Re: Believing ...

2007-03-23 Thread John M
Bruno, those 'idealistic' definitions from Leibnitz and Descartes are not experienced in - - what is called usually as "science". Look at the "Laws" of physics, does engineering doubt them? The statements of 'logic', arithmetic, etc. etc. are all " believed" as FIRM laws. Now that is what I call

Re: Believing ...

2007-03-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 21-mars-07, à 22:18, John Mikes a écrit : > Academic - tenure - even Nobel type conventional science is > rfeductionistic > in this sense.. I agree: "SCIENCE" should be as you identified it. Thanks for telling. I thought, a bit naively perhaps, that after Descartes and Popper, say, it was

Re: Janus [was Evidence for the simulation argument ]

2007-03-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
Mark, I appreciate your post, and I take any feeling, that what is said here is incompatible with the computationalist hypothesis, as a misunderstanding of what comp could be, or as an absence of knowledge of how computer science and mathematical logic force us to revise our opinion on machin

Re: The Meaning of Life

2007-03-23 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
This study recent published in Nature suggests not only a neural basis for morality, but a specific neural basis for a specific kind of morality: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nature05631.html http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/science/22brain.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=sl