Re: thoughts ?

2011-06-21 Thread Bruno Marchal


On 20 Jun 2011, at 19:10, selva wrote:




On Jun 20, 6:32 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:

On 19 Jun 2011, at 19:35, selva wrote:






On Jun 19, 5:21 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:

Hi selva,



On 17 Jun 2011, at 22:10, selva wrote:



1.consider a person cut off from all his senses,all his 5 senses
shut
down and now he is about to find a solution for a problem. Does  
his

environment (or rather,positions of atoms/energy around
him, ) ,affects his solution ?


Assuming mechanism, and some relatively high substitution level,  
the

answer is no.



will there be different solution at different environments ?



There is no reason. The environment can only play a role through
interaction, or interference, but this will not occur in the
situation
that you are describing.
1)then the converse should also be true right?that our thoughts  
don't

affect our environment..?


You are right. But only in the setting that you describe, where a
person is isolated from the environment.
This seems to me rather obvious, so I might be missing something.


in that case,what about noetic sciences ? Are you suggesting it
doesn't exist at all ?


It exists, and is fundamental. I argue that if we accept the  
mechanist

hypothesis, then the noetic constitutes the fundamental science(s). I
provide the math from extracting both quanta and qualia from the
noetic. Physics continue to exist, but is a a study of an emerging
mind invariant.
I remind that materialism (even weak materialism: the doctrine that
primitive or primary (aristotelian) matter exists is logically
incompatible with Occam and Mechanism, despite many materialist
believe the contrary.

but noetic science has showed that our physical environment is
affected by our thoughts.


What do you mean by noetic science. I use it in the sense of the  
(greek scholars): pertaining to the intellect or the mental. It is the  
third person describable cognitive process, and it is well described  
by computer science, or by the logic of provability (in the case of  
ideally correct machines). I think that noetic might come from the  
noûs (the divine intellect, the one played by G* in arithmetic).
Now I can understand that the cognitive processes affect the physical  
environment (fears leads to atomic bombs, to give a trivial example,  
love gives rise to 'Mona Lisa', etc.).







Definitely they are not doing it through our
senses,not through our actions.


You lost me, here.





then how do they do it ?previously you
mentioned that there is no interference between our mind and
environment.


In the situation you were describing, that is where someone is  
isolated from his local environment.


If you are thinking to something like telekinesis, I don't believe in  
it. Nor do I believe it is impossible. Its existence is just an open  
problem, theoretically. So I am agnostic on it.
If it exists, it would probably mean that the comp substitution level  
is much lower than what most empirical evidences suggest.


I have never seen evidence for telekinesis, but I do have seen many  
evidences for it being debunked by a deepening of the statistics (a  
bit like the danger of cannabis). To be sure, I have also seen many  
incorrect arguments against telekinesis. They assume some high comp  
substitution level without making this precise, or they use some naïve  
notion of matter hardly compatible with comp or even the quantum data.
Some weak quantum form of telekinesis are plausible, a bit like the  
quantum Zeno effect. But they will use interferences between  
superposed states (aka parallel universes).


Bruno








2)will gravity(acceleration of the particles in brain) affect the
solution ?


As far as the local computations made by the brain are well described
at the level of particles interactions, gravity is playing a role, no
less than electromagnetism or any other forces describing (locally)
its current brain state evolution.

Bruno






2.consider an artificial brain fed with signals similar to normal
brain and (for arguments sake )this artificial brain and a normal
human brain have computational similarities...then will they have
similar response? or as they are made of different materials there
would be differences in response ?



It really depends on the mechanist assumption and the choice of the
substitution level. The mechanist assumption just assumes the
existence of a substitution level where you are Turing emulable. If
the level is very low, the environment might be a part of your
generalized brain, and it is logically possible that you have to
describe it at the Planck scale or below, but most  
neurophilosophers
and physician believe that the generalized brain *is* the  
biological

brain.



The 'reversal consequence' of Digital Mechanism does not depend on
the
substitution level. It depends only on the existence of such a  
level.



Bruno



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Re: thoughts ?

2011-06-20 Thread Jason Resch
It is interesting to note that the human psyche will break if cut off from
any sensory stimuli for more than about 48 hours.  I don't believe this is
due to some philosophical need for a mind to be connected to its
environment, however, rather I would guess it is due to the design of the
neurons or the programming of the brain which make the human mind dependent
on input to keep its other processes going.  If one made an accurate model
of the human brain and ran it on the computer you should get the same result
if you never fed it any input.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alfred-w-mccoy/confronting-the-cias-mind_b_212722.html

This secret research produced two discoveries central to the CIA's more
recent psychological paradigm. In classified experiments, famed Canadian
psychologist Donald Hebb found that he could induce a state akin to
drug-induced hallucinations and psychosis in just 48 hours -- without drugs,
hypnosis, or electric shock. Instead, for two days student volunteers at
McGill University simply sat in a comfortable cubicle deprived of sensory
stimulation by goggles, gloves, and earmuffs. It scared the hell out of
us, Hebb said later, to see how completely dependent the mind is on a
close connection with the ordinary sensory environment, and how
disorganizing to be cut off from that support.

