Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Feb 2014, at 17:59, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014 16:42, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 24 Feb 2014, at 15:38, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014 13:53, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I am not sure why David switched the term. Perhaps to avoid the

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Feb 2014, at 18:11, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, February 24, 2014 9:03:30 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 23 Feb 2014, at 15:55, Craig Weinberg wrote: This might be a more concise way of making my argument: It is my claim that CTM has overlooked the necessity to describe

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Feb 2014, at 18:45, Edgar L. Owen wrote: computational reality is what computes the actual information states of the observable universe. So you assume a primitive physical reality? This makes sense with your p-time, but it is incoherent with the assumption that we can survive

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Feb 2014, at 18:48, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, PS: I have no idea what you are asking in the following question. If you make it clear I'll try to respond You did not answer my question about the relation between p-time and 1-person. If I accept an artificial brain, and that

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Feb 2014, at 23:07, LizR wrote: And a nice manifold of red wine. (After a few of those it may be p- time of course...) With moderation, of course. A damn!, the red wine is in the basement, near the black hole, no idea where is the horizon, I will no try, and take non hard drug

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Craig, Pardon me but what does CTM stand for? Edgar On Sunday, February 23, 2014 9:55:27 AM UTC-5, Craig Weinberg wrote: This might be a more concise way of making my argument: It is my claim that CTM has overlooked the necessity to describe the method, mechanism, or arithmetic principle

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread David Nyman
On 24 February 2014 03:38, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, February 23, 2014 7:22:36 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 23 February 2014 19:55, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, February 23, 2014 10:35:33 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 23 February

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Feb 2014, at 14:16, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Pardon me but what does CTM stand for? It is Computationalist Theory of Mind. It is another name of computationalism or comp, although usually comp refers explicitly to the very weak (logically) version of it. Usually CTM assumes that the

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 24, 2014 8:17:02 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014 03:38, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Sunday, February 23, 2014 7:22:36 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 23 February 2014 19:55, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Thanks Bruno... As an advocate of a computational reality, I certainly believe that part of that universe (subsets) is computational minds, though I suspect we'd disagree about most of the rest Edgar On Monday, February 24, 2014 8:53:37 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 24 Feb 2014,

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 24, 2014 8:16:00 AM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Craig, Pardon me but what does CTM stand for? Computational Theory of Mind. Someone mentioned that they are tired of the word 'Comp', and I agree. Something about it I never liked. Makes it sound friendly and natural,

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Feb 2014, at 15:55, Craig Weinberg wrote: This might be a more concise way of making my argument: It is my claim that CTM has overlooked the necessity to describe the method, mechanism, or arithmetic principle by which computations are encountered. My hypothesis, drawn from both

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Craig, All this discussion about replacing selves or brains is entirely a matter of definition, and thus pretty much a meaningless discussion. It is clear that if we could replace in EVERY last detail, that the new self would be an exact duplicate of the old self with the exact same mental

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Craig, I agree too. Makes it sound low brow and pop culturish, like some consumer product for housewives. But that's a good way to distinguish it from my computational reality. :-) Edgar On Monday, February 24, 2014 8:58:19 AM UTC-5, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, February 24, 2014

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread David Nyman
On 24 February 2014 13:53, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I am not sure why David switched the term. Perhaps to avoid the confusion between comp and its assumptions (like John Clark does sometimes), or perhaps just to allude to the fact that it is a common theory used by most cognitive

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 24, 2014 9:21:15 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014 13:56, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: Sure, but there is a difference between restoring damaged parts of a living person's brain and putting parts synthetic brain parts and

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Feb 2014, at 15:38, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014 13:53, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I am not sure why David switched the term. Perhaps to avoid the confusion between comp and its assumptions (like John Clark does sometimes), or perhaps just to allude to the fact

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread David Nyman
On 24 February 2014 16:01, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, February 24, 2014 9:21:15 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014 13:56, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, but there is a difference between restoring damaged parts of a living person's

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 24, 2014 11:43:28 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014 16:01, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Monday, February 24, 2014 9:21:15 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014 13:56, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Feb 2014, at 14:57, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Thanks Bruno... As an advocate of a computational reality, I certainly believe that part of that universe (subsets) is computational minds, though I suspect we'd disagree about most of the rest You are welcome, but may be David meant

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread David Nyman
On 24 February 2014 16:42, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 24 Feb 2014, at 15:38, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014 13:53, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I am not sure why David switched the term. Perhaps to avoid the confusion between comp and its assumptions (like

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Feb 2014, at 15:10, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Craig, I agree too. Makes it sound low brow and pop culturish, like some consumer product for housewives. But that's a good way to distinguish it from my computational reality. But please tell us what it is. computational is a technical

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 24, 2014 9:03:30 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 23 Feb 2014, at 15:55, Craig Weinberg wrote: This might be a more concise way of making my argument: It is my claim that CTM has overlooked the necessity to describe the method, mechanism, or arithmetic principle by

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread David Nyman
On 24 February 2014 16:59, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: You seem to be answering a different question. I thought it was a direct entailment of your theory that no part of the brain could be substituted purely functionally without affecting the consciousness of the person

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 24, 2014 12:16:26 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014 16:59, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: You seem to be answering a different question. I thought it was a direct entailment of your theory that no part of the brain could be

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, As I've stated on many occasions, computational reality is what computes the actual information states of the observable universe. It is what computes what science observes and measures, whatever that may be. Your comp starts with an abstract assumption without any empirical

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, PS: I have no idea what you are asking in the following question. If you make it clear I'll try to respond You did not answer my question about the relation between p-time and 1-person. If I accept an artificial brain, and that clock of that artigicial brain can be improved, I

