Re: COMP refutation GAME OVER

2011-07-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jul 2011, at 19:56, meekerdb wrote: On 7/10/2011 8:16 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: You confuse perhaps with Schmidhuber's position, or some digital physicist (DP). But as I have explained many times here that this position does not work. Computationalism or digital mechanism (DM) is the

Re: COMP refutation GAME OVER

2011-07-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Jul 2011, at 20:21, meekerdb wrote: On 7/13/2011 3:03 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Jul 2011, at 10:28, Kim Jones wrote: What does the pronoun "its" refer to in this sentence? The UD or the universe? How can something be the result of a process going through it? It has to exist al

Re: COMP refutation GAME OVER

2011-07-13 Thread meekerdb
On 7/13/2011 3:03 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Jul 2011, at 10:28, Kim Jones wrote: What does the pronoun "its" refer to in this sentence? The UD or the universe? How can something be the result of a process going through it? It has to exist already before anything can "go through it". Doe

Re: COMP refutation GAME OVER

2011-07-13 Thread meekerdb
On 7/13/2011 2:40 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: The universe as such does not exist. The mind of an observer can be captured by a computational state. How is a computational state defined? We're talking about a Turing machine; so does the state include the state of the machine plus what's on t

Re: COMP refutation GAME OVER

2011-07-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Jul 2011, at 10:28, Kim Jones wrote: What does the pronoun "its" refer to in this sentence? The UD or the universe? How can something be the result of a process going through it? It has to exist already before anything can "go through it". Doesn't it? Could either Quentin or Bruno pl

Re: COMP refutation GAME OVER

2011-07-13 Thread Quentin Anciaux
The universe as such does not exist. The mind of an observer can be captured by a computational state. A computational state is reached by an infinity of computations. The universe appearance (to the observer mind) is the result of this infinity of computations that interfere, because you superven

Re: COMP refutation GAME OVER

2011-07-13 Thread Kim Jones
What does the pronoun "its" refer to in this sentence? The UD or the universe? How can something be the result of a process going through it? It has to exist already before anything can "go through it". Doesn't it? Could either Quentin or Bruno please render this thought in French, please? I wil

Re: COMP refutation GAME OVER

2011-07-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jul 2011, at 20:08, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2011/7/11 meekerdb On 7/10/2011 8:16 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: You confuse perhaps with Schmidhuber's position, or some digital physicist (DP). But as I have explained many times here that this position does not work. Computationalism or di

Re: COMP refutation GAME OVER

2011-07-11 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2011/7/11 meekerdb > On 7/10/2011 8:16 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> You confuse perhaps with Schmidhuber's position, or some digital physicist >> (DP). But as I have explained many times here that this position does not >> work. Computationalism or digital mechanism (DM) is the idea that "I" am

Re: COMP refutation GAME OVER

2011-07-11 Thread meekerdb
On 7/10/2011 8:16 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: You confuse perhaps with Schmidhuber's position, or some digital physicist (DP). But as I have explained many times here that this position does not work. Computationalism or digital mechanism (DM) is the idea that "I" am a machine, and by the first pe

Re: COMP refutation GAME OVER

2011-07-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jul 2011, at 02:55, Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote: I'm sorry Bruno, but you are so intractably mired in your own presuppositions that you'll never get this. Rhetoric. Clearly you have never been roughly and uncompromisingly educated by the natural world, as I have as an engineer.

RE: COMP refutation GAME OVER

2011-07-10 Thread Colin Geoffrey Hales
-Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Monday, 11 July 2011 1:16 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: COMP refutation GAME OVER On 10 Jul 2011, at 09:37, Colin Geoffrey Hales

Re: COMP refutation GAME OVER

2011-07-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jul 2011, at 09:37, Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote: Hi Bruno et.al. Once again we have come to grief on the old conflation. (A) You speak of a universe _AS_ computation (described _as if_ on some abstract mega-turing machine) You confuse perhaps with Schmidhuber's position, or some dig

RE: COMP refutation GAME OVER

2011-07-10 Thread Colin Geoffrey Hales
Hi Bruno et.al. Once again we have come to grief on the old conflation. (A) You speak of a universe _AS_ computation (described _as if_ on some abstract mega-turing machine) (B) I speak of computation _OF_ laws of nature, by a computer made of natural material, where the laws of nature are tho