Re: Robot reading vs human reading

2013-01-25 Thread Bruno Marchal


On 24 Jan 2013, at 18:18, Craig Weinberg wrote:




On Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:50:39 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote:

On 23 Jan 2013, at 16:49, Craig Weinberg wrote:




On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 10:31:18 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal  
wrote:


On 22 Jan 2013, at 21:34, Craig Weinberg wrote:




On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:44:41 PM UTC-5, yanniru wrote:

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.be  
wrote:
You seem to not having yet realize that with comp, not only  
materialism is wrong, but also weak materialism, that is, the  
doctrine asserting the primary existence of matter, or the  
existence of primary matter.


We are, well, not in the matrix, but in infinities of purely  
arithmetical matrices. matter is an appearance from inside.


My point is not that this is true, but that it follows from comp,  
and that computer science makes this enough precise so that we can  
test it.


Bruno,
Is it possible that the existence of matter from comp as a dream  
of the Quantum Mind happened once and for all time way back in time?

Richard

Quantum Deism. Cool.

It still doesn't make sense that there could be any presentation  
of anything at all under comp. If you can have 'infinities of  
purely arithmetical matrices' which can simulate all possibilities  
and relations... why have anything else? Why have anything except  
purely arithmetical matrices?


You have the stable illusions, whose working is described by the  
self-reference logics.


Describing that some arithmetic systems function as if they were  
stable illusions does not account for the experienced presence of  
sensory-motor participation.


The arithmetic systems are not the stable illusions. They only  
support the person who has such stable illusions.



Why would a person have 'illusions'? What are they made of?


They are the internal view of person when supported by infinities of  
computations, which exists arithmetically. They are not made of  
something, they are computer semantical fixed points, to be short.









I can explain how torturing someone on the rack would function to  
dislocate their limbs, and the fact *that* this bodily change could  
be interpreted by the victim as an outcome with a high priority  
avoidance value, but it cannot be explained how or why there is an  
experienced 'feeling'.


The explanation is provided by the difference of logic between Bp  
and Bp  p. It works very well, including the non communicability of  
the qualia, the feeling that our soul is related to our body and  
bodies in general, etc.



I'm not talking about the 'feeling *that* (anything)' - I am talking  
about feeling period, and its primordial influence independent of  
all B, Bp, or p.


They are independent of the theories of course, like both matter and  
energy does not depend on the string E = mc^2. But it is not because  
we theorize something that it disappears.
The relation between p, Bp, Bp  p, Bp  Dt  p (feeling) are just  
unavoidable arithmetical truth.










The indisputable reality is that it is the deeply unpleasant  
quality of the feeling of this torture is the motivation behind it.  
In fact, there are techniques now where hideous pain is inflicted  
by subcutaneous microwave stimulation which does not substantially  
damage tissue. The torture is achieved through manipulation of the  
'stable illusion' of experienced pain alone.


*that* should be illegal.

I agree, although that will probably make it only more exciting for  
them to use it.


The frontier of freedom is when you harm the freedom of the others.





My point though is that this pain is not logical. There's nothing  
Doxastic about it. It just hurts so much that you'll do anything to  
make it stop. There is no programmatic equivalent.


There is. Do anything to survive.




Nothing that I do to a robot will make it jump out of a window in  
order to avoid, unless I specifically instruct it to jump out of the  
window for no logical reason.


Because it is not (yet) in our interest to have a robot doing anything  
for surviving, but Mars Rover is a good respectable logical ancestors.










While the function of torture to elicit information can be mapped  
out logically, the logic is built upon an unexamined assumption  
that pain and feeling simply arise as some kind of useless  
decoration.


Why? Torturers know very well how the effect is unpleasant for the  
victim.


That's what I'm saying - you assume that there is a such thing as  
'unpleasant'.


Yes. In the theory, losing self-referential correctness is a good  
candidate for being unpleasant for a machine programmed to survive by  
all means. At least in the short term. Pain is body's protection.





There is no such thing as unpleasant for a computer, there is only  
off and on, and off, off, on, and off, on, off...


Arithmetical relation are full of chaos and critical states. You can't  
reduce it to some level, from inside.








It only 

Re: Robot reading vs human reading

2013-01-25 Thread Craig Weinberg


On Friday, January 25, 2013 3:45:35 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote:


 On 24 Jan 2013, at 18:18, Craig Weinberg wrote:



 On Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:50:39 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote:


 On 23 Jan 2013, at 16:49, Craig Weinberg wrote:



 On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 10:31:18 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote:


 On 22 Jan 2013, at 21:34, Craig Weinberg wrote:



 On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:44:41 PM UTC-5, yanniru wrote:


 On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.bewrote:

 You seem to not having yet realize that with comp, not only 
 materialism is wrong, but also weak materialism, that is, the doctrine 
 asserting the primary existence of matter, or the existence of primary 
 matter. 

 We are, well, not in the matrix, but in infinities of purely 
 arithmetical matrices. matter is an appearance from inside.

 My point is not that this is true, but that it follows from comp, and 
 that computer science makes this enough precise so that we can test it.


 Bruno, 
 Is it possible that the existence of matter from comp as a dream of the 
 Quantum Mind happened once and for all time way back in time?
 Richard


 Quantum Deism. Cool. 

 It still doesn't make sense that there could be any presentation of 
 anything at all under comp. If you can have 'infinities of purely 
 arithmetical matrices' which can simulate all possibilities and 
 relations... why have anything else? Why have anything except purely 
 arithmetical matrices?


 You have the stable illusions, whose working is described by the 
 self-reference logics.


 Describing that some arithmetic systems function as if they were stable 
 illusions does not account for the experienced presence of sensory-motor 
 participation. 


 The arithmetic systems are not the stable illusions. They only support 
 the person who has such stable illusions.



 Why would a person have 'illusions'? What are they made of? 


 They are the internal view of person when supported by infinities of 
 computations, which exists arithmetically. They are not made of something, 
 they are computer semantical fixed points, to be short.


Why would semantical fixed points have an 'experience' associated with 
them, and why would that experience have a 'personal' quality?








 I can explain how torturing someone on the rack would function to 
 dislocate their limbs, and the fact *that* this bodily change could be 
 interpreted by the victim as an outcome with a high priority avoidance 
 value, but it cannot be explained how or why there is an experienced 
 'feeling'. 


 The explanation is provided by the difference of logic between Bp and Bp 
  p. It works very well, including the non communicability of the qualia, 
 the feeling that our soul is related to our body and bodies in general, etc.


