Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Feb 2014, at 23:07, LizR wrote: And a nice manifold of red wine. (After a few of those it may be "p- time" of course...) With moderation, of course. A damn!, the red wine is in the basement, near the black hole, no idea where is the horizon, I will no try, and take non hard drug inst

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Feb 2014, at 18:48, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, PS: I have no idea what you are asking in the following question. If you make it clear I'll try to respond "You did not answer my question about the relation between p-time and 1-person. If I accept an artificial brain, and that c

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Feb 2014, at 18:45, Edgar L. Owen wrote: computational reality is what computes the actual information states of the observable universe. So you assume a primitive physical reality? This makes sense with your p-time, but it is incoherent with the assumption that we can survive with

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Feb 2014, at 18:11, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, February 24, 2014 9:03:30 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 23 Feb 2014, at 15:55, Craig Weinberg wrote: This might be a more concise way of making my argument: It is my claim that CTM has overlooked the necessity to describe th

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Feb 2014, at 17:59, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014 16:42, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 24 Feb 2014, at 15:38, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014 13:53, Bruno Marchal wrote: I am not sure why David switched the term. Perhaps to avoid the confusion between comp and its assump

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread LizR
And a nice manifold of red wine. (After a few of those it may be "p-time" of course...) On 25 February 2014 11:06, LizR wrote: > On 25 February 2014 11:02, wrote: > >> Pasta with meatballs and the meat balls are higher dimensional energy >> fields and the tomato sauce is the rolling tide of h

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread LizR
On 25 February 2014 11:02, wrote: > Pasta with meatballs and the meat balls are higher dimensional energy > fields and the tomato sauce is the rolling tide of higgs singlets reacting > with all. > > And spaghetti for the strings, sprinkled with little qubits of pepper. -- You received this mess

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread spudboy100
Redemption I prefer the Pasta theory of the universe... the universe is generated with pasta... My pasta universe starts with the actual observable state of the universe and works backward. That absolutely ensures that it is correct by definition even before we might know what all of those actual

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread LizR
2014-02-24 19:01 GMT+01:00 Edgar L. Owen : > Quentin, >> >> The typical adolescent response of someone unable to even understand the >> post he is responding to. >> >> For some reason my irony meter just exploded. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Eve

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread LizR
On 25 February 2014 06:57, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > My pasta theory conforms to standard scientific method in this respect > while yours does not. > > Tch. You've got a sauce. PS bless your noodly appendages! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everyt

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread LizR
Bless your noddly appendages. On 25 February 2014 06:57, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > I prefer the Pasta theory of the universe... the universe is generated > with pasta... My pasta universe starts with the actual observable state > of the universe and works backward. That absolutely ensures that i

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 24, 2014 3:11:47 PM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > > > 2014-02-24 20:24 GMT+01:00 Craig Weinberg > >: > >> >> >> On Monday, February 24, 2014 2:06:24 PM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 2014-02-24 20:02 GMT+01:00 Craig Weinberg : >>> >>> On Mon

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread David Nyman
On 24 February 2014 20:15, wrote: MHO the stage for bickering comes after a lot of this goes down. > Prematurally, you've got a virtual cast iron guar antee, however long this > runs, it's endings will the familiar territory, in line with all the other > instances you participated with whoever to

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread ghibbsa
On Monday, February 24, 2014 7:55:35 PM UTC, David Nyman wrote: > > On 24 February 2014 19:02, Craig Weinberg > > wrote: > >> >> >> On Monday, February 24, 2014 1:10:03 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: >> >>> On 24 February 2014 17:38, Craig Weinberg wrote: >>> >>> No, that's the point of the analog

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-02-24 20:24 GMT+01:00 Craig Weinberg : > > > On Monday, February 24, 2014 2:06:24 PM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: >> >> >> >> >> 2014-02-24 20:02 GMT+01:00 Craig Weinberg : >> >> >>> >>> On Monday, February 24, 2014 1:10:03 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: >>> On 24 February 2014 17:38, Cra

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread David Nyman
On 24 February 2014 19:02, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > On Monday, February 24, 2014 1:10:03 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: > >> On 24 February 2014 17:38, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >> No, that's the point of the analogy, so you can see for yourself why the >>> question is not reasonable. The questi

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 24, 2014 2:06:24 PM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > > > 2014-02-24 20:02 GMT+01:00 Craig Weinberg > >: > >> >> >> On Monday, February 24, 2014 1:10:03 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: >> >>> On 24 February 2014 17:38, Craig Weinberg wrote: >>> >>> No, that's the point of the

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-02-24 20:02 GMT+01:00 Craig Weinberg : > > > On Monday, February 24, 2014 1:10:03 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: > >> On 24 February 2014 17:38, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >> No, that's the point of the analogy, so you can see for yourself why the >>> question is not reasonable. The question pos

