Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-06-02 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: On May 31, 2:33 am, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On May 29, 1:45 am, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: So which

Re: Church Turing be dammed. (Probability Question)

2012-06-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Jun 2012, at 20:18, meekerdb wrote: On 6/1/2012 10:23 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: You might be disturbed by the fact that in experience 2, the original remains the same person, so we don't count him as a new person, each time he steps in the box. This, in my opinion, illustrates again

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-06-02 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Jun 2, 2:39 am, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: I think that Matter-Energy and Sense-Motive are dual aspects of the same thing. If you are talking about the brain only, then you are talking about matter

Re: Church Turing be dammed. (Probability Question)

2012-06-02 Thread meekerdb
On 6/2/2012 1:42 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 01 Jun 2012, at 20:18, meekerdb wrote: On 6/1/2012 10:23 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: You might be disturbed by the fact that in experience 2, the original remains the same person, so we don't count him as a new person, each time he steps in the box.

Re: Church Turing be dammed. (Probability Question)

2012-06-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 31 May 2012, at 21:38, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 31 May 2012, at 18:29, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 29 May 2012, at 22:26, Jason Resch wrote:

Re: Church Turing be dammed. (Probability Question)

2012-06-01 Thread meekerdb
On 6/1/2012 7:50 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 31 May 2012, at 21:38, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 31 May 2012, at 18:29, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Bruno Marchal

Re: Church Turing be dammed. (Probability Question)

2012-06-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Jun 2012, at 19:09, meekerdb wrote: On 6/1/2012 7:50 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 31 May 2012, at 21:38, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 31 May 2012, at 18:29, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:27 AM,

Re: Church Turing be dammed. (Probability Question)

2012-06-01 Thread meekerdb
On 6/1/2012 10:23 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: You might be disturbed by the fact that in experience 2, the original remains the same person, so we don't count him as a new person, each time he steps in the box. This, in my opinion, illustrates again that we have to use RSSA instead of ASSA.

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-31 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 31 May 2012, at 08:02, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 29 May 2012, at 16:32, Jason Resch wrote: The question I have in mind is Does a brain produce consciousness, or does the brain filter consciousness? I had

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-31 Thread Craig Weinberg
On May 31, 1:54 am, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/5/31 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com On May 30, 6:09 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: You are defining a 'real computer' in terms in terms that you are smuggling in from our real world of physics. In

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-31 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2012/5/31 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com On May 31, 1:54 am, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/5/31 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com On May 30, 6:09 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: You are defining a 'real computer' in terms in terms that you

Re: Church Turing be dammed. (Probability Question)

2012-05-31 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 29 May 2012, at 22:26, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: To see this the following thought experience can help. Some guy won a price consisting in

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-31 Thread meekerdb
On 5/31/2012 8:36 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I think there are many tricks the brain employs against itself to aid the selfish propagation of its genes. One example is the concept of the ego (having an identity). Agreed. As I said just above. So having an identity, a unity of thoughts,

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-31 Thread Craig Weinberg
On May 31, 2:33 am, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: On May 29, 1:45 am, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: So which of the following four link(s) in the logical chain do you take issue with? A.

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-31 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2012/5/31 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com On May 31, 12:26 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/5/31 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com On May 31, 1:54 am, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/5/31 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-31 Thread Craig Weinberg
On May 31, 1:58 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/5/31 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com On May 31, 12:26 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/5/31 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com On May 31, 1:54 am, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-31 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2012/5/31 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com On May 31, 1:58 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/5/31 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com On May 31, 12:26 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/5/31 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-31 Thread Stephen P. King
On 5/31/2012 12:10 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On May 31, 1:45 am, Jason Reschjasonre...@gmail.com wrote: Craig, You mentioned that you can open a remote desktop connection from a virtualized computer to a real computer (or even the one running the virtualization). This, as Quentin mentioned,

Re: Church Turing be dammed. (Probability Question)

2012-05-31 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 31 May 2012, at 18:29, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 29 May 2012, at 22:26, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: To see this the following thought experience

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-31 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 31 May 2012, at 18:56, meekerdb wrote: On 5/31/2012 8:36 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I think there are many tricks the brain employs against itself to aid the selfish propagation of its genes. One example is the concept of the ego (having an identity). Agreed. As I said just above.

Re: Church Turing be dammed. (Probability Question)

2012-05-31 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 31 May 2012, at 18:29, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 29 May 2012, at 22:26, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Bruno Marchal

Re: Church Turing be dammed. (Probability Question)

2012-05-31 Thread meekerdb
On 5/31/2012 12:38 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 31 May 2012, at 18:29, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-31 Thread Craig Weinberg
On May 31, 2:22 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: To know what an interface is... how 2 programs communicate. The way you talk is like hey dude it's in the OS !... like the operating system was not a software... No, I'm saying it's all software, except for the hardware. That has

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-31 Thread Craig Weinberg
On May 31, 2:29 pm, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net wrote:      It seems that we might be glossing over the difference between hardware and software... Hi Stephen, Yes, that seems to be the case a lot. I guess it can be confusing, but I'm not sure why. If a cat can pee on it, then

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-31 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2012/5/31 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com On May 31, 2:22 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: To know what an interface is... how 2 programs communicate. The way you talk is like hey dude it's in the OS !... like the operating system was not a software... No, I'm saying

