Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 5:16:44 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 22 Apr 2013, at 20:41, smi...@zonnet.nl wrote: > > > Any "aesthetic phenomena" or for that matter anything else we > > experience is described by the known laws of physics which tells you > > what matters is the wa

Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Apr 2013, at 20:41, smi...@zonnet.nl wrote: Any "aesthetic phenomena" or for that matter anything else we experience is described by the known laws of physics which tells you what matters is the way information is processed. So, I'm not conviced there really exists a well defined pro

Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Apr 2013, at 18:18, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, April 22, 2013 10:05:17 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Apr 2013, at 13:17, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > On Monday, April 22, 2013 4:56:08 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 21 Apr 2013, at 19:45, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > >

Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, April 22, 2013 2:41:58 PM UTC-4, smi...@zonnet.nl wrote: > > Any "aesthetic phenomena" or for that matter anything else we > experience There isn't anything else we (or anything else) can experience besides aesthetic phenomena. > is described by the known laws of physics which

Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-22 Thread smitra
Any "aesthetic phenomena" or for that matter anything else we experience is described by the known laws of physics which tells you what matters is the way information is processed. So, I'm not conviced there really exists a well defined problem here with consciousness. We're told by philospher

Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, April 22, 2013 10:05:17 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 22 Apr 2013, at 13:17, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > > > > On Monday, April 22, 2013 4:56:08 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > > On 21 Apr 2013, at 19:45, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Sunday,

Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Apr 2013, at 13:17, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, April 22, 2013 4:56:08 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Apr 2013, at 19:45, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > On Sunday, April 21, 2013 9:20:21 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 20 Apr 2013, at 23:23, Craig Weinberg wrote: > >> >>

Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, April 22, 2013 4:56:08 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 21 Apr 2013, at 19:45, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > > > > On Sunday, April 21, 2013 9:20:21 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > > On 20 Apr 2013, at 23:23, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> But what makes

Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Apr 2013, at 19:45, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, April 21, 2013 9:20:21 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 20 Apr 2013, at 23:23, Craig Weinberg wrote: But what makes the laws of physics turn into physics? What makes physics follow the laws? Study UDA. It answers this precis

Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-21 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, April 20, 2013 1:49:04 PM UTC-4, John Clark wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 5:18 AM, Bruno Marchal > > wrote: > > >> The reason nobody has a answer to the hard problem is that nobody has >> clearly explained exactly what the problem is or what the answer is >> expected to do. >

Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-21 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, April 21, 2013 9:20:21 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 20 Apr 2013, at 23:23, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > On Saturday, April 20, 2013 2:51:23 PM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 20 Apr 2013, at 17:56, meekerdb wrote: >> >> > On 4/20/2013 2:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:

Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Apr 2013, at 23:23, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, April 20, 2013 2:51:23 PM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 20 Apr 2013, at 17:56, meekerdb wrote: > On 4/20/2013 2:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> On 20 Apr 2013, at 05:26, meekerdb wrote: >> >>> On 4/19/2013 5:31 PM, John Clark w

Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Apr 2013, at 21:50, John Mikes wrote: Brent and Bruno: Brent I love you for your scientific self-consciousness: "I'm not so sure of the problem, but I'm pretty sure of the solution." That's the 'end' of all. Religions like it. Here is what I see as the (hard problem) problem: people like

Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-20 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, April 20, 2013 2:51:23 PM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 20 Apr 2013, at 17:56, meekerdb wrote: > > > On 4/20/2013 2:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> > >> On 20 Apr 2013, at 05:26, meekerdb wrote: > >> > >>> On 4/19/2013 5:31 PM, John Clark wrote: > > The reaso

Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Apr 2013, at 19:49, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 5:18 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> The reason nobody has a answer to the hard problem is that nobody has clearly explained exactly what the problem is or what the answer is expected to do. > The hard problem is only the

Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-20 Thread John Mikes
Brent and Bruno: *Brent* I love you for your scientific self-consciousness: *"I'm not so sure of the problem, but I'm pretty sure of the solution."* That's the 'end' of all. Religions like it. Here is what I see as the (hard problem) problem: people like to think in the mind-body restriction, as B

Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Apr 2013, at 17:56, meekerdb wrote: On 4/20/2013 2:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 20 Apr 2013, at 05:26, meekerdb wrote: On 4/19/2013 5:31 PM, John Clark wrote: The reason nobody has a answer to the hard problem is that nobody has clearly explained exactly what the problem is or w

Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-20 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 5:18 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> The reason nobody has a answer to the hard problem is that nobody has > clearly explained exactly what the problem is or what the answer is > expected to do. > > > The hard problem is only the antic mind-body problem, and what you say > is

Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-20 Thread meekerdb
On 4/20/2013 2:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 20 Apr 2013, at 05:26, meekerdb wrote: On 4/19/2013 5:31 PM, John Clark wrote: The reason nobody has a answer to the hard problem is that nobody has clearly explained exactly what the problem is or what the answer is expected to do. I'm not so

Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-20 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, April 20, 2013 5:18:01 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 20 Apr 2013, at 02:31, John Clark wrote: > > > The reason nobody has a answer to the hard problem is that nobody has > clearly explained exactly what the problem is or what the answer is > expected to do. > > > The hard

Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Apr 2013, at 05:26, meekerdb wrote: On 4/19/2013 5:31 PM, John Clark wrote: The reason nobody has a answer to the hard problem is that nobody has clearly explained exactly what the problem is or what the answer is expected to do. I'm not so sure of the problem, but I'm pretty sure

Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Apr 2013, at 02:31, John Clark wrote: The reason nobody has a answer to the hard problem is that nobody has clearly explained exactly what the problem is or what the answer is expected to do. The hard problem is only the antic mind-body problem, and what you say is that you don't

Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-19 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, April 19, 2013 11:26:28 PM UTC-4, Brent wrote: > > On 4/19/2013 5:31 PM, John Clark wrote: > > > > The reason nobody has a answer to the hard problem is that nobody has > clearly explained > > exactly what the problem is or what the answer is expected to do. > > I'm not so sure of

Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-19 Thread meekerdb
On 4/19/2013 5:31 PM, John Clark wrote: The reason nobody has a answer to the hard problem is that nobody has clearly explained exactly what the problem is or what the answer is expected to do. I'm not so sure of the problem, but I'm pretty sure of the solution. When we can build AI robots

Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-19 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, April 19, 2013 8:31:39 PM UTC-4, John Clark wrote: > > > The reason nobody has a answer to the hard problem is that nobody has > clearly explained exactly what the problem is or what the answer is > expected to do. > Yeah, it's a big mystery. To you. Like Free Will. The context of

Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-19 Thread John Clark
The reason nobody has a answer to the hard problem is that nobody has clearly explained exactly what the problem is or what the answer is expected to do. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this

Re: Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-19 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, April 19, 2013 6:59:28 PM UTC-4, smi...@zonnet.nl wrote: > > It is whatever an algorithm is computing. All the information is in the > computational state. If you have pain in your knee then exactly what > you are experiencing must be unambiguously present in the computational > sta

Hard Problem not hard at all?

2013-04-19 Thread smitra
It is whatever an algorithm is computing. All the information is in the computational state. If you have pain in your knee then exactly what you are experiencing must be unambiguously present in the computational state of your brain. Saibal -- You received this message because you are subscri