RE: Determinism - Tricks of the Trade

2013-08-21 Thread Chris de Morsella
I am enslaved if someone physically constrains me or threatens me in order to make me behave in a certain way; this is also compatible with either type of brain mechanism. I would argue that people can be as much enslaved by chains within their minds, and that belief and habit have the potential

The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood

2013-08-21 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Wednesday, August 21, 2013, Pierz wrote: ...since first of all the additional happiness in those non-WW3 branches... What I mean of course is the additional happiness in the WW3 branches. The non-WW3 branches are much *less* happy right Saibal? All these posts about WW3. Did I miss a war?

RE: The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood

2013-08-21 Thread Chris de Morsella
Because it happened in some alternate universe J From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Stathis Papaioannou Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 12:14 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood

Re: Question for the QM experts here: quantum uncertainty of the past

2013-08-21 Thread Quentin Anciaux
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Re: Question for the QM experts here: quantum uncertainty of the past

2013-08-21 Thread smitra
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Re: Determinism - Tricks of the Trade

2013-08-21 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 21 August 2013 03:59, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: It is possible to make the distinction between doing something by accident and intentionally, between enslavement and freedom, while still acknowledging that brain mechanisms are either determined or random. Why would such

Re: The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood

2013-08-21 Thread smitra
A rapid descent into extremism can be caused by factors such as economic desperation. However, you can also have a gradual change in society and then people are always indioctrinated that their current norms and values are correct. So, there was a time when when drawing and quartering was a

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-21 Thread John Clark
Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com So if the slave AI has a fixed goal structure with the number one goal being to always do what humans tell it to do and the humans order it to determine the truth or falsehood of something unprovable then its infinite loop time and you've got yourself

RE: The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood

2013-08-21 Thread chris peck
A rapid descent into extremism can be caused by factors such as economic desperation. However, you can also have a gradual change in society and then people are always indioctrinated that their current norms and values are correct. Of course we regard our norms and values as correct. They are

Re: The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood

2013-08-21 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Hitler continues to be the most respected historical figure in muslim countries, as well as in muslim minories in other countries. Therefore it is not a surprise to me what smitra says. By the way this third-word mentality and this ate to the first world in the intelectual elites of third word

RE: The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood

2013-08-21 Thread Chris de Morsella
Mercantilist plantation systems, economic hegemony of the developed center and neo-colonialism have absolutely nothing to do with it right? Spud your world view is limited by the narrow slits you view it through. From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com]

RE: The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood

2013-08-21 Thread Chris de Morsella
You are utterly full of it. You make these statements like you knew.. What a pompous blow hard you are.. A very big mouth affixed to an atrophied brain is a guarantee of stupidity, and you my friend are an exemplar of this sad phenomena. From: everything-list@googlegroups.com

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-21 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 2:39 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com So if the slave AI has a fixed goal structure with the number one goal being to always do what humans tell it to do and the humans order it to determine the truth or falsehood of

Re: The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood

2013-08-21 Thread Alberto G. Corona
That Hitler is the most respected western figure in the muslim word is a fact. I know nothing from you except what you say in this thread. The bad thing about discussing subjects like this is that it attract undesirable people that really are not interested in the group. What do you think about

Re: Question for the QM experts here: quantum uncertainty of the past

2013-08-21 Thread meekerdb
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Re: The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood

2013-08-21 Thread meekerdb
On 8/21/2013 7:01 AM, chris peck wrote: But, in any case, yes, our descendants will view some of our norms and values as troubling. Just as we do our ancestors. This is because there is a gentle creep away from barbarity rather than towards it. But I don't think this is just a moral

Re: The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood

2013-08-21 Thread meekerdb
On 8/21/2013 11:48 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: That Hitler is the most respected western figure in the muslim word is a fact. What is the evidence for this? Are there polls? Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To

Re: The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood

2013-08-21 Thread Chris de Morsella
A suggestion don't spam the group with your right wing political ideology if you are truly interested in the group.   You state things as facts which you have no way of knowing are in fact facts. You make a pompous and outrageous statement that Hitler is the most respected figure in the muslim

Re: The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood

2013-08-21 Thread spudboy100
Rather than speak economic history, which is an interesting topic, I merely stated what I see the facts to be. More clearly, that when Adolf ran out of Roma, Jews, and the mentally weak, to gas, and Poles and Great Russians to shoot, his camps would 've discovered other Untermenschen to

Re: The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood

2013-08-21 Thread Chris de Morsella
push polls maybe From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 12:51 PM Subject: Re: The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood On 8/21/2013 11:48 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: That Hitler is

Re: The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood

2013-08-21 Thread Chris de Morsella
You merely stated what you see as the facts is true; I am sure you do see them as the facts and herein lies the problem. You have not looked very hard at history and the evolution of societies and cultures according to the pressures that force them to develop in this way or that.   Who is

Re: Question for the QM experts here: quantum uncertainty of the past

2013-08-21 Thread Quentin Anciaux
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Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-21 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/8/21 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 2:39 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com So if the slave AI has a fixed goal structure with the number one goal being to always do what humans tell it to do and the

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-21 Thread Chris de Morsella
We haven't proved our brain is computational in nature, if we had, then we would had proven computationalism to be true... it's not the case. Maybe our brain has some non computational shortcut for that, maybe that's why AI is not possible, maybe our brain has this realness ingredient that

