Re: Fwd: Sokal-type hoax on two theological conferences

2012-09-30 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Hehe. Fine. However, the concrete abstract seems very promising for a theologian. It is clear that Boudry know the concepts that he manage. His abstract is a piece of cake, it is a I solved the Teologian problem of our time! . It is not pure gibberish. Remenber that the Sokal affair was around

Re: Fwd: Sokal-type hoax on two theological conferences

2012-09-30 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I don´t know if you know the postmodernist generator. It´s a program that generate postmodernist papers, Sokal style: Each time it is executed, a now paper is generated: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/ 2012/9/30 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com: Hehe. Fine. However, the concrete

Re: Pre-established harmony comp in relation to Platonia and Contingia

2012-09-30 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Thanks for the very interesting video. Concerning Platonia and Contingia, there are much to say if we introduce natural selection, the only well know creative process. The world of Platonia, in terms of natural selection, is the peak of the fitness landscape (FT). The FT is the point of

Re: Fwd: Sokal-type hoax on two theological conferences

2012-10-01 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Even if intentionally faked, for sure the article add to theology more than what Margaret Mead added to Anthropology for years, or what global warmists are adding to Meteorology ;) 2012/9/30 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 9/30/2012 4:31 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Hehe. Fine. However

Re: Evolution outshines reason by far

2012-10-01 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/9/30 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 9/30/2012 6:54 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Whoever said that does not know what he says: There are great differences between evolutionary designs and rational design, rational designs are, well, rational, but evolutionary designs are idiotic

Re: What Kant did: Consciousness is a top-down structuring of bottom-up sensory info

2012-10-07 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Hi Roger: ... and cognitive science , which study the hardware and evolutionary psychology (that study the software or mind) assert that this is true. The Kant idea that even space and time are creations of the mind is crucial for the understanding and to compatibilize the world of perceptions

Re: What Kant did: Consciousness is a top-down structuring of bottom-up sensory info

2012-10-07 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/10/7 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 07 Oct 2012, at 12:32, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Hi Roger: ... and cognitive science , which study the hardware and evolutionary psychology (that study the software or mind) assert that this is true. Partially true, as both the mainstream

Re: What Kant did: Consciousness is a top-down structuring of bottom-up sensory info

2012-10-07 Thread Alberto G. Corona
With by real computers made of ordinary matter. I mean that the computers are structures within the mathematical manifold that describe the physical reality (or the tip of the iceberg). 2012/10/7 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com 2012/10/7 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 07 Oct

Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-08 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Deutsch is right about the need to advance in Popperian epistemology, which ultimately is evolutionary epistemology. How evolution makes a portion of matter ascertain what is truth in virtue of what and for what purpose. The idea of intelligence need a knowledge of what is truth but also a motive

Re: What Kant did: Consciousness is a top-down structuring of bottom-up sensory info

2012-10-08 Thread Alberto G. Corona
the picture coherent. If that something is not computation or computations, what is the nature of this well behaving hallucination according with your point of view? 2012/10/7 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 07 Oct 2012, at 15:11, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2012/10/7 Bruno Marchal marc

Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-09 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/10/9 Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru: On 08.10.2012 20:45 Alberto G. Corona said the following: Deutsch is right about the need to advance in Popperian epistemology, which ultimately is evolutionary epistemology. You may want to read Three Worlds by Karl Popper. Then you see where

Re: I believe that comp's requirement is one of as if rather than is

2012-10-09 Thread Alberto G. Corona
to questions about existence, perception and so on. But still after this reasoning, I doubt that the self conscious philosopher robot have the kind of thing, call it a soul, that I have. 2012/10/9 Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net: Hi Alberto G. Corona and Bruno, Perhaps I can express the problem

Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-09 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I thin that natural selection is tautological (is selected what has fitness, fitness is what is selected) but at the same time is not empty and it is scientifc because it can be falsified. At the same time, if it is agreed that is the direct mechanism that design the minds then this is the

Re: I believe that comp's requirement is one of as if rather than is

2012-10-09 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 09 Oct 2012, at 13:29, Alberto G. Corona wrote: But still after this reasoning, I doubt that the self conscious philosopher robot have the kind of thing, call it a soul, that I have. ? You mean it is a zombie? I can't conceive consciousness without

