Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-08 Thread Jason Resch
Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-04, 20:39:55 Subject: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer On Tuesday, September 4, 2012 4:06:06 PM UTC-4, Jason wrote: The point that I am making is that our brain seems to be continuously generating a virtual reality model

Re: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-08 Thread Roger Clough
Time: 2012-09-05, 10:35:45 Subject: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer On Sep 5, 2012, at 7:00 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg IMHO the burden to show that computers are alive and have intelligence lies on the scientists. I see

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-08 Thread Jason Resch
content - From: Jason Resch Receiver: everything-list@googlegroups.com Time: 2012-09-05, 10:35:45 Subject: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer On Sep 5, 2012, at 7:00 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg IMHO the burden to show

Re: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-07 Thread Roger Clough
. - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-06, 20:25:27 Subject: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer On 9/6/2012 7:59 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, September 6, 2012 7:37:38 PM UTC-4, Stephen Paul

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-07 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/7/2012 8:26 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King I think of the brain as a running sensor of the static platonic world. Sort of like looking out of the car window as you speed along. Hi Roger, How would this be different, from the point of view of the driver, if it is the Car that

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-05, 11:42:39 Subject: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer On 05 Sep 2012, at 14:45, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Jason Resch What you call a virtual world, Kant and Leibniz call the phenomenal world. Hmm.. You simplify too much. Virtual

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-06 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/6/2012 1:21 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 05 Sep 2012, at 18:15, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal Perhaps wrongly, I think of the world of monads as the virtual world. Virtual means simulated by a computer, in computer science. It has another meaning in physics, which I have never

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-06 Thread meekerdb
On 9/6/2012 4:11 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 9/6/2012 1:21 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 05 Sep 2012, at 18:15, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal Perhaps wrongly, I think of the world of monads as the virtual world. Virtual means simulated by a computer, in computer science. It has

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-06 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, September 6, 2012 7:37:38 PM UTC-4, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 9/5/2012 11:50 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 6:38:07 AM UTC-4, rclough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King No, the stuff in our skulls is alive, has intelligence, and a 1p.

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-06 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/6/2012 7:59 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, September 6, 2012 7:37:38 PM UTC-4, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 9/5/2012 11:50 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 6:38:07 AM UTC-4, rclough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King No, the stuff in our

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-05 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/5/2012 12:44 AM, Jason Resch wrote: The brain can process data as it is listening (like buffering a video download) and likely predict the final word before it is done being uttered. To prove the brain somehow overcomes this half second delay in a convincing way, you would need to

Re: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-05 Thread Roger Clough
the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-04, 12:07:19 Subject: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer On 9/4/2012 11:17 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Jason Resch ? IMHO Not to disparage the superb work that computers can do

Re: Re: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-05 Thread Roger Clough
Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-04, 11:49:55 Subject: Re: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer Here is the link I mentioned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdg4mU-wuhI On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Jason Resch ? IMHO

Re: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-05 Thread Roger Clough
Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-04, 16:06:02 Subject: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 9/4/2012 1:19 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Stephen P. King stephe

Re: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-05 Thread Roger Clough
that everything could function. - Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-04, 20:39:55 Subject: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer On Tuesday, September 4, 2012 4:06:06 PM UTC-4, Jason wrote: The point

Re: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-05 Thread Roger Clough
Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-04, 21:44:02 Subject: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, September 4, 2012 4:06:06 PM UTC-4, Jason wrote: ?? The point that I am making

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-05 Thread Jason Resch
have to invent him so that everything could function. - Receiving the following content - From: Jason Resch Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-04, 21:44:02 Subject: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
- From: Jason Resch Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-04, 21:44:02 Subject: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, September 4, 2012 4:06:06 PM UTC-4, Jason wrote: 牋

Re: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-05 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 6:38:07 AM UTC-4, rclough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King No, the stuff in our skulls is alive, has intelligence, and a 1p. Computers don't and can't. Big sdifference. Hi Roger, 锟斤拷� Please leave magic out of this, as any sufficiently advanced

Re: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-05 Thread Roger Clough
Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-05, 11:42:39 Subject: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer On 05 Sep 2012, at 14:45, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Jason Resch What you call a virtual world, Kant and Leibniz call the phenomenal world. Hmm.. You simplify too much

Re: Re: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-05 Thread Roger Clough
function. - Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-05, 11:50:33 Subject: Re: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 6:38:07 AM UTC-4, rclough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King

Re: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-05 Thread Roger Clough
: 2012-09-05, 10:27:22 Subject: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer On Sep 5, 2012, at 7:45 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Jason Resch What you call a virtual world, Kant and Leibniz call the phenomenal world. Where did I use the term virtual world

