Re: scientists simulate an entire organism in software for the first time ever

2012-08-07 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 01:29:50AM -0700, rclough wrote: Perhaps I am wrong, but I have a problem with the concept of artificial intelligence and hence artificial life-- at least according to my understanding of what intelligence is. Artificial Life is an independent field to Artificial

Re: God has no name

2012-08-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Stephen, On 8/6/2012 8:29 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: [SPK] Which is the definition I use. Any one that actually thinks that God is a person, could be a person, or is the complement (anti) of such, has truly not thought through the implications of such. [BM For me, and comp, it is an

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-08-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Aug 2012, at 19:53, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: You might also tell me what is your theory of everything If I had one I'd be the greatest and most famous scientist who ever lived. I'm not. or if you are even

Re: The Mental Universe

2012-08-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Aug 2012, at 21:50, meekerdb wrote: How's Bruno going to criticize those darn physicists if they just won't stick to materialism. Why would I criticize physicist when they propose theories consistent with comp? But dropping materialism is not enough, they have to drop out

Re: scientists simulate an entire organism in software for the first time ever

2012-08-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Aug 2012, at 10:29, rclough wrote: Perhaps I am wrong, but I have a problem with the concept of artificial intelligence and hence artificial life-- at least according to my understanding of what intelligence is. As I see it, intelligence is the ability to make choices completely

Re: scientists simulate an entire organism in software for the first time ever

2012-08-07 Thread R AM
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:29 AM, rclough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: As I see it, intelligence is the ability to make choices completely on one's own. Autonomously. Intelligence involves solving problems and making good choices. Autonomy might be good or bad, depending on the context. But a

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-08-07 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I would be very interested if a theory of everything exists, but there is no reason ti think it must. That is why we need a bit of faith in fundamental research. The theory either exists or it does not and in either case faith

Fwd: A New Glider Found For Game of Life

2012-08-07 Thread meekerdb
This may be of interest. Original Message http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/08/07/1257256/a-new-glider-found-for-conways-game-of-life - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: God has no name

2012-08-07 Thread Stephen P. King
On 8/7/2012 5:37 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi Stephen, On 8/6/2012 8:29 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: [SPK] Which is the definition I use. Any one that actually thinks that God is a person, could be a person, or is the complement (anti) of such, has truly not thought through the implications of

Re: Fwd: The Mental Universe

2012-08-07 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 06.08.2012 21:50 meekerdb said the following: How's Bruno going to criticize those darn physicists if they just won't stick to materialism. Brent Original Message Link to the PDF: http://henry.pha.jhu.edu/The.mental.universe.pdf I find it strange that the author has

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-08-07 Thread John Mikes
Dear Bruno, congrats to yur interjected question: *What does not exist then?* It is cute. If I really HAVE to reply: *The R e s t of the world.* And if you insist to spell it out, you just 'create' it. G I appreciate your mostly agreeing words, one question though: how can a machine (Loebian?) be