Re: Against Mechanism

2012-11-22 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > >>John Clark keeps saying that after the duplication John Clark will be in >> both places. > > > > Not from its personal subjective view (1p). > Pronouns are Bruno Marchal's crutch and now "it" joins the pantheon. > >> Where subjectiv

Hierarchy of beliefs

2012-11-22 Thread Stephen P. King
Dear Friends, In my research for my earlier post (Re: Nothing happens in the Universe of the Everett Interpretation) I found the following: From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy_of_beliefs Hierarchy of beliefs "Construction by Jean-François Mertens and Zamir implementing with John

Re: Nothing happens in the Universe of the Everett Interpretation

2012-11-22 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/22/2012 9:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Nov 2012, at 00:20, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/19/2012 10:06 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Nov 2012, at 15:43, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/19/2012 9:16 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Nov 2012, at 02:12, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-11-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Nov 2012, at 15:55, John Clark wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: > ? ! > by comp you know that you will survive and feel to be unique in once city, By comp who knows that what will survive and feel to be unique in one city? Any human (and Löbian machine) can understand that if comp

Re: isn't comp a pre-established perfect correspondence

2012-11-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Roger, On 22 Nov 2012, at 13:57, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Wouldn't there have to be a pre-established perfect correspondence between the mind of the human (or the state of the world) with the computer in order for comp to hold ? You don't need a "perfect" correspondence. What would t

Re: Nothing happens in the Universe of the Everett Interpretation

2012-11-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Nov 2012, at 00:20, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/19/2012 10:06 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Nov 2012, at 15:43, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/19/2012 9:16 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Nov 2012, at 02:12, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 07:48:57PM -0500, Stephen P

Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio]

2012-11-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Roger, On 22 Nov 2012, at 11:25, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal You say " OK, but invalid when used to pretend that we are not machine, like Penrose and Lucas did." So basically, whether you believe the Lucas-Penrose theory It is not a theory. It is an informal argument according

Re: isn't comp a pre-established perfect correspondence

2012-11-22 Thread Richard Ruquist
Roger, Since comp is consistent with MWI and MWI is deterministic, then the computer does know the future. IMO for comp to be false, MWI must also be false. Richard On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Bruno > > Wouldn't there have to be a pre-established perfect correspon

isn't comp a pre-established perfect correspondence

2012-11-22 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Wouldn't there have to be a pre-established perfect correspondence between the mind of the human (or the state of the world) with the computer in order for comp to hold ? But that would require the computer to know the future. Hence comp is false. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net]

Re: Re: Reality Check: You Are Not a Computer Simulation [Audio]

2012-11-22 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal You say " OK, but invalid when used to pretend that we are not machine, like Godel and Lucas did." So basically, whether you believe the Lucas-Penrose theory depends on whether you believe in comp or no. I have serious problems with comp because the 1ps and hence the 3ps of v

Re: My embarassing misunderstanding of the intelligence of computers

2012-11-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi > > I was wrong. > > According to my own definition of intelligence-- that it is the > ability of an entity, having at least some measure of free will, > to make choices on its own (without outside help)-- a > computer can have intelligen