Re: DNA Wormholes can cause cancer (what!?)

2015-04-06 Thread 'Roger' via Everything List
ad to attraction or repulsion? I admit I know very little about it, but this kind of thing frustrates me when reading popular physics articles. In their defense, though, force particles are much smaller than proteins! At least, Monday is over! Have a good week. Roger -- You received th

Re: DNA Wormholes can cause cancer (what!?)

2015-04-05 Thread 'Roger' via Everything List
(intestine, environment), sequence it all and map the resulting reads to known genomes to find out what microbes are present at that site. Sorry to write so much. Biochemistry is one area I know a little about (real little!) as opposed to metaphysics. I wish tomorrow weren

Re: DNA Wormholes can cause cancer (what!?)

2015-04-04 Thread 'Roger' via Everything List
the new stuff into a database. See you! Roger On Saturday, April 4, 2015 at 3:08:19 PM UTC-4, cdemorsella wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > From: everyth...@googlegroups.com [mailto: > everyth...@googlegroups.com ] On Behalf Of

Re: Something from nothing -- my attempt of derivation of a UTM.

2015-03-29 Thread 'Roger' via Everything List
s" and "spheres" stuff at my websites at: https://sites.google.com/site/whydoesanythingexist/ (4 page summary, but no spheres stuff) https://sites.google.com/site/ralphthewebsite/filecabinet/why-is-there-something-rather-than-nothing (more detail, philosophical background and stuff on

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-25 Thread 'Roger' via Everything List
> > Roger: It's possible that what we see as existing is a simulation in some > other computer. > > > And thus in arithmetic, which can be proved to emulate all computers, on > all programs, on all input. This is standard knowledge for logicians, but > not alway

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-25 Thread 'Roger' via Everything List
y 24, 2015 9:52 PM > *To:* everyth...@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum > theory to dialectics? > > > > > > > > Roger: It's possible that what we see as existing is a simulation in some > othe

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-24 Thread 'Roger' via Everything List
> Roger: It's possible that what we see as existing is a simulation in some > other computer. But, even if we are a simulation, the simulation that is > us exists as does the computer and the code we're a simulation in. My > thinking is aimed at trying to figure

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-24 Thread 'Roger' via Everything List
all work our models and see what progress we can make. > > All what I say is derived from the assumption that the brain or the body > is Turing emulable at a level such that if we turing-emulate it, you would > not see the difference subjectively. It is my working assumption. > > Ro

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-23 Thread 'Roger' via Everything List
> > But, what is outside the head is a circle, with a circumference and a >> diameter. >> >> >> This is ambiguous.Are you talkng about the "platonic perfect circle"? Or >> about a circle physically realized, like with a pen and a compass? >&

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-21 Thread 'Roger' via Everything List
> > Roger: Just because things can exist outside the mind/head doesn't mean >> that a specific thing does occur outside the mind/head. If the pi >> proposition and the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal point of pi can be shown >> outside the mind/head or any experiment

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-20 Thread 'Roger' via Everything List
On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 2:49:12 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 19 Jan 2015, at 23:48, 'Roger' via Everything List wrote: > > >>> Roger: Even if no mind has yet conceived the the 10^(10^(10^100))th >>> decimal point of pi, the pi

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-19 Thread 'Roger' via Everything List
Chris, Mostly I agree with everything you said. Specifically: By corollary and by symmetry this same optic of doubt can shine upon the notion of a real physical entity underlying the stuff we call real. What is real about a proton, electron, photon…etc.? Roger: I agree. Proton

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-19 Thread 'Roger' via Everything List
they're 90 and still touring, that'd be great! Some younger people, though, have never even heard of them or other bands from the 60s-80s. Roger On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 7:01:38 PM UTC-5, Jason wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 5:02 PM, 'Roger' via Eve

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-19 Thread 'Roger' via Everything List
ect evidence for galaxies beyond the cosmological horizon and the interiors of black holes but so far only theory about multiple universes. Anyways, let's keep working at it! Roger On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 6:56:38 PM UTC-5, Jason wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 19, 20

