Hi Chris
>> if in the end it is an infinitely regressing hall of mirrors, a cosmic
>> illusion – why the elaborate and evolutionarily expensive (multiple levels
>> of adaption) masquerade ball in which we all participate?
As far as I can tell there is no cosmic illusion of free will. I'm my opi
Exactly - do you think I am trying to pretend that I am deterministic within
my own self? I accept that my experience of consciousness is a post facto
artifact of my mind, which has already produced and rendered the experience
I am just experiencing in perhaps its entirety. And all my decisions an
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote:
> What happens to a universal Turing machine, if the tape itself is being
> written by some other process
>
The same thing that happens to you when you get pushed around by the
external environment.
John K Clark
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On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 Chris de Morsella wrote:
> We can hypothesize causality and demonstrate a probability perhaps, and
> there may in fact exist a causal relationship.
>
Then it's deterministic.
> > But if it cannot be demonstrated and traced all the way down the
> incredibly long chain of i
On 13 Aug 2013, at 02:18, Russell Standish wrote:
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:40:13PM -0400, John Clark wrote:
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 Russell Standish wrote:
All evolutionary processes have variation, selection and heredity.
Yes.
What is missing from cultural evolution is an equivalent of
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