Re: Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-17 Thread Roger Clough
, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-16, 11:37:13 Subject: Re: Emergence of Properties On 11/16/2012 8:48 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King But how could one know

Re: Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-16 Thread Roger Clough
-list Time: 2012-11-15, 16:46:15 Subject: Re: Emergence of Properties On 11/15/2012 11:27 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King But many minds are in agreement that God exists, so that must be true ? Hi Roger, In my proposed definitions, must only follows if and only

Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-16 Thread Stephen P. King
-15, 16:46:15 *Subject:* Re: Emergence of Properties On 11/15/2012 11:27 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King But many minds are in agreement that God exists, so that must be true ? Hi Roger, In my proposed definitions, must only follows if and only

Re: Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-16 Thread Roger Clough
] 11/16/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-16, 07:25:39 Subject: Re: Emergence of Properties On 11/16/2012 6:44 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King

Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-16 Thread Stephen P. King
near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - *From:* Stephen P. King mailto:stephe...@charter.net *Receiver:* everything-list mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com *Time:* 2012-11-16, 07:25:39 *Subject:* Re: Emergence of Properties On 11/16/2012

Re: Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-15 Thread Roger Clough
content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-03, 12:31:14 Subject: Re: Emergence of Properties On 11/3/2012 8:57 AM, Roger Clough wrote: The properties of spacetime things are what can be measured (ie facts). The properties of beyond spacetime things

Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-15 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/15/2012 11:27 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King But many minds are in agreement that God exists, so that must be true ? Hi Roger, In my proposed definitions, must only follows if and only if there is no accessible possible world where a contraindication of the agreement

Re: Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-03, 13:31:14 Subject: Re: Emergence of Properties On 11/3/2012 8:57 AM, Roger Clough wrote: The properties of spacetime things are what can be measured (ie facts). The properties of beyond spacetime things are propositions that can't

Re: Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-03, 13:31:14 Subject: Re: Emergence of Properties On 11/3/2012 8:57 AM, Roger Clough wrote: The properties of spacetime things are what can be measured (ie facts). The properties of beyond spacetime things are propositions that can't

Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-05 Thread Stephen P. King
@googlegroups.com *Time:* 2012-11-03, 13:31:14 *Subject:* Re: Emergence of Properties On 11/3/2012 8:57 AM, Roger Clough wrote: The properties of spacetime things are what can be measured (ie facts). The properties of beyond spacetime things are propositions that can't

Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-05 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/5/2012 1:19 PM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King In the end, we must accept a truth, so in the end, all truth is pragmatic. We must cast our own vote. Dear Roger, Are you familiar with Kenneth Arrow's impossibility theorem

Re: Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-03, 13:35:50 Subject: Re: Emergence of Properties On 11/3/2012 9:18 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Yes, Aristotle's substances and their properties do

Re: Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-05, 13:43:57 Subject: Re: Emergence of Properties On 11/5/2012 1:17 PM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King I have no problem with that, although I do think that there are some eternal truths external to those minds. Dear Roger

Re: Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Time: 2012-11-05, 13:51:48 Subject: Re: Emergence of Properties On 11/5/2012 1:19 PM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King In the end, we must accept a truth, so in the end, all truth is pragmatic. We must cast our own vote. Dear Roger, Are you familiar with Kenneth Arrow's

Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-05 Thread meekerdb
On 11/5/2012 12:51 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/5/2012 1:19 PM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King In the end, we must accept a truth, so in the end, all truth is pragmatic. We must cast our own vote. Dear Roger, Are you familiar with Kenneth Arrow's impossibility theorem

Re: Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-04 Thread Roger Clough
Time: 2012-11-03, 13:26:12 Subject: Re: Emergence of Properties On 11/3/2012 8:22 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 03 Nov 2012, at 12:17, Stephen P. King wrote: ?? After I wrote the above I can see how you would think of properties as being innate, I meant independent of us. Not innate

Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-04 Thread Stephen P. King
at the center of its own universe. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/4/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-03, 13:26:12 Subject: Re: Emergence of Properties

Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 02 Nov 2012, at 20:48, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/2/2012 12:23 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: How can anything emerge from something having non properties? Magic? Dear Bruno, Why do you consider magic as a potential answer to your question? After thinking about your question while I

Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-03 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/3/2012 5:26 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The arithmetical property of numbers are innate to the numbers, logic and the laws we assume. Dear Bruno, How? How are properties innate? This idea makes no sense to me, it never has as it does not allow for any explanation of apprehension of

Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-03 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/3/2012 5:26 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The arithmetical property of numbers are innate to the numbers, logic and the laws we assume. Hi, This paper might be interesting to any one that would like to see a nice discussion of who it is that we come to understand numbers:

Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 03 Nov 2012, at 12:17, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/3/2012 5:26 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The arithmetical property of numbers are innate to the numbers, logic and the laws we assume. Dear Bruno, How? How are properties innate? This idea makes no sense to me, it never has as it

