Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-28 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, February 27, 2014 7:30:22 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: > > On 28 February 2014 12:36, Craig Weinberg > > wrote: > >> Identity isn't self contained in MSR. All identity is leased within some >> perspective. The more common the perspective, the longer the lease, and the >> more 'seems lik

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-27 Thread LizR
On 28 February 2014 12:36, Craig Weinberg wrote: > Identity isn't self contained in MSR. All identity is leased within some > perspective. The more common the perspective, the longer the lease, and the > more 'seems like' or 'has a similar quality' appears stabilized as 'is > equal'. > > What is

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-27 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, February 27, 2014 12:52:41 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 25 Feb 2014, at 23:30, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > 0 doesn't = 0 in my theory. > > Identity isn't self contained in MSR. All identity is leased within some perspective. The more common the perspective, the longer the

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Feb 2014, at 23:30, Craig Weinberg wrote: 0 doesn't = 0 in my theory. I was beginning suspecting this. Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Feb 2014, at 18:44, meekerdb wrote: On 2/25/2014 7:15 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 23 Feb 2014, at 20:38, meekerdb wrote: On 2/23/2014 4:35 AM, David Nyman wrote: Not "my" consciousness, no. I'm just suggesting that CTM ultimately relies on some transcendent notion of perspective i

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Feb 2014, at 18:36, meekerdb wrote: On 2/25/2014 7:00 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: admitting simply that indexical notion are modal notion, and thus don't need to obey to Leibniz identity rule. I don't understand that remark. Are you saying that there is some modal notion that makes id

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-27 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, February 27, 2014 9:38:05 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 24 Feb 2014, at 17:31, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > On Monday, February 24, 2014 9:13:26 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: >> >> On 24 February 2014 02:43, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >> How do you turn your desire to move your

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Feb 2014, at 17:31, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, February 24, 2014 9:13:26 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014 02:43, Craig Weinberg wrote: How do you turn your desire to move your hand into the neurological changes which move them? The neurological change is the expr

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-25 Thread meekerdb
On 2/25/2014 7:15 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 23 Feb 2014, at 20:38, meekerdb wrote: On 2/23/2014 4:35 AM, David Nyman wrote: Not "my" consciousness, no. I'm just suggesting that CTM ultimately relies on some transcendent notion of perspective itself. IOW, the sensible world is conceived as t

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-25 Thread meekerdb
On 2/25/2014 7:00 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: admitting simply that indexical notion are modal notion, and thus don't need to obey to Leibniz identity rule. I don't understand that remark. Are you saying that there is some modal notion that makes identity of indiscernibles wrong? I think of ind

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Feb 2014, at 04:23, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, February 23, 2014 11:50:57 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Feb 2014, at 18:36, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 22, 2014 11:27:45 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Feb 2014, at 15:25, Craig Weinberg wrote:

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Feb 2014, at 20:57, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, February 23, 2014 7:07:21 PM UTC, Brent wrote: On 2/23/2014 1:13 AM, LizR wrote: On 23 February 2014 20:48, meekerdb wrote: On 2/22/2014 9:21 PM, LizR wrote: On 23 February 2014 17:40, meekerdb wrote: On 2/22/2014 5:49 PM, David

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Feb 2014, at 20:38, meekerdb wrote: On 2/23/2014 4:35 AM, David Nyman wrote: Not "my" consciousness, no. I'm just suggesting that CTM ultimately relies on some transcendent notion of perspective itself. IOW, the sensible world is conceived as the resultant of the inter- subjective ag

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Feb 2014, at 20:07, meekerdb wrote: On 2/23/2014 1:13 AM, LizR wrote: On 23 February 2014 20:48, meekerdb wrote: On 2/22/2014 9:21 PM, LizR wrote: On 23 February 2014 17:40, meekerdb wrote: On 2/22/2014 5:49 PM, David Nyman wrote: No, I don't think that follows. The indefinite continu

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Feb 2014, at 13:54, David Nyman wrote: On 23 February 2014 09:22, LizR wrote: On 23 February 2014 20:48, meekerdb wrote: On 2/22/2014 9:21 PM, LizR wrote: On 23 February 2014 17:40, meekerdb wrote: On 2/22/2014 5:49 PM, David Nyman wrote: No, I don't think that follows. The indefinite

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 24, 2014 3:32:03 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: > > On 24 February 2014 16:31, Craig Weinberg > > wrote: > >> >> >> On Monday, February 24, 2014 9:13:26 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: >> >>> On 24 February 2014 02:43, Craig Weinberg wrote: >>> >>> How do you turn your desire to

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-24 Thread David Nyman
On 24 February 2014 16:31, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > On Monday, February 24, 2014 9:13:26 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: > >> On 24 February 2014 02:43, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >> How do you turn your desire to move your hand into the neurological >>> changes which move them? The neurological c

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 24, 2014 9:13:26 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: > > On 24 February 2014 02:43, Craig Weinberg > > wrote: > > How do you turn your desire to move your hand into the neurological >> changes which move them? The neurological change is the expression of what >> you actually are.

