Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-10-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 26 Oct 2008, at 03:38, Kory Heath wrote: This conclusion has some bearing on the white rabbit problem. Many people on this list think that the solution to the white rabbit problem has something to do with measure - in other words, the reason that I don't see talking white rabbits hopping

Re: Emotions

2008-10-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24/10/2008, at 8:44 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: And then there's the big white elephant in the room: consciousness. I don't know what it is ... I am sure you know what it is. I guess you just cannot defined it, nor prove that it applies to you (it's different). and I don't believe

Re: Emotions

2008-10-28 Thread Telmo Menezes
That's exactly what I was referring to above about 'superposition of emotional states' - neither positive nor negative; but SPECIFIC in some wordless way nonetheless Once again, I would be more inclined to call this a 'feeling state' as opposed to an 'emotional state'. There's a much higher

Re: Emotions

2008-10-28 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 09:04:15AM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: Ah! See my papers for a proof that indeed consciousness does not emerge from brain function. See the paper by Maudlin for an independent and later argument (which handles also the counterfactual objection). You have to