Re: Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-03 Thread Roger Clough
. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-03, 07:17:58 Subject: Re: Emergence of Properties On 11/3/2012 5:26 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The arithmetical property of numbers are innate to the numbers, logic

Re: Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-03 Thread Roger Clough
Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-03, 07:20:37 Subject: Re: Emergence of Properties On 11/3/2012 5:26 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The arithmetical property of numbers are innate to the numbers, logic and the laws we assume. Hi, This paper might be interesting to any one

Re: Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-03 Thread Roger Clough
...@verizon.net 11/3/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-03, 08:22:27 Subject: Re: Emergence of Properties On 03 Nov 2012, at 12:17, Stephen P. King wrote

Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-03 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/3/2012 8:57 AM, Roger Clough wrote: The properties of spacetime things are what can be measured (ie facts). The properties of beyond spacetime things are propositions that can't be contradicted (necessary truths). Hi Roger, I do not assume that the can't be contradicted is an a

Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-03 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/3/2012 9:18 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Yes, Aristotle's substances and their properties do not change with time. But Leibniz's do very rapidly. And they are individual to each substance, meaning to each monad (from his aspect). The actual properties are collective data of the universe. Hi

Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-02 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/2/2012 12:23 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: How can anything emerge from something having non properties? Magic? Dear Bruno, Why do you consider magic as a potential answer to your question? After thinking about your question while I was waiting to pick up my daughter from school, it

Re: Emergence

2012-08-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
function. - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-08-23, 13:28:00 Subject: Re: Emergence Hi Richard, You mean provable statements not truths per se... I guess. OK, I haven't given that trope much thought I try to keep Godel's

Re: Re: Emergence

2012-08-24 Thread Roger Clough
P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-08-23, 13:28:00 Subject: Re: Emergence Hi Richard, You mean provable statements not truths per se... I guess. OK, I haven't given that trope much thought I try to keep Godel's theorems reserved for special occasions. It has my experience

Re: Emergence

2012-08-24 Thread Stephen P. King
*Time:* 2012-08-23, 13:28:00 *Subject:* Re: Emergence Hi Richard, You mean provable statements not truths per se... I guess. OK, I haven't given that trope much thought I try to keep Godel's theorems reserved for special occasions. It has my experience

Re: Emergence

2012-08-23 Thread Stephen P. King
Hi Richard, Pratt's theory does not address this. Could emergence be the result of inter-communications between monads and not an objective process at all? It is useful to think about how to solve the Sorites paradox to see what I mean here. A heap is said to emerge from a collection of

Re: Re: Emergence

2012-08-23 Thread Roger Clough
everything could function. - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-08-23, 12:48:51 Subject: Re: Emergence Hi Richard, Pratt's theory does not address this. Could emergence be the result of inter-communications between monads

Re: Emergence

2012-08-23 Thread Richard Ruquist
It is said that strong emergence comes from Godel incompleteness. Weak emergence is like your grains of sand. On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote: Hi Richard, Pratt's theory does not address this. Could emergence be the result of

Re: Emergence

2012-08-23 Thread Stephen P. King
Hi Richard, Ah! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_emergence Strong emergence is a type of emergence in which the emergent property is irreducible to its individual constituents. OK, but irreducibility would have almost the same meaning as implying the non-existence of relations

Re: Emergence

2012-08-23 Thread Richard Ruquist
Stephan, Strong emergence follows from Godel's incompleteness because in any consistent system there are truths that cannot be derived from the axioms of the system. That is what is meant by incompleteness. Sounds like what you just said. No? Richard On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Stephen P.

Re: Emergence

2012-08-23 Thread Stephen P. King
Hi Richard, You mean provable statements not truths per se... I guess. OK, I haven't given that trope much thought I try to keep Godel's theorems reserved for special occasions. It has my experience that they can be very easily misapplied. On 8/23/2012 1:24 PM, Richard Ruquist

Re: emergence (or is that re-emergence)

2002-11-27 Thread jamikes
PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 2:42 AM Subject: Re: emergence (or is that re-emergence) Let me first apologize for not yet reading the mentioned references on the subject, John Mikes wrote: As long as we cannot qualify the steps in a 'process' leading to the emerged new, we call

Re: emergence (or is that re-emergence)

2002-11-26 Thread Eric Hawthorne
Let me first apologize for not yet reading the mentioned references on the subject, John Mikes wrote: As long as we cannot qualify the steps in a 'process' leading to the emerged new, we call it emergence, later we call it process. Just look back into the cultural past, how many

Re: emergence

2002-11-25 Thread jamikes
]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 7:11 PM Subject: Re: emergence John, I can't remember whether you read my paper On Complexity and Emergence in Complexity International a couple of years ago. Basically, I think you are well on the mark, except I disagree with you