Hi Eray, I hope this thread on c.a.p is still going on :-D /Klaus P.S. have you seen - http://www.webamused.com/blogosophy/archives/000304.html ... ...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
May 4, 2004 8:37 pm
Greetings, The following is a review I had originally written for amazon.com, I hope it proves informative about this most significant book of philosophy. Best...
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Klaus D. Witzel
kwitzel
May 5, 2004 1:17 pm
... I hope it ... It did [prove informative] and thank you very much! Unfortunately amazon.com's links for purchasing this book result in server error messages...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
May 8, 2004 12:44 pm
... amazon.com, ... philosophy. ... in ... You are welcome. The effort is best spent, then. I must add that, as Torkel Franzel mentioned, the essays are ...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
May 14, 2004 7:55 pm
Greetings, Is digital philosophy still alive? :) I'm forwarding you this nice post about positivism written by none other than Seth Sharpless, and not only out...
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Charles Antone
charlesatlus
May 17, 2004 8:08 pm
Ray, Thank you for eloquently stating many of the same "feelings"; I have stumbled through from the age of cognition. Human nature to understand or "picturing"...
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Ray Gardener
raygard42
May 17, 2004 11:37 pm
... You're welcome, Charles. ... wait for enlightenment. I've actually been trying that, with some degree of success. At least I always feel better after...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
May 18, 2004 10:32 am
[explanation for ai-philosophy and theory-edge: in this post I explicate a toy theory of elegant language] Hello Seth, Interesting. These comments of yours...
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Charles Antone
charlesatlus
May 19, 2004 12:43 pm
Ray (and anyone else who would like to comment), I to have struggled with visualizing the dual nature of reality. How can it be one field of energy with...
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Ray Gardener
raygard42
May 19, 2004 10:29 pm
Well, it's a thought, and thanks for sharing that. If you could provide diagrams of what you're talking about I'd be happy to include them along with...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
May 29, 2004 1:18 pm
Greetings, Hopefully, this post presents an intriguing point of view in philosophy of computation. In response to Neil on comp.ai.philosophy, I am basically...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jun 5, 2004 5:43 pm
Hello there, Did you know of a general purpose evolutionary programming system known as ADATE which is designed for automatic programming of non-trivial...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jun 13, 2004 12:09 am
Greetings fellow theoreticians, Can you think of a test to empirically verify whether a physical machine is a LISP machine or not? Cordially, PS: ai-philosophy...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jun 13, 2004 12:23 am
With regards to: http://www.ditext.com/popper/lbp.html The model of naming relation he criticizes is the only one we can construct. Therefore, Popper is merely...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jun 17, 2004 2:47 pm
Greetings, A human can evaluate LISP expressions. In my opinion, this is amazing! How can humans do that at all? The hard problem is not what kind of hardware...
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Klaus D. Witzel
kwitzel
Jun 24, 2004 12:25 pm
Hi Eray & all, some simple but strong arguments towards the contrary can be found in the paper "Odd thoughts on algorithmic complexity" from Germano D'Abramo,...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jun 24, 2004 9:11 pm
Greetings, ... I am not confident in all the arguments presented in the paper. The author seems to mix up notions of minimal program size and program size. In...
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Klaus D. Witzel
kwitzel
Jun 29, 2004 8:12 am
... found in ... program size. I've asked the author for comments / clarification. [...snip...] ... to the ... number ... 40posting.google.com&rnum=1 So good...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jun 29, 2004 11:34 am
[For those who haven't followed up, we are talking about an algorithmic information theory (AIT) paper on arxiv which has implications for AI. The author says...
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Klaus D. Witzel
kwitzel
Jul 2, 2004 12:25 pm
Hi Eray & all, saw an interesting report on sleep & insight last night which cited work from Jab Born, see his home page (in English) @ -...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jul 6, 2004 5:58 pm
Hello there, Germano D'Abramo has joined our group, he is the author of the paper with information theoretic arguments that seem to rule out the possibility of...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jul 6, 2004 6:13 pm
... Also of interest is this news item on cognews.com: http://cognews.com/1088453031/index_html The researchers have identified activity in the right...
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Charles Antone
charlesatlus
Jul 8, 2004 12:23 pm
Eray, Forgive my ignorance, Please provide the relatively basic tent-poll issues of a "mathematical argument that runs counter to AI." Further, I do not...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jul 9, 2004 7:08 pm
... a "mathematical argument that runs counter to AI." Further, I do not understand the logic of running counter (in the opposite direction?) to the end goal...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jul 12, 2004 9:19 pm
[some more thoughts on elegant languages] On Tuesday 18 May 2004 13:29, Eray Ozkural wrote: ... Forget my above approximation for a moment, since there are...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jul 14, 2004 10:37 am
An interesting example from Larry Tapper. ... Subject: [analytic] Re: Elegant languages Date: Tuesday 13 July 2004 15:38 From: "Larry Tapper"...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jul 14, 2004 11:23 am
Klaus, too, has made comments on theory-edge mailing list. ... Subject: [theory-edge] [ai-philosophy] Re: FW: [analytic] Positivists Date: Tuesday 13 July 2004...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jul 15, 2004 5:39 pm
More comments on why Raatikainen's criticism of Chaitin is fundamentally wrong. ... Subject: Re: Raatikainen's Complexity Complex Date: Thursday 15 July 2004...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jul 15, 2004 7:33 pm
Jisperanza enlightens us about elegant languages with his ever interesting quotes. ... Subject: Re: [analytic] Elegant languages Date: Wednesday 14 July 2004...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Jul 15, 2004 7:39 pm
... Terseness was something that I tried to formalize in a previous post, using average compressed length (Kolmogorov complexity) with respect to a specific ...
