DVD alloys help make computers that think like us

2011-07-15 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128205.200-dvd-alloys-help-make-computers-that-think-like-us.html A brain-like computer is one that can learn and adapt without external programming. Such an ability would allow machines to become far better at tasks like face and speech recognition.

Re: bruno list

2011-07-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jul 2011, at 14:39, Craig Weinberg wrote: I don't want to talk about inner experience. I want to talk about my fundamental reordering of the cosmos, which if it were correct, would be staggeringly important and I have not seen anywhere else: Mind and body are not merely separate, but

Re: Bruno's blasphemy.

2011-07-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Jul 2011, at 00:42, Craig Weinberg wrote: The experience of seeing yellow might be, although its stability will needs the global structure of all computations. If you believe the contrary, you need to speculate on an unknown physics. I don't consider it an unknown physics, just a

Re: bruno list

2011-07-15 Thread Craig Weinberg
Could you define perpendicular topologies? You say you don't study math, so why use mathematical terms (which seems non sensical for a mathematicians, unless you do a notion of set of topologies with some scalar products, but then you should give it. Yeah, I'm not sure if I mean it literally or

Re: Bruno's blasphemy.

2011-07-15 Thread meekerdb
On 7/15/2011 2:15 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Numerology is poetry. Can be very cute, but should not be taken too much seriously. Are you saying that you disagree with the fact that math is about immaterial relation between non material beings. Could you give me an explanation that 34 is less

Re: COMP refutation paper - finally out

2011-07-15 Thread Terren Suydam
Hi Bruno, Roughly speaking, my main struggle with your wonderful arguments is making the leap from the domain of mathematical logic to the one and only domain we can be sure of as conscious, namely biological human consciousness, and this without rejecting comp. Unfortunately I am hindered by my

Re: Bruno's blasphemy.

2011-07-15 Thread Craig Weinberg
nice On Jul 15, 12:41 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 7/15/2011 2:15 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Numerology is poetry. Can be very cute, but should not be taken too much seriously. Are you saying that you disagree with the fact that math is about immaterial relation between non