Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Mar 2014, at 14:07, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bruno - I read below but am answering here. You're sincere and I'm not getting my single point across to you. I'm about done trying I think. I've taken a lot of value from the process and it's shame if you haven't but sincerity was

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Mar 2014, at 19:22, meekerdb wrote: On 3/6/2014 11:51 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Mar 2014, at 20:06, meekerdb wrote: On 3/6/2014 7:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: (b) think computation is intrinsically conscious But this wording is worst, as it looks like it insists that a

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-08 Thread ghibbsa
Hi Bruno - I read below but am answering here. You're sincere and I'm not getting my single point across to you. I'm about done trying I think. I've taken a lot of value from the process and it's shame if you haven't but sincerity was all round. In my view, it doesn't stack up building a

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Mar 2014, at 00:41, meekerdb wrote: On 3/6/2014 3:35 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 04:48:37PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Mar 2014, at 09:51, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: What about others - like Russell (who might just read this and be willing to answer ).

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Mar 2014, at 01:14, Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 03:41:51PM -0800, meekerdb wrote: On 3/6/2014 3:35 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 04:48:37PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: For example, a brain cannot think. Brain activity cannot think, a computer

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-07 Thread ghibbsa
On Thursday, March 6, 2014 3:48:37 PM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Mar 2014, at 09:51, ghi...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Thursday, March 6, 2014 8:31:29 AM UTC, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, March 6, 2014 8:06:19 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 05 Mar 2014, at 22:15,

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-07 Thread meekerdb
On 3/6/2014 11:51 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Mar 2014, at 20:06, meekerdb wrote: On 3/6/2014 7:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: (b) think computation is intrinsically conscious But this wording is worst, as it looks like it insists that a computation (or some computation) are conscious.

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Mar 2014, at 18:10, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, March 6, 2014 3:48:37 PM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Mar 2014, at 09:51, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, March 6, 2014 8:31:29 AM UTC, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, March 6, 2014 8:06:19 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Mar 2014, at 22:15, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, March 3, 2014 6:53:16 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 02 Mar 2014, at 19:53, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, March 2, 2014 4:34:33 PM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 02 Mar 2014, at 13:36, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: So, why do

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-06 Thread ghibbsa
On Thursday, March 6, 2014 8:06:19 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 05 Mar 2014, at 22:15, ghi...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Monday, March 3, 2014 6:53:16 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 02 Mar 2014, at 19:53, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, March 2, 2014 4:34:33 PM UTC, Bruno

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-06 Thread ghibbsa
On Thursday, March 6, 2014 8:31:29 AM UTC, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, March 6, 2014 8:06:19 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 05 Mar 2014, at 22:15, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, March 3, 2014 6:53:16 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 02 Mar 2014, at 19:53, ghi...@gmail.com

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Mar 2014, at 00:17, John Mikes wrote: Ghibsa and honored discussioneers: you can say about that darn conscousness anything you like, as long as you cannot identify it. Attribute of a 1st person? that would leave out lots of smilar phenomena - not even assigned to 'a' 1st person.

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-06 Thread LizR
I don't know anything about obligatory ram ventilators, but I do like fluffy kittens. On 6 March 2014 17:20, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, March 6, 2014 3:16:03 AM UTC, Liz R wrote: On 6 March 2014 15:47, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Could be - I have heard the

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Mar 2014, at 09:51, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, March 6, 2014 8:31:29 AM UTC, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, March 6, 2014 8:06:19 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 05 Mar 2014, at 22:15, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, March 3, 2014 6:53:16 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-06 Thread meekerdb
On 3/6/2014 7:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: (b) think computation is intrinsically conscious But this wording is worst, as it looks like it insists that a computation (or some computation) are conscious. But only a first person is conscious, and a first person is nothing capable of being

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-06 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:26 PM, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: Why do we need to sleep? Probably because we're primarily visual animals and Evolution weeded out individuals who didn't get sleepy because they wasted energy wandering around at night and got themselves into serious trouble when

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-06 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 04:48:37PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Mar 2014, at 09:51, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: What about others - like Russell (who might just read this and be willing to answer ). Does Russell (a) agree with you completely Only Russell can answer this. I would

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-06 Thread meekerdb
On 3/6/2014 3:35 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 04:48:37PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Mar 2014, at 09:51, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: What about others - like Russell (who might just read this and be willing to answer ). Does Russell (a) agree with you completely

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-06 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 03:41:51PM -0800, meekerdb wrote: On 3/6/2014 3:35 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 04:48:37PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: For example, a brain cannot think. Brain activity cannot think, a computer cannot think, a computation cannot think, I would

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Mar 2014, at 20:06, meekerdb wrote: On 3/6/2014 7:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: (b) think computation is intrinsically conscious But this wording is worst, as it looks like it insists that a computation (or some computation) are conscious. But only a first person is conscious, and a

