Re: No gravity / no dark matter

2016-11-30 Thread Russell Standish
ost to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -------- Dr Russell

Re: Peano Axioms are wrong (at least in our universe)

2016-09-19 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: Peano Axioms are wrong (at least in our universe)

2016-09-19 Thread Russell Standish
for infinite quantities. I gather that ultrafinitism still lacks a rigorous foundation, however... Cheers -- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Resea

Re: A question for Bruno

2016-08-27 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: Holiday Exercise

2016-08-08 Thread Russell Standish
not that it's > irrelevant. > > Brent Physicality in the thought experiment seems like a red herring to me. We can just as easily consider running the duplicated consciousnesses in virtual reality simulators of the two cities. -- ---

Re: Holiday Exercise

2016-08-08 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 09:06:20PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 8/08/2016 8:38 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Sun, Aug 07, 2016 at 09:24:31AM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >>However, still no justification has been given for the assumption > >>that t

Re: Holiday Exercise

2016-08-08 Thread Russell Standish
o, in fact, notice that they've been teleported to a different city, and recognise where they they've been teleported to. Ie, W/M is a difference that makes a difference. Cheers -- -------- Dr Russell Standish

Re: If you win the lottery, don't expect to live the rest of your life as a millionaire

2016-08-06 Thread Russell Standish
page 147 of Theory of Nothing, I have Saibal pegged as an ASSAist! Cheers -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcode

Re: Holiday Exercise

2016-08-06 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 07:51:22PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 4/08/2016 6:00 pm, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >On 4/08/2016 5:52 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >>Methinks you are unnecessarily assuming transitivity again. > > > >No, I was just referring t

Re: Holiday Exercise

2016-08-04 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 04:27:21PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 3/08/2016 12:01 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > > > >However, we are being asked to consider two conscious states where the > >conscious state differs by at least one bit - the W/M bit. Clearly, by the YD >

Re: Holiday Exercise

2016-07-24 Thread Russell Standish
hone ears, but I'm not convinced that is really the source of your difficulty in understanding Bruno. Cheers -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visi

Re: Holiday Exercise

2016-07-21 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 02:22:07PM -0500, Jason Resch wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> > wrote: > > > I am not convinced that they are the only two possible > > outcomes. Remember my skepticism of the Parfit Napo

Re: Holiday Exercise

2016-07-21 Thread Russell Standish
nd Chris Sizemore Am I missing something in the above? I haven't read the story you refer to. Cheers -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Resea

Re: Holiday Exercise

2016-07-18 Thread Russell Standish
h remember being A, then they can claim to being the same person as A, in spite of the fact that B and C are different people. What is the problem with that point of view? Cheers -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPho

Re: Is evolution the only complexity generating process

2016-06-04 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Jun 04, 2016 at 07:53:47PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 04 Jun 2016, at 03:17, Russell Standish wrote: > > > > >>Only a measure on the existing computations. > >>Of course, all this list is based on the idea that the overall > >>theory sh

Is evolution the only complexity generating process

2016-06-03 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 05:04:48PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 31 May 2016, at 02:33, Russell Standish wrote: > > > > >Hmm - the "output" of the UD (ie UD*) is a very low complexity > >object. The complexity you refer to is actually UD* seen fr

Re: Has the mystery of Black Holes been solved?

2016-05-30 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 02:58:43PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 30 May 2016, at 02:52, Russell Standish wrote: > > >On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 05:38:59PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >>>On Friday, May 27, 2016 at 3:58:11 AM UTC+10, John Clark wrote: > >>

Re: Has the mystery of Black Holes been solved?

2016-05-29 Thread Russell Standish
PI satisfies this, then evolution operating on it will generate plenty of complexity. It is a reasonable hypothesis, though by no means proven, that evolution is the only possible sort of process that can create complexity. Cheers -- -------

Re: Has the mystery of Black Holes been solved?

2016-05-24 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: New prime number found

2016-05-24 Thread Russell Standish
ction between 2^74207281-1 and 2^74207281 -1 in LaTeX. Of course, the LaTeX convention is unofficial, and not everyone understands it, so the envitable misunderstandings and hilarity ensue! -- ---- Dr Russell Standish

Re: Extreme Physical Information

2016-03-01 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: Gravitational Waves Detected By LIGO!

2016-02-14 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: Gravitational Waves Detected By LIGO!

2016-02-13 Thread Russell Standish
ia.org/wiki/Mass_in_special_relativity. Cheers -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingsto

Re: Gravitational Waves Detected By LIGO!

