My message to the everything-list (for discussion follow the link) http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/99e8321645a80200 On 16.01.2012 10:24 Bruno Marchal said the following: … > > Note also that Turing invented his test to avoid the philosophical > hard issue of consciousness. In a nutshell Turing defines > “consciousness” by “having an intelligent behavior”. The Turing test > is [...]
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January 8, 2012 by Evgenii Rudnyi · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: Paul Feyerabend
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Social Tagging: Paul Feyerabend
Feyeraband likes provocative statements and below there are some quotes from the everything-list caused by myself using Feyeraband’s statement about Galileo. Well, if you would like to make discussion hot, quote Feyeraband. http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/4c12841ff0dd1ff0 05.01.2012 06:29 John Clark: “And so simulators join a long long long list of things that you say are not real. If X [...]
September 18, 2011 by Evgenii Rudnyi · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: mathematics
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Social Tagging: mathematics
Brent has posted a couple of quotes http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/1dadda0d2b84f605 “Mathematics is part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap.” — Vladimir Arnold. “The duty of abstract mathematics, as I see it, is precisely to expand our capacity for hypothesizing possible ontologies.” [...]
September 10, 2011 by Evgenii Rudnyi · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: Maarten Hoenen • theology
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Social Tagging: Maarten Hoenen • theology
My messages to the everything-list: http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/1dadda0d2b84f605 04.09.2011 20:32 A dialog from lectures of Prof Hoenen: http://podcasts.uni-freiburg.de/podcast_content?id_content=93 A physicist comes to a theologian: “You know, I have checked everything from an elementary particle to the Universe. God does not exist, as I have not found him.” A theologian: “You have done your job well. I would [...]
September 2, 2011 by Evgenii Rudnyi · 1 Comment
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Social Tagging: Bruno Marchal • computing • simulation argument
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Social Tagging: Bruno Marchal • computing • simulation argument
The text has been inspired by the discussion “Turing Machine” on the everything list: http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/40e45a536974609d Many people believe nowadays that the level of scientific knowledge allows us to conclude that everything including the whole universe could be simulated. Some of the them go further and say that the universe that we know is actually simulation [...]
August 20, 2011 by Evgenii Rudnyi · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: John Mikes • mathematics
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Social Tagging: John Mikes • mathematics
Brent has posted a link to a nice video: http://videosift.com/video/Miss-USA-2011-Should-Math-Be-Taught-In-Schools See also a short discussion after that http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/08a5c40ff1f9fee0 The video is a parady on the Miss USA 2011 Interviews – Should Evolution Be Taught in Schools. Yet, it is very well done and, I guess, it shows well the attidude of the society to mathematics. [...]
Craig Weinberg has made a link to the video on the everything list: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3keLeMwfHY with a question Does the idea of this machine solve the Hard Problem of Consciousness, or are qualia something more than ideas? The Web-site devoted to that nice Turing machine shown in the video is http://www.aturingmachine.com/ The discussion of the Craig’s answer: [...]
One quote from the everything list (Bruno Marchal) about lying: Lying is of the type Bf, like errors, dreams and perhaps death. But it is more general than “asserting a falsity”, it might be “acting and behaving in a way such that others will have a wrong belief”. With that definition in mind, the following [...]
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