On Sunday, June 16, 2024, at 7:09 PM, Matt Mahoney wrote:
> Not everything can be symbolized in words. I can't describe what a person
> looks as well as showing you a picture. I can't describe what a novel
> chemical smells like except to let you smell it. I can't tell you how to ride
> a bicycl
Not everything can be symbolized in words. I can't describe what a person
looks as well as showing you a picture. I can't describe what a novel
chemical smells like except to let you smell it. I can't tell you how to
ride a bicycle without you practicing.
On Sun, Jun 16, 2024, 5:36 PM John Rose w
It is an interesting paper. But even though it references Tononi's
integrated information theory, I don't think it says anything about
consciousness. It is just the name they gave to part of their model. They
refer to a "consciousness vector" as the concatenation of vectors
representing perceptions
On Friday, June 14, 2024, at 3:43 PM, James Bowery wrote:
>> Etter: "Thing (n., singular): anything that can be distinguished from
>> something else."
I simply use “thing” as anything that can be symbolized and a unique case are
qualia where from a first-person experiential viewpoint a qualia ex
