Re: Yablo, Quine and Carnap on ontology

2009-09-12 Thread Flammarion
On 11 Sep, 19:34, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 11 Sep 2009, at 17:45, Flammarion wrote: On 4 Sep, 22:12, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 04 Sep 2009, at 19:21, Flammarion wrote: ...  Bruno has been arguign that numbers exist because there are true

Re: Yablo, Quine and Carnap on ontology

2009-09-12 Thread John Mikes
Bruno, the more I read here on the Church thesis the less I know about it. Is there a short description in 'non-technical' words about the 'essence' you hold instrumental in the applications you apply? John M On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Flammarion peterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote: On 4 Sep,

Re: Ants are not conscious

2009-09-12 Thread Dr Nick
Russell I notice in your book the theory of nothing that there is a test for self awareness (Gordon Gallup) called the mirror test. Not many animals are known to have passed this test. However I wonder whether many more would if the spot painted on them actually was not odourless or indeed was

Re: Ants are not conscious

2009-09-12 Thread Jason Resch
Dr Nick, I think part of what the mirror test attempts to establish is that the animal recognizes the reflection as itself, therefore showing the animal has a sense of itself as an independent actor within an environment as opposed to simply an ego-less series of experiences. If an irritant were