Re: Re: On Beauty

2012-10-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
The perception of beauty in the body is the result of the evolutionary need to detect people with sucessful traits to meet or mate them. Male face masculine traits, designed for avoiding strokes of other men. http://ilevolucionista.blogspot.com.es/2008/06/evolutionary-design-of-human-face.html

Re: I believe that comp's requirement is one of as if rather than is

2012-10-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/10/10 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 09 Oct 2012, at 18:58, Alberto G. Corona wrote: It may be a zombie or not. I can´t know. The same applies to other persons. It may be that the world is made of zombie-actors that try to cheat me, but I have an harcoded belief

Re: Re: Conscious robots

2012-10-12 Thread Alberto G. Corona
life, consciousness, free will, intelligence I try to give a phsical definition of each one: Life: whathever that maintain its internal entropy in a non trivial way (A diamant is not alive). That is, to make use of hardwired and adquired information to maintain the internal entropy by making

Re: Re: Is consciousness just an emergent property of overly complexcomputations ?

2012-10-16 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Magic emergence from magic enough complexity has been advocated for almost anything. Most of the time as an excuse for not saying I don´t know, that is the prerequisite for thinking deeper about the problem. I prefer to say I don´t know. 2012/10/16 Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net Hi Stephen

Re: I believe that comp's requirement is one of as if rather than is

2012-10-16 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/10/10 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com 2012/10/10 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 09 Oct 2012, at 18:58, Alberto G. Corona wrote: It may be a zombie or not. I can´t know. The same applies to other persons. It may be that the world is made of zombie-actors that try

Re: I believe that comp's requirement is one of as if rather than is

2012-10-16 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/10/11 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 10 Oct 2012, at 20:13, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2012/10/10 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 09 Oct 2012, at 18:58, Alberto G. Corona wrote: It may be a zombie or not. I can´t know. The same applies to other persons. It may

Re: Is consciousness just an emergent property of overly complexcomputations ?

2012-10-16 Thread Alberto G. Corona
*is* involved when we consider issues such as reportablity of consciousness, but the property of having a subjective experience of being in the world itself can be strongly argued to flow at the most basic level that allows differences. On 10/16/2012 10:04 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: I argued

Re: I believe that comp's requirement is one of as if ratherthanis

2012-10-16 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I can be the result of a tautological causation: natural selection: what is reasonable? what at a certain level in tjhinking beings achieve survival.. what exist? what help to survive. What survives? what perdures. What perdures? waht reproduces. What reproduces? what is sucessfull. What is

Re: Is consciousness just an emergent property of overly complexcomputations ?

2012-10-17 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/10/17 Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net On 10/16/2012 10:14 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 8:42:16 PM UTC-4, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 10/16/2012 5:26 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 4:41:59 PM UTC-4, yanniru wrote: Sorry

Re: Is consciousness just an emergent property of overly complexcomputations ?

2012-10-17 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/10/17 Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net On 10/17/2012 4:12 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Life may support mathematics. Hi Alberto, OK, we can think of Life, in a very abstract sense, as the generator of variety and pattern, so that might work. This makes Life = God! Life

Re: A test for solipsism

2012-10-19 Thread Alberto G. Corona
A few discoveries of evolutionary psichology may help. According with EP the mind is composed of many functional modules, each one for a different purpose. many of them are specific of each specie. Each of these modules is the result of the computation of certain areas of the brain. A functional

Re: A test for solipsism

2012-10-19 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/10/19 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 19 Oct 2012, at 12:26, Alberto G. Corona wrote: A few discoveries of evolutionary psichology may help. According with EP the mind is composed of many functional modules, each one for a different purpose. many of them are specific of each specie

Re: Re: A test for solipsism

2012-10-20 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Roger Different Qualia are a result fo different phisical effect in the senses. So a machine does not need to have qualia to distinguish between phisical effectds. It only need sensors that distinguish between them. A sensor can detect a red light and the attached computer can stop a car. With no

Re: Measurability is not a condition of reality.

