Re: Reality vs. Perception of Reality

2005-08-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brent Meeker writes: > On 31-Jul-05, you wrote: > > > [-Original Message-Tom Caylor wrote:] May I offer the following quote > > as a potential catalyst for Bruno and Colin: > ... > > Our scientific evidentiary process is based on the fallacy of the assumed > > e

Re: Reality vs. Perception of Reality

2005-08-01 Thread Stephen Paul King
I thought this article might be useful! Stephen http://www.skepticalinvestigations.org/objectivity/bogusskepticism.htm The Objectivity of Science Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Skepticism by Rochus Boerner The progress of science depends on a finely tuned balance between open-mindedness an

RE: Clarification of Terms (was RE: What We Can Know About the World)

2005-08-01 Thread John M
To the quote of Lee's remark: I would try "Vernumft" (which may as well be similarly inaccurate for 'consciousness'). There were some German speaking souls(!) who used it quite effectively . I try for'mind':the mentality aspect of the living complexity which says not much more if 'mentality' is

RE: Clarification of Terms (was RE: What We Can Know About the World)

2005-08-01 Thread Lee Corbin
Aditya writes > [LC]: > > Well, Russell did also say that OMs and events seemed to him about as > > alike as chalk and cheese. It's starting to look that way: > > > So, alas, it seems that the firmly established meanings of > > "event" and "observer moment" can't really be said to be at > > all th

RE: Clarification of Terms (was RE: What We Can Know About the World)

2005-08-01 Thread John M
--- Lee Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russell writes > > > John M. wrote > > > > > To Russell's 4 coordinates of (any?) event: how > come > > > the occurrence (event!) of a 'good idea' in my > mind - > > > (mind: not a thing, not a place, not > time-restricted) > > > should have t,x,y,z co

Re: MODERATOR'S NOTE: Theology Discussion

2005-08-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Alan, Thank you very much for making my point even more clear(*). You know "my theory" (which is just the classical machine's theory) has been named "machine biology", and "then "machine theology". It is my thesis director in France who asked me to use the term "machine psychology" instead of

Re: Clarification of Terms (was RE: What We Can Know About the World)

2005-08-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi John, Le 01-août-05, à 16:57, John M a écrit : Also simulating menatlity from computer expressions seems reversing the fact that in comp (AI etc.) the computer science attempts to simulate certain and very limited items we already discovered from our "mind". Except that since Turing, Churc

Re: OMs are events

2005-08-01 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Hi Hal, thank you for your answer, but I've little more to ask : Le Lundi 01 Août 2005 05:32, Hal Finney a écrit : > Quentin Anciaux writes: > > In all of these discussion, it is really this point that annoy me... What > > is the calculation ? Is it a physical process ? Obviously a calculation > >

Re: Reality vs. Perception of Reality

2005-08-01 Thread daddycaylor
[Col replies---] Tom, in your very eloquent fashion you have touched upon the essence of my approach to the issue of a theory of everything. I need to make sure that everyone knows that the "very eloquent" words are not mine, but those of H.W.B. Joseph in the reference

Re: OMs are events

2005-08-01 Thread "Hal Finney"
Quentin Anciaux writes: > Le Lundi 01 Août 2005 05:32, Hal Finney a écrit : > > I am generally of the school that considers that calculations can be > > treated as abstract or formal objects, that they can exist without a > > physical computer existing to run them. > > I completely agree with that.

RE: OMs are events

2005-08-01 Thread Lee Corbin
Hal writes > I did mention the question of whether a given calculation > instantiated a given OM. Maybe "instantiate" is not the > right word there. I meant to consider the question of whether > the first calculation added to the measure of the information > structure corresponding to the OM. I

Re: MODERATOR'S NOTE: Theology Discussion

2005-08-01 Thread Russell Standish
I commiserate with you. I finally left FOR because of the moderation policy - that, and the endless waffle that would have been prevented had more technical language been possible in the first place. Anything of substance seems to get ported to the everything list eventually anyway! Cheers On Mo

RE: Clarification of Terms (was RE: What We Can Know About the World)

2005-08-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John M: >To Searle's book-title: it implies that we already >HAVE discovered what the 'mind' is. Well, we did not. >At least not to the satisfaction of the advanced >thinking community. > >John M I think the name was a play the name of another book "The discovery of the mind" by Bruno Snell Se

Re: MODERATOR'S NOTE: Theology Discussion

2005-08-01 Thread danny mayes
I'm sure Alan is just doing his best to keep everyone on point with the scientific concepts raised in FOR, but it is a little strange.  For instance, the dramatic culmination of the FOR is the OP theory, which of course is a speculation, based in science, for a possible explanation of of the m

Re: OMs are events

2005-08-01 Thread Brent Meeker
Lee Corbin wrote: Hal writes I did mention the question of whether a given calculation instantiated a given OM. Maybe "instantiate" is not the right word there. I meant to consider the question of whether the first calculation added to the measure of the information structure corresponding t