent Meeker
hilip Thrift wrote: The best current philosopher of (and writer about) consciousness is *Galen Strawson*. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen_Strawson https://sites.google.com/site/galenstrawson/ https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/philosophy/faculty/profile.php?id=gs24429 There is a lot of his materi

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 1 Mar 2019, at 23:21, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > > On 3/1/2019 7:04 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> The “minimal” consciousness require only a weak notion of self. It does not >> require memory, nor any sense. It is a highly dissociated state of >&g

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
/2019 1:17 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> The best current philosopher of (and writer about) consciousness is Galen >>>> Strawson. >>>> >>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen_Strawson >>>

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-01 Thread Philip Thrift
;>>> On 2/28/2019 2:14 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 3:48:04 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 2/28/2019 1

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-01 Thread Philip Thrift
>> >> >> On 2/28/2019 2:14 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 3:48:04 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 2/28/2019 1:17 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: >>> >>&

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-01 Thread Brent Meeker
On 3/1/2019 7:18 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: You might be interested by this quite remarkable news: a 8 letters synthetic DNA, which seems to work well. If that is true, it really suggests that we all come from one bacteria, I think. It is amazing that all life use only the same 4 letters

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
>>> On 2/28/2019 1:17 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> The best current philosopher of (and writer about) consciousness is Galen >>>> Strawson. >>>> >>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen_Strawson >>>&g

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
>>> >>> On Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 3:48:04 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 2/28/2019 1:17 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> The best current philosopher of (and writer about) consciousness is

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-01 Thread Brent Meeker
On 3/1/2019 7:04 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The “minimal” consciousness require only a weak notion of self. It does not require memory, nor any sense. It is a highly dissociated state of consciousness. It is quite different from the usual mundane consciousness of the everyday life. How

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-01 Thread Philip Thrift
On Friday, March 1, 2019 at 2:36:06 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > > On 3/1/2019 7:08 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 28 Feb 2019, at 22:47, Brent Meeker > > wrote: > > > > On 2/28/2019 1:17 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > The best curr

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-01 Thread Brent Meeker
On 3/1/2019 7:08 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Feb 2019, at 22:47, Brent Meeker <mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote: On 2/28/2019 1:17 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: The best current philosopher of (and writer about) consciousness is *Galen Strawson*. https://en.wikipedia

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-01 Thread Philip Thrift
On Friday, March 1, 2019 at 9:08:43 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 28 Feb 2019, at 22:47, Brent Meeker > > wrote: > > > > On 2/28/2019 1:17 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > The best current philosopher of (and writer about) conscious

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 28 Feb 2019, at 22:47, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > > On 2/28/2019 1:17 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> The best current philosopher of (and writer about) consciousness is Galen >> Strawson. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wik

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 28 Feb 2019, at 21:32, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > > On 2/28/2019 10:35 AM, Azutmai wrote: >> Brent . . . it might be helpful to equate the word ‘consciousness’ and >> ‘awareness.’ If we are conscious or aware of something . . . then it >> pertains to our

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 28 Feb 2019, at 19:35, Azutmai wrote: > > Brent . . . it might be helpful to equate the word ‘consciousness’ and > ‘awareness.’ Yes. We can at some point add nuance, but as long as we don’t use the nuance, it is better to not make things complex for no reason. > If w

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-01 Thread Philip Thrift
9 at 4:34:54 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 2/28/2019 2:14 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 3:48:04 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >>>> >>>> >&g

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-03-01 Thread Philip Thrift
t;> >> >> >> On Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 3:48:04 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 2/28/2019 1:17 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> The best current philosopher of (and writer abou

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-02-28 Thread Brent Meeker
: The best current philosopher of (and writer about) consciousness is *Galen Strawson*. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen_Strawson <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen_Strawson> https://sites.google.com/site/galenstrawson/ <https://sites.google

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-02-28 Thread Philip Thrift
wrote: >> >> >> >> The best current philosopher of (and writer about) consciousness is *Galen >> Strawson*. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen_Strawson >> https://sites.google.com/site/galenstrawson/ >> https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/philo

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-02-28 Thread Brent Meeker
On 2/28/2019 2:14 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: On Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 3:48:04 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: On 2/28/2019 1:17 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: The best current philosopher of (and writer about) consciousness is *Galen Strawson*. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-02-28 Thread Philip Thrift
On Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 3:48:04 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > > On 2/28/2019 1:17 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > The best current philosopher of (and writer about) consciousness is *Galen > Strawson*. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen_Strawso