2012-10-20 Thread Alberto G. Corona
on believing in these nor measurable things, because if they doint believe, they would be paralized and will kill someone or kill themselves. 2012/10/20 Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net Hi Alberto G. Corona I have no problem with that, the problem I have is that I believe that nonphysical things

Re: Code length = probability distribution

2012-10-20 Thread Alberto G. Corona
This is not a consequence of the shannon optimum coding , in which the coding size of a symbol is inversely proportional to the logaritm of the frequency of the symbol?. What is exactly the comp measure problem? 2012/10/19 Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net Hi, I was looking up a

Re: Code length = probability distribution

2012-10-21 Thread Alberto G. Corona
of the phisical laws, or, in other words, their low kolmogorov complexity, that solomonov translates in his theory of inductive inference. 2012/10/21 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com Ok I don´t remember the reason why Solomonof reduces the probability of the programs according with the length

Re: Code length = probability distribution

2012-10-22 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/10/22 Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 11:38:46PM -0400, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi Rusell, How does Schmidhuber consider the physicality of resources? -- Onward! Stephen No. The concept doesn't enter consideration. What he considers is

Re: Code length = probability distribution

2012-10-22 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/10/22 Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 10:03:48PM +0200, Alberto G. Corona wrote: This does not implies a reality created by an UD algorithm. It may be a mathematical universe, that is a superset of the computable universes. The measure problem

Re: A test for solipsism

2012-10-22 Thread Alberto G. Corona
C3PO would be a phylosophical zombie. It would not? 2012/10/22 Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net On 10/22/2012 3:12 AM, Roger Clough wrote: SNIP Hi Bruno and Roger, What would distinguish, for an external observer, a p-zombie from a person that does not see the world external

Re: Code length = probability distribution

2012-10-22 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/10/22 Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net On 10/22/2012 2:38 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2012/10/22 Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 11:38:46PM -0400, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi Rusell, How does Schmidhuber consider the physicality

Re: Predictive physiological anticipation preceding seemingly unpredictable stimuli: a meta-analysis

2012-10-24 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/10/24 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 24 Oct 2012, at 14:31, Stephen P. King wrote: http://www.frontiersin.org/**Perception_Science/10.3389/** fpsyg.2012.00390/abstracthttp://www.frontiersin.org/Perception_Science/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00390/abstract Comments? If verified it

Re: Predictive physiological anticipation preceding seemingly unpredictable stimuli: a meta-analysis

2012-10-24 Thread Alberto G. Corona
it unconsciously. Most of the time even we are not conscious of how much information we gather. 2012/10/24 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com 2012/10/24 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 24 Oct 2012, at 14:31, Stephen P. King wrote: http://www.frontiersin.org/**Perception_Science/10.3389

Re: Dennett and others on qualia

2012-10-25 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I agree. is there something that can be perceived that is not qualia? It´s less qualia the shape and location of a circle in ha sheet of paper than its color?.The fact that the position and radius of the circle can be measured and communicated does not change the fact that they produce a

Re: Predictive physiological anticipation preceding seemingly unpredictable stimuli: a meta-analysis

2012-10-25 Thread Alberto G. Corona
inference possible. To anticipate that a policeman knoking on the door will tell us bad news is not adivination, for example. 2012/10/25 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 24 Oct 2012, at 19:31, Alberto G. Corona wrote: I dont believe that such genuine anticipation is possible, for a simple

Re: Weyl on mathematics vs. reality

2012-11-03 Thread Alberto G. Corona
: Is there something that I could know to be the case, and which is not expressed by a proposition that could be part of some scientific theory? Yes . I love my mother is some knowledge that I know , and is not part of a scientific theory. We know reality because we live in the reality, We do

Re: WHY FREE WILL IS A BOGUS ISSUE

2012-11-06 Thread Alberto G. Corona
ending waves of totalitarianisms within Modernity. 2012/11/6 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com Roger: That´s right The modern notion of free will is a nominalist https://www.google.es/search?q=nominalism+oq=nominalism+sugexp=chrome,mod=0sourceid=chromeie=UTF-8one. It redefine free

Evolutionary logic Re: Some musings on is/ought and modal logic

2012-11-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I always emphasize that there is a evolutionary logic, which unlike any other logic, is tautological, that is assume no axioms beyond natural selection (which is tautological per se) I will define here this logic as clear as I can. Therefore evolutionary logic a good foundation for an absolute