Jason

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:35 PM, selva selvakr1...@gmail.com wrote:



 On Jun 19, 5:21 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
  Hi selva,
 
  On 17 Jun 2011, at 22:10, selva wrote:
 
 
 
   1.consider a person cut off from all his senses,all his 5 senses shut
   down and now he is about to find a solution for a problem. Does his
   environment (or rather,positions of atoms/energy around
   him, ) ,affects his solution ?
 
  Assuming mechanism, and some relatively high substitution level, the
  answer is no.
 
   will there be different solution at different environments ?
 
  There is no reason. The environment can only play a role through
  interaction, or interference, but this will not occur in the situation
  that you are describing.
 1)then the converse should also be true right?that our thoughts don't
 affect our environment..?
 in that case,what about noetic sciences ? Are you suggesting it
 doesn't exist at all ?
 2)will gravity(acceleration of the particles in brain) affect the
 solution ?
 
   2.consider an artificial brain fed with signals similar to normal
   brain and (for arguments sake )this artificial brain and a normal
   human brain have computational similarities...then will they have
   similar response? or as they are made of different materials there
   would be differences in response ?
 
  It really depends on the mechanist assumption and the choice of the
  substitution level. The mechanist assumption just assumes the
  existence of a substitution level where you are Turing emulable. If
  the level is very low, the environment might be a part of your
  generalized brain, and it is logically possible that you have to
  describe it at the Planck scale or below, but most neurophilosophers
  and physician believe that the generalized brain *is* the biological
  brain.
 
  The 'reversal consequence' of Digital Mechanism does not depend on the
  substitution level. It depends only on the existence of such a level.
 
  Bruno
 
  http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/

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Re: thoughts ?

2011-06-20 Thread Bruno Marchal


On 19 Jun 2011, at 19:35, selva wrote:




On Jun 19, 5:21 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:

Hi selva,

On 17 Jun 2011, at 22:10, selva wrote:



1.consider a person cut off from all his senses,all his 5 senses  
shut

down and now he is about to find a solution for a problem. Does his
environment (or rather,positions of atoms/energy around
him, ) ,affects his solution ?


Assuming mechanism, and some relatively high substitution level, the
answer is no.


will there be different solution at different environments ?


There is no reason. The environment can only play a role through
interaction, or interference, but this will not occur in the  
situation

that you are describing.

1)then the converse should also be true right?that our thoughts don't
affect our environment..?


You are right. But only in the setting that you describe, where a  
person is isolated from the environment.

This seems to me rather obvious, so I might be missing something.





in that case,what about noetic sciences ? Are you suggesting it
doesn't exist at all ?


It exists, and is fundamental. I argue that if we accept the mechanist  
hypothesis, then the noetic constitutes the fundamental science(s). I  
provide the math from extracting both quanta and qualia from the  
noetic. Physics continue to exist, but is a a study of an emerging  
mind invariant.
I remind that materialism (even weak materialism: the doctrine that  
primitive or primary (aristotelian) matter exists is logically  
incompatible with Occam and Mechanism, despite many materialist  
believe the contrary.





2)will gravity(acceleration of the particles in brain) affect the
solution ?


As far as the local computations made by the brain are well described  
at the level of particles interactions, gravity is playing a role, no  
less than electromagnetism or any other forces describing (locally)  
its current brain state evolution.


Bruno







2.consider an artificial brain fed with signals similar to normal
brain and (for arguments sake )this artificial brain and a normal
human brain have computational similarities...then will they have
similar response? or as they are made of different materials there
would be differences in response ?


It really depends on the mechanist assumption and the choice of the
substitution level. The mechanist assumption just assumes the
existence of a substitution level where you are Turing emulable. If
the level is very low, the environment might be a part of your
generalized brain, and it is logically possible that you have to
describe it at the Planck scale or below, but most neurophilosophers
and physician believe that the generalized brain *is* the biological
brain.

The 'reversal consequence' of Digital Mechanism does not depend on  
the

substitution level. It depends only on the existence of such a level.

Bruno

http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/


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Re: thoughts ?

2011-06-20 Thread selva


On Jun 20, 6:32 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
 On 19 Jun 2011, at 19:35, selva wrote:





  On Jun 19, 5:21 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
  Hi selva,

  On 17 Jun 2011, at 22:10, selva wrote:

  1.consider a person cut off from all his senses,all his 5 senses  
  shut
  down and now he is about to find a solution for a problem. Does his
  environment (or rather,positions of atoms/energy around
  him, ) ,affects his solution ?

  Assuming mechanism, and some relatively high substitution level, the
  answer is no.

  will there be different solution at different environments ?

