Re: Films I think people on this forum might like

2014-06-17 Thread Alberto G. Corona
The Groundhog Day may be also of interest for someone of you. The UDA run wild in this film where a local semi-robust loop in time forces the protagonist to do things like killing himself or mastering Rock Roll piano. Can loops in time produce personal duplications? In this case we would have

Re: Rats! I should have done that, not this!

2014-06-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Jun 2014, at 00:08, LizR wrote: On 15 June 2014 22:41, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 15 Jun 2014, at 07:19, LizR wrote: On 15 June 2014 16:49, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/14/2014 9:37 PM, LizR wrote:

Re: COMP falsifiability thread

2014-06-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Jun 2014, at 00:44, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 08:02:51AM -0700, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: Your question may be coincidental, but it's pretty hard not to think there is some connection with road crash taking place in what was the Bruno-myself dialogue. You are

Re: Disproving physicalism from COMP

2014-06-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Jun 2014, at 00:57, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 01:33:14PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 14 Jun 2014, at 12:13, Russell Standish wrote: Changled title again, as this has wandered a lot from tronnies. On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 10:08:08AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote:

Re: Rats! I should have done that, not this!

2014-06-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Jun 2014, at 01:11, meekerdb wrote: On 6/15/2014 3:10 PM, LizR wrote: On 16 June 2014 06:14, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: If you can determine what a mouse, or a computer, is conscious of then you've engineered it. The point of using the word engineer is that engineering is

Re: Disproving physicalism from COMP

2014-06-17 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:27:02AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Jun 2014, at 00:57, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 01:33:14PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 14 Jun 2014, at 12:13, Russell Standish wrote: Changled title again, as this has wandered a lot from

Re: Near the crux of any possible TOE

2014-06-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Jun 2014, at 02:54, John Mikes wrote: [] - and with Shift: {} It was right under my nose. I just did not think abut it. That happen very often. We rarely expect to find under the nose what we search for some period of time :) All the best, Bruno Thanx. On Sun, Jun 15, 2014

Re: Near the crux of any possible TOE

2014-06-17 Thread LizR
On 17 June 2014 20:39, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 16 Jun 2014, at 02:54, John Mikes wrote: [] - and with Shift: {} It was right under my nose. I just did not think abut it. That happen very often. We rarely expect to find under the nose what we search for some period of

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-17 Thread Telmo Menezes
What makes a human intelligent is CREATIVITY and that is by now well understood and no, machines (the human constructed ones) cannot do that yet. Kim, what do you think of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_antenna -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-17 Thread Kim Jones
On 17 Jun 2014, at 10:02 pm, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: What makes a human intelligent is CREATIVITY and that is by now well understood and no, machines (the human constructed ones) cannot do that yet. Kim, what do you think of this:

Re: Films I think people on this forum might like

2014-06-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Jun 2014, at 06:20, chris peck wrote: It makes even more mysterious your resistance to UDA Well The Prestige is a film about obsession and the lengths people go to meet them. Its not about the UDA. Of course, as it doesn't make the FPI explicitly, but it is a good introduction.

Re: Films I think people on this forum might like

2014-06-17 Thread Terren Suydam
On behalf of the people who haven't actually seen the film, could people please put Spoiler Alert in the email before you give away crucial details to a movie? Many of the films mentioned in this thread I haven't seen. If I had read Chris's post before watching The Prestige I would have been

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-17 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 7:44 PM, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: sorry about the shitfaced first response. Drunk. No problem. The thing is John, in humans being intelligent and being conscious, always show up together, never one on its own. I don't see how you could know that, the only being you

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-17 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Solving differential equations still requires creativity, and will always do so OK fine, but can you find the exact solutions to differential equations better than Mathematica? I don't think so. Perhaps you mean

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-17 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 5:55 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Other that the fact than your use of personal pronouns was inexcusably sloppy and inconsistent for a good logician, I have long since forgotten the details of your proof. But are you telling me that the grand conclusion of step 3

Re: Disproving physicalism from COMP

2014-06-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Jun 2014, at 10:42, Russell Standish wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:27:02AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Jun 2014, at 00:57, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 01:33:14PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 14 Jun 2014, at 12:13, Russell Standish wrote: Changled