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-31 Thread Craig Weinberg
On May 31, 5:15 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/5/31 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com On May 31, 2:22 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: To know what an interface is... how 2 programs communicate. The way you talk is like hey dude it's in the OS

Re: Church Turing be dammed. (Probability Question)

2012-05-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 May 2012, at 22:26, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: To see this the following thought experience can help. Some guy won a price consisting in visiting Mars by teleportation. But his state law forbid annihilation of

Re: Church Turing be dammed. (Probability Question)

2012-05-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 May 2012, at 22:41, meekerdb wrote: On 5/29/2012 1:26 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: To see this the following thought experience can help. Some guy won a price consisting in visiting Mars by teleportation. But

Re: Church Turing be dammed. (Probability Question)

2012-05-30 Thread meekerdb
On 5/30/2012 1:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 29 May 2012, at 22:41, meekerdb wrote: On 5/29/2012 1:26 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: To see this the following thought experience can help.

Re: Church Turing be dammed. (Probability Question)

2012-05-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 30 May 2012, at 18:16, meekerdb wrote: On 5/30/2012 1:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 29 May 2012, at 22:41, meekerdb wrote: On 5/29/2012 1:26 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: To see this the following thought

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-30 Thread Craig Weinberg
On May 29, 3:02 am, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: You always put that level confusion on the table. You could expect to have dinner in a virtual paris if you were in a virtual world. If you want an computational AI to interact with you, it must be able to control real world

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-30 Thread Craig Weinberg
On May 29, 1:45 am, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: So which of the following four link(s) in the logical chain do you take issue with? A. human brain (and body) comprises matter and energy So does a cadaver's brain and body. The fact that a cadaver is not intelligent should show us

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-30 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2012/5/30 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com On May 29, 3:02 am, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: You always put that level confusion on the table. You could expect to have dinner in a virtual paris if you were in a virtual world. If you want an computational AI to interact

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-30 Thread Craig Weinberg
On May 30, 4:36 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/5/30 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com On May 29, 3:02 am, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: You always put that level confusion on the table. You could expect to have dinner in a virtual paris if

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-30 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2012/5/30 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com On May 30, 4:36 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/5/30 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com On May 29, 3:02 am, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: You always put that level confusion on the table.

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-30 Thread Craig Weinberg
On May 30, 6:09 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: You are defining a 'real computer' in terms in terms that you are smuggling in from our real world of physics. In a Church-Turing Matrix, why would there be any kind of arbitrary level separation? The whole point is that there

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-30 Thread Jason Resch
Craig, You mentioned that you can open a remote desktop connection from a virtualized computer to a real computer (or even the one running the virtualization). This, as Quentin mentioned, requires an interface. In this case it is provided by the virtual network card made available to the

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-30 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2012/5/31 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com On May 30, 6:09 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: You are defining a 'real computer' in terms in terms that you are smuggling in from our real world of physics. In a Church-Turing Matrix, why would there be any kind of

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-29 Thread meekerdb
On 5/28/2012 10:21 PM, Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote: This belief system is truly bizarre. It is exactly like the cave person drawing a picture of a flame on a rock and then expecting it to cook dinner. It is exactly like getting into a flight simulator, flying it to Paris and then expecting to

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-29 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2012/5/29 Colin Geoffrey Hales cgha...@unimelb.edu.au Here's a story I just wrote. I'll get it published in due course. Just posted it to the FoR list, thought you might appreciate the sentiments It's 100,000 BCE. You are a

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 May 2012, at 09:02, Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote: From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com ] On Behalf Of Jason Resch Sent: Tuesday, 29 May 2012 3:45 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Church Turing be dammed. On Tue, May 29

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-29 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2012/5/29 Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com 2012/5/29 Colin Geoffrey Hales cgha...@unimelb.edu.au Here's a story I just wrote. I'll get it published in due course. Just posted it to the FoR list, thought you might appreciate the sentiments

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Church Turing be dammed. Natural physics is a computation. Fine. But a computed natural physics model is NOT the natural physicsit is the natural physics of a computer. Colin, I recently read the following excerpt from The Singularity is Near

Re: Church Turing be dammed. (Probability Question)

2012-05-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: To see this the following thought experience can help. Some guy won a price consisting in visiting Mars by teleportation. But his state law forbid annihilation of human. So he made a teleportation to Mars without

Re: Church Turing be dammed. (Probability Question)

2012-05-29 Thread meekerdb
On 5/29/2012 1:26 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: To see this the following thought experience can help. Some guy won a price consisting in visiting Mars by teleportation. But his state law

Re: Church Turing be dammed. (Probability Question)

2012-05-29 Thread Stephen P. King
On 5/29/2012 4:26 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: To see this the following thought experience can help. Some guy won a price consisting in visiting Mars by teleportation. But his state law

Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-28 Thread Colin Geoffrey Hales
Here's a story I just wrote. I'll get it published in due course. Just posted it to the FoR list, thought you might appreciate the sentiments It's 100,000 BCE. You are a politically correct caveperson. You want dinner. The cooling body

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-28 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Colin Geoffrey Hales cgha...@unimelb.edu.au wrote: Here's a story I just wrote. I'll get it published in due course. Just posted it to the FoR list, thought you might appreciate the sentiments