  There is no reason. The environment can only play a role through
  interaction, or interference, but this will not occur in the  
  situation
  that you are describing.
  1)then the converse should also be true right?that our thoughts don't
  affect our environment..?

 You are right. But only in the setting that you describe, where a  
 person is isolated from the environment.
 This seems to me rather obvious, so I might be missing something.

  in that case,what about noetic sciences ? Are you suggesting it
  doesn't exist at all ?

 It exists, and is fundamental. I argue that if we accept the mechanist  
 hypothesis, then the noetic constitutes the fundamental science(s). I  
 provide the math from extracting both quanta and qualia from the  
 noetic. Physics continue to exist, but is a a study of an emerging  
 mind invariant.
 I remind that materialism (even weak materialism: the doctrine that  
 primitive or primary (aristotelian) matter exists is logically  
 incompatible with Occam and Mechanism, despite many materialist  
 believe the contrary.
but noetic science has showed that our physical environment is
affected by our thoughts.Definitely they are not doing it through our
senses,not through our actions.then how do they do it ?previously you
mentioned that there is no interference between our mind and
environment.

  2)will gravity(acceleration of the particles in brain) affect the
  solution ?

 As far as the local computations made by the brain are well described  
 at the level of particles interactions, gravity is playing a role, no  
 less than electromagnetism or any other forces describing (locally)  
 its current brain state evolution.

 Bruno





  2.consider an artificial brain fed with signals similar to normal
  brain and (for arguments sake )this artificial brain and a normal
  human brain have computational similarities...then will they have
  similar response? or as they are made of different materials there
  would be differences in response ?

  It really depends on the mechanist assumption and the choice of the
  substitution level. The mechanist assumption just assumes the
  existence of a substitution level where you are Turing emulable. If
  the level is very low, the environment might be a part of your
  generalized brain, and it is logically possible that you have to
  describe it at the Planck scale or below, but most neurophilosophers
  and physician believe that the generalized brain *is* the biological
  brain.

  The 'reversal consequence' of Digital Mechanism does not depend on  
  the
  substitution level. It depends only on the existence of such a level.

  Bruno

 http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/

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Re: thoughts ?

2011-06-20 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2011/6/20 selva selvakr1...@gmail.com



 On Jun 20, 6:32 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
  On 19 Jun 2011, at 19:35, selva wrote:
 
 
 
 
 
   On Jun 19, 5:21 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
   Hi selva,
 
   On 17 Jun 2011, at 22:10, selva wrote:
 
   1.consider a person cut off from all his senses,all his 5 senses
   shut
   down and now he is about to find a solution for a problem. Does his
   environment (or rather,positions of atoms/energy around
   him, ) ,affects his solution ?
 
   Assuming mechanism, and some relatively high substitution level, the
   answer is no.
 
   will there be different solution at different environments ?
 
   There is no reason. The environment can only play a role through
   interaction, or interference, but this will not occur in the
   situation
   that you are describing.
   1)then the converse should also be true right?that our thoughts don't
   affect our environment..?
 
  You are right. But only in the setting that you describe, where a
  person is isolated from the environment.
  This seems to me rather obvious, so I might be missing something.
 
   in that case,what about noetic sciences ? Are you suggesting it
   doesn't exist at all ?
 
  It exists, and is fundamental. I argue that if we accept the mechanist
  hypothesis, then the noetic constitutes the fundamental science(s). I
  provide the math from extracting both quanta and qualia from the
  noetic. Physics continue to exist, but is a a study of an emerging
  mind invariant.
  I remind that materialism (even weak materialism: the doctrine that
  primitive or primary (aristotelian) matter exists is logically
  incompatible with Occam and Mechanism, despite many materialist
  believe the contrary.
 but noetic science has showed that our physical environment is
 affected by our thoughts.Definitely they are not doing it through our
 senses,not through our actions.then how do they do it ?previously you
 mentioned that there is no interference between our mind and
 environment.


It seems to me that he said but this will not occur **in the situation that
you are describing**.

Not that it does not occur.

Quentin


 
   2)will gravity(acceleration of the particles in brain) affect the
   solution ?
 
  As far as the local computations made by the brain are well described
  at the level of particles interactions, gravity is playing a role, no
  less than electromagnetism or any other forces describing (locally)
  its current brain state evolution.
 
  Bruno
 
 
 
 
 
   2.consider an artificial brain fed with signals similar to normal
   brain and (for arguments sake )this artificial brain and a normal
   human brain have computational similarities...then will they have
   similar response? or as they are made of different materials there
   would be differences in response ?
 
   It really depends on the mechanist assumption and the choice of the
   substitution level. The mechanist assumption just assumes the
   existence of a substitution level where you are Turing emulable. If
   the level is very low, the environment might be a part of your
   generalized brain, and it is logically possible that you have to
   describe it at the Planck scale or below, but most neurophilosophers
   and physician believe that the generalized brain *is* the biological
   brain.
 
