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

2012-03-30 Thread meekerdb
On 3/29/2012 10:23 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: Take my favorite thought experiment. Suppose I design two Mars Rovers and I want them to coordinate their movements in order to round up Martian sheep. I can easily distribute the artificial intelligence between the two of them, using data links

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

2012-03-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Mar 2012, at 21:47, meekerdb wrote: On 3/29/2012 12:02 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 29 Mar 2012, at 20:08, meekerdb wrote: On 3/29/2012 10:14 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: And YOU HAVE BEEN DUPLICATED. I will ask you to do the hairsplitting about that YOU, that you are using here, so

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

2012-03-30 Thread Richard Ruquist
David, Selection was even earlier proposed by Leibniz in his Monadology philosophy along with many other principles about half of which have been confirmed by scientific theory and experimentation. http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/leibniz.htm Richard David Ruquist On

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

2012-03-30 Thread Stephen P. King
On 3/30/2012 3:08 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 3/29/2012 10:23 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: Take my favorite thought experiment. Suppose I design two Mars Rovers and I want them to coordinate their movements in order to round up Martian sheep. I can easily distribute the artificial intelligence

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

2012-03-30 Thread David Nyman
On 30 March 2012 03:14, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: My reading of Kent is that he rejects MWI.  I don't think he believes there is a single conscious copy and the rest are zombies; he believes there's just one world and it is 'selected' probabilistically. Yes, I understand that. My

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

2012-03-30 Thread David Nyman
On 30 March 2012 10:11, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: David, Selection was even earlier proposed by Leibniz in his Monadology philosophy along with many other principles about half of which have been confirmed by scientific theory and experimentation.

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

2012-03-30 Thread meekerdb
On 3/30/2012 4:08 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 3/30/2012 3:08 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 3/29/2012 10:23 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: Take my favorite thought experiment. Suppose I design two Mars Rovers and I want them to coordinate their movements in order to round up Martian sheep. I can

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

2012-03-30 Thread meekerdb
On 3/30/2012 4:38 AM, David Nyman wrote: The problem with all this (as Kent makes explicit) is that there is nothing in the mathematics of the game physics that corresponds to this kind of momentary selection of subjective localisation. Unfortunately, his own proposal doesn't really solve the

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

2012-03-30 Thread Stephen P. King
On 3/30/2012 2:48 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 3/30/2012 4:08 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 3/30/2012 3:08 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 3/29/2012 10:23 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: Take my favorite thought experiment. Suppose I design two Mars Rovers and I want them to coordinate their movements in

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

2012-03-30 Thread meekerdb
On 3/30/2012 2:29 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 3/30/2012 2:48 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 3/30/2012 4:08 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 3/30/2012 3:08 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 3/29/2012 10:23 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: Take my favorite thought experiment. Suppose I design two Mars Rovers and I

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

2012-03-30 Thread David Nyman
On 30 March 2012 19:54, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: The problem with all this (as Kent makes explicit) is that there is nothing in the mathematics of the game physics that corresponds to this kind of momentary selection of subjective localisation. Unfortunately, his own proposal

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

2012-03-30 Thread meekerdb
On 3/30/2012 4:23 PM, David Nyman wrote: On 30 March 2012 19:54, meekerdbmeeke...@verizon.net wrote: The problem with all this (as Kent makes explicit) is that there is nothing in the mathematics of the game physics that corresponds to this kind of momentary selection of subjective