Re: Theories that explain everything explain nothing

2015-05-15 Thread Colin Hales
tem 2). In order to talk to you I have to make the same mistakes as you and I won't do that. Look. I am so over this. Just forget I ever said anything. On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 3:41 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 15 May 2015, at 00:44, colin hales wrote: > > Your suggestio

RE: Theories that explain everything explain nothing

2015-05-14 Thread colin hales
h? I mentioned my agnostic views. Greetings John Mikes On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 8:40 PM, colin hales wrote: Perhaps better All posited (so far) scientific TOE are actually wrongly named. They would be correctly named: "Theories predicting how the universe appears to an assumed

Re: Theories that explain everything explain nothing

2015-05-14 Thread Colin Hales
nym. > > :-) > > On 15 May 2015 at 09:32, John Mikes wrote: > >> Colin: wouldn't it fit to call "TOE" - Theory of Everything WE KNOW >> ABOUT? or: Everything in our reach? >> I mentioned my agnostic views. >> Greetings >> John Mikes >>

RE: Theories that explain everything explain nothing

2015-05-13 Thread colin hales
😊 Perhaps better All posited (so far) scientific TOE are actually wrongly named. They would be correctly named: "Theories predicting how the universe appears to an assumed scientific observer inside it" Or maybe "Theories of everything except the scientific observer" By Scientific obser

RE: The dovetailer disassembled

2015-05-08 Thread colin hales
you deepend your connection to the establishment-science to get the degree. I may call it adjustment, not necessarily a cave-in. I still hold you in high esteem. Thanks for your post, I did not give up yet. John Mikes On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Colin Hales wrote: On Wed, May 6, 20

Re: The dovetailer disassembled

2015-05-05 Thread Colin Hales
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 11:21 AM, LizR wrote: > It also appears to me that the computing entity would not be conscious for >> the same reason computed flight physics is not flight. >> > > I don't have the benefit of thinking about this for ten years, but it does > seem that there is a map/territor

RE: The dovetailer disassembled

2015-05-05 Thread colin hales
Hi, I've been watching this "if COMP is true then " discussion for over 10 years. In that time my thinking has evolved to the point where I can express what COMP now looks like to me, from my perspective. Comp appears to be trivially true. That is, the resultant computing entity would be c

RE: Origin of mathematics

2015-04-22 Thread colin hales
Really interesting! Good to find someone that concurs with a one-at-a-time universe. I think this will emerge as being right, in the end. Thanks. Colin -Original Message- From: "meekerdb" Sent: ‎23/‎04/‎2015 5:36 AM To: "EveryThing" Subject: Origin of mathematics Is mathematics neit

RE: America: Bankrupt & Living on Borrowed Time

2015-04-08 Thread colin hales
We can change things. Everything these predatory self-interested oligarchs have (and their soul-less, ethics-less zombie proxy humans ... corporations) only exists because we believe it exists. The zombie apocalypse is happening as we speak! And we allow it because we believe in zombies. This

RE: Fwd: Global Warming Hoax Confirmed

2015-04-01 Thread colin hales
Yeah.. For about hmm Dozens of microseconds ... you had me... On the 2nd! I experienced the qualia ... that frisson of misplaced credulousness that an old fart like me needs every now and then 😊 Cheers Colin -Original Message- From: "Russell Standish" Sent: ‎2/‎04/‎2015 8:15 AM T

RE: Is Consciousness Computable?

2014-05-18 Thread Colin Hales
Hi Folk, A little more you may find interesting. RE: The much-discussed arXiv paper Maguire, Phil, Moser Philippe, Maguire, Rebecca and Griffith, Virgil 2014 'Is Consciousness Computable? Quantifying Integrated Information Using Algorithmic Information Theory'. http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.

