Re: Olympia's Beautiful and Profound Mind

2005-05-15 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
ng else to have minds." There are his own words! Stephen - Original Message - From: "Bruno Marchal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Stephen Paul King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Stathis Papaioannou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Sunday, May 15,

Re: Olympia's Beautiful and Profound Mind

2005-05-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
- Original Message - From: "Bruno Marchal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Stephen Paul King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Stathis Papaioannou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 10:18 AM Subject: Re: Olympia's Beautiful and Profo

Re: Olympia's Beautiful and Profound Mind

2005-05-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 15-mai-05, à 15:40, Stephen Paul King a écrit : Two points: I am pointing out that the "non-interactional" idea of computation and any form of monism will fail to account for the "necessity" of 1st person viewpoints. You know that the "necessity" of 1st person viewpoints is what I consider

Re: Olympia's Beautiful and Profound Mind

2005-05-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
l object that has no possible representation. Stephen - Original Message - From: "Stathis Papaioannou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 8:32 AM Subject: Re: Olympia's Beautiful and Profound Mind I appreciate that there a

Re: Olympia's Beautiful and Profound Mind

2005-05-15 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
with appropriate soldering and coding, or would we have to surrender to dualism/ an immaterial soul/ Roger Penrose or what? --Stathis Papaioannou From: "Stephen Paul King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Subject: Re: Olympia's Beautiful and Profound Mind Date:

Re: Olympia's Beautiful and Profound Mind

2005-05-14 Thread Stephen Paul King
le.stanford.edu/abstracts.html I am sure that I am being a fooling tyro is this post. ;-) Kindest regards, Stephen - Original Message - From: "Lee Corbin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 2:00 AM Subject: RE: Olympia&#x

RE: Olympia's Beautiful and Profound Mind

2005-05-14 Thread Brian Scurfield
Jesse wrote: > The main objection that comes to my mind is that in order to plan ahead of > time what number should be in each tape location before the armature > begins moving and flipping bits, you need to have already done the > computation in the regular way--so Olympia is not really computing

RE: Olympia's Beautiful and Profound Mind

2005-05-13 Thread Lee Corbin
Jesse comments on Brian's remarkable and exceedingly valuable explication (thanks, Brian!), even if some old-timers are having deja-vu all over again, and are wondering if indeed the universe isn't hopelessly cyclic after all. > > triggering tape locations. To make it even simpler, the read/write

RE: Olympia's Beautiful and Profound Mind

2005-05-13 Thread Lee Corbin
Hal writes > We had some discussion of Maudlin's paper on the everything-list in 1999. > I summarized the paper at http://www.escribe.com/science/theory/m898.html . > Subsequent discussion under the thread title "implementation" followed > ... > I suggested a flaw in Maudlin's argument at > http:/

RE: Olympia's Beautiful and Profound Mind

2005-05-13 Thread Jesse Mazer
Brian Scurfield wrote: Bruno recently urged me to read up on Tim Maudlin's movie-graph argument against the computational hypothesis. I did so. Here is my version of the argument. According to the computational hypothesis, consciousness supervenes on brain activity and

RE: Olympia's Beautiful and Profound Mind

2005-05-13 Thread Brian Scurfield
Hal wrote: > We had some discussion of Maudlin's paper on the everything-list in 1999. > I summarized the paper at http://www.escribe.com/science/theory/m898.html > . > Subsequent discussion under the thread title "implementation" followed > up; I will point to my posting at > http://www.escribe.c

Re: Olympia's Beautiful and Profound Mind

2005-05-13 Thread "Hal Finney"
We had some discussion of Maudlin's paper on the everything-list in 1999. I summarized the paper at http://www.escribe.com/science/theory/m898.html . Subsequent discussion under the thread title "implementation" followed up; I will point to my posting at http://www.escribe.com/science/theory/m962.h

Re: Olympia's Beautiful and Profound Mind

2005-05-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
Thanks for that very nice summary. I let people think about it. We have discussed it a long time before on the Everything-list. A keyword to find that discussion in the everything list archive is "crackpot" as Jacques Mallah named the argument. Good we can come back on this, because we didn't concl