Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, January 24, 2013 1:17:12 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > On 1/24/2013 9:44 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > On Thursday, January 24, 2013 12:13:25 AM UTC-5, Brent wrote: >> >> On 1/23/2013 5:53 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >> I guess you are serious, but I can't imagine how you can

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-24 Thread meekerdb
On 1/24/2013 9:44 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, January 24, 2013 12:13:25 AM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/23/2013 5:53 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: I guess you are serious, but I can't imagine how you can actually believe that. You think that you turn the Mars rover on and ther

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, January 24, 2013 12:13:25 AM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > On 1/23/2013 5:53 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > I guess you are serious, but I can't imagine how you can actually believe > that. You think that you turn the Mars rover on and there is some entity > there which has an expectati

Re: Re: Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-24 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg Do I have to tell you ? Fictitous objects have no consciousness. - Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-23, 12:23:21 Subject: Re: Re: the curse of materialism On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 6:03:58 AM

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-23 Thread meekerdb
On 1/23/2013 5:53 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: I guess you are serious, but I can't imagine how you can actually believe that. You think that you turn the Mars rover on and there is some entity there which has an expectation about 'Mars' or Earth. It really doesn't. There is no entity there So y

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 7:42:27 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > On 1/23/2013 9:27 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 5:01:09 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: >> >> On 1/22/2013 10:57 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >> Then how does one manage to negotiate the surface of Mar

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-23 Thread meekerdb
On 1/23/2013 9:27 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 5:01:09 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/22/2013 10:57 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: Then how does one manage to negotiate the surface of Mars and another to drive through the streets of Los Angeles. Y

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 5:01:09 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > On 1/22/2013 10:57 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > Then how does one manage to negotiate the surface of Mars and another to >> drive through the streets of Los Angeles. >> > > You associate the images with Mars or Los Angeles, no

Re: Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
existence too? Why not? Craig > > > - Receiving the following content - > *From:* Bruno Marchal > *Receiver:* everything-list > *Time:* 2013-01-22, 12:28:48 > *Subject:* Re: the curse of materialism > > On 22 Jan 2013, at 18:06, Stephen P. King wrote

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Jan 2013, at 23:01, meekerdb wrote: On 1/22/2013 10:57 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: Then how does one manage to negotiate the surface of Mars and another to drive through the streets of Los Angeles. You associate the images with Mars or Los Angeles, not the computer. Not 'images', 'r

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-23 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/23/2013 6:03 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen, Numbers do have an independent existence, that being nonphysical existence. Hi Roger, I agree but only because I see existence as mere a priori necessary possibility; not contingent upon perception at all... -- Onward! Stephen -- Yo

Re: Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-23 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen, Numbers do have an independent existence, that being nonphysical existence. - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-22, 12:28:48 Subject: Re: the curse of materialism On 22 Jan 2013, at 18:06, Stephen P. King wrote

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-22 Thread meekerdb
On 1/22/2013 10:57 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: Then how does one manage to negotiate the surface of Mars and another to drive through the streets of Los Angeles. You associate the images with Mars or Los Angeles, not the computer. Not 'images', 'representations' (check your reading ac

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, January 21, 2013 6:42:04 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > On 1/21/2013 3:27 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > On Monday, January 21, 2013 5:38:32 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: >> >> On 1/21/2013 2:09 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >> >> >> On Monday, January 21, 2013 4:59:55 PM UTC-5, Brent wrot

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Jan 2013, at 18:06, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/22/2013 10:41 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Jan 2013, at 20:05, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/21/2013 8:30 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: If you don't take arithmetic as primitive, I can prove that you cannot derive both addition and multipli

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-22 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/22/2013 10:41 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Jan 2013, at 20:05, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/21/2013 8:30 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: If you don't take arithmetic as primitive, I can prove that you cannot derive both addition and multiplication, nor the existence of computer. Then everythi

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Jan 2013, at 09:19, socra...@bezeqint.net wrote: Book: What is your dangerous idea? / Edited by John Brockman / Article: Seeing Darwin in the light of Einstein; Seeing Einstein in the light of Darwin. / by Lee Smolin. / ===. / Page 115 / Seeing Einstein in the light of Darwin