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
I prefer the Pasta theory of the universe... the universe is generated with pasta... My pasta universe starts with the actual observable state of the universe and works backward. That absolutely ensures that it is correct by definition even before we might know what all of those actual pastas are

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Quentin, The typical adolescent response of someone unable to even understand the post he is responding to. Edgar On Monday, February 24, 2014 12:57:17 PM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: I prefer the Pasta theory of the universe... the universe is generated with pasta... My pasta universe

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
blablabla... genius. 2014-02-24 19:01 GMT+01:00 Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net: Quentin, The typical adolescent response of someone unable to even understand the post he is responding to. Edgar On Monday, February 24, 2014 12:57:17 PM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: I prefer the

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread ghibbsa
On Monday, February 24, 2014 3:38:40 AM UTC, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, February 23, 2014 7:22:36 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 23 February 2014 19:55, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, February 23, 2014 10:35:33 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 23 February

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread David Nyman
On 24 February 2014 17:38, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: No, that's the point of the analogy, so you can see for yourself why the question is not reasonable. The question posed over and over to me here has been some variation of this same But if the world didn't work the way that

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Quentin, Again you confirm my contention, and confirm your inability to state any inconsistency between P-time and relativity whatsoever. You can blubber forever and that will remain the same... Edgar On Monday, February 24, 2014 1:05:01 PM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: blablabla... genius.

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread David Nyman
On 24 February 2014 17:41, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, it would be possible to have part of your brain removed and not be aware of any difference also - my point though is, 'so what?' You can be dead and not know the difference either, presumably. Are you making some

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 24, 2014 1:10:03 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014 17:38, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: No, that's the point of the analogy, so you can see for yourself why the question is not reasonable. The question posed over and over to me

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-02-24 20:02 GMT+01:00 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com: On Monday, February 24, 2014 1:10:03 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014 17:38, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: No, that's the point of the analogy, so you can see for yourself why the question is not

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 24, 2014 2:06:24 PM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-24 20:02 GMT+01:00 Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: : On Monday, February 24, 2014 1:10:03 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014 17:38, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: No,

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread David Nyman
On 24 February 2014 19:02, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, February 24, 2014 1:10:03 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014 17:38, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: No, that's the point of the analogy, so you can see for yourself why the question is

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-02-24 20:24 GMT+01:00 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com: On Monday, February 24, 2014 2:06:24 PM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-24 20:02 GMT+01:00 Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com: On Monday, February 24, 2014 1:10:03 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread ghibbsa
On Monday, February 24, 2014 7:55:35 PM UTC, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014 19:02, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Monday, February 24, 2014 1:10:03 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 24 February 2014 17:38, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: No,

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread David Nyman
On 24 February 2014 20:15, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: MHO the stage for bickering comes after a lot of this goes down. Prematurally, you've got a virtual cast iron guar antee, however long this runs, it's endings will the familiar territory, in line with all the other instances you participated

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, February 24, 2014 3:11:47 PM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-24 20:24 GMT+01:00 Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: : On Monday, February 24, 2014 2:06:24 PM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-24 20:02 GMT+01:00 Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com:

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread LizR
Bless your noddly appendages. On 25 February 2014 06:57, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: I prefer the Pasta theory of the universe... the universe is generated with pasta... My pasta universe starts with the actual observable state of the universe and works backward. That

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread LizR
On 25 February 2014 06:57, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: My pasta theory conforms to standard scientific method in this respect while yours does not. Tch. You've got a sauce. PS bless your noodly appendages! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread LizR
2014-02-24 19:01 GMT+01:00 Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net: Quentin, The typical adolescent response of someone unable to even understand the post he is responding to. For some reason my irony meter just exploded. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread spudboy100
, 2014 12:57 pm Subject: Re: CTM Attack and Redemption I prefer the Pasta theory of the universe... the universe is generated with pasta... My pasta universe starts with the actual observable state of the universe and works backward. That absolutely ensures that it is correct by definition even

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread LizR
On 25 February 2014 11:02, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Pasta with meatballs and the meat balls are higher dimensional energy fields and the tomato sauce is the rolling tide of higgs singlets reacting with all. And spaghetti for the strings, sprinkled with little qubits of pepper. -- You

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-24 Thread LizR
And a nice manifold of red wine. (After a few of those it may be p-time of course...) On 25 February 2014 11:06, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 February 2014 11:02, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Pasta with meatballs and the meat balls are higher dimensional energy fields and the tomato

CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
This might be a more concise way of making my argument: It is my claim that CTM has overlooked the necessity to describe the method, mechanism, or arithmetic principle by which computations are encountered. My hypothesis, drawn from both direct human experience as well as experience with

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-23 Thread David Nyman
On 23 February 2014 14:55, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: This might be a more concise way of making my argument: It is my claim that CTM has overlooked the necessity to describe the method, mechanism, or arithmetic principle by which computations are encountered. My

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 23, 2014 10:35:33 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 23 February 2014 14:55, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: This might be a more concise way of making my argument: It is my claim that CTM has overlooked the necessity to describe the method,

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-23 Thread David Nyman
On 23 February 2014 19:55, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, February 23, 2014 10:35:33 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 23 February 2014 14:55, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: This might be a more concise way of making my argument: It is my claim that CTM

Re: CTM Attack and Redemption

2014-02-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, February 23, 2014 7:22:36 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 23 February 2014 19:55, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Sunday, February 23, 2014 10:35:33 AM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: On 23 February 2014 14:55, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: This

Redemption

2013-06-15 Thread Roger Clough
REDEMPTION i) No redemption. Below in the Kingdom of Earth, her firstborn son is gone. her redemption is lost. Cain ? She cries out. ?nd where is Abel ? And the man I possessed ? In the night, Cain stumbles eastward toward Eden, Blood on his hands. A bolt of lightning splits