   The 'reversal consequence' of Digital Mechanism does not depend on
   the
   substitution level. It depends only on the existence of such a level.
 
   Bruno
 
  http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
 
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Re: thoughts ?

2011-06-20 Thread selva
by saying it does not occur in the situation i am describing..so it
does occur when our sense are present.in that case,it implies that our
thoughts are affecting the environment through our senses.now how is
that possible?senses are unidirectional. the situation i am describing
becomes insignificant when the converse (thoughts affecting the
environment )is considered

On Jun 20, 10:45 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote:
 2011/6/20 selva selvakr1...@gmail.com





  On Jun 20, 6:32 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
   On 19 Jun 2011, at 19:35, selva wrote:

On Jun 19, 5:21 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
Hi selva,

On 17 Jun 2011, at 22:10, selva wrote:

1.consider a person cut off from all his senses,all his 5 senses
shut
down and now he is about to find a solution for a problem. Does his
environment (or rather,positions of atoms/energy around
him, ) ,affects his solution ?

Assuming mechanism, and some relatively high substitution level, the
answer is no.

will there be different solution at different environments ?

There is no reason. The environment can only play a role through
interaction, or interference, but this will not occur in the
situation
that you are describing.
1)then the converse should also be true right?that our thoughts don't
affect our environment..?

   You are right. But only in the setting that you describe, where a
   person is isolated from the environment.
   This seems to me rather obvious, so I might be missing something.

in that case,what about noetic sciences ? Are you suggesting it
doesn't exist at all ?

   It exists, and is fundamental. I argue that if we accept the mechanist
   hypothesis, then the noetic constitutes the fundamental science(s). I
   provide the math from extracting both quanta and qualia from the
   noetic. Physics continue to exist, but is a a study of an emerging
   mind invariant.
   I remind that materialism (even weak materialism: the doctrine that
   primitive or primary (aristotelian) matter exists is logically
   incompatible with Occam and Mechanism, despite many materialist
   believe the contrary.
  but noetic science has showed that our physical environment is
  affected by our thoughts.Definitely they are not doing it through our
  senses,not through our actions.then how do they do it ?previously you
  mentioned that there is no interference between our mind and
  environment.

 It seems to me that he said but this will not occur **in the situation that
 you are describing**.

 Not that it does not occur.

 Quentin





2)will gravity(acceleration of the particles in brain) affect the
solution ?

   As far as the local computations made by the brain are well described
   at the level of particles interactions, gravity is playing a role, no
   less than electromagnetism or any other forces describing (locally)
   its current brain state evolution.

   Bruno

2.consider an artificial brain fed with signals similar to normal
brain and (for arguments sake )this artificial brain and a normal
human brain have computational similarities...then will they have
similar response? or as they are made of different materials there
would be differences in response ?

It really depends on the mechanist assumption and the choice of the
substitution level. The mechanist assumption just assumes the
existence of a substitution level where you are Turing emulable. If
the level is very low, the environment might be a part of your
generalized brain, and it is logically possible that you have to
describe it at the Planck scale or below, but most neurophilosophers
and physician believe that the generalized brain *is* the biological
brain.

The 'reversal consequence' of Digital Mechanism does not depend on
the
substitution level. It depends only on the existence of such a level.

Bruno

   http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/

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Re: thoughts ?

2011-06-20 Thread Quentin Anciaux
It does occur when you have interaction with the environment... your mind
obviously got feedback/input from the environment through the senses... so
if no input is given, how can the mind can interract with it.

And the mind act on the environment through the body. I don't know of any
instance of deincarnate mind which would be the only way not to interract
with the environment.

Your setting which cuts off all 5 senses, obviously disconnect the mind from
the environment (input *and* output, because without senses how can you feel
your body and act with it ?)

Quentin

2011/6/20 selva selvakr1...@gmail.com

 by saying it does not occur in the situation i am describing..so it
 does occur when our sense are present.in that case,it implies that our
 thoughts are affecting the environment through our senses.now how is
 that possible?senses are unidirectional. the situation i am describing
 becomes insignificant when the converse (thoughts affecting the
 environment )is considered

 On Jun 20, 10:45 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote:
  2011/6/20 selva selvakr1...@gmail.com
 
 
 
 
 
   On Jun 20, 6:32 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
On 19 Jun 2011, at 19:35, selva wrote:
 
 On Jun 19, 5:21 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
 Hi selva,
 
 On 17 Jun 2011, at 22:10, selva wrote:
 
 1.consider a person cut off from all his senses,all his 5 senses
 shut
 down and now he is about to find a solution for a problem. Does
 his
 environment (or rather,positions of atoms/energy around
 him, ) ,affects his solution ?
 
 Assuming mechanism, and some relatively high substitution level,
 the
 answer is no.
 
 will there be different solution at different environments ?
 
