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Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 
9/13/2012  
Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him  
so that everything could function." 
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He means copies. I get two copies from you too. 

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 08:48:27AM -0400, Roger Clough wrote: 
> Hi Bruno Marchal  
>  
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> mail exemplars ? what are they ? 
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> Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 
> 9/12/2012  
> Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him  
> so that everything could function." 
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> From: Bruno Marchal  
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> Time: 2012-09-12, 06:37:18 
> Subject: Re: The sin of NDAA 
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> On 12 Sep 2012, at 12:16, Roger Clough wrote: 
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> Hi Bruno Marchal  
>  
> Amen. 
>  
>  
> What do you mean? If you can reassure me on Obama, or have some link to that 
> purpose, I would be delighted, but as Russell suggests, it might be 
> out-of-topic on this list, and there are already many posts. 
>  
>  
> BTW I get most of your posts in two exemplars. Am I the only one? You might 
> need to relaunch your mail application, perhaps. 
>  
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> Bruno 
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> Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 
> 9/12/2012  
> Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him  
> so that everything could function." 
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> From: Bruno Marchal  
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> Time: 2012-09-11, 12:58:10 
> Subject: Re: The sin of NDAA 
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> On 11 Sep 2012, at 13:20, Roger Clough wrote: 
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>  
> Hi Bruno Marchal  
>  
> It is ironic that Obama followed Bush policy economically (more spending) 
> and also much like Bush in warfare, although a bit more timidly. 
>  
>  
> Timidly? I read that Obama used more drones than anyone before, and, well I 
> am not sure, I think he beats Bush in all directions.  
>  
>  
> I have been very much disappointed by him. By signing the NDAA bill, vetoing 
> all suggested precautions of language, counter-signing it by a promise of 
> never using it (sic), (and btw violating his promise to never countersign 
> such bill), violatig his promise on health politics, ... he gives me the 
> chill.  
>  
>  
> The human rights, by definition, applies to *all* humans. You cannot create a 
> fuzzy class (suspect of threat) and decide that they have no human rights. 
> Only dictatorships do that. 
>  
>  
> It is a bit of a mystery. In one night, Obama has put on the war on terror a 
> look very similar to the war on drugs.  
> I knew the war on drugs is only fear selling business since long, but I was 
> still naive on the "war on terror". 
> I can't help myself to doubt about the 9/11 now. 
>  
>  
> Obama try do legalize at home indefinitely what we could still hope to be 
> war-exceptional under Bush.  
> In Europa the media makes the headline with the monstrosity of Bush, and the 
> same media remains mute on the fact that Obama attempted to implement legally 
> (!) those monstrosity at home (the 31 december 2011). 
>  
>  
> The supreme court has judged the note anti-constitutional, so some hope 
> remains, but for how long? 
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>  
> Bruno 
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> Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 
> 9/11/2012  
> Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him  
> so that everything could function." 
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> Time: 2012-09-10, 10:55:34 
> Subject: Re: The sin of NDAA 
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> On 09 Sep 2012, at 13:08, Roger Clough wrote: 
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>  
> Hi Bruno Marchal  
>  
> My feeling at the moment is to compare the sin of NDAA with 
> that of collateral damage, and war itself, and fall back on the 
> doctrine of just warfare. 
>  
>  
> I would have still be open to that idea one year ago. But Obama did not kept 
> his promise to decriminalize pot, to not let the feds interfere with the 
> state on this, to at least try to refrain the war on drug, and to finish the 
> war on terror. 
>  
>  
> Not only Obama did not do that, but he has tried, through the NDAA, to make 
> into an indefinite law what Bush succeeds to justify as warfare. 
>  
>  
> I could have thought it was just a typo mistake, but Obama's administration 
> has refuse any change to the language in the NDAA(*). 
>  
>  
> So, it looks to me more as the events leading to the third reich in Germany, 
> where the worst get power through democracy. 
>  
>  
> Obama has convinced me in one night that the war on terror is as fake as the 
> war on drugs. Now I think it is just the usual fear selling business, and 
> they are planning the catastrophes selling.  
>  
>  
> Although I have mocked the idea that 9/11 is an inside job, despite building 
> seven, I dod not expect Obama signing a text which contains the usual 
> dictator trick, which consists in abandoning the human right for a fuzzy 
> category of the population, and allowing the military to overturn the laws 
> and the constitution, and this after the war. 
>  
>  
> That is not the "sin of collateral damage", that is the sin of terrorism, 
> simply. Obama could have said more simply that the terrorist have won.  
> Al Qaeda looks more and more like a CIA construct, as frightening that might 
> seem. 
