Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-29 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 29.09.2012 21:28 meekerdb said the following: On 9/29/2012 5:43 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: I have understood Brent in such a way that when engineers develop a robot they must just care about functionality to achieve and they can ignore consciousness at all. Whether it appears in the robot or n

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-29 Thread meekerdb
On 9/29/2012 5:43 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: I have understood Brent in such a way that when engineers develop a robot they must just care about functionality to achieve and they can ignore consciousness at all. Whether it appears in the robot or not, it is not a business of engineers. Do you agre

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Sep 2012, at 14:43, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 24.09.2012 18:23 meekerdb said the following: On 9/24/2012 2:07 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 23 Sep 2012, at 18:33, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 23.09.2012 16:51 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 23 Sep 2012, at 09:31, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-29 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 24.09.2012 18:23 meekerdb said the following: On 9/24/2012 2:07 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 23 Sep 2012, at 18:33, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 23.09.2012 16:51 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 23 Sep 2012, at 09:31, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 22.09.2012 22:49 meekerdb said the following

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-27 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/27/2012 4:17 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: So does comp provide any hints as to which aspects of our local universe should be universal and which are geographical? Yes, as the logic of probabilty one for observation (given by S4Grz1, and/or the X and Z logics) already provides an arithmetical

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Sep 2012, at 00:02, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: More on this when I have more time. Someday I will give you the enunciation of Solovay theorem, which is the key here. Thank you. I look forward to this. OK. Nice. verify

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-26 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 26 Sep 2012, at 06:38, Jason Resch wrote: > > >> >> On Sep 25, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >>> Hi Roger Clough >>> >>> Hi Bruno Marchal Do you believe that a computer has a physical mind that can be co

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
rever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content ----- From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-24, 10:45:01 Subject: Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge On 24 Sep 2012, at 16:39, Stephen P. King wrote:

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-25 Thread Jason Resch
or do you think comp implies a single physics for all observers. One like that of our standard model? Jason Bruno Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 9/25/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content ----- From: B

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
y a god. Bruno Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 9/25/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content ----- From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-24, 10:45:01 Subject: Re: questions on machines, bel

Re: Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-25 Thread Roger Clough
Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-24, 10:45:01 Subject: Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge On 24 Sep 2012, at 16:39, Stephen P. King wrote: > On 9/24/2012 9:34 AM, Roger Clough wrote: >> Hi meekerdb >> >> The computer can mechanically prove so

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Brian, On 24 Sep 2012, at 19:44, Brian Tenneson wrote: Hi Bruno On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi Brian, On 13 Sep 2012, at 22:04, Brian Tenneson wrote: Bruno, You use B as a predicate symbol for "belief" I think. I use for the modal unspecified box, in som

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-24 Thread Brian Tenneson
Hi Bruno On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > Hi Brian, > > > > On 13 Sep 2012, at 22:04, Brian Tenneson wrote: > > Bruno, >> >> You use B as a predicate symbol for "belief" I think. >> > > I use for the modal unspecified box, in some context (in place of the more > common "[

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-24 Thread meekerdb
On 9/24/2012 2:07 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 23 Sep 2012, at 18:33, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 23.09.2012 16:51 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 23 Sep 2012, at 09:31, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 22.09.2012 22:49 meekerdb said the following: ... In the past, Bruno has said that a machi

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Sep 2012, at 16:39, Stephen P. King wrote: On 9/24/2012 9:34 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi meekerdb The computer can mechanically prove something, but it cannot know that it did so. It cannot sit back with a beer and muse over how smart it is. Hi Roger, What you are considering that

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-24 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/24/2012 9:34 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi meekerdb The computer can mechanically prove something, but it cannot know that it did so. It cannot sit back with a beer and muse over how smart it is. Hi Roger, What you are considering that a computer does not have is the ability to model

Re: Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-24 Thread Roger Clough
eiving the following content - From: meekerdb Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-22, 16:49:06 Subject: Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge On 9/22/2012 6:29 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 22.09.2012 14:58 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 21 Sep 2012

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Sep 2012, at 18:33, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 23.09.2012 16:51 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 23 Sep 2012, at 09:31, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 22.09.2012 22:49 meekerdb said the following: ... In the past, Bruno has said that a machine that understands transfinite induction wi

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-23 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 23.09.2012 16:51 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 23 Sep 2012, at 09:31, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 22.09.2012 22:49 meekerdb said the following: ... In the past, Bruno has said that a machine that understands transfinite induction will be conscious. But being conscious and intellige

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Sep 2012, at 09:31, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 22.09.2012 22:49 meekerdb said the following: On 9/22/2012 6:29 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 22.09.2012 14:58 Bruno Marchal said the following: ... It is part of what a machine is that we cannot know what we are doing in building them, so

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Sep 2012, at 15:29, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 22.09.2012 14:58 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 21 Sep 2012, at 21:27, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 19.09.2012 00:57 meekerdb said the following: On 9/17/2012 11:27 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Do you mean that the meaning in a guided miss