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-02-28 Thread Brent Meeker
On 2/28/2019 1:17 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: The best current philosopher of (and writer about) consciousness is *Galen Strawson*. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen_Strawson https://sites.google.com/site/galenstrawson/ https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/philosophy/faculty/profile.php?id

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-02-28 Thread Philip Thrift
The best current philosopher of (and writer about) consciousness is *Galen Strawson*. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen_Strawson https://sites.google.com/site/galenstrawson/ https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/philosophy/faculty/profile.php?id=gs24429 There is a lot of his material (PDFs

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-02-28 Thread Brent Meeker
On 2/28/2019 10:35 AM, Azutmai wrote: Brent . . . it might be helpful to equate the word ‘consciousness’ and ‘awareness.’ If we are conscious or aware of something . . . then it pertains to our viewpoint and lifestyle. I take awareness to be consciousness without reflection

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-02-28 Thread Azutmai
Brent . . . it might be helpful to equate the word ‘consciousness’ and ‘awareness.’ If we are conscious or aware of something . . . then it pertains to our viewpoint and lifestyle. Memory is a secondary feature to allow the individual to retain over time . . . otherwise we would have

Re: Modal logic, consciousness, and matter

2019-02-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 26 Feb 2019, at 23:45, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 4:39:25 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > On 2/26/2019 2:02 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> On Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 2:51:39 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >> >> >> On 2/26/2019 11:00 AM, Philip

Re: Modal logic, consciousness, and matter

2019-02-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 26 Feb 2019, at 19:43, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > > On 2/26/2019 2:39 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> On 26 Feb 2019, at 01:04, Brent Meeker wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 2/25/2019 8:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Fictionalism does not apply to the arithmetical reality, nor to physics,

Re: Modal logic, consciousness, and matter

2019-02-26 Thread Philip Thrift
On Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 4:39:25 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > > On 2/26/2019 2:02 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 2:51:39 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> On 2/26/2019 11:00 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at

Re: Modal logic, consciousness, and matter

2019-02-26 Thread Brent Meeker
On 2/26/2019 2:02 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: On Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 2:51:39 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: On 2/26/2019 11:00 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: On Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 12:43:49 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: Right.  Truth and existence are quite different

Re: Modal logic, consciousness, and matter

2019-02-26 Thread Philip Thrift
On Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 2:51:39 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > > On 2/26/2019 11:00 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 12:43:49 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> Right. Truth and existence are quite different things. >> >> Brent >> >> >> > For those

Re: Modal logic, consciousness, and matter

2019-02-26 Thread Brent Meeker
On 2/26/2019 11:00 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: On Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 12:43:49 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: Right.  Truth and existence are quite different things. Brent For those from the type theory, programming language theory, constructive mathematics (whatever that

Re: Modal logic, consciousness, and matter

2019-02-26 Thread Philip Thrift
On Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 12:43:49 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > > Right. Truth and existence are quite different things. > > Brent > > > For those from the type theory, programming language theory, constructive mathematics (whatever that clumping of schools is called): Truth and

Re: Modal logic, consciousness, and matter

2019-02-26 Thread Brent Meeker
On 2/26/2019 2:39 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 26 Feb 2019, at 01:04, Brent Meeker wrote: On 2/25/2019 8:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Fictionalism does not apply to the arithmetical reality, nor to physics, but to the naïve idea of a “physical universe” as being the fundamental reality.

Re: Modal logic, consciousness, and matter

2019-02-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 26 Feb 2019, at 01:04, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > > On 2/25/2019 8:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> Fictionalism does not apply to the arithmetical reality, nor to physics, but >> to the naïve idea of a “physical universe” as being the fundamental reality. >> The theology of the

Re: Modal logic, consciousness, and matter

2019-02-25 Thread Philip Thrift
On Monday, February 25, 2019 at 6:04:28 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > > On 2/25/2019 8:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > Fictionalism does not apply to the arithmetical reality, nor to > > physics, but to the naïve idea of a “physical universe” as being the > > fundamental reality. The theology

Re: Modal logic, consciousness, and matter

2019-02-25 Thread Brent Meeker
On 2/25/2019 8:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Fictionalism does not apply to the arithmetical reality, nor to physics, but to the naïve idea of a “physical universe” as being the fundamental reality. The theology of the universal machine is a priori quite non Aristotelian: there is no Creator,

Re: Modal logic, consciousness, and matter

2019-02-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 25 Feb 2019, at 11:52, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Monday, February 25, 2019 at 3:34:15 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 22 Feb 2019, at 18:44, Philip Thrift > >> wrote: >> >> Some accept the possibility that there can be something that is immaterial. > > Yes. We call them

