Re: String theory and superconductors and classical liquids...

2013-10-29 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Yeah and a chicken is a dog. Le 29 oct. 2013 03:41, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com a écrit : So matter is just maya-illusion. That is really religion- right? On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/10/28 Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com

Re: Neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain

2013-10-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Oct 2013, at 19:20, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: I read, somewhere, Professor Marchal, that it was the spindle cells in the brain that pushed the smarter creatures on this planet into high gear, so to speak, not so much glial, unless we are describing the same thing, primates, whales,

Re: Neural activity in the brain is harder to disrupt when we are aware of it

2013-10-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Oct 2013, at 19:47, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, October 28, 2013 1:38:58 PM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Oct 2013, at 15:12, John Mikes wrote: What do you call ANY PHYSICS? is there a God given marvel (like any other religious miracle to believe in) callable PHYSICS? I

Re: Neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain

2013-10-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Oct 2013, at 19:55, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, October 28, 2013 1:53:02 PM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: I refer you to my rare posts where I suggest that the level is the molecular level, and should include the glial cells, which in my opinion (from diverse reading) handle

Re: String theory and superconductors and classical liquids...

2013-10-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Oct 2013, at 20:33, Richard Ruquist wrote: Bruno: The fact that something is enumerable does not entail that you can derive it from PA, nor that it is a necessary part of physics. Richard: You got it backwards. The CY Compact manifolds are the machine that computes because they are

Re: String theory and superconductors and classical liquids...

2013-10-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Oct 2013, at 03:41, Richard Ruquist wrote: So matter is just maya-illusion. Yes. That's the result. UDA shows that if we can survive with a digital brain, by virtue of its infomation handling power (and not some magic), then matter is only appearance in the mind of some

Re: Neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain

2013-10-29 Thread Alberto G. Corona
*Cells are people, perhaps. Dendrites and molecules lack self-referential means, like quarks. * Then cows are Nietzchian superpeople. That disqualifies half of mi fridge's food. 2013/10/29 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 28 Oct 2013, at 19:55, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, October

Re: Neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain

2013-10-29 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: Cells are people, perhaps. Dendrites and molecules lack self-referential means, like quarks. Then cows are Nietzchian superpeople. That disqualifies half of mi fridge's food. You can't just mix two unrelated

Step 3

2013-10-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Oct 2013, at 02:13, chris peck wrote: Hi Jason Right but when you refer to the experience or chris peck's experiences, that is speaking in the third person. It should make no difference to your argument at all. That makes the difference, because the prediction concerned the

Leibniz's platonism and the false problem of reductionism in mind and quantum theory

2013-10-29 Thread Roger Clough
Leibniz's platonism and the false problem of reductionism In physics and psychology we have two enigmas if materialism rules, those of spontaneous mental intentions (so that there is no free will) and also that of spontaneous (probabililistic) events such as we find in statistical mechanics

Re: String theory and superconductors and classical liquids...

2013-10-29 Thread Richard Ruquist
Bruno, I do not use religion in a pejorative sense. Actually I am a Hindu. (At least I was until I got kicked out of the Muktananda Ashram) And so I am religiously in agreement with physical reality being an illusion. However, I am also a physicist and my string cosmology goes against my

Re: Leibniz's platonism and the false problem of reductionism in mind and quantum theory

2013-10-29 Thread Richard Ruquist
Roger, Having just learned a thing or two from Bruno, it strikes me that Leibniz monads are Aristotelian rather than Platonic just like my string cosmology. Richard On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Leibniz's platonism and the false problem of

Re: String theory and superconductors and classical liquids...

2013-10-29 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/29 Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com Bruno, I do not use religion in a pejorative sense. Actually I am a Hindu. (At least I was until I got kicked out of the Muktananda Ashram) And so I am religiously in agreement with physical reality being an illusion. However, I am also a

Re: Neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain

2013-10-29 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I know a single concept of people I wonder what´s the new concept of people, different from the one I manage (either philosophical or not) Have they rights? 2013/10/29 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain

2013-10-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 3:08:16 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Oct 2013, at 19:55, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, October 28, 2013 1:53:02 PM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: I refer you to my rare posts where I suggest that the level is the molecular level, and should

Re: Neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain

2013-10-29 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: I know a single concept of people I wonder what´s the new concept of people, different from the one I manage (either philosophical or not) Have they rights? This is a very good question which, in fact, serves

