Re: QTI & euthanasia

2008-11-13 Thread Brent Meeker
Kory Heath wrote: > Sorry for the long delay on this reply. > > On Nov 2, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: >> Kory Heath wrote: >>> In this mundane sense, it's perfectly sensible for me to say, as I'm >>> sitting here typing this email, "I expect to still be sitting in this >>> room one seco

Re: QTI & euthanasia

2008-11-13 Thread Kory Heath
Sorry for the long delay on this reply. On Nov 2, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: > Kory Heath wrote: >> In this mundane sense, it's perfectly sensible for me to say, as I'm >> sitting here typing this email, "I expect to still be sitting in this >> room one second from now". If I'm about t

Re: QTI & euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-13 Thread Kory Heath
On Nov 13, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > Be careful with the term. The MGA is subtle and to explain it we will > have to be more precise. For example here it is better to remember > that only *person* are conscious. Computations are not conscious (be > it soft or hard wired). Good poi

Re: QTI & euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-13 Thread Gordon Tsai
Bruno:      I'd like to hear more details about MGA if you don't mind. I tried to find the detailed description with no avail. Even though I am new and still sipping through the snipits here, I feel the potential of this hypothesis. I think the all the hard problems (mind/body, subjectivity/obje

Re: QTI & euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Nov 2008, at 00:16, Kory Heath wrote: > > > On Nov 12, 2008, at 9:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> First, I have never stop to work on that and try to share the >> argument >> with people interested in the matter. > > True. You're tireless! (That's a complement.) > >> Second, it happens th

Re: Mathematical methods for the discrete space-time.

2008-11-13 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Bruno Marchal skrev: > I have to think. I think that to retrieve a Leibniz rule in discrete > mathematics, you have to introduce an operator and some non > commutativity rule. This can be already found in the book by Knuth on > numerical mathematics. This has been exploited by Kauffman and one

Re: QTI & euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-13 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2008/11/13 Kory Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Second, it happens that sometimes I think the burden his on him to >> tell us what he means by a physical universe. > > I totally agree. But most people will just wave their arms and say, > "What do you mean? We're obviously in a physical universe. Wh

Re: Mathematical methods for the discrete space-time.

2008-11-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
I have to think. I think that to retrieve a Leibniz rule in discrete mathematics, you have to introduce an operator and some non commutativity rule. This can be already found in the book by Knuth on numerical mathematics. This has been exploited by Kauffman and one of its collaborator, and the