Context effects reveal quantum probabilities in surveys

2014-06-17 Thread meekerdb
Quantum effects in belief. Can comp explain this? Brent Original Message /In recent years, quantum probability theory has been used to explain a range of seemingly irrational human decision-making behaviors. The quantum models generally outperform traditional models in

Re: Quantum Logic as Classical Logic

2014-06-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
Thanks. It looks interesting. K is amazing by itself. It is löbian in the sense that the theorems of K are closed for the Löb rule: if K proves []A - A, for some modal formula A, then K proves A. []([]A- A)-[]A is true about K. I will take a look when I have the times, and I hope it is

Re: Rats! I should have done that, not this!

2014-06-17 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Clathrates? Its a gas! May George Soros glower his jowls upon thee! thought you'd be pleased! God there really is no pleasing you, is there? Clathrates are next up! (Eek! Armageddon outta here...) -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list

Re: Democracy

2014-06-17 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Tribal? It's mostly the non-Kufar, doing this. Family honor, and its always against the females. Here's a fix in the west. Families which sanction murders, lose social benefits completely. Family support, medical care. But, its guilt by association! Me: Yeah! But Allah is more important then

Re: Films I think people on this forum might like

2014-06-17 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
Recently had fun with this in cinema, now out on DVD/Blueray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fg5iWmQjwk Not really for content, profound depths, ideological stance, substance, plot, and this kind of serious set of one dimensional attributes, but more for its general attitude to telling a story

Re: Democracy

2014-06-17 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
I think the Papal-Italian state of 1870, conflict appeared something like this- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0OL6W-xSJw -Original Message- From: Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Jun 16, 2014 8:02 pm

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Jun 2014, at 03:37, Kim Jones wrote: hY You don't need to have a theory of intelligence in order to use one, any more than you need to know how to tune a piano in order to know how to play one or understand the workings of a combustion engine to know how to drive a car. There is

Re: Quantum Logic as Classical Logic

2014-06-17 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Thanks. It looks interesting. K is amazing by itself. It is löbian in the sense that the theorems of K are closed for the Löb rule: if K proves []A - A, for some modal formula A, then K proves A. []([]A-A)-[]A is true

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Jun 2014, at 02:01, LizR wrote: On 16 June 2014 11:08, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/15/2014 3:03 PM, LizR wrote: And it depends a lot on what you think about mathematics; whether it's just a precise and and strictly logical subset of language or whether it's really real

Re: Rats! I should have done that, not this!

2014-06-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Jun 2014, at 00:13, LizR wrote: On 16 June 2014 08:51, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I don't see that the theory has any consequence outside of assigning labels. That's why I have pressed you for some testable prediction. For example, your theory might have something to say

Re: Rats! I should have done that, not this!

2014-06-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Jun 2014, at 22:51, meekerdb wrote: On 6/15/2014 3:47 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 15 Jun 2014, at 08:12, meekerdb wrote: On 6/14/2014 10:19 PM, LizR wrote: On 15 June 2014 16:49, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/14/2014 9:37 PM, LizR wrote:

Re: Democracy

2014-06-17 Thread John Mikes
Telmo, are you kidding, or expecting some proposal for a solution from me? The only one that comes to mind is *rehire Dr. Guillotine* and let him chop off the heads that are in the way of a better system. Then come your next questons: 1:what would you call a better system? Easy: the one without

Re: Rats! I should have done that, not this!

2014-06-17 Thread LizR
On 18 June 2014 05:26, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Clathrates? Its a gas! May George Soros glower his jowls upon thee! Correction, it will be if warmed 2 degrees C. Who is George Soros? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-17 Thread jross
I understand clocks in satellites do not run at the same speed as clocks here on earth. However, I just can't understand why we would use Einstein's equations to adjust the clocks on satellites when it would be so easy to adjust them in accordance to the exact time here on earth. On 17 June

Re: Near the crux of any possible TOE

2014-06-17 Thread John Mikes
Liz, the fact that you have no mustache does not authorize you to joke about it. I have one and feel offended (G) (Many ladies may agree who sonner or rather later grow one). JM On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:47 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 June 2014 20:39, Bruno Marchal

Re: Rats! I should have done that, not this!

