Re: Einstein was right yet again

2022-09-14 Thread Lawrence Crowell
Well yawn, what else would we expect? I do though wonder how they account for the differential gravitational acceleration due to tidal interaction and Weyl curvature. LC On Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 5:26:14 PM UTC-5 johnk...@gmail.com wrote: > The "MICROSCOPE" experiment was devised

Einstein was right yet again

2022-09-14 Thread John Clark
The "MICROSCOPE" experiment was devised to test Einstein's equivalence principle with 100 times greater precision than had ever been achieved before, the idea that all objects fall in a gravitational field at exactly the same speed. MICROSCOPE consisted of a 402 gram platinum cylinder inside a 300

NYTimes.com: Astronomers Find What Might Be the Most Distant Galaxy Yet

2022-04-07 Thread John Clark
this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a subscriber, you'll be able to read it for free. Astronomers Find What Might Be the Most Distant Galaxy Yet Is the object a galaxy of primordial stars or a black hole knocking on the door of time? The Webb space telescope may help answer that question

Re: The best video yet about January 6

2021-07-06 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
ubject: Re: The best video yet about January 6 On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 6:17 PM wrote:   > I tell you the main threat to my or your personal safety are not currently > the goose-steppers, but instead, globalist corporations bribing US pols. No, bribery is illegal and what those corporations did

Re: The best video yet about January 6

2021-07-06 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 6:17 PM wrote: > * > I tell you the main threat to my or your personal safety are not > currently the goose-steppers, but instead, globalist corporations bribing > US pols.* > No, bribery is illegal and what those corporations did was not illegal. And why is it not

Re: The best video yet about January 6

2021-07-05 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Fascist hating eyes in this direction and render forth your reply- https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10./asap.12253 -Original Message- From: 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Jul 5, 2021 8:03 pm Subject: Re: The best video yet about

Re: The best video yet about January 6

2021-07-05 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
t; in 2020 in their "outrage" over police killings as no big thing. Thus, I too adopt your opinion and become dismissive as well, even though the big wigs were the only ones disturbed while the victims of BLM and Antifa number in the thousands. Do you know what the latest rumor (as yet unproven)

Re: The best video yet about January 6

2021-07-05 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
g. Thus, I too adopt your opinion and become dismissive as well, even though the big wigs were the only ones disturbed while the victims of BLM and Antifa number in the thousands. Do you know what the latest rumor (as yet unproven) was that the shooter of Ashli Babbitt was one of Mike Pence's se

Re: The best video yet about January 6

2021-07-05 Thread John Clark
to me your motivation is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. *> we must be prepared for whatever nutcase strikes. * > Republicans don't yet have a monopoly on nutcases, but thanks to Trump and Qanon they're getting close. > *> This means to use and apply the 2nd amend

Re: The best video yet about January 6

2021-07-05 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
against Bubba Clinton. You may be obsessed about the man, but I am not.  -Original Message- From: John Clark To: spudboy...@aol.com Cc: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Jul 5, 2021 5:42 am Subject: Re: The best video yet about January 6 On Sun, Jul 4, 2021 at 7:14 PM wrote

Re: The best video yet about January 6

2021-07-05 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Jul 4, 2021 at 7:14 PM wrote: *> You want us all to be nazis because you need us all to be nazis because > you hate orange man.* > If not "Nazi" what would you call Trump's mob of thugs who beat a police officer to death and violently invaded the Capital Building on its most important

Re: The best video yet about January 6

2021-07-04 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
their own asses.  If there was a conspiracy to rob orange man at the ballot box, (which I have yet to see convincing evidence of), it surely wasn't the recipients' of corporate largesse, BLM +Antifa, but the boards of directors themselves. What motivation you ask? I would say China trade money,

Re: The best video yet about January 6

2021-07-04 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
, or not?  -Original Message- From: John Clark To: spudboy...@aol.com Cc: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, Jul 4, 2021 6:57 am Subject: Re: The best video yet about January 6 On Sun, Jul 4, 2021 at 12:00 AM wrote: > Remember John, we have had months of democratic party rioting in democra

Re: The best video yet about January 6

2021-07-04 Thread Lawrence Crowell
> resources and production. Enjoy. (non-political) > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uznXI8wrdag > > > -Original Message- > From: John Clark > To: spudb...@aol.com > Cc: everyth...@googlegroups.com > Sent: Sat, Jul 3, 2021 6:11 am > Subject: Re: The best video yet about J