Re: Neural activity in the brain is harder to disrupt when we are aware of it

2013-10-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 3:05:52 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Oct 2013, at 19:47, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, October 28, 2013 1:38:58 PM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Oct 2013, at 15:12, John Mikes wrote: What do you call ANY PHYSICS? is there a God given marvel

Re: Neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain

2013-10-29 Thread Alberto G. Corona
The problem with modernity is precisely the confusion and madness (and I may say lack of intellectual strenght) of this fluidity, ever depending on audiences and personal interest that makes today amoebas to have rights ... and tomorrow morning we can massacrate people because at last, they are

Re: Neural activity in the brain is harder to disrupt when we are aware of it

2013-10-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:56:44 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 29 Oct 2013, at 14:23, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 3:05:52 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Oct 2013, at 19:47, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, October 28, 2013

Re: Step 3

2013-10-29 Thread Jason Resch
Chris, Perhaps it is simpler to think about first person indeterminacy like this (it requires some familiaraity with programming, but I will try to elaborate those details): Imagine there is a conscious AI inside a virtual environment (an open field) Inside that virtual environment is a ball,

Re: Universe from Pixels?

2013-10-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
I wonder if we used a photon multiplier that looked like Mickey Mouse and then discovered that photons looked like Mickey Mouse if it would occur to anyone that some of our assumptions might have been premature. On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:03:39 AM UTC-4, spudb...@aol.com wrote: Here is a

Re: Neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain

2013-10-29 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I´m not atacking you. I simply I like to talk with people, and for this purpose is necessary to share a clear definition of concepts. However, Telmo, If you don´t think so, then of course I´m attacking your position. But not for much time because even attacking with words becomes impossible with

RE: Neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain

2013-10-29 Thread Chris de Morsella
Glial cells may also play a critical role in memory formation: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/27913/title/Glial-cell s-aid-memory-formation/ From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Tuesday,

Re: Neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain

2013-10-29 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: I´m not atacking you. I simply I like to talk with people, and for this purpose is necessary to share a clear definition of concepts. However, Telmo, If you don´t think so, then of course I´m attacking your position.

Re: Neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain

2013-10-29 Thread freqflyer07281972
What are the 8 hypostases? I've seen this referred to a few other times on this list and have never really known what it refers to. thanks dan On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:30:26 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 29 Oct 2013, at 14:14, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, October

RE: Universe from Pixels?

2013-10-29 Thread Chris de Morsella
If true - ESA experimental measurements of the polarization of ranges of gamma rays (over a range of energies) from very distant gamma ray bursts that have travelled across billions of light years of spacetime to reach earth. Their experiments determined that spacetime does not have a granular

Re: Universe from Pixels?

2013-10-29 Thread Richard Ruquist
It is true that when big bang conditions are established in the three highest energy accelerators (including the LHC), what is observed is a quark-gluon plasma which is described as a perfect fluid or BEC (Bose-Einstein Condensate). But other astronomical observations have determined that space

Re: Neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain

2013-10-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Oct 2013, at 14:22, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: I know a single concept of people I wonder what´s the new concept of people, different from the one I manage (either philosophical or not) Have they rights?

Re: Neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain

2013-10-29 Thread Jason Resch
To add to this point, the main property of spindle cells (being very long and thereby able to connect disjoint regions) might simply be necessary in larger brains (not necessarily more intelligent brains), but since there is a correlation between large brains and more intelligent brains, and so we

Re: Neural activity in the brain is harder to disrupt when we are aware of it

2013-10-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Oct 2013, at 16:17, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:56:44 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 29 Oct 2013, at 14:23, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 3:05:52 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Oct 2013, at 19:47, Craig Weinberg wrote:

Re: Universe from Pixels?