2014-06-17 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Comment 2. He is the billionaire hedge fund manager who funds all Marxist causes worldwide. He is the Koch brothers of the progressives, who is never heard about. The rising of sea levels is now a very interesting issue as its now demonstrated that undersea volcano's are melting Antarctic ice,

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-17 Thread LizR
On 18 June 2014 08:43, jr...@trexenterprises.com wrote: I understand clocks in satellites do not run at the same speed as clocks here on earth. However, I just can't understand why we would use Einstein's equations to adjust the clocks on satellites when it would be so easy to adjust them in

Re: The Rapture of the Nerds - Jessica Roy, Time Magazine

2014-06-17 Thread LizR
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinugishable from magic - well, it may be, if the laws of physics allow it. By the way uploading minds appears to assume comp. (At least if you're going to actually survive the process, rather than merely thinking you did !) On 18 June 2014 10:31,

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-17 Thread LizR
On 18 June 2014 04:23, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 5:55 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Other that the fact than your use of personal pronouns was inexcusably sloppy and inconsistent for a good logician, I have long since forgotten the details of your

Re: Rats! I should have done that, not this!

2014-06-17 Thread LizR
On 18 June 2014 10:17, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Comment 2. He is the billionaire hedge fund manager who funds all Marxist causes worldwide. He is the Koch brothers of the progressives, who is never heard about. The rising of sea levels is now a

Re: Rats! I should have done that, not this!

2014-06-17 Thread LizR
Sea level rise isn't just caused by ice melting. Above 4C water expands when heated, and as far as I have been able to determine with google-fu, the majority of the earth's oceans are above 4C and hence if warmed will rise even if no ice melts. On 18 June 2014 10:46, LizR lizj...@gmail.com

Re: Rats! I should have done that, not this!

2014-06-17 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Volcano's? I am not sure of any under the North Pole. I never said human (7 billion) never had an impact. I did say that whatever the impact is, is not what the other side is saying, as in exaggerated for political-ideological, and economic reasons. Plus, I have concluded that the politicians

Re: Rats! I should have done that, not this!

2014-06-17 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
You know when the head of the UN IPCC says we change our results at the requests of the governments as the dude stated last September, its reasonable to conclude that, that its not pure research, as in basic research, but research performed for who pays. Its ideology driving this. The question

RE: Films I think people on this forum might like

2014-06-17 Thread chris peck
yeah, The Grand Budapest Hotel was a blast. Cinema for cinema's sake. Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 19:39:32 +0200 Subject: Re: Films I think people on this forum might like From: multiplecit...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Recently had fun with this in cinema, now out on

Re: Rats! I should have done that, not this!

2014-06-17 Thread LizR
On 18 June 2014 11:05, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Volcano's? I am not sure of any under the North Pole. I never said human (7 billion) never had an impact. I did say that whatever the impact is, is not what the other side is saying, as in

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-17 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:15:17PM -0400, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Solving differential equations still requires creativity, and will always do so OK fine, but can you find the exact solutions to differential

Re: Context effects reveal quantum probabilities in surveys

2014-06-17 Thread LizR
How does standard QM explain it? They mention several times that it does so via a law of reciprocity which is involved when a system switches states. But how do you apply QM when the system is a person? Are they assuming that decision making comes down to the state of some quantum-scale system

Re: Films I think people on this forum might like

2014-06-17 Thread LizR
Seconded. One could I suppose put the posts in small faint letters to make them less noticeable, but I can't see any SPOILER tags on this forum! On 18 June 2014 03:28, Terren Suydam terren.suy...@gmail.com wrote: On behalf of the people who haven't actually seen the film, could people please

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-17 Thread meekerdb
On 6/17/2014 4:55 PM, Russell Standish wrote: Nevertheless, I could well imagine there being some groups that could justify employing a researcher to perform the necessary literature search and creatively summarise the results to feed into someone else's work. Politicians spring to mind as