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-19 Thread 'Roger' via Everything List
em up,will convince others to other follow up on our ideas and models. This is what I think many of us are working on either in our spare time or full-time. Good luck to all of us! Roger P.S. One thing that I know exists is that I have to go to work t

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-19 Thread 'Roger' via Everything List
> > >> Roger: Even if no mind has yet conceived the the 10^(10^(10^100))th >> decimal point of pi, the pi proposition and therefore the process of >> calculating its 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal point and being confident that >> if you do the process that tha

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-18 Thread 'Roger' via Everything List
On Sunday, January 18, 2015 at 2:52:34 AM UTC-5, Jason wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 11:48 PM, 'Roger' via Everything List < > everyth...@googlegroups.com > wrote: > >> >> >> On Sunday, January 18, 2015 at 12:27:06 AM UTC-5, Jason wr

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-17 Thread &#x27;Roger' via Everything List
On Sunday, January 18, 2015 at 12:27:06 AM UTC-5, Jason wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 11:11 PM, 'Roger' via Everything List < > everyth...@googlegroups.com > wrote: > >> >> >> Roger, >>> >>> I have a question for you.

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-17 Thread &#x27;Roger' via Everything List
Roger, > > I have a question for you. > > Do you believe the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of Pi has a certain > definite value, which is either 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9? > > If so, would you still believe this if you knew that this number is too > difficult t

Re: Isn't this group supposed to be about trying to figure out how the universe works and not so much about religion and insults?

2015-01-17 Thread &#x27;Roger' via Everything List
On Saturday, January 17, 2015 at 1:12:20 PM UTC-5, spudb...@aol.com wrote: > > The only thing about Larry Krauss that I like is his sketching out a > conjecture for faster than light travel. > > Agreed. Krauss kind of irritates me, too. His book title "A universe from nothing: Why there is

Re: Isn't this group supposed to be about trying to figure out how the universe works and not so much about religion and insults?

2015-01-16 Thread &#x27;Roger' via Everything List
redictions. That's the key for all of us, IMHO. Roger On Monday, January 12, 2015 at 3:52:38 PM UTC-5, John Ross wrote: > > Roger and Everyone, > > > > I absolutely agree. And I have been working on a model which explains how > our Universe works inclu

Re: Isn't this group supposed to be about trying to figure out how the universe works and not so much about religion and insults?

2015-01-16 Thread &#x27;Roger' via Everything List
oing this, it seems like metaphysics can kind of be like science (observe or think about the S vs. N question, make a hypothesis, and test it to try and get evidence). On a different note, I have a hard time navigating through all these different threads and posts. I wish it were somehow

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-15 Thread &#x27;Roger' via Everything List
On Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 5:28:03 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 14 Jan 2015, at 08:05, 'Roger' via Everything List wrote: > > I have to admit I have a hard time going with the idea of Platonism or >> mathematical constructs existing somewhere

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-13 Thread &#x27;Roger' via Everything List
gt; than the assumption most scientist are doing when using mathematics in > their domain. The arithmetical "platonism" (realism) used in > computationalism is the same amount than the one used in computer science, > physics, etc. > > > Roger: My view is that proposi

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-12 Thread &#x27;Roger' via Everything List
Chris and Brent, On Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 1:42:43 AM UTC-5, cdemorsella wrote: > > > > > > > Roger: It seems to me, too, that there are problems with zero dimensions, > or point particles. I've never understood why physicists don't question

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-12 Thread &#x27;Roger' via Everything List
> Chris, >> >> Hey Roger ~ sorry for the belatedness of my reply >> >> Roger: No problem. I know there were a lot of other passionate > discussions going on here lately! > - > > >> I really like your idea of imagining your mind growin

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-12 Thread &#x27;Roger' via Everything List
other way to assume computationalism, once > we assume Church-Turing thesis), then the physical universe is a first > person plural sort of hallucination, and we must derived the laws of > physics from the laws of thought (Boole and Boolos, say). > Roger: Even if the universe is a hallucination,

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-11 Thread &#x27;Roger' via Everything List
ive and let live, let everyone have their say, and move on. That's my two cents. Thanks. Roger > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this

Isn't this group supposed to be about trying to figure out how the universe works and not so much about religion and insults?

