On Leibniz's rejection of extension as the essence of matter.
Leibniz rejected space as a fundamental substance, since in his view it can be
infinitely divided
Hence he also rejected Descartes' contention that extension is an essential
property of matter.
Leibniz instead suggested that
On 27 May 2013, at 20:44, Richard Ruquist wrote:
Bruno,
With MWI are some universes less probable than others.
Only relatively to some state, some computational histories are less
probable. It is open if there is a more stringer notion of probable
universe. Actually it is an open
On Mon, May 27, 2013 Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote:
John - you are being disingenuous here. Bruno has explained this [Bpp] at
considerable length.
If even mighty Google doesn't know what Bpp is then I'm not embarrassed in
not knowing either.
John K Clark
--
You received
On 27 May 2013, at 23:18, John Mikes wrote:
Bruno:
do you indeed exclude the other animals from being selfconcious?
?
No, not at all. My current feeling (for what is worth) is that
consciousness begins with the bacteria, plants and all animals.
And self-consciousness arise already with
On 28 May 2013, at 01:42, spudboy...@aol.com wrote:
In a way, professor, Marchal, you seem to be on the side of Stephen
Wolfram, who once wrote about there being no need to ever do SETI,
because, if we wanted to know advanced Extra Terrestrial
technologies, it would be far, simpler to
On Mon, May 27, 2013 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
Have you heard about Gödel's theorem?
Yes.
The only difference between objective and subjective is that in one
case information is universally available and in the other case the
information only exists in 3 pounds of grey goo
On 5/28/2013 9:04 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 28 May 2013, at 01:53, meekerdb wrote:
On 5/27/2013 2:18 PM, John Mikes wrote:
Bruno:
do you indeed exclude the other animals from being selfconcious? or - having a logic
on their own level? Or any other trait we assign (identify?) for humans -
On 28 May 2013, at 17:52, John Clark wrote:
On Mon, May 27, 2013 Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote:
John - you are being disingenuous here. Bruno has explained this
[Bpp] at
considerable length.
If even mighty Google doesn't know what Bpp is then I'm not
embarrassed in not
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
If even mighty Google doesn't know what Bpp is then I'm not
embarrassed in not knowing either.
You might search on Theatetus instead, as Russell suggested.
If you want to communicate why should I need to search at
Evgenyi, you write very 'deep' and 'smart things.
One bothers me:
*..the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. *
first the anthropocentric sound (neurological?) and then the unidentified
term of Ccness.
In this same post (cf Russell and Brent) different contents are proposed,
Brent:
*...I don't think consciousness is an all-or-nothing property..*
In that unnerving struggle of 2 decades to 'generalize' (some of) those
zillion positions the diverse authors exuded about Ccness (to fit THEIR own
theories - whatever they thought it was) I concluded that what most people
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
On 27 May 2013, at 23:18, John Mikes wrote:
Bruno:
do you indeed exclude the other animals from being selfconcious?
?
No, not at all. My current feeling (for what is worth) is that
consciousness begins with the
On 29/05/2013, at 2:04 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
You don't need language to feel the hotness of a fire.
Bruno
You don't need language to feel the effect of music.
Kim Jones
Language is the greatest barrier to communication that still exists - Edward
de Bono
13 matches
Mail list logo