Re: COMP refutation paper - finally out

2011-06-16 Thread Colin Hales
Hi Russel, 1) Strong CT/Deutch...will look it up...Sounds like one of the conflations in operation: confusing the natural world with some kind of computer running rules, rather than something natural merely behaving rule-ly to an observing scientist. 2) Re: angry popperians...the role of hum

Re: COMP refutation paper - finally out

2011-06-13 Thread Colin Hales
(NC) a bit confusing. I guess that I understand what you means but the term Computation sounds ambiguously, because then it is completely unclear what it means in such a context. Evgenii On 07.06.2011 09:42 Colin Hales said the following: Hi, Hales, C. G. 'On the Status of Computational

Re: COMP refutation paper - finally out

2011-06-10 Thread Colin Hales
should prefer (ii), because (i) is loaded with unjustified, unproven presupposition and has >60 years of failure. All other issues are secondary. I start building this year. cheers Colin Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi Colin, On 07 Jun 2011, at 09:42, Colin Hales wrote: Hi, Hales, C. G. 

Re: COMP refutation paper - finally out

2011-06-07 Thread Colin Hales
meekerdb wrote: Even an affiliation doesn't seem to help. Brent On 6/7/2011 1:49 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Colin, Any chance that us non-university affiliated types can get a copy of your paper? Onward! Stephen -Original Message----- From: Colin Hales Sent: Tuesday, June 0

COMP refutation paper - finally out

2011-06-07 Thread Colin Hales
Hi, Hales, C. G. 'On the Status of Computationalism as a Law of Nature', International Journal of Machine Consciousness vol. 3, no. 1, 2011. 1-35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S1793843011000613 The paper has finally been published. Phew what an epic! cheers Colin -- You received this message

Request: computation<=>thermodynamics paper(s)

2011-04-14 Thread Colin Hales
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone out there knows of any papers that connect computational processes to thermodynamics in some organized fashion. The sort of thing I am looking for would have statements saying cooling is (info/computational equivalent) pressure is ..(info/computational equ

Re: Neurobiologists Find that Weak Electrical Fields in the Brain Help Neurons Fire Together

2011-02-06 Thread Colin Hales
eamed up with one of the worlds heavy hitters in the realm of the neurobiology of consciousness (Koch). cheers colin hales === In my PhD I it took >150,000 hours of supercomputing to show that the EM fields have a whole degree of freedom not in exis

Re: Are our brains in that VAT? Yep.

2011-02-04 Thread Colin Hales
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Colin Hales wrote: Can the behaviour of the neurons including the electric fields be simulated? For example, is it possible to model what will happen in the brain (and what output will ultimately go to the muscles via peripheral

Re: Are our brains in that VAT? Yep.

2011-02-03 Thread Colin Hales
Stathis (Down below...) Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Colin Hales wrote: This means we are hooked into the external world in ways that are not present in the peripheral nerves. Looking at the (nerves pulses) signals, it is impossible to tell if they are

Are our brains in that VAT? Yep.

2011-02-02 Thread Colin Hales
r. Well not quite. I think I am some kind of neuroscientist now. Just handing my PhD in...I will build an AGI based on choices. My research suggests that replacing the fields, emulating the brain, is the way to go. That's why my PhD is all about how neurons originate the endogenous fiel

Re: Maudlin & How many times does COMP have to be false before its false?

2011-02-01 Thread Colin Hales
gn preference should be not to use (3) or (5) to create an AGI. Emulate, not simulate. BE the thing, don't merely pretend to be the thing to an observer. I have that level of certainty at least. I guess a word of thanks is in order. Thanks! :-) Colin David Nyman wrote: On 1 February

Re: Maudlin & How many times does COMP have to be false before its false?

2011-01-31 Thread Colin Hales
hat 'acts as if' it generates an arbitrary number of different U? The COMP I talk about having refuted is in (i) or (ii) above. I suspect this is not the COMP you are speaking of... As far as I can tell we're not even on the same page. Maybe others here are in a similar positio

Re: Maudlin & How many times does COMP have to be false before its false?

2011-01-30 Thread Colin Hales
Interleaved ... Bruno Marchal wrote: On 29 Jan 2011, at 06:27, ColinHales wrote: Now say "humans are conscious? Prove it." To which I say "COMP is true? Prove it" Been around this loop many times. :-) COMP is a solution of x -> ~Bx, like consciousness, and consistency. If COMP is true,

Re: Maudlin & How many times does COMP have to be false before its false?