2015-01-11 Thread &#x27;Roger' via Everything List
ive and let live, let everyone have their say, and move on. That's my two cents. Thanks. Roger -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread &#x27;Roger' via Everything List
If only through the "we" which think about that nothing. > > > Is anything possible at all without an observer? > > -Chris > > Roger: If we're talking about the situation where there's only the > "absolute lack-of-all" or the "empty

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread &#x27;Roger' via Everything List
gt; particular mental perspective. > > I kind of suspect there may some ultimate symmetry in the limit of both > the very big and the very small. > > Roger: I really like your idea of imagining your mind growing to infinite size, but I agree it sounds pretty hard. I'm goi

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-05 Thread &#x27;Roger' via Everything List
n expanding space composed of these "absolute lack-of-all" existent entities. This would be my vote on the autocatalytic mechanism for how this initial entity/empty set could replicate itself. See you. Roger -- You received this me

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-04 Thread &#x27;Roger' via Everything List
Chris, I have nothing important to say! :-) Nothing and something are kind of good areas for puns, double entendres and jokes. After all, Jerry Seinfeld had a whole show about nothing! >Roger – you have much to say about nothing [just joking] You mentioned: >I agree wi

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-03 Thread &#x27;Roger' via Everything List
2015 9:44 PM > *To:* everyth...@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum > theory to dialectics? > > > > On 1/2/2015 9:05 PM, 'Roger' via Everything List wrote: > > Even if the word "exists" has no us

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-02 Thread &#x27;Roger' via Everything List
the other question of "Why is there something rather than nothing?". On Thursday, January 1, 2015 12:17:37 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 11:36 PM, 'Roger' via Everything List < > everyth...@googlegroups.com > wrote: > > >

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2014-12-31 Thread &#x27;Roger' via Everything List
exists", what I mean is that this "absolute lack-of-all" is identical to "something". I'm not sure how trying to explain why a thing exists and why "nothing" is actually not the lack of all existent entities but is instead a "something" drains &

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2014-12-15 Thread &#x27;Roger' via Everything List
ing/edge of the absolute lack-of-all is not some separate thing; it is just the "entirety", "the all" relationship, inherent in this absolute lack-of-all, that defines what is contained within. If anyone is interested, there's more detail at my websites at: sites.goog

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2014-12-14 Thread &#x27;Roger' via Everything List
Peter, Hi. I've read parts of a few of your blog posts and found them very interesting and highly recommend them to others. To build on this thread of "Why is there something rather than nothing?", I'd like to throw out some related ideas. I used to post here more often with this, bu

Beware of the bitcoin

2013-12-14 Thread Roger Clough
The bitcoin is an international speculative cyber-currency (based on nothing) that has been inflating rapidly in price. I would be wary of investing in it because it can drop in value just as fast as it is rising. It's probably a bubble. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHVu626uOGE Dr. Ro

How the banks are stealing our wealth

2013-12-14 Thread Roger Clough
How the banks are stealing our wealth. This seems to be factual, and is non-politcal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFDe5kUUyT0Hi - Roger Clough You'll need to watch it at least twice to understand it, it's very complicated. And scarey. Pass it on. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.)

Leibniz's theory of perception and consciousness.

2013-12-14 Thread Roger Clough
Leibniz's theory of perception and consciousness. The secret of perception. Particular minds and how they relate to the overall or Cosmic Mind The problem of perception in materialistic thinking is that it forces us to think that there is a fleshly homunculus inside our brains. Leibniz has a

A great place for hackers to start to be an identity imposter

2013-12-13 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Hans Dieter Franke A great place for hackers to start to be an identity imposter is www.healthcare.gov (if that's the right address). No or little security. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This

Global warming ?

2013-12-13 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Chris, According to the Vostok data, we're in for another ice age, in say 10,000 years or so. jcs-online,theoretical_physics_board,- mindbr...@yahoogroups.com,everything-list,4dworldx Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academi

Walmart 30 Day Emergency Food Storage Pail Augason Farms Review

2013-12-13 Thread Roger Clough
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2013-12-13 Thread Roger Clough
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Arctic sea ice increased by 51 % last year.