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-21 Thread meekerdb
On 8/21/2013 2:42 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Ok, and I'm fascinated by the question of why we haven't found viable algorithms in that class yet -- although we know has a fact that it must exist, because our brains contain it. We haven't proved our brain is computational in nature,

Re: A new gene-expression mechanism is a minor thing of major importance

2013-08-21 Thread Chris de Morsella
An interesting discovery -- and topical for a few of the on-going discussions on this list -- of how much more is going on than we had previously thought was going on, during the transcription process from a cell's DNA that ultimately leads to the production of viable mRNA and the expression of

Re: The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood

2013-08-21 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Just follow the tv of muslim countries, and specially, the political debates. Google: hitler arab countries television It can not be otherwhise since te nazis and the muslims share the same main goal. you know. Abu Mazen, the leader of the PLO after Yasif Arafat wrote its doctoral thesis at

Re: Question for the QM experts here: quantum uncertainty of the past

2013-08-21 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:07:05PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: But it seems to me that this reset is a magical, impossible operation. If the human brain is a classical computer then that means it's computational state can be reset. But it also means the its physical state can't be reset. The

Re: The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood

2013-08-21 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Plugging most Arab dictators name these days in Arabic yields mass dissatisfaction equating them to tyrants like Hitler. But what about “Hitler” by itself in Arabic into Google? What will you find?

Re: The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood

2013-08-21 Thread Chris de Morsella
Do you mean to tell me that the foundation of your facts is the number of search results returned by a google search... along with a spurious reference to some ad hoc quotation -- you cherry picked -- that was auto-generated for you  by the google translator algorithm?   Do you realize just

Re: The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood

2013-08-21 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I mean to tell you nothing. I don't want to waste my time 2013/8/22 Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com Do you mean to tell me that the foundation of your facts is the number of search results returned by a google search... along with a spurious reference to some ad hoc quotation -- you

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-21 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/8/21 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 2:39 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com So if the slave AI has a fixed goal structure with

RE: The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood

2013-08-21 Thread Chris de Morsella
It's not my time you are wasting with your posting of ideological prejudices; you waste everyone's time with this troll like behavior. From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alberto G. Corona Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 5:04 PM To:

RE: The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood

2013-08-21 Thread Chris de Morsella
More hateful stereotyping of a diverse group numbering over a billion human beings by our very own fascist troll From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alberto G. Corona Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 4:02 PM To:

RE: The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood

2013-08-21 Thread chris peck
Hi Brent But I don't think this is just a moral evolution. I think it is driven by technology. As societies become richer they become less competitive and insular and more compassionate and open. I agree. I think trade imparticularly creates a symbiotic relationship between people which

RE: The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood

2013-08-21 Thread Chris de Morsella
I agree. I think trade imparticularly creates a symbiotic relationship between people which gets internalized. Pragmatically it makes sense to see people as friend rather than foe if we want them to buy our stuff and this pragmatism then gets solidified in our moral sentiment. Interesting point.

Re: The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood

2013-08-21 Thread Pierz
On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 5:13:43 PM UTC+10, stathisp wrote: On Wednesday, August 21, 2013, Pierz wrote: ...since first of all the additional happiness in those non-WW3 branches... What I mean of course is the additional happiness in the WW3 branches. The non-WW3 branches are much

Re: The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood

2013-08-21 Thread Pierz
Well thank you for the lecture on cultural/historical relativism. But the fact remains (fact inasmuch as it is accepted by mainstream historians, unlike your alternate universe facts) that Nazism could only take hold because of the economic privations resulting from the reparations imposed by

RE: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-21 Thread Chris de Morsella
It's probably already been discussed at length on this list, and if it has my apologies, but isn't the incredibly massive parallelism of the brains architecture a possible factor and that the mind is an emergent phenomena made possible by amongst other things the subtle interplay of neuron firing

Re: Determinism - Tricks of the Trade

2013-08-21 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 8:33:06 AM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: On 21 August 2013 03:59, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: It is possible to make the distinction between doing something by accident and intentionally, between enslavement and freedom, while still

RE: Determinism - Tricks of the Trade

2013-08-21 Thread chris peck
Hi Craig am saying that the ontology of desire is impossible under strong determinism. Deterministic and random processes cannot possibly produce desire - not because desire is special, but because it doesn't make any sense. You are talking about putting in a gas pedal on a bowling ball. I

RE: Determinism - Tricks of the Trade

2013-08-21 Thread Chris de Morsella
The determined universe might be inefficient, if you like, carrying along with it baggage that isn't really used. The wants and anxieties would be implied by the universe's initial conditions and not everything in those conditions need be functional. I don't see a logical contradiction there.

Re: Determinism - Tricks of the Trade

2013-08-21 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 22 August 2013 13:20, chris peck chris_peck...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Craig am saying that the ontology of desire is impossible under strong determinism. Deterministic and random processes cannot possibly produce desire - not because desire is special, but because it doesn't make any

RE: Determinism - Tricks of the Trade

2013-08-21 Thread chris peck
Hi Chris / Stathis I probably shouldn't have used the word adaptive. I think Craig is arguing : 1) whatever 'feels'/psychological states emerge from the universe must be compatible with its fundamental nature. 2) Anxiety implies that I really could avoid some feared event. 3) But que sera