2011-01-30 Thread Colin Hales
Interleaved... John Mikes wrote: Hi, Colin, I enjoyed your diatribe. (From time to time I accept some of your ideas and even include them into my ways of thinking - which may be a praise or a threat). Question: Could you briefly identify your usage of "science" - even "scientist"? The f

Re: Bruno-Colin-dicussion Jan-2011

2011-01-22 Thread Colin Hales
Hi John, Sorry to hear about your 2010. I hope that 2011 allows your flavour of feist to resume here on 'everything'. I am at the very end of my PhD writeup and have been more flaky than usual here. I was amused to see that I appeared to be advocating any sort of XYXism or to be an 'XYZist'.

Re: Observers and Church/Turing

2011-01-13 Thread Colin Hales
everything" is conceived as converging on consistent first-person narratives as a consequence of various kinds of "measure" - a very rough analogy would be the emergence of all possible books in Borges' "Library of Babel". What would be the analogous ideas in your o

Re: Observers and Church/Turing

2011-01-12 Thread Colin Hales
I'll just crawl off and fume for a while. I'll be OK soon enough! :-) Colin Hales produced, you haven't explained observation and you don't really understand it> ronaldheld wrote: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1101/1101.2198v1.pdf Any comments?

Re: A paper by Bas C. van Fraassen

2010-10-24 Thread Colin Hales
Brent Meeker wrote: On 10/23/2010 2:37 PM, Colin Hales wrote: I am pretty sure that there is a profound misinterpretation and/or unrecognized presupposition deeply embedded in the kinds of discussion of which Van F and your reply and Bruno's fits. It's so embedded that there

Re: A paper by Bas C. van Fraassen

2010-10-23 Thread Colin Hales
think the QM/MWI proponent can conceive of that distinction. Perhaps it might be helpful if those readers try and conceive of such a situation, just as an exercise.. cheers colin hales Bruno Marchal wrote: HI Stephen, Just a short reply to your post to Colin, and indirectly to your last posts.

Re: A paper by Bas C. van Fraassen

2010-10-21 Thread Colin Hales
#x27;BEING', 'MEASUREMENT and 'EVIDENCE' and _then_ what you can do with evidence. There. Vent is complete. That's better. Phew! :-) Colin Hales. Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Friends, Please check out the following paper by Bas C. van Fraassen for ma

Re: PSYCHE Vol 16 #1 ... essay

2010-06-14 Thread Colin Hales
Bruno Marchal wrote: Colin, I think we have always agreed on this conclusion. We may differ on the premises. It just happen that I am using a special hypothesis, which is very common, but not so well understood, and which is the digital mechanist hypothesis. I think things are more subtle t

Re: PSYCHE 16(1) ... essay results

2010-06-12 Thread Colin Hales
mself from fragments received from 'reality and indiviually colored to one's personal background and mental-built. Now I have some remarks - not argumentative mostly (except for the 'Science of Quale') on that beautifully crafted (short!) writing that reaped the award. Here it go

Re: PSYCHE Vol 16 #1 ... essay

2010-06-12 Thread Colin Hales
hat the essay speaks to you in a way that helps you see this. This is the position I am gradually building. I am going to go so far as to formally demand a summit on the matter. I believe things are that screwed up. 300 years of this confinement in the (A) prison is long enough. cheers colin

PSYCHE Vol 16 #1 ... essay

2010-06-11 Thread Colin Hales
short (1500 words!) * Enjoy. Colin Hales -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-lis

Re: New Paper by Thomas Hertog and Stephen Hawking

2009-12-29 Thread Colin Hales
Jason Resch wrote: > Described in this article: > http://www.bioedonline.org/news/news.cfm?art=2617 > > "This summation of all paths, proposed in the 1960s by physicist > Richard Feynman and others, is the only way to explain some of the > bizarre properties of quantum particles, such as their

OFF LIST Re: Emulation and Stuff - The Ross Model of our Universe

2009-08-18 Thread Colin Hales
Hi, Can you please send a .PDF or a .DOC I can't read .DOCX and I can't upgrade my PC to read ituni rules... :-( regards Colin Hales --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything

Re: Can mind be a computation if physics is fundamental?

