David Nyman wrote:
1Z wrote:
This *is* ecumenicism. The buck stops here. What higher
court of appeal is there , than consideration of the nature of
EVERYTHING?
Touché!
If Bruno isn't reifying numbers, he's in trouble.
And if the materialist isn't reifying the observables, he's
Le 18-oct.-06, à 16:41, David Nyman a écrit :
Point taken. The EC 'axioms' may be better conceived as primitive
computations (like the UD), not theorems. In terms of comp, is there
any necessary distinction between a UD and a parallel distributed
'architecture'?
I am not sure what the EC
David Nyman:
Point taken. The EC 'axioms' may be better conceived as primitive
computations (like the UD), not theorems. In terms of comp, is there any
necessary distinction between a UD and a parallel distributed
'architecture'?
I am not sure what the EC axioms are. The UD is both
Peter Jones writes:
Yes, of course. All such discourse is metaphysics, what else could it
be? It is a question of faith if we wish to go beyond this
acknowledgement and ascribe 'ultimate reality' in the direction of our
metaphysical gestures.
When I say metaphysical, I don't mean
Bruno Marchal writes:
The UD is both massively parallel
and massively sequential. Recall the UD generates all programs and
executes them all together, but one step at a time. The D is for
dovetailing which is a technic for emulating parallelism sequentially.
Given that no actual
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
Bruno Marchal writes:
The UD is both massively parallel
and massively sequential. Recall the UD generates all programs and
executes them all together, but one step at a time. The D is for
dovetailing which is a technic for emulating parallelism sequentially.
Empiricism as a philosophical movement has traditionally been opposed
to metaphysics. It hasn't just been a mild disagreement either, but an
at times vicious dispute (well, as vicious as philosophers get). David
Hume suggested that the best place for books on metaphysics was
in the fire,
Colin Hales wrote:
Empiricism as a philosophical movement has traditionally been opposed
to metaphysics. It hasn't just been a mild disagreement either, but an
at times vicious dispute (well, as vicious as philosophers get). David
Hume suggested that the best place for books on metaphysics was
in
It's one of my favourite lines from Hume! but the issue does not
live
quite so clearly into the 21st century. We now have words and much
neuroscience pinning down subjective experience to the operation of
small
groups of cells and hence, likely, single cells. It's entirely
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