Re: Donald Hoffman Video on Interface Theory of Consciousness

2014-01-22 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Craig, I was cheering and AMENing throughout the talk. I especially liked the Category theoretic equation of interaction at http://youtu.be/dqDP34a-epI 22:04. Notice that the horizontal arrow point in opposite directions On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > O

Re: Donald Hoffman Video on Interface Theory of Consciousness

2014-01-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 5:26:15 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: > > Dear Craig, > > On Thursday, January 16, 2014 2:54:19 PM UTC-5, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 2:59:50 PM UTC-5, freqflyer07281972 wrote: >>> >>> Hey Craig! >>> >>> I watched the video.

Re: Donald Hoffman Video on Interface Theory of Consciousness

2014-01-22 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Craig, On Thursday, January 16, 2014 2:54:19 PM UTC-5, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 2:59:50 PM UTC-5, freqflyer07281972 wrote: >> >> Hey Craig! >> >> I watched the video... very cool! >> > > Hi Dan, glad you liked it. > > >> >> Questions: >> >> 1) Who is the

Re: Donald Hoffman Video on Interface Theory of Consciousness

2014-01-16 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 2:59:50 PM UTC-5, freqflyer07281972 wrote: > > Hey Craig! > > I watched the video... very cool! > Hi Dan, glad you liked it. > > Questions: > > 1) Who is the user of the interface? What is "us"? > I'm not sure what Hoffman's answer would be, but I think that th

Re: Donald Hoffman Video on Interface Theory of Consciousness

2014-01-15 Thread freqflyer07281972
Hey Craig! I watched the video... very cool! Questions: 1) Who is the user of the interface? What is "us"? 2) What is the interface representing? Hoffman uses the analogy of the file and the trash bin icons on the desktop. In a computer, I know that the file ultimately represents binary value