>  
>  
> The human right have to be applied to every one, or they are no more human 
> rights. If suspects of whatever have no more rights, you are no more living 
> in a democracy but in a tyranny. 
>  
>  
> If the media were able to do their job, Obama would already be detained in a 
> jail for attempt of coup d'etat.  
>  
>  
> I have supported him, but I do think now that both the republicans and 
> democrats have just zero power, and are the puppets of international mafia. 5 
> years of alcohol prohibition has given Al Capone, and I'm afraid we are 
> seeing the result of 75 years of prohibition of cannabis. It was a Trojan 
> Horse for the international criminality and terrorism.  
>  
>  
> I am less terrorized by bombs than by laws allowing detention without trial 
> for people being only suspected.  
>  
>  
> If you abandon an atom of liberty for an atom of security, you lose both. 
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> Bruno 
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> Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 
> 9/9/2012  
> Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him  
> so that everything could function." 
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> Time: 2012-09-08, 14:16:31 
> Subject: Re: Racism ? How's that implied ? 
>  
>  
> On 08 Sep 2012, at 15:33, Roger Clough wrote: 
>  
> > Hi Bruno Marchal 
> > 
> > OK, I see, you think I judge the abilities of people 
> > by the color of their skin. So you call me a racist. 
>  
>  
> I was thinking only you might judge someone by the constitution of its  
> body. 
>  
> You don't answer the question: "can your daughter marry a man which  
> body is 100% machine?" 
>  
>  
> > 
> > You might be a liberal, because ironically and 
> > paradoxically they see the world in terms of race. 
> > Conservatives attempt to live by facts. I never 
> > saw racism in what what I wrote until you brought 
> > the subject up. 
> > 
> > I don't mean to offend you with this talk of politics. 
> > Conservatives are not perfect either. 
>  
> Sure. I tend to be rather conservative, in principle. 
>  
> I think that today the liberal/conservative division makes no sense.  
> The division is more bastards/ victim of bastards, like Romney and  
> Obama against Ron Paul, Gary Johnson or Norman Solomon, or those who  
> understand that the human rights apply to everybody and those who does  
> not, or between the fear sellers and the constitutionalists. 
>  
> The republicans betrayed themselves by not attacking Obama on the NDAA  
> notes. Thanks to the existence of a many years long drug and food  
> prohibition I am hardly astonished. 
>  
> As long as prohibition continue, there are no politics, only well-  
> disguised form of mafias, which are succeeding to get the whole  
> financial system into hostage. The individual human is in danger. 
>  
> Bruno 
>  
> > 
> > 
> > Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 
> > 9/8/2012 
> > Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him 
> > so that everything could function." 
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> > Time: 2012-09-08, 04:46:38 
> > Subject: Re: Racism ? How's that implied ? 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 07 Sep 2012, at 15:00, Roger Clough wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Bruno Marchal 
> > 
> > Racism ? How's that implied ? 
> > 
> > 
> > Do you accept that your daughter marry a man who has undergone an  
> > artificial brain transplant? 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > But I do agree that perception and Cs are 
> > not understandable with materialistic concepts 
> > at least as they are commonly used. 
> > Instead they are what the mind can sense, 
> > 
> > 
> > OK. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > as a sixth sense. 
> > 
> > 
> > Hmm... 
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> > 
> > 
> > The mind is similar to driving a car through 
> > Platoville and watching the static events 
> > in passing. 
> > 
> > 
> > OK. 
> > 
> > 
> > Bruno 
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> > 
> > 
> > Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 
> > 9/7/2012 
> > Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him 
> > so that everything could function." 
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> > Time: 2012-09-06, 14:12:37 
> > Subject: Re: Sane2004 Step One 
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> > 
> > On 05 Sep 2012, at 18:12, Roger Clough wrote: 
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> > 
> > I don't think that life or mind or intelligence 
> > can be teleported. Especially since nobody knows what 
> > they are. 
> > 
> > I also don't believe that you can download 
> > the contents of somebody's brain. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > This is just restating that you don't believe in comp. 
> > 
> > 
> > OK, develop your theory, and predict something testable, and we will  
> > better understand what you mean. 
> > If not it looks just like a form of racism based on magic. 
> > 
> > 
> > Bruno 
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> > Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 
> > 9/5/2012 
> > Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him 
> > so that everything could function." 
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> > Time: 2012-09-05, 11:04:53 
> > Subject: Re: Sane2004 Step One 
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> > 
> > On 05 Sep 2012, at 06:14, meekerdb wrote: 
> > 
> >> On 9/4/2012 7:19 PM, Russell Standish wrote: 
> >>> On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 06:48:58PM -0700, Craig Weinberg wrote: 
> >>>> I have problems with all three of the comp assumptions: 
> >>>> 
> >>>> *yes, doctor*: This is really the sleight of hand that props up 
> >>>> the entire 
> >>>> thought experiment. If you agree that you are nothing but your  
> >>>> brain 
> >>>> function and that your brain function can be replaced by the 
> >>>> functioning of 
> >>>> non-brain devices, then you have already agreed that human 
> >>>> individuality is 
> >>>> a universal commodity. 