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 24, 2014 1:10:03 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: > > On 24 February 2014 17:38, Craig Weinberg > > wrote: > > No, that's the point of the analogy, so you can see for yourself why the >> question is not reasonable. The question posed over and over to me here has >> been some va

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread David Nyman
On 24 February 2014 17:41, Craig Weinberg wrote: Yes, it would be possible to have part of your brain removed and not be > aware of any difference also - my point though is, 'so what?' You can be > dead and not know the difference either, presumably. Are you making some distinction here between

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Quentin, Again you confirm my contention, and confirm your inability to state any inconsistency between P-time and relativity whatsoever. You can blubber forever and that will remain the same... Edgar On Monday, February 24, 2014 1:05:01 PM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > blablabla... genius

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread David Nyman
On 24 February 2014 17:38, Craig Weinberg wrote: No, that's the point of the analogy, so you can see for yourself why the > question is not reasonable. The question posed over and over to me here has > been some variation of this same "But if the world didn't work the way that > it does, wouldn't

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
blablabla... genius. 2014-02-24 19:01 GMT+01:00 Edgar L. Owen : > Quentin, > > The typical adolescent response of someone unable to even understand the > post he is responding to. > > Edgar > > > > On Monday, February 24, 2014 12:57:17 PM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > >> I prefer the Pasta t

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread ghibbsa
On Monday, February 24, 2014 3:38:40 AM UTC, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > On Sunday, February 23, 2014 7:22:36 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: >> >> On 23 February 2014 19:55, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Sunday, February 23, 2014 10:35:33 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: >>> On 23 Febr

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Quentin, The typical adolescent response of someone unable to even understand the post he is responding to. Edgar On Monday, February 24, 2014 12:57:17 PM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > I prefer the Pasta theory of the universe... the universe is generated > with pasta... My pasta univers

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
I prefer the Pasta theory of the universe... the universe is generated with pasta... My pasta universe starts with the actual observable state of the universe and works backward. That absolutely ensures that it is correct by definition even before we might know what all of those actual pastas are o

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, PS: I have no idea what you are asking in the following question. If you make it clear I'll try to respond "You did not answer my question about the relation between p-time and 1-person. If I accept an artificial brain, and that clock of that artigicial brain can be improved, I migh

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, As I've stated on many occasions, computational reality is what computes the actual information states of the observable universe. It is what computes what science observes and measures, whatever that may be. Your comp starts with an abstract assumption without any empirical justificati

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 24, 2014 12:16:26 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: > > On 24 February 2014 16:59, Craig Weinberg > > wrote: > >> You seem to be answering a different question. I thought it was a direct >>> entailment of your theory that no part of the brain could be substituted >>> purely func

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 24, 2014 12:16:26 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: > > On 24 February 2014 16:59, Craig Weinberg > > wrote: > >> You seem to be answering a different question. I thought it was a direct >>> entailment of your theory that no part of the brain could be substituted >>> purely func

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread David Nyman
On 24 February 2014 16:59, Craig Weinberg wrote: > You seem to be answering a different question. I thought it was a direct >> entailment of your theory that no part of the brain could be substituted >> purely functionally without affecting the consciousness of the person >> associated with that

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 24, 2014 9:03:30 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 23 Feb 2014, at 15:55, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > This might be a more concise way of making my argument: > > It is my claim that CTM has overlooked the necessity to describe the > method, mechanism, or arithmetic princi

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Feb 2014, at 15:10, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Craig, I agree too. Makes it sound low brow and pop culturish, like some consumer product for housewives. But that's a good way to distinguish it from my computational reality. But please tell us what it is. "computational" is a technical t

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread David Nyman
On 24 February 2014 16:42, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 24 Feb 2014, at 15:38, David Nyman wrote: > > On 24 February 2014 13:53, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > I am not sure why David switched the term. Perhaps to avoid the confusion >> between comp and its assumptions (like John Clark does sometimes),

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Feb 2014, at 14:57, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Thanks Bruno... As an advocate of a computational reality, I certainly believe that part of that universe (subsets) is computational minds, though I suspect we'd disagree about most of the rest You are welcome, but may be David meant som

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 24, 2014 11:43:28 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: > > On 24 February 2014 16:01, Craig Weinberg > > wrote: > >> >> >> On Monday, February 24, 2014 9:21:15 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: >> >>> On 24 February 2014 13:56, Craig Weinberg wrote: >>> >>> Sure, but there is a differenc

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread David Nyman
On 24 February 2014 16:01, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > On Monday, February 24, 2014 9:21:15 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: > >> On 24 February 2014 13:56, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >> Sure, but there is a difference between restoring damaged parts of a >>> living person's brain and putting parts sy

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Feb 2014, at 15:38, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014 13:53, Bruno Marchal wrote: I am not sure why David switched the term. Perhaps to avoid the confusion between comp and its assumptions (like John Clark does sometimes), or perhaps just to allude to the fact that it is a co

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 24, 2014 9:21:15 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: > > On 24 February 2014 13:56, Craig Weinberg > > wrote: > > Sure, but there is a difference between restoring damaged parts of a >> living person's brain and putting parts synthetic brain parts and expecting >> it to become a l

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread David Nyman
On 24 February 2014 13:53, Bruno Marchal wrote: I am not sure why David switched the term. Perhaps to avoid the confusion > between comp and its assumptions (like John Clark does sometimes), or > perhaps just to allude to the fact that it is a common theory used by most > cognitive scientists.

