Re: Reality is a Quantumetric Computer

2020-02-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 5 Feb 2020, at 16:25, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 9:19:00 AM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 6:06:18 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > On Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at 6:47:41 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > REALITY.S

Re: Reality is a Quantumetric Computer

2020-02-06 Thread Philip Thrift
On Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 6:22:21 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 6:00:51 AM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote: >> >> On Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 5:46:24 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 4:50:27 AM UTC-

Re: Reality is a Quantumetric Computer

2020-02-06 Thread Philip Thrift
On Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 6:00:51 AM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > On Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 5:46:24 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 4:50:27 AM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote: >>> >>> On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 3:25:42 PM UTC-6,

Re: Reality is a Quantumetric Computer

2020-02-06 Thread Lawrence Crowell
On Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 5:46:24 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 4:50:27 AM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 3:25:42 PM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 9:25:26 AM UTC-

Re: Reality is a Quantumetric Computer

2020-02-06 Thread Philip Thrift
On Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 4:50:27 AM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 3:25:42 PM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 9:25:26 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 9:19:00 AM

Re: Reality is a Quantumetric Computer

2020-02-06 Thread Lawrence Crowell
On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 3:25:42 PM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 9:25:26 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 9:19:00 AM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell >> wrote: >>> >>> On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 6:06:18 AM

Re: Reality is a Quantumetric Computer

2020-02-05 Thread Philip Thrift
On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 4:50:36 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > > On 2/5/2020 2:12 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 4:01:26 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> On 2/5/2020 7:25 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 9:19:00

Re: Reality is a Quantumetric Computer

2020-02-05 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 2/5/2020 2:12 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 4:01:26 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: On 2/5/2020 7:25 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 9:19:00 AM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote: On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 6:06:18

Re: Reality is a Quantumetric Computer

2020-02-05 Thread Philip Thrift
On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 4:01:26 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > > On 2/5/2020 7:25 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 9:19:00 AM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell > wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 6:06:18 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>

Re: Reality is a Quantumetric Computer

2020-02-05 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 2/5/2020 7:25 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 9:19:00 AM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote: On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 6:06:18 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: On Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at 6:47:41 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote:

Re: Reality is a Quantumetric Computer

2020-02-05 Thread Philip Thrift
On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 3:40:41 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > > On 2/5/2020 4:06 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at 6:47:41 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: >> >> REALITY.SYS Corrupted: Re-boot universe? (Y/N/Q) >> >> John K Clark >> >> > > quantumetric compute

Re: Reality is a Quantumetric Computer

2020-02-05 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 2/5/2020 4:06 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: On Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at 6:47:41 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: REALITY.SYS Corrupted: Re-boot universe? (Y/N/Q)  John K Clark quantumetric computer The idea basically is to combine • quantum computer • relativistic computer e.g. h

Re: Reality is a Quantumetric Computer

2020-02-05 Thread Philip Thrift
On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 9:25:26 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 9:19:00 AM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 6:06:18 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at 6:47:41 AM UT

Re: Reality is a Quantumetric Computer

2020-02-05 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
, Feb 5, 2020 10:25 am Subject: Re: Reality is a Quantumetric Computer On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 9:19:00 AM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote: On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 6:06:18 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: On Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at 6:47:41 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: REALIT

Re: Reality is a Quantumetric Computer

2020-02-05 Thread Philip Thrift
On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 9:19:00 AM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 6:06:18 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at 6:47:41 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: >>> >>> REALITY.SYS Corrupted: Re-boot universe? (Y/N/Q) >>> >>>

Re: Reality is a Quantumetric Computer

2020-02-05 Thread Lawrence Crowell
On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 6:06:18 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at 6:47:41 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: >> >> REALITY.SYS Corrupted: Re-boot universe? (Y/N/Q) >> >> John K Clark >> >> > > quantumetric computer > > The idea basically is to combine > > •

Re: Reality is a Quantumetric Computer

2020-02-05 Thread Philip Thrift
On Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at 6:47:41 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > REALITY.SYS Corrupted: Re-boot universe? (Y/N/Q) > > John K Clark > > quantumetric computer The idea basically is to combine • quantum computer • relativistic computer e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1405. @philipthrift

