Re: Numbers

2006-03-26 Thread Georges Quénot
peterdjones wrote: [...] (To put it another way: the point is to explain experience. Physicalism explains non-experience of HP universes by saying they don't exist. MM appeals to ad-hoc hypotheses about non-interaction. All explanations have to end somewhere. The question is how many

Re: Numbers

2006-03-26 Thread 1Z
Georges Quénot wrote: peterdjones wrote: [...] (To put it another way: the point is to explain experience. Physicalism explains non-experience of HP universes by saying they don't exist. MM appeals to ad-hoc hypotheses about non-interaction. All explanations have to end somewhere.

Re: Numbers

2006-03-26 Thread Georges Quénot
peterdjones wrote: Georges Quénot wrote: peterdjones wrote: [...] (To put it another way: the point is to explain experience. Physicalism explains non-experience of HP universes by saying they don't exist. MM appeals to ad-hoc hypotheses about non-interaction. All explanations have to

Re: Indeterminism

2006-03-26 Thread Hal Finney
Johnathan Corgan wrote: Still, there is a certain appeal to shifting the question from Why are we conscious? to Consciousness doesn't exist, so why do we so firmly believe that it does? It is possible to imagine a machine that doubts (or perhaps I should say doubts, i.e. we should not assume

Re: Numbers

2006-03-26 Thread 1Z
Georges Quénot wrote: peterdjones wrote: Georges Quénot wrote: peterdjones wrote: [...] (To put it another way: the point is to explain experience. Physicalism explains non-experience of HP universes by saying they don't exist. MM appeals to ad-hoc hypotheses about

Re: Indeterminism

2006-03-26 Thread Brent Meeker
Hal Finney wrote: Johnathan Corgan wrote: Still, there is a certain appeal to shifting the question from Why are we conscious? to Consciousness doesn't exist, so why do we so firmly believe that it does? It is possible to imagine a machine that doubts (or perhaps I should say doubts,

Re: Smullyan Shmullyan, give me a real example

2006-03-26 Thread George Levy
Bruno Marchal wrote: <> Le 25-mars-06, 00:51, George Levy a crit : Smullyan's white knigth had the mission to teach me about the logic of G and G*. Sorry, he failed. All right, but this is just because he miss Church Thesis and Comp. His purpose actually is just to introduce you to

Re: Numbers

2006-03-26 Thread Brent Meeker
1Z wrote: Georges Quénot wrote: peterdjones wrote: Georges Quénot wrote: peterdjones wrote: [...] (To put it another way: the point is to explain experience. Physicalism explains non-experience of HP universes by saying they don't exist. MM appeals to ad-hoc hypotheses about