Re: up to some resource bound

2012-02-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Feb 2012, at 06:53, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/17/2012 12:00 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 2/16/2012 7:27 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/16/2012 7:09 PM, acw wrote: Do you understand at all the stuff about material and idea monism that I have mentioned previously? We are exploring the

Re: up to some resource bound

2012-02-16 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/16/2012 3:06 PM, acw wrote: On 2/16/2012 19:09, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/16/2012 1:16 PM, acw wrote: The assumption in COMP is that a subst. level exists, it's the main assumption! What does that practically mean? That you can eventually implement the brain (or a partial version of

Re: up to some resource bound

2012-02-16 Thread acw
On 2/16/2012 23:08, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/16/2012 3:06 PM, acw wrote: On 2/16/2012 19:09, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/16/2012 1:16 PM, acw wrote: The assumption in COMP is that a subst. level exists, it's the main assumption! What does that practically mean? That you can eventually

Re: up to some resource bound

2012-02-16 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/16/2012 7:09 PM, acw wrote: Do you understand at all the stuff about material and idea monism that I have mentioned previously? We are exploring the implications of a very sophisticate form of Ideal Monism that I am very much interested in, as it has, among other wonderful things, an

Re: up to some resource bound

2012-02-16 Thread meekerdb
On 2/16/2012 7:27 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/16/2012 7:09 PM, acw wrote: Do you understand at all the stuff about material and idea monism that I have mentioned previously? We are exploring the implications of a very sophisticate form of Ideal Monism that I am very much interested in, as

Re: up to some resource bound

2012-02-16 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/17/2012 12:00 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 2/16/2012 7:27 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/16/2012 7:09 PM, acw wrote: Do you understand at all the stuff about material and idea monism that I have mentioned previously? We are exploring the implications of a very sophisticate form of Ideal

Re: up to some resource bound

2012-02-16 Thread meekerdb
On 2/16/2012 9:53 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: You do realize that this gives a definition of existence that is very different from that that almost all philosophers use. That's OK, Bruno is not a philosopher although he does pretend to be one very well. :-) I don't think it's different.

Re: up to some resource bound

2012-02-16 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/17/2012 1:59 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 2/16/2012 9:53 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: You do realize that this gives a definition of existence that is very different from that that almost all philosophers use. That's OK, Bruno is not a philosopher although he does pretend to be one very