Re: Whoopie ! The natural INTEGERS are indeed monads

2012-12-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Dec 2012, at 22:10, John Mikes wrote: OOps#2: I would have to be a super-Gauss to explain the 12/17ary system. The last time I really studied math-rules was in 1948, preparing for my Ph.D. exam, - since then I only forget. 12/17 is surely a value, hopefully applicable in erecting a

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-12-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Dec 2012, at 02:03, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 6:51 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/9/2012 4:37 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 5:40 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/9/2012 12:08 PM, Jason Resch wrote: And without a

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-12-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Dec 2012, at 07:32, meekerdb wrote: On 12/9/2012 5:03 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 6:51 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/9/2012 4:37 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 5:40 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/9/2012 12:08

Re: Hierarchy of beliefs

2012-12-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Stephen, The article illustrates the dangers of a premature modellization of a problem. The urge to have a mathematical model forces to narrow the thing to be modellized and to isolate it artificially from a wider context that is crucial for the understanding of the problem. The result is a fine

Mental causes and effects (those outside of spacetime)

2012-12-10 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Alberto G. Corona Outside of spacetime there are no physical causes or effects, but there are mental causes and effects. Materialism has no way of dealing with these, but Idealism (such as with Plato, Leibniz) does. No physical forces are involved, at least causally, but actions can occur

****** the eight hypostases etc. and other properties of comp system****

2012-12-10 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal Thanks for these: 1) For a numerical system (comp) the supreme monad contains universal numbers. 2) Individual numerical monads have have different intellects, and so forth. 3) your other important specifics [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 12/10/2012 Forever is a

*****Universal numbers are ~ Turing machines***

2012-12-10 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal Exzcellent. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 12/10/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-12-08, 15:47:31 Subject: Re: An additional

Re: Re: Re: Introspection (internal 1p) has been dropped by cognitivescience

2012-12-10 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Russell Standish Actual introspection is subjective, not objective. Computers as I understand them can only think objectively. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 12/10/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From:

Re: Re: Why a supreme monad is necessary

2012-12-10 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King Yes. I'm getting a lot of flack on what was obviously a poor analogy. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 12/10/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver:

Re: Re: WHOOPS! The Supreme Monad (God) is necessary after all..

2012-12-10 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King I can't disagree with your comments, which are about reality. Leibniz's metaphysics (monads have no windows) is not a carbon copy of reality, but I intend to stick with him as long as I can. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 12/10/2012 Forever is a long time,

Re: Re: Avoiding the use of the word God

2012-12-10 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King God is what/who is looking through the supreme monad, not the supreme monad itself. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 12/10/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver:

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-12-10 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:32 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/9/2012 5:03 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 6:51 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/9/2012 4:37 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 5:40 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Avoiding the use of the word God

2012-12-10 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist No, the supreme monad is what God sees through and does through, but God is behind or above the supreme monad. Newton's God was something like that in that the universe was, in Newton's words, God's sensorium. But Newton had no systematic view of the universe-- no supreme

Re: comp or descriptive cause and effect

2012-12-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Dec 2012, at 13:27, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal As I understand comp cause and effect, one simply describes what happens in an event by completely calculating and describing the system before (1) and after the event (2). If everything is known about these, nature has to have

Re: Introspection (internal 1p) has been dropped by cognitivescience

2012-12-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Dec 2012, at 13:59, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Russell Standish Actual introspection is subjective, not objective. Computers as I understand them can only think objectively. But now we know better. Computers are champion in introspection, and they have a rich subjective life. Even

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Avoiding the use of the word God

2012-12-10 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
Hi Roger, On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Leibniz expressed what was logically necessary, not an opinion of God. And this itself was an opinion of god and produced a striking revelation in Leibniz: Contradiction. I have kicked my own monadology in

Re: Avoiding the use of the word God

2012-12-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Dec 2012, at 14:33, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King God is what/who is looking through the supreme monad, not the supreme monad itself. Nice! Even closer to CTM(*): God is what/who is looking through the supreme monads, not any supreme monad itself. Bruno (*) Alias comp,

Re: Avoiding the use of the word God

2012-12-10 Thread Richard Ruquist
Roger Bruno, How is consciousness related to god? It seems like the beginning of an infinite god regression. Richard On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 10 Dec 2012, at 14:33, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King God is what/who is looking through

Re: Avoiding the use of the word God

2012-12-10 Thread Stephen P. King
On 12/10/2012 8:33 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King God is what/who is looking through the supreme monad, not the supreme monad itself. Dear Roger, This is a contradiction of the relations between monads, there cannot be a special monad. Just as there is no 'center' on the

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-12-10 Thread meekerdb
On 12/10/2012 2:47 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Dec 2012, at 02:03, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 6:51 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/9/2012 4:37 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 5:40 PM, meekerdb

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-12-10 Thread meekerdb
On 12/10/2012 2:56 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: But why isn't It's a probabilistic world and it obeys the Born rule. a good explanation. I'm all for finding a better explanation, i.e. a deterministic one. But simply postulating an ensemble of worlds to make the probabilities deterministic in

Re: Avoiding the use of the word God

2012-12-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
Richard, On 10 Dec 2012, at 16:17, Richard Ruquist wrote: Roger Bruno, How is consciousness related to god? It seems like the beginning of an infinite god regression. God = Truth (Plato). OK? With the CTM, arithmetical truth is enough (and a tiny provable part is enough for the ontology).

Re: Avoiding the use of the word God

2012-12-10 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Richard, On 10 Dec 2012, at 16:17, Richard Ruquist wrote: Roger Bruno, How is consciousness related to god? It seems like the beginning of an infinite god regression. God = Truth (Plato). OK? With the CTM,

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-12-10 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:25 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/10/2012 2:47 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Dec 2012, at 02:03, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 6:51 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/9/2012 4:37 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun,

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-12-10 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:30 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/10/2012 2:56 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: But why isn't It's a probabilistic world and it obeys the Born rule. a good explanation. I'm all for finding a better explanation, i.e. a deterministic one. But simply

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-12-10 Thread meekerdb
On 12/10/2012 5:41 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:32 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/9/2012 5:03 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 6:51 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-12-10 Thread meekerdb
On 12/10/2012 10:16 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:30 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/10/2012 2:56 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: But why isn't It's a probabilistic world and it obeys the Born rule. a good explanation.

Re: Re: Re: Introspection (internal 1p) has been dropped by cognitivescience

2012-12-10 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 07:59:20AM -0500, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Russell Standish Actual introspection is subjective, not objective. Computers as I understand them can only think objectively. Two points: 1) Why do you think introspection is subjective? By contrast, I suspect it is one

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-12-10 Thread Jason Resch
On Dec 10, 2012, at 12:54 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: From whose perspective is there a single unique result? From my perspective! Whenever I, the simple non-godlike experimenter, send a photon (or

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-12-10 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 1:35 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/10/2012 10:16 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:30 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/10/2012 2:56 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: But why isn't It's a probabilistic world and it obeys the

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-12-10 Thread meekerdb
On 12/10/2012 10:01 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 1:35 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/10/2012 10:16 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:30 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net