Re: Evolutionary logic Re: Some musings on is/ought and modal logic

2012-11-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Better written: 2012/11/10 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com I always emphasize that there is a evolutionary logic, which unlike any other logic, is tautological, that is assume no axioms beyond natural selection (which is tautological per se) I will define here this logic as clear

Re: Evolutionary logic Re: Some musings on is/ought and modal logic

2012-11-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
of the internally accumulated evolutionary knowledge. 2012/11/10 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com Better written: 2012/11/10 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com I always emphasize that there is a evolutionary logic, which unlike any other logic, is tautological, that is assume no axioms

Re: Evolutionary logic Re: Some musings on is/ought and modal logic

2012-11-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
It is not relativist post modernist, it is just the opposite it is the discovery of an absolute universal truth starting from nothing, or if you like, from the most absolute relativism.. 2012/11/11 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com If All the rest is vaguely interesting for you

Re: Evolutionary logic Re: Some musings on is/ought and modal logic

2012-11-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
. It is what Konrad Lorenz suggested when he said that the Kantian a prioris of the human mind , the intuitive logical, existential and moral knowledge of the mind was harwired by evolution. 2012/11/10 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com Sorry, I added some thing particularly: That 1+1=3 is false

Re: Evolutionary logic Re: Some musings on is/ought and modal logic

2012-11-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
On 11/10/2012 3:38 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: It is not relativist post modernist, it is just the opposite That Lamarckism would be true if society held it to be true? If that's not relativist post modernism, I don't know what is. Brent it is the discovery of an absolute universal

Re: Evolutionary logic Re: Some musings on is/ought and modal logic

2012-11-20 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/11/11 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 11 Nov 2012, at 01:29, Alberto G. Corona wrote: It is an observable fact. is obviously true that if you live in a society where everyone take something as true , no matter what, then it is true for one of its members, you, for example

Re: Evolutionary logic Re: Some musings on is/ought and modal logic

2012-11-20 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/11/20 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 20 Nov 2012, at 16:02, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2012/11/11 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 11 Nov 2012, at 01:29, Alberto G. Corona wrote: It is an observable fact. is obviously true that if you live in a society where everyone take

Re: Moral evaluations of harm are instant and emotional, brain study shows

2012-11-30 Thread Alberto G. Corona
This speed in the evaluation is a consequence of evolutionary pressures: A teleological agent that is executing a violent plan against us is much more dangerous than a casual accident. because the first will continue harming us, so a fast reaction against further damage is necessary, while in the

Re: The two wrong paths of modern cognitive science

2012-12-08 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/12/8 Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net On 12/7/2012 6:01 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Fantastic links, specially the latter. I´ll read it. This is my standpoint now: First is necessary to define existence. My standpoint is that what exists is what the mind assumes that exist

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

Re: Moral evaluations of harm are instant and emotional, brain study shows

2012-12-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Yes, I sent a search link for you to know the opinions about it. in EP this your example does not offer a clear hypothesis. But there are others that are evident. It depends on the context. for example , woman have more accurate facial recognition habilities, but men perceive faster than women

Re: How mathematical truth might enter our universe

2012-12-12 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Hi Friends. Im my opinion, mathematical truth becomes a result of the antrophic principle if we accept that life is a process of algorithmical discovery of a description of the reality where the body is, so that this description can be incorporated and used for survival. This discovery demand

Re: Moral evaluations of harm are instant and emotional, brain study shows

2012-12-13 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Dear Craig, You have much to learn about evolution. there have been a lot of developments since Darwin. You adhere to a caricature that is outdated. Almost everything can drive to totalitarianism, The idea that nothing is innate drives to totalitarian social engineering. the idea that men are

Re: Moral evaluations of harm are instant and emotional, brain study shows

2012-12-13 Thread Alberto G. Corona
You said it: in part because it (evolution) carried a sense of progress not found in Darwin's idea Evolution is descriptive, is the fact. natural selection is the theory that explain it. A scientific theory impose constraints with what may and may not happen. For example, child caring and

Re: Re: Moral evaluations of harm are instant and emotional,brain study shows

2012-12-14 Thread Alberto G. Corona
, December 13, 2012 10:43:59 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: Hi Alberto G. Corona It's much simpler than that, I think. Progressives hate everything resembles anything held to be good, beautiful, or true. Then your thoughts are simple-minded indeed. Gandhi, MLK, Einstein were haters of goodness