Re: Reality is a Quantumetric Computer

2020-02-04 Thread John Clark
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Re: Reality is not matter, it's Heidegger's dasein, which is Leibniz's monad

2013-12-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Dec 2013, at 02:21, LizR wrote: On 6 December 2013 14:15, Roger Clough wrote: Reality is not matter, it's Heidegger's dasein, which is Leibniz's monad Materialists spend much effort on trying to show that reality is simply physics. But the philosophy of Plato, Leibniz, Kant, and n

Re: Reality is not matter, it's Heidegger's dasein, which is Leibniz's monad

2013-12-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Dec 2013, at 02:15, Roger Clough wrote: Reality is not matter, it's Heidegger's dasein, which is Leibniz's monad Materialists spend much effort on trying to show that reality is simply physics. But the philosophy of Plato, Leibniz, Kant, and now Heidegger shows that materialism a

Re: Reality is not matter, it's Heidegger's dasein, which is Leibniz's monad

2013-12-05 Thread LizR
On 6 December 2013 14:15, Roger Clough wrote: > Reality is not matter, it's Heidegger's dasein, which is Leibniz's monad > > Materialists spend much effort on trying to show that reality is simply > physics. But the philosophy of Plato, Leibniz, Kant, and now Heidegger > shows that materialism

Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio]

2012-11-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
--- From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-23, 14:41:13 Subject: Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio] On 23 Nov 2012, at 16:43, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal, I find this statement on http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mmk/papers/05-KI.html : ".

Re: Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio]

2012-11-24 Thread Roger Clough
e end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-23, 14:41:13 Subject: Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio] On 23 Nov 2012, at 16:43, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal, I find this

Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio]

2012-11-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
rever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-21, 12:23:40 Subject: Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio] On 21 Nov 2012, at 11:32, Roger Clough w

Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio]

2012-11-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
, [rclo...@verizon.net] 11/22/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content ----- From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-21, 12:23:40 Subject: Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Aud

Re: Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio]

2012-11-22 Thread Roger Clough
-Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-21, 12:23:40 Subject: Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio] On 21 Nov 2012, at 11:32, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal I'm trying to und

Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio]

2012-11-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
's theorems, which I might explain someday. Bruno [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 11/21/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-20, 10

Re: Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio]

2012-11-21 Thread Roger Clough
e end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-20, 10:05:13 Subject: Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio] On 20 Nov 2012, at 14:51, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal Sorry, where ar

Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio]

2012-11-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-19, 09:33:19 Subject: Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio] On 19 Nov 2012, at 11:22, Rog

Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio]

2012-11-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Nov 2012, at 20:14, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2012/11/19 meekerdb On 11/19/2012 8:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: and the math shows that this will include some continuous/analog observable. How does it show that? Brent Because the material reality is the sum of the infinity of comp

Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio]

2012-11-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Nov 2012, at 19:46, meekerdb wrote: On 11/19/2012 8:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: and the math shows that this will include some continuous/analog observable. How does it show that? Intuitively: by dovetailing on each programs coupled with real numbers. Each computations are done

Re: Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio]

2012-11-20 Thread Roger Clough
, 09:33:19 Subject: Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio] On 19 Nov 2012, at 11:22, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal I thought that comp is exactly opposite to what you say, that computationalism is the belief that we can simulate the mind with a computer program-- tha

Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio]

2012-11-19 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2012/11/19 meekerdb > On 11/19/2012 1:14 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > > 2012/11/19 meekerdb > >> On 11/19/2012 8:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> and the math shows that this will include some continuous/analog >> observable. >> >> >> How does it show that? >> >> Brent >> > > Because the

Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio]

2012-11-19 Thread meekerdb
On 11/19/2012 1:14 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2012/11/19 meekerdb mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> On 11/19/2012 8:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: and the math shows that this will include some continuous/analog observable. How does it show that? Brent Because the material reali

Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio]

2012-11-19 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2012/11/19 meekerdb > On 11/19/2012 8:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > and the math shows that this will include some continuous/analog > observable. > > > How does it show that? > > Brent > Because the material reality is the sum of the infinity of computations going through your current state.

Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio]

2012-11-19 Thread meekerdb
On 11/19/2012 8:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: and the math shows that this will include some continuous/analog observable. How does it show that? Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to eve

Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio]

2012-11-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
ot; -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-18, 07:46:20 Subject: Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio] On 17 Nov 2012, at 22:25, meekerdb wrote: > > > Original Message &

Re: Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio]

2012-11-19 Thread Roger Clough
e end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-18, 07:46:20 Subject: Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio] On 17 Nov 2012, at 22:25, meekerdb wrote: > > > --

Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio]

2012-11-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Nov 2012, at 22:25, meekerdb wrote: Original Message More In This Article *Overview _Is Quantum Reality Analog after All?_ (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=is-quantum-reality-analog-after-all ) Conventional wisdom says that quantum mech

Re: Reality as Dust

2012-11-12 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Stephen P. King > wrote: >> On 11/8/2012 10:04 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: >>> >>> The compact manifolds, what I call string theory monads, are more >>> fundamental than strings. Strings with spin, charge a

Re: Reality as Dust

2012-11-09 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: > On 11/8/2012 10:04 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: >> >> The compact manifolds, what I call string theory monads, are more >> fundamental than strings. Strings with spin, charge and mass, as well >> as spacetime, emerge from the compact manifold

Re: Reality as Dust

2012-11-08 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/8/2012 10:04 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: The compact manifolds, what I call string theory monads, are more fundamental than strings. Strings with spin, charge and mass, as well as spacetime, emerge from the compact manifolds, perhaps in the manner that you indicate below. Hi Richard,

Re: Reality

2012-09-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Sep 2012, at 19:24, Roger Clough wrote: Leibniz, my mentor, believed that reality (being mental) consists of an infinite collection of (inextended) mathematical points called monads. These can never be created or destroyed. Like the numbers. Note this, the numbers 1, 2, 3 in front of

Re: Reality as simplicity

2009-03-11 Thread ronaldheld
I thought I would add the paper:Temporal Platonic Metaphysics:arxiv.org:0903.18001v1 On Mar 9, 12:26 pm, ronaldheld wrote: > Not certain what thread this belongs in so I started up a new one. > arxiv.org:0903.1193v1 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

Re: Reality

2008-12-28 Thread John Mikes
x27;reductionism' the view of a limited part (model as I call it) of the totality, maybe 'all of we know, or can imagine' from the unlimited possibilities. I don't use it pejoratively. This is the way how we can think (or understand) in our restricted capabilities. I try to step fu

Re: Reality

2008-12-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Tom, On 27 Dec 2008, at 22:50, Tom Caylor wrote: > > Bruno, > > Just coming at this after not thinking about it much. Good method :) > Sometimes > that's an advantage, but sometimes it results in forgetting pertinent > points that were understood before. As a math teacher, I know perfec

Re: Reality

2008-12-27 Thread Tom Caylor
Bruno, Just coming at this after not thinking about it much. Sometimes that's an advantage, but sometimes it results in forgetting pertinent points that were understood before. So if it's the latter, I hope you forgive me. Taking two of your statements and trying to synthesize them, first this

Re: Reality

2008-12-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
it is an openness of our mind toward a peculiar Unknown which invites itself to our table. Bruno > - Original Message - > From: Bruno Marchal > To: everything-l...@googlegroups.com > Sent

Re: Reality

2008-12-25 Thread John Mikes
with a > reality of numbers. But if it's the only game in town, I can live with it. > Season's Best, > > > > marty a. > > > > > > > - Original Message ----- > *From:* Bruno Marchal > *To:* everythin

Re: Reality

2008-12-22 Thread M.A.
son's Best, marty a. - Original Message - From: Bruno Marchal To: everything-l...@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 11:11 AM Subject: Re:

Re: Reality

2008-12-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
M.A., On 20 Dec 2008, at 15:21, M.A. wrote: > Bruno, > Does the term "reality" have any meaning in MEC? > > m > .a. What makes you think the term "reality" has no meaning

