On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com wrote:
On 9/23/2010 8:26 PM, Rex Allen wrote:
If you expose a deterministic system to a set of inputs that represent
a particular environment, the system will react in the one and only
way it can to that set of inputs.
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
The word 'universe does not refer to anything except the observable
experiential first person plural (sharable among collection of programs)
that arithmetic places on us as a consequence of addition and
multiplication.
I
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru wrote:
The text is well done. Thanks. A question. What would be the consequence of
the nomologicalism for a person that would like to earn some more money?
Well, let us not consider the case when one successfully sells the text
On 9/25/2010 11:59 PM, Rex Allen wrote:
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Brent Meekermeeke...@dslextreme.com wrote:
On 9/23/2010 8:26 PM, Rex Allen wrote:
If you expose a deterministic system to a set of inputs that represent
a particular environment, the system will react in the
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com wrote:
If you can find a Putnam-mapping that can extracts a representation of
a conscious entity, you can also find a mapping that extracts a
representation of an environment to go with it.
Sure - but it's not our
On 9/26/2010 12:15 PM, Rex Allen wrote:
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Brent Meekermeeke...@dslextreme.com wrote:
If you can find a Putnam-mapping that can extracts a representation of
a conscious entity, you can also find a mapping that extracts a
representation of an environment to go
On 24 Sep 2010, at 05:26, Rex Allen wrote:
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:12 PM, 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote:
On 22 Sep, 17:20, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote:
I guess I'd have to hear your definition of property to make any
sense of that. In what sense is it like the properties of
The text is well done. Thanks. A question. What would be the consequence
of the nomologicalism for a person that would like to earn some more
money? Well, let us not consider the case when one successfully sells
the text about nomologicalism.
Evgenii
on 21.09.2010 19:10 Rex Allen said the
On 24 Sep, 04:26, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:12 PM, 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote:
On 22 Sep, 17:20, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote:
I guess I'd have to hear your definition of property to make any
sense of that. In what sense is it like
On 9/23/2010 8:26 PM, Rex Allen wrote:
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:12 PM, 1Zpeterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote:
On 22 Sep, 17:20, Rex Allenrexallen31...@gmail.com wrote:
I guess I'd have to hear your definition of property to make any
sense of that. In what sense is it like the properties
On 22 Sep, 17:20, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:14 AM, 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote:
On 21 Sep, 18:10, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote:
What is the significance of intelligence in a universe with
deterministic laws?
Your performance on any
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:12 PM, 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote:
On 22 Sep, 17:20, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote:
I guess I'd have to hear your definition of property to make any
sense of that. In what sense is it like the properties of charge,
mass, spin, or color?
it's a
On 21 Sep, 18:10, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote:
What is the significance of intelligence in a universe with
deterministic laws?
Your performance on any IQ test is not due to your possessing some
property called intelligence, but rather is an inevitable outcome of
the universe's
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:14 AM, 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote:
On 21 Sep, 18:10, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote:
What is the significance of intelligence in a universe with
deterministic laws?
Your performance on any IQ test is not due to your possessing some
property called
What is the significance of intelligence in a universe with
deterministic laws?
Your performance on any IQ test is not due to your possessing some
property called intelligence, but rather is an inevitable outcome of
the universe's initial conditions and governing causal laws.
The questions you
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