 I'm not talking about the 'feeling *that* (anything)' - I am talking 
 about feeling period, and its primordial influence independent of all B, 
 Bp, or p. 


 They are independent of the theories of course, like both matter and 
 energy does not depend on the string E = mc^2. But it is not because we 
 theorize something that it disappears.
 The relation between p, Bp, Bp  p, Bp  Dt  p (feeling) are just 
 unavoidable arithmetical truth. 


But these relations don't refer to feelings, they refer only to information 
states associated with one facet of the tip of the iceberg of feeling. B, 
D, t,  p are a doxastic extraction not of feeling or experience on their 
actual terms but a grammatical schema of a depersonalized behaviorism. It 
is the formalized absence of feeling inferred logically as engine of 
potential programmatic outcomes. Calling it feeling is the very embodiment 
of the pathetic fallacy.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathetic_fallacy





  



 The indisputable reality is that it is the deeply unpleasant quality of 
 the feeling of this torture is the motivation behind it. In fact, there are 
 techniques now where hideous pain is inflicted by subcutaneous microwave 
 stimulation which does not substantially damage tissue. The torture is 
 achieved through manipulation of the 'stable illusion' of experienced pain 
 alone.


 *that* should be illegal.


 I agree, although that will probably make it only more exciting for them 
 to use it. 


 The frontier of freedom is when you harm the freedom of the others.


Mathematically interesting actually.
 





 My point though is that this pain is not logical. There's nothing Doxastic 
 about it. It just hurts so much that you'll do anything to make it stop. 
 There is no programmatic equivalent. 


 There is. Do anything to survive.


But that can be generated in many ways other than pain, or no way at all. 
Simply script it. 'Do anything to digest'. 'Do anything to grow'.
 





 Nothing that I do to a robot will make it jump out of a window in order to 
 avoid, unless I specifically instruct it to jump out of the window for no 
 logical reason.


 Because it is not (yet) in our interest 

Re: Robot reading vs human reading

2013-01-24 Thread Craig Weinberg


On Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:50:39 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote:


 On 23 Jan 2013, at 16:49, Craig Weinberg wrote:



 On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 10:31:18 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote:


 On 22 Jan 2013, at 21:34, Craig Weinberg wrote:



 On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:44:41 PM UTC-5, yanniru wrote:


 On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.bewrote:

 You seem to not having yet realize that with comp, not only materialism 
 is wrong, but also weak materialism, that is, the doctrine asserting the 
 primary existence of matter, or the existence of primary matter. 

 We are, well, not in the matrix, but in infinities of purely 
 arithmetical matrices. matter is an appearance from inside.

 My point is not that this is true, but that it follows from comp, and 
 that computer science makes this enough precise so that we can test it.


 Bruno, 
 Is it possible that the existence of matter from comp as a dream of the 
 Quantum Mind happened once and for all time way back in time?
 Richard


 Quantum Deism. Cool. 

 It still doesn't make sense that there could be any presentation of 
 anything at all under comp. If you can have 'infinities of purely 
 arithmetical matrices' which can simulate all possibilities and 
 relations... why have anything else? Why have anything except purely 
 arithmetical matrices?


 You have the stable illusions, whose working is described by the 
 self-reference logics.


 Describing that some arithmetic systems function as if they were stable 
 illusions does not account for the experienced presence of sensory-motor 
 participation. 


 The arithmetic systems are not the stable illusions. They only support the 
 person who has such stable illusions.



Why would a person have 'illusions'? What are they made of? 




 I can explain how torturing someone on the rack would function to 
 dislocate their limbs, and the fact *that* this bodily change could be 
 interpreted by the victim as an outcome with a high priority avoidance 
 value, but it cannot be explained how or why there is an experienced 
 'feeling'. 


 The explanation is provided by the difference of logic between Bp and Bp  
 p. It works very well, including the non communicability of the qualia, the 
 feeling that our soul is related to our body and bodies in general, etc.


 I'm not talking about the 'feeling *that* (anything)' - I am talking about 
feeling period, and its primordial influence independent of all B, Bp, or 
p. 
 



 The indisputable reality is that it is the deeply unpleasant quality of 
 the feeling of this torture is the motivation behind it. In fact, there are 
 techniques now where hideous pain is inflicted by subcutaneous microwave 
 stimulation which does not substantially damage tissue. The torture is 
 achieved through manipulation of the 'stable illusion' of experienced pain 
 alone.


 *that* should be illegal.


I agree, although that will probably make it only more exciting for them to 
use it. 

My point though is that this pain is not logical. There's nothing Doxastic 
about it. It just hurts so much that you'll do anything to make it stop. 
There is no programmatic equivalent. Nothing that I do to a robot will make 
it jump out of a window in order to avoid, unless I specifically instruct 
it to jump out of the window for no logical reason.




 While the function of torture to elicit information can be mapped out 
 logically, the logic is built upon an unexamined assumption that pain and 
 feeling simply arise as some kind of useless decoration. 


 Why? Torturers know very well how the effect is unpleasant for the victim.


That's what I'm saying - you assume that there is a such thing as 
'unpleasant'. There is no such thing as unpleasant for a computer, there is 
only off and on, and off, off, on, and off, on, off...
 



 It only seems to work retrospectively when we take perception and 
 participation for granted. If we look at it prospectively instead, we see 
 that a universe founded on logic has no possibility of developing 
 perception or participation,


 Universe are not founded on logics. Even arithmetic is not founded on 
 logic. You talk like a 19th century logician. Logicism has failed since, 
 even for numbers and machines. The fact that you seem unaware of this might 
 explain your prejudices on machines and numbers. 


Ok, what is arithmetic founded on?
 





 as it already includes in its axioms an assumption of quantitative sense. 



 Comp is mainly an assumption that some quantitative relation can support 
 qualitative relations locally. But you cannot indentify them, as they obey 
 different logic, like Bp and Bp  p, for example. The quality appears 
 thanks to the reference to truth (a non formalizable notion).


I don't disagree that quality likely relates to truth association, but 
truth association is not necessary or sufficient to explain its appearance. 
I would say that even truth is incorrect - qualia is experience of 

Re: Robot reading vs human reading

2013-01-24 Thread Bruno Marchal


On 23 Jan 2013, at 23:50, Richard Ruquist wrote:

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be  
wrote:

Arithmetical truth is a sort of block-brains-in-a-vat


This is what I mean by the term Quantum Mind
I think of the Quantum Mind as a Block Metaverse
containing all possible universes which is timeless
since everything in the MWI Metaverse is known
to first order like the trajectories of the galacies,
stars and planets. and probably all cosmic events like supernovae.
As you say, I think, it is first person uncertainty that forces
what I call the Quantum   Mind to recalculate the future
and therefore time is introduced.