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-05 Thread ghibbsa
On Sunday, March 2, 2014 8:54:25 PM UTC, Brent wrote: On 3/2/2014 8:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 02 Mar 2014, at 13:36, ghi...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: So, why do we get tired, and why is being tired like the way that it is? If its exhaustion, maybe up a couple of days,

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-05 Thread ghibbsa
On Monday, March 3, 2014 6:53:16 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 02 Mar 2014, at 19:53, ghi...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Sunday, March 2, 2014 4:34:33 PM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 02 Mar 2014, at 13:36, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: So, why do we get tired, and why is being tired

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-05 Thread ghibbsa
On Sunday, March 2, 2014 8:54:25 PM UTC, Brent wrote: On 3/2/2014 8:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 02 Mar 2014, at 13:36, ghi...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: So, why do we get tired, and why is being tired like the way that it is? If its exhaustion, maybe up a couple of days,

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-05 Thread ghibbsa
On Monday, March 3, 2014 6:47:22 PM UTC, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 7:36 AM, ghi...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: John - thanks for having a bash at the questions :o) why do we get tired Because we run out of fuel or because of lactic acid buildup in our muscles. Hi

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-05 Thread ghibbsa
On Tuesday, March 4, 2014 12:20:17 AM UTC, Liz R wrote: On 4 March 2014 13:04, spudb...@aol.com javascript: wrote: I don't have a great comprehension of UDA, but that the foundation of everything must be arithmetic as you say. The more I read papers and research about the holographic

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-05 Thread ghibbsa
On Sunday, March 2, 2014 9:31:03 PM UTC, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, March 2, 2014 3:54:25 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 3/2/2014 8:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 02 Mar 2014, at 13:36, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: So, why do we get tired, and why is being tired like the way that it

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-05 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 02:26:50PM -0800, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: Soyou're saying its about resting the sensitive visual machinery? Why not do that with an extra pair of eyes and a shift rota? That seems like a legitimate challenge John, since it seems very doable, and the benefit

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-05 Thread LizR
On 6 March 2014 11:57, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 02:26:50PM -0800, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: Soyou're saying its about resting the sensitive visual machinery? Why not do that with an extra pair of eyes and a shift rota? That seems like a

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-05 Thread John Mikes
Ghibsa and honored discussioneers: you can say about that darn conscousness anything you like, as long as you cannot identify it. Attribute of a 1st person? that would leave out lots of smilar phenomena - not even assigned to 'a' 1st person. When I tried to collect opinions about Ccness of

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-05 Thread ghibbsa
On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 10:57:30 PM UTC, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 02:26:50PM -0800, ghi...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: Soyou're saying its about resting the sensitive visual machinery? Why not do that with an extra pair of eyes and a shift rota? That

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-05 Thread ghibbsa
On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 10:55:47 PM UTC, Liz R wrote: On 6 March 2014 11:57, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.aujavascript: wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 02:26:50PM -0800, ghi...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: Soyou're saying its about resting the sensitive visual machinery?

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-05 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 04:13:26PM -0800, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 10:57:30 PM UTC, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 02:26:50PM -0800, ghi...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: Soyou're saying its about resting the sensitive visual

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-05 Thread LizR
Another suggestion, which I would say is (more or less) discredited by the existence of animals that switch brain hemispheres to stay awake, was the idea that it's simply *safer *to spend some of your time inactive, especially for a prey animal. -- You received this message because you are

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-05 Thread ghibbsa
On Thursday, March 6, 2014 1:37:48 AM UTC, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 04:13:26PM -0800, ghi...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 10:57:30 PM UTC, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 02:26:50PM -0800,

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-05 Thread ghibbsa
On Thursday, March 6, 2014 1:52:20 AM UTC, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, March 6, 2014 1:37:48 AM UTC, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 04:13:26PM -0800, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 10:57:30 PM UTC, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed,

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-05 Thread ghibbsa
On Thursday, March 6, 2014 1:45:11 AM UTC, Liz R wrote: Another suggestion, which I would say is (more or less) discredited by the existence of animals that switch brain hemispheres to stay awake, was the idea that it's simply *safer *to spend some of your time inactive, especially for a

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-05 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 05:52:20PM -0800, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: I'd always defer to an aussie on sharks...but I'm curious how they get the oxygen onto their gills. Could it be they exploit currents that certain kinds of cave might produce? What happens when two windows are open on a

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-05 Thread ghibbsa
On Thursday, March 6, 2014 1:52:20 AM UTC, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, March 6, 2014 1:37:48 AM UTC, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 04:13:26PM -0800, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 10:57:30 PM UTC, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed,

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-05 Thread ghibbsa
On Thursday, March 6, 2014 2:47:15 AM UTC, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 05:52:20PM -0800, ghi...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: I'd always defer to an aussie on sharks...but I'm curious how they get the oxygen onto their gills. Could it be they exploit currents

