Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-19 Thread ghibbsa
On Thursday, June 19, 2014 2:31:26 AM UTC+1, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, June 19, 2014 1:55:18 AM UTC+1, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 7:19:20 PM UTC+1, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 6:03:48 PM UTC+1, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: it

Re: Solar power's bright future

2014-06-19 Thread LizR
Here's another breakthrough on the horizon - in Scotland (of all places to be using solar power! :) http://www.sciencescotland.org/feature.php?id=69 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-19 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 7:31 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: most people can't juggle 5 balls. A few people can, but nobody thinks they are creative because of it. I think you'd have to admit that all

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-19 Thread jross
Thanks for the advice. However, I don't think you should feel sorry for me for believing that I am right and everybody else is wrong. I have a feeling that even you would admit that there is a possibility, however unlikely, that i could be correct and Einstein (and all of those who believe him)

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-19 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: you could define creativity as the ability to generate interesting things. OK. I was trying to avoid interesting to not get into a circular definition. There is no circularity. Although there are several

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-19 Thread Terren Suydam
As someone who can juggle 5 balls, I would say there really is very little, if any, creativity involved. It's purely training of muscle memory over hundreds/thousands of repetitions. I'm not even sure how creativity would enter the equation... I suppose you could be creative about how you train

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: You mean that you made many attempts to find a blunder, but we were more than three to show you that in each case, you were confusing 1-views and 3-views. That was your one and only retort in our debate, no explanation

Re: Context effects reveal quantum probabilities in surveys

2014-06-19 Thread meekerdb
On 6/18/2014 11:28 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 17 Jun 2014, at 19:03, meekerdb wrote: Quantum effects in belief. Can comp explain this? I have not the time look at that definition of belief, but actually (this is not a confession, I have already explain this, but probably not so lately) a

Re: Solar power's bright future [ may be brighter thanks to us aping the quantum trickery of certain algae (cryptophytes specifically)]

2014-06-19 Thread meekerdb
On 6/18/2014 3:15 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: But it does illustrate the way evolution can get stuck in a local optima. And also further evidence that any purported Creator must be completely incompetent. Evolution always must begin with a preexisting platform -- so to

Re: Disproving physicalism from COMP

2014-06-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Jun 2014, at 05:53, Russell Standish wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 06:54:25PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 17 Jun 2014, at 10:42, Russell Standish wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:27:02AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Jun 2014, at 00:57, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun,

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-06-19 19:25 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: You mean that you made many attempts to find a blunder, but we were more than three to show you that in each case, you were confusing 1-views and 3-views.

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-19 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
I'm ok nowadays with creativity, beauty, aesthetics as undefinable pointer to transcendental properties better not named or scrutinized, but inhabited, lived and interpreted by various entities. Difficulty, novelty, interest, as with any list, or the various definitions laid down by history, seem

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: That machine does not know in advance its future state, and that is what I meant. So a Turing Machine has free will. Not all turing machine, you need one which can guess that she does not know. There is nothing

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 7:50 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: If after saying whats wrong with Bruno's vacuous proof over and over and over and over and over and over again for 3 years and you still ask what is it then what would be the point of me repeating it yet again? If you've said

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-19 Thread jross
My point is that time passes at the same rate everywhere in our Universe, no matter where you are or how fast you are traveling. For example, if we knew exactly when the Big Bang occurred, the time since the Big Bang should be the same everywhere. John R On 19 June 2014 02:47, John Clark

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:25 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: That machine does not know in advance its future state, and that is what I meant. So a Turing Machine has free will. Not all turing machine,

Re: O-machines

2014-06-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Jun 2014, at 07:23, meekerdb wrote: Bruno, I wonder if you're aware of this critique of Maudlin's Olympia argument, which of course also applies to the MGA? http://www.colinklein.org/papers/OlympiaOMachines.pdf Hmm. I should read that at ease, and not after ten hours of oral

Re: O-machines

2014-06-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Jun 2014, at 08:37, Quentin Anciaux wrote: It seems to me Olympia is a simple table lookup for the input, the argument he uses to place it in the oracle camp seems invalid to me, he posits that he is able to construct a lookup table that contains the result of the halting problem...