2016-02-13 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: Gravitational Waves Detected By LIGO!

2016-02-11 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: LIGO

2016-02-09 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: God vs the Multiverse

2016-02-07 Thread Russell Standish
Thanks Stathis, that's the one. On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 09:28:47PM +1100, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > On 7 February 2016 at 17:28, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote: > > > A really interesting article I just read in New Scientist. > > > > > >

Re: God vs the Multiverse

2016-02-07 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 08:21:41PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 07 Feb 2016, at 07:28, Russell Standish wrote: > > >A really interesting article I just read in New Scientist. > > > >https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22830520-800-god-vs-the-multiverse-th

Re: Quantum Computers

2016-02-07 Thread Russell Standish
in brains, so that is a rather interesting result. Not sure what the situation of complexity classes is with qunatum computers. Wikipedia seems to indicate this is an open problem. -- -------- Dr Russell Standish

God vs the Multiverse

2016-02-06 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: New prime number found

2016-01-22 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: A breakthrough in computer science?

2015-11-11 Thread Russell Standish
P-hard, but all algorithms to date have been NP (although efficaceous for practical sized problems), so this is certainly interesting. I'm not sure what the graph isomorphism problem has to do with quantum chemistry n-body simulation, though, which is a horridly combinatorial problem, even when doing H

Re: Fwd: experimental study contradicts global workspace theory

2015-11-05 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: Virgin Birth

2015-11-05 Thread Russell Standish
ee, the role and function of sex is still a mystery, although there have been a number of plausible explanations that have been put forward that have yet to be tested to the scientific community's satisfaction. -- ---- Prof Russ

Re: Virgin Birth

2015-11-05 Thread Russell Standish
;environments change much more quickly than that, I think. > > -- -------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au Un

Re: Carroll's Paradox

2015-11-04 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 03:15:51PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 4/11/2015 1:26 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 11:59:41AM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >>I disagree. I do not think the quantum mechanics /ab initio/ is in > >>any way pos

Re: Carroll's Paradox

2015-11-04 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 12:17:23PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 5/11/2015 11:03 am, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 03:15:51PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >>This scarcely counts as a derivation of any useful physics at all, > >>much less of qua

Re: Intelligent design - maybe?

2015-11-03 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 03:11:54PM -0500, John Mikes wrote: > Russell, please: what is your take on "INTELLIGENT"? Its a word describing cognitive ability. Not particularly well defined IMHO. -- ---- Prof Rus

Re: Virgin Birth

2015-11-03 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 02:51:35PM -0800, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > On 11/3/2015 2:30 PM, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 02:05:53PM -0800, Brent Meeker wrote: > >>>Biological theory says that sexual reproduction should halve the > >>

Re: Virgin Birth

2015-11-03 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 05:13:11AM -0800, PGC wrote: > > > On Monday, November 2, 2015 at 1:14:28 AM UTC+1, Russell Standish wrote: > > > > On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 08:22:13AM -0800, PGC wrote: > > > > > > The questions are comp relate

Re: Virgin Birth

2015-11-03 Thread Russell Standish
me logic would indicate that incest should be very evolutionary advantageous - which gives a potent clue as to what's going on. -- ---- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performanc

Re: Carroll's Paradox

2015-11-03 Thread Russell Standish
nt I think has been identified as the subjective - and the subjective is possibly constrained to having to implement classical computation (Bruno's idea), which explains why it is the classical world that emerges from the quantum, not something else. --

Re: Carroll's Paradox

2015-11-03 Thread Russell Standish
erience, or observation in general. But one doesn't need to refer to specific experience, unless one specifically needs to invoke a position basis, or an energy basis or whatever. -- -------- Prof Russell Standish

Re: Intelligent design - maybe?

2015-11-02 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 11:23:47PM -0800, Pierz wrote: > > > On Sunday, November 1, 2015 at 8:39:12 PM UTC+11, Russell Standish wrote: > > > > On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 08:55:09PM -0700, Pierz wrote: > > > > > > Anyway it seems that if we're co

Re: Virgin Birth

2015-11-01 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: Intelligent design - maybe?

2015-11-01 Thread Russell Standish
different question. -- ---- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://w

Re: Virgin Birth

2015-11-01 Thread Russell Standish
attest. Cheers -- -------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.