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-24 Thread David Nyman
On 24 February 2014 02:43, Craig Weinberg wrote: How do you turn your desire to move your hand into the neurological changes > which move them? The neurological change is the expression of what you > actually are. These primitive levels of sense are beyond the question of > 'how', they are more i

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 23, 2014 11:50:57 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 22 Feb 2014, at 18:36, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > On Saturday, February 22, 2014 11:27:45 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 22 Feb 2014, at 15:25, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >> > If you say yes to the doctor,

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread LizR
On 24 February 2014 15:04, meekerdb wrote: > On 2/23/2014 4:57 PM, LizR wrote: > > >> But it raises the question, given complete amnesia and then growing up >> with different experiences and memories in what sense could you be the same >> person. I John Clark and Bruno's back and forth, the one

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 23, 2014 6:51:21 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: > > On 23 February 2014 19:04, Craig Weinberg > > wrote: > >> >> After all, the standard objection to starting from the putative >>> universality of consciousness is why does it appear that so much of the >>> world of appearanc

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread meekerdb
On 2/23/2014 4:57 PM, LizR wrote: But it raises the question, given complete amnesia and then growing up with different experiences and memories in what sense could you be the same person. I John Clark and Bruno's back and forth, the one thing they always agree on is that as

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread LizR
On 24 February 2014 08:07, meekerdb wrote: > I wrote "no reason to assume" that consciousness is not the content of > consciousness. The premise I took is "everyone's on their first > consciousness". For which you offered the explanation of amnesia; and I > offered a different one. If you're go

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread David Nyman
On 23 February 2014 19:04, Craig Weinberg wrote: I like that. Not sure about being *an* iron man, I have to be *the* iron > man (for my money there is only one iron man, and its the Ozzy one). This one? ".. The story of a man who time travels into the future, and sees the apocalypse. In the pr

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread David Nyman
On 24 February 2014 00:05, meekerdb wrote: The point I was getting at was whether you're supposing there are > *insensible^ parts to the world, which we may infer from the sensible part > or from mathematics? In short, yes. David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread meekerdb
On 2/23/2014 2:45 PM, David Nyman wrote: On 23 February 2014 19:38, meekerdb mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote: On 2/23/2014 4:35 AM, David Nyman wrote: Not "my" consciousness, no. I'm just suggesting that CTM ultimately relies on some transcendent notion of perspective itself.

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread David Nyman
On 23 February 2014 19:04, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > After all, the standard objection to starting from the putative >> universality of consciousness is why does it appear that so much of the >> world of appearance is *unconscious*? >> > > That is the only criticism that I have come up with so f

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread David Nyman
On 23 February 2014 19:38, meekerdb wrote: > On 2/23/2014 4:35 AM, David Nyman wrote: > > Not "my" consciousness, no. I'm just suggesting that CTM ultimately relies > on some transcendent notion of perspective itself. IOW, the sensible world > is conceived as the resultant of the inter-subjectiv

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread ghibbsa
On Sunday, February 23, 2014 7:07:21 PM UTC, Brent wrote: > > On 2/23/2014 1:13 AM, LizR wrote: > > On 23 February 2014 20:48, meekerdb >wrote: > >> On 2/22/2014 9:21 PM, LizR wrote: >> >> On 23 February 2014 17:40, meekerdb > >wrote: >> >>> On 2/22/2014 5:49 PM, David Nyman wrote: >>>

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread meekerdb
On 2/23/2014 4:35 AM, David Nyman wrote: Not "my" consciousness, no. I'm just suggesting that CTM ultimately relies on some transcendent notion of perspective itself. IOW, the sensible world is conceived as the resultant of the inter-subjective agreement of its possible observers, each of which

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread meekerdb
On 2/23/2014 1:13 AM, LizR wrote: On 23 February 2014 20:48, meekerdb mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote: On 2/22/2014 9:21 PM, LizR wrote: On 23 February 2014 17:40, meekerdb mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote: On 2/22/2014 5:49 PM, David Nyman wrote: No, I don't t

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Feb 2014, at 18:36, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Saturday, February 22, 2014 11:27:45 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Feb 2014, at 15:25, Craig Weinberg wrote: > If you say yes to the doctor, you are saying that originality is an > illusion Not at all. Your 1p-originality is preser

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread David Nyman
On 23 February 2014 03:12, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > On Saturday, February 22, 2014 8:49:33 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: > >> On 23 February 2014 00:27, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >> >> >>> >>> On Saturday, February 22, 2014 4:06:39 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: >>> On 22 February 2014 15:09

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread David Nyman
On 23 February 2014 09:22, LizR wrote: > On 23 February 2014 20:48, meekerdb wrote: > >> On 2/22/2014 9:21 PM, LizR wrote: >> >> On 23 February 2014 17:40, meekerdb wrote: >> >>> On 2/22/2014 5:49 PM, David Nyman wrote: >>> >>> No, I don't think that follows. The indefinite continuation of >

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread David Nyman
On 23 February 2014 04:40, meekerdb wrote: > No, I don't think that follows. The indefinite continuation of > consciousness is directly entailed by CTM. In fact it is equivalent to the > continuing existence of the sensible world (i.e. per comp, the world is > what is observed). Hence any observe