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Jan 2013, at 20:36, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, January 21, 2013 12:01:50 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Jan 2013, at 17:45, Craig Weinberg wrote: You are saying that you can prove that the only way a computer can exist is if arithmetic is irreducible? I did not say th

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Jan 2013, at 20:05, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/21/2013 8:30 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: If you don't take arithmetic as primitive, I can prove that you cannot derive both addition and multiplication, nor the existence of computer. Then everything around me does not make sense. If you

Re: Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-22 Thread Roger Clough
for myself, I'm too conservative to easily accept these views, but I am open to examining them. - Receiving the following content - From: socra...@bezeqint.net Receiver: Everything List Time: 2013-01-22, 03:19:16 Subject: Re: the curse of materialism Book: What is your dangerous id

Re: Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-22 Thread Roger Clough
ng content - From: socra...@bezeqint.net Receiver: Everything List Time: 2013-01-22, 02:46:12 Subject: Re: the curse of materialism Lecture : Scientific heresy. Nov 1, 2011 in Edinburgh. / By Matt Ridley / My topic today is scientific heresy. When are scientific heretics right and whe

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-22 Thread socra...@bezeqint.net
Book: What is your dangerous idea? / Edited by John Brockman / Article: Seeing Darwin in the light of Einstein; Seeing Einstein in the light of Darwin. / by Lee Smolin. / ===. / Page 115 / Seeing Einstein in the light of Darwin suggests that natural selection could act not only on

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-21 Thread socra...@bezeqint.net
Lecture : Scientific heresy. Nov 1, 2011 in Edinburgh. / By Matt Ridley / My topic today is scientific heresy. When are scientific heretics right and when are they mad? How do you tell the difference between science and pseudoscience? # Just this month Daniel Shechtman won the 2011 Nobel

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-21 Thread meekerdb
On 1/21/2013 5:10 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/21/2013 4:59 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 1/21/2013 11:05 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: Materialism fails since it cannot explain how it is possible for material things to have representations of things, intensionality, such as numbers. That's somethin

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-21 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/21/2013 4:59 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 1/21/2013 11:05 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: Materialism fails since it cannot explain how it is possible for material things to have representations of things, intensionality, such as numbers. That's something evolution explains. Brent Hi Brent,

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-21 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/21/2013 2:45 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: I mean if we wanted to get technical I would split the physics of counting into the private motive experience quantitative reasoning from the sensory experiences of figures or forms upon which we project our representations, but yeah numbers need a su

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-21 Thread meekerdb
On 1/21/2013 3:27 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, January 21, 2013 5:38:32 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/21/2013 2:09 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, January 21, 2013 4:59:55 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/21/2013 11:05 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: Materialism f

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-21 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, January 21, 2013 5:38:32 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > On 1/21/2013 2:09 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > On Monday, January 21, 2013 4:59:55 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: >> >> On 1/21/2013 11:05 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: >> >> Materialism fails since it cannot explain how it is possible

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-21 Thread meekerdb
On 1/21/2013 2:09 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, January 21, 2013 4:59:55 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/21/2013 11:05 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: Materialism fails since it cannot explain how it is possible for material things to have representations of things, intensionality,

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-21 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, January 21, 2013 4:59:55 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > On 1/21/2013 11:05 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: > > Materialism fails since it cannot explain how it is possible for material > things to have representations of things, intensionality, such as numbers. > > > That's something evoluti

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-21 Thread meekerdb
On 1/21/2013 11:05 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: Materialism fails since it cannot explain how it is possible for material things to have representations of things, intensionality, such as numbers. That's something evolution explains. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-21 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, January 21, 2013 2:45:00 PM UTC-5, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > I call that substrate physical, but not material as it > experiential/intentional rather than substantial/extended. > > > Of course, the experiential looks like material from the pov of another experience, if they are suf

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-21 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, January 21, 2013 2:05:08 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: > > On 1/21/2013 8:30 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > If you don't take arithmetic as primitive, I can prove that you cannot > > derive both addition and multiplication, nor the existence of > > computer. Then everything aroun