OK. You might still look a little bit like assuming some physical  
reality, which cannot be done if we want extract a theory of both  
quanta and qualia.

It can be done in the meta-theory, but not in the theory itself.

The terming quantum mind has (bad, imo) connotations related to the  
misuse (I think) of QM in cognition, like assuming consciousness  
reduces the wave packet.
Although there is arguably a first person indeterminacy in QM (without  
collapse), it should be recovered from the arithmetical (or comp)  
first person indeterminacy (if my UDA point is without flaw).


Bruno





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Re: Robot reading vs human reading

2013-01-24 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:

 On 23 Jan 2013, at 23:50, Richard Ruquist wrote:

 On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:

 Arithmetical truth is a sort of block-brains-in-a-vat


 This is what I mean by the term Quantum Mind
 I think of the Quantum Mind as a Block Metaverse
 containing all possible universes which is timeless
 since everything in the MWI Metaverse is known
 to first order like the trajectories of the galacies,
 stars and planets. and probably all cosmic events like supernovae.
 As you say, I think, it is first person uncertainty that forces
 what I call the Quantum   Mind to recalculate the future
 and therefore time is introduced.



 OK. You might still look a little bit like assuming some physical reality,
 which cannot be done if we want extract a theory of both quanta and qualia.
 It can be done in the meta-theory, but not in the theory itself.

 The terming quantum mind has (bad, imo) connotations related to the misuse
 (I think) of QM in cognition, like assuming consciousness reduces the wave
 packet.
 Although there is arguably a first person indeterminacy in QM (without
 collapse), it should be recovered from the arithmetical (or comp) first
 person indeterminacy (if my UDA point is without flaw).

 Bruno

Well now that gets us back to my original question,
is it possible that arithmetics created matter
in the beginning, whatever that means,
and that matter evolved according
 to arithmetic predictions since then
(so to speak as time may not exist)?






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Re: Robot reading vs human reading

2013-01-24 Thread Craig Weinberg


On Thursday, January 24, 2013 1:31:41 PM UTC-5, yanniru wrote:

 On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Bruno Marchal 
 mar...@ulb.ac.bejavascript: 
 wrote: 
  
  On 23 Jan 2013, at 23:50, Richard Ruquist wrote: 
  
  On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Bruno Marchal 
  mar...@ulb.ac.bejavascript: 
 wrote: 
  
  Arithmetical truth is a sort of block-brains-in-a-vat 
  
  
  This is what I mean by the term Quantum Mind 
  I think of the Quantum Mind as a Block Metaverse 
  containing all possible universes which is timeless 
  since everything in the MWI Metaverse is known 
  to first order like the trajectories of the galacies, 
  stars and planets. and probably all cosmic events like supernovae. 
  As you say, I think, it is first person uncertainty that forces 
  what I call the Quantum   Mind to recalculate the future 
  and therefore time is introduced. 
  
  
  
  OK. You might still look a little bit like assuming some physical 
 reality, 
  which cannot be done if we want extract a theory of both quanta and 
 qualia. 
  It can be done in the meta-theory, but not in the theory itself. 
  
  The terming quantum mind has (bad, imo) connotations related to the 
 misuse 
  (I think) of QM in cognition, like assuming consciousness reduces the 
 wave 
  packet. 
  Although there is arguably a first person indeterminacy in QM (without 
  collapse), it should be recovered from the arithmetical (or comp) first 
  person indeterminacy (if my UDA point is without flaw). 
  
  Bruno 

 Well now that gets us back to my original question, 
 is it possible that arithmetics created matter 
 in the beginning, whatever that means, 
 and that matter evolved according 
  to arithmetic predictions since then 
 (so to speak as time may not exist)? 


Couldn't we substitute anything for matter? How is it falsifiable?
 



  
  
  
  
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Re: Robot reading vs human reading

2013-01-24 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote:


 On Thursday, January 24, 2013 1:31:41 PM UTC-5, yanniru wrote:

 On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
 
  On 23 Jan 2013, at 23:50, Richard Ruquist wrote:
 
  On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.be
  wrote:
 
  Arithmetical truth is a sort of block-brains-in-a-vat
 
 
  This is what I mean by the term Quantum Mind
  I think of the Quantum Mind as a Block Metaverse
  containing all possible universes which is timeless
  since everything in the MWI Metaverse is known
  to first order like the trajectories of the galacies,
  stars and planets. and probably all cosmic events like supernovae.
  As you say, I think, it is first person uncertainty that forces
  what I call the Quantum   Mind to recalculate the future
  and therefore time is introduced.
 
 
 
  OK. You might still look a little bit like assuming some physical
  reality,
  which cannot be done if we want extract a theory of both quanta and
  qualia.
  It can be done in the meta-theory, but not in the theory itself.
 
  The terming quantum mind has (bad, imo) connotations related to the
  misuse
  (I think) of QM in cognition, like assuming consciousness reduces the
  wave
  packet.
  Although there is arguably a first person indeterminacy in QM (without
  collapse), it should be recovered from the arithmetical (or comp) first
  person indeterminacy (if my UDA point is without flaw).
 
  Bruno

 Well now that gets us back to my original question,
 is it possible that arithmetics created matter
 in the beginning, whatever that means,
 and that matter evolved according
  to arithmetic predictions since then
 (so to speak as time may not exist)?


 Couldn't we substitute anything for matter? How is it falsifiable?



Of course, but we know that matter exists. Perhaps force and energy or
even consciousness should be included along with the original creation
of matter.

I do not think it is falsifiable, that arithmetics created matter.
But Bruno seems to think that it is.


 
 
 
 
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Re: Robot reading vs human reading

2013-01-23 Thread Bruno Marchal


On 22 Jan 2013, at 18:44, Richard Ruquist wrote:



On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be  
wrote:
You seem to not having yet realize that with comp, not only  
materialism is wrong, but also weak materialism, that is, the  
doctrine asserting the primary existence of matter, or the existence  
of primary matter.


We are, well, not in the matrix, but in infinities of purely  
arithmetical matrices. matter is an appearance from inside.


My point is not that this is true, but that it follows from comp,  
and that computer science makes this enough precise so that we can  
test it.


Bruno,
Is it possible that the existence of matter from comp as a dream of  
the Quantum Mind happened once and for all time way back in time?


