Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-09-03 Thread Roger Clough
Hi John Clark IMHO Since it is inextended, intelligence (needed for design or change or life, etc.) is omnipresent in the universe to various degrees It always has been, is now, and ever shall be. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 9/3/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to

Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-09-03 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb The world is contingent and therefore not perfect. I don't see the problem. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 9/3/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so that everything could function." - Receiving the following content - From: meekerdb Re

Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-08-31 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb IMHO nature contains life and life is intelligence. There may be random forces, and no dojubt natural selection plays a role, but I can't help but keep thinking that the intelligence of nature is a big part of guiding evolution. If life is intelligent, one can hardly avoid the phnome

Re: Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-08-31 Thread Roger Clough
he following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-08-31, 08:43:41 Subject: Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary On Friday, August 31, 2012 5:57:54 AM UTC-4, rclough wrote: Progressivism is another word for Utopianism. Their utopias sound good but as of yet have nev

Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-08-31 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, August 31, 2012 5:57:54 AM UTC-4, rclough wrote: > > > > Progressivism is another word for Utopianism. > Their utopias sound good but as of yet have never worked, > or worked for long. > > Has Regressivism and Dystopianism fared much better? Craig -- You received this message

Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-08-31 Thread Roger Clough
Progressivism is another word for Utopianism. Their utopias sound good but as of yet have never worked, or worked for long. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 8/31/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so that everything could function." - Receiving the followi

Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-08-31 Thread Roger Clough
29/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so everything could function." - Receiving the following content - From: Alberto G. Corona Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-08-29, 11:19:59 Subject: Re: Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary I sa

Re: Re: Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-08-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 11:45:16 AM UTC-4, rclough wrote: > > > > Please excuse the word, but comp can only create zombies, > which seem to be alive but are not actually so. > > Exactly. I don't call them zombies though, because zombie implies a negative affirmation of life. They are p

Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-08-29 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb By "words" I include "computer code." My position is that nothing implemented or carried out in computer code can be conscious, since consciousness is subjective, meaning personal, unexpressed in code or words. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 8/29/2012 Leibniz would say, "If the

Re: Re: Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-08-29 Thread Roger Clough
could function." - Receiving the following content - From: Alberto G. Corona Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-08-29, 12:02:39 Subject: Re: Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary You said that you perceive. Now you mean that you reflect on yourself. And I must believe so. It is theoretica

Re: Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-08-29 Thread Alberto G. Corona
t - > *From:* Alberto G. Corona > *Receiver:* everything-list > *Time:* 2012-08-29, 11:26:29 > *Subject:* Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary > > It appears that subjectivity, has everithing to do with morality. This > is not only evident for any religious person, but

Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-08-29 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Alberto G. Corona I have no problem with that. But the act of perceiving itself is personal and amoral. I see what I see. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 8/29/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so everything could function." - Receiving the followin

Re: Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-08-29 Thread Roger Clough
-list Time: 2012-08-29, 11:41:42 Subject: Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary sorry: What i said is that it is THEORETICALLY POSSIBL to create a robot with the same functionality, and subject to the same statement of faith from my side. 2012/8/29 Alberto G. Corona That you perceive is acc

Re: Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-08-29 Thread Roger Clough
o invent him so everything could function." - Receiving the following content - From: Alberto G. Corona Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-08-29, 11:40:43 Subject: Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary That you perceive is accesible to us by your words. You say that you perceive. W

Re: Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-08-29 Thread Roger Clough
7;d have to invent him so everything could function." - Receiving the following content - From: Alberto G. Corona Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-08-29, 11:26:29 Subject: Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary It appears that subjectivity, has everithing to do with morality. Thi

Re: Re: Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-08-29 Thread Roger Clough
content - From: Alberto G. Corona Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-08-29, 11:19:59 Subject: Re: Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary I say nothing opposed to that. What I say is that it's functionality is computable: It is possible to make a robot with this functionality of aware

Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-08-29 Thread Alberto G. Corona
sorry: What i said is that it is THEORETICALLY POSSIBL to create a robot with the same functionality, and subject to the same statement of faith from my side. 2012/8/29 Alberto G. Corona > That you perceive is accesible to us by your words. You say that you > perceive. With these worlds you tr

Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-08-29 Thread Alberto G. Corona
That you perceive is accesible to us by your words. You say that you perceive. With these worlds you transmit to us this information "craig says that he perceive".. >From my side, The belief tat you REALLY perceive is a matter of faith What i said is that it is THEORETICALLY create a robot with t

Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-08-29 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Alberto G. Corona The subject is the perceiver, not that which is perceived. For example, consider: "I see the cat."Here: I is the perceiving subject, cat is the object perceived. When the subject experiences seeing the cat, the experience is personal, as are all subjective states an

Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-08-29 Thread Alberto G. Corona
It appears that subjectivity, has everithing to do with morality. This is not only evident for any religious person, but also for mathematics and game theory. It appears that without moral individuality, social collaboration is impossible, except for clones. I exposed the reasoning here. 2012/8

Re: Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-08-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
g the following content ----- > *From:* Alberto G. Corona > *Receiver:* everything-list > *Time:* 2012-08-29, 09:34:22 > *Subject:* Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary > > Roger, > I said that the awareness functionalty can be computable, that is that a > inner computat

Re: Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-08-29 Thread Alberto G. Corona
n." > > - Receiving the following content - > *From:* Alberto G. Corona > *Receiver:* everything-list > *Time:* 2012-08-29, 09:34:22 > *Subject:* Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary > > Roger, > I said that the awareness functionalty can be computable, that is that a

Re: Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-08-29 Thread Roger Clough
on." - Receiving the following content - From: Alberto G. Corona Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-08-29, 09:34:22 Subject: Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary Roger, I said that the awareness functionalty can be computable, that is that a inner computation can affect an exte

Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-08-29 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Alberto G. Corona Subjectivity has nothing to do with morality or evolution, it is simply the private of personal state of a perceiver (of some object), ie it is experience. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 8/29/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so every

Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-08-29 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Alberto G. Corona The subject is the perceiver, not the perceived. The perceived is called the object, cs = subject + object This is a dipole. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 8/29/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so everything could function." -

Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-08-29 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Roger, I said that the awareness functionalty can be computable, that is that a inner computation can affect an external computation which is aware of the consequences of this inner computation. like in the case of any relation of brain and mind, I do not say that this IS the experience of awar

Re: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary

2012-08-29 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Alberto G. Corona What sort of an output would the computer give me ? It can't be experiential, 0or if it is, I know of no way to hook it to my brain. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 8/29/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so everything could function." -