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-21 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, January 21, 2013 12:01:50 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 21 Jan 2013, at 17:45, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > You are saying that you can prove that the only way a computer can exist > is if arithmetic is irreducible? > > > I did not say that. I was saying that you have to ass

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-21 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/21/2013 8:30 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: If you don't take arithmetic as primitive, I can prove that you cannot derive both addition and multiplication, nor the existence of computer. Then everything around me does not make sense. If you believe you can derive them, then do it. But you procee

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Jan 2013, at 17:45, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, January 21, 2013 8:30:39 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 20 Jan 2013, at 19:19, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > On Friday, January 18, 2013 1:15:09 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 17 Jan 2013, at 18:50, Craig Weinberg wrote: > >

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-21 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, January 21, 2013 8:30:39 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 20 Jan 2013, at 19:19, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > > > > On Friday, January 18, 2013 1:15:09 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > > On 17 Jan 2013, at 18:50, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> On Wednesda

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Jan 2013, at 19:19, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, January 18, 2013 1:15:09 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 17 Jan 2013, at 18:50, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 7:06:03 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 1/16/2013 5:32 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: >

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-20 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, January 18, 2013 1:15:09 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 17 Jan 2013, at 18:50, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 7:06:03 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: >> >> On 1/16/2013 5:32 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: >> > That is the most clear demosnstrati

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Jan 2013, at 18:50, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 7:06:03 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: On 1/16/2013 5:32 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > That is the most clear demosnstration that what we perceive is in the > mind ,and the rest out of the mind is only m

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-17 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 7:06:03 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: > > On 1/16/2013 5:32 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > > That is the most clear demosnstration that what we perceive is in the > > mind ,and the rest out of the mind is only mathematics (or some kind > > of underlying conp

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-16 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/16/2013 5:32 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: That is the most clear demosnstration that what we perceive is in the mind ,and the rest out of the mind is only mathematics (or some kind of underlying conputation) Simply speaking 3D geometry in which we see our body and the rest of the colored

Re: Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-16 Thread Alberto G. Corona
ed as values of >> functions on phase space, but as eigenvalues; more precisely: as spectral >> values (point spectrum plus absolute >> continuous plus singular continuous spectrum) of linear operators in >> Hilbert space.[1]" >> >> I am not able to

Re: Re: Fwd: the curse of materialism

2013-01-16 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 11:46:03 AM UTC-5, yanniru wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Craig Weinberg > > > wrote: > > On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 9:25:51 AM UTC-5, yanniru wrote: > >> > >> Craig, > >> > >> The monads themselves are sensitive, > > > > > > How? Why? >

Re: Re: Fwd: the curse of materialism

2013-01-16 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 9:25:51 AM UTC-5, yanniru wrote: >> >> Craig, >> >> The monads themselves are sensitive, > > > How? Why? They get information from every other monad in the universe. by direct 1/r mapping, a sorta direct perc

Re: Re: Re: Fwd: the curse of materialism

2013-01-16 Thread Roger Clough
thing-list Time: 2013-01-16, 09:16:17 Subject: Re: Re: Fwd: the curse of materialism I don't really see much of a difference whether we talk about BECs, strings, charged geometries, vacuum flux, aether, numbers, or any other spatially structured medium. Who cares? The question is how doe

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
se QM is nonphysical, but is treated as being physical. This might be called the curse of materialism. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/16/2013 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: socra...@bezeqint.net R

Re: Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-16 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal OK. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/16/2013 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-16, 10:35:43 Subject: Re: the curse of m

Re: Re: Fwd: the curse of materialism

2013-01-16 Thread Craig Weinberg
uot;Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen > >> - Receiving the following content - > >> From: Richard Ruquist > >> Receiver: everything-list > >> Time: 2013-01-16, 08:59:49 > >> Subject: Re: Fwd: the curse o

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Jan 2013, at 11:01, Roger Clough wrote: Hi socra...@bezeqint.net You want to know why nobody understands QM ? Because QM is nonphysical, but is treated as being physical. This might be called the curse of materialism. Newton's physics is also non physical. In fact it is

Re: Re: Re: Re: Fwd: the curse of materialism

2013-01-16 Thread Roger Clough
01-16, 09:43:48 Subject: Re: Re: Re: Fwd: the curse of materialism Roger, Your presumptions are incorrect. Also your monad definition. I am too old for bare naked. Stop being silly. Richard On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Richard Ruquist > > Yes, of cours