2013-10-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Oct 2013, at 17:12, Chris de Morsella wrote: If true – ESA experimental measurements of the polarization of ranges of gamma rays (over a range of energies) from very distant gamma ray bursts that have travelled across billions of light years of spacetime to reach earth. Their

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-29 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: If John Clark was lying and Bruno has not changed his mind and you is still the guy(s) who will remember having been in Helsinki then it is beyond dispute that YOU will see BOTH Moscow AND Helsinki. It is correct

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-29 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/29 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: If John Clark was lying and Bruno has not changed his mind and you is still the guy(s) who will remember having been in Helsinki then it is beyond dispute that YOU will

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-29 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/29 Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com 2013/10/29 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: If John Clark was lying and Bruno has not changed his mind and you is still the guy(s) who will remember having been in

Re: Neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain

2013-10-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Oct 2013, at 17:07, freqflyer07281972 wrote: What are the 8 hypostases? I've seen this referred to a few other times on this list and have never really known what it refers to. It is eight intensional variants of Gödel's arithmetical predicate, that all self-referentially correct

Re: Neural activity in the brain is harder to disrupt when we are aware of it

2013-10-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 1:01:25 PM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 29 Oct 2013, at 16:17, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:56:44 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 29 Oct 2013, at 14:23, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Re: Step 3

2013-10-29 Thread meekerdb
On 10/29/2013 8:19 AM, Jason Resch wrote: Chris, Perhaps it is simpler to think about first person indeterminacy like this (it requires some familiaraity with programming, but I will try to elaborate those details): Imagine there is a conscious AI inside a virtual environment (an open field)

Re: Universe from Pixels?

2013-10-29 Thread meekerdb
On 10/29/2013 10:43 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 29 Oct 2013, at 17:12, Chris de Morsella wrote: If true – ESA experimental measurements of the polarization of ranges of gamma rays (over a range of energies) from very distant gamma ray bursts that have travelled across billions of light years

Re: Step 3

2013-10-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 2:06 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/29/2013 8:19 AM, Jason Resch wrote: Chris, Perhaps it is simpler to think about first person indeterminacy like this (it requires some familiaraity with programming, but I will try to elaborate those details):

Re: Step 3

2013-10-29 Thread LizR
I suggested doing this on FOAR (I used HAL from 2001). It simply makes it easier to visualise if you forget about biological creatures. Assuming comp, an AI is exactly equivalent to a human person, so anything you can do to an AI could be done (in theory) to a human by a teleporter, or to a human

Is there life on Mars?

2013-10-29 Thread LizR
Doesn't look too promising so far. Where are all the tripods and canals? http://mashable.com/2013/10/29/mars-flyover-video/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send

Re: Neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain

2013-10-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 2:11:56 PM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 29 Oct 2013, at 17:07, freqflyer07281972 wrote: What are the 8 hypostases? I've seen this referred to a few other times on this list and have never really known what it refers to. It is eight intensional variants of

Re: Leibniz's platonism and the false problem of reductionism in mind and quantum theory

2013-10-29 Thread LizR
Reductionism is the view that all mental processes can be reduced or explained by brain mechanisms. I thought it was the view that phenomena can be explained by simpler phenomena (until such time as you hit bottom) ? On 30 October 2013 00:09, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: Roger,

Re: Neural activity in the brain is harder to disrupt when we are aware of it

2013-10-29 Thread LizR
On 30 October 2013 07:15, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: Matter is concrete sense that extends to the inertial frame of the body. Get rid of your body, and your dream is matter. Goo goo goo joob! Sorry, but that does sound like a surreal 60s lyric, though it could maybe do with

Re: Neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain

2013-10-29 Thread LizR
On 30 October 2013 07:53, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/29/2013 9:27 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Depressingly, until the middle of the XX century there was no general consensus that all human beings are people with equal rights. That's a very recent idea, indeed. It's so

Re: Neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain

2013-10-29 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 29 Oct 2013, at 14:22, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: I know a single concept of people I wonder what´s the new concept of people, different

Re: Neural activity in the brain is harder to disrupt when we are aware of it

2013-10-29 Thread LizR
On 30 October 2013 13:24, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 6:52:12 PM UTC-4, Liz R wrote: On 30 October 2013 07:15, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: Matter is concrete sense that extends to the inertial frame of the body. Get rid of your

Re: Neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain

2013-10-29 Thread Alberto G. Corona
That article is very interesting and show how little we know and worst of all, how little we realize how little we know, by the way. 2013/10/28 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-10-neuroscientists-mini-neural-brain.html Dendrites, the branch-like

Re: Neural activity in the brain is harder to disrupt when we are aware of it

2013-10-29 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 30 October 2013 00:37, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: Physics is what happens in the natural world due to natural processes. That sentence should win some kind of prize for containing the most logical fallacies. I suppose you could say causes outside of the physical