Re: Modal logic, consciousness, and matter

2019-02-25 Thread Philip Thrift
On Monday, February 25, 2019 at 3:34:15 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 22 Feb 2019, at 18:44, Philip Thrift > > wrote: > > > Some accept the possibility that there can be something that is immaterial. > > > Yes. We call them “mathematician”. > > Bruno > > > This recent thesis I came

Re: Modal logic, consciousness, and matter

2019-02-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
ing-list/0SIiavzPI84/jUkaOlUdAwAJ >>> > <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/0SIiavzPI84/jUkaOlUdAwAJ> >>> This is the link to the reply in the topic "When Did Consciousness Begin?" >>> As I have said before, the modal logic and numerical

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-02-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
I was explaining. In fact the machine, PA say, can guess or infer abductively or inductively its own consistency, and add it as a new axiom leading to the “new” machine PA + con PA (which is different than PA, and indeed much more powerful in the range of its theorem, and this makes the length of many

Re: Modal logic, consciousness, and matter

2019-02-22 Thread Philip Thrift
p Thrift wrote: >> >> On Monday, February 18, 2019 at 9:14:38 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> > >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/0SIiavzPI84/jUkaOlUdAwAJ >> This is the link to the reply in the topic "When Did Consciousne

Re: Modal logic, consciousness, and matter

2019-02-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/0SIiavzPI84/jUkaOlUdAwAJ >> > <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/0SIiavzPI84/jUkaOlUdAwAJ> >> This is the link to the reply in the topic "When Did Consciousn

Re: Modal logic, consciousness, and matter

2019-02-21 Thread Philip Thrift
-list/0SIiavzPI84/jUkaOlUdAwAJ > This is the link to the reply in the topic "When Did Consciousness Begin?" > As I have said before, the modal logic and numerical semantics written > there is one way to approach the science of experience. But I think > ultimately this is a logical se

Re: Modal logic, consciousness, and matter

2019-02-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 18 Feb 2019, at 20:18, Philip Thrift wrote: > > On Monday, February 18, 2019 at 9:14:38 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/0SIiavzPI84/jUkaOlUdAwAJ > This is the link to the reply in the topic "When Did Consciou

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-02-19 Thread Brent Meeker
On 2/17/2019 2:10 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: But the machine itself will not believe us, or understand this. Why not? It can't prove what algorithm it is, but it can know that we know...so why would it disbelieve us. Tha machine becomes inconsistent if it assumes its consistency (cf Rogers’s

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-02-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 15 Feb 2019, at 19:50, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > > On 2/14/2019 3:14 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> On 14 Feb 2019, at 06:44, Brent Meeker wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 2/12/2019 5:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>>&

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-02-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
ence for it. So it looks like making things only more complex without any evidence for it. Assuming matter makes it primitive, without reason. > > > because I have never seen any evidence for it. > > That's OK, I don't think matter has ever seen any evidence for you either. N

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-02-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 15 Feb 2019, at 19:53, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > > On 2/14/2019 3:26 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> Don’t hesitate to find some argument in favour of primitive materials, but >> in my opinion, this is highly speculative, and never used in physics. > > But the non-material primitive is

RE: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-02-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Philip, I cannot answer in your text for reason of bad formatting. It looks hard to be sent too. I comment here: when you say: << Matter is everything that we can see, smell, touch, feel and even can't see. >> I am OK with this definition. But when you add << Everything is matter,

Modal logic, consciousness, and matter

2019-02-18 Thread Philip Thrift
On Monday, February 18, 2019 at 9:14:38 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/0SIiavzPI84/jUkaOlUdAwAJ This is the link to the reply in the topic "When Did Consciousness Begin?" As I have said before, the modal logic and numerical sema

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-02-18 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 10:14 AM Bruno Marchal wrote: >> Matter doesn't care if you believe in it or not, it will just continue >> doing what it does. > > > *> Assuming it exists.* > You've said that many many times before but I still don't get your point. Apparently I don't know what you mean

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-02-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
only more complex without any evidence for it. Assuming matter makes it primitive, without reason. > > > because I have never seen any evidence for it. > > That's OK, I don't think matter has ever seen any evidence for you either. Nor for your consciousness, but

Re: When Did Consciousness Begin?

2019-02-15 Thread Brent Meeker
On 2/14/2019 3:14 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 14 Feb 2019, at 06:44, Brent Meeker wrote: On 2/12/2019 5:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: If we could knew which machine we are, we could define consciousness, or at least our personal current consciousness, as it would be defined

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