> >>> Calling it a sleight of hand is a bit rough. It is the meat of the 
> >>> comp assumption, and spelling it out this way makes it very 
> >>> explicit. Either you agree you can be copied (without feeling a 
> >>> thing), or you don't. If you do, you must face up to the  
> >>> consequences 
> >>> of the argument, if you don't, then you do not accept 
> >>> computationalism, and the consequences of the UDA do not apply to 
> >>> your 
> >>> worldview. 
> >> 
> >> I suppose I can be copied. But does it follow that I am just the 
> >> computations in my brain. It seems likely that I also require an 
> >> outside environment/world with which I interact in order to remain 
> >> conscious. Bruno passes this off by saying it's just a matter of 
> >> the level of substitution, perhaps your local environment or even 
> >> the whole galaxy must be replaced by a digital representation in 
> >> order to maintain your consciousness unchanged. But this bothers 
> >> me. Suppose it is the whole galaxy, or the whole observed 
> >> universe. Does it really mean anything then to say your brain has 
> >> been replaced ALONG WITH EVERYTHING ELSE? It's just the assertion 
> >> that everything is computable. 
> > 
> > That's a good argument for saying that the level of substitution is 
> > not that low. But the reasoning would still go through, and we would 
> > lead to a unique computable universe. That is the only way to make a 
> > digital physics consistent (as I forget to say sometimes). Then you 
> > get a more complex "other mind problem", and something like David 
> > Nyman- Hoyle beam would be needed, and would need to be separate from 
> > the physical reality, making the big physical whole incomplete, etc. 
> > yes this bothers me too. Needless to say, I tend to believe that if 
> > comp is true, the level is much higher. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> 
> >>> 
> >>>> *Church thesis*: Views computation in isolation, irrespective of 
> >>>> resources, 
> >>>> supervenience on object-formed computing elements, etc. This is a 
> >>>> theoretical theory of computation, completely divorced from 
> >>>> realism from 
> >>>> the start. What is it that does the computing? How and why does 
> >>>> data enter 
> >>>> or exit a computation? 
> >>> It is necessarily an abstract mathematical thesis. The latter two 
> >>> questions simply are relevant. 
> >>> 
> >>>> *Arithmetical Realism*: The idea that truth values are self 
> >>>> justifying 
> >>>> independently of subjectivity or physics is literally a shot in 
> >>>> the dark. 
> >>>> Like yes, doctor, this is really swallowing the cow whole from the 
> >>>> beginning and saying that the internal consistency of arithmetic 
> >>>> constitutes universal supremacy without any real indication of 
> >>>> that. 
> >>> AR is not just about internal consistency of mathematics, it is an 
> >>> ontological commitment about the natural numbers. Whatever primitive 
> >>> reality is, AR implies that the primitive reality models the natural 
> >>> numbers. 
> >> 
> >> ISTM that Bruno rejects any reality behind the natural numbers (or 
> >> other system of computation). If often argues that the natural 
> >> numbers exist, because they satisfy true propositions: There exists 
> >> a prime number between 1 and 3, therefore 2 exists. This assumes a 
> >> Platonist view of mathematical objects, which Peter D. Jones has 
> >> argued against. 
> > 
> > ? I would say that the contrary is true. It is because natural numbers 
> > exists, and seems to obeys laws like addition and multiplication that 
> > true propositions can be made on them. 2 exists, and only 1 and 2 
> > divides 2, so 2 is prime, and thus prime numbers exists. 2 itself 
> > exists just because Ex(x = s(s(0))) is true. Indeed take x = s(s(0)), 
> > and the proposition follows from s(s(0)) = s(s(0)). 
> > 
> > Bruno 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> 
> >> Brent 
> >> 
> >>> 
> >>> In fact, for COMP, and the UDA, Turing completeness of primitive 
> >>> reality is 
> >>> sufficient, but Bruno chose the natural numbers as his base reality 
> >>> because it is more familiar to his correspondents. 
> >>> 
> >>>> Wouldn't computers tend to be self-correcting by virtue of the 
> >>>> pull toward 
> >>>> arithmetic truth within each logic circuit? Where do errors come 
> >>>> from? 
> >>>> 
> >>> Again, these two questions seem irrelevant. 
> >>> 
> >>>> Craig 
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