2013-12-12 Thread Roger Clough
Hi - Global warming ? Liberals live in a universe of lies. Arctic sea ice increased by 51 % last year. http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/51-growth-in-thick-arctic-ice-over-last-year/ Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu

Auguson Farms emergency food supplies at walmart

2013-12-12 Thread Roger Clough
ybe 6 months to begin with. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -- You received this message because yo

Leibniz on sensory experience (my account)

2013-12-11 Thread Roger Clough
other bodily sites. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -- You received this message because you are

That hateful subject, metaphysics

2013-12-11 Thread Roger Clough
there is a perceiver in materialism, could you tell us where it is ? It has to be at one place, as your experience and mine says that there is only one perceiver. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This email is free from

MERRY CHRISTMAS !

2013-12-11 Thread Roger Clough
MERRY CHRISTMAS ! USAF FLASH MOB at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIoSga7tZPg&list=UUKX86dJGhTOn8NtRUqnATFQ Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This email is

Leibniz and Piccinini versus Jerry Fodor - Is there a language of thought ?

2013-12-10 Thread Roger Clough
) converts a sensory into signal into a perception and in b) and c) carries out a prescribed action which biologists might call an instinct and which Leibniz calls a pre-established harmony. Dr.Roger B CloughNIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/R

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2013-12-10 Thread Roger Clough
calls a pre-established harmony. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -- You received this message

Leibniz vs Jerry Fodor - Is there a language of thought ?

2013-12-10 Thread Roger Clough
Leibniz calls a pre-established harmony. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -- You received this message

The myth of computer consciousnesss and intelligence

2013-12-10 Thread Roger Clough
always a loss converting experience to symbols, expressing in words my expeience, what I thought and concluded, which need not be in symbols. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This email is free from

In case you didn't get it. Consciousness is not a scientific topic

2013-12-09 Thread Roger Clough
y the first person singular. This is the province only of philosophy. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avas

Once again. Why science can never understand consciousness.

2013-12-09 Thread Roger Clough
the province only of philosophy. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -- You received this message because

Is the universe driven by mathematics or is it driven by aesthetics

2013-12-08 Thread Roger Clough
oving toward the One from the Many. But others have suggested that the One is just one, not unity in diversity. Leibniz, through his metaphysics, in which the parts are related to the whole, suggests that metaphysics, even aesthetics, rules the universe, not mathematics. Dr. Roger B Clough N

From Leibniz: gravity is the universal striving toward a more perfect beauty

2013-12-07 Thread Roger Clough
onads constitutes a change in positions or other perceived attributes such as shape or temperature as well as mood. The changes are not actually caused by interactions between monads (since being independent, there can be no relations between monads) but are caused by the One in its search for a

Some basic principles of mind - a wakeup call for materialists.

2013-12-07 Thread Roger Clough
connections to the brain. 10. The mind plays the brain like a violin. 11. Life is Mind. The list goes on. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is

A definition of human consciousness

2013-12-07 Thread Roger Clough
). Because only Idealism contains Mind. Materialism and science do not and can not. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http

For those interested in the theory of conscious experience, see

2013-12-07 Thread Roger Clough
For those interested in the theory of conscious experience, see the excellent site, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/jonathan-edwards Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This email is free from viruses and malware because

"A modern monadology "

2013-12-07 Thread Roger Clough
For those wishing to delve deeper into Leibniz, see "A modern monadology " http://www.ucl.ac.uk/jonathan-edwards/monadology Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This email is free from viruses and malwa

Dialogue between two believing scientists on how the universe is run

2013-12-06 Thread Roger Clough
universe can operate on its own laws without a lot of direct interference? ROGER- According to my understanding of Leibniz and the Bible, after God had created the universe in six days, he wrote a computer program called the "pre-established harmony" on the seventh to run the universe

Reality is not matter, it's Heidegger's dasein, which is Leibniz's monad

2013-12-05 Thread Roger Clough
t;, meaning "there", and "sein" meaning "being" or "mental". The "da" is in spacetime and the "sein" is outside of spacetime, so a dasein is a monad. Thus Heidegger's universe is essentially the same as Leibniz's, an infinite collect

