RE: anyone super-geek here?

2014-04-29 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jason Resch Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 8:08 AM To: Everything List Subject: Re: anyone super-geek here? I work at a company who's primary business is making large-scale private cloud storage

Re: Interesting Google tech talk on QM

2014-04-29 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:24 PM, Russell Standish wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 04:19:01PM -0400, Jesse Mazer wrote: > > > > The MWI advocate David Deutsch had a quote about choices and morality in > > the article at > > > http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg17122994.400-taming-the-multivers

RE: The Evolutionary Tree of Religion

2014-04-29 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb On 4/29/2014 1:18 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: If my consciousness can survive a physical digital substitution, then it survives an arithmetical digital substitution, and what we call th

Re: Interesting Google tech talk on QM

2014-04-29 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 04:19:01PM -0400, Jesse Mazer wrote: > > The MWI advocate David Deutsch had a quote about choices and morality in > the article at > http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg17122994.400-taming-the-multiverse.htmlwhich > made sense to me: > > "By making good choices, doing th

Re: Interesting Google tech talk on QM

2014-04-29 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 3:02 PM, John Mikes wrote: > *Brent(?) wrote*: > No I never read that, but hell yeah, MWI worries me! Doesn't it worry you? > I mean I know at one level that in a very real sense it doesn't matter > whether it's true or not, since the other universes can never affect me, >

Re: The Evolutionary Tree of Religion

2014-04-29 Thread meekerdb
On 4/29/2014 1:18 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: If my consciousness can survive a physical digital substitution, then it survives an arithmetical digital substitution, and what we call the moon has to be recovered as a stable pattern emerging from an infinity of computations in arithmetic, and cann

Re: Interesting Google tech talk on QM

2014-04-29 Thread meekerdb
On 4/29/2014 12:02 PM, John Mikes wrote: */Brent(?) wrote/*: Nope. Wasn't me, I wrote: / //Chris Fuchs is the main proponent of quantum Bayesianism, which also takes the wave-function to just be a summary of one's knowledge of the system - and so there is nothing surprising about it "collaps

Re: The Evolutionary Tree of Religion

2014-04-29 Thread meekerdb
On 4/29/2014 9:11 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Matter (primitive matter) becomes then a conceptual gap object whose only role would be to escape the consequence of comp. That is worst than (genuine) mysticism, that's pseudo-science or pseudo-religion. Uh-oh! Now you've defined a heresy, Bruno. B

Re: Consciousness: Emotions & Feelings

2014-04-29 Thread meekerdb
On 4/29/2014 3:00 AM, Samiya Illias wrote: An interesting conversation: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/feeling-our-emotions/?page=1 Bruno, can this be developed in a machine? Samiya *MIND*: Do you believe that we will someday be able to create artificial consciousness and feelings?

Re: Interesting Google tech talk on QM

2014-04-29 Thread John Mikes
*Brent(?) wrote*: No I never read that, but hell yeah, MWI worries me! Doesn't it worry you? I mean I know at one level that in a very real sense it doesn't matter whether it's true or not, since the other universes can never affect me, but at another the reality that everything happens to me that

Re: The Evolutionary Tree of Religion

2014-04-29 Thread meekerdb
On 4/29/2014 1:18 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 27 Apr 2014, at 19:38, meekerdb wrote: On 4/27/2014 1:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I think the same. That's close to Platonism. There is more than what we see, measure, etc. Then we can theorize, which means making assumptions (like "the moon exist

Re: Consciousness: Emotions & Feelings

2014-04-29 Thread ghibbsa
On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 12:22:23 PM UTC+1, telmo_menezes wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Samiya Illias > > > wrote: > >> An interesting conversation: >> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/feeling-our-emotions/?page=1 >> Bruno, can this be developed in a machine? >

Re: The Evolutionary Tree of Religion

2014-04-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Apr 2014, at 12:14, Alberto G. Corona wrote: It is not possible to define the concept of existence without resorting in some kind of belief. You are right. For example, you have to believe that 4 + 3 = 7 to believe that it exists a number x such that 4 + x = 7. That is why ta

Re: The Evolutionary Tree of Religion

2014-04-29 Thread ghibbsa
On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 5:45:15 PM UTC+1, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 11:56:06 AM UTC+1, telmo_menezes wrote: >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:48 AM, meekerdb wrote: >> >>> On 4/28/2014 3:32 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 28, 20

Re: The Evolutionary Tree of Religion

2014-04-29 Thread ghibbsa
On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 11:56:06 AM UTC+1, telmo_menezes wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:48 AM, meekerdb > > wrote: > >> On 4/28/2014 3:32 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 10:48 PM, > wrote: >> >>> >>> On Sunday, April 27, 2014 10:12:34 AM UTC+1, te

Re: The Evolutionary Tree of Religion

2014-04-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Apr 2014, at 00:32, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 10:48 PM, wrote: telmo, would it be ok to clarify the relation t matter you don't see for consciousness? Do you mean you don't see as true he hypothesis that matter is conscious ? Or you don't see that the physical

Re: anyone super-geek here?

2014-04-29 Thread Jason Resch
I work at a company who's primary business is making large-scale private cloud storage systems, supporting both Amazon's S3 and OpenStack interfaces. While OpenStack has the advantage of being more open, Amazon's S3 protocol seems to have a larger mind share, and more traction as far as becoming a

Re: Consciousness: Emotions & Feelings

2014-04-29 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Samiya Illias wrote: > An interesting conversation: > http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/feeling-our-emotions/?page=1 > Bruno, can this be developed in a machine? > Samiya > > *MIND*: Do you believe that we will someday be able to create artificial > consci

Re: The Evolutionary Tree of Religion

2014-04-29 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:48 AM, meekerdb wrote: > On 4/28/2014 3:32 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 10:48 PM, wrote: > >> >> On Sunday, April 27, 2014 10:12:34 AM UTC+1, telmo_menezes wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote:

Re: The Evolutionary Tree of Religion

2014-04-29 Thread Alberto G. Corona
It is not possible to define the concept of existence without resorting in some kind of belief. That is why talking seriously about existence is carefully avoided. 2014-04-29 10:18 GMT+02:00 Bruno Marchal : > > On 27 Apr 2014, at 19:38, meekerdb wrote: > > On 4/27/2014 1:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wr

Consciousness: Emotions & Feelings

2014-04-29 Thread Samiya Illias
An interesting conversation: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/feeling-our-emotions/?page=1 Bruno, can this be developed in a machine? Samiya *MIND*: Do you believe that we will someday be able to create artificial consciousness and feelings? *Damasio*: An organism can possess feelings on

Re: The Evolutionary Tree of Religion

2014-04-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Apr 2014, at 19:38, meekerdb wrote: On 4/27/2014 1:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I think the same. That's close to Platonism. There is more than what we see, measure, etc. Then we can theorize, which means making assumptions (like "the moon exist"), and experimentation, like "going on t