Re: Re: Moral evaluations of harm are instant and emotional,brain study shows

2012-12-14 Thread Alberto G. Corona
10:43:59 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: Hi Alberto G. Corona It's much simpler than that, I think. Progressives hate everything resembles anything held to be good, beautiful, or true. Then your thoughts are simple-minded indeed. Gandhi, MLK, Einstein were haters of goodness, beauty, and truth

Question: Robotic truth

2012-12-18 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Suppose that you are in charge of the software of a social robot. I mean a robot that live with other robots that collaborate to solve problems. These robots must repair themselves, with pieces that are located in the field. these pieces are scarce or they are not for free, and some groups of

Re: Question: Robotic truth

2012-12-18 Thread Alberto G. Corona
with truths about other robots or groups of robots. 2012/12/18 Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net Hi Alberto G. Corona I'd rather just take a poll. I feel more comfortable with data. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] rclo...@verizon.net] 12/18/2012 Forever is a long time, especially

Re: Question: Robotic truth

2012-12-18 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/12/18 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com It just want te people to argue about what must be true for these robots. I suppose that the truth about fabrication of pieces are know and accepted by all, so the only remaining things to communicate and hold as trur are the ones related

Re: Question: Robotic truth

2012-12-18 Thread Alberto G. Corona
is survival, not accuracy. 2012/12/18 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 12/18/2012 8:05 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Suppose that you are in charge of the software of a social robot. I mean a robot that live with other robots that collaborate to solve problems. These robots must repair themselves

From nominalism to Scientifc Materialism Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-06 Thread Alberto G. Corona
A greath truth. Every human knowledge has also social consequiences. When I say A. I don´t only say A is true. I say also that because A is true and you must accept it because a set of my socially reputated fellows of me did something to affirm it, you must believe it, and, more important, I

Re: Question: Robotic truth

2013-01-06 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Your robot do not have time to know the true truth. He would not speculate on the nature of his programmer, or why he is here. At least until the problems of survival are solved by means of a stable collaboration. Even so, he never could have the opportunity to know the programmer. He don´t know

Re: Question: Robotic truth

2013-01-06 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I read some workd of Gintis,. but the experimental game theorists give up when things get complicated. The dynamic of groups stability and cooperation and their mechanisms is an field which has not even started. They do not study the vital role of public cult and rites, for example that are

Re: Question: Robotic truth

2013-01-06 Thread Alberto G. Corona
in our knowledge and the flawed nature of our communications have moral, epistemological and in general philosophical implications. 2013/1/6 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 1/6/2013 12:42 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: I read some workd of Gintis,. but the experimental game theorists give up

Re: Question: Robotic truth

2013-01-07 Thread Alberto G. Corona
between the mind and the anthropicallly selected mathematical reality 2013/1/6 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com The expression Socila construction of reality is an expression that hold any kind or relativism. This is nor that. This is a algorithmical study founded in game theory

Re: Re: Is Sheldrake credible ? I personally think so.

2013-01-07 Thread Alberto G. Corona
it is perfectly possible to accept natural selection with all the implication in genetics without being a materialist. The materialism is a superfluous ideological substrate. Sheldrake is right about this critic of materialism. I´m not materialist, and I accept Natural selection. Materialism is

Re: Question: Robotic truth

2013-01-08 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2013/1/8 Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com At the most basic level reality is a discrete digital particle arithmetic with no need for further calculations in a block universe. Then it is indistinguishable from a contiuous or discrete mathematical manifold of some kind. This manifold is

Re: Atheists are those that refuse to worship the false gods they invent.

2013-01-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
It would say that they worship, and worship very hard. But his worship does adopt different forms. All of them primitive, since their impulses are not moderated by an assumption of tradition, so they lack the knowledge of best practices due to previous failures. It is necessary to take into

Re: Atheists are those that refuse to worship the false gods they invent.