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-05 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/5/2012 1:40 PM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg Leibniz's universe is completely alive, as was Whitehead's. Whitehead in particular spoke of events (as I recall) as occasions of experience. Hi Roger, A.N.Whitehead's idea is similar to a version of Craig's sense idea made in a

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-04 Thread Alberto G. Corona
At this moment this is true. Another thing is if the computer could become intelligent enough. It is not easy to admit that the belief in the possibility of making something intelligent exist well before computers. Since the industrial revolution, some people believed in the possibility of making

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-04 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I mean good design not god design 2012/9/4 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com: At this moment this is true. Another thing is if the computer could become intelligent enough. It is not easy to admit that the belief in the possibility of making something intelligent exist well before

Re: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-04 Thread Roger Clough
: Alberto G. Corona Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-04, 06:57:09 Subject: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer At this moment this is true. Another thing is if the computer could become intelligent enough. It is not easy to admit that the belief in the possibility

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-04 Thread Jason Resch
...@verizon.net 9/4/2012 Leibniz would say, If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so that everything could function. - Receiving the following content - From: Jason Resch Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-03, 12:22:47 Subject: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer On Mon

Re: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-04 Thread Roger Clough
: everything-list@googlegroups.com Time: 2012-09-04, 10:44:18 Subject: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer On Sep 4, 2012, at 6:55 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Jason Resch Where is the aware subject in the computer ? Where is the aware subject in you

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-04 Thread Jason Resch
On Sep 4, 2012, at 5:57 AM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: At this moment this is true. Another thing is if the computer could become intelligent enough. It is not easy to admit that the belief in the possibility of making something intelligent exist well before computers.

Re: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-04 Thread Roger Clough
, rclo...@verizon.net 9/4/2012 Leibniz would say, If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so that everything could function. - Receiving the following content - From: Jason Resch Receiver: everything-list@googlegroups.com Time: 2012-09-04, 10:53:11 Subject: Re: Why a bacterium has more

Re: Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-04 Thread Jason Resch
Here is the link I mentioned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdg4mU-wuhI On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Jason Resch IMHO Not to disparage the superb work that computers can do, but I think that it is a mistake to anthropo-morphise the computer.

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-04 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/4/2012 11:17 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Jason Resch IMHO Not to disparage the superb work that computers can do, but I think that it is a mistake to anthropo-morphise the computer. It has no intelligence, no life, no awareness, there's nothing magic about it. It's just a complex bunch of

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-04 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote: On 9/4/2012 11:17 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Jason Resch IMHO Not to disparage the superb work that computers can do, but I think that it is a mistake to anthropo-morphise the computer. It has no intelligence, no

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-04 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/4/2012 1:19 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net mailto:stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 9/4/2012 11:17 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Jason Resch IMHO Not to disparage the superb work that computers can do, but I

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-04 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote: On 9/4/2012 1:19 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote: On 9/4/2012 11:17 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Jason Resch IMHO Not to disparage the superb

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-04 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, September 4, 2012 4:06:06 PM UTC-4, Jason wrote: The point that I am making is that our brain seems to be continuously generating a virtual reality model of the world that includes our body and what we are conscious of is that model. I like this description of a

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-04 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/4/2012 4:06 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net mailto:stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 9/4/2012 1:19 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-04 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote: On 9/4/2012 4:06 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote: On 9/4/2012 1:19 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Stephen P. King

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-04 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/4/2012 8:39 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, September 4, 2012 4:06:06 PM UTC-4, Jason wrote: The point that I am making is that our brain seems to be continuously generating a virtual reality model of the world that includes our body and what we are

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-04 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/4/2012 9:54 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net mailto:stephe...@charter.net wrote: Hi Jason, Yes, but think of it as a window where everything in it is effectively simultaneous. Perhaps this is the

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-04 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote: On 9/4/2012 9:54 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote: Hi Jason, Yes, but think of it as a window where everything in it is effectively

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-03 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi benjayk Computers have no intelligence --not a whit, since intelligence requires ability to choose, choice requires awareness or Cs, which in term requires an aware subject. Thus only living entities can have

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-03 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, September 3, 2012 12:22:48 PM UTC-4, Jason wrote: On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Roger Clough rcl...@verizon.netjavascript: wrote: Hi benjayk Computers have no intelligence --not a whit, since intelligence requires ability to choose, choice requires awareness or Cs,

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-03 Thread Craig Weinberg
I should add a number 5...Cognitive Bias. How is it not obvious that computer scientists would want to believe very badly in the unlimited potential of developing computers? Why is this not considered a factor? We have study after study showing how the human mind is so effective at fooling

Re: Why a bacterium has more intelligence than a computer

2012-09-03 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: On Monday, September 3, 2012 12:22:48 PM UTC-4, Jason wrote: On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Roger Clough rcl...@verizon.net wrote: Hi benjayk Computers have no intelligence --not a whit, since intelligence