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread David Nyman
On 24 February 2014 13:56, Craig Weinberg wrote: Sure, but there is a difference between restoring damaged parts of a living > person's brain and putting parts synthetic brain parts and expecting it to > become a living person. I think we need to examine that assumption of difference more close

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Craig, I agree too. Makes it sound low brow and pop culturish, like some consumer product for housewives. But that's a good way to distinguish it from my computational reality. :-) Edgar On Monday, February 24, 2014 8:58:19 AM UTC-5, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > On Monday, February 24, 201

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Craig, All this discussion about replacing selves or brains is entirely a matter of definition, and thus pretty much a meaningless discussion. It is clear that if we could replace in EVERY last detail, that the new self would be an exact duplicate of the old self with the exact same mental sta

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Feb 2014, at 15:55, Craig Weinberg wrote: This might be a more concise way of making my argument: It is my claim that CTM has overlooked the necessity to describe the method, mechanism, or arithmetic principle by which computations are encountered. My hypothesis, drawn from both di

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 24, 2014 8:16:00 AM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: > > Craig, > > Pardon me but what does CTM stand for? > Computational Theory of Mind. Someone mentioned that they are tired of the word 'Comp', and I agree. Something about it I never liked. Makes it sound friendly and natura

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Thanks Bruno... As an advocate of a computational reality, I certainly believe that part of that universe (subsets) is computational minds, though I suspect we'd disagree about most of the rest Edgar On Monday, February 24, 2014 8:53:37 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 24 Feb 2014

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 24, 2014 8:17:02 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: > > On 24 February 2014 03:38, Craig Weinberg > > wrote: > >> >> >> On Sunday, February 23, 2014 7:22:36 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: >> >>> On 23 February 2014 19:55, Craig Weinberg wrote: >>> On Sunday, February

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Feb 2014, at 14:16, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Pardon me but what does CTM stand for? It is Computationalist Theory of Mind. It is another name of computationalism or comp, although usually comp refers explicitly to the very weak (logically) version of it. Usually CTM assumes that the b

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread David Nyman
On 24 February 2014 03:38, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > On Sunday, February 23, 2014 7:22:36 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: > >> On 23 February 2014 19:55, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Sunday, February 23, 2014 10:35:33 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: >>> On 23 February 2014 14:55, Cra

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Craig, Pardon me but what does CTM stand for? Edgar On Sunday, February 23, 2014 9:55:27 AM UTC-5, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > This might be a more concise way of making my argument: > > It is my claim that CTM has overlooked the necessity to describe the > method, mechanism, or arithmetic princ

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 23, 2014 7:22:36 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: > > On 23 February 2014 19:55, Craig Weinberg > > wrote: > >> >> >> On Sunday, February 23, 2014 10:35:33 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: >> >>> On 23 February 2014 14:55, Craig Weinberg wrote: >>> This might be a more concise

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-23 Thread David Nyman
On 23 February 2014 19:55, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > On Sunday, February 23, 2014 10:35:33 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: > >> On 23 February 2014 14:55, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >>> This might be a more concise way of making my argument: >>> >>> It is my claim that CTM has overlooked the necess

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 23, 2014 10:35:33 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: > > On 23 February 2014 14:55, Craig Weinberg > > wrote: > >> This might be a more concise way of making my argument: >> >> It is my claim that CTM has overlooked the necessity to describe the >> method, mechanism, or arithmetic

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-23 Thread David Nyman
On 23 February 2014 14:55, Craig Weinberg wrote: > This might be a more concise way of making my argument: > > It is my claim that CTM has overlooked the necessity to describe the > method, mechanism, or arithmetic principle by which computations are > encountered. > > My hypothesis, drawn from b

CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
This might be a more concise way of making my argument: It is my claim that CTM has overlooked the necessity to describe the method, mechanism, or arithmetic principle by which computations are encountered. My hypothesis, drawn from both direct human experience as well as experience with techn

Redemption

2013-06-15 Thread Roger Clough
REDEMPTION i) No redemption. Below in the Kingdom of Earth, her firstborn son is gone. her redemption is lost. Cain ? She cries out. ?nd where is Abel ? And the man I possessed ? In the night, Cain stumbles eastward toward Eden, Blood on his hands. A bolt of lightning splits