On 9/26/2010 12:15 PM, Rex Allen wrote:
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Brent Meeker wrote:
If you can find a Putnam-mapping that can extracts a representation of
a conscious entity, you can also find a mapping that extracts a
representation of an environment to go with it.
Sure
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Brent Meeker wrote:
>> If you can find a Putnam-mapping that can extracts a representation of
>> a conscious entity, you can also find a mapping that extracts a
>> representation of an environment to go with it.
>>
>
> Sure - but it's not our environment.
Is our e
On 9/25/2010 11:59 PM, Rex Allen wrote:
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Brent Meeker wrote:
On 9/23/2010 8:26 PM, Rex Allen wrote:
If you expose a deterministic system to a set of inputs that represent
a particular environment, the system will react in the one and only
way it can to
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
> The text is well done. Thanks. A question. What would be the consequence of
> the nomologicalism for a person that would like to earn some more money?
> Well, let us not consider the case when one successfully sells the text
> about nomologi
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
> The word 'universe" does not refer to anything except the observable
> experiential first person plural (sharable among collection of programs)
> that arithmetic places on us as a consequence of addition and
> multiplication.
I agree that fi
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Brent Meeker wrote:
> On 9/23/2010 8:26 PM, Rex Allen wrote:
>> If you expose a deterministic system to a set of inputs that represent
>> a particular environment, the system will react in the one and only
>> way it can to that set of inputs.
>>
>
> And if that rea
The text is well done. Thanks. A question. What would be the consequence
of the nomologicalism for a person that would like to earn some more
money? Well, let us not consider the case when one successfully sells
the text about nomologicalism.
Evgenii
on 21.09.2010 19:10 Rex Allen said the fo
On 24 Sep 2010, at 20:21, Brent Meeker wrote:
On 9/23/2010 8:26 PM, Rex Allen wrote:
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:12 PM, 1Z wrote:
On 22 Sep, 17:20, Rex Allen wrote:
I guess I'd have to hear your definition of "property" to make any
sense of that. In what sense is it like the properties
On 24 Sep 2010, at 05:26, Rex Allen wrote:
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:12 PM, 1Z wrote:
On 22 Sep, 17:20, Rex Allen wrote:
I guess I'd have to hear your definition of "property" to make any
sense of that. In what sense is it like the properties of charge,
mass, spin, or color?
it's a dist
On 9/23/2010 8:26 PM, Rex Allen wrote:
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:12 PM, 1Z wrote:
On 22 Sep, 17:20, Rex Allen wrote:
I guess I'd have to hear your definition of "property" to make any
sense of that. In what sense is it like the properties of charge,
mass, spin, or color?
On 24 Sep, 04:26, Rex Allen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:12 PM, 1Z wrote:
> > On 22 Sep, 17:20, Rex Allen wrote:
> >> I guess I'd have to hear your definition of "property" to make any
> >> sense of that. In what sense is it like the properties of charge,
> >> mass, spin, or color?
>
>
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:12 PM, 1Z wrote:
> On 22 Sep, 17:20, Rex Allen wrote:
>> I guess I'd have to hear your definition of "property" to make any
>> sense of that. In what sense is it like the properties of charge,
>> mass, spin, or color?
>
> it's a distinguishing characteristic
> that is
On 22 Sep, 17:20, Rex Allen wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:14 AM, 1Z wrote:
> > On 21 Sep, 18:10, Rex Allen wrote:
> >> What is the significance of intelligence in a universe with
> >> deterministic laws?
>
> >> Your performance on any IQ test is not due to your possessing some
> >> proper
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:14 AM, 1Z wrote:
> On 21 Sep, 18:10, Rex Allen wrote:
>> What is the significance of intelligence in a universe with
>> deterministic laws?
>>
>> Your performance on any IQ test is not due to your possessing some
>> property called "intelligence", but rather is an inevit
On 21 Sep, 18:10, Rex Allen wrote:
> What is the significance of intelligence in a universe with
> deterministic laws?
>
> Your performance on any IQ test is not due to your possessing some
> property called "intelligence", but rather is an inevitable outcome of
> the universe's initial conditio
What is the significance of intelligence in a universe with
deterministic laws?
Your performance on any IQ test is not due to your possessing some
property called "intelligence", but rather is an inevitable outcome of
the universe's initial conditions and governing causal laws.
The questions you
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