Re: The best video yet about January 6

2021-07-04 Thread John Clark
apitol Building, but Trump's thugs did. And I repeat the question I've been asking you over and over again but have yet to receive an answer: *WHAT THE HELL DOES THE BLACK LIVES MATTERS PROTESTS HAVE TO DO WITH DONALD TRUMP'S COUP D'ETAT ATTEMPT?!* John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Ex

Re: The best video yet about January 6

2021-07-03 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
uction. Enjoy. (non-political)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uznXI8wrdag -Original Message- From: John Clark To: spudboy...@aol.com Cc: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Jul 3, 2021 6:11 am Subject: Re: The best video yet about January 6 On Fri, Jul 2, 20

Re: The best video yet about January 6

2021-07-03 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 2:26 PM wrote: >> This is BY FAR the best video I've yet seen that documents the events >> of January 6, minute by minute, as Trump's thugs attempt to take over the >> government: >> How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol >> &l

Re: The best video yet about January 6

2021-07-02 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Laff of the day!  -Original Message- From: John Clark To: 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List Sent: Fri, Jul 2, 2021 12:47 pm Subject: The best video yet about January 6 This is BY FAR  the best video I've yet seen that documents the events of January 6, minute by minute, as Trump's

The best video yet about January 6

2021-07-02 Thread John Clark
This is BY FAR the best video I've yet seen that documents the events of January 6, minute by minute, as Trump's thugs attempt to take over the government: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWJVMoe7OY0> John K ClarkSee what's on my ne

Re: LIGO detects the largest black hole merger yet

2020-09-03 Thread Lawrence Crowell
. Yet it is not too hard to imagine a 20 solar mass BH that orbits another large star, where the star is consumed. So this results in a larger mass BH. This might then over time occur again. It is possible one of these BHs in the 85 + 66 solar mass BHs came from a prior BH merger. That does seem

LIGO detects the largest black hole merger yet

2020-09-02 Thread John Clark
In today's issue of Physical Review Letters the two Lego detectors in the US and the Virgo detector in Italy announced they had detected on May 21 2019 the gravitational waves from the merger of two Black Holes of 65 and 85 Solar masses which produced a Black Hole of 142 solar masses with 8 solar

Religious Idiocy Triumphs Over Science Yet Again

2015-12-04 Thread John Clark
The Thirty Meter Telescope on top of Mauna Kea would have been by far the largest telescope in the world , but now it looks like it will never be built because today the Hawaiian Supreme Court rescinded its construction permit ; they think it would offend the religious sensibilities of the native

And yet...

2013-12-04 Thread Rex Allen
This world of dew is only a world of dew - and yet, and yet... -- Kobayashi Issa, after the death of his daughter. This world of quantum states is only a world of quantum states - and yet, and yet... -- Rex Allen, after a very cold shower. -- You received this message because you

Re: And yet...

2013-12-04 Thread LizR
...and yet, and yet, one has this ineffable feeling there's more to life...? On 5 December 2013 03:02, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote: This world of dew is only a world of dew - and yet, and yet... -- Kobayashi Issa, after the death of his daughter. This world of quantum states

Yet another interpretation of the M-M experiment.

2013-01-11 Thread Roger Clough
Yet another interpretation of the M-M experiment (that light travelled at the same speed regardless of direction) is that as the Bible says, the earth is fixed, and presumably the aether with it. So no relative motion problem. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/11/2013 Forever

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

2012-10-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
://www.kurzweilai.net/the-real-reasons-we-dont-have-agi-yet Ben Goertzel's article that hibbsa sent and linked to above says in paragraph 7 that,I salute David Deutsch’s boldness, in writing and thinking about a field where he obviously doesn’t have much practical grounding. Sometimes the views

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

2012-10-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
Mars Rovers, have limited self-models (where am I, what's my battery charge,...) that they need to perform their functions, but they don't have general intelligence (yet). Brent -- Could the efficiency of the computation be subject to modeling? My thinking is that if an AI could rewire

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

2012-10-09 Thread meekerdb
where they need a self-model. They are not members of a social community. Some simpler systems, like Mars Rovers, have limited self-models (where am I, what's my battery charge,...) that they need to perform their functions, but they don't have general intelligence (yet). Brent -- You

