Re: Entropy and information

2012-02-27 Thread Alberto G.Corona
Perhaps a more basic, and more pertinent question related with entrophy and information in the context of this list is the relation of computability, living beings , the arrow of time and entropy, What the paper (http://qi.ethz.ch/edu/qisemFS10/papers/

Re: Entropy and information

2012-02-27 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/27/2012 6:16 AM, Alberto G.Corona wrote: Perhaps a more basic, and more pertinent question related with entrophy and information in the context of this list is the relation of computability, living beings , the arrow of time and entropy, What the paper

Re: Bruno, question

2012-02-27 Thread marty684
I've been reading The Origin of Physical Laws...and have a question about the following quote:     you can modify the device in such a way that the amount of physical activity involved is arbitrarily low, and even null for dreaming experience which has no inputs and no outputs.     It seems to

Re: Entropy and information

2012-02-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Feb 2012, at 12:16, Alberto G.Corona wrote: Perhaps a more basic, and more pertinent question related with entrophy and information in the context of this list is the relation of computability, living beings , the arrow of time and entropy, What the paper

Re: The free will function

2012-02-27 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: There is no simulation of red. Red is only red. But red itself is a simulation. Electromagnetic waves a length of 700 nanometers can produce the quale red in the minds of most (but not all) human beings if it enters

COMP test

2012-02-27 Thread ronaldheld
What observations or measurements can I perform that would falsify COMP? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: Interesting Feynman Quote

2012-02-27 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 26, 3:50 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: it is space-time observations which emerges from arithmetical self- observation. Why would they though? I can have a dream in which I observe myself participating in a space-time world, but it is not consistent with physics. Things

Re: The free will function

2012-02-27 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 27.02.2012 17:47 John Clark said the following: On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Craig Weinbergwhatsons...@gmail.comwrote: There is no simulation of red. Red is only red. But red itself is a simulation. Electromagnetic waves a length of 700 nanometers can produce the quale red in the

Re: Entropy and information

2012-02-27 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 27.02.2012 00:13 meekerdb said the following: On 2/26/2012 5:58 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: I have written a summary for the discussion in the subject: http://blog.rudnyi.ru/2012/02/entropy-and-information.html No doubt, this is my personal viewpoint. If you see that I have missed something,

Re: COMP test

2012-02-27 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/27/2012 12:26 PM, ronaldheld wrote: What observations or measurements can I perform that would falsify COMP? Hi, Any measurement of a physical process that cannot be simulated by a Turing Machine equivalent computation. IOW, any non-computational physical process. Onward!

Re: Entropy and information

2012-02-27 Thread meekerdb
On 2/27/2012 10:59 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 27.02.2012 00:13 meekerdb said the following: On 2/26/2012 5:58 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: I have written a summary for the discussion in the subject: http://blog.rudnyi.ru/2012/02/entropy-and-information.html No doubt, this is my personal

Re: COMP test

2012-02-27 Thread meekerdb
On 2/27/2012 11:02 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/27/2012 12:26 PM, ronaldheld wrote: What observations or measurements can I perform that would falsify COMP? Hi, Any measurement of a physical process that cannot be simulated by a Turing Machine equivalent computation. IOW, any

Re: Yes Doctor circularity

2012-02-27 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 25, 11:05 pm, 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote: On Feb 24, 11:02 pm, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 24, 7:40 am, 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote: Which only underscores how different consciousness is from computation. We can't share the exact same software, but

Re: COMP test

2012-02-27 Thread Joseph Knight
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote: On 2/27/2012 12:26 PM, ronaldheld wrote: What observations or measurements can I perform that would falsify COMP? Hi, Any measurement of a physical process that cannot be simulated by a Turing Machine

Re: COMP test

2012-02-27 Thread Joseph Knight
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:26 AM, ronaldheld ronaldh...@gmail.com wrote: What observations or measurements can I perform that would falsify COMP? The best thing would be to work in the other direction, and see if you can derive the wrong laws of physics from COMP itself. If you could do that,

Re: Yes Doctor circularity

2012-02-27 Thread meekerdb
On 2/27/2012 11:54 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: AIs can generate their own software. That is the point of AI. They don't have to generate their own software though, we have to tell them to do that and specify exactly how we want them to do it. Not exactly. AI learns from interactions which

Re: COMP theology

2012-02-27 Thread meekerdb
On 2/27/2012 11:56 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: You can make matter behave in any way relatively to virtual reality that you are building, but the 3-creature, relative to you, will be able to deduce from their observation that they are in a simulated reality, by comparing what they can measure