I am still unsure what you mean by quantum mind. If by quantum you  
mean the usual quantum mechanics, it should appear as the natural view  
of arithmetic (numberland, computerland) seen from inside. You can say  
that mind and matter exist as a view of the (totally atemporal and  
aspatial) number reality. It is time itself which appears, in a non  
tempral sense, but a logical sense, from the elementary number  
relation. As amazing it might seem, comp makes really a theory like


x + 0 = x
x + s(y) = s(x + y)

 x *0 = 0
 x*s(y) = x*y + x

or like

((K, x), y) = x
(((S, x), y), z) = ((x, z), (y, z))

into authentical (and equivalent) theories of everything (mind,  
force and stuff). The rest are definition and theorems. Those theories  
are complete and even non completeable. If string theory is the  
correct physics, then it has to be derived from the relation above.  
And I can explain that we get more, as we will get the non  
communicable part of truth too (the qualia). Normally we will go  
through some steps of this on FOAR. On this list, I have explained  
many things, but the list is too voluminous to search.


Bruno



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Re: Robot reading vs human reading

2013-01-23 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:

 On 22 Jan 2013, at 18:44, Richard Ruquist wrote:


 On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:

 You seem to not having yet realize that with comp, not only materialism is
 wrong, but also weak materialism, that is, the doctrine asserting the
 primary existence of matter, or the existence of primary matter.

 We are, well, not in the matrix, but in infinities of purely arithmetical
 matrices. matter is an appearance from inside.

 My point is not that this is true, but that it follows from comp, and that
 computer science makes this enough precise so that we can test it.


 Bruno,
 Is it possible that the existence of matter from comp as a dream of the
 Quantum Mind happened once and for all time way back in time?


 I am still unsure what you mean by quantum mind. If by quantum you mean
 the usual quantum mechanics, it should appear as the natural view of
 arithmetic (numberland, computerland) seen from inside. You can say that
 mind and matter exist as a view of the (totally atemporal and aspatial)
 number reality. It is time itself which appears, in a non tempral sense,
 but a logical sense, from the elementary number relation. As amazing it
 might seem, comp makes really a theory like

 x + 0 = x
 x + s(y) = s(x + y)

  x *0 = 0
  x*s(y) = x*y + x

 or like

 ((K, x), y) = x
 (((S, x), y), z) = ((x, z), (y, z))

 into authentical (and equivalent) theories of everything (mind, force and
 stuff). The rest are definition and theorems. Those theories are complete
 and even non completeable. If string theory is the correct physics, then it
 has to be derived from the relation above. And I can explain that we get
 more, as we will get the non communicable part of truth too (the qualia).
 Normally we will go through some steps of this on FOAR. On this list, I have
 explained many things, but the list is too voluminous to search.

 Bruno


It seems that you have avoided my question
by questioning what I mean by quantum mind.
So let me rephrase it.
Could arithmetics produce matter once and for all a long time ago?
Or must the illusion of matter be constantly reinforced by arithmetics?
Richard



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Re: Robot reading vs human reading

2013-01-23 Thread Craig Weinberg


On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 6:54:48 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote:
 

 Hi Craig,

 This video lecture series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjABUhyu6dwdoes 
 a good job showing how a psychiatrist, Niall McLaren,  argues toward a 
 dual aspect theory. I recomend his books: 
 http://www.niallmclaren.com/bibliography


Nice. I watched the series and took some notes (and sent them off to him 
also).

I like that he clearly sees the limitations of the other approaches, but he 
does not yet see the problems with 'information' and the 'semantic realm'. 
He is modeling experience in space rather than through time.  I would 
dispute that and say that nothing emerges from neuronal function except 
more neuronal function. Personal meaning is instead recovered as an 
experiential recapitulation of higher and lower levels (super-personal and 
sub-personal) of experience since experience is primitive and personal. His 
view mistakes the difference between one level of impersonal phenomena 
(form, matter) and another impersonal level (function, logic) for the 
difference between personal [presentations (representations)] and 
impersonal [representations (presentations)]*

He overlooks the same issue all the way down the line:

2. Logic gates, he says, coopt the mechanical function to acquit the 
semantic function of defining relationships. I suggest pivoting that 
assumption. It is we, the human end user or programmer who coopts both the 
a-signifying mechanical forms and a-signifying semiotic functions of the 
logic gate for our personal agendas. The logic gate has no semantic agenda, 
it is, like a marionette or cartoon character, a mindless machine with two 
mindless aspects - a spatially extended form and a temporally inferred 
function. There is no temporally intended motive, except the one which has 
been co-opted by the third and primary influence - participatory awareness 
. 

We are exploiting the public physics of the logic gate's form to generate a 
more subtle level of public physics which we read as signs. In other words, 
we exploit the public facing forms and functions of the gate to exploit our 
own public facing forms and functions (optical patterns to tease the eye, 
acoustic patterns to call to the ear), allowing a sharing and communication 
of experience *in spite of* forms and functions, which are completely 
hidden from the conscious spectacle. In fact no 'information' is exchanged, 
except metaphorically. What is exchanged is concretely real and physical, 
although physics and realism of course, should only be thought of as a 
range of scaled or scoped experience based on time-like frequencies on 
space-like obstructions.

3. He focuses on the logic of the mind rather than the richness of qualia. 
I suggest instead that the mind tries to be logical only when focusing on 
public interactions. Private fantasy would be the more raw presentation of 
mind; dreams, visions, delusions, etc. Logic is born out of necessity, not 
innate to consciousness. Left to our own devices, a brain in a 
nutritionally rich vat would wallow in a paradise of illogical raptures 
forever. 

4. He conflates grammatical structure for meaning, missing the point that 
communication is a skill learned expressly for public interaction, not for 
private understanding. The true meaning itself is not assembled internally 
from parts using logic and grammar, but rather 'insists' as a narrative 
gestalt. 'The boy is eating some cake' is only an experience of verbal 
syntax through which we recover a deeper perceptual understanding of the 
referent, based on our experiences with or about boys, eating, and cake. 
The order of words is no longer important within the private range of 
experience. 

While it is important to model thought backwards through communication like 
he does for purposes of AI development, it is a mistake to apply the model 
the ontology that way. The horse is not an assembly of carts, so to speak. 
The cart without the horse is useless. The words and sentences are empty 
carts without the personal experience of semiosis, which is not included in 
physics or information theory. Experience is the key.

