Re: Autonomy?

2012-06-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Jun 2012, at 22:29, meekerdb wrote: On 6/24/2012 10:06 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: And then if I luckily succeed in computing the electron mass 9.10938291×10-31kg, Brent will tell me that we already knew that, and ask for something else. Well if you do it by luck... But of course

Re: Autonomy?

2012-06-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Jun 2012, at 01:08, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 01:29:31PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: On 6/24/2012 10:06 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: And then if I luckily succeed in computing the electron mass 9.10938291×10^-31 kg, Brent will tell me that we already knew that, and ask

Re: truth

2012-06-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hello John, On 24 Jun 2012, at 21:43, John Mikes wrote: Bruno: Doesn't it emerge in this respect WHAT truth? or rather WHOSE truth? is there an accepted authority to verify an absolute truth judgeable from a different belief system? I don't think such authority exists. We can only agree

Re: Autonomy?

2012-06-25 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: The first person indeterminacy is a fact, with respect to comp. First person indeterminacy is a fact with respect to ANYTHING, sometimes you don't know what you're going to do till you do it. I find your theoretical prediction of

Re: Autonomy?

2012-06-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Jun 2012, at 18:24, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: The first person indeterminacy is a fact, with respect to comp. First person indeterminacy is a fact with respect to ANYTHING, sometimes you don't know what you're going to do till you

Re: Autonomy?

2012-06-25 Thread meekerdb
On 6/25/2012 10:08 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: For the reasoning, we don't have to attribute two first person povs to one 3-viewed machine, but to attribute one first person povs to two different 3-viewed machine, and eventually number relations. It looks like you want me to believe that the

Re: Autonomy?

2012-06-25 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: The question is do you agree with it, or not. So that we can move to step 4. I've lost track, is step 3 the trivial observation that sometimes we don't know what we're going to do, or was that step 2? You ignore that we can test

Re: Autonomy?

2012-06-25 Thread meekerdb
On 6/25/2012 12:01 PM, John Clark wrote: or to two identical (similar at the subst. level) machine put in different environment, If they were in different environments then the machines would not be identical or even functionally identical and their associated minds would be

Re: Autonomy?

2012-06-25 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:01 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: The question is do you agree with it, or not. So that we can move to step 4. I've lost track, is step 3 the trivial observation that sometimes we don't

I am the de-phlogistonator!

2012-06-25 Thread Colin Geoffrey Hales
Hi, Hales, C. G. 2012 The modern phlogiston: why 'thinking machines' don't need computers TheConversation. The Conversation media Group. http://www.theconversation.edu.au/the-modern-phlogiston-why-thinking-machines-dont-need-computers-7881 Cheers Colin P.S. I am done with this issue.

Re: Autonomy?

2012-06-25 Thread meekerdb
On 6/25/2012 3:54 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:01 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com mailto:johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: The question is do you agree with it, or not.

Re: I am the de-phlogistonator!

2012-06-25 Thread meekerdb
On 6/25/2012 6:22 PM, Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote: Hi, Hales, C. G. 2012 The modern phlogiston: why 'thinking machines' don't need computers TheConversation. The Conversation media Group. http://www.theconversation.edu.au/the-modern-phlogiston-why-thinking-machines-dont-need-computers-7881