Re: The Unreality of Time

2012-07-29 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 28.07.2012 23:43 Stephen P. King said the following: On 7/28/2012 4:23 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: ... Now I have found the original paper by McTaggart in Internet: http://www.ditext.com/mctaggart/time.html ... Dear Evgenii, Never would I cast aspersions upon McTaggart, but what he

Re: The Unreality of Time

2012-07-29 Thread Stephen P. King
On 7/29/2012 2:35 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 28.07.2012 23:43 Stephen P. King said the following: On 7/28/2012 4:23 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: ... Now I have found the original paper by McTaggart in Internet: http://www.ditext.com/mctaggart/time.html ... Dear Evgenii, Never would I

Re: The Unreality of Time

2012-07-29 Thread Alberto G. Corona
These psycho-philosophical arguments like the one of John Ellis are what in evolutionary Psychology is called an explanation based on proximate causes. Instead, ultimate causes are the physical causes that generate, by natural selection, a mind with such concepts and such phenomenology that is

Re: The Unreality of Time

2012-07-29 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 29.07.2012 11:28 Alberto G. Corona said the following: These psycho-philosophical arguments like the one of John Ellis are what in evolutionary Psychology is called an explanation based on proximate causes. I guess that science is based on observation and hence it might be good to define

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-29 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:48 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Is it just the uncertainty due to computational time (which is what I.J. Good seems to mean) in consciousness, or is it uncertainty due to unconscious processes which may spring into consciousness and change your

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-29 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2012/7/29 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:48 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Is it just the uncertainty due to computational time (which is what I.J. Good seems to mean) in consciousness, or is it uncertainty due to unconscious processes which may spring

Re: Bayes Destroyed?

2012-07-29 Thread Dave
I almost dread entering into this discussion, but I think it should be pointed out that this discussion occurs in various forms in both Leonard Jimmie Savage's Foundations of Statistics and E T Jaynes Probability Theory. I would also point out that you are missing key elements of both the