Re: Fwd: Responsibility and Personhood

2015-10-30 Thread Russell Standish
sire. Cheers > And thanks for your wisdom on 'personhood'. > > JM > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> > wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 03:28:22PM -0400, John Mikes wrote: > > > Jason, Russell, Stathis, Bre

Re: Fwd: Responsibility and Personhood

2015-10-29 Thread Russell Standish
gent' role of 'intelligent' beings. > That's in full concordance with what I wrote :) -- ---- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hp

Re: Responsibility and Personhood

2015-10-28 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: Carroll's Paradox

2015-10-26 Thread Russell Standish
sm. Could you please expand? -- -------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales

Re: Carroll's Paradox

2015-10-26 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 05:54:03PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 26/10/2015 5:30 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 05:08:21PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >>On 26/10/2015 5:01 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >>>On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 03:40:4

Re: Carroll's Paradox

2015-10-26 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 05:08:21PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 26/10/2015 5:01 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 03:40:45PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >>I think Carroll's Paradox (or 'What the Tortoise Said to Achilles') > >>effectively

Re: Carroll's Paradox

2015-10-26 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:44:28AM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote: > > On 10/26/2015 2:43 AM, Russell Standish wrote: > > > > >Assuming computationalism, our everyday experience _is_ internal to the > >system. That doesn't make it any less meaningful. > > I thin

Re: Some questions on ontology of dreams

2015-09-25 Thread Russell Standish
f consciousness (other than Salvia :P )? -- -------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wale

Re: How Anesthesia Switches Off Consciousness

2015-09-09 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: Uploaded Worm Mind

2015-08-31 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:19:00AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 31 Aug 2015, at 00:42, Russell Standish wrote: > > >On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 12:34:18PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> > > > >>I guess that you remember that I am not yet c

Re: Uploaded Worm Mind

2015-08-30 Thread Russell Standish
Tononi's measure was at least normalised by the size of the system in question. A system of a billion uncoordinated nand gates will produce very low amounts of integrated information. -- Prof Russell Standish

Re: Uploaded Worm Mind

2015-08-30 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 12:34:18PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 30 Aug 2015, at 03:08, Russell Standish wrote: Well as people probably know, I don't believe C. elegans can be conscious in any sense of the word. Hell - I have strong doubts about ants, and they're massively more complex

Re: Uploaded Worm Mind

2015-08-29 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: Mathematics is Physics

2015-08-24 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: David Deutsch and Constructor Theory

2015-07-26 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: Closest Continuer Theory

2015-07-02 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 12:04:46PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 01 Jul 2015, at 03:33, Russell Standish wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 07:14:29PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 30 Jun 2015, at 01:27, Bruce Kellett wrote: My conclusion is that, overall, his arguments do not entail

Re: A riddle for John Clark

2015-07-01 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: Closest Continuer Theory

2015-06-30 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: Closest Continuer Theory

2015-06-30 Thread Russell Standish
Occam's razor to eliminate primitive physicality. I might be happy with this, but perhaps Bruce isn't. Step 8 doesn't address this issue at all, as it seems inapplicable to a robust universe. -- Prof Russell Standish

Re: Closest Continuer Theory

2015-06-30 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 07:08:39PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: On 6/30/2015 6:37 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:10:06AM -0700, meekerdb wrote: On 6/30/2015 10:56 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: OK. No problem with this. But my interest are in consciousness and qualia

Re: A riddle for John Clark

2015-06-20 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: A (somewhat) different angle on the reversal

2015-06-14 Thread Russell Standish
solution here, as that should be well known by now. Cheers -- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco

Re: A (somewhat) different angle on the reversal

2015-06-14 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:49:40AM +1200, LizR wrote: On 15 June 2015 at 10:41, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: To summarise, there appears to be two quite distinct questions here: a) Given there are regularities in Nature, why is our mathematics so effective. As Brent

Re: A (somewhat) different angle on the reversal

2015-06-14 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 09:35:47AM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: LizR wrote: On 15 June 2015 at 10:41, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au mailto:li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: To summarise, there appears to be two quite distinct questions here: a) Given there are regularities

Re: A (somewhat) different angle on the reversal

2015-06-12 Thread Russell Standish
of putting it is to say that ontology (which may or may not be physical) cannot support more powerful models, effectively demarcating parts of Platonia. -- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-10 Thread Russell Standish
empirical data, but by a combination of Damuth's law and the Hutchinson-MacArthur model, it is a power law, but with a higher exponent (ie falls off faster) than the 1/x power law of country populations. -- Prof Russell

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-09 Thread Russell Standish
that result in a more mathematical journal at some point, but I'm getting tired of arguing with referees all the time ):. -- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance

Re: The scope of physical law and its relationship to the substitution level

2015-06-08 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: The scope of physical law and its relationship to the substitution level