 There is no reason. The environment can only play a role through
 interaction, or interference, but this will not occur in the
 situation
 that you are describing.
 1)then the converse should also be true right?that our thoughts
 don't
 affect our environment..?
 
You are right. But only in the setting that you describe, where a
person is isolated from the environment.
This seems to me rather obvious, so I might be missing something.
 
 in that case,what about noetic sciences ? Are you suggesting it
 doesn't exist at all ?
 
It exists, and is fundamental. I argue that if we accept the
 mechanist
hypothesis, then the noetic constitutes the fundamental science(s). I
provide the math from extracting both quanta and qualia from the
noetic. Physics continue to exist, but is a a study of an emerging
mind invariant.
I remind that materialism (even weak materialism: the doctrine that
primitive or primary (aristotelian) matter exists is logically
incompatible with Occam and Mechanism, despite many materialist
believe the contrary.
   but noetic science has showed that our physical environment is
   affected by our thoughts.Definitely they are not doing it through our
   senses,not through our actions.then how do they do it ?previously you
   mentioned that there is no interference between our mind and
   environment.
 
  It seems to me that he said but this will not occur **in the situation
 that
  you are describing**.
 
  Not that it does not occur.
 
  Quentin
 
 
 
 
 
 2)will gravity(acceleration of the particles in brain) affect the
 solution ?
 
As far as the local computations made by the brain are well described
at the level of particles interactions, gravity is playing a role, no
less than electromagnetism or any other forces describing (locally)
its current brain state evolution.
 
Bruno
 
 2.consider an artificial brain fed with signals similar to normal
 brain and (for arguments sake )this artificial brain and a normal
 human brain have computational similarities...then will they have
 similar response? or as they are made of different materials
 there
 would be differences in response ?
 
 It really depends on the mechanist assumption and the choice of
 the
 substitution level. The mechanist assumption just assumes the
 existence of a substitution level where you are Turing emulable.
 If
 the level is very low, the environment might be a part of your
 generalized brain, and it is logically possible that you have to
 describe it at the Planck scale or below, but most
 neurophilosophers
 and physician believe that the generalized brain *is* the
 biological
 brain.
 
 The 'reversal consequence' of Digital Mechanism does not depend on
 the
 substitution level. It depends only on the existence of such a
 level.
 
 Bruno
 
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
 
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Re: thoughts ?

2011-06-20 Thread selva

On Jun 20, 10:57 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote:
 It does occur when you have interaction with the environment... your mind
 obviously got feedback/input from the environment through the senses..
.and yes it got the input and is not getting the input.we can think of
only what we have experienced..
  so
 if no input is given, how can the mind can interract with it.
it is proved in noetic science that our thoughts(only thoughts and not
the actions due to those thoughts)affect our physical environment.


 And the mind act on the environment through the body. I don't know of any
 instance of deincarnate mind which would be the only way not to interract
 with the environment.

 Your setting which cuts off all 5 senses, obviously disconnect the mind from
 the environment (input *and* output, because without senses how can you feel
 your body and act with it ?)

 Quentin

 2011/6/20 selva selvakr1...@gmail.com



  by saying it does not occur in the situation i am describing..so it
  does occur when our sense are present.in that case,it implies that our
  thoughts are affecting the environment through our senses.now how is
  that possible?senses are unidirectional. the situation i am describing
  becomes insignificant when the converse (thoughts affecting the
  environment )is considered

  On Jun 20, 10:45 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote:
   2011/6/20 selva selvakr1...@gmail.com

On Jun 20, 6:32 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
 On 19 Jun 2011, at 19:35, selva wrote:

  On Jun 19, 5:21 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
  Hi selva,

  On 17 Jun 2011, at 22:10, selva wrote:

  1.consider a person cut off from all his senses,all his 5 senses
  shut
  down and now he is about to find a solution for a problem. Does
  his
  environment (or rather,positions of atoms/energy around
  him, ) ,affects his solution ?

  Assuming mechanism, and some relatively high substitution level,
  the
  answer is no.

  will there be different solution at different environments ?

  There is no reason. The environment can only play a role through
  interaction, or interference, but this will not occur in the
  situation
  that you are describing.
  1)then the converse should also be true right?that our thoughts
  don't
  affect our environment..?

 You are right. But only in the setting that you describe, where a
 person is isolated from the environment.
 This seems to me rather obvious, so I might be missing something.

  in that case,what about noetic sciences ? Are you suggesting it
  doesn't exist at all ?

 It exists, and is fundamental. I argue that if we accept the
  mechanist
 hypothesis, then the noetic constitutes the fundamental science(s). I
 provide the math from extracting both quanta and qualia from the
 noetic. Physics continue to exist, but is a a study of an emerging
 mind invariant.
 I remind that materialism (even weak materialism: the doctrine that
 primitive or primary (aristotelian) matter exists is logically
 incompatible with Occam and Mechanism, despite many materialist
 believe the contrary.
but noetic science has showed that our physical environment is
affected by our thoughts.Definitely they are not doing it through our
senses,not through our actions.then how do they do it ?previously you
mentioned that there is no interference between our mind and
environment.

