... Sure, I have no problem with a program text epistemology. As a matter of fact I think our two philosophies are very similar in many ways. The biggest...
(1) A string of length m, formed from an alphabet of n characters can explicitly represent m of the n-ary characters. (I am using the term "n-ary" to refer to...
The fundamental theorem of Science is that there is no God in the Machine. The scientist may recognize the existence of God, of Soul, in the greater universe...
Corrections: Where m and n are integers, m > 0 and n > 1: (1) A string of length m, formed from an alphabet of n characters can explicitly represent m n-ary...
2 should have been restated as: (2) Working with a base alphabet of n characters, n^m distinct strings of length m characters (ie n-ary characters) can be...
Re: Chalmers Ptui-zombie 9/30 22:30 ... Very good! ... Aha, I see your point about epistemology and ontology, sorry for being slow. I do have an ontology of...
... Wrong as hell. Only eliminative materialists or behaviorists think like that, all normal scientists think that the subjective end DOES exist but has ...
... Epistemology is what you can know. Ontology is what can be, what is. There are various ways to take this, but for me, epistemology is about the agent, and...
... But neither does it make any epistemological claim one way or the other and the fact that "it just lays there" is a step in the right direction for us to...
... Machine. ... greater ... universe. ... for ... that, ... This is not nice! Surely you must know that the Anglo-Saxon brand of philosophy that you follow is...
... A principle is needed, and I hold causal connection to be prior to logical connections. Causal connections are not true or false, they just are (plus or...
... But, you can't possibly know that. If the alternative to ordered- causality is disorderly-randomness and given nothing but random changes as input then...
... So what? In my book, I can't possibly know anything, to the degree that you imply. I concede that some further argument is appropriate. ... Well, I don't...
... WRT the distinction between causality and logic I find it hard to identify a distinguishing criteria. Your assertion that causality is prior to logic has...
... they ... Of ... is a ... I should have added that I was not too sure about your references to: Humean skepticism Kripke pretends to a causal basis for...
Google is your friend. ... Well, nothing pops out from Googling the phrase, and my favorite SEP doesn't really feature it, either. Nice entry in my little ...
... Who said they are the same??? "Logic" I view as a physical or linguistic or formal exercise. Causality I view as a fundamental property of the world, one...
... Josh: A) Consider a causal universe (one without agents of any kind). Pick a point any length of time in the future. The state of such a universe is, in...
... Does the following address the preceeding?? ... Well, that is not entirely clear, due to quantum uncertainty and deterministic chaos. ... Huh? I don't see...
... exercise. ... of ... It addresses "Causality I view as a fundamental property of the world, one of the very few ontological commitments I make". ... a ... ...
... I'm talking about this universe, and taking a causal view of things which I know, for the above reasons and the one below, is not fully deterministic to an...
... Even in this universe we are still faced with the very real problem of deterministic vs. non-deterministic. I tend towards some kind of compromise of free...
... Well any such agent which didn't fall short of Laplace demon would be as all knowing as a God. But in being "all knowing" it would have to use up all of...
... Neither do we know that the machines do not experience anything. However, even if machines turned out to be complete "zombies" in the jargon of Chalmers, I...
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