In the US, the medical use of mari is a big sell, even to religious 
conservatives, as long as the evidence is persuasive on it's medical prowess. 
In the US, its common but unacknowledged that They are All Bandits. Obama and 
Bush 43 lied the most. With The Donald, it was "Why do ya think the Clintons 
came to my wedding?"  Previously he was asked about Lobbyists to this, "Money, 
you pay these politicians enough, and they'll do whatever ya want." Honesty 
must count for something. The democrat voters pretend and hope that the rest of 
us agree, that, their Silicon Valley tyrants, are somehow, good, or better yet, 
we remain silent concerning their fascism. We won't. 
Beyond your politics v honesty comment, we should do science, engineering, and 
philosophy to benefit the species and if this gives us the leverage with 
nature, benefit others beasts and biota. My view is that if we achieve lunar 
and asteroid mining, and it's Hyper-profitable to the super rich, we can treat 
the benefits, and dole it out to the entire species, especially, if there's no 
work due to robots? Perhaps the will coincide? The Hyper-rich can be the 1st 
ones to inhabit robot built paradises (asteroid belt) full of lakes with Blue 
Whales, and whatever biota we can move upstairs, (African elephants?), and they 
can enjoy their Elysiums, halfway to Jupiter. Plus, unlike the 2013 cinema, 
Elysium, zero poverty (by our standards) and great healthcare, including yes, 
ganja. I was thinking AI-healthcare, more or less. All the now world middle 
class needs to do would be to produce children and go on vacations to circulate 
the Bitcoin. Engineering it now seems doable, and for return of investment, 
probably impossible in 2019. 
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruno Marchal <[email protected]>
To: everything-list <[email protected]>
Sent: Mon, Jun 17, 2019 12:49 pm
Subject: Re: The anecdote of Moon landing



On 17 Jun 2019, at 00:50, spudboy100 via Everything List 
<[email protected]> wrote:
Whether the universe, is just a set of numbers, 

If you assume sets, that is already too big, and Mechanism will entails the 
observation of white rabbits.



or it's reality as has been conventionally described, a dream within a dream, 

OK. It is more like that. It is a sharable dream by all universal numbers, 
structured by the logics of Self-reference.



I still want the the fix to be in for our specie. If it's material, immaterial, 
or a mix, or something else, we should endeavor to make existence better. 


Yes, that’s part of the goal. Things would go better if we find the courage to 
search the truth.
Truth is what remains when the lies cease.
Justice needs honesty which needs truth, and this means the ability to change 
our minds when shown wrong.
But when you see how a super gross lies, like the “danger of cannabis” is still 
alive after 80 years of constant debunking by expert in the health domain, you 
can bet that in theology, it will still take a long time before we can use 
reason in that field …
The universal machine, it is like the kids. If we can’t love them, and 
recognise them, they become terrible children. 
With mechanism, we have a justification why the moral values cannot be taught, 
except by exemplar behaviour. Hell is really paved with good intention. Neither 
Truth, of Good, can be defined, but justice admits, in democracies,  better and 
better approximations, as long as we don’t put bandit into power.
Bruno








-----Original Message-----
From: John Clark <[email protected]>
To: everything-list <[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, Jun 16, 2019 6:39 pm
Subject: Re: The anecdote of Moon landing

On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 7:19 AM Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:



>> I give metaphysics all the respect it deserves. 

> If you did, you would more clearly make precise that you assume a physical 
> reality.


I could understand what you mean by "physical reality" if you could just answer 
the following question. If there was a physical reality how would things be 
different from if there was not a physical reality? 

> if we assume Mechanism, then such a physical reality has no sense.

Perhaps so I don't know because I don't know what "Mechanism" or "physical 
reality" means in Brunospeak. You say a clock is not an example of a mechanism 
but a textbook on computer science is. You say the ASCII sequence "SKK"  is not 
a example if a mechanism but the ASCII sequence SKK is If a clock isn't a 
mechanism then a car isn't one either and mechanics don't work on machines.  

> The belief in a God or in a Universe is logically incompatible with the 
> assumption of Mechanism.

Over the years I have managed to learn a few words of Brunospeak and in that 
language "God" means a grey amorphous blob of unspecified size that need not be 
intelligent or conscious; it's hard to see how that could be logically 
incompatible with much of anything. It's even harder to understand how 
something as dull as that could be of interest to anyone or anything. 

> Mechanism is the assumption that we can survive a digital brain transplant 
> operation copying,

OK, at last you've said something that is clear! By that definition I am a firm 
believer in mechanism except that assumptions were not involved. I know for a 
fact it is true because I know for a fact I have survived from the day I was 
born to today, and every day since I was born I have been undergoing a brain 
transplant operation, atoms are constantly shifting out of my brain and new 
atoms shifting in to replace them. My brain is made out of last year's mashed 
potatoes.   

>  you mean no examples of “a mechanism”? I gave infinitely many of them, all 
> the “i” in the phi_i gives example of mechanism, if you know what the phi_i 
> represents. 

So you want to know if the physical neurons in my physical brain in my  
physical head that sits atop my physical smolders are arranged in a pattern 
that encodes information about that particular mathematical notation, because 
otherwise phi_i would not correspond to any mathematical idea at all. The 
answer is yes and so it does convey meaning to me.  But by itself the "phi_i" 
can have a thought or perform a calculation just about as well as the word 
"cow" can produce milk. 


> Make step 3 less simple (aka less stupid) and we can continue. 




> You are the one who has systematically recast it with less precision. When 
> the precision are added you


Precision?! You can't even specify who the referent is in the personal pronouns 
you use wall to wall in the mess that you claim is a proof.  
 >> I have no idea if I believe in what you call  "physicalism" or not because 
I don't know what you mean by mechanism. 



> YD + CT

IHA 

>  you have already given 80,000 dollars to a doctor. 

Yes. 
> You are a mechanist practitioners.

OK, but in Brunospeak does that also mean I'm a  physicalism practitioner? Can 
you be one but not the other or are they synonyms? 

> You might have missed some of my earlier post,
 Yeah i missed that post of yours, and you missed my post where I proved P=NP 
and the Riemann hypothesis. I posted it the same day you posted your wonderful 
post you've been talking about for the last 10 years that solves all 
metaphysical problems. 


> this was an idea by Aristotle, in contradiction with Pythagorus and Plato.

Bruno, do you really think if  you throw enough ancient Greeks at me who didn't 
know where the sun went at night I'll change my views concerning modern physics 
and mathematics? 


>> You haven't given ANY details about how an ASCII sequence by itself can make 
>> a calculation because you don't know any details,

> Which one?

# 42


 >> if you did you'd be the richest most powerful man who ever lived. In fact 
 >> you wouldn't be a man you'd be a God.

> You talk like if the discovery of computation in arithmetic would lead 
> automatically to their implementation in some physical reality.

I talk like that because that is precisely what would happen UNLESS physics can 
do something that mathematics can't. And since you clearly are not a God I must 
conclude that physics can indeed do something that mathematics can't. 
 > you need to implement the computer in the physical reality. That is obvious.
Exactly. And from that observation the only logical conclusion is physics is 
more fundamental than mathematics.  
 > But that would not have been possible without the discovery made by Tiuring 
and others
True, you can't just slap together matter in any old way and expect it to 
perform a calculation, but there is a way it can be done and Turing taught us 
what it was.. 
John K Clark



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