re:Re: QM not (yet, at least) needed to explain why we can't experience other minds

2002-12-27 Thread Marchal Bruno
Dear Stephen, When you say: [...] We might not be able to know what it is like to be a bat but surely we could know what it is like to be an ameoba! It is amusing because I describe often---for exemple my thesis or http://www.escribe.com/science/theory/m3651.html--- my whole work as an attempt

Re: Quantum Probability and Decision Theory

2002-12-27 Thread Joao Leao
Stephen, Thanks for clarifying that point. I take it it was a misprint. I am new to this list and am still trying to understand what you guys are talking about. Forgive me if I pick on you but your interventions seem to me the most lucid of the ones I have read thus far! I have two naive comments

Re: Quantum Probability and Decision Theory

2002-12-27 Thread Wei Dai
On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 08:21:38PM -0500, Stephen Paul King wrote: Forgive me if my writting gave you that opinion. I meant to imply that any mind, including that of a bat, is quantum mechanical and not classical in its nature. My ideas follow the implications of Hitoshi Kitada's theory of

Re: Quantum Probability and Decision Theory

2002-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Wei, Interleaving. - Original Message - From: Wei Dai [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stephen Paul King [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 4:18 PM Subject: Re: Quantum Probability and Decision Theory On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 08:21:38PM -0500, Stephen

Re: The Mind (off topic, but then, is anything off topic on this list?)

2002-12-27 Thread Eric Hawthorne
See response attached as text file: Joao Leao wrote: Both seem to me rather vaccuous statements since we don't really yet have a theory, classical or quantum or whathaveyou , of what a mind is or does. I don't mean an emprirical, or verifiable, or decidable or merely speculative theory! I mean