Re: Re: Re: Fwd: the curse of materialism

2013-01-16 Thread Richard Ruquist
uot;Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen > - Receiving the following content - > From: Richard Ruquist > Receiver: everything-list > Time: 2013-01-16, 09:21:38 > Subject: Re: Re: Fwd: the curse of materialism > > > I think its more like ap

Re: Re: Re: Fwd: the curse of materialism

2013-01-16 Thread Roger Clough
t you want ? [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/16/2013 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Richard Ruquist Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-16, 09:21:38 Subject: Re: Re: Fwd: the curse

Re: Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-16 Thread Alberto G. Corona
s singular continuous spectrum) of linear operators in > Hilbert space.[1]" > > I am not able to understand that. > > > > > [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] > 1/16/2013 > "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen > - Recei

Re: Re: Fwd: the curse of materialism

2013-01-16 Thread Richard Ruquist
" - Woody Allen >> - Receiving the following content - >> From: Richard Ruquist >> Receiver: everything-list >> Time: 2013-01-16, 08:59:49 >> Subject: Re: Fwd: the curse of materialism >> >> >> Roger, Any kind of particle from photons and lig

Re: Re: Fwd: the curse of materialism

2013-01-16 Thread Richard Ruquist
pecially near the end." - Woody Allen > - Receiving the following content - > From: Richard Ruquist > Receiver: everything-list > Time: 2013-01-16, 08:59:49 > Subject: Re: Fwd: the curse of materialism > > > Roger, Any kind of particle from photons and light up

Re: Re: Fwd: the curse of materialism

2013-01-16 Thread Craig Weinberg
ving the following content - > From: Richard Ruquist > Receiver: everything-list > Time: 2013-01-16, 08:59:49 > Subject: Re: Fwd: the curse of materialism > > > Roger, Any kind of particle from photons and light up to molecules can > form a BEC. BEC is a mathemati

Re: Re: Fwd: the curse of materialism

2013-01-16 Thread Roger Clough
Time: 2013-01-16, 08:59:49 Subject: Re: Fwd: the curse of materialism Roger, Any kind of particle from photons and light up to molecules can form a BEC. BEC is a mathematical object and not confined to any one substance. Even physical BECs have properties that are effectively outside spacetime

Re: Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-16 Thread Roger Clough
Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/16/2013 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: socra...@bezeqint.net Receiver: Everything List Time: 2013-01-16, 07:38:37 Subject: Re: the curse of materialism The Newton

Re: Fwd: the curse of materialism

2013-01-16 Thread Richard Ruquist
--- > From: Richard Ruquist > Receiver: everything-list > Time: 2013-01-16, 07:47:52 > Subject: Fwd: the curse of materialism > > > Roger, > I liked your "1p think therefore 1p am" > > But your statement below, although correct , is much too vague. > >

Re: Fwd: the curse of materialism

2013-01-16 Thread Roger Clough
thing-list Time: 2013-01-16, 07:47:52 Subject: Fwd: the curse of materialism Roger, I liked your "1p think therefore 1p am" But your statement below, although correct , is much too vague. Quantum mechanics is not understood because it is not complete. Feynman came close to com

Fwd: the curse of materialism

2013-01-16 Thread Richard Ruquist
e curse of materialism To: everything-list Hi socra...@bezeqint.net You want to know why nobody understands QM ? Because QM is nonphysical, but is treated as being physical. This might be called the curse of materialism. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/16/2013 "Forever is a long t

Re: the curse of materialism

2013-01-16 Thread socra...@bezeqint.net
r Clough" wrote: > Hi socra...@bezeqint.net > > You want to know why nobody understands QM ? > Because QM is nonphysical, but is treated as being physical. > This might be called the curse of materialism. > > [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] > 1/16/2013 > "Forev

the curse of materialism

2013-01-16 Thread Roger Clough
Hi socra...@bezeqint.net You want to know why nobody understands QM ? Because QM is nonphysical, but is treated as being physical. This might be called the curse of materialism. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/16/2013 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end.&quo