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: you accept 1/3 distinction in MWI Forget MWI, EVERYBODY who is not in a padded cell accepts the 1/3 distinction. please do not come again with the I could meet my doppelganger crap. In MWI the laws of physics

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-06-19 21:10 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: you accept 1/3 distinction in MWI Forget MWI, EVERYBODY who is not in a padded cell accepts the 1/3 distinction. please do not come again with

Re: Solar power's bright future

2014-06-19 Thread John Mikes
Beautiful...and this is still not the last word John M On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 4:22 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Here's another breakthrough on the horizon - in Scotland (of all places to be using solar power! :) http://www.sciencescotland.org/feature.php?id=69 -- You received

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: No the I before measuring the spin, is as clear as the I pushing the button, no confusion... When I ask that I what is the probability he'll see spin up *UNDER MWI WHERE YOU'LL BE DUPLICATED DOING SUCH EXPERIMENT*,

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-06-19 21:55 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: No the I before measuring the spin, is as clear as the I pushing the button, no confusion... When I ask that I what is the probability he'll see spin up

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-06-19 22:52 GMT+02:00 Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com: 2014-06-19 21:55 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: No the I before measuring the spin, is as clear as the I pushing the button, no

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-19 Thread LizR
On 19 June 2014 14:34, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 11:54:17 PM UTC+1, Liz R wrote: On 19 June 2014 02:01, jr...@trexenterprises.com wrote: My point is that the logic behind Einstein's special and general relativity theories is faulty. In what way is it faulty? SR

Re: Disproving physicalism from COMP

2014-06-19 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 07:53:55PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: And why do you say that anybody (whether zombie or not) can *prove* the existence of primitive matter? We don't know that for a fact. I played the devil advocate. I put my foot in Peter Jones' food, and imagine he could

Re: Solar power's bright future [ may be brighter thanks to us aping the quantum trickery of certain algae (cryptophytes specifically)]

2014-06-19 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
Perhaps because the two mechanisms function quite differently and apparently evolved independently. But I also sometimes wonder why in the many hundreds of millions of years of time that no species has found a way to utilize the missing chunk of spectrum. A perfect plant would have jet black

Re: Solar power's bright future [ may be brighter thanks to us aping the quantum trickery of certain algae (cryptophytes specifically)]

2014-06-19 Thread LizR
I have long thought that plants should be black, too, for this reason. Anyone know why not? On 20 June 2014 11:40, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Perhaps because the two mechanisms function quite differently and apparently evolved

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread LizR
On 20 June 2014 06:32, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 7:50 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: If after saying whats wrong with Bruno's vacuous proof over and over and over and over and over and over again for 3 years and you still ask what is it then what

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread LizR
On 20 June 2014 07:10, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: you accept 1/3 distinction in MWI Forget MWI, EVERYBODY who is not in a padded cell accepts the 1/3 distinction. OK, so there isn't any real problem

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-19 Thread LizR
On 20 June 2014 06:48, jr...@trexenterprises.com wrote: My point is that time passes at the same rate everywhere in our Universe, no matter where you are or how fast you are traveling. For example, if we knew exactly when the Big Bang occurred, the time since the Big Bang should be the same

Re: Solar power's bright future

2014-06-19 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
Just saw this: When Elon Musk dreams... he certainly dreams big... and he has a track record of making his seemingly wild ideas come true...  SpaceX and Tesla  Musk announces plans to build ‘one of the single largest solar panel production plants in the world’ and send people to Mars in ten

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-19 Thread LizR
On 20 June 2014 04:42, jr...@trexenterprises.com wrote: Thanks for the advice. However, I don't think you should feel sorry for me for believing that I am right and everybody else is wrong. I have a feeling that even you would admit that there is a possibility, however unlikely, that i

Re: Solar power's bright future

2014-06-19 Thread LizR
Wow. I hope he has plans to protect those Marsnauts from cosmic rays. On 20 June 2014 13:56, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Just saw this: When Elon Musk dreams... he certainly dreams big... and he has a track record of making his seemingly

RE: Solar power's bright future

2014-06-19 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 7:09 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Solar power's bright future Wow. I hope he has plans to protect those Marsnauts from cosmic rays.

Re: Disproving physicalism from COMP

2014-06-19 Thread meekerdb
On 6/19/2014 10:53 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Why is that a contradiction? In fact there are two contradictions. I explain the contradiction which is relate to about. 'To prove A', classically, is equivalent to showing that ~A leads to a contradiction, that is ~A is inconsistent. This

Re: Solar power's bright future

2014-06-19 Thread LizR
On 20 June 2014 14:24, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *LizR *Sent:* Thursday, June 19, 2014 7:09 PM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com

RE: Solar power's bright future

2014-06-19 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 9:20 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Solar power's bright future On 20 June 2014 14:24, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List