But “being an atheist” IS a behavior, isn’t it? In which case the supposition is oxymoronic.
n Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Russ Abbott Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2014 6:14 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] RE: [ SPAM ] Re: Re: clinical diagnosis of [a]theism? Suppose you had a device that could read brain waves and determine whether someone believed in [a]theism. Since this wouldn't be a diagnosis based on behavior would it get at what you want? -- Russ Abbott _____________________________________________ Professor, Computer Science California State University, Los Angeles Google voice: 747-999-5105; CS Dept.: 323-343-6690 Google+: http://GPlus.to/RussAbbott, http://tinyurl.com/RussAbbott, or http://google.com/+RussAbbottCa vita: <http://sites.google.com/site/russabbott/> sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ <http://cs.calstatela.edu/wiki/> CS Wiki and the courses I teach. A draft of "Abstractions and Implementations <http://philpapers.org/rec/ABBAAI> ." How the Fed can fix the economy (2 pages): ssrn.com/abstract=1977688 <http://ssrn.com/abstract=1977688> . _____________________________________________ On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Marcus G. Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com <mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com> > wrote: "But I tend to find that everyone has a little bit of Smullyan in them, which is why I brought up horror movies. Anyone who likes fiction, whether they know it or not, enjoys playing with artificial logics. The coherence (or lack thereof) of any given game doesn't really detract from the game play, at least not to expert game players. It simply helps the game player classify a particular game and then choose to play it when the mood strikes. When you're in the mood for something like Battlestar Galactica, you can't just replace it with an episode of the Outer Limits." Even among people I know relatively well, people that classify themselves as gamers, I still find it alien to imagine spending significant time on working through an engineered finite state machine. I just don't see that as either useful or fun. If I had the mental energy to do that, I'd be working or doing some peripheral activity that is sort of like work. Other times, I don't have the drive, or I am blocked by other things (like now, the VPN not working), or I don't want multitask between hard tasks because that could lead to mistakes (but multitasking between easy and hard tasks is feasible). There's no contradiction if an atheist has a good laugh watching True Blood. It doesn't mean that any serious attention is given to that artificial logic. It's entertainment. Marcus ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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