RE: Films I think people on this forum might like

2014-06-17 Thread chris peck
That is logically impossible from the first person point of view. You describe the 3p view only. Nice straw man! Whats practically impossible is for one point of view to simultaneously accomodate the experience of both surviving and dieing. No one questions that. However, that an individual

Re: Context effects reveal quantum probabilities in surveys

2014-06-17 Thread meekerdb
I don't think they're assuming or applying anything. They're just noting that, as an empirical fact, the way people answer poll questions obeys a reciprocity principle just like switching the order of state preparation and measurement in QM. Brent On 6/17/2014 5:05 PM, LizR wrote: How does

Re: Context effects reveal quantum probabilities in surveys

2014-06-17 Thread LizR
Sorry to be dense. So are they just saying this looks similar to a result we get with quantum systems - but not actually suggesting there's any specific mechanism involved to connect one to the other? If so, this might be like the analogies my son's fond of drawing. Him Hey mum, did you know

Re: Near the crux of any possible TOE

2014-06-17 Thread LizR
OK, let's scratch Brent's moustache... On 18 June 2014 09:16, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: Liz, the fact that you have no mustache does not authorize you to joke about it. I have one and feel offended (G) (Many ladies may agree who sonner or rather later grow one). JM On Tue, Jun

Re: Quantum Logic as Classical Logic

2014-06-17 Thread LizR
[That paper] (my head) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post

Solar power's bright future

2014-06-17 Thread LizR
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/headlines/Reichelstein-solar-2012.html Although the cost of solar has been dropping as mentioned he reckons we are 15 years away from it being viable for the average householder to install it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: Rats! I should have done that, not this!

2014-06-17 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
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Re: Rats! I should have done that, not this!

2014-06-17 Thread LizR
On 18 June 2014 14:46, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Fair enough. In any case the undersea volcanos seem to do what AGW cannot, and the fixes are identical, if it was fully, true. There is also the wonderfulness of exploding calderra's, meteors, a new

Re: Solar power's bright future

2014-06-17 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 02:30:13PM +1200, LizR wrote: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/headlines/Reichelstein-solar-2012.html Although the cost of solar has been dropping as mentioned he reckons we are 15 years away from it being viable for the average householder to install it. Really

Re: Disproving physicalism from COMP

2014-06-17 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 06:54:25PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 17 Jun 2014, at 10:42, Russell Standish wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:27:02AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Jun 2014, at 00:57, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 01:33:14PM +0200, Bruno Marchal

Re: Solar power's bright future

2014-06-17 Thread meekerdb
On 6/17/2014 7:30 PM, LizR wrote: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/headlines/Reichelstein-solar-2012.html Although the cost of solar has been dropping as mentioned he reckons we are 15 years away from it being viable for the average householder to install it. As I read it that's when he

Re: Solar power's bright future

2014-06-17 Thread LizR
I hope so. I must admit I was a bit taken aback so I was kind of hoping someone here might contradict this guy! On 18 June 2014 15:46, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 02:30:13PM +1200, LizR wrote:

RE: Solar power's bright future [ may be brighter thanks to us aping the quantum trickery of certain algae (cryptophytes specifically)]

2014-06-17 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
Pretty neat trick.. using quantum coherence to allow energy from captured sunlight to get to the algae's photosynthesis reaction centers as fast as possible. Quantum biology: Algae may prove to be key ingredient for organic solar cells http://www.techtimes.com/articles/8680/20140617/algae-may

RE: Solar power's bright future

2014-06-17 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 8:59 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Solar power's bright future I hope so. I must admit I was a bit taken aback so I was kind of

O-machines

2014-06-17 Thread meekerdb
Bruno, I wonder if you're aware of this critique of Maudlin's Olympia argument, which of course also applies to the MGA? http://www.colinklein.org/papers/OlympiaOMachines.pdf Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To

Re: Solar power's bright future [ may be brighter thanks to us aping the quantum trickery of certain algae (cryptophytes specifically)]

2014-06-17 Thread meekerdb
solar cells http://www.techtimes.com/articles/8680/20140617/algae-may-prove-key-ingredie nt-organic-solar-cells.htm A research team led by Australian scientists says a strange quantum phenomenon during photosynthesis that allows algae to survive in low lights levels might lead to more efficient