Re: A (somewhat) different angle on the reversal

2015-06-14 Thread Pzomby
On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 9:52:05 PM UTC-7, Bruce wrote: meekerdb wrote: On 6/12/2015 6:29 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: LizR wrote: On 12 June 2015 at 17:40, Bruce Kellett bhke...@optusnet.com.au javascript: Arithmetic is, after all, only an axiomatic system. We can make up

Notion of (mathematical) reason

2015-06-05 Thread Pzomby
are preceded by chains of reasons (and your reference to mathematics) doesn't that infer some form of duality? IOW, the duality being (a) abstract reasons (that precede causes) and (b) their complementary realities (effects/events). Thanks. Pzomby -- You received this message because

Re: Questions about simulations, emulations, etc.

2012-06-09 Thread Pzomby
On Friday, June 8, 2012 1:36:31 PM UTC-7, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Jun 8, 3:00 pm, Pzomby htra...@gmail.com wrote: Using mathematics, computations and symbols; human embodied consciousness can (using computers) create models, simulations, emulations, depictions, replications

Questions about simulations, emulations, etc.

2012-06-08 Thread Pzomby
Using mathematics, computations and symbols; human embodied consciousness can (using computers) create models, simulations, emulations, depictions, replications, representations etc. of observations of the physical universe and its processes. This assumes that the actual observable physical

Re: The limit of all computations

2012-05-26 Thread Pzomby
On Saturday, May 26, 2012 7:48:41 AM UTC-7, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 26.05.2012 11:30 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 26 May 2012, at 08:47, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: ... In my view, it would be nicer to treat such a question historically. Your position based on your theorem,

Re: Two Mathematicians in a Bunker and Existence of Pi

2012-03-07 Thread Pzomby
On Mar 7, 5:29 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 06 Mar 2012, at 20:44, Pzomby wrote: On Mar 6, 10:14 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 06 Mar 2012, at 17:32, meekerdb wrote: On 3/6/2012 4:26 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: It's a language game. The word game

Re: The consciousness singularity

2011-12-10 Thread Pzomby
Brent You state: Physical laws are models we make up to explain and predict the world.  Are properties of mathematics then dual, being both representational (models) and encoded (rules) as instantiated brain functions? Mathematics is a subset of language in which propositions are

Re: The consciousness singularity

2011-12-09 Thread Pzomby
On Dec 8, 12:20 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/8/2011 10:18 AM, Pzomby wrote: On Dec 7, 10:31 am, meekerdbmeeke...@verizon.net  wrote: On 12/7/2011 8:14 AM, benjayk wrote: Most materialist just say: Well, the natural laws are just there, without any particular reason

Re: The consciousness singularity

2011-12-08 Thread Pzomby
On Dec 7, 10:31 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/7/2011 8:14 AM, benjayk wrote: Most materialist just say: Well, the natural laws are just there, without any particular reason or meaning behind them, we have to take them for granted. But this is almost as unconvincing as

David Deutsch interview

2011-09-26 Thread Pzomby
Interview of physicist David Deutsch by science journalist John Horgan http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/3 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing?

2011-09-23 Thread Pzomby
On Sep 23, 8:41 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Hi Roger, On 23 Sep 2011, at 07:37, Roger Granet wrote: Bruno,     Hi.  Yes, I am pretty much a materialist/physicalist. So, you cannot defend the idea that the brain (or whatever responsible   for our consciousness) is

Re: Math Question

2011-08-01 Thread Pzomby
On Aug 1, 5:24 am, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 7/31/2011 7:40 PM, Pzomby wrote: The following quote is from the book What is Mathematics Really? by Reuben Hersh 0 (zero) is particularly nice.   It is the class of sets equivalent to the set of all objects unequal

Re: Math Question

2011-07-31 Thread Pzomby
The following quote is from the book “What is Mathematics Really?” by Reuben Hersh “0 (zero) is particularly nice. It is the class of sets equivalent to the set of all objects unequal to themselves! No object is unequal to itself, so 0 is the class of all empty sets. But all empty sets have

Re: consciousness

2011-07-05 Thread Pzomby
not brain/mind/consciousness itself be subject to the same rules? Are you stating that the rules (laws) themselves have some kind of dispositional property (like a magnet with positive and negative attraction poles)? Thanks Pzomby Consider, without space we wouldn't have gone to the Moon

Re: consciousness

2011-07-02 Thread Pzomby
Perhaps if I restate my opinion as: In my opinion, yes, if in simple terms it is logically correct to state: A property of “human embodied’ consciousness is….the capacity and ability of individual ‘human embodied’ consciousness to create intentionally desired physical and mental effects. On

Re: Caenorhabditis elegans

2011-06-21 Thread Pzomby
On Jun 21, 11:47 am, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote: Brain uploading for worms... http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/science/21brain.html The human brain, though vastly more complex than the worm’s, uses many of the same components, from neuropeptides to transmitters. So

Re: Reversal without primary matter elimination (step 7)

2011-03-05 Thread Pzomby
On Mar 5, 1:50 pm, Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com wrote: On 3/5/2011 7:05 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 04 Mar 2011, at 19:41, Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/4/2011 6:13 AM, 1Z wrote: On Mar 4, 7:57 am, Bruno Marchalmarc...@ulb.ac.be  wrote:     If you still don't see this,

Re: Platonia

2011-03-03 Thread Pzomby
On Mar 3, 2:07 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 03 Mar 2011, at 02:54, Pzomby wrote: On Mar 2, 6:03 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 02 Mar 2011, at 05:48, Pzomby wrote: That is why I limit myself for the TOE to natural numbers and   their addition

Re: Platonia

2011-03-02 Thread Pzomby
On Mar 2, 6:03 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 02 Mar 2011, at 05:48, Pzomby wrote: That is why I limit myself for the TOE to natural numbers and their addition and multiplication. The reason is that it is enough, by comp, and nobody (except   perhaps some philosophers

Re: Platonia

2011-03-01 Thread Pzomby
That is why I limit myself for the TOE to natural numbers and their addition and multiplication. The reason is that it is enough, by comp, and nobody (except perhaps some philosophers) have any problem with that. Yes.  A couple of questions from a philosophical point of view:

Re: Platonia

2011-02-26 Thread Pzomby
On Feb 21, 9:11 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 21 Feb 2011, at 13:26, benjayk wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: On 20 Feb 2011, at 00:39, benjayk wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: Isn't it enough to say everything that we *could* describe in mathematics exists in platonia?

Re: Against Mechanism

2010-12-01 Thread Pzomby
On Nov 30, 10:10 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 30 Nov 2010, at 16:51, Pzomby wrote On Nov 29, 7:25 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 28 Nov 2010, at 21:18, Pzomby wrote: On Nov 27, 10:49 am, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2010

Re: Against Mechanism

2010-11-30 Thread Pzomby
On Nov 29, 7:25 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 28 Nov 2010, at 21:18, Pzomby wrote: On Nov 27, 10:49 am, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com   wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Rex Allen

Re: Against Mechanism

2010-11-28 Thread Pzomby
On Nov 27, 10:49 am, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote: The same goes for more abstract substrates, like bits of information. Rex