2009-08-12 Thread Colin Hales
Bruno Marchal wrote: > Colin, > > We agree on the conclusion. We disagree on vocabulary, and on the > validity of your reasoning. > > Let us call I-comp the usual indexical mechanism discussed in this > list (comp). > Let us call m-comp the thesis that there is a primitive "natural > world", a

Re: Can mind be a computation if physics is fundamental?

2009-08-12 Thread Colin Hales
Quentin Anciaux wrote: > 2009/8/12 Colin Hales : > >> My motivation to kill COMP is purely aimed at bring a halt to the delusion >> of the AGI community that Turing-computing will ever create a mind. They are >> throwing away $millions based on a false belief. Their ex

Re: Can mind be a computation if physics is fundamental?

2009-08-11 Thread Colin Hales
te: > Hi Colin, > > It seems that to me that until one understands the nature of the > extreme Idealism that COMP entails, no arguement based on the physical > will do... > > "I refute it thus!" > -Dr. Johnson http://www.samueljohnson.com/re

Re: Can mind be a computation if physics is fundamental?

2009-08-11 Thread Colin Hales
Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 10 Aug 2009, at 09:08, Colin Hales wrote: > >> Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> >>> On 06 Aug 2009, at 04:37, Colin Hales wrote: >>> >>>> Man this is a tin of worms! I have just done a 30 page detailed >>>> r

Re: Can mind be a computation if physics is fundamental?

2009-08-10 Thread Colin Hales
Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 06 Aug 2009, at 04:37, Colin Hales wrote: > >> Man this is a tin of worms! I have just done a 30 page detailed >> refutation of computationalism. >> It's going through peer review at the moment. >> >> The basic problem that m

Re: Can mind be a computation if physics is fundamental?

2009-08-09 Thread Colin Hales
russell standish wrote: > Nobody is suggesting that brains are Turing machines. All that is > being suggested (by COMP) is that brains perform computations (and > nothing but), hence can be perfectly emulated by a Turing machine, by > virtue of the Church-Turing thesis. > "/Nobody is suggesti

Re: Can mind be a computation if physics is fundamental?

2009-08-09 Thread Colin Hales
ronaldheld wrote: > As a formally trained Physicist, what do I accept? that Physics is > well represented mathematically? That the Multiverse is composed of > mathematical structures some of which represent physical laws? Or > something else? > Ronald >

Re: Can mind be a computation if physics is fundamental?

2009-08-06 Thread Colin Hales
Brent Meeker wrote: > Colin Hales wrote: > >> Brent Meeker wrote: >> >>> Colin Hales wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Man this is a tin of worms! I have just done a 30 page detailed >>>> refutation of computationalism. &

Re: Can mind be a computation if physics is fundamental?

2009-08-06 Thread Colin Hales
Rex Allen wrote: > If computationalism is true, and computation is the source of > conscious experience, then shouldn't we expect that what is > ontologically real is the simplest possible universe that can develop > and support physical systems that are Turing equivalent? > > Does our universe lo

Re: Can mind be a computation if physics is fundamental?

2009-08-06 Thread Colin Hales
Brent Meeker wrote: > Colin Hales wrote: > >> Man this is a tin of worms! I have just done a 30 page detailed >> refutation of computationalism. >> It's going through peer review at the moment. >> >> The basic problem that most people fall fou

Re: Can mind be a computation if physics is fundamental?

