Re: Theology or not theology (Re: COMP theology)

2012-03-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Mar 2012, at 06:14, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Give me a example of 2 conscious beings that are identical by what you call 3-view but NOT identical by what you call 1-view, show they deserve different names, do that

Re: For Evgenii: the-unavoidable-cost-of-computation-revealed

2012-03-27 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
Brent, I have nothing against of fundamental science and I do not expect practical application for this paper. Yet, I do not see fundamental results. What is in the paper is just a change of vocabulary. I would say that we are free to choose a definition. Well, right now when free will is

Re: Determinism in the case of bifurcations and symmetry breaking

2012-03-27 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
Stephen, Nature computes itself by evolving in time Let me put then my question this way. When Nature computes itself does the next state is uniquely determined the previous steps? Or, to make the next state, does Nature play a dice? I would appreciate if you explain how bifurcations and

Re: Theology or not theology (Re: COMP theology)

2012-03-27 Thread Joseph Knight
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote: On 3/23/2012 3:44 PM, Joseph Knight wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote: On 3/21/2012 8:16 PM, Joseph Knight wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Stephen P.