Absolute relativism

Hello, I found this group through the book *Theory of Nothing – *both a very pleasant discovery. I would like to submit to your potential curiosity this essay about Absolute relativism . It's part of a bigger work in progress whose conclusions are

Re: Can a Robot Have Free Will?

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 9:00 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: > ​> ​ > So where's you (non-snarky) answer? > That depends on what the question is. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe

Re: Can a Robot Have Free Will?

On 2/20/2018 9:31 AM, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:34 PM, Brent Meeker >wrote: ​> ​ It ​[free will] ​ means a decision process Like the internal mechanism of a ​ ​ cuckoo clock ​ ​ deciding to send it's

Re: INDEXICAL Computationalism

On 2/18/2018 10:21 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: If consciousness is invariant for a digital transplant, it is not much a matter of choice. But that's simply assuming what is to be argued.  The argument must be that the doctor has done this before (maybe to humans, maybe to mice) and there was

Re: Goedel incompleteness

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 2:47 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ​> >> ​>​ >> ​its OK for stuff like "All men are mortal-Socrates is a man-therefore >> Socrates is mortal", but its too weak for arithmetic or much else. > > > ​> ​ > That is ridiculous. Yes, first order logic as a theory

Re: Can a Robot Have Free Will?

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 3:12 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > ​> ​ > To be self-determined you need a representation of the self > That's is exactly how AlphaGo became the best GO player on this planet. When it was learning It was playing against itself, that is to so after it

Re: Goedel incompleteness

> On 19 Feb 2018, at 21:55, Brent Meeker wrote: > > Is there a non-constructive way to determine whether an axiomatic system > (axioms+inference rules) must be Goedel incomplete? Basically there are two ways to prove that a system is incomplete. Either by a direct

Re: Can a Robot Have Free Will?

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:34 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: ​> ​ > It > ​[free will] ​ > means a decision process > Like the internal mechanism of a ​ ​ cuckoo clock ​ ​ deciding to send it's little bird out every hour. But, I hear you say, the clock didn't make a decision.

Re: Goedel incompleteness

> On 20 Feb 2018, at 03:27, John Clark wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 7:41 PM, Brent Meeker > wrote: > > ​> ​There might be a lot of axiomatic systems that can't model arithmetic. > For one thing they need to be

Re: Can a Robot Have Free Will?

> On 20 Feb 2018, at 04:11, John Clark wrote: > > ​ ​Keith Douglas Farnsworth. Can a Robot Have Free Will? Entropy 19, no. 5 > (2017): 237. > > http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/5/237 > > > > ​> ​a precise, scientifically