Re: Free will in MWI

2012-05-15 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> But a deterministic world, if rich enough to add and multiply, and >> thus to contain universal internal observers,  leads already to >> indeterminist first person realities (even without comp, although it >> is simpler to use comp to just

Poking the bear.

2012-05-15 Thread Colin Geoffrey Hales
Hi all, You might be interested in a little article I wrote, published here: http://theconversation.edu.au/learning-experience-lets-take-consciousness-in-from-the-cold-6739 I am embarked on the long process of getting science to self-review. Enjoy! Colin -- You received this message because

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing?

2012-05-15 Thread John Mikes
Brent: did I say . "I am *conscious of infinite complexity???" *If so, I used the word in a different meaning: like I know about. Or better: I think I know about. (Belief system). I explained several times that said infinite comp[lex system is beyond our knowability although we are part of it with

Re: Free will in MWI

2012-05-15 Thread Craig Weinberg
On May 15, 3:14 pm, R AM wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > > > Deep Blue has several possible moves > > > and chooses one of them (just as Kasparov does). It makes a decision each > > > move. And given that it eventually gets to check-mate, Deep Blue wins > >

Re: Free will in MWI

2012-05-15 Thread R AM
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > Deep Blue has several possible moves > > and chooses one of them (just as Kasparov does). It makes a decision each > > move. And given that it eventually gets to check-mate, Deep Blue wins > chess. > > That's only the view of a human bei

Re: Free will in MWI

2012-05-15 Thread Craig Weinberg
On May 15, 1:03 pm, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> But a deterministic world, if rich enough to add and multiply, and > >> thus to contain universal internal observers,  leads already to > >> indeterminist first person realities (even without comp, although it > >> is simpler to use comp to justify th

Re: Free will in MWI

2012-05-15 Thread Craig Weinberg
On May 15, 12:56 pm, John Clark wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2012  Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > I don't think Deep Blue makes any decisions or wins chess, > > That's exactly what a sore looser would say after he'd been thoroughly > beaten by a opponent. If I were beaten by a human opponent, why would

Re: Free will in MWI

2012-05-15 Thread Craig Weinberg
On May 15, 12:47 pm, R AM wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On May 15, 11:59 am, R AM wrote: > > > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Craig Weinberg > >wrote: > > > > > On May 15, 7:19 am, R AM wrote: > > > > > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 7:01 AM, C

Re: Free will in MWI

2012-05-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 May 2012, at 17:28, Craig Weinberg wrote: On May 15, 5:29 am, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 15 May 2012, at 04:48, Craig Weinberg wrote: On May 14, 2:11 pm, R AM wrote: I'm saying that decision making, learning, and reinforcement are possible in a deterministic world, and you are not deny

Re: Free will in MWI

2012-05-15 Thread John Clark
On Tue, May 15, 2012 Craig Weinberg wrote: > I don't think Deep Blue makes any decisions or wins chess, > That's exactly what a sore looser would say after he'd been thoroughly beaten by a opponent. And so the last surviving member of the species Homo Sapiens, 4 seconds before the Godlike comp

Re: Free will in MWI

2012-05-15 Thread R AM
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > On May 15, 11:59 am, R AM wrote: > > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Craig Weinberg >wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On May 15, 7:19 am, R AM wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Craig Weinberg < > whatsons...

Re: Free will in MWI

2012-05-15 Thread Craig Weinberg
On May 15, 11:59 am, R AM wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On May 15, 7:19 am, R AM wrote: > > > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Craig Weinberg > >wrote: > > > > > I would say that they cannot be meaningful in any sense, but I would > > > > a

Re: Free will in MWI

2012-05-15 Thread R AM
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > On May 15, 7:19 am, R AM wrote: > > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Craig Weinberg >wrote: > > > > > > > > > I would say that they cannot be meaningful in any sense, but I would > > > allow that some may consider meaningless unconscious p

Re: Free will in MWI

2012-05-15 Thread Craig Weinberg
On May 15, 7:19 am, R AM wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > > I would say that they cannot be meaningful in any sense, but I would > > allow that some may consider meaningless unconscious processes to be a > > form of decision, learning, or reinforcement. > > O

Re: Free will in MWI

2012-05-15 Thread Craig Weinberg
On May 15, 5:29 am, Bruno Marchal wrote: > On 15 May 2012, at 04:48, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > On May 14, 2:11 pm, R AM wrote: > >> I'm saying that decision making, learning, and reinforcement are > >> possible > >> in a deterministic world, and you are not denying it. I guess our > >> points o

Re: Dualism via Quantum Mechanics

2012-05-15 Thread Stephen P. King
On 5/15/2012 5:02 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi Stephen, On 14 May 2012, at 19:16, Stephen P. King wrote: On 5/14/2012 4:29 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 May 2012, at 23:19, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Do you mean that when all chemists accept the multiverse interpretation, they will start work

Re: Free will in MWI

2012-05-15 Thread R AM
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > I would say that they cannot be meaningful in any sense, but I would > allow that some may consider meaningless unconscious processes to be a > form of decision, learning, or reinforcement. OK, let's take Kasparov vs. Deep Blue, Accordin

Re: Free will in MWI

2012-05-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 May 2012, at 04:48, Craig Weinberg wrote: On May 14, 2:11 pm, R AM wrote: I'm saying that decision making, learning, and reinforcement are possible in a deterministic world, and you are not denying it. I guess our points of view are orthogonal. I am denying that meaningful decisio

Re: Dualism via Quantum Mechanics

2012-05-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 May 2012, at 22:41, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 14.05.2012 10:29 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 13 May 2012, at 23:19, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: ... Yet, I guess that even not all physicists believe in multiverse. When you convince all physicists that multivers exists, I will start

Re: Dualism via Quantum Mechanics

2012-05-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Stephen, On 14 May 2012, at 19:16, Stephen P. King wrote: On 5/14/2012 4:29 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 May 2012, at 23:19, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 13.05.2012 15:09 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 12 May 2012, at 14:59, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 12.05.2012 13:33 Bruno March