   It seems to me that he said but this will not occur **in the situation
  that
   you are describing**.

   Not that it does not occur.

   Quentin

  2)will gravity(acceleration of the particles in brain) affect the
  solution ?

 As far as the local computations made by the brain are well described
 at the level of particles interactions, gravity is playing a role, no
 less than electromagnetism or any other forces describing (locally)
 its current brain state evolution.

 Bruno

  2.consider an artificial brain fed with signals similar to normal
  brain and (for arguments sake )this artificial brain and a normal
  human brain have computational similarities...then will they have
  similar response? or as they are made of different materials
  there
  would be differences in response ?

  It really depends on the mechanist assumption and the choice of
  the
  substitution level. The mechanist assumption just assumes the
  existence of a substitution level where you are Turing emulable.
  If
  the level is very low, the environment might be a part of your
  generalized brain, and it is logically possible that you have to
  describe it at the Planck scale or below, but most
  neurophilosophers
  and physician believe that the generalized brain *is* the
  biological
  brain.

  The 'reversal consequence' of Digital Mechanism does not depend on
  the
  

Re: thoughts ?

2011-06-20 Thread Quentin Anciaux
I don't believe per se to what is coined by noetic science.

But that the study of consciousness is primary in a computational theory of
the mind, yes I do.

Quentin

2011/6/20 selva selvakr1...@gmail.com


 On Jun 20, 10:57 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote:
  It does occur when you have interaction with the environment... your mind
  obviously got feedback/input from the environment through the senses..
 .and yes it got the input and is not getting the input.we can think of
 only what we have experienced..
   so
  if no input is given, how can the mind can interract with it.
 it is proved in noetic science that our thoughts(only thoughts and not
 the actions due to those thoughts)affect our physical environment.


  And the mind act on the environment through the body. I don't know of any
  instance of deincarnate mind which would be the only way not to interract
  with the environment.
 
  Your setting which cuts off all 5 senses, obviously disconnect the mind
 from
  the environment (input *and* output, because without senses how can you
 feel
  your body and act with it ?)
 
  Quentin
 
  2011/6/20 selva selvakr1...@gmail.com
 
 
 
   by saying it does not occur in the situation i am describing..so it
   does occur when our sense are present.in that case,it implies that our
   thoughts are affecting the environment through our senses.now how is
   that possible?senses are unidirectional. the situation i am describing
   becomes insignificant when the converse (thoughts affecting the
   environment )is considered
 
   On Jun 20, 10:45 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote:
2011/6/20 selva selvakr1...@gmail.com
 
 On Jun 20, 6:32 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
  On 19 Jun 2011, at 19:35, selva wrote:
 
   On Jun 19, 5:21 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
   Hi selva,
 
   On 17 Jun 2011, at 22:10, selva wrote:
 
   1.consider a person cut off from all his senses,all his 5
 senses
   shut
   down and now he is about to find a solution for a problem.
 Does
   his
   environment (or rather,positions of atoms/energy around
   him, ) ,affects his solution ?
 
   Assuming mechanism, and some relatively high substitution
 level,
   the
   answer is no.
 
   will there be different solution at different environments ?
 
   There is no reason. The environment can only play a role
 through
   interaction, or interference, but this will not occur in the
   situation
   that you are describing.
   1)then the converse should also be true right?that our thoughts
   don't
   affect our environment..?
 
  You are right. But only in the setting that you describe, where a
  person is isolated from the environment.
  This seems to me rather obvious, so I might be missing something.
 
   in that case,what about noetic sciences ? Are you suggesting it
   doesn't exist at all ?
 
  It exists, and is fundamental. I argue that if we accept the
   mechanist
  hypothesis, then the noetic constitutes the fundamental
 science(s). I
  provide the math from extracting both quanta and qualia from the
  noetic. Physics continue to exist, but is a a study of an
 emerging
  mind invariant.
  I remind that materialism (even weak materialism: the doctrine
 that
  primitive or primary (aristotelian) matter exists is logically
  incompatible with Occam and Mechanism, despite many materialist
  believe the contrary.
 but noetic science has showed that our physical environment is
 affected by our thoughts.Definitely they are not doing it through
 our
 senses,not through our actions.then how do they do it ?previously
 you
 mentioned that there is no interference between our mind and
 environment.
 
It seems to me that he said but this will not occur **in the
 situation
   that
you are describing**.
 
Not that it does not occur.
 
Quentin
 
   2)will gravity(acceleration of the particles in brain) affect
 the
   solution ?
 
