Re: [SPAM]Re: Economic inequality

2015-04-01 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I don´t believe in anything that SCIAM says except in hard sciences. And event in that I have my doubts These kind of publications lost their credibility time ago. Well, and many pseudoscience departments in the universities. They are nothing but propaganda organs driven by power and money Well

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-04-01 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 2:09 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: As mentioned in another thread, the media have (as it were) blown the Islamic threat up out of all proportion. Climate change is a FAR greater threat to civilisation than ISIS will ever be. That is true. It is also true that ISIS

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 08:37:36AM +0200, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 05:17:00AM +0200, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 3:02 AM, Russell Standish

Re: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close!

2015-04-01 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:40 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: I hope that isn't an April Fool! Well, this isn't rocket science... In 2013, it was more likely Americans would be killed by a toddler than a terrorist. In that year, three Americans were killed in the Boston Marathon bombing,

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Bruce Kellett
Bruno Marchal wrote: If just one physical law cannot be deduced from them, it means that computationalism is false, and that consciousness requires something else (God, primitive actual matter, or something that we just not yet conceive). I would like to see just one non-trivial physical

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Apr 2015, at 02:05, LizR wrote: On 1 April 2015 at 03:58, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 30 Mar 2015, at 02:57, LizR wrote: On 29 March 2015 at 21:04, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote: As you see, I believe in physicalism, not in Platonia. And I have not

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 31 Mar 2015, at 17:48, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Wednesday, April 1, 2015, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 30 Mar 2015, at 22:28, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Tuesday, March 31, 2015, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 30 Mar 2015, at 10:06, LizR wrote: On 30

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Apr 2015, at 02:35, Bruce Kellett wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: On 31 Mar 2015, at 07:42, Bruce Kellett wrote: In a phrase I have used before, It did not spring forth fully armed, like Athena from Zeus's brow. Numbers were a hard-won abstraction from everyday physical reality. They do

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-04-01 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Sure, Chris. But there comes a time to wake up and smell the coffee. Your psychoanalysis is flattering but irrelevant in a world of rifles and car bombs. You don't agree with what I have said, but what about the behavior of your middle eastern compadres? Speak to what the Uma says (to each

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread LizR
On 1 April 2015 at 22:18, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 01 Apr 2015, at 02:05, LizR wrote: Well, no, there is no TOE that describes all features of the physical universe yet. But if comp is true, there is. If comp is true, the theory with the axioms Kxy = x + Sxyz = xy(zy),

Re: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close!

2015-04-01 Thread Alberto G. Corona
And, by the way, all the Cuban sponsored terrorism is an itellectual product of the aggresive secularistic fanaticism incubated in the western universities, with a marxist of post-marxist background (it is the same). This is the fanaticism from which bot of you are victims. There is also a great

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Apr 2015, at 03:02, Russell Standish wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 07:28:51AM +0100, Quentin Anciaux wrote: The ab asurdo is showing computationalism is incompatible with physical supervenience, not that it is true. In the end by being forced to accept consciousness must supervene

Re: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close!

2015-04-01 Thread Alberto G. Corona
All these movements are in the orbit of Cuba and Venezuela as well as with ties with islamism. The basque terrorists in the 70s trained together with the Palestinian terrorists LPO (in the valley of the Becca) and with argelian communists. Please be informed. In the other side nobody says that

Re: Geenralised game playing

2015-04-01 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi Liz, Yes, this is quite exciting, more so than Watson or Deep Blue because it tries to be more generic. The latest wave of excitement seems to come from Google's Deep Mind. Here's a paper about it, with some videos you can see even without paying:

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2015-04-01 9:46 GMT+02:00 Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au: On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 08:37:36AM +0200, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 05:17:00AM +0200, Platonist Guitar Cowboy

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Apr 2015, at 12:40, Bruce Kellett wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: If just one physical law cannot be deduced from them, it means that computationalism is false, and that consciousness requires something else (God, primitive actual matter, or something that we just not yet conceive).

