Re: Against Mechanism

2010-11-28 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
on 27.11.2010 22:19 Brent Meeker said the following: On 11/27/2010 11:21 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: on 27.11.2010 20:08 1Z said the following: On Nov 27, 6:49 pm, Rex Allenrexallen31...@gmail.com wrote: Given that there are an infinite number of ways that your information could

Re: Against Mechanism

2010-11-28 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
on 28.11.2010 20:46 1Z said the following: On Nov 27, 7:21 pm, Evgenii Rudnyiuse...@rudnyi.ru wrote: on 27.11.2010 20:08 1Z said the following: On Nov 27, 6:49 pm, Rex Allenrexallen31...@gmail.comwrote: Given that there are an infinite number of ways that your information could be

Re: Compatibilism

2010-11-21 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
of Wolfram (I guess it is close to the statement that the Universe is some kind of a cellular automaton), it does not matter much if a node is fully deterministic or random. Evgenii on 20.11.2010 23:57 Brent Meeker said the following: On 11/20/2010 5:51 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: on 19.11.2010

Re: Compatibilism

2010-11-21 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
Dear Bruno, Could you please recommend some reading about the mechanist assumption? Especially that then the observable reality cannot be a machine Evgenii on 21.11.2010 15:58 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 21 Nov 2010, at 09:11, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: It seems to me

Re: Compatibilism

2010-11-20 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
on 19.11.2010 04:11 Rex Allen said the following: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Jason Reschjasonre...@gmail.com wrote: Rex, Your post reminded me of the quote (of which I cannot recall the source) where someone asked Who pushes who around inside the brain?, meaning is it the matter that

Re: Intelligence and Nomologicalism

2010-09-25 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
The text is well done. Thanks. A question. What would be the consequence of the nomologicalism for a person that would like to earn some more money? Well, let us not consider the case when one successfully sells the text about nomologicalism. Evgenii on 21.09.2010 19:10 Rex Allen said the

Re: What's wrong with this?

2010-09-19 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
on 19.09.2010 01:52 1Z said the following: On 18 Sep, 19:32, Evgenii Rudnyiuse...@rudnyi.ru wrote: on 18.09.2010 19:40 1Z said the following: On 18 Sep, 17:20, Evgenii Rudnyiuse...@rudnyi.ruwrote: on 18.09.2010 18:08 1Z said the following: ... By the way, about the water.

Re: What's wrong with this?

2010-09-19 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
on 18.09.2010 23:35 Brent Meeker said the following: On 9/18/2010 12:19 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: on 18.09.2010 21:09 Brent Meeker said the following: On 9/18/2010 9:20 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: on 18.09.2010 18:08 1Z said the following: ... By the way, about the water. The difference

Re: What's wrong with this?

2010-09-19 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
John, I am not sure if I have a particular position. I am a chemist by background, well I was doing all the life simulation only. Actually I am comfortable with reductionism ideas, as many scientist are. Yet, I do not understand something. Say chemistry starts that H2 has a single bond, 02

Re: What's wrong with this?

2010-09-18 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
on 18.09.2010 01:38 1Z said the following: On 17 Sep, 18:52, Evgenii Rudnyiuse...@rudnyi.ru wrote: on 17.09.2010 14:33 1Z said the following: On 26 Aug, 17:37, David Nymandavid.ny...@gmail.comwrote: ... The next citation by Robert B. Laughlin (Nobel laureate in physics) could be

Re: What's wrong with this?

2010-09-18 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
on 18.09.2010 18:08 1Z said the following: ... By the way, about the water. The difference between H, O and H2O is in chemical bonds in H2O. such bonds can be considered basic elements of reality, too I am not sure if I understand your answer. Say we have H2 and O2 at room

Re: What's wrong with this?

2010-09-18 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
on 18.09.2010 19:02 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 17 Sep 2010, at 19:52, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: ... This is why attempts to describe free atoms in Newtonian terms always result in nonsense statements such as their being neither here nor there but simultaneously everywhere. IMO

Re: What's wrong with this?

2010-09-18 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
on 18.09.2010 19:40 1Z said the following: On 18 Sep, 17:20, Evgenii Rudnyiuse...@rudnyi.ru wrote: on 18.09.2010 18:08 1Z said the following: ... By the way, about the water. The difference between H, O and H2O is in chemical bonds in H2O. such bonds can be considered basic

Re: What's wrong with this?

2010-09-18 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
on 18.09.2010 21:09 Brent Meeker said the following: On 9/18/2010 9:20 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: on 18.09.2010 18:08 1Z said the following: ... By the way, about the water. The difference between H, O and H2O is in chemical bonds in H2O. such bonds can be considered basic elements

Re: What's wrong with this?

2010-09-17 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
on 17.09.2010 14:33 1Z said the following: On 26 Aug, 17:37, David Nymandavid.ny...@gmail.com wrote: ... Whatever composite categories we might be tempted to have recourse to - you know: molecules, cells, bodies, planets, ideas, explanations, theories, the whole ball of wax - none of

Re: What's wrong with this?

2010-09-07 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
on 07.09.2010 05:11 Rex Allen said the following: On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com wrote: On 9/6/2010 6:45 PM, Rex Allen wrote: ... Put a different way: According to physicalism conscious experience supervenes on quarks and electrons. Quarks and

Re: What's wrong with this? (a side question)

2010-09-03 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
on 03.09.2010 10:10 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 02 Sep 2010, at 19:23, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: on 02.09.2010 17:57 Bruno Marchal said the following: ... Science is only collection of theories, and statements derive in those theories, and intepretation rules, and confirmation modus

Re: What's wrong with this?

2010-09-03 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
on 03.09.2010 06:46 Brent Meeker said the following: On 9/2/2010 1:32 AM, Rex Allen wrote: On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Quentin Anciauxallco...@gmail.com wrote: ... Of course it is *logically* possible that any new data could be consistent with physicalism - but then logical

Re: What's wrong with this? (a side question)

2010-09-02 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
on 02.09.2010 17:57 Bruno Marchal said the following: ... Science is only collection of theories, and statements derive in those theories, and intepretation rules, and confirmation modus operandi. Only layman and engineers have to hope that their theories fits enough a reality. The theories

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