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread LizR
On 23 February 2014 20:48, meekerdb wrote: > On 2/22/2014 9:21 PM, LizR wrote: > > On 23 February 2014 17:40, meekerdb wrote: > >> On 2/22/2014 5:49 PM, David Nyman wrote: >> >> No, I don't think that follows. The indefinite continuation of >> consciousness is directly entailed by CTM. In fac

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread LizR
On 23 February 2014 20:48, meekerdb wrote: > On 2/22/2014 9:21 PM, LizR wrote: > > On 23 February 2014 17:40, meekerdb wrote: > >> On 2/22/2014 5:49 PM, David Nyman wrote: >> >> No, I don't think that follows. The indefinite continuation of >> consciousness is directly entailed by CTM. In fac

RE: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-23 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 11:37 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Turning the tables on the doctor "I wouldn't ride in the damn thing!" -- Larry Niven,

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread meekerdb
On 2/22/2014 9:21 PM, LizR wrote: On 23 February 2014 17:40, meekerdb mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote: On 2/22/2014 5:49 PM, David Nyman wrote: No, I don't think that follows. The indefinite continuation of consciousness is directly entailed by CTM. In fact it is equivalent to

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Feb 2014, at 06:21, LizR wrote: On 23 February 2014 17:40, meekerdb wrote: On 2/22/2014 5:49 PM, David Nyman wrote: No, I don't think that follows. The indefinite continuation of consciousness is directly entailed by CTM. In fact it is equivalent to the continuing existence of the se

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread LizR
On 23 February 2014 17:40, meekerdb wrote: > On 2/22/2014 5:49 PM, David Nyman wrote: > > No, I don't think that follows. The indefinite continuation of > consciousness is directly entailed by CTM. In fact it is equivalent to the > continuing existence of the sensible world (i.e. per comp, the w

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread meekerdb
On 2/22/2014 5:49 PM, David Nyman wrote: No, I don't think that follows. The indefinite continuation of consciousness is directly entailed by CTM. In fact it is equivalent to the continuing existence of the sensible world (i.e. per comp, the world is what is observed). Hence any observer can exp

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 22, 2014 8:49:33 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: > > On 23 February 2014 00:27, Craig Weinberg > > wrote: > > > >> >> On Saturday, February 22, 2014 4:06:39 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: >> >>> On 22 February 2014 15:09, Craig Weinberg wrote: >>> On Saturday, Fe

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread David Nyman
On 23 February 2014 00:27, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > On Saturday, February 22, 2014 4:06:39 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: > >> On 22 February 2014 15:09, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Saturday, February 22, 2014 9:34:08 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: >>> On 22 February 2014 14:25,

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 22, 2014 4:06:39 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: > > On 22 February 2014 15:09, Craig Weinberg > > wrote: > >> >> >> On Saturday, February 22, 2014 9:34:08 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: >> >>> On 22 February 2014 14:25, Craig Weinberg wrote: >>> >>> If you say yes to the docto

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread David Nyman
On 22 February 2014 15:09, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > On Saturday, February 22, 2014 9:34:08 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: > >> On 22 February 2014 14:25, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >> If you say yes to the doctor, you are saying that originality is an >>> illusion >>> >> >> Not an illusion, an in

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 22, 2014 11:27:45 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 22 Feb 2014, at 15:25, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > If you say yes to the doctor, you are saying that originality is an > > illusion > > > Not at all. Your 1p-originality is preserved all the time. I'm not think

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Feb 2014, at 15:25, Craig Weinberg wrote: If you say yes to the doctor, you are saying that originality is an illusion Not at all. Your 1p-originality is preserved all the time. In the H-WM duplication experience, the experiencers get all a unique experience of the type I am the

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Feb 2014, at 02:39, David Nyman wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdxucpPq6Lc Ha ha! I love when he shows the identity cards! Note that this is among the thought experiences that I call "forbidden" on this list, some years ago. They are shortcuts, and can also provide "arguments

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 22, 2014 9:34:08 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: > > On 22 February 2014 14:25, Craig Weinberg > > wrote: > > If you say yes to the doctor, you are saying that originality is an >> illusion >> > > Not an illusion, an invariant. > If it is invariant then it can't be original.

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread David Nyman
On 22 February 2014 14:25, Craig Weinberg wrote: If you say yes to the doctor, you are saying that originality is an illusion > Not an illusion, an invariant. > and simulation is absolute. > Not absolute, but hopefully sufficient (i.e. the idea of a level of substitution). Hope that helps.

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
If you say yes to the doctor, you are saying that originality is an illusion and simulation is absolute. Arithmetic can do so many things, but it can't do something that can only be done once. Think of consciousness as not only that which can't be done more than once, it is that which cannot ev

Re: Turning the tables on the doctor

2014-02-21 Thread LizR
"I wouldn't ride in the damn thing!" -- Larry Niven, "The theory and practice of teleportation" (from memory, I may not have got that quote 100% right) On 22 February 2014 14:39, David Nyman wrote: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdxucpPq6Lc > > > -- > You received this message because you ar