Posts Tagged ‘Bruno Marchal’

COMP Theology

February 22, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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Messages from the everthing list http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/2b92d17d59aaa178 19.02.2012 15:52 Bruno Marchal:  I don’t remember having said that to Craig. On the contrary I criticize him for introducing a new word without ever defining it. But “theology” means “Study of Gods” like biology is study of life. It is a simple word that everyone can understand, and [...]

Simulation Hypothesis and Simulation Technology

September 2, 2011 by · 1 Comment
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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 [...]

Is consciousness causally effective?

July 9, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
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On the everything-list there was a question that I have used as the title. Bruno has given a nice answer. I should say that I do not understand it, as my knowledge of mathematical logic is rather limited. John recently has written in this respect: http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/msg/376b475678f0e0a1 I am sure you write very smart things. I [...]

Since when nature lies?

July 2, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
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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 [...]

On the Status of Computationalism as a Law of Nature

June 19, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
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Colin Hales International Journal of Machine Consciousness (IJMC) Volume: 3, Issue: 1(2011) pp. 55-89 http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S1793843011000613 Scientific behavior is used as a benchmark to examine the truth status of computationalism (COMP) as a law of nature. A COMP-based artificial scientist is examined from three simple perspectives to see if they shed light on the truth or [...]

Animal consciousness and self-consciousness

May 7, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
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http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/5882ad88fb9daa6a There were two links to nice videos on the everything-list. First from Brent Seu browser não suporta iframes. Scientists Successfully Teach Gorilla It Will Die Someday Second from David Nyman (with smiley) Not The Nine O’Clock News – Gerald the gorilla Seu browser não suporta iframes. http://youtu.be/beCYGm1vMJ0 Comments to videos. Bruno Marchal Hard to [...]

Love and free will

April 14, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
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The message to the everything list This week in Die Zeit there were two papers about love and fidelity. One more scientific, another more philosophic. In the latter there is a couple of paragraphs related to Goethe’s “Elective Affinities” that are 100% in agreement with Rex: Die Utopie der Liebe http://www.zeit.de/2011/15/Ps-Treue-Philosophie Fidelity is mere an [...]

First person indeterminacy

March 20, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
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There was an interesting discussion on the first person indeterminacy, see this message from Bruno and discussion after that http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/msg/cb601297b7205ee0 I have found an episode in Astérix & Obélix Take On Caesar that is not  far from discussion Seu browser não suporta iframes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wdDRnmgzqo

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