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-10-01 Thread 1Z
Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > COL > >> Yes. Causal chains, no matter how improbable, executed at the tiniest > of > >> scales the same ones that make LUCY our literal ancestor. connect > us. > >

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-29 Thread Colin Geoffrey Hales
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> COL >> Yes. Causal chains, no matter how improbable, executed at the tiniest of >> scales the same ones that make LUCY our literal ancestor. connect us. > LZ > It depends what you , mean by "connect"

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-29 Thread 1Z
Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote: > > > > > > Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote: > >> >> The problem is that cells are defined and understood only through > >> being > >> >> observed with our phenomenal consciousness. > >> > > >> > Not "only". Cognition and instrumentation are needed too. > >> > >> Yes. But th

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-28 Thread Colin Geoffrey Hales
> > > Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote: >> >> The problem is that cells are defined and understood only through >> being >> >> observed with our phenomenal consciousness. >> > >> > Not "only". Cognition and instrumentation are needed too. >> >> Yes. But the instruments are observed. All the instruments

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-28 Thread 1Z
Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote: > >> The problem is that cells are defined and understood only through being > >> observed with our phenomenal consciousness. > > > > Not "only". Cognition and instrumentation are needed too. > > Yes. But the instruments are observed. All the instruments do is extend >

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-28 Thread Colin Geoffrey Hales
>> The problem is that cells are defined and understood only through being >> observed with our phenomenal consciousness. > > Not "only". Cognition and instrumentation are needed too. Yes. But the instruments are observed. All the instruments do is extend the causal chain between your phenomenali

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-28 Thread 1Z
Colin Hales wrote: > 1Z > > > > Colin Hales wrote: > > > > > > > > So I ask again HOW would we act DIFFERENTLY if we acted "as-if" MIND > > > > EXISTED. So far > > > > the only difference I SEE is writing a lot of stuff in CAPS. > > > > > > > > Brent Meeker > > > > > > > > > > FIRSTLY > > > Form

RE: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-27 Thread Colin Hales
1Z > > Colin Hales wrote: > > > > > > So I ask again HOW would we act DIFFERENTLY if we acted "as-if" MIND > > > EXISTED. So far > > > the only difference I SEE is writing a lot of stuff in CAPS. > > > > > > Brent Meeker > > > > > > > FIRSTLY > > Formally we would investigate new physics of unde

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-27 Thread 1Z
Colin Hales wrote: > > > > So I ask again HOW would we act DIFFERENTLY if we acted "as-if" MIND > > EXISTED. So far > > the only difference I SEE is writing a lot of stuff in CAPS. > > > > Brent Meeker > > > > FIRSTLY > Formally we would investigate new physics of underlying reality such as > th

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-27 Thread 1Z
Colin Hales wrote: > 1Z > > > Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 3:19 AM > > > >> > Brent Meeker > > > >> It wouldn't make any difference: if solipsism were true, people would > > > behave exactly as they do behave, > > > >> most of them not giving the idea that there is no external world any > >

RE: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-27 Thread John M
--- Colin Hales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (among a lot other things, quoted and replied to): >I disagree and can show empirical proof that we scientists only THINK we are not being solipsistic.< I wrote in this sense lately (for the past say 40 years) but now I tend to change my solipsistic m

RE: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-26 Thread Colin Hales
> > So I ask again HOW would we act DIFFERENTLY if we acted "as-if" MIND > EXISTED. So far > the only difference I SEE is writing a lot of stuff in CAPS. > > Brent Meeker > FIRSTLY Formally we would investigate new physics of underlying reality such as this: --

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-26 Thread Brent Meeker
Colin Hales wrote: > > > 1Z > > >>Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 3:19 AM >> >>Brent Meeker > >It wouldn't make any difference: if solipsism were true, people would >>> >>>behave exactly as they do behave, >>> >most of them not giving the idea that there is no external world a

RE: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-26 Thread Colin Hales
1Z > Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 3:19 AM > > >> > Brent Meeker > > >> It wouldn't make any difference: if solipsism were true, people would > > behave exactly as they do behave, > > >> most of them not giving the idea that there is no external world any > > consideration at all, the rest d