  As far as the local computations made by the brain are well
 described
  at the level of particles interactions, gravity is playing a
 role, no
  less than electromagnetism or any other forces describing
 (locally)
  its current brain state evolution.
 
  Bruno
 
   2.consider an artificial brain fed with signals similar to
 normal
   brain and (for arguments sake )this artificial brain and a
 normal
   human brain have computational similarities...then will they
 have
   similar response? or as they are made of different materials
   there
   would be differences in response ?
 
   It really depends on the mechanist assumption and the choice
 of
   the
   substitution level. The mechanist assumption just assumes the
   existence of a substitution level where you are Turing
 emulable.
   If
   the level is very low, the environment might be a part of
 

Re: thoughts ?

2011-06-20 Thread meekerdb

On 6/20/2011 11:05 AM, selva wrote:

it is proved in noetic science that our thoughts(only thoughts and not
the actions due to those thoughts)affect our physical environment.
   


Where are these proofs published?

Brent
All those canes, braces and crutches, and not a single glass eye, 
wooden leg, or toupee!
   ---  Anatole France, on seeing the objects cast off by visitors to 
Lourdes.


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Re: thoughts ?

2011-06-20 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi

On 20.06.2011 21:13 meekerdb said the following:

On 6/20/2011 11:05 AM, selva wrote:

it is proved in noetic science that our thoughts(only thoughts and
not the actions due to those thoughts)affect our physical
environment.


Where are these proofs published?


I was trying to understand what noetic science is (my first thought was 
no ethic, but it happens to be wrong). Along this way I have found some 
strange paper (see below). What do you think about it?


Evgenii

Correlations of Continuous Random Data with Major World Events
Nelson, R. D., Radin, D. I., Shoup, R., and Bancel, P. A. (2002). 
Foundations of Physics Letters, 15, 6, 537-550.

http://media.noetic.org/uploads/files/FoPL_nelson-pp.pdf

The interaction of consciousness and physical systems is most often 
discussed in theoretical terms, usually with reference to the 
epistemological and ontological challenges of quantum theory. Less well 
known is a growing literature reporting experiments that examine the 
mindmatter relationship empirically. Here we describe data from a global 
network of physical random number generators that shows unexpected 
structure apparently associated with major world events. Arbitrary 
samples from the continuous, four-year data archive meet rigorous 
criteria for randomness, but pre-specied samples corresponding to 
events of broad regional or global importance show signicant departures 
of distribution parameters from expectation. These deviations also 
correlate with a quantitative index of daily news intensity. Focused 
analyses of data recorded on September 11, 2001, show departures from 
random expectation in several statistics. Contextual analyses indicate 
that these cannot be attributed to identiable physical interactions and 
may be attributable to some unidentied interaction associated with 
human consciousness.


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Re: thoughts ?

2011-06-20 Thread meekerdb

On 6/20/2011 12:59 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:

On 20.06.2011 21:13 meekerdb said the following:

On 6/20/2011 11:05 AM, selva wrote:

it is proved in noetic science that our thoughts(only thoughts and
not the actions due to those thoughts)affect our physical
environment.


Where are these proofs published?


I was trying to understand what noetic science is (my first thought 
was no ethic, but it happens to be wrong). Along this way I have found 
some strange paper (see below). What do you think about it?


Dean Radin has been trying to find statistical evidence for the 
paranormal for decades.  So far as I can tell his analysis is looking 
for faces in clouds.


Brent



Evgenii

Correlations of Continuous Random Data with Major World Events
Nelson, R. D., Radin, D. I., Shoup, R., and Bancel, P. A. (2002). 
Foundations of Physics Letters, 15, 6, 537-550.

http://media.noetic.org/uploads/files/FoPL_nelson-pp.pdf

The interaction of consciousness and physical systems is most often 
discussed in theoretical terms, usually with reference to the 
epistemological and ontological challenges of quantum theory. Less 
well known is a growing literature reporting experiments that examine 
the mindmatter relationship empirically. Here we describe data from a 
global network of physical random number generators that shows 
unexpected structure apparently associated with major world events. 
Arbitrary samples from the continuous, four-year data archive meet 
rigorous criteria for randomness, but pre-specied samples 
corresponding to events of broad regional or global importance show 
signicant departures of distribution parameters from expectation. 
These deviations also correlate with a quantitative index of daily 
news intensity. Focused analyses of data recorded on September 11, 
2001, show departures from random expectation in several statistics. 
Contextual analyses indicate that these cannot be attributed to 
identiable physical interactions and may be attributable to some 
unidentied interaction associated with human consciousness.




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Re: thoughts ?

2011-06-20 Thread Terren Suydam
Two words: sharpshooter fallacy.

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru wrote:
 On 20.06.2011 21:13 meekerdb said the following:

 On 6/20/2011 11:05 AM, selva wrote:

 it is proved in noetic science that our thoughts(only thoughts and
 not the actions due to those thoughts)affect our physical
 environment.