2009-08-05 Thread Colin Hales
ition or a 'compute a model of the physics underlying cognition'. Then an artificial scientist is a scioentist in the same sense that artificial light is light. R.I.P. COMP => Strong AI (a computer can be a mind) is false. => Weak AI (A computer model of cognition can never be actual c

Re: Dreaming On

2009-07-27 Thread Colin Hales
ent on the truth of dogma X get their outcome projections/expectations reviewed? cheers colin hales --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send ema

Re: Dreaming On

2009-07-26 Thread Colin Hales
David Nyman wrote: > Thanks to everyone who responded to my initial sally on dreams and > machines. Naturally I have arrogated the right to plagiarise your > helpful comments in what follows, which is an aphoristic synthesis of > my understanding of the main points that have emerged thus far. I

Re: No MWI

2009-05-14 Thread Colin Hales
Brent Meeker wrote: > Colin Hales wrote: > >> Hi, >> When I read quantum mechanics and listen to those invested in the many >> places the mathematics leads, What strikes me is the extent to which the >> starting point is mathematics. That is, the entire discu

Re: No MWI

2009-05-14 Thread Colin Hales
b religiosity. Can anyone else here see this cultural schism operating? regards Colin Hales Jason Resch wrote: > The following link shows convincingly that what one gains by accepting > MWI is far greater than what one loses (an answer to the born > probabilities) > > http://www.

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-04-25 Thread Colin Hales
ehaviour and represents the last thing physicists seem to want to explain: /themselves/. A green field in which it is obvious that cognition is most definitely not computation in the 'computation BY' sense. Enjoy! colin hales --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You receiv

Dual Aspect Science

2009-04-03 Thread Colin Hales
7;t analytically express it. You have to compute it and slice it to observe it. Enough for now! cheers colin hales *ABSTRACT*. Our chronically impoverished explanatory capacity in respect of P-consciousness is highly suggestive of a problem with science itself, rather than its lack of acquisi

Re: Cellular automata @ home?

2009-03-09 Thread Colin Hales
What you have here is a phenomenon which has been described a lot for 50 years. It appears in the literature in the descriptions of the synchronous behaviour of crickets, cicadas and fireflies. Eg: D. E. Kim, "A spiking neuron model for synchronous flashing of fireflies," Biosystems, vol. 76, p

Re: The Amoeba's Secret - English Version started

2009-03-05 Thread Colin Hales
The file. sorry use *Rejection 101.pdf* enjoy! colin Colin Hales wrote: > Hi Bruno, > I feel your angst. The received view is a blunt and frightened beast, > guarded by the ignorant and uncreative in wily protection of turf and > co-conspirator. I recently did

Re: The Amoeba's Secret - English Version started

2009-03-05 Thread Colin Hales
Hi Bruno, I feel your angst. The received view is a blunt and frightened beast, guarded by the ignorant and uncreative in wily protection of turf and co-conspirator. I recently did a powerpoint presentation called "rejection 101". It sounds like you have been through exactly what I have been th

A scientifically sound, objective test for consciousness

2009-01-27 Thread Colin Hales
t to distal natural world novelty. It is hoped that in opening a discussion of a novel approach, the artificial intelligence community may eventually find a viable contender for its long overdue scientific basis. cheers colin hales --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Y

Re: Mind and personhood. Was: Kim 1

2008-12-14 Thread Colin Hales
n consciousness and fails constantly (2000+ years) then c) still fails to let consciousness be evidence of whatever it is that actually generates it (c) is a kind of denial of the form you identify. Therefore you have proved that scientists are self-aware (= conscious) i.e. only people able to m

Re: MGA for DUMMIES

2008-11-29 Thread Colin Hales
Hi, Computationalsim pronounced dead here: Bringsjord, S. (1999). The Zombie Attack on the Computational Conception of Mind. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LIX(1), 41-69. cheers colin Kim Jones wrote: > A representation of a thing (say MGA) is as good (ie as authentic) as > the thi

Re: Confirmed: Reality is the dream of NUMBERS

2008-11-24 Thread Colin Hales
Kim Jones wrote: > On 24/11/2008, at 1:50 PM, Colin Hales wrote: > > >> It seems that the last thing physicists want to do is predict >> themselves. They do absolutely "everything" except that. When they >> say "everything" in a "Theory