Re: Yes Doctor circularity

2012-02-27 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 25, 4:50 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 24 Feb 2012, at 23:40, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Feb 23, 9:41 pm, Pierz pier...@gmail.com wrote: Let us suppose you're right and... but hold on! We can't do that. That would be circular. That would be sneaking in the

Re: Yes Doctor circularity

2012-02-27 Thread Terren Suydam
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: I keep repeating this list, adding more each time. What else can I do. Comp cannot disprove itself, so if you are looking for that to happen then I can tell you already that it won't. I can't prove the existence of

Re: Yes Doctor circularity

2012-02-27 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 27, 3:32 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/27/2012 11:54 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote:  AIs can generate their own software. That is the point of AI. They don't have to generate their own software though, we have to tell them to do that and specify exactly how we want them

Re: COMP test

2012-02-27 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 27, 3:15 pm, Joseph Knight joseph.9...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:26 AM, ronaldheld ronaldh...@gmail.com wrote: What observations or measurements can I perform that would falsify COMP? The best thing would be to work in the other direction, and see if you can derive

Re: Support for Panexperientialism

2012-02-27 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 26, 12:22 am, 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote: On Feb 24, 11:13 pm, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: Of course. They are the particular sense of epistemology which 'seems like' the opposite of 'seems like'. Phenomena are reduced to their wireframe invariance - a skeleton

Re: Yes Doctor circularity

2012-02-27 Thread meekerdb
On 2/27/2012 1:09 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Feb 27, 3:32 pm, meekerdbmeeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/27/2012 11:54 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: AIs can generate their own software. That is the point of AI. They don't have to generate their own software though, we have to tell them to do

Re: The free will function

2012-02-27 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 25, 10:50 pm, 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote: On Feb 25, 6:32 pm, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 24, 8:22 am, 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote: On Feb 23, 10:24 pm, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: You are thinking that because you

Re: COMP test

2012-02-27 Thread Joseph Knight
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: On Feb 27, 3:15 pm, Joseph Knight joseph.9...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:26 AM, ronaldheld ronaldh...@gmail.com wrote: What observations or measurements can I perform that would falsify COMP?

Re: Yes Doctor circularity

2012-02-27 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 27, 4:52 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/27/2012 1:09 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Feb 27, 3:32 pm, meekerdbmeeke...@verizon.net  wrote: On 2/27/2012 11:54 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote:   AIs can generate their own software. That is the point of AI. They don't have to

Re: Yes Doctor circularity

2012-02-27 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: [Comp is] not a question... but a starting hypothesis... The hypothesis is that the physics of the brain is computable. If this is granted, then it follows by the fading qualia argument that the consciousness of the

Re: COMP test

2012-02-27 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 27, 5:15 pm, Joseph Knight joseph.9...@gmail.com wrote: Since I can fly sometimes in dreams, that proves that if comp were true, it is capable of varying the laws of physics. I have not yet heard why comp prefers one set of physical laws outside of my head and many spontaneously

Re: COMP test

2012-02-27 Thread meekerdb
On 2/27/2012 2:15 PM, Joseph Knight wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com mailto:whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 27, 3:15 pm, Joseph Knight joseph.9...@gmail.com mailto:joseph.9...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:26 AM,

Re: Yes Doctor circularity

2012-02-27 Thread meekerdb
On 2/27/2012 2:15 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Feb 27, 4:52 pm, meekerdbmeeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/27/2012 1:09 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Feb 27, 3:32 pm, meekerdbmeeke...@verizon.netwrote: On 2/27/2012 11:54 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: AIs can generate their own software.

Re: COMP test

2012-02-27 Thread Joseph Knight
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:26 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/27/2012 2:15 PM, Joseph Knight wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: On Feb 27, 3:15 pm, Joseph Knight joseph.9...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:26 AM,

Re: Yes Doctor circularity

2012-02-27 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 27, 5:37 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/27/2012 2:15 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Feb 27, 4:52 pm, meekerdbmeeke...@verizon.net  wrote: On 2/27/2012 1:09 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Feb 27, 3:32 pm, meekerdbmeeke...@verizon.net    wrote: On 2/27/2012 11:54

Re: COMP test

2012-02-27 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 04:38:05PM -0600, Joseph Knight wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:26 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/27/2012 2:15 PM, Joseph Knight wrote: With COMP it's all inside your head so I don't see the problem. That IS the problem. Since they are both

Re: The free will function

2012-02-27 Thread Craig Weinberg
Couple of Free Will studies: Laypersons' belief in free will may foster a sense of thoughtful reflection and willingness to exert energy, thereby promoting helpfulness and reducing aggression, and so disbelief in free will may make behavior more reliant on selfish, automatic impulses and