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 05:17:00AM +0200, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 3:02 AM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: I have always disagreed with this. The movie+broken

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-04-01 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-03-31 12:11 GMT+02:00 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com: On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-03-31 10:37 GMT+02:00 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com: On

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Apr 2015, at 04:25, meekerdb wrote: On 3/31/2015 6:58 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: On 31 Mar 2015, at 07:17, Bruce Kellett wrote: So I would reject the computationalist program right at the start -- I would not say Yes, doctor to that sort of AI program. Nor do

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Apr 2015, at 03:58, Bruce Kellett wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: On 31 Mar 2015, at 07:17, Bruce Kellett wrote: So I would reject the computationalist program right at the start -- I would not say Yes, doctor to that sort of AI program. Nor do I. That is why I say that my definition

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-04-01 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
As the bedouins say, The dogs bark but the caravan moves on. Meh! -Original Message- From: 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Mar 31, 2015 3:25 pm Subject: Re: Life in the Islamic State

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Bruce Kellett
Bruno Marchal wrote: On 01 Apr 2015, at 02:35, Bruce Kellett wrote: I don't think that your arguments that consciousness cannot be understood in terms of physical supervenience are very convincing. At all the crucial points you simply appeal to the computationalist hypothesis -- your

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Apr 2015, at 09:46, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 08:37:36AM +0200, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 05:17:00AM +0200, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Wed, Apr

RE: [SPAM]Re: [SPAM]Re: Economic inequality

2015-04-01 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alberto G. Corona Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 12:24 AM To: everything-list Subject: [SPAM]Re: [SPAM]Re: Economic inequality I don´t believe in anything that SCIAM says except in hard

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 31 Mar 2015, at 04:28, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:32 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: step zero is when you either do or don't agree that, if a doctor replaced your brain with an electronic version that exactly duplicated the computations (hypothetically)

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 30 Mar 2015, at 19:02, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: That true. in the MWI we don't say that, but even if we did the statement would not be gibberish it would just turn out to be wrong. But in the copying machine world I will see

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 31 Mar 2015, at 04:20, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: You talk like if there was an insuperable difficulty brought by the duplication. Engineering difficulties only, scientific breakthroughs would not be required to make a matter

Re: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close!

2015-04-01 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
We have here a case of selective memory. Brevik was indeed a Nazi (no surprise there) but you do notice that all his victims were Norwegian socialists? His motive was revenge against his fellow countrymen, not Muslims living in Norway, which he could have easily attacked. It's impossible to

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-04-01 Thread LizR
On 1 April 2015 at 20:35, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: The way to fight terrorism is to not be afraid of it. Well, exactly. In practice the War on Terror has mainly been a convenient excuse for western governments to increase their powers substantially, so one wonders who they

Re: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close!

2015-04-01 Thread LizR
On 2 April 2015 at 13:12, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/1/2015 5:05 PM, LizR wrote: On 2 April 2015 at 13:02, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/1/2015 4:47 PM, LizR wrote: On 2 April 2015 at 11:41, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/1/2015 3:19 PM, LizR

Re: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close!

2015-04-01 Thread meekerdb
On 4/1/2015 5:48 PM, LizR wrote: By the way, Brent, your comment directly contradicts what the gun lovers always say - but anyone can get hold of one if they really want to! I'd say ...really want to! is a big loophole in that assertion. Unless - gasp - most people don't actually want to!

Re: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close!

2015-04-01 Thread LizR
On 2 April 2015 at 13:58, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/1/2015 5:48 PM, LizR wrote: By the way, Brent, your comment directly contradicts what the gun lovers always say - but anyone can get hold of one if they really want to! I'd say ...really want to! is a big loophole in that

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Bruce Kellett
Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 02:48:47AM +0200, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: I still don't see what MGA pumps intuitively and incorrectly, as you seem to assume that MGA is bad intuition pump, rather than good one that facilitates seeing something tricky. You've not shown

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Bruce Kellett
meekerdb wrote: On 4/1/2015 10:42 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 02:48:47AM +0200, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: I still don't see what MGA pumps intuitively and incorrectly, as you seem to assume that MGA is bad intuition pump, rather than good

Re: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close!

2015-04-01 Thread meekerdb
On 4/1/2015 4:47 PM, LizR wrote: On 2 April 2015 at 11:41, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/1/2015 3:19 PM, LizR wrote: So how does every other country in the world manage to have less guns per person than the USA? Magic? For

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-01 Thread LizR
On 31 March 2015 at 15:28, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:32 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: step zero is when you either do or don't agree that, if a doctor replaced your brain with an electronic version that exactly duplicated the computations

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 6:03 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/1/2015 8:34 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 02:48:47AM +0200, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: I still don't see what MGA pumps intuitively and incorrectly, as you seem to assume that MGA is bad

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Bruce Kellett
Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 12:29 AM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au mailto:li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 01:50:51PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: OK, but so you agree that MGA shows that if comp is true, matter is

Re: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close!