Re: Neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain

2013-10-29 Thread meekerdb
On 10/29/2013 4:02 PM, LizR wrote: On 30 October 2013 07:53, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/29/2013 9:27 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Depressingly, until the middle of the XX century there was no general consensus that all human beings are

Re: Neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain

2013-10-29 Thread LizR
On 30 October 2013 14:22, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/29/2013 4:02 PM, LizR wrote: On 30 October 2013 07:53, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/29/2013 9:27 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Depressingly, until the middle of the XX century there was no general consensus

Re: Neural activity in the brain is harder to disrupt when we are aware of it

2013-10-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 8:40:52 PM UTC-4, Liz R wrote: On 30 October 2013 13:24, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 6:52:12 PM UTC-4, Liz R wrote: On 30 October 2013 07:15, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: Matter is concrete

Re: Neural activity in the brain is harder to disrupt when we are aware of it

2013-10-29 Thread LizR
On 30 October 2013 14:26, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 8:40:52 PM UTC-4, Liz R wrote: On 30 October 2013 13:24, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 6:52:12 PM UTC-4, Liz R wrote: On 30 October 2013 07:15, Craig

Re: Neural activity in the brain is harder to disrupt when we are aware of it

2013-10-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 9:08:53 PM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: On 30 October 2013 00:37, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Physics is what happens in the natural world due to natural processes. That sentence should win some kind of prize for containing

Re: Neural activity in the brain is harder to disrupt when we are aware of it

2013-10-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 9:29:21 PM UTC-4, Liz R wrote: On 30 October 2013 14:26, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 8:40:52 PM UTC-4, Liz R wrote: On 30 October 2013 13:24, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, October

Re: Neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain

2013-10-29 Thread meekerdb
On 10/29/2013 4:17 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: But this is how I see the concept of Übermensch. The idea got horribly distorted by subsequent political events. The ideal of Übermensch is a human that transcends the illusion and becomes aware of it's true (1p) nature. I also see it as close to

Re: Neural activity in the brain is harder to disrupt when we are aware of it

2013-10-29 Thread meekerdb
On 10/29/2013 5:40 PM, LizR wrote: On 30 October 2013 13:24, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com mailto:whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 6:52:12 PM UTC-4, Liz R wrote: On 30 October 2013 07:15, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Neural activity in the brain is harder to disrupt when we are aware of it

2013-10-29 Thread John Mikes
Bruno, Craig and Learned discussion partners: it is hard even to read-in into the endless back-and-forth you exude. At least for me - pretending that I still retain may subjectivity (don't misunderstand: I deny anything 'objective' if not adjusted by our own sub). We are not capable of even

RE: Step 3

2013-10-29 Thread chris peck
Hi Jason (again) in your response to Brent: Personally I believe no theory that aims to attach persons to one psychological or physiological continuity can be successful. ok, but in Bruno's step 3 it is taken as axiomatic that you survive in both branches because there is a continuity of

RE: Douglas Hofstadter Article

2013-10-29 Thread Chris de Morsella
-Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Telmo Menezes Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 2:32 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Douglas Hofstadter Article On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Chris de

Re: Neural activity in the brain is harder to disrupt when we are aware of it

2013-10-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 9:57:29 PM UTC-4, Brent wrote: On 10/29/2013 5:40 PM, LizR wrote: On 30 October 2013 13:24, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 6:52:12 PM UTC-4, Liz R wrote: On 30 October 2013 07:15, Craig Weinberg

Re: Neural activity in the brain is harder to disrupt when we are aware of it

2013-10-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:17:40 PM UTC-4, JohnM wrote: Bruno, Craig and Learned discussion partners: it is hard even to read-in into the endless back-and-forth you exude. At least for me - pretending that I still retain may subjectivity (don't misunderstand: I deny anything

If human beings are nothing more than matter, why are you conscious as yourself?

2013-10-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
A Quora answer to the following question. Nothing new for me here probably, but It's maybe organized in a more concise way. Philosophy: If human beings are nothing more than matter, why are you conscious as

Re: Step 3

2013-10-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:12 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: I suggested doing this on FOAR (I used HAL from 2001). It simply makes it easier to visualise if you forget about biological creatures. Assuming comp, an AI is exactly equivalent to a human person, so anything you can do to an AI