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

2012-10-09 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
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 to Popperian epistemology can evolve. “To sum

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 to

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

2012-10-09 Thread Stephen P. King
intelligence (yet). Brent -- Could the efficiency of the computation be subject to modeling? My thinking is that if an AI could rewire itself for some task to more efficiently solve that task... -- Onward! Stephen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

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

2012-10-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Oct 2012, at 20:50, Craig Weinberg wrote: Deutsch is right. Deutsch is not completely wrong, just unaware of the progress in theoretical computer science, which explains why some paths are necessarily long, and can help to avoid the confusion between consciousness, intelligence,

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

2012-10-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Oct 2012, at 23:39, Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 01:13:35PM -0400, Richard Ruquist wrote: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet A response to David Deutsch’s recent article on AGI October 8, 2012 by Ben Goertzel Thanks for posting this, Richard. I was thinking

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

2012-10-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
have general intelligence (yet). Unlike PA and ZF and Lôbian entity which have already the maximal possible noyion of self (both in the 3p and 1p sense). But PA and ZF have no amount at all of reasonable local incarnation (reasonable with respect of doing things on Earth, or on Mars). Mars

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

2012-10-09 Thread Alberto G. Corona
then this is the perfect condition for a foundation of eplistemology, and an absolute meaning of truth. 2012/10/9 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 08 Oct 2012, at 23:39, Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 01:13:35PM -0400, Richard Ruquist wrote: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet A response

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

2012-10-09 Thread meekerdb
their functions, but they don't have general intelligence (yet). Brent -- Could the efficiency of the computation be subject to modeling? My thinking is that if an AI could rewire itself for some task to more efficiently solve that task... I don't see why not. A genetic-algorithm might

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

2012-10-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
to perform their functions, but they don't have general intelligence (yet). Brent -- Could the efficiency of the computation be subject to modeling? My thinking is that if an AI could rewire itself for some task to more efficiently solve that task... Betting on self-consistency

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

2012-10-09 Thread Stephen P. King
charge,...) that they need to perform their functions, but they don't have general intelligence (yet). Brent -- Could the efficiency of the computation be subject to modeling? My thinking is that if an AI could rewire itself for some task to more efficiently solve that task... I don't

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

2012-10-09 Thread Stephen P. King
my battery charge,...) that they need to perform their functions, but they don't have general intelligence (yet). Brent -- Could the efficiency of the computation be subject to modeling? My thinking is that if an AI could rewire itself for some task to more efficiently solve that task

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

2012-10-09 Thread Russell Standish
autographed it! On 09/10/2012, at 8:39 AM, Russell Standish wrote: The problem that exercises me (when I get a chance to exercise it) is that of creativity. David Deutsch correctly identifies that this is one of the main impediments to AGI. Yet biological evolution is a creative process

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

2012-10-09 Thread Kim Jones
It just may provide you that flash of insight you hanker for; that's my grand hope, anyway. here's a snippet: There may be no reason to say something until after it has been said. Once it has been said a context develops to support it, and yet it would never have been produced by a context

The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-08 Thread Richard Ruquist
The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet A response to David Deutsch’s recent article on AGI October 8, 2012 by Ben Goertzel (Credit: iStockphoto) As we noted in a recent post, physicist David Deutsch said the field of “artificial general intelligence” or AGI has made “no progress whatever during

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

2012-10-08 Thread John Clark
How David Deutsch can watch a computer beat the 2 best human Jeopardy! players on planet Earth and then say that AI has made “no progress whatever during the entire six decades of its existence” is a complete mystery to me. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed

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

2012-10-08 Thread Stephen P. King
On 10/8/2012 1:13 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: except from /The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet/ A response to David Deutsch’s recent article on AGI October 8, 2012 by Ben Goertzel So in this view, the main missing ingredient in AGI so far is “cognitive synergy”: the fitting-together

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: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-08 Thread Craig Weinberg
Deutsch is right. Searle is right. Genuine AGI can only come when thoughts are driven by feeling and will rather than programmatic logic. It's a fundamental misunderstanding to assume that feeling can be generated by equipment which is incapable of caring about itself. Without personal

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

2012-10-08 Thread meekerdb
On 10/8/2012 11:45 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 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

