Re: an unreasurring parable

Hah. Have they announced something? I hadn't heard. No matter what game a computer beats a person at, the person is still the only one playing a game. Craig On Saturday, September 14, 2013 12:41:46 AM UTC-4, Brent wrote: > > For Craig: http://xkcd.com/1263/ > > Brent > -- You received th

Re: How PIP solves the hard problem of consciousness

Dear Craig: a beautifully crafted post. In my opinion the 'gap' is between what we (think we) know and what we don't (even think we know). I tried so many times examples for such gap-ideas by looking back 500, 1000, 3000 etc. years and compare it with our present info-status (pls! do not mix my 'i

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> Feynman showed that virtual particles must exist, particles that can > violate the law of conservation of mass-energy, at least for a short time. > Feynman showed that when a particle moves from point X to point Y it can do > so by any path with var

Re: Unexpected Hanging

On Saturday, September 14, 2013 5:53:01 AM UTC-4, telmo_menezes wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Craig Weinberg > > > wrote: > > > > > > On Friday, September 13, 2013 5:31:40 AM UTC-4, telmo_menezes wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Craig Weinberg > >> wrote:

How PIP solves the hard problem of consciousness

The Hard Problem of consciousness asks why there is a gap between our explanation of matter, or biology, or neurology, and our experience in the first place. What is it there which even suggests to us that there should be a gap, and why should there be a such thing as experience to stand apart

Craig's Maths

Here’s a crazy little number that I like to call the Non-Well-Founded Identity Principle. It woke my boiling brain up a few times last night, s

Re: Unexpected Hanging

On 9/16/2013 5:35 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: With computationalism, it is more easy and clear. What exists, at the ontological level, is what make true a sentence like "ExP(x)". So number exists, once we assume arithmetic or combinators ..., because they make true Ex(x = x). But this notion of '

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

On 15 Sep 2013, at 18:29, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 Bruno Marchal wrote: > As long as you suggest that there are things "made of" things, you are staying in the Aristotelian frame. Other can suggest that there are no such things at all, just natural numbers relative computat

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

On 15 Sep 2013, at 18:02, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Me: >> Feynman predicted in 1948 that the magnetic moment of an electron can't be exactly 1 in Dirac units as had been thought because it is effected by an infinite (and I do mean infinite

Re: Unexpected Hanging

On 15 Sep 2013, at 10:37, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 14 Sep 2013, at 04:25, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, September 13, 2013 9:42:54 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Sep 2013, at 18:22, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, Sep

Re: Re: [4DWorldx] Fw: [BC-FREE-MINERS-AND-MASONS] Global temperature forthe past 5 million years (since the start of Pliocene)

Hi Hans Dieter Franke Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough - Receiving the following content - From: Hans Dieter Franke Receiver: 4DWorldx Time: 2013-09-16, 02:50:58 Subject: Re: [4DWorldx] Fw: [BC-FRE