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-24 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 12:11:54PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In my narrative for a substitute Big Bang I called the originating > zero-info-'object' Plenitude, as I realize from your words (thank you) it is > close to the Old Greek Chaos. In that narrative Universes occur by > 'differentia

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-24 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 03:23:44PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > Le 23-sept.-06, ˆ 07:01, Russell Standish a Žcrit : > > > > Anything provable by a finite set of axioms is necessarily a finite > > string of > > symbols, and can be found as a subset of my Nothing. > > > You told us that

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-24 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 08:05:14AM -0700, 1Z wrote: > > Russell Standish wrote: > > > The Nothing itself does not have any properties in itself to speak > > of. Rather it is the PROJECTION postulate that means we can treat it > > as the set of all strings, from which any conscious viewpoint must

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-24 Thread 1Z
Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote: > > > > Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > >> Brent meeker writes: > >> > Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > >> > > John, > >> > > > >> > > Even a real solipsist might eat, sleep, talk to people etc., all > >> under the impression that everything is a > >> > > construction of his

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-24 Thread jamikes
- Original Message - From: "Russell Standish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 2:16 AM Subject: Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test > (upon Bruno's question)... >To be more precise, I identify Nothing with > undiffe

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-24 Thread 1Z
Russell Standish wrote: > The Nothing itself does not have any properties in itself to speak > of. Rather it is the PROJECTION postulate that means we can treat it > as the set of all strings, from which any conscious viewpoint must > correspond to a subset of strings. That sounds rather like th

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-24 Thread jamikes
del view. But we all pretend to be smart liars. * Your last paragraph paved my way to the nuthouse. Thanks John M - Original Message - From: "Colin Geoffrey Hales" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 11:11 PM Subject: Re: Reality, the bogus nature o

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 23-sept.-06, ˆ 07:01, Russell Standish a Žcrit : > Anything provable by a finite set of axioms is necessarily a finite > string of > symbols, and can be found as a subset of my Nothing. You told us that your Nothing contains all strings. So it contains all formula as "theorems". But a th

RE: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-24 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Peter Jones writes: > Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > Brent meeker writes: > > > > > Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > > John, > > > > > > > > Even a real solipsist might eat, sleep, talk to people etc., all under > > > > the impression that everything is a > > > > construction of his own mind. Pe

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-24 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 03:26:21PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > Please allows me at this stage to be the most precise as possible. From > a logical point of view, your theory of Nothing is equivalent to > Q1 + Q2 + Q3. It is a very weaker subtheory of RA. It is not sigma1 > complete, you don

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-23 Thread Colin Geoffrey Hales
> > Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >> Brent meeker writes: >> > Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >> > > John, >> > > >> > > Even a real solipsist might eat, sleep, talk to people etc., all >> under the impression that everything is a >> > > construction of his own mind. People willingly suspend disbelief i

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-23 Thread 1Z
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > Brent meeker writes: > > > Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > John, > > > > > > Even a real solipsist might eat, sleep, talk to people etc., all under > > > the impression that everything is a > > > construction of his own mind. People willingly suspend disbelief in or

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 22-sept.-06, à 19:18, Russell Standish a écrit : > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 12:18:37PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > ... > >> >> It is really the key to understand that if my 3-person I is a machine, >> then the I, (the 1-person I) is not! This can be used to explain why >> the 1-person is

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 22-sept.-06, à 19:10, Russell Standish a écrit : > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 02:59:09PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> Any person's experience is obtained by >>> differentiating - selecting something from that "nothing". >>> >>> The relationship between this zero information object, and >

RE: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-23 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
> real world. From Hitler to a nun. > I was not thinking on the "intermittent solips" as pointed to by some > (reasonable) list-colleagues. > John > - Original Message - > From: "Stathis Papaioannou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sen

RE: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-23 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Brent meeker writes: > Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > John, > > > > Even a real solipsist might eat, sleep, talk to people etc., all under the > > impression that everything is a > > construction of his own mind. People willingly suspend disbelief in order > > to indulge in fiction or compute

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-23 Thread jamikes
to a nun. I was not thinking on the "intermittent solips" as pointed to by some (reasonable) list-colleagues. John - Original Message - From: "Stathis Papaioannou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 10:59 PM Subject: RE: Reality, the bogus n

