Re: truth

2012-07-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Jul 2012, at 22:45, John Mikes wrote: Bruno: "Right. I think that people believing that 1+1 can be different of 2 are just imagining something else." - do you mean: "imagining something else THAN WHAT YOU WERE IMAGINING?" sounds like a claim to some priviledge to imagining - only Y

Re: Autonomy?

2012-07-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Jul 2012, at 19:31, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 Bruno Marchal wrote > This is a rephrasing which does not suppress in any way the fact that in Helsinki I am uncertain about the experience I will feel next. But that is ALWAYS true regardless of whether identity splitting or

Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-07 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
My comments to Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, especially to the statement from the book “Traditionally these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics. Scientists have become

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-07 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: > Hawking and Mlodinow start with the statement that free will is illusion > If they said that, and I don't recall that they did, they were being much too kind in equating the "free will" noise to something as concrete as illusion. > An interesting que

Re: truth

2012-07-07 Thread John Mikes
Dear Bruno: here we go again (quote from Ronald Reagan). The "vocabulary" of different (belief?) systems. You seem to abide firmly at "axioms", meaning not more in MY vocabulary than postulates to make *OUR *(actual, conventional, ongoing) theories VALID. Changing theories make axioms invalid. *HU

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Jul 2012, at 19:40, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: > Hawking and Mlodinow start with the statement that free will is illusion If they said that, and I don't recall that they did, they were being much too kind in equating the "free will" noise to somet

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Jul 2012, at 15:31, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: My comments to Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, especially to the statement from the book “Traditionally these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in