5. His assumptions about personality and mental disorder are the weakest 
parts in my opinion. They are normative and nakedly behaviorist, mistaking 
again public behaviors for private realities. What he sees as simply a 
collection of habits, I see as a vast interiority of identity and influence 
rooted in the sub-personal, super-personal and super-signifying bands of 
sensory-motive experience.

6. I disagree too that neurons pass information mindlessly.  I would say 
that the same could be said of our own mass production systems. All 
mechanism is mindless, but that doesn't mean that sub-personal organisms 
like neurons are devoid of intention or participatory experience. It is 
that sub-personal experience which our experience is made of; not the 
motions of structures within cells, but the private 

Re: Robot reading vs human reading

2013-01-23 Thread Bruno Marchal


On 22 Jan 2013, at 21:34, Craig Weinberg wrote:




On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:44:41 PM UTC-5, yanniru wrote:

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.be  
wrote:
You seem to not having yet realize that with comp, not only  
materialism is wrong, but also weak materialism, that is, the  
doctrine asserting the primary existence of matter, or the existence  
of primary matter.


We are, well, not in the matrix, but in infinities of purely  
arithmetical matrices. matter is an appearance from inside.


My point is not that this is true, but that it follows from comp,  
and that computer science makes this enough precise so that we can  
test it.


Bruno,
Is it possible that the existence of matter from comp as a dream of  
the Quantum Mind happened once and for all time way back in time?

Richard

Quantum Deism. Cool.

It still doesn't make sense that there could be any presentation of  
anything at all under comp. If you can have 'infinities of purely  
arithmetical matrices' which can simulate all possibilities and  
relations... why have anything else? Why have anything except purely  
arithmetical matrices?


You have the stable illusions, whose working is described by the self- 
reference logics. let us compare with nature, and so we can progress.  
You seem to start from the answers. You can do that if the goal is  
just contemplation, but then you become a poet. That is nice, but is  
not the goal of the scientists.


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Re: Robot reading vs human reading

2013-01-23 Thread Craig Weinberg


On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 10:31:18 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote:


 On 22 Jan 2013, at 21:34, Craig Weinberg wrote:



 On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:44:41 PM UTC-5, yanniru wrote:


 On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.be wrote:

 You seem to not having yet realize that with comp, not only materialism 
 is wrong, but also weak materialism, that is, the doctrine asserting the 
 primary existence of matter, or the existence of primary matter. 

 We are, well, not in the matrix, but in infinities of purely 
 arithmetical matrices. matter is an appearance from inside.

 My point is not that this is true, but that it follows from comp, and 
 that computer science makes this enough precise so that we can test it.


 Bruno, 
 Is it possible that the existence of matter from comp as a dream of the 
 Quantum Mind happened once and for all time way back in time?
 Richard


 Quantum Deism. Cool. 

 It still doesn't make sense that there could be any presentation of 
 anything at all under comp. If you can have 'infinities of purely 
 arithmetical matrices' which can simulate all possibilities and 
 relations... why have anything else? Why have anything except purely 
 arithmetical matrices?


 You have the stable illusions, whose working is described by the 
 self-reference logics.


Describing that some arithmetic systems function as if they were stable 
illusions does not account for the experienced presence of sensory-motor 
participation. I can explain how torturing someone on the rack would 
function to dislocate their limbs, and the fact *that* this bodily change 
could be interpreted by the victim as an outcome with a high priority 
avoidance value, but it cannot be explained how or why there is an 
experienced 'feeling'. 

The indisputable reality is that it is the deeply unpleasant quality of the 
feeling of this torture is the motivation behind it. In fact, there are 
techniques now where hideous pain is inflicted by subcutaneous microwave 
stimulation which does not substantially damage tissue. The torture is 
achieved through manipulation of the 'stable illusion' of experienced pain 
alone.

While the function of torture to elicit information can be mapped out 
logically, the logic is built upon an unexamined assumption that pain and 
feeling simply arise as some kind of useless decoration. It only seems to 
work retrospectively when we take perception and participation for granted. 
If we look at it prospectively instead, we see that a universe founded on 
logic has no possibility of developing perception or participation, as it 
already includes in its axioms an assumption of quantitative sense. 
Machines, as conceived by comp, are already sentient without any kind of 
tangible, experiential, or even geometric presentation. If you have 
discrete data, why would you add some superfluous layer of blur?
 

 let us compare with nature, and so we can progress. You seem to start from 
 the answers. You can do that if the goal is just contemplation, but then 
 you become a poet. That is nice, but is not the goal of the scientists.


My only goal is to make the most sense that can be made.

Craig
 


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Re: Robot reading vs human reading

2013-01-23 Thread Bruno Marchal


On 23 Jan 2013, at 14:03, Richard Ruquist wrote:

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be  
wrote:


On 22 Jan 2013, at 18:44, Richard Ruquist wrote:


On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be  
wrote:


You seem to not having yet realize that with comp, not only  
materialism is
wrong, but also weak materialism, that is, the doctrine asserting  
the

primary existence of matter, or the existence of primary matter.

We are, well, not in the matrix, but in infinities of purely  
arithmetical

matrices. matter is an appearance from inside.

My point is not that this is true, but that it follows from comp,  
and that

computer science makes this enough precise so that we can test it.



Bruno,
Is it possible that the existence of matter from comp as a dream of  
the

Quantum Mind happened once and for all time way back in time?


I am still unsure what you mean by quantum mind. If by quantum  
you mean

the usual quantum mechanics, it should appear as the natural view of
arithmetic (numberland, computerland) seen from inside. You can say  
that
mind and matter exist as a view of the (totally atemporal and  
aspatial)
number reality. It is time itself which appears, in a non tempral  
sense,
but a logical sense, from the elementary number relation. As  
amazing it

might seem, comp makes really a theory like

x + 0 = x
x + s(y) = s(x + y)

x *0 = 0
x*s(y) = x*y + x

or like

((K, x), y) = x
(((S, x), y), z) = ((x, z), (y, z))

into authentical (and equivalent) theories of everything (mind,  
force and
stuff). The rest are definition and theorems. Those theories are  
complete
and even non completeable. If string theory is the correct physics,  
then it
has to be derived from the relation above. And I can explain that  
we get
more, as we will get the non communicable part of truth too (the  
qualia).
Normally we will go through some steps of this on FOAR. On this  
list, I have

explained many things, but the list is too voluminous to search.

Bruno



It seems that you have avoided my question
by questioning what I mean by quantum mind.


It seems you avoid my question of what you mean by quantum mind.
Don't quantum mind too much :)



So let me rephrase it.
Could arithmetics produce matter once and for all a long time ago?


