The real line is the set of real numbers. That's the modern view. Or as Euclid said, "A line is breadthless length." Ok. One thing. I don't know. Why ...
According to what principle of physics? If the lamp can violate the known laws of physics, what are the limits of its magic? But I didn't. YOU (and Th...
I have stipulated that I am not quoting Searle; but rather quoting my memory of what I understood of something he said in a video I watched several ye...
That's why the Amish communities weren't hit hard by covid. They don't watch tv :-) How is that issue resolved by the question of whether you can part...
You've solved my problem. I need the willing suspension of disbelief to converse with @"Michael". Indeed, that's the question I asked him. What's the ...
That's funny. The other day you accused me of getting my world view from Sean Hannity. Today you're crediting me with openmindedness. I suppose that's...
Can you answer this question that I asked earlier? What is the difference in the ontological status between Thompson's lamp and Cinderella's coach? Bu...
I totally don't get what you said. Searle is making an entirely naturalist premise. He denied dualism. He says consciousness is physical, just not com...
Not bird flu I hope. Jeez the medical propaganda is everywhere these days. Are we all doomed? Like not eventually, but as soon as next week? Correct, ...
Yes, and now I hope I did not overstate my case. I'm making an abstract philosophical point. The main thing is that the terminal state (the state at t...
Understood. The lamp is not physically possible. Supertasks are not physically possible per currently known physics. Surely we agree on these two thin...
It's an intermediate position between physicalism and computationalism. Whether it's true or just superstition, we'll have to find out. I think you ag...
Actually there's considerable evidence that people on the left were responsible; namely, Nancy Pelosi and Muriel Bowser, who denied Trump's request fo...
But enough about Al Gore, Stacy Abrams, and Hillary Clinton. By the way, Hillary committed the exact same crime. She paid for oppo research against Tr...
@"Paine", @"Mr Bee", @"T Clark", @"Mikie", @"Wayfarer", thank you for your replies. I said my piece and have nothing to add. I'm content to let the fu...
I could think about it a lot, without ever figuring out what you were trying to tell me here! I thought I was agreeing with you, that emotions are an ...
The 1/2 was Thompson's idea. The plate of spaghetti is mine, inspired by Cinderella's coach, another omega sequence paradox that's not usually recogni...
Well, it's not a calculation. The limit, or the terminal value, is not necessarily the result of any logical process. I keep trying to explain this to...
I don't. Science doesn't. But the computationalists, they are very sure of themselves. Consciousness is something that can be implemented by a compute...
People keep using the word naturalism and I'm trying to understand what it means. Is it the same or different than physicalism? He associates it with ...
You grabbed a statement I made to @"Ludwig V" about Searle, interpolated Bostrom, and snapped back me for a link to something you imagined I said? I w...
This has been on my mind today. As an American I need to say my piece, loathe as I am to tread in the murky and shark-infested waters of the political...
@"noAxioms", I was motivated to click on the Bostrom paper and I actually found the line that stops me in my tracks every time. As you know, I am not ...
@"Michael", This post may be of interest to you. This is the bit with the ordinals I was using earlier. What is a sequence? A sequence is a function w...
I believe in that same lecture (or perhaps a different one) he did NOT advocate dualism. He advocated what I call "secret sauce," my phrase, not Searl...
What do you mean I can't? I already have, numerous times in this thread. The point is that the sequence 0, 1, 0, 1, ... has no limit. We are free to d...
My confusion. There is no last term in any infinite sequence. There may (or may not) be a limit. Big difference. There is no last term of the sequence...
Yay! But may I say that earlier, you noted that these threads are getting long. I too could live with a much more focussed conversation. Actually I'm ...
Me either. Don't follow. The limit of 0, 1, 0, 1, ... can not be 1. Nor can it be 0. It's a sequence that has no limit. I do not think @"Michael" and ...
You can't push a button an infinite number of times. This is not a physical experiment. It's purely an abstract mathematical exercise. You can define ...
I could say I was using the word same in a casual sense. Or, I could say that when i comes to sets, two sets are the same if they have the same elemen...
In this context, same means that we may write the symbol "=" between the sets. The axiom of extensionality tells us when we may write A = B. If you pr...
Was that the pseudocode I was supposed to look at? I entirely agree, with one exception. Code is a notation for a physical process executing on a fini...
Ah the mind-body problem. I saw a video of Searle giving a lecture. He raised his right arm and said, "I think to myself, I'll raise my right arm. And...
Yes you're right, I should say that n goes from 3 to infinity here, forget 1 and 2. So I'm unioning (1/3, 2/3), (1/4, 3/4), (1/5, 4/5), ... You can se...
My point is that Bostrom and others are equivocating simulation in this manner, and this clouds their thinking and confuses everyone else. so yes, I a...
2 + 2 and 4 symbolize the same set. You are the one strawmanning the claim that somebody says they're the same thing. YOU are doing that. Not any math...
Our conversations have proven and confirmed to me that you do have a problem with the axiom of extensionality. You are unable to engage with the mathe...
(0,1) is the union of (1/n, 1 - 1/n) as n goes to infinity. I just wrote (0,1) as the union of infinitely many open intervals. Infinity is not a natur...
That's disingenuous. A simulation of the world, as in simulation theory, must be exact. A simulation of gravity is necessarily an approximation. That'...
I don't know what @"Micheal" means by metaphysically impossible. I know what metaphysics means. More or less. Not an expert. Contrast with the stairca...
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