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-23 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 12:18:37PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: ... > > It is really the key to understand that if my 3-person I is a machine, > then the I, (the 1-person I) is not! This can be used to explain why > the 1-person is solipsist, although the 1-person does not need to be > doctri

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-23 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 02:59:09PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > Any person's experience is obtained by > > differentiating - selecting something from that "nothing". > > > > The relationship between this zero information object, and > > arithmetical platonia is a bit unclear, but I would say

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-22 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > John, > > Even a real solipsist might eat, sleep, talk to people etc., all under the > impression that everything is a > construction of his own mind. People willingly suspend disbelief in order to > indulge in fiction or computer > games, and a solipsist may beli

RE: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-22 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
OTECTED] > To: everything-list@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test > Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:51:28 -0400 > > > Stathis: > wouod a "real" solipsist even talk to you? > John M > - Original Message - > From: "Sta

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 22-sept.-06, à 08:16, Russell Standish a écrit : > > On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 04:16:53PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> Russell, when you say "nothing external exist", do you mean "nothing >> primitively material" exist, or do you mean there is no independent >> reality at all, not even an

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 20-sept.-06, à 21:06, Brent Meeker a écrit : > > Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> Le 20-sept.-06, à 14:08, 1Z a écrit : >> >> >>> This isn't the only way COMP couldbe false. For instance, if >>> matter exists, consciousness could be dependent on it. Thus, >>> while the existence of matter might dis

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-21 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 04:16:53PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > Russell, when you say "nothing external exist", do you mean "nothing > primitively material" exist, or do you mean there is no independent > reality at all, not even an immaterial one? (I ordered your book but I > am still wai

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-21 Thread David Nyman
Russell Standish wrote: > It makes absolute sense to me, and it is really one of the central > themes of my book "Theory of Nothing". The only points of view are > interior ones, because what is external is just "nothing". > > But I know that Colin comes from a different ontological bias, since >

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
About solipsism I think it is useful to distinguish: - the (ridiculous) *doctrine* of solipsism. It says that I exist and you don't. - the quasi trivial fact that any pure first person view is solipsistic. This makes the doctrine of solipsism non refutable, and thus non scientific in Popper

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-21 Thread jamikes
]> To: Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 7:51 PM Subject: Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test > > Colin Hales wrote: > > > > > >>-Original Message- > >>From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything- > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-21 Thread jamikes
Stathis: wouod a "real" solipsist even talk to you? John M - Original Message - From: "Stathis Papaioannou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruno Marchal" Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 7:21 PM Subject: RE: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing te

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-21 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 10:36:00AM -, David Nyman wrote: > > I think we will never be able to engage with the issues you describe > until we realise that what we are faced with is a view from the inside > of a situation that has no outside. Our characterisation of 'what > exists' as 'outside'

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-21 Thread David Nyman
Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote: > This paradoxical situation I have analysed out and, I hope, straightened > out. The answer lies not in adopting/rejecting solipsism per se (although > solipsism is logically untenable for subtle reasons) , but in merely > recognising what scientific evidence is actua

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
Peter, I am afraid we are in a loop. I have already answer most of your comments, except this one: > >> Again, from a strictly logical point > > As opposed to ? As opposed to the common sense needed for the choice of the axioms of the (logical) theory. To be sure I have not yet commented an

RE: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-20 Thread Colin Hales
> -Original Message- > From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brent Meeker > Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 9:52 AM > To: everything-list@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-20 Thread Brent Meeker
Colin Hales wrote: > > >>-Original Message- >>From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything- >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brent Meeker >>Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 9:31 AM >>To: everything-list@googlegroups.com >>Sub

RE: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-20 Thread Colin Hales
> -Original Message- > From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brent Meeker > Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 9:31 AM > To: everything-list@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing te

Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test

2006-09-20 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > Bruno Marchal writes: > > >>About solipsism I am not sure why you introduce the subject. It seems >>to me nobody defend it in the list. > > > Is anyone out there really a solipsist? Has anyone ever met or talked to a > real solipsist? > > Stathis Papaioannou Wi

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