Bertrand Russell's complete misunderstanding of Plato's theory of knowledge and perception

2013-12-05 Thread Roger Clough
e by using the changeable nature of contingent knowledge as an example. I have not checked Russell's treatment of Kant, but because of this ignorance, Russell also apparently treats Kant as an empiricist gpone bad. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at h

Advaita Vedanta and Leibnizian Metaphysics

2013-12-04 Thread Roger Clough
in all human perception, there is some distortion to various degrees, depending on the person, which limits the range of inter-communion with other saints and the environment. Salvation is not clearly defined in Leibniz, as far asI have been able to find out, but certainly communion of the Self and

How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-01 Thread Roger Clough
How can a grown man be an atheist ? An atheist is a person who believes that the universe can function without some form of government. How silly. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This email is free from viruses

How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-01 Thread Roger Clough
How can a grown man be an atheist ? An atheist is a person who believes that the universe can function without some form of government. How silly. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This email is free from viruses

A conjecture- Quantum physics, Relativity and Leibniz's Idealism

2013-12-01 Thread Roger Clough
the existent (a corporeal body) is inside of spacetime and follows particle physics and relativity. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection

Some basic principles of Leibniz's Idealism

2013-12-01 Thread Roger Clough
e. For example, essence is what causes a struck ball to follow Newton's law of motion. For example, tje mind controls the brain. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This email is free from viruses and

Online opinions of Dennett and Chalmers-- the clueless two

2013-11-30 Thread Roger Clough
the "hard problem of consciousnwess Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough gh --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -- You received this message beca

Russell's abandonment of Leibniz's platonism after his conversion to the cult of materialism

2013-11-30 Thread Roger Clough
official" western academe. Meanwhile because of this dark trinity, western philosophy has struggled but failed to explain consciousness. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This email is free from viruses and malwa

Why consciousness is not possible in materialism

2013-11-30 Thread Roger Clough
. There is however no provision in materialism or analytic philoophy for such a self. Therefore materialism cannot explain consciousness. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This email is free from viruses and malware

Berkeley and Leibniz- where the monads came from

2013-11-30 Thread Roger Clough
o physical objects and assigning a subject (a monad) to each object. This everything is conscious to some extent. Otherwise it could not follow the pre-established harmony. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough --- This ema

An account of the historical suppression of Leibniz's forbidden knowledge

2013-11-28 Thread Roger Clough
An account of the historical (and continuing) suppression of Leibniz's "forbidden" ideas Leibniz was an anti-materialist so that his inclusion of Mind and deity into his philosophy were forbidden ideas, and stillo are, to our detriment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTiztUNrhh

Perception and cionsciousness according to Leibniz

2013-11-28 Thread Roger Clough
nows everything in the universe, but only from its own perspective, and monads being monads, not perfectly clear but distorted. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough -- You received this message because you are subscribe

The death of analytic philosophy and the birth of consciousness

2013-11-27 Thread Roger Clough
rue ai. Or meaningful issues such as ethics or aesthetics. However, continental philosophy and Indian philosophy can. (Leibniz, Kant, Indian philosophers). Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough D

Re: Re: Why computer consciousness and artificial intelligence areimpossible.

2013-11-26 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Gabriel Bodeen Absolutely. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough - Receiving the following content - From: Gabriel Bodeen Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-11-26, 15:17:20 Subject: Re: Why

A slight revision- The whole enchilada: Leibniz, the first person, third person, and the brain.