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

2012-10-08 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 01:13:35PM -0400, Richard Ruquist wrote: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet A response to David Deutsch’s recent article on AGI October 8, 2012 by Ben Goertzel Thanks for posting this, Richard. I was thinking of writing my own detailed response to David

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

2012-10-08 Thread Stephen P. King
On 10/8/2012 5:39 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 01:13:35PM -0400, Richard Ruquist wrote: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet A response to David Deutsch’s recent article on AGI October 8, 2012 by Ben Goertzel Thanks for posting this, Richard. I was thinking

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

2012-10-08 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 06:49:12PM -0400, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi Russell, Question: Why has little if any thought been given in AGI to self-modeling and some capacity to track the model of self under the evolutionary transformations? Its not my field - general evolutionary

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

2012-10-08 Thread Stephen P. King
On 10/8/2012 7:37 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 06:49:12PM -0400, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi Russell, Question: Why has little if any thought been given in AGI to self-modeling and some capacity to track the model of self under the evolutionary transformations? Its

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

2012-10-08 Thread Kim Jones
it! On 09/10/2012, at 8:39 AM, Russell Standish wrote: The problem that exercises me (when I get a chance to exercise it) is that of creativity. David Deutsch correctly identifies that this is one of the main impediments to AGI. Yet biological evolution is a creative process, one for which

Re: A Purely Arithmetical, yet...

2009-08-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
have not yet grasp the seven step of UDA, to take it easy here. AUDA is really far more mathematically involved than UDA. UDA needs just the notion of universal machine. AUDA needs the notion of Löbian machine which can be grasped when you understand how quick a universal machine can

A Purely Arithmetical, yet...

2009-08-24 Thread Brent Meeker
Bruno, I would like to understand your arguments at a technical level, so I started reading your March 2007 paper. But I got kinda bogged down near the end of Section 2. Could you expand on the paragraph that begins with Let us define an arithmetical realisation R by a function which

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-09-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 04-sept.-06, à 16:12, 1Z a écrit : Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 04-sept.-06, à 02:56, 1Z a écrit : Why should a belief in other minds (which I do not directly experience) be more reasonable thant a belief in unexperienced primary matter ? It's a question of consistency. Attributing

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-09-04 Thread 1Z
Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 04-sept.-06, à 02:56, 1Z a écrit : Why should a belief in other minds (which I do not directly experience) be more reasonable thant a belief in unexperienced primary matter ? It's a question of consistency. Attributing mind to others explains many things.

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-09-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 30-août-06, à 21:26, 1Z (Peter D. Jones) a écrit : How do you escape solipsism without embracing materialism ? You can escape solipsism by embracing *any* kind of *objective* idealism (inspired by mathematical structures or not). Objective idealisms are not in fashion today, I know,

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-09-03 Thread 1Z
Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 30-août-06, à 21:26, 1Z (Peter D. Jones) a écrit : How do you escape solipsism without embracing materialism ? You can escape solipsism by embracing *any* kind of *objective* idealism (inspired by mathematical structures or not). Why should a belief in other

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-30 Thread 1Z
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Peter Jones writes: Saying that there is a material substrate which has certain properties is just a working assumption to facilitate thinking about the real world. It may turn out that if we dig into quarks very deeply there is nothing

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-30 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le Wednesday 30 Août 2006 21:26, 1Z a écrit : Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Peter Jones writes: Saying that there is a material substrate which has certain properties is just a working assumption to facilitate thinking about the real world. It may turn out that if we dig into

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-30 Thread 1Z
Quentin Anciaux wrote: Le Wednesday 30 Août 2006 21:26, 1Z a écrit : Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Peter Jones writes: Saying that there is a material substrate which has certain properties is just a working assumption to facilitate thinking about the real world. It may

RE: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-29 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Peter Jones writes: Saying that there is a material substrate which has certain properties is just a working assumption to facilitate thinking about the real world. It may turn out that if we dig into quarks very deeply there is nothing substantial there at all, but

RE: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-28 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Peter Jones writes: Saying that there is a material substrate which has certain properties is just a working assumption to facilitate thinking about the real world. It may turn out that if we dig into quarks very deeply there is nothing substantial there at all, but solid matter

RE: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-28 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Peter Jones writes: By youur definitions, it's a straight choice between metaphysics and solipsism. I choose metaphsyics. We can posit the unobservable to expalint he observable. Solipsism is a metaphysical position. (BTW: it it is wrong to posit an unobserved substrate, why is it OK