2015-06-08 Thread Russell Standish
was brought up saying snuck, lit, dove rather than sneaked, lighted and dived, for example. Cheers -- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting

Review of Bostrom's Superintelligence

2015-06-04 Thread Russell Standish
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Review of Bostrom's Superintelligence

2015-06-04 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: Review of Bostrom's Superintelligence

2015-06-04 Thread Russell Standish
:25AM +1200, LizR wrote: Am I missing a subtle joke, or did you forget to include a link? (Or is my browser up the spout?) On 5 June 2015 at 10:55, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List

Re: The scope of physical law and its relationship to the substitution level

2015-05-29 Thread Russell Standish
must remember the precise instant your alert status changes each night when you fall asleep. I myself don't have that ability. Eh? Why does that follow? -- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119

Re: Reconciling Random Neuron Firings and Fading Qualia

2015-05-27 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 08:22:58PM -0500, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 2:17 AM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 08:17:39PM -0500, Jason Resch wrote: Not at all. My suggestion is that there wouldn't be any partial zombies, just

Re: The scope of physical law and its relationship to the substitution level

2015-05-27 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: Reconciling Random Neuron Firings and Fading Qualia

2015-05-27 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: Reconciling Random Neuron Firings and Fading Qualia

2015-05-27 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: Reconciling Random Neuron Firings and Fading Qualia

2015-05-27 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: Reconciling Random Neuron Firings and Fading Qualia

2015-05-24 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: Reconciling Random Neuron Firings and Fading Qualia

2015-05-18 Thread Russell Standish
intelligently and had a consciousness, one would have to assume it to actually be the result of a consious process rather than the result of a random accident. Cheers -- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119

Re: My comments on The Movie Graph Argument Revisited by Russell Standish

2015-05-14 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 04:47:21PM -0400, John Clark wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Both Og and the daemon are deterministic but even if we ignore chaos deterministic is not the same as predictable. A very simple program can

Re: My comments on The Movie Graph Argument Revisited by Russell Standish

2015-05-13 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 01:46:49PM -0400, John Clark wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2015 Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Free will is the ability to do something stupid. Nonrational. OK fine free will is non-rational, in other words an event performed for NO REASON, in other

Re: What does the MGA accomplish?

2015-05-13 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 02:07:52PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 May 2015, at 08:20, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 03:45:09PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: That might be the idea. It is difficult to get to this, though, since the notion of primary materialism doesn't

Re: What does the MGA accomplish?

2015-05-13 Thread Russell Standish
talking about regular physical supervenience. -- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University

Re: What does the MGA accomplish?

2015-05-13 Thread Russell Standish
believe you use the word magic in any of your papers on the MGA. Sorry, but this does seem a rhetorical comment. -- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders

Re: What does the MGA accomplish?

2015-05-13 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:33:42PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 May 2015, at 08:20, Russell Standish wrote: For a robust ontology, counterfactuals are physically instantiated, therefore the MGA is invalid. I don't see this. The if A then B else C can

Re: What does the MGA accomplish?

2015-05-13 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 11:26:17AM +1200, LizR wrote: On 13 May 2015 at 18:20, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: For a robust ontology, counterfactuals are physically instantiated, therefore the MGA is invalid. Can you elaborate on this? ISTM that counterfactuals aren't

Re: What does the MGA accomplish?

2015-05-13 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 01:04:09PM +1200, LizR wrote: On 14 May 2015 at 12:32, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 11:26:17AM +1200, LizR wrote: On 13 May 2015 at 18:20, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: For a robust ontology

Re: My comments on The Movie Graph Argument Revisited by Russell Standish

2015-05-13 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 01:20:44PM +1200, LizR wrote: On 14 May 2015 at 12:01, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 01:46:49PM -0400, John Clark wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2015 Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Free will is the ability to do

Re: Reconciling Random Neuron Firings and Fading Qualia

2015-05-13 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 01:32:24PM +1200, LizR wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:42 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: This was always why I found the fading qualia argument unconvincing - in spite of being a died-in-the-wool functionalist. Russell - just so you know

Re: What does the MGA accomplish?

2015-05-13 Thread Russell Standish
a beard, and somewhere else where he doesn't. -- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University

Re: Reconciling Random Neuron Firings and Fading Qualia

2015-05-13 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:38:12AM -0500, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:42 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 08:59:57PM -0500, Jason Resch wrote: Chalmer's fading quailia argument http://consc.net/papers/qualia.html shows

Re: What does the MGA accomplish?

2015-05-13 Thread Russell Standish
falls apart. -- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales

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