Re: Confirmed: Reality is the dream of NUMBERS

2008-11-23 Thread Colin Hales
Tom Caylor wrote: > On Nov 23, 4:29 pm, Colin Hales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "According to this article, the best we can do is to VIRTUALLY CONFIRM >> something. But since reality is VIRTUAL, according to this VIRTUAL >> CONFIRMATION, is not VIRTUAL

Re: Confirmed: Reality is the dream of NUMBERS

2008-11-23 Thread Colin Hales
Kim Jones wrote: > > On 24/11/2008, at 10:29 AM, Colin Hales wrote: > >> OK. I was rowing my apparently virtual boat merrily down the stream. >> But apparently that's not interesting enough. :-) > > > It's more interesting when you get a barbershop quartet

Re: Confirmed: Reality is the dream of NUMBERS

2008-11-23 Thread Colin Hales
ls). So the above sentence conflates terms, which is why I thought you weren't serious. Getting back in boat, assuming merrily mode. It's as if I am rowing, downstream. :-) cheers, colin hales Kim Jones wrote: > Oh, somebody will stick their head up soon and disagree. Where wou

Re: Confirmed: Reality is the dream of NUMBERS

2008-11-22 Thread Colin Hales
I knew it "Row row row your boat Gently down the stream Merrily Merrily Merrily Merrily Life is but a dream." Is actually a law of nature... cheers Colin Hales Kim Jones wrote: > > > > http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16095-its-confirmed-matter-is-merely-va

Re: What the B***P do quantum physicists know?

2008-10-13 Thread Colin Hales
Michael Rosefield wrote: > And of course you could always add - all possible instances > of > > Yeah.. a new 'science of universe construction'? I wonder if there's a name for something like that? unigenesis? As I said in my post to Jesse: - - -- - - - - - is NOT underling reality, but a

Re: What the B***P do quantum physicists know?

2008-10-12 Thread Colin Hales
his regime of 'SINGLE ASPECT SCIENCE' for no good reason. This is the way the 'hard problem' remains hard. I drew this state of affairs as a diagram in my paper that has been out there for 2 years. I empirically observe scientists and I report

Re: What the B***P do quantum physicists know?

2008-10-12 Thread Colin Hales
describing appearances and describing structure are NOT the same set of descriptions. Dual aspect science is thus empirically justified. Single aspect science (of the Bohmian or anyotherian kind) is thus empirically refuted. I hope I am making progress here... as a physics participant, you have

Re: What the B***P do quantum physicists know?

2008-10-12 Thread Colin Hales
Brent Meeker wrote: > Colin Hales wrote: > >> >From the "everything list" FYI >> >> Brent Meeker wrote: >> >>> Why would you take Stapp as exemplifying the state of QM? ISTM that the >>> decoherence program plus Ever

Re: What the B***P do quantum physicists know?

2008-10-12 Thread Colin Hales
ons, by an observer made of it". /As scientists we haven't even begun to populate . We need to start. The delusions that are in place in are far more bizarre than any sane approach to a characterisation of reality that involves populating a that is explanatory of P-consciousness. / O

What the B***P do quantum physicists know?

2008-10-10 Thread Colin Hales
that of a taboo... then that PhD, to me, is a club membership certificate in a bankrupt and deluded system. If I am expected to declare dual aspect science wrong then somebody needs to tell me exactly why -- with real critical arguments and logic, not the dogma of taboo. The evidence for this

Re: Which mathematical structure -is- the universe in Physics?