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-05 Thread LizR
On 6 March 2014 15:47, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Could be - I have heard the factoid that some sharks need to keep moving. What I don't know is whether it is an urban myth or not. As ever, the fount of all knowledge has the answer! From

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-05 Thread LizR
On 6 March 2014 15:47, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: and then there's that little critter Davie 'crocket' Attenborough wheels out on the origin of life story... Davie 'crocket' Attenborough?!?! I've never heard him called that before. (The Whispering Voice of Television Documentaries, yes...) --

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-05 Thread ghibbsa
On Thursday, March 6, 2014 3:16:03 AM UTC, Liz R wrote: On 6 March 2014 15:47, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.aujavascript: wrote: Could be - I have heard the factoid that some sharks need to keep moving. What I don't know is whether it is an urban myth or not. As ever, the fount of

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
/ testable. Bruno -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Mar 3, 2014 1:19 am Subject: Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone On 02 Mar 2014, at 17:45, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Just a hunch

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-04 Thread spudboy100
, 2014 9:07 am Subject: Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone On 04 Mar 2014, at 01:04, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: I don't have a great comprehension of UDA, but that the foundation of everything must be arithmetic as you say. If computationalism is correct, yes. And the base theory

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-03 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 7:36 AM, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: why do we get tired Because we run out of fuel or because of lactic acid buildup in our muscles. Why do we need to sleep? Probably because we're primarily visual animals and Evolution weeded out individuals who didn't get sleepy

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-03 Thread spudboy100
itself, emanates, from some kind of 2D space, which I guess might be a...database? -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Mar 3, 2014 1:19 am Subject: Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone On 02 Mar

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-03 Thread LizR
On 4 March 2014 13:04, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: I don't have a great comprehension of UDA, but that the foundation of everything must be arithmetic as you say. The more I read papers and research about the holographic universe, the more it seems like consciousness might be a program (for

consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-02 Thread ghibbsa
So, why do we get tired, and why is being tired like the way that it is? If its exhaustion, maybe up a couple of days, why does it stop being about motivation and becomes that we can't think straight? ass Why do we need to sleep? Why do we need to REM sleep in what looks to be precise

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 02 Mar 2014, at 13:36, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: So, why do we get tired, and why is being tired like the way that it is? If its exhaustion, maybe up a couple of days, why does it stop being about motivation and becomes that we can't think straight? ass Why do we need to sleep? Why do

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-02 Thread spudboy100
questions bruno or anyone So, why do we get tired, and why is being tired like the way that it is? If its exhaustion, maybe up a couple of days, why does it stop being about motivation and becomes that we can't think straight? ass Why do we need to sleep? Why do we need to REM sleep in what

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-02 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, March 2, 2014 11:34:33 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: ptruth Bpbeliefs Bp pknowledge Bp p observations Bp p p sensations I would invert this of course. We do not know that the universe begins with 'truth'. Truth is a belief about what a sensation

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-02 Thread ghibbsa
On Sunday, March 2, 2014 4:34:33 PM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 02 Mar 2014, at 13:36, ghi...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: So, why do we get tired, and why is being tired like the way that it is? If its exhaustion, maybe up a couple of days, why does it stop being about

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-02 Thread meekerdb
On 3/2/2014 8:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 02 Mar 2014, at 13:36, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: So, why do we get tired, and why is being tired like the way that it is? If its exhaustion, maybe up a couple of days, why does it stop being about motivation and becomes that we can't think

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-02 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, March 2, 2014 3:54:25 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 3/2/2014 8:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 02 Mar 2014, at 13:36, ghi...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: So, why do we get tired, and why is being tired like the way that it is? If its exhaustion, maybe up a couple of

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
am Subject: consciousness questions bruno or anyone So, why do we get tired, and why is being tired like the way that it is? If its exhaustion, maybe up a couple of days, why does it stop being about motivation and becomes that we can't think straight? ass Why do we need to sleep? Why do we

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 02 Mar 2014, at 18:01, Craig Weinberg wrote: Truth is a belief about what a sensation represents. Not at all. By definition, truth is independent of belief. Arithmetic truth does explain where the belief come from. If not you fall into solipsism. Bruno

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 02 Mar 2014, at 19:53, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, March 2, 2014 4:34:33 PM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 02 Mar 2014, at 13:36, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: So, why do we get tired, and why is being tired like the way that it is? If its exhaustion, maybe up a couple of days, why

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 02 Mar 2014, at 22:31, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, March 2, 2014 3:54:25 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 3/2/2014 8:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 02 Mar 2014, at 13:36, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: So, why do we get tired, and why is being tired like the way that it is? If its

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-02 Thread meekerdb
On 3/2/2014 10:53 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Would you agree you've said many times that it is? Consciousness intrinsic of computation? You will not find one quote. On the contrary I insist on the contrary. Consciousness is an attribute of person, and they exist in Platonia, out of time and