On 16 Apr 2010, at 19:07, Brent Meeker wrote:
I think intelligence in the context of a particular world requires
acting within that world. Humans learn language starting with
ostensive definition: (pointing) "There that's a chair. Sit in
it. That's what it's for. Move it where you wa
On Apr 15, 11:21 pm, Brent Meeker wrote:
> I agree with the above and pushing the idea further has led me to the
> conclusion that intelligence is only relative to an environment. If you
> consider Hume's argument that induction cannot be justified - yet it is
> the basis of all our beliefs - you
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Brent Meeker wrote:
> On 4/15/2010 8:01 PM, rexallen...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Let's assume that our best scientific theories tell us something
>> true about the way the world *really* is, in an ontological sense.
>> And further, for simplicity, let's assume a dete
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:01 PM, rexallen...@gmail.com
> wrote:
>>
>> What would make universes with honest initial conditions + causal laws
>> more probable than deceptive ones? For every honest universe it would
>> seem possible to have
On Apr 16, 4:02 am, Bruno Marchal wrote:
> On 16 Apr 2010, at 05:01, rexallen...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > What would make universes with honest initial conditions + causal laws
> > more probable than deceptive ones? For every honest universe it would
> > seem possible to have an infinite number of
On Apr 16, 6:29 am, Skeletori wrote:
> On Apr 16, 6:01 am, "rexallen...@gmail.com"
> wrote:
>
> > What would make universes with honest initial conditions + causal laws
> > more probable than deceptive ones? For every honest universe it would
> > seem possible to have an infinite number of dec
On 18 Apr 2010, at 03:15, rexallen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Apr 16, 4:02 am, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 16 Apr 2010, at 05:01, rexallen...@gmail.com wrote:
What would make universes with honest initial conditions + causal
laws
more probable than deceptive ones? For every honest universe it
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