2013-11-26 Thread Roger Clough
eveloping by others. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop rec

The whole enchilada: Leibniz, the first person, third person, and the brain

2013-11-26 Thread Roger Clough
knoeledge by acquaintance", namely, the world of experience, that of the First Person singular. So it is nonlinear and wholistic. This is hopefuly the new paradigm of the mind and brain which needs further developing by others. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at h

The passing on of a paradigm--analytic philosophy

2013-11-26 Thread Roger Clough
analytic philosophy-- the basis of materialism and atheism-- which are cults that have have degenerated Western thought - have passed on or are at an advanced age. Bertram Russell - Died 1970 Donald Davidson - Died 2003 Hilary Putname -- alive but at age 87 - Roger Clough Willard V.O. Quine -- die

Re: The difference between computer and human perception

2013-11-25 Thread Roger Clough
Note that only Idealism such as in Leibniz or Plato or Kant can deal with human perception, because only such Idealism can deal with knowledge by acquaintance (experience) directly, not by description.. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http

The difference between computer and human perception

2013-11-25 Thread Roger Clough
The difference between computer and human perception Computer consciousness and perception is by description only, such as "42. Underwater perfection" as given below. Human perception is an experience such as shown in the photograph. 42. UNDERWATER PERFECTION Dr. Roger B Clough

Why computer consciousness and artificial intelligence are impossible.

2013-11-25 Thread Roger Clough
conscious (first person singular.) So only humans and other living entities can be conscious or be truly intelligent. Thus artificial intelligence is impossible Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough -- You received this

Why analytic philosophers are atheists and materialists

2013-11-23 Thread Roger Clough
analysis of propositions or sentences ?alled also philosophical analysis compare ordinary-language philosophy Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough DreamMail - New experience in

Why analytic (British) philosophy (Bertrand Russell) has led humanity and ai astray

2013-11-23 Thread Roger Clough
, Kant). Definition of ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY : a philosophical movement that seeks the solution of philosophical problems in the analysis of propositions or sentences ?alled also philosophical analysis compare ordinary-language philosophy Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my

Atheism is wish fuklfillment.

2013-11-23 Thread Roger Clough
Atheism is wish fulfillment. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Athism is wish fuklfillment.

2013-11-23 Thread Roger Clough
Athism is wish fulfillment. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-11-23 Thread Roger Clough
Atheism is wish fulfillment. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

ai and atheism

2013-11-23 Thread Roger Clough
What I find curious is that so much time and vitriol is spent on the web attacking theism, while so much money is spent on ai and computers to simulate humans, when nobody has ever shown or proven that computers can be conscious. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site

Pre-established harmony ? Computers programs exhibit pre-established harmony.

2013-11-22 Thread Roger Clough
Pre-established harmony ? Computers programs exhibit pre-established harmony. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List"

Corrected version of Leibniz's implied dictum- I think, therefore

2013-11-21 Thread Roger Clough
its agent, so that the I plays the brain in thought much like a violin is played by a violinist. This also answers Heidegger's life-long search for an answer to the question "what is being?" Being is "I am" or essence+existence. Dr.Rog

revised corrected version of Leibniz's imploied dictum, " I think, therefore there is an I".

2013-11-21 Thread Roger Clough
brain, being its agent, so that the I plays the brain in thought much like a violin is played by a violinist. This also answers Heidegger's life-long search for an answer to the question "what is being?" Being is "I am" or essence+existence. Dr. Rog

Leibniz: I think, therefore there is an I

2013-11-20 Thread Roger Clough
which then thinks much as a violin is played by a violinist. This also answers Heidigger's life-long search for an answer to the question "what is being?" Being is "I am" or essence+existence. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http:

Spinoza, Leibniz and Descartes on the mind-body problem

2013-11-18 Thread Roger Clough
subjectively) Example: you know who Obama is because you have met him. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

The self as lens: Leibniz's lens-like model of perception and reality

2013-11-15 Thread Roger Clough
point homunculus (the perceiver). It is also well known that Leibniz referred to the myriad of microscopic organisms seen in a microscope as vderying his view of the world as the many in the one (the monad). Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.acade

Why we need to bring Leibniz out of the closet if progress is to be made

2013-11-14 Thread Roger Clough
f any possibility of overall governance. See Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this

We need to bring Leibniz out of the closet

2013-11-14 Thread Roger Clough
Hi - Roger Clough All current theories of mind are objective (materialist) since they do not include the first person singular. Consciousness or Mind is nonobjective or subjective, since it is the perceptions by the first person singular. Only Leibniz has a philosophy of mind (subjectivity

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