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 ... ...
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...
... 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...
... amazon.com, ... philosophy. ... in ... You are welcome. The effort is best spent, then. I must add that, as Torkel Franzel mentioned, the essays are ...
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...
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"...
... 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...
[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...
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...
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...
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...
Hello there, Did you know of a general purpose evolutionary programming system known as ADATE which is designed for automatic programming of non-trivial...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
... found in ... program size. I've asked the author for comments / clarification. [...snip...] ... to the ... number ... 40posting.google.com&rnum=1 So good...
[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...
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...
... Also of interest is this news item on cognews.com: http://cognews.com/1088453031/index_html The researchers have identified activity in the right...
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...
... 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...
[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...
More comments on why Raatikainen's criticism of Chaitin is fundamentally wrong. ... Subject: Re: Raatikainen's Complexity Complex Date: Thursday 15 July 2004...
Jisperanza enlightens us about elegant languages with his ever interesting quotes. ... Subject: Re: [analytic] Elegant languages Date: Wednesday 14 July 2004...
... Terseness was something that I tried to formalize in a previous post, using average compressed length (Kolmogorov complexity) with respect to a specific ...
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