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-23 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 22.09.2012 22:49 meekerdb said the following: On 9/22/2012 6:29 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 22.09.2012 14:58 Bruno Marchal said the following: ... It is part of what a machine is that we cannot know what we are doing in building them, so human might as well build a conscious machine with

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-22 Thread meekerdb
On 9/22/2012 6:29 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 22.09.2012 14:58 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 21 Sep 2012, at 21:27, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 19.09.2012 00:57 meekerdb said the following: On 9/17/2012 11:27 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Do you mean that the meaning in a guided missile sy

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-22 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 22.09.2012 14:58 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 21 Sep 2012, at 21:27, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 19.09.2012 00:57 meekerdb said the following: On 9/17/2012 11:27 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Do you mean that the meaning in a guided missile system happens as by-product of its development

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Sep 2012, at 21:27, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 19.09.2012 00:57 meekerdb said the following: On 9/17/2012 11:27 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Do you mean that the meaning in a guided missile system happens as by-product of its development by engineers? To me, it seems that meaning that you h

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-21 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 19.09.2012 00:57 meekerdb said the following: On 9/17/2012 11:27 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Do you mean that the meaning in a guided missile system happens as by-product of its development by engineers? To me, it seems that meaning that you have defined in Mars Rovers is yet another theory of

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-18 Thread meekerdb
On 9/17/2012 11:27 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Do you mean that the meaning in a guided missile system happens as by-product of its development by engineers? To me, it seems that meaning that you have defined in Mars Rovers is yet another theory of epiphenomenalism. And your quote and question

Re: Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-18 Thread Roger Clough
ar the end." Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Evgenii Rudnyi Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-17, 14:27:02 Subject: Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge On 16.09.2012 21:55 meekerdb said the following: > On 9/16/2012 12:44 AM, Ev

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-17 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 16.09.2012 21:55 meekerdb said the following: On 9/16/2012 12:44 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 15.09.2012 21:56 meekerdb said the following: On 9/15/2012 9:35 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 9/15/2012 4:11 AM, Russell Standish wrote: ... Hi Russell, That is far too inclusive a definition

Re: Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-17 Thread Roger Clough
owing content - From: Evgenii Rudnyi Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-16, 03:44:48 Subject: Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge On 15.09.2012 21:56 meekerdb said the following: > On 9/15/2012 9:35 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: >> On 9/15/2012 4:

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-16 Thread meekerdb
On 9/16/2012 12:44 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 15.09.2012 21:56 meekerdb said the following: On 9/15/2012 9:35 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 9/15/2012 4:11 AM, Russell Standish wrote: ... Hi Russell, That is far too inclusive a definition of computation. Not really, it only requires so

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-16 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 15.09.2012 21:56 meekerdb said the following: On 9/15/2012 9:35 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 9/15/2012 4:11 AM, Russell Standish wrote: ... Hi Russell, That is far too inclusive a definition of computation. Not really, it only requires some way of representing the information such th

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-15 Thread meekerdb
On 9/15/2012 9:35 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 9/15/2012 4:11 AM, Russell Standish wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 02:55:17AM -0400, Stephen P. King wrote: Dear Bruno, Could you elaborate on what your definition of "a digital machine" is? Anything Turing emulable. Dear Bruno, OK. B

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-15 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/15/2012 4:11 AM, Russell Standish wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 02:55:17AM -0400, Stephen P. King wrote: Dear Bruno, Could you elaborate on what your definition of "a digital machine" is? Anything Turing emulable. Dear Bruno, OK. But you do understand that this assumes an unne

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-15 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 02:55:17AM -0400, Stephen P. King wrote: > >> Dear Bruno, > >> > >>Could you elaborate on what your definition of "a digital > >>machine" is? > > > >Anything Turing emulable. > > Dear Bruno, > > OK. But you do understand that this assumes an unnecessary > restricti

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-14 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/14/2012 2:56 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 14 Sep 2012, at 15:41, Stephen P. King wrote: On 9/14/2012 4:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi Brian, On 13 Sep 2012, at 22:04, Brian Tenneson wrote: Bruno, You use B as a predicate symbol for "belief" I think. I use for the modal unspecified

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Sep 2012, at 15:41, Stephen P. King wrote: On 9/14/2012 4:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi Brian, On 13 Sep 2012, at 22:04, Brian Tenneson wrote: Bruno, You use B as a predicate symbol for "belief" I think. I use for the modal unspecified box, in some context (in place of the more

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-14 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/14/2012 4:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi Brian, On 13 Sep 2012, at 22:04, Brian Tenneson wrote: Bruno, You use B as a predicate symbol for "belief" I think. I use for the modal unspecified box, in some context (in place of the more common "[]"). Then I use it mainly for the box corre

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Brian, On 13 Sep 2012, at 22:04, Brian Tenneson wrote: Bruno, You use B as a predicate symbol for "belief" I think. I use for the modal unspecified box, in some context (in place of the more common "[]"). Then I use it mainly for the box corresponding to Gödel's beweisbar (provabilit