2008-09-26 Thread Colin Hales
Hi Brian, I was wondering if you could connect (in the paper) the maths with our universe? As an example. What set operations or structures correspond to the standard particle model entities, what constitutes a chemical reaction or energy, what space is made of... that kind of thing. Maybe thi

Re: Artificial Intelligence may be far easier than generally thought

2008-09-22 Thread Colin Hales
e... I have to get back to work. cheers colin hales silky wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Colin Hales > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Invent an inorganic 'us'? A faulty, defunct evolutionary mistake? Nah! >> > > But that&#x

Re: Artificial Intelligence may be far easier than generally thought

2008-09-22 Thread Colin Hales
ly use a break. The AGI would be able to clean Earth up and then leave... they'll be much better at space travel than us. Humans may or may not ever reach the stars... but our AGI descendents will. Which is just as well...somebody out there has to remember us and all the shit we did to o

Re: The Super-Intelligence (SI) speaks: An imaginary dialogue

2008-09-02 Thread Colin Hales
Hi Folks, I can't throw myself any further into this ... I have to get back in the fray here. However - a couple of quick-ones for Brent and Bruno: COL > the instant the > abstraction happens, from that moment on you know NOTHING about the > current state of the distal environment...all you hav

Re: The Super-Intelligence (SI) speaks: An imaginary dialogue

2008-09-01 Thread Colin Hales
ution of the order of nano-seconds worst case.. In the interim it may be better to replace your brain with my chips...slowly...and then the rest of the hardware - slowly... you'd end up 100% inorganic, but you would NOT be a COMP entity. This is more doable in the shorter term. So I ca

Re: The Super-Intelligence (SI) speaks: An imaginary dialogue

2008-09-01 Thread Colin Hales
colin (back to Jesse and the closer on COMP) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sep 2, 1:56 pm, Colin Hales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi Marc, >> >> */Eliezer/*'s hubris about a Bayesian approach to intelligence is >> nothing more than the usual '

Re: The Super-Intelligence (SI) speaks: An imaginary dialogue

2008-09-01 Thread Colin Hales
to work with. An artefact based on this may survive in a habitat... but that is NOT science. Sothere's no scientist here. (BTW IO = input/output). cheers, colin Jesse Mazer wrote: > Colin Hales wrote: > > >> Computationalism is FALSE in the sense that it cannot be used to co

Re: The Super-Intelligence (SI) speaks: An imaginary dialogue

2008-09-01 Thread Colin Hales
Hi Marc, */Eliezer/*'s hubris about a Bayesian approach to intelligence is nothing more than the usual 'metabelief' about a mathematics... or about computation... meant in the sense that "cognition is computation", where computation is done BY the universe (with the material of the universe us

Re: Cosmology and Boltzmann brains

2008-06-13 Thread Colin Hales
s, a true cosmology should make predictions in brain material that shall be otherwise unavailable. Only when such predictions are found shall signs of a real explanation (of scientists) be created. None of the discussions in cosmology do that nor have they ever done that. regards, Colin Hales

Re: An Equivalence Principle

2008-04-07 Thread Colin Hales
rule of the game'. === PRACTICAL NOTE: Having any belief in the existence or otherwise of an external reality changes nothing. It is irrelevant. You may not accept various aspects of this argument, but I think you may agree that it reveals inconsistent belief systems

The Principle of Natural Ontic Genesis

2007-06-23 Thread Colin Hales
erested in the discussion and might appreciate a critical gnaw on a juicy bone. To me, a 'Theory of Everything' and the process of sorting out consciousness are necessarily unified scientific activities. In that unification the answers await us. regards, Colin Hales ===

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-20 Thread Colin Hales
down a wys.. === Russell Standish wrote: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 03:47:19PM +1000, Colin Hales wrote: >> Hi, >> >> RUSSEL >>> All I can say is that I don't understand your distinction. You have >> introduce

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-19 Thread Colin Hales
. Business as usual. If Galen Strawson is setting fire to the magical emergence campGOOD! I have an X proposition that delivers what looks like panpsychism, but isn't actuallywell... if X is a principle that applies universally (something that exists at all spatial scales... inher

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-17 Thread Colin Hales
Dear Brent, If you had the most extravagent MRI machine in history, which trapped complete maps of all electrons, neuclei and any photons and then plotted them out - you would have a 100% complete, scientifically acquired publishable description and in that description would be absolutely no predi

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-16 Thread Colin Hales
ME, an elemental fluctuation, is 'NOT ME' (the rest of the universe). The ecitable cell dance is the only dance that has it's own story independent of the underlying MON_STUFF organisational layers. That is the only place where the net exertions o

