Re: Primitive Awareness and Symmetry

2012-04-09 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:18 AM, meekerdb wrote: >> A zombie brain component is a component that replicates the function >> of the tissue it replaces but does not replicate its contribution to >> consciousness, such as it may be. The visual cortex is necessary for >> visual perception since if we

Re: what is mechanism?

2012-04-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Apr 2012, at 16:35, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 08.04.2012 21:32 Bruno Marchal said the following: ... This is well illustrated in this (one hour) BBC broadcast, featuring Marcus de Sautoy (who wrote a nice book on the "music of the primes"). (thanks to the salvianaut linking to this

Re: deism and Newton

2012-04-09 Thread meekerdb
On 4/9/2012 7:28 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 08.04.2012 19:55 meekerdb said the following: On 4/8/2012 5:20 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: ... I believe that we should consider Newton in his historical context. As far as I have understood, because of not quite right empirical values (masses, etc

Re: Primitive Awareness and Symmetry

2012-04-09 Thread meekerdb
On 4/9/2012 6:20 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:10 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 4/8/2012 6:04 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 6:30 AM, meekerdbwrote: But is it an empirical question? What would it mean for "neuroscience to find zombies"? We have

Re: what is mechanism?

2012-04-09 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 08.04.2012 21:32 Bruno Marchal said the following: ... This is well illustrated in this (one hour) BBC broadcast, featuring Marcus de Sautoy (who wrote a nice book on the "music of the primes"). (thanks to the salvianaut linking to this in a salvia forum) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B

Re: deism and Newton

2012-04-09 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 08.04.2012 19:55 meekerdb said the following: On 4/8/2012 5:20 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: ... I believe that we should consider Newton in his historical context. As far as I have understood, because of not quite right empirical values (masses, etc.) and/or because of low level of mathematic

Re: Primitive Awareness and Symmetry

2012-04-09 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:10 AM, meekerdb wrote: > On 4/8/2012 6:04 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >> >> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 6:30 AM, meekerdb  wrote: >> >>> But is it an empirical question?  What would it mean for "neuroscience to >>> find zombies"?  We have some idea what it would mean to find

God as an Atheist.

2012-04-09 Thread socra...@bezeqint.net
If your God is dead, try mine. =. God as an Atheist. God as a Scientist : Ten Scientific Commandments. ===. Can a Rational Individual believe in God ? In other words: Can God be atheist, governed by scientific laws? Of course Because if God exists, He/She/It would necessarily to work in an Ab

Re: Review of Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem

2012-04-09 Thread socra...@bezeqint.net
Source of Consciousness. Will Physics explain Consciousness? =. Does consciousness begin on big bang level? Does consciousness begin on the quarks level? In our earthly world there is only one fundamental particle - electron. Does an electron have consciousness ? At first glance this seems to

Re: Two Mathematicians in a Bunker and Existence of Pi

2012-04-09 Thread socra...@bezeqint.net
Where does the information come from? / Quantum Theory as Quantum Information / ===… # Does information begin on the quarks level? No. Quark cannot leave an atom. Maybe does proton have quant of information? No. Single proton has no quant of information. Why? Because information can be transfe