RE: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-28 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Brent Meeker writes: Saying that there is a material substrate which has certain properties is just a working assumption to facilitate thinking about the real world. It may turn out that if we dig into quarks very deeply there is nothing substantial

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-28 Thread 1Z
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Peter Jones writes: Saying that there is a material substrate which has certain properties is just a working assumption to facilitate thinking about the real world. It may turn out that if we dig into quarks very deeply there is nothing substantial

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-28 Thread 1Z
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Peter Jones writes: By youur definitions, it's a straight choice between metaphysics and solipsism. I choose metaphsyics. We can posit the unobservable to expalint he observable. Solipsism is a metaphysical position. A minimal one, that refuses to posit

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-28 Thread 1Z
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: There is good reason to believe that there is some sort of reality out there as opposed to the solipsistic alternative, but there is less reason to believe that there is some basic material substrate on which the various properties of physical objects are hung.

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 27-août-06, à 19:36, 1Z a écrit : Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 26-août-06, à 22:44, Brent Meeker a écrit : I understand Peters objection to regarding a mere bundle of properties as existent. But I don't understand why one needs a propertyless substrate. Why not just say that some

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 27-août-06, à 19:41, 1Z a écrit : But you don't really address the existence question. You just loosely assume it is the same thing as truth. I just assume that the existence of a number is equivalent with the intended truth of an existential proposition written in a theory about

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 27-août-06, à 21:41, Brent Meeker a écrit : I put working assumption in scare quotes because I think the fact that we can create models of the world that are successful over a wide domain of phenomena is evidence for an underlying reality. It's not conclusive evidence, but reality

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-28 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Peter Jones writes: By youur definitions, it's a straight choice between metaphysics and solipsism. I choose metaphsyics. We can posit the unobservable to expalint he observable. Solipsism is a metaphysical position. (BTW: it it is wrong to posit an

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-28 Thread 1Z
Brent Meeker wrote: Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Peter Jones writes: By youur definitions, it's a straight choice between metaphysics and solipsism. I choose metaphsyics. We can posit the unobservable to expalint he observable. Solipsism is a metaphysical position. (BTW: it

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-28 Thread Brent Meeker
Environment-induced decoherence and superselection have been a subject of intensive research over the past two decades, yet their implications for the foundational problems of quantum mechanics, most notably the quantum measurement problem, have remained a matter of great controversy

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-27 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Brent meeker writes: But even existence can be defined as a bundle of properties. If I am wondering whether the pencil on my desk exists I can look at it, pick it up, tap it and so on. If my hand passes through it when I try to pick it up then maybe it is just

RE: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-27 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Brent Meeker writes: Saying that there is a material substrate which has certain properties is just a working assumption to facilitate thinking about the real world. It may turn out that if we dig into quarks very deeply there is nothing substantial there at all, but solid

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 25-août-06, à 23:24, 1Z a écrit : AR as a claim about truth is implied by comoputationalism, and is not enough to support the real (=as real as I am) existence of the UD. It is you who come up with a notion of real existence. You are reifying I don't know which theory. AR as a

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 26-août-06, à 22:44, Brent Meeker a écrit : I understand Peters objection to regarding a mere bundle of properties as existent. But I don't understand why one needs a propertyless substrate. Why not just say that some bundles of properties are instantiated and some aren't. I

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-27 Thread 1Z
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Brent meeker writes: But even existence can be defined as a bundle of properties. If I am wondering whether the pencil on my desk exists I can look at it, pick it up, tap it and so on. If my hand passes through it when I try to pick it up then maybe

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-27 Thread 1Z
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Brent Meeker writes: Saying that there is a material substrate which has certain properties is just a working assumption to facilitate thinking about the real world. It may turn out that if we dig into quarks very deeply there is nothing substantial

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-27 Thread 1Z
Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 25-août-06, à 23:24, 1Z a écrit : AR as a claim about truth is implied by comoputationalism, and is not enough to support the real (=as real as I am) existence of the UD. It is you who come up with a notion of real existence. I am starting with the reality my

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-27 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Brent Meeker writes: Saying that there is a material substrate which has certain properties is just a working assumption to facilitate thinking about the real world. It may turn out that if we dig into quarks very deeply there is nothing substantial there at

