Dear Joseph, On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Joseph Polanik < ... Thank you. ... That was web material, so I tried to replace it with a paper reference. It's...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jun 19, 2012 1:13 am
[some comments on the knowledge argument] ... Any variable x. :) ... Okay, let me put it this way. Your challenge from KA comes down to this, if we substitute...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jul 7, 2012 11:32 am
... It does matter very much whether experiences are subjective. That they are an expletive is correct, but it also has explanatory value. That is why I ...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jul 8, 2012 1:10 pm
Yes, I agree that "subjective" is redundant there, because an "objective experience" is impossible. That was the observation from which I derived the necessary...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jul 10, 2012 7:08 pm
Eray Ozkural...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jul 10, 2012 7:09 pm
Thanks for the comments. It might take some work (quantitatively measurable) to respond fully. Maybe we are getting somewhere. Eray Ozkural...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jul 16, 2012 5:51 pm
Interesting message on philscimind list. ... From: truthhunter55 <Philscimind@...> Date: Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:52 PM Subject: Re: [Serious...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jul 20, 2012 9:42 pm
I had made a comment about "monte carlo methods" used to approximate Sol. induction / AIXI on Legg's blog, I don't know if anybody saw it. When you use...
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another_base_name2001
another_base...
Jul 20, 2012 10:57 pm
Levin search can be operated in tiers which should increase its capability ? If it can abstract (tier) it can compress the required data required to map its...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jul 25, 2012 12:45 pm
"Unity" of experience refers to a faulty folk psychological intuition, that experience occurs as a single, atomic, indivisible entity, perhaps not even ...
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Abram Demski
abramdemski
Jul 25, 2012 8:52 pm
I do feel confused, trying to locate myself. I do not experience a strong unity across time (I am OK with saying that I was a different person yesterday), but...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jul 27, 2012 11:41 am
... No, that doesn't seem right. ... Yes, that's precisely right, your experience is identical to the dynamic brain state (activation state, etc. etc.). ... ...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Aug 1, 2012 6:57 pm
[SWM on conscious experience] ... From: SWM <Philscimind@...> Date: Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 4:39 AM Subject: [Serious Phil] A Basis for Explaining...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Aug 3, 2012 2:50 pm
A theory of mind that admits a Cartesian Theater is scientifically implausible / conceptually naive. All variations of dualism discussed, like substance,...
The information theoretic argument I gave before is unnecessary. Predicate dualism will be true iff "singular"; (simple) *irreducible* unary predicates are...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Aug 7, 2012 8:48 pm
... You're just muddying the waters. It's well known what it is. It's the theory that the "observer"; isn't accounted by brain mechanism. Otherwise, Minksy has...
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Mminsky
mminsky@...
Aug 7, 2012 9:07 pm
Thanks! I seem to have lost membership mail privilege in this group.......
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Aug 9, 2012 10:04 pm
A friend (Victor) asked this question on the facebook AI Phi. group. Who are some of the contemporary prominent/significant/creative physicalist philosophers...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Aug 12, 2012 4:09 pm
Why predicate dualism has to assume a Cartesian Theater ... From: Eray Ozkural <examachine@...> Date: Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 7:08 PM Subject: Re:...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Aug 13, 2012 9:08 pm
If EM field is the body of experience, the information content of the body of experience is the length of the shortest program that describes the field. For...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Aug 14, 2012 12:04 am
... It's not a Cartesian Theatre, it's just part of the distributed memory state, you're missing the point. GWT is not necessarily invoked, though GWT isn't a...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Aug 14, 2012 3:59 pm
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:22 PM, larry_tapper_2 < ... Please don't make this a moving target. We were talking about the difference between two "qualia". Since...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Aug 14, 2012 9:13 pm
For instance, when we're reverse engineering the contents of the visual cortex. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVL8GrUs_-E This is a very coarse method, but it...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Aug 18, 2012 12:11 am
I believe I had posted this before, but due to the selective amnesia of posters related to simple scientific disproofs of dualist ideas, it may have been...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Aug 23, 2012 10:34 am
[on reducing ontological irreducibility to property/substance dualism] ... Not so sure about the last but I do think Christianity and Scientology would be...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Aug 23, 2012 10:59 am
SWM on why not the term 'qualia'? Eray Ozkural ... SWM on why not the term 'qualia'? Eray Ozkural Begin forwarded message: From: "SWM" <...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Aug 26, 2012 10:52 am
[on reducing "money"] On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Peter Brawley ... That's how I would measure. You can't really get an agent to use money without first...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Aug 27, 2012 9:53 am
[On the necessity of a logical description of consciousness] ... From: Eray Ozkural <examachine@...> Date: Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 12:50 PM Subject: Re:...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Aug 27, 2012 8:21 pm
Walter Horn present a compelling thought experiment showing that the conclusion of the original KA is absurd. ... From: walto <calhorn@...> Date: Mon, Aug...