The question does not make a clear sense. Arithmetical truth is out of  
time and space. Arithmetics is responsible for our own (atemporal  
existence), and we create time in it. (making time is the favorite  
pastime of the universal numbers).


So in a larger sense I could have answer yes, in some metaphorical  
way. Arithmetic contains all the computations, but only the numbers/ 
machines are making sense of it, by virtue of their relations with the  
others numbers.




Or must the illusion of matter be constantly reinforced by  
arithmetics?


Not by arithmetic, which is out of time. But matter can be considered  
as being reinforced by the winning stable and sharable machines'  
histories/dreams.


Normally if you get the UDA1-7, you could already figure out how this  
happens. Arithmetical truth is a sort of block-brains-in-a-vat. For  
each possible brain states, there is an infinity, in arithmetic, of  
universal machine/number' computations going through that state.  
Whatever you predict that you will live is given by a probability- 
calculus on all those histories, making physics a relative  
probability calculus on the computations, but only a seen by the  
(locally self-referentially correct) numbers.


Church thesis makes all computations something well defined, and the  
incompleteness phenomenon makes those computations terribly redundant,  
and this introduces  the deepness and the bottom linearity making  
consciousness differentiating on long and rich 'normal' (gaussian,  
boolean) histories.


This predicts/explains that once we look below our substitution level,  
the physical reality get blurred, as we have to see, somehow, the  
trace of the infinity of universal numbers competing to build you a  
consistent extensions.


Seen is defined in arithmetic by []p  t, and variants. You see a  
city, if there is a city in all relative consistent extensions ([]p),  
and there is such a consistent extension (t). This provides an  
arithmetical quantization, and I conjecture we can program a quantum  
computer in it. If we can't, then the concrete existence of a quantum  
computer would refute comp + the arithmetical interpretation of the  
classical theory of knowledge).


Arithmetic produces mind and matter/time, atemporally.

The existence of times and matters in the stable deep dreams of the  
universal machines, is a theorem of arithmetic, or of some consistent  
extension of arithmetic (made by creature living in arithmetic).  
Arithmetic from inside is vastly bigger than arithmetic seen from  
inside. It is a Löwenheim-Skolem-like phenomenon. Well, that happens  
also in Alice in Wonderland and in yellow Submarine 

Re: Robot reading vs human reading

2013-01-23 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
 Arithmetical truth is a sort of block-brains-in-a-vat

This is what I mean by the term Quantum Mind
I think of the Quantum Mind as a Block Metaverse
containing all possible universes which is timeless
since everything in the MWI Metaverse is known
to first order like the trajectories of the galacies,
stars and planets. and probably all cosmic events like supernovae.
As you say, I think, it is first person uncertainty that forces
what I call the Quantum   Mind to recalculate the future
and therefore time is introduced.
Richard

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Re: Re: Robot reading vs human reading

2013-01-22 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal 

I'm having trouble understanding you today.  You say:

Truth is not epistemological. Only matter, and the other internal modalities, 
some of which are not communicable/justifiable, yet guessable by machines.

Wikipedia says: 

Epistemology (i/??p?st?'m?l?d?i/ from Greek ?p?st?ľ? - episteme, meaning 
knowledge, understanding, and ? - logos, meaning study of) is the 
branch of
 philosophy concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge.[1][2] It 
questions what
 knowledge is, how it is acquired, and the possible extent a given subject or 
entity can be known.

How can matter be epistemological ? It's just nondescriptive stuff. 
It cannot be knowledge, for knowledge can be defined as a true belief. 
But there's nothing to believe. It's just nondescriptive stuff.

As to truth not being epistemological, consider this.
If knowledge is a true belief, and epistemology provides you
with knowledge, then that knowledge must be true by definition.



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On 20 Jan 2013, at 21:03, Roger Clough wrote:


Hi Bruno Marchal 

The triads are based on epistemology. Without Secondness 
everything is impersonal. Without Secondness you cannot understand how 
the final expression was obtained (what it means to YOU, and
how it was affected by the interprent. It's just wham bam ! that's a cat I see 
! 
Van Quine made this criticism of conventional epistemology and gave it 
up to examine instead how we know something that is perceived through 
physiological explanations.

And all epistemoblogy would be robot reading, with
no account to the personality, memory, training, or 
linguistic knowledge of the reader.


Truth is not epistemological. Only matter, and the other internal modalities, 
some of which are not communicable/justifiable, yet guessable by machines.


Bruno













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On 18 Jan 2013, at 13:29, Roger Clough wrote:

 Hi Russell Standish

 Firstness is the mode of being of that which is such as it is, 
 positively and without reference to anything else.

This can make sense. We can relate this with the common notion of 
subjectivity.


 Secondness is the mode of being of that which is such as it is, with 
 respect to a second but regardless of any third.

Hmm... Why not, but I don't see this as fundamental. It can be 
distracting.


 Thirdness is the mode of being of that which is such as it is, in 
 bringing a second and third into relation to each other.

OK. Then with comp thirdness is arithmetic (and physics is, counter- 
intuitively, still 1p, hopefully plural). The physical is a mode of 
being which is *not* such as it is.

Bruno




 I believe 1p is Firstness (raw experience of cat) + Secondness 
 (identification of the image cat with the word cast to oneself)
 and 3p = Thirdness (expression of cat to others)


 [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net]



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 Peirce, being a pragmatist, described perception according to what 
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 Hi John,

 My suspicion is that Roger is so keen to impose a Piercean triadic
 view on things that he has omitted to make the necessary connection
 with the normal meaning of 1p/3p as standing for subjective/objective.

 Cheers

 On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 04:55:17PM -0500, John Mikes wrote:
 Russell,
 I reflect after a long-long time to your post. I had a war on my 
 hand about
 objective and subjective, fighting for the latter, since we are 
 'us' and
 cannot be 'them'. I never elevated to the mindset of Lady Welby 
 1904, who -
 maybe? - got it what 2p was.
 My vocabulary allows me to consider what I consider (=1p) and I may
 communicat it (still 1p) to anybody else, who receives it as a 3p
 communication and acknowledges it into HIS 1p way adjusted and 
 reformed
 into it. There is no other situation I can figure. Whatever I 
 'read' or
 'hear' is 3p for me and I do the above to it to get it into my 1p 
 mindset.
 No 2p to my knowledge. Could you improve upon my ignorance?
 John Mikes

 On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Russell Standish wrote:

 On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 08:29:52AM -0500, Roger Clough wrote:
 Hi Russell Standish

 2p should be a necessary part of comp, espcially if it uses 
 synthetic
 logic.
 It doesn't seem to be needed for deductive logic, however.

