Re: Primitive Awareness and Symmetry

2012-04-03 Thread 1Z
On Apr 3, 3:20 am, Craig Weinberg wrote: > On Apr 2, 8:06 pm, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Craig Weinberg > > wrote: > > > From blindsight, synesthesia, and anosognosia we know that particular > > > qualia are not inevitably associated with

Re: The Brain Minds Whether We Believe in Free Will or Not

2012-04-03 Thread 1Z
On Apr 2, 9:39 pm, Craig Weinberg wrote: > On Apr 2, 2:12 pm, 1Z wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Apr 2, 6:02 pm, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > On Apr 2, 12:03 pm, meekerdb wrote: > > > > > On 4/2/2012 7:14 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > > >>> If all movement was involuntary in the > > > >

Re: The Brain Minds Whether We Believe in Free Will or Not

2012-04-03 Thread 1Z
On Apr 2, 9:41 pm, Craig Weinberg wrote: > On Apr 2, 1:33 pm, meekerdb wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On 4/2/2012 10:02 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > On Apr 2, 12:03 pm, meekerdb  wrote: > > >> On 4/2/2012 7:14 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > If all movement was involuntary in the > > >

Re: The Brain Minds Whether We Believe in Free Will or Not

2012-04-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 02 Apr 2012, at 18:03, meekerdb wrote: On 4/2/2012 7:14 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: If all movement was involuntary in the > > first place then there would be no significant difference between > > passively watching yourself move and passively watching yourself not > > move > > > If w

Re: The Brain Minds Whether We Believe in Free Will or Not

2012-04-03 Thread 1Z
On Apr 3, 3:12 am, Craig Weinberg wrote: > On Apr 2, 5:05 pm, meekerdb wrote: > > > > > But the experiment didn't show there was more or less free will.  It didn't > > even show > > there was any free will.  It just showed that inducing a belief in free > > will changed > > performance. > > P

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

2012-04-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 02 Apr 2012, at 18:14, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 Bruno Marchal wrote: >> you've added tons of bells and whistles but for all the complex convolutions you have not added one single bit of additional information about what is likely to happen. > On the contrary, comp entai

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

2012-04-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 02 Apr 2012, at 18:40, meekerdb wrote: On 4/2/2012 9:14 AM, John Clark wrote: > If Everett is right the probability must be derived from the statistics of measurements *as described by the wave evolution*. If Everett is right then you can use the square of the absolute value of the

Re: Primitive Awareness and Symmetry

2012-04-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 03 Apr 2012, at 02:06, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: From blindsight, synesthesia, and anosognosia we know that particular qualia are not inevitably associated with the conditions they usually represent for us, so it seems impossible to

Re: The Brain Minds Whether We Believe in Free Will or Not

2012-04-03 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Apr 2, 11:22 pm, meekerdb wrote: > On 4/2/2012 7:12 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Apr 2, 5:05 pm, meekerdb  wrote: > > >> But the experiment didn't show there was more or less free will.  It > >> didn't even show > >> there was any free will.  It just showed that induc

Re: The Brain Minds Whether We Believe in Free Will or Not

2012-04-03 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Apr 3, 5:04 am, 1Z wrote: > On Apr 2, 9:39 pm, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Apr 2, 2:12 pm, 1Z wrote: > > > > On Apr 2, 6:02 pm, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > > On Apr 2, 12:03 pm, meekerdb wrote: > > > > > > On 4/2/2012 7:14 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > > > >>> If al

Re: The Brain Minds Whether We Believe in Free Will or Not

2012-04-03 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Apr 3, 5:07 am, 1Z wrote: > > > > Why not?  If the brain is deterministic then beliefs are deterministic > > > and changing them > > > by external inputs can change performance. > > > The belief is about the power to self determine though. The > > performance change is evidence that some chang

Re: The Brain Minds Whether We Believe in Free Will or Not

2012-04-03 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Apr 3, 5:27 am, 1Z wrote: > > > > But the experiment didn't show there was more or less free will. It > > > didn't even show > > > there was any free will. It just showed that inducing a belief in free > > > will changed > > > performance. > > > Performance in what though? Readiness to exe

Re: Primitive Awareness and Symmetry

2012-04-03 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Apr 2, 11:29 pm, meekerdb wrote: > On 4/2/2012 7:28 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > >> I like Julian Jaynes idea that it is a side-effect of using the same parts > >> of the brain > >> for cogitation as are used for perception.  That would be the kind of > >> thing that evolution > >> would do,

Re: A question for Bruno about Artificial Brains

2012-04-03 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Apr 2, 11:21 pm, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > >> Dick could have the same doubts about any medical treatment short of > >> total brain replacement. Perhaps taking perindopril for hypertension > >> turns people into zombies. > > > The "same" doubts?  Really? > > If philosophical zombies are p

Re: A question for Bruno about Artificial Brains

2012-04-03 Thread meekerdb
On 4/3/2012 11:03 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Apr 2, 11:21 pm, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Dick could have the same doubts about any medical treatment short of total brain replacement. Perhaps taking perindopril for hypertension turns people into zombies. The "same" doubts? Really? If philo

Re: Primitive Awareness and Symmetry

2012-04-03 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 03.04.2012 02:06 Stathis Papaioannou said the following: On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: From blindsight, synesthesia, and anosognosia we know that particular qualia are not inevitably associated with the conditions they usually represent for us, so it seems impossibl

Re: Primitive Awareness and Symmetry

2012-04-03 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 03.04.2012 05:29 meekerdb said the following: On 4/2/2012 7:28 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Apr 2, 9:02 pm, meekerdb wrote: I like Julian Jaynes idea that it is a side-effect of using the same parts of the brain for cogitation as are used for perception. That would be the kind of thing that

Re: Primitive Awareness and Symmetry

2012-04-03 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Apr 3, 3:56 pm, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: > On 03.04.2012 02:06 Stathis Papaioannou said the following: > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Craig Weinberg   > > wrote: > > >>  From blindsight, synesthesia, and anosognosia we know that particular > >> qualia are not inevitably asso

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

2012-04-03 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > The point is that comp predicts white noise. That something else predicts > white noise too is not relevant in the proof. > So in the setup the screen changes at RANDOM and comp predicts white noise will be the most likely result, and you t

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

2012-04-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Apr 2012, at 06:05, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > The point is that comp predicts white noise. That something else predicts white noise too is not relevant in the proof. So in the setup the screen changes at RANDOM and comp predicts w