2013-01-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I meant: That´s why PROTECTION FROM bloody offenses demand blood as sacrifice 2013/1/10 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com That´s why bloody offenses demand blood as sacrifice -- Alberto. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List

Re: Quantum Suicide and World War 3

2013-01-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Perhaps we must worship Everett. Maybe he is with Einstein in a superdimensional throne of quarks. Aleluya. 2013/1/10 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com Perhaps the Quantum Suicide experiment has already been performed and on a global scale. After Hugh Everett developed the many Worlds

Re: Re: HOW YOU CAN BECOME A LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN IN JUST 4 STEPS.

2013-01-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Space and time may be only on the mind in the Kantian sense. I don´t find that space must be independent of the mind. space and time may be the way we perceive a space-time manifold which is pure mathematic and nothing else. Maybe we can see space out there and we can think on geometry in a

Re: Whoever invented the word God invented atheism.

2013-01-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Dear Bruno: - As I tried to show in robotic Truth, religion is a neccesity for the operation of social beings. For all machines, actually. Even when isolated. the robotic truth can be approached by introspection when the machine complexity is above the Löbian threshold. That´s absolutely

Re: Math- Computation- Mind - Geometry - Space - Matter

2013-01-13 Thread Alberto G. Corona
consciousness is the selector of existence. n your case, I think that consciousness would cause-back Arithmetic and computation:* Math- Computation- Mind - Geometry - Space - Matter 2013/1/13 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 12 Jan 2013, at 13:48, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Space and time may

Re: Re: Re: The unpredictability of solar energy

2013-01-14 Thread Alberto G. Corona
THe problem with solar energy is that it is strongly subsidized. Instead of you being stolen by monopolistic energy companies, you can steal the taxpayer thank to state planning. Most solar panels are installed because they receive subsidies by KW. As a logical consequience a boost in production

Re: Re: Re: The unpredictability of solar energy

2013-01-14 Thread Alberto G. Corona
You are californian its'nt? 2013/1/14 Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.comwrote: THe problem with solar energy is that it is strongly subsidized. Yes, but this is lessening. Protectionism is crumbling

Re: The unpredictability of solar energy

2013-01-14 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Neither the state neither the market can build a society. It a question of something more, that has a fundamental ingredient: the contact with reality. When a person believe that receiving from the taxpayer two three four times the market price for his solar electricity, and still think that he

Re: Math- Computation- Mind - Geometry - Space - Matter

2013-01-15 Thread Alberto G. Corona
'that there is something fundamental that has particular properties is unscientific dogma'. Then everything is unscientific. because no human knowledge can be expressed without unproven premises at the bottom. Dogmas are not axioms neither premises, neither assumption, but the latter tend to

Re: Math- Computation- Mind - Geometry - Space - Matter

2013-01-16 Thread Alberto G. Corona
the democatic principle becomes a dogma an a source of wishdom. so the democratic decissions can not go wrong. Many people says: The people can not go wrong!! economy and simplicity homogeneity principle 2013/1/16 Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net On 1/15/2013 9:13 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote

Re: The unpredictability of solar energy

2013-01-16 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I have to say that in the countries where lobbies are not permitted, they are stronger and operate without the voter knowledge, so they have much more freedom for corruption. Prohibition by law is not a magic way to make things dissapear. Unless omniscient, incapable of doing evil inspectors

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
There is something deeply religious in many scientifics in his quest to expand their Truth. And there is also something very philosophical indeed. But they ignore both. They ignore their beliefs and their positivistic metaphisics, born in the disputes between nominalists and realists during the

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/7/10 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 7/10/2012 10:49 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: There is something deeply religious in many scientifics in his quest to expand their Truth. And there is also something very philosophical indeed. But they ignore both. They ignore their beliefs

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/7/10 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net Why would you not expect a theory-of-everything to include the behavior of people? Note that 'govern' does not imply 'predictable'. A phisicinst theory of everithing , despite the popular belief, does not govern the behaviour of the people. No longer

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
where we find any meaning. Even the phisical TOE is part of this second world. there are no countries, no cars, no persons, no electrons outside of the world of the mind. Outside of the mind there is only mathematics. And this math has been anthropically selected by the mind. 2012/7/11 Alberto G

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
sorry. It is consciousness instead of conscience.yes. 2012/7/11 David Nyman da...@davidnyman.com On 11 July 2012 09:55, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: but is in this second world of shared conscience created from the mind where we find any meaning. Alberto, do you mean

