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"If Ck(k) stops, then Ck(k) does not stop."

2010-03-02T22:49:15Z

"If Ck(k) stops, then Ck(k) does not stop."
Without knowing anything at all about mathematics or Turing machines,
does this immediately "look" like a contradiction? Yes. Is it enough for
it to look like a contradiction for it to be one? No. But that didn't
stop it being used by those eager to show how the "contradiction"

[analytic] Re: Another kind of connectionism: relativity and subjective experience

2010-03-02T02:27:32Z

Not sure it helps much, but he elsewhere uses "dimensions." You may remember from my Reid/Hall paper (which I'm still revising--The Journal of Scottish Philosophy is going to take it) that Hall wasn't at all reluctant to talk about different ways of being in the world. So properties can be in the world by being exemplified or by being ascribed. These are different dimensions for Hall--neither themselves properties or events.

[analytic] Re: Another kind of connectionism: relativity and subjective experience

2010-03-01T18:29:24Z

Walto quotes Hall:
Hello W,
The main difficulty I have understanding this is getting a fix on what precisely Hall means by 'aspect' (his own use of scare quotes suggests that he himself perceived some unfinished business here).
It would be interesting to see some examples of 'aspects' of events which aren't so philosophically charged as the privacy of pain or perception. That would shed light on what makes something an aspect, in Hall's sense.

Re: [analytic] Re: Another kind of connectionism: relativity and subjective experience

2010-03-01T16:15:23Z

Thanks walto, the passage is indeed relevant.

[analytic] Re: Another kind of connectionism: relativity and subjective experience

2010-02-28T15:21:33Z

Here's my guru Hall on that question, from "My Possession of My Experiences" (1962)
"....The privacy of my experiences, I suggest, lies not in their possession by me (with one unmentionable exception, I have no private bodily parts), but in their character as experiences. They are intentional and thereby mental. They are about things other than themselves. The objects of our experiences are public--we see and hear planes, love ahd hate people; the experiences themselves are private--my seeing ahd hearing, loving and hating are never yours; we "share" them only in the sense of having similar ones about the same objects and recognized to be so.

[analytic] DB design

2010-02-28T08:42:02Z

I wish to thank for numerous answers to my call for help.
Due to their number and a certain similarity, I post here
a common response.
My friend, the general, stays faithful to some rules he learned
from me. One of them says that
1.A computer system usually represents reality, through the potential

Not Quite Everything for a Theory of Everything

2010-02-27T13:20:13Z

Not Quite Everything for a Theory of Everything
(click link)
[link]
Enjoy,
Fitz

Re: [analytic] Help (Richard, Eray et Al)

2010-02-27T10:24:59Z

To: "analy...@yahoogroups.com" <analy...@yahoogroups.com>

The hard part is not the db i think, it is whatever optimization he
has to solve. I think they would better get consultancy from a
logistics / industrial engineering firm. We can't be expected to help
out military (for free!) can we? :)

Re: [analytic] Help (Richard, Eray et Al)

2010-02-27T09:54:24Z

[analytic] Help (Richard, Eray et Al)

2010-02-26T15:18:35Z

My former student who became general charged with plane maintenance
of an Air Force asked me to audit various envisaged designs of the
maintenance Data Base. Actually I had designed the original version,
but it was back in 71. Many versions using new tools succeeded as well
as many pressing ad hoc "temporary" patches and we know that nothing

[analytic] Re: Dissemination (for Jud)

2010-02-26T14:19:46Z

Thanks so much for sharing! And good luck with the film rights!
W

[analytic] Dissemination (for Jud)

2010-02-26T12:18:31Z

Dear Jud,
You seem to be reading very thoroughly my stuff. It's good, I'm not
at all impatient. We embark on an extremely large project, larger and
deeper than Kant's Kritik, so that precipitation would be of no
avail.
Let me remind that what we want to disseminate to the large public is
not ontology, but ideology, which boils down to the reason embodied

[analytic] Subjectivity and Relativity

2010-02-26T12:09:45Z

>The greatest mystery about subjective experience is the intensity of
>it, and the obvious fact that it is a force of nature.
>No philosopher has even come close to making substantive explanatory
>progress about subjective experience ...
>When I experience, I know several things.
>I know that this subjective experience occupies a mental _space_ there

[analytic] Who is Parroting Whom?

2010-02-26T11:04:35Z

>Jud Evans.
>It was YOU that on the 13/09/2008 21:15:33 GMT Standard Time, posted
>the quotation to the Heidegger list and referenced it as a quote from
>Lemmon, E J. Beginning Logic p 97 or Copi and Cohen. Logic 10th Edition
>p 431-2]
I cited those sources for my claims as to appropriate ways to translate

[analytic] Re: The nature of mathematical truth

2010-02-25T23:27:46Z

Well, Wigner was surprised. Many were not surprised.
Just about any quantum physicist will disagree with that.
In case you haven't noticed, I'll point out that what your AI community
takes to be "the intelligence business" has not worked out.
But the world is not "basically simulate-able."
You appear to be clueless about formalism. It does not assert that