 The following equivalences should hold between comp
 and Peirce's logical categories:

 3p = Thirdness or III
 2p = Secondness or II
 1p = Firstness or I.

 Comp seems to only use analytic

Re: Robot reading vs human reading

2013-01-22 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:

 You seem to not having yet realize that with comp, not only materialism is
 wrong, but also weak materialism, that is, the doctrine asserting the
 primary existence of matter, or the existence of primary matter.

 We are, well, not in the matrix, but in infinities of purely arithmetical
 matrices. matter is an appearance from inside.

 My point is not that this is true, but that it follows from comp, and that
 computer science makes this enough precise so that we can test it.


Bruno,
Is it possible that the existence of matter from comp as a dream of the
Quantum Mind happened once and for all time way back in time?
Richard

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Re: Robot reading vs human reading

2013-01-22 Thread Craig Weinberg


On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:44:41 PM UTC-5, yanniru wrote:


 On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.bejavascript:
  wrote:

 You seem to not having yet realize that with comp, not only materialism 
 is wrong, but also weak materialism, that is, the doctrine asserting the 
 primary existence of matter, or the existence of primary matter. 

 We are, well, not in the matrix, but in infinities of purely arithmetical 
 matrices. matter is an appearance from inside.

 My point is not that this is true, but that it follows from comp, and 
 that computer science makes this enough precise so that we can test it.


 Bruno, 
 Is it possible that the existence of matter from comp as a dream of the 
 Quantum Mind happened once and for all time way back in time?
 Richard


Quantum Deism. Cool. 

It still doesn't make sense that there could be any presentation of 
anything at all under comp. If you can have 'infinities of purely 
arithmetical matrices' which can simulate all possibilities and 
relations... why have anything else? Why have anything except purely 
arithmetical matrices?

Craig

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Re: Robot reading vs human reading

2013-01-22 Thread Stephen P. King

On 1/22/2013 3:34 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:



On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:44:41 PM UTC-5, yanniru wrote:


On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.be
javascript: wrote:

You seem to not having yet realize that with comp, not only
materialism is wrong, but also weak materialism, that is, the
doctrine asserting the primary existence of matter, or the
existence of primary matter.

We are, well, not in the matrix, but in infinities of purely
arithmetical matrices. matter is an appearance from inside.

My point is not that this is true, but that it follows from
comp, and that computer science makes this enough precise so
that we can test it.


Bruno,
Is it possible that the existence of matter from comp as a dream
of the Quantum Mind happened once and for all time way back in time?
Richard


Quantum Deism. Cool.

It still doesn't make sense that there could be any presentation of 
anything at all under comp. If you can have 'infinities of purely 
arithmetical matrices' which can simulate all possibilities and 
relations... why have anything else? Why have anything except purely 
arithmetical matrices?


Craig

Hi Craig,

This video lecture series 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjABUhyu6dw does a good job showing how 
a psychiatrist, Niall McLaren,  argues toward a dual aspect theory. I 
recomend his books: http://www.niallmclaren.com/bibliography


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Re: Robot reading vs human reading

2013-01-22 Thread Craig Weinberg


On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 6:54:48 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote:

  On 1/22/2013 3:34 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
  


 On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:44:41 PM UTC-5, yanniru wrote: 


 On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.be wrote:

 You seem to not having yet realize that with comp, not only materialism 
 is wrong, but also weak materialism, that is, the doctrine asserting the 
 primary existence of matter, or the existence of primary matter. 

  We are, well, not in the matrix, but in infinities of purely 
 arithmetical matrices. matter is an appearance from inside.

  My point is not that this is true, but that it follows from comp, and 
 that computer science makes this enough precise so that we can test it.

  
 Bruno,  
 Is it possible that the existence of matter from comp as a dream of the 
 Quantum Mind happened once and for all time way back in time?
 Richard


 Quantum Deism. Cool. 

 It still doesn't make sense that there could be any presentation of 
 anything at all under comp. If you can have 'infinities of purely 
 arithmetical matrices' which can simulate all possibilities and 
 relations... why have anything else? Why have anything except purely 
 arithmetical matrices?

 Craig
  
 Hi Craig,

 This video lecture series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjABUhyu6dwdoes 
 a good job showing how a psychiatrist, Niall McLaren,  argues toward a 
 dual aspect theory. I recomend his books: 
 http://www.niallmclaren.com/bibliography



Thanks Stephen, I'll check out the video!

 

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Re: Robot reading vs human reading

2013-01-21 Thread Bruno Marchal


On 20 Jan 2013, at 21:03, Roger Clough wrote:


Hi Bruno Marchal

The triads are based on epistemology. Without Secondness
everything is impersonal. Without Secondness you cannot understand how
the final expression was obtained (what it means to YOU, and
how it was affected by the interprent. It's just wham bam ! that's a  
cat I see !

Van Quine made this criticism of conventional epistemology and gave it
up to examine instead how we know something that is perceived through
physiological explanations.

And all epistemoblogy would be robot reading, with
no account to the personality, memory, training, or
linguistic knowledge of the reader.


Truth is not epistemological. Only matter, and the other internal  
modalities, some of which are not communicable/justifiable, yet  
guessable by machines.


Bruno








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From: Bruno Marchal
Receiver: everything-list
Time: 2013-01-20, 07:01:56
Subject: Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland

On 18 Jan 2013, at 13:29, Roger Clough wrote:

 Hi Russell Standish

 Firstness is the mode of being of that which is such as it is,
 positively and without reference to anything else.

This can make sense. We can relate this with the common notion of
subjectivity.


 Secondness is the mode of being of that which is such as it is, with
 respect to a second but regardless of any third.

Hmm... Why not, but I don't see this as fundamental. It can be
distracting.


 Thirdness is the mode of being of that which is such as it is, in
 bringing a second and third into relation to each other.

OK. Then with comp thirdness is arithmetic (and physics is, counter-
intuitively, still 1p, hopefully plural). The physical is a mode of
being which is *not* such as it is.

Bruno




 I believe 1p is Firstness (raw experience of cat) + Secondness
 (identification of the image cat with the word cast to oneself)
 and 3p = Thirdness (expression of cat to others)


 [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net]



 Peirce
 Peirce, being a pragmatist, described perception according to what
 happened
 at each stage,1/18/2013
 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen
 - Receiving the following content -
 From: Russell Standish
 Receiver: everything-list
 Time: 2013-01-17, 17:17:11
 Subject: Re: Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland


 Hi John,

 My suspicion is that Roger is so keen to impose a Piercean triadic
 view on things that he has omitted to make the necessary connection
 with the normal meaning of 1p/3p as standing for subjective/ 
objective.