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-27 Thread jamikes
- Original Message - From: Stathis Papaioannou [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brent Meeker everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 7:52 AM Subject: RE: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really... Brent Meeker writes: Saying that there is a material substrate which has

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-27 Thread David Nyman
1Z wrote: AR as a claim about truth is implied by comoputationalism, and is not enough to support the real (=as real as I am) existence of the UD. It is you who come up with a notion of real existence. I am starting with the reality my own existence. That is an *empirical*

RE: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-26 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Peter Jones writes: Matter is a bare substrate with no properties of its own. The question may well be asked at this point: what roles does it perform ? Why not dispense with matter and just have bundles of properties -- what does matter add to a merely abstract set of properties? The answer

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-26 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Peter Jones writes: Matter is a bare substrate with no properties of its own. The question may well be asked at this point: what roles does it perform ? Why not dispense with matter and just have bundles of properties -- what does matter add to a merely abstract

RE: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-26 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Brent meeker writes: But even existence can be defined as a bundle of properties. If I am wondering whether the pencil on my desk exists I can look at it, pick it up, tap it and so on. If my hand passes through it when I try to pick it up then maybe it is just an illusion.

Re: Platonism vs Realism WAS: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-25 Thread 1Z
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: No, it won't be bored because there is no way for it to know that it is going through the first or the second run. The point I was trying to make is that there is no real basis for distinguishing between a recording and a program, There is a basis for

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-25 Thread 1Z
in a somethingist way, that means all physics is materialist. It can also provide support for time and qulia, and explain away HP universes. All serious people in the philosophy of mind agree that the mind-body problem is not yet solved. There is difference between providing an explanation

Re: Platonism vs Realism WAS: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
John, Le 23-août-06, à 22:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : As I 'believe': anything recognized by our 'senses' are our mental interpretations of the unattainable 'reality' (if we condone its validity). My world is a posteriori. This is almost my favorite way to explain Plato in one

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
that the mind-body problem is not yet solved. Even Dennett agrees on this in the last chapter of his consciousness explained. Matter makes things worst because, at least with comp, we have to justify it without positing it. 2) Numbers, and the UD, by existing just in the usual sense of realist

RE: Platonism vs Realism WAS: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-23 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Peter Jones writes (quoting Bruno Marchal): People who believes that inputs (being either absolute-material or relative-platonical) are needed for consciousness should not believe that we can be conscious in a dream, given the evidence that the brain is almost completely cut out from the

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 22-août-06, à 18:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : So where is the key to translate number-monsters into thought-monsters? In front of you. Computer or universal machine, or universal numbers. More explanation in the posts. Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/

Re: Platonism vs Realism WAS: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 23-août-06, à 03:58, Brent Meeker a écrit : People who believes that inputs (being either absolute-material or relative-platonical) are needed for consciousness should not believe that we can be conscious in a dream, given the evidence that the brain is almost completely cut out from

Re: Platonism vs Realism WAS: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-23 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Brent Meeker writes: Almost is not completely. In any case, I don't think consciousness is maintained indefinitely with no inputs. I think a brain-in-a-vat would go into an endless loop without external stimulus. That's an assumption, No, it has

Re: Platonism vs Realism WAS: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-23 Thread jamikes
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:31 AM Subject: Re: Platonism vs Realism WAS: ROADMAP (well, not yet really... Le 23-août-06, à 03:58, Brent Meeker a écrit : People who believes that inputs (being either absolute-material or relative-platonical) are needed for consciousness should not beli

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-23 Thread jamikes
- Original Message - From: Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 7:56 AM Subject: Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really... Le 22-août-06, à 18:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : So where is the key to translate number

Re: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 19-août-06, à 21:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John M.) a écrit : BTW I have a problem with the perfect 6: ITS DIVISORS are 1,2,3,6, the sum of which is 12, not 6 and it looks that there is NO other perfect number in this sense either. I have define a number to be perfect when it is equal to

Re: Rép: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
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RE: Platonism vs Realism WAS: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

2006-08-22 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Brent meeker writes (quoting Peter Jones, Quentin Anciaux and SP): Hi, Le Dimanche 20 Août 2006 05:17, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : Peter Jones writes (quoting SP): What about an inputless computer program, running deterministically like a recording. Would that count as a program at

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