2015-04-01 Thread meekerdb
On 4/1/2015 8:30 PM, LizR wrote: On 2 April 2015 at 13:58, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/1/2015 5:48 PM, LizR wrote: By the way, Brent, your comment directly contradicts what the gun lovers always say - but anyone can get hold of

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread meekerdb
On 4/1/2015 10:42 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 02:48:47AM +0200, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: I still don't see what MGA pumps intuitively and incorrectly, as you seem to assume that MGA is bad intuition pump, rather than good one that facilitates

Re: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close!

2015-04-01 Thread meekerdb
On 4/1/2015 5:05 PM, LizR wrote: On 2 April 2015 at 13:02, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/1/2015 4:47 PM, LizR wrote: On 2 April 2015 at 11:41, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/1/2015 3:19 PM,

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Bruce Kellett
LizR wrote: Yes lots of people have said something like that (including me) but the time aspect is addressed in Bruno's argument. (Come to think of it you more or less addressed it yourself by commenting about block universes. A computation can run in a block universe, after all, in the

Re: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close!

2015-04-01 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 05:49:56PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: Sure there are obviously cultural and legal differences too. I was in Sydney on the day of the Port Arthur massacre. I gathered that, before that, personal ownership of guns in Australia was fairly common and not much regulated. It

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 02:48:47AM +0200, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: I still don't see what MGA pumps intuitively and incorrectly, as you seem to assume that MGA is bad intuition pump, rather than good one that facilitates seeing something tricky. You've not shown that consciousness

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 09:03:49PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: There must be something more to it than just complexity or even Turing universality. Bruno says human-like consciousness requires Lobianity. But I think that's asking for more than just awarenss; it's asking for self-awarness. If I

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread LizR
Yes lots of people have said something like that (including me) but the time aspect is addressed in Bruno's argument. (Come to think of it you more or less addressed it yourself by commenting about block universes. A computation can run in a block universe, after all, in the important sense -

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread meekerdb
On 4/1/2015 8:34 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 02:48:47AM +0200, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: I still don't see what MGA pumps intuitively and incorrectly, as you seem to assume that MGA is bad intuition pump, rather than good one that facilitates seeing something

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-04-01 Thread LizR
On 2 April 2015 at 06:17, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: In practice Communism was evil but in theory it was just stupid Almost as stupid as capitalism, which is currently delivering 99% of the world into slavery and destroying the planet at a rate of knots. In practice, Communism has

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-04-01 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: In practice Communism was evil but in theory it was just stupid Almost as stupid as capitalism, The defining characteristic of stupid is that stupid doesn't work, so regardless of what you may personally think of capitalism's ethics (and

Re: Lovely Einstein Quote

2015-04-01 Thread LizR
Ah yes, I thought he had Buddhist leanings. On 2 April 2015 at 13:31, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Bruce Kellett
Bruno Marchal wrote: On 01 Apr 2015, at 03:58, Bruce Kellett wrote: The digital simulation of brain functions is achieved on a physical computer after all, which is a physical object itself -- simulating (primitive) physical processes. Assuming a physical object, which I do not (nor do I

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-04-01 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 09:27:16AM -0400, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: Russell, This is because academics, worldwide, tend toward the left, and they tend to it like a religion, but its more an ideology. An ideology being a faith movement. In the US, the academics (nominally all

Lovely Einstein Quote

2015-04-01 Thread Jason Resch
A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal

Re: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close!

2015-04-01 Thread meekerdb
On 4/1/2015 5:36 PM, LizR wrote: On 2 April 2015 at 13:12, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/1/2015 5:05 PM, LizR wrote: On 2 April 2015 at 13:02, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/1/2015 4:47 PM,

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 04:12:05PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: meekerdb wrote: But data /*rate */can't be the right measure, since the same sequence of states measured against some other clock would be just as conscious. It must be complexity of brain processes as compared to some other

Re: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close!

2015-04-01 Thread LizR
On 2 April 2015 at 11:41, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/1/2015 3:19 PM, LizR wrote: So how does every other country in the world manage to have less guns per person than the USA? Magic? For one thing they're poorer. The number of households with a gun is far smaller than

Re: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close!

2015-04-01 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2015 4:40 PM Subject: Re: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close! In his long rambling manifesto he spoke -- much like you do in fact Mitch, of a

Re: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close!

2015-04-01 Thread LizR
On 2 April 2015 at 13:02, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/1/2015 4:47 PM, LizR wrote: On 2 April 2015 at 11:41, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/1/2015 3:19 PM, LizR wrote: So how does every other country in the world manage to have less guns per person than the

Re: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close!

