Re: Imprisoned by language (code)

2012-08-15 Thread Bruno Marchal

Hi Roger,

On 14 Aug 2012, at 18:26, Roger wrote:


Hi Bruno Marchal

Well, I feel like Daniel must have felt when before the Giant.
And I can't even find a rock to sling.

Nevertheless, as I see it, computers are imprisoned by language  
(computer code).
Like our social selves.  But like Kierkegaard, I believe that  
ultimate truth

is subjective (can, like meaning, only be experienced).  Life
cannot truly be expressed or experienced in code.


No problem for comp here. We have discovered that machine, when  
looking inward tend to perceive, or experience many truth which are  
beyond words. There is a logic (S4Grz) which formalize at the meta- 
level that non-formalizable (at the ontological level) informal  
process of though. I wrote (and published) recently a paper on this,  
(the mystical machine, in french) but it is what I try to explain here  
since a long time. Machines have already a non formalizable (by  
themselves) intuition. Indeed self-referentally correct machine have a  
rich, neoplatonist-like, theology. On my url front page, you can  
download my paper on an arithmetical interpretation of Plotinus, made  
possible (and necessary in some sense) by computer science.


Bruno









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On 11 Aug 2012, at 12:47, Roger wrote:


Hi Alberto G. Corona

Agreed. Computers are quantitative instruments and so cannot have a  
self or

feelings, which are qualitative. And intution is non-computable IMHO.


Computer have a notion of self. I can explain someday (I already  
have, and it is the base of all I am working on).


Better, they can already prove that their self has a qualitative  
components. They can prove to herself and to us, that their  
qualitative self, which is the knower, is not  nameable.  Machines,  
like PA or ZF,  can already prove that intuition is non-computable  
by themselves.


You confuse the notion of machine before and after G del, I'm  
afraid. You might study some good book on theoretical computer  
science. Today we have progressed a lot in the sense that we are  
open to the idea that we don't know what machine are capable of, and  
we can prove this if we bet we are machine (comp).


Bruno







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aware of stuff ?


The Dennet conception is made to avoid an agent in the first place  
because i so, it whould be legitimate to question what is the agent  
made of an thus going trough an infinite regression.


The question of the agent is the vivid intuition for which there  
are ingenious evolutionary explanations which i may subscribe. But  
a robot would implement such computations and still I deeply doubt  
about his internal notion oof self, his quialia etc. The best  
response to many questions for the shake of avooiding premature  
dogmatic closeness is to say "we don't know"


El 11/08/2012 07:57, "Stephen P. King"   
escribi :

>
> Hi Roger,
>
> 牋 I have noticed and read your posts. Might you write some  
remarks about Leibniz' concept of pre-established harmony?

>
>
>
> On 8/10/2012 8:53 AM, Roger wrote:
>>
>> Hence I follow Leibniz, even though he's difficult and some say
>> contradictory. That agent or soul or self you have is your
>> monad, the only (alhough indirectly) perceiving/acting/feeling
>> agent in all of us, but currently missing in neuroscience and
>> neurophilosophy.
>
>
>
> --
> Onward!
>
> Stephen
>
> "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
> ~ Francis Bacon
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Imprisoned by language (code)

2012-08-14 Thread Roger
Hi Bruno Marchal 

Well, I feel like Daniel must have felt when before the Giant. 
And I can't even find a rock to sling.

Nevertheless, as I see it, computers are imprisoned by language (computer code).
Like our social selves.  But like Kierkegaard, I believe that ultimate truth
is subjective (can, like meaning, only be experienced).  Life
cannot truly be expressed or experienced in code.





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On 11 Aug 2012, at 12:47, Roger wrote:


Hi Alberto G. Corona

Agreed. Computers are quantitative instruments and so cannot have a self or
feelings, which are qualitative. And intution is non-computable IMHO.


Computer have a notion of self. I can explain someday (I already have, and it 
is the base of all I am working on).


Better, they can already prove that their self has a qualitative components. 
They can prove to herself and to us, that their qualitative self, which is the 
knower, is not  nameable.  Machines, like PA or ZF,  can already prove that 
intuition is non-computable by themselves.


You confuse the notion of machine before and after G del, I'm afraid. You might 
study some good book on theoretical computer science. Today we have progressed 
a lot in the sense that we are open to the idea that we don't know what machine 
are capable of, and we can prove this if we bet we are machine (comp).


Bruno










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Time: 2012-08-11, 04:08:29
Subject: Re: Where's the agent ? Who or what does stuff and is aware of stuff ?


The Dennet conception is made to avoid an agent in the first place because i 
so, it whould be legitimate to question what is the agent made of an thus going 
trough an infinite regression.
The question of the agent is the vivid intuition for which there are ingenious 
evolutionary explanations which i may subscribe. But a robot would implement 
such computations and still I deeply doubt about his internal notion oof self, 
his quialia etc. The best response to many questions for the shake of avooiding 
premature dogmatic closeness is to say "we don't know"
El 11/08/2012 07:57, "Stephen P. King"  escribi :
>
> Hi Roger,
>
> ? I have noticed and read your posts. Might you write some remarks about 
> Leibniz' concept of pre-established harmony?
>
>
>
> On 8/10/2012 8:53 AM, Roger wrote:
>>
>> Hence I follow Leibniz, even though he's difficult and some say
>> contradictory. That agent or soul or self you have is your
>> monad, the only (alhough indirectly) perceiving/acting/feeling
>> agent in all of us, but currently missing in neuroscience and
>> neurophilosophy.
>
>
>
> -- 
> Onward!
>
> Stephen
>
> "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed." 
> ~ Francis Bacon
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