2009/8/26 David Nyman :
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> On 25 Aug, 14:32, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
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>> Let's say the alien brain in its initial environment produced a
>> certain output when it was presented with a certain input, such as a
>> red light. The reconstructed brain is in a different environment and
>> is prese
On 26 Aug 2009, at 05:26, Rex Allen wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:50 AM, David Nyman
> wrote:
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>> Recalling your interest in Chalmers: I was re-reading "Facing Up to
>> the Problem of Consciousness" recently, and I realised - I think for
>> the first time - that his own "double-aspec
Hi Marty,
thanks a lot for your reply. I was really interested in whether the
lesson would work with you.
I had the pleasure to teach the binary arithmetic to kids in summer
school camps, in the grammar school and to university students as well.
Some kids/students got it quite easily some did no
Hello Mirek,
Let us recall that Socrates was famous for setting up
straw men who usually agreed to every step of his proof and were finally
forced by logic, against their previous judgments, to accept his
conclusions. I would dearly love to see an unedited video of the Binar
On 26 Aug 2009, at 13:10, Mirek Dobsicek wrote:
> So if you have said that you got hooked-up to math by that socratic
> method... Bruno would definitely took the hint in his seveth step
> serii.
I appreciate very much the Socratic method, and I apply it as much as
possible. The UDA itself
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
> 2009/8/26 David Nyman :
>> On 25 Aug, 14:32, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
>>
>>> Let's say the alien brain in its initial environment produced a
>>> certain output when it was presented with a certain input, such as a
>>> red light. The reconstructed brain is in a diffe
On 26 Aug 2009, at 17:58, Brent Meeker wrote:
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> Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
>> 2009/8/26 David Nyman :
>>> On 25 Aug, 14:32, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
>>>
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>> I think what I have proposed is consistent with functionalism, which
>> may or may not be true. A functionally identical system pro
Hi,
I sum up, a little bit, and then I go quickly, just to provide some
motivation for the sequel.
We have seen the notion of set. We have seen examples of finite sets
and infinite sets.
For example the sets
A = {0, 1, 2},
B = {2, 3}
are finite.
The set N = {0, 1, 2, 3, ...} is infinite
2009/8/26 Brent Meeker :
> I sometimes have the feeling you're saying something interesting...and
> wishing I knew what it was.
Alas, I'm filled with chagrin. On reflection, I share both of those
feelings fairly regularly! I've spent a lot of time over the years -
too much probably - reading,
2009/8/26 Rex Allen :
> To me, 60% of David's posts are intricately worded works of Ciceronian
> prose that eloquently make points of great depth and insight...and the
> other 40% are intricately worded works of eye-crossingly impenetrable
> prose of which I can make neither heads nor tails.
My
2009/8/26 Stathis Papaioannou :
> With the example of the light, you alter the photoreceptors in the
> retina so that they respond the same way when to a blue light that
> they would have when exposed to a red light.
Ah, so the alien has photoreceptors and retinas? That's an assumption
worth kn
David Nyman wrote:
> 2009/8/26 Stathis Papaioannou :
>
>> With the example of the light, you alter the photoreceptors in the
>> retina so that they respond the same way when to a blue light that
>> they would have when exposed to a red light.
>
> Ah, so the alien has photoreceptors and retinas?
2009/8/26 Brent Meeker :
> I don't see that. I conjectured that with sufficient knowledge of the
> environment in which the alien functioned and input-outputs at the
> corresponding level, one could provide and account of the alien's
> experience. I was my point that simply looking at the alien
David Nyman wrote:
> 2009/8/26 Brent Meeker :
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>> I don't see that. I conjectured that with sufficient knowledge of the
>> environment in which the alien functioned and input-outputs at the
>> corresponding level, one could provide and account of the alien's
>> experience. I was my point that
2009/8/26 Rex Allen :
>> It seems as though we can comprehend 'mind' only in terms of some
>> self-instantiating, self-interpreting context, in which meaning
>> depends always on the self-relating logic of differentiation and
>> interaction. Hence the 'perspective' of mind is always intrinsic,
2009/8/27 Brent Meeker :
>> I'm questioning something more subtle here, I think. First, one could
>> simply decide to be eliminativist about experience, and hold that the
>> extrinsic PM account is both exhaustive and singular. In this case,
>> 'being' anything is simply an extrinsic notion. B
"That which can be destroyed by the truth should be."
-- P.C. Hodgell
Today, among logicians, Bayesian Inference seems to be the new dogma
for all encompassing theory of rationality. But I have different
ideas, so I'm going to present an argument suggesting an alternative
form of reasoning. In
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