 Where are these proofs published?

 I was trying to understand what noetic science is (my first thought was no
 ethic, but it happens to be wrong). Along this way I have found some strange
 paper (see below). What do you think about it?

 Evgenii

 Correlations of Continuous Random Data with Major World Events
 Nelson, R. D., Radin, D. I., Shoup, R., and Bancel, P. A. (2002).
 Foundations of Physics Letters, 15, 6, 537-550.
 http://media.noetic.org/uploads/files/FoPL_nelson-pp.pdf

 The interaction of consciousness and physical systems is most often
 discussed in theoretical terms, usually with reference to the
 epistemological and ontological challenges of quantum theory. Less well
 known is a growing literature reporting experiments that examine the
 mindmatter relationship empirically. Here we describe data from a global
 network of physical random number generators that shows unexpected structure
 apparently associated with major world events. Arbitrary samples from the
 continuous, four-year data archive meet rigorous criteria for randomness,
 but pre-speci ed samples corresponding to events of broad regional or global
 importance show signi cant departures of distribution parameters from
 expectation. These deviations also correlate with a quantitative index of
 daily news intensity. Focused analyses of data recorded on September 11,
 2001, show departures from random expectation in several statistics.
 Contextual analyses indicate that these cannot be attributed to identiable
 physical interactions and may be attributable to some unidenti ed
 interaction associated with human consciousness.

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Re: thoughts ?

2011-06-19 Thread Bruno Marchal

Hi selva,

On 17 Jun 2011, at 22:10, selva wrote:



1.consider a person cut off from all his senses,all his 5 senses shut
down and now he is about to find a solution for a problem. Does his
environment (or rather,positions of atoms/energy around
him, ) ,affects his solution ?


Assuming mechanism, and some relatively high substitution level, the  
answer is no.




will there be different solution at different environments ?


There is no reason. The environment can only play a role through  
interaction, or interference, but this will not occur in the situation  
that you are describing.




2.consider an artificial brain fed with signals similar to normal
brain and (for arguments sake )this artificial brain and a normal
human brain have computational similarities...then will they have
similar response? or as they are made of different materials there
would be differences in response ?


It really depends on the mechanist assumption and the choice of the  
substitution level. The mechanist assumption just assumes the  
existence of a substitution level where you are Turing emulable. If  
the level is very low, the environment might be a part of your  
generalized brain, and it is logically possible that you have to  
describe it at the Planck scale or below, but most neurophilosophers  
and physician believe that the generalized brain *is* the biological  
brain.


The 'reversal consequence' of Digital Mechanism does not depend on the  
substitution level. It depends only on the existence of such a level.


Bruno


http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/



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Re: thoughts ?

2011-06-19 Thread selva


On Jun 19, 5:21 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
 Hi selva,

 On 17 Jun 2011, at 22:10, selva wrote:



  1.consider a person cut off from all his senses,all his 5 senses shut
  down and now he is about to find a solution for a problem. Does his
  environment (or rather,positions of atoms/energy around
  him, ) ,affects his solution ?

 Assuming mechanism, and some relatively high substitution level, the  
 answer is no.

  will there be different solution at different environments ?

 There is no reason. The environment can only play a role through  
 interaction, or interference, but this will not occur in the situation  
 that you are describing.
1)then the converse should also be true right?that our thoughts don't
affect our environment..?
in that case,what about noetic sciences ? Are you suggesting it
doesn't exist at all ?
2)will gravity(acceleration of the particles in brain) affect the
solution ?

  2.consider an artificial brain fed with signals similar to normal
  brain and (for arguments sake )this artificial brain and a normal
  human brain have computational similarities...then will they have
  similar response? or as they are made of different materials there
  would be differences in response ?

 It really depends on the mechanist assumption and the choice of the  
 substitution level. The mechanist assumption just assumes the  
 existence of a substitution level where you are Turing emulable. If  
 the level is very low, the environment might be a part of your  
 generalized brain, and it is logically possible that you have to  
 describe it at the Planck scale or below, but most neurophilosophers  
 and physician believe that the generalized brain *is* the biological  
 brain.

 The 'reversal consequence' of Digital Mechanism does not depend on the  
 substitution level. It depends only on the existence of such a level.

 Bruno

 http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/

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RE: thoughts ?

2011-06-17 Thread Howard Marks


 

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From: selva selvakr1...@gmail.com
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To: Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com
Subject: thoughts ?

hi everyone,
1.consider a person cut off from all his senses,all his 5 senses shut
down and now he is about to find a solution for a problem. Does his
environment (or rather,positions of atoms/energy around
him, ) ,affects his solution ?
will there be different solution at different environments ?
2.consider an artificial brain fed with signals similar to normal
brain and (for arguments sake )this artificial brain and a normal
human brain have computational similarities...then will they have
similar response? or as they are made of different materials there
would be differences in response ?

thank you all

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