2015-04-01 Thread LizR
By the way, Brent, your comment directly contradicts what the gun lovers always say - but anyone can get hold of one if they really want to! Unless - gasp - most people don't actually want to! (Or can't, but that does seem unlikely). I've never wanted one myself, nor have I known anyone who's

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 12:29 AM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 01:50:51PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: OK, but so you agree that MGA shows that if comp is true, matter is of no use, unless we admit that a complex experience like a human dream can

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread LizR
If the Chinese room is conscious (on the systems argument I think) that might just be another way of eliminating consciousness, something Dennett likes to do. I'm not sure if it is or not... On 2 April 2015 at 16:34, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at

RE: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close!

2015-04-01 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alberto G. Corona Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 1:53 AM To: everything-list Subject: Re: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close! All these movements are in the orbit of Cuba and

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Apr 2015, at 12:33, LizR wrote: On 1 April 2015 at 22:18, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 01 Apr 2015, at 02:05, LizR wrote: Well, no, there is no TOE that describes all features of the physical universe yet. But if comp is true, there is. If comp is true, the theory with

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-04-01 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: sometime its who you are silent about that is an indictment. Yes, and today I would say that moderate Muslims are guilty of that, assuming that such creatures actually exist and are not as mythical

RE: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-04-01 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 10:18 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Life in the Islamic State for women On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 spudboy100 via Everything List

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Wednesday, 1 April 2015, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','marc...@ulb.ac.be'); wrote: On 31 Mar 2015, at 17:48, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Wednesday, April 1, 2015, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 30 Mar 2015, at 22:28, Stathis Papaioannou

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Apr 2015, at 13:51, Bruce Kellett wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: On 01 Apr 2015, at 02:35, Bruce Kellett wrote: I don't think that your arguments that consciousness cannot be understood in terms of physical supervenience are very convincing. At all the crucial points you simply

Re: [SPAM]Re: Economic inequality

2015-04-01 Thread meekerdb
On 3/31/2015 10:56 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: *From:*everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *meekerdb *Sent:* Tuesday, March 31, 2015 9:26 PM *To:* EveryThing *Subject:* [SPAM]Re: Economic inequality The SciAm article

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-04-01 Thread John Mikes
And how many were massacred by the evil regime of Hirohito in China and the POW-camps (both genders)? (not to mention his war against the USA in the Pacific). The war in VietNam is an ignorance of our historians: Kennedy wanted to punish any 'commis' in general and ignorantly attacked the

Re: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close!

2015-04-01 Thread meekerdb
On 4/1/2015 12:50 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:40 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com mailto:lizj...@gmail.com wrote: I hope that isn't an April Fool! Well, this isn't rocket science... In 2013, it was more likely Americans would be killed by a toddler than a

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Wednesday, April 1, 2015, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 April 2015 at 22:18, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','marc...@ulb.ac.be'); wrote: On 01 Apr 2015, at 02:05, LizR wrote: Well, no, there is no TOE that describes all features of the physical

SETI breakthrough: Project Durin Succeeds!

2015-04-01 Thread meekerdb
This news has gotten remarkably little coverage. So for those who have not heard: Project Ozma failed. Project Durin succeeded. It turned out SETI (the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) was looking in the wrong direction all along. It was looking up when it should have been looking

Re: Fwd: Global Warming Hoax Confirmed

2015-04-01 Thread LizR
Yes, I think everyone should get their April fools in in good time, so us Australasians can appreciate them. Still, thank god we can stop worrying about climate change... On 2 April 2015 at 10:24, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Thank goodness someone still pulls April fools

Re: Fwd: Global Warming Hoax Confirmed

2015-04-01 Thread meekerdb
On 4/1/2015 2:24 PM, Russell Standish wrote: Thank goodness someone still pulls April fools jokes. Actually, this is the first one I've seen this year, and it is now the 2nd of April here in Sydney! Cheers That's what happens when you wait for the Americans to produce all your entertainment.

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-01 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: You talk like if there was an insuperable difficulty brought by the duplication. Engineering difficulties only, scientific breakthroughs would not be required to make a matter duplicating machine; however when such machines

Re: Fwd: Global Warming Hoax Confirmed

2015-04-01 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com Yes, I think everyone should get their April fools in in good time, so us Australasians can appreciate them.  Still, thank god we can stop worrying about climate change... I always suspected that the most honorable Senator Inhofe was really actually, a

Re: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close!

