Re: we are the narrators of our minds

2014-06-27 Thread LizR
On 27 June 2014 04:28, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *LizR Yes, according to this view we are just along for the ride. One way of

Re: we are the narrators of our minds

2014-06-27 Thread LizR
On 27 June 2014 07:03, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/26/2014 4:17 AM, LizR wrote: Yes, according to this view we are just along for the ride. Isn't that going to be true of any model that explains us in terms of something simpler we can understand, whether it's strings or

Re: we are the narrators of our minds

2014-06-26 Thread LizR
Yes, according to this view we are just along for the ride. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To

Re: we are the narrators of our minds

2014-06-26 Thread Kim Jones
Kim Jones B. Mus. GDTL Email: kimjo...@ozemail.com.au kmjco...@icloud.com Mobile: 0450 963 719 Phone: 02 93894239 Web: http://www.eportfolio.kmjcommp.com Never let your schooling get in the way of your education - Mark Twain On 26 Jun 2014, at 5:17 pm, 'Chris de

Re: we are the narrators of our minds

2014-06-26 Thread Kim Jones
On 26 Jun 2014, at 5:17 pm, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: To speak of thinking should first answer what is thought? If you like. But you don't have to know what thought is to know how to think. But you knew I was going to say that. If we

RE: we are the narrators of our minds

2014-06-26 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Yes, according to this view we are just along for the ride. One way of looking at it. However it seems to me more apt to think of ourselves as the loci of the consensus of our

RE: we are the narrators of our minds

2014-06-26 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
-Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kim Jones Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2014 4:47 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: we are the narrators of our minds On 26 Jun 2014, at 5:17 pm, 'Chris de

Re: we are the narrators of our minds

2014-06-26 Thread meekerdb
On 6/26/2014 4:17 AM, LizR wrote: Yes, according to this view we are just along for the ride. Isn't that going to be true of any model that explains us in terms of something simpler we can understand, whether it's strings or arithmetic? It seems that the only kind of explanation people

Re: we are the narrators of our minds

2014-06-26 Thread meekerdb
On 6/26/2014 9:28 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: *From:*everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *LizR Yes, according to this view we are just along for the ride. One way of looking at it. However it seems to me more apt to

RE: we are the narrators of our minds

2014-06-26 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb On 6/26/2014 9:28 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Yes, according

Re: we are the narrators of our minds

2014-06-26 Thread meekerdb
On 6/26/2014 8:28 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: Given enough parallelism and time (between reboots) to evolve and build a memory, I suspect a ghost would eventually emerge within the robot (given enough processing depth and breadth), as… at some fuzzy threshold it began