Here's a fascinating essay by Scott Aronson that is a really scientific, operational
exposition on the question of 'free will'; one which takes my idea that if you solve the
engineering problem you may solve the philosophical problem along the way and does much
more with it than I could.
He al
>> Darwin could explain how simple organisms could become more complex, but he
>> didn't even attempt to explain how the first organism came into existence
>> because before natural selection can kick in you need some sort of heredity.
>> Recently there has been some discussion about clays playi
Hi John -- I would hope they don't :)
When I made that statement, I was not thinking so much of the serious
researcher. However I do think it is important to communicate that genes are
not alive, in any real sense, nor are they motivated by some survival instinct,
not for the researchers sake
>
> I agree that it is useful to try to see things from the genes point of view
>
Yes
> > without of course falling into the mental trap of anthropomorphizing
> the gene and assigning to it qualia that are associated with self-aware
> consciousness.
>
I am unaware of any thinker on evolution wort
What are monads ?
Now we must enter the world of metaphysics in order to understand events
more complex or larger than single events.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universals#Problem_of_universals
"The noun "universal" contrasts with "individual", while the adjective
Citeren meekerdb :
On 8/14/2013 6:41 PM, smi...@zonnet.nl wrote:
I guess I don't understand that. You seem to be considering a
simple case of amnesia - all purely classical - so I don't see how
MWI enters at all. The probabilities are just ignorance
uncertainty. You're still in the same b
Yes my understanding would be the same. Although the brain or computer's
ability to correctly represent the information about what has happened has
been destroyed by the reset, the information itself is still embedded in
the environment. Resetting registers in a computer does not actually
destr
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