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-16 Thread Colin Hales
Hi, RUSSEL > All I can say is that I don't understand your distinction. You have introduced a new term "necessary primitive" - what on earth is that? But I'll let this pass, it probably isn't important. COLIN Oh no you don't!! It matters. Bigtime... Take away the necessary primitive: no 'qualit

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-16 Thread Colin Hales
Hi, I am going to have to be a bit targetted in my responses I am a TAD whelmed at the moment. COLIN >> 4) Belief in 'magical emergence' qualitative novelty of a kind utterly unrelated to the componentry. RUSSEL > The latter clause refers to "emergence" (without the "magical" > qual

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-13 Thread Colin Hales
ll those centuries!!" My formula for machine consciousness validation stands as a valid scientifically testable proposition. The real test will happen within 5 years - a nest of tiny little benchtop artificial scientists in the form of chips with a novel architecture - that will scientifically demonst

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-13 Thread Colin Hales
tructure literally the third person view of qualia. This is not new. What is new is understanding the kind of universe we inhabit in which that is necessarily the case. It's right there, in the cells. Just ask the right question of them. There's nothing

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-13 Thread Colin Hales
Hi Stathis, Colin >The bogus logic I detect in posts around this area... >'Humans are complex and are conscious' >'Humans were made by a complex biosphere' >therefore >'The biosphere is conscious' > > Stathis That conclusion is spurious, but it is the case that non-conscious e

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-13 Thread Colin Hales
rm). Computers process information. Therefore I believe the computer is conscious. B) Human cortical qualia are a necessary condition for the scientific behaviour and unless the complete suite of the physics involved in that process is included in the computer, the computer is not conscious. Which fo

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-11 Thread Colin Hales
Hi again, Russel: I'm sorry, but you worked yourself up into an incomprehensible rant. Is evolution creative in your view or not? If it is, then there is little point debating definitions, as we're in agreement. If not, then we clearly use the word creative in different senses, and perhaps defint

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-07 Thread Colin Hales
a human made of the ratchet motors). That's how you unpack this discussion. cheers colin hales BTW thanks.I now have the BAAS paper on .PDF Baas, N. A. (1994) Emergence, Hierarchies, and Hyperstructures. In C. G. Langton (ed.). Artificial life III : proceedings of the Workshop on Artifi

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-04 Thread Colin Hales
ou've made your point. I'd like to think that I have. My AI/Human scientist face-off stands as is and I defy anyone to come up with something practical/better that isn't axiomatically flawed. Everything is scientific evidence of something. Scientists are no exception. cheers, colin

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-04 Thread Colin Hales
ou've made your point. I'd like to think that I have. My AI/Human scientist face-off stands as is and I defy anyone to come up with something practical/better that isn't axiomatically flawed. Everything is scientific evidence of something. Scientists are no exception. cheers, col

Re: How would a computer know if it were conscious?

2007-06-03 Thread Colin Hales
'learn how to learn how to learn". If the computer/scientist can match the human/scientist...it's as conscious as a human. It must be. cheers colin hales --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

RE: Mouse brain simulated on a computer - NOT

2007-04-29 Thread Colin Hales
Hi, What they did was hook X million simple neural soma models to each other with Y000 models of synaptic interconnects. Very useful for investigating large-scale dynamicsbutthe leap to 'mouse brain'?.presumptuous I think. Perhaps... 'Mouse-brain scale idealised connectionist model' wo

Re: String theory and Cellular Automata

2007-03-14 Thread Colin Hales
t any of it... but I can guarantee you'll get answers if you keep looking at it. The trick is to let go of the idea that 'fundamental building blocks' of nature are a meaningful concept (we are tricked into the belief be our perceptual/epistemological goals) ... cheers, colin hales

RE: Numbers, Machine and Father Ted

2006-10-26 Thread Colin Hales
gards, Colin Hales (EC still brewing!) > -Original Message- > From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal > Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:23 PM > To: everything-list@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Numbers,

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