2015-04-01 Thread LizR
On 1 April 2015 at 20:50, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:40 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: I hope that isn't an April Fool! Well, this isn't rocket science... In 2013, it was more likely Americans would be killed by a toddler than a terrorist. In

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 01:50:51PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: OK, but so you agree that MGA shows that if comp is true, matter is of no use, unless we admit that a complex experience like a human dream can supervene on a very simple trivial activity. Then the MGA intuition pump seems to

Re: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close!

2015-04-01 Thread LizR
On 2 April 2015 at 08:45, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/1/2015 12:50 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:40 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: I hope that isn't an April Fool! Well, this isn't rocket science... In 2013, it was more likely Americans would be

Re: Fwd: Global Warming Hoax Confirmed

2015-04-01 Thread Russell Standish
Thank goodness someone still pulls April fools jokes. Actually, this is the first one I've seen this year, and it is now the 2nd of April here in Sydney! Cheers On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 01:38:07PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: Forwarded Message Remember all that stuff we told you

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread meekerdb
On 4/1/2015 12:30 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: I don't think it's impossible to prove comp true. If comp were not true then it would be possible to make partial zombies. I think that's the inference we're arguing. It's certainly not obvious to me. If partial zombies are possible then

Re: [SPAM]Re: Economic inequality

2015-04-01 Thread LizR
On 1 April 2015 at 20:23, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: I don´t believe in anything that SCIAM says except in hard sciences. And event in that I have my doubts These kind of publications lost their credibility time ago. Well, and many pseudoscience departments in the

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread meekerdb
On 4/1/2015 2:54 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Progress haev been made, until Aristotle metaphysics has been imposed through violence, for 1500 years, A lot more violence was motivated by the Platonic view that this world is an illusion and everyone's actions must be guided by their anticipated

Fwd: Global Warming Hoax Confirmed

2015-04-01 Thread meekerdb
Forwarded Message Remember all that stuff we told you about 97% of scientists agreeing that climate change was real? And all those sad polar bears hanging off of icebergs? And all the dire warnings about catastrophic sea-level rise? We just learned that none of it is true.

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-01 Thread meekerdb
On 4/1/2015 2:18 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Well, no, there is no TOE that describes all features of the physical universe yet. But if comp is true, there is. If comp is true, the theory with the axioms Kxy = x + Sxyz = xy(zy), or elementary arithmetic HAVE TO describe all feature of the

Re: Economic inequality

2015-04-01 Thread John Mikes
Liz, do not forget that the 'lower' flat ~10% means 1000 times the wealth of the average family, the lately surpassed ~20% *2000 times of the AVERAGE possession of US FAMILIES*. (Example: a specialty worker with ~$50.000 pay owns a house and chattel - say $60-70.000 total value and a retirement

Re: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close!

2015-04-01 Thread LizR
Even Svalbard appears to have less guns per head than the USA, and there you're actually legally obliged to carry one whenever you leave town! On 2 April 2015 at 11:19, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 April 2015 at 20:50, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at

RE: Fwd: Global Warming Hoax Confirmed

2015-04-01 Thread colin hales
Yeah.. For about hmm Dozens of microseconds ... you had me... On the 2nd! I experienced the qualia ... that frisson of misplaced credulousness that an old fart like me needs every now and then  Cheers Colin -Original Message- From: Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au Sent:

Re: Global Warming Hoax Confirmed

2015-04-01 Thread Alberto G. Corona
here comes the sun in the spring and here comes the warmist guys again 2015-04-01 22:38 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: Forwarded Message Remember all that stuff we told you about 97% of scientists agreeing that climate change was real? And all those sad polar

Re: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close!

2015-04-01 Thread meekerdb
On 4/1/2015 3:19 PM, LizR wrote: On 1 April 2015 at 20:50, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com mailto:te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:40 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com mailto:lizj...@gmail.com wrote: I hope that isn't an April Fool! Well, this

Re: Global Warming Hoax Confirmed

2015-04-01 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.comhere comes the sun in the spring and here comes the warmist guys again And here comes Alberto getting all hot under the collar again; even when people are just fooling around on the first day of April... imagine that! 2015-04-01 22:38 GMT+02:00

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-04-01 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Interesting point. What we are experiencing whether intentional of de facto, is the progressives siding with radical Muslims against their home nations. They make excuses for the radical islamists and in academia, try to bend opinion in the islamists favor. They would have been called Fifth