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
scientists, Philosophers, psichologists etc. . Matt Rydley what is human is a good introduction. 2012/7/11 Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net On 7/11/2012 4:29 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2012/7/10 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net Why would you not expect a theory-of-everything to include

Re: Cooperation and Free Riders

2012-07-12 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/7/12 Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net On 7/11/2012 6:47 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Stephen: Well it´s not cooperation between computer programs, but cooperation of entities in the abstract level. This can be described mathematically or simulated in a computer program. In both

Re: Cooperation and Free Riders

2012-07-12 Thread Alberto G. Corona
the collaboration. 2012/7/13 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 7/12/2012 4:04 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: We each one are free riders because we are selfish collaborators. A twist on selfish collaboration is the self deception: our memory is unconsciously distorted to support our case. we thinkl that we

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-13 Thread Alberto G. Corona
We all are thrown to existence in a box. we do not know how nor why and for what purpose. We can choose to concentrate in looking at the things of the box, or we can spend time looking at the limits of the box, at the whys and what is out and how to go out. Or to discover the final purpose it

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-13 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/7/14 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 7/13/2012 4:07 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: It must be, because this has been a very sucessful mith. Yes, it was no doubt successful in keeping the peasants believing the in divine knowledge of the free loading priests. Brent I can play

Re: Cooperation and Free Riders

2012-07-17 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net On 7/14/2012 4:52 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 14 Jul 2012, at 07:48, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Stephen, I took a look at the book of Jon Barwise and it seems very interesting. This use of category theory with information seems promising. I´m

Re: Cooperation and Free Riders

2012-07-17 Thread Alberto G. Corona
those that don´t. 2012/7/18 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com It´s not only category theory, but category theory to solve te problem of spurious inferences, of the type that plague tradicional neural networks and semantic nets when they learn automatically things: for example: a car may

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-18 Thread Alberto G. Corona
For example, the fantastic, uinmatched success the judeo-christian civilization until XVIII century at least, as measured in objective evolutionary terms. 2012/7/14 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/13/2012 4:31 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2012/7/14 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 7/13

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-18 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Sorry. I have noting to learn from this thread. I prefer to discuss other things that I mentioned above that are far more interesting . . 2012/7/18 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 7/18/2012 10:32 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: For example, the fantastic, uinmatched success the judeo-christian

Re: The Unreality of Time

2012-07-29 Thread Alberto G. Corona
These psycho-philosophical arguments like the one of John Ellis are what in evolutionary Psychology is called an explanation based on proximate causes. Instead, ultimate causes are the physical causes that generate, by natural selection, a mind with such concepts and such phenomenology that is

Re: The Unreality of Time

2012-07-30 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Evgenii : I thank you for your questions, since It helps me to re-examine and clarify my position. 2012/7/29 Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru On 29.07.2012 11:28 Alberto G. Corona said the following: These psycho-philosophical arguments like the one of John Ellis are what in evolutionary

Re: Remarks on an idea on First-Order Logical Duality

2012-07-30 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Computations are not proof. There are similarities, and there are a lot of interesting relationships between the two concepts, but we cannot use proof theory for computation theory What goes to Another intriging duality : The Curry-Howard isomorphism between computer programs and mathematical

Re: The Unreality of Time

2012-07-31 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Evgenii, great questions 2012/7/30 Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru On 30.07.2012 11:19 Alberto G. Corona said the following: What do you mean by the world of the mind is different form the phisico-mathematical world? Is this as by Descartes res cogitans vs. res extensa? As you said

Re: The Unreality of Time

2012-07-31 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Thnks Bruno, Specially your agreement on dualism make me feel more confident. 2012/7/31 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be Hi Alberto, On 31 Jul 2012, at 11:08, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Evgenii, great questions 2012/7/30 Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru On 30.07.2012 11:19 Alberto G. Corona

Re: The Unreality of Time

2012-07-31 Thread Alberto G. Corona
if the universe is or not the product of a boltzman fluctuation. 2012/7/31 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 31 Jul 2012, at 17:36, smi...@zonnet.nl wrote: Citeren Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 30 Jul 2012, at 19:57, meekerdb wrote: On 7/30/2012 2:19 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote

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