Re: R/ASSA query

2010-02-26 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 26 February 2010 16:41, Rex Allen wrote: >> We could, for example, have the belief that we only survive for a day, >> and the entity who wakes up in our bed tomorrow is a different person. >> We would then use up our resources and plan for the future as if we >> only had hours to live. But peo

Re: On the computability of consciousness

2010-02-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Marty, On 25 Feb 2010, at 15:03, m.a. wrote: Bruno: Does the following relate at all to your theory of Comp? I am not so sure, or I don't see how. I don't address the question of individual life. What I show is true for all machines (enough rich (Löbian) and ideally correct, a

Re: On the computability of consciousness

2010-02-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Feb 2010, at 15:38, Diego Caleiro wrote: I'm not reading the whole discussion here, but the reason I recommended those readings is that I sensed a mix between accounting for phenomenal consciousness and access conciousness in the discussion.Both were used as 1p and 3p, depending

Re: On the computability of consciousness

2010-02-26 Thread m.a.
Bruno, Thanks for this deeply profound reply. marty a. - Original Message - From: "Bruno Marchal" To: Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 6:08 AM Subject: Re: On the computability of consciousn

Re: [Fwd: The Brain's Dark Energy Scien amer]

2010-02-26 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Charles wrote: > On Feb 23, 9:02 am, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > But recent analysis produced by neuroimaging technologies has revealed > something quite remarkable: a great deal of meaningful activity is occurring > in the brain when a person is sitting back and do

RE: problem of size '10

2010-02-26 Thread Jesse Mazer
> From: stath...@gmail.com > Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:23:55 +1100 > Subject: Re: problem of size '10 > To: everything-list@googlegroups.com > > On 23 February 2010 04:45, Jesse Mazer wrote: > > >> It seems that these thought experiments inevitably lead to considering a > >> digital simulation of

Re: R/ASSA query

2010-02-26 Thread Rex Allen
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > On 26 February 2010 16:41, Rex Allen wrote: >> Could our universe *actually* produce such a being by applying our >> presumably deterministic laws to any set of initial conditions over >> any amount of time? > > Of course it could. Peo