 Cheers

 On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 04:55:17PM -0500, John Mikes wrote:
 Russell,
 I reflect after a long-long time to your post. I had a war on my
 hand about
 objective and subjective, fighting for the latter, since we are
 'us' and
 cannot be 'them'. I never elevated to the mindset of Lady Welby
 1904, who -
 maybe? - got it what 2p was.
 My vocabulary allows me to consider what I consider (=1p) and I  
may

 communicat it (still 1p) to anybody else, who receives it as a 3p
 communication and acknowledges it into HIS 1p way adjusted and
 reformed
 into it. There is no other situation I can figure. Whatever I
 'read' or
 'hear' is 3p for me and I do the above to it to get it into my 1p
 mindset.
 No 2p to my knowledge. Could you improve upon my ignorance?
 John Mikes

 On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Russell Standish wrote:

 On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 08:29:52AM -0500, Roger Clough wrote:
 Hi Russell Standish

 2p should be a necessary part of comp, espcially if it uses
 synthetic
 logic.
 It doesn't seem to be needed for deductive logic, however.

 The following equivalences should hold between comp
 and Peirce's logical categories:

 3p = Thirdness or III
 2p = Secondness or II
 1p = Firstness or I.

 Comp seems to only use analytic or deductive logic,
 while Peirce's categories are epistemological (synthetic
 logic) categories, in which secondness is an integral part.
 So .

 Here's what Peirce has to say about his categorioes:

 http://www.helsinki.fi/science/commens/terms/secondness.html


 Firstness is the mode of being of that which is such as it is,
 positively and without reference to anything else.

 Secondness is the mode of being of that which is such as it is,
 with respect to a second but regardless of any third.

 Thirdness is the mode of being of that which is such as it is,
 in bringing a second and third into relation to each other.
 (A Letter to Lady Welby, CP 8.328, 1904)


 Thanks for the definition, but how does that relate to 1p and  
3p? I

 cannot see anything in the definitions of firstness and thirdness
 that
 relate to subjectivity and objectivity.

 As I said before, I do not even know what 2p could be.


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 Principal, High Performance Coders
 Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au
 University of New 

Robot reading vs human reading

2013-01-20 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal 

The triads are based on epistemology. Without Secondness 
everything is impersonal. Without Secondness you cannot understand how 
the final expression was obtained (what it means to YOU, and
how it was affected by the interprent. It's just wham bam ! that's a cat I see 
! 
Van Quine made this criticism of conventional epistemology and gave it 
up to examine instead how we know something that is perceived through 
physiological explanations.

And all epistemoblogy would be robot reading, with
no account to the personality, memory, training, or 
linguistic knowledge of the reader.

- Receiving the following content - 
From: Bruno Marchal 
Receiver: everything-list 
Time: 2013-01-20, 07:01:56
Subject: Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland


On 18 Jan 2013, at 13:29, Roger Clough wrote:

 Hi Russell Standish

 Firstness is the mode of being of that which is such as it is, 
 positively and without reference to anything else.

This can make sense. We can relate this with the common notion of 
subjectivity.


 Secondness is the mode of being of that which is such as it is, with 
 respect to a second but regardless of any third.

Hmm... Why not, but I don't see this as fundamental. It can be 
distracting.


 Thirdness is the mode of being of that which is such as it is, in 
 bringing a second and third into relation to each other.

OK. Then with comp thirdness is arithmetic (and physics is, counter- 
intuitively, still 1p, hopefully plural). The physical is a mode of 
being which is *not* such as it is.

Bruno




 I believe 1p is Firstness (raw experience of cat) + Secondness 
 (identification of the image cat with the word cast to oneself)
 and 3p = Thirdness (expression of cat to others)


 [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net]



 Peirce
 Peirce, being a pragmatist, described perception according to what 
 happened
 at each stage,1/18/2013
 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen
 - Receiving the following content -
 From: Russell Standish
 Receiver: everything-list
 Time: 2013-01-17, 17:17:11
 Subject: Re: Re: Escaping from the world of 3p Flatland


 Hi John,

 My suspicion is that Roger is so keen to impose a Piercean triadic
 view on things that he has omitted to make the necessary connection
 with the normal meaning of 1p/3p as standing for subjective/objective.

 Cheers

 On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 04:55:17PM -0500, John Mikes wrote:
 Russell,
 I reflect after a long-long time to your post. I had a war on my 
 hand about
 objective and subjective, fighting for the latter, since we are 
 'us' and
 cannot be 'them'. I never elevated to the mindset of Lady Welby 
 1904, who -
 maybe? - got it what 2p was.
 My vocabulary allows me to consider what I consider (=1p) and I may
 communicat it (still 1p) to anybody else, who receives it as a 3p
 communication and acknowledges it into HIS 1p way adjusted and 
 reformed
 into it. There is no other situation I can figure. Whatever I 
 'read' or
 'hear' is 3p for me and I do the above to it to get it into my 1p 
 mindset.
 No 2p to my knowledge. Could you improve upon my ignorance?
 John Mikes

 On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Russell Standish wrote:

 On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 08:29:52AM -0500, Roger Clough wrote:
 Hi Russell Standish

 2p should be a necessary part of comp, espcially if it uses 
 synthetic
 logic.
 It doesn't seem to be needed for deductive logic, however.

 The following equivalences should hold between comp
 and Peirce's logical categories:

 3p = Thirdness or III
 2p = Secondness or II
 1p = Firstness or I.

 Comp seems to only use analytic or deductive logic,
 while Peirce's categories are epistemological (synthetic
 logic) categories, in which secondness is an integral part.
 So .

 Here's what Peirce has to say about his categorioes:

 http://www.helsinki.fi/science/commens/terms/secondness.html


 Firstness is the mode of being of that which is such as it is,
 positively and without reference to anything else.

 Secondness is the mode of being of that which is such as it is,
 with respect to a second but regardless of any third.

 Thirdness is the mode of being of that which is such as it is,
 in bringing a second and third into relation to each other.
 (A Letter to Lady Welby, CP 8.328, 1904)


 Thanks for the definition, but how does that relate to 1p and 3p? I
 cannot see anything in the definitions of firstness and thirdness 
 that
 relate to subjectivity and objectivity.

 As I said before, I do not even know what 2p could be.


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 Principal, High Performance Coders
 Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au
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