Kurzweil believes in Strong AI which, amongst its absurdities, appears to claim that the reals are countable. In more detail, the continuity of consciousness that we experience is inexplicable in a universe in which Strong AI could be true. Unfortunately the proof is a little complicated and I haven't got all the fine detail figured out yet.
And to think that a few weeks ago some commentators were saying that governments would try and fail to ban it because it was going to be soooo biiiig. Currency needs to be rooted reasonably in the real world and Bitcoin is too imaginary.
The best thing to do with advertising in the modern world is to learn to see through it and to ignore stuff that you don't want. This is a harder discipline to learn than to state, but it is worthwhile.
I may have written a little too soon. But I still believe that built in to and a standard part of iOS5 is the right place for this kind of technology, not a paid for app.
Firstly, Apple may have rejected the app precisely because they were already developing the technology for iOS5 and knew that a syncing app would be redundant when iOS5 came out (and may have got into more trouble by allowing the app and then bringing out wireless sync technology in iOS5 when an app already provided the functionality.) Also, a third party app is not the place for this technology: it should be embedded in iOS5 as Apple are doing.
Secondly, the logo combines the wireless logo (which is standard and is not an invention of this student) with the sync logo (two arrows round a circle) which is again standard and predates this student's app. Combining the two in the obvious way makes sense and it is hard to think of a better way of doing it. Again, Apple may have been developing this in house before this app and thus were right to reject it as they would an app that duplicates current built in functionality of iOS.
Even then, you have to look critically at the assumptions that the math you refer to makes. All rational reasoning requires assumptions, and depends on the soundness of these assumptions for the reliability of its conclusions. It has been proven that, if X, Y, Z, T, (whatever these assumptions are), then if free will exists in the sense of a human observer being able to choose, then free will exists in some sense at the quantum scale.
Nobody has shown that free will can effectively be represented mathematically. And, in my opinion, there is plenty of room at the quantum level for consciousness to manifest at higher levels (of meaning).
I disagree -- you presume that the free will and the rest of the mind is an indivisible lump. If the free will part observes and influences, and another part learns, there is no problem. If the free will part is structured, so that some part of it is free and the rest constrained in some way, it too can learn.
All consciousness relies on electrons. You cannot have consciousness without electrons. So this would be one place to look.
But you cannot say that you can understand consciousness given only an understanding of electrons -- they are only a link in the chain.
But basically, if you don't have quantum consciousness you can't have consciousness on higher scales. So on some level these particles have self recognition even if it's through us. This doesn't answer whether or not there is free will, but the math is clear that if there is consciousness on the large scale it will also have to exist on the quantum scale. It's also proven mathematically that if free will exists on the large scale that it also has to exist somewhere somehow on the quantum scale.
For this reason, the fact that the math supports it, it's worth doing research and experimenting on. The problem or fear I have is if we did discover what particle or wave function is responsible for consciousness, or how, we'd have governments around the world using these discoveries to enslave and oppress people. It's the kind of question that I'd personally want to know the answer to, but I also recognize that as soon as we find the answer, it will open pandora's box which governments and corporations intend to completely exploit.
I share that fear
If we found a way to for example give consciousness to inanimate objects, or a way to have complete control over life in some way, or if we discovered that quantum computers could be made conscious, it would change everything probably for the worst because governments would then use this technology to enslave rather than use it in a transhumanist fashion. It would be used to make the perfect cyborg slaves, who have the mix of human consciousness, with the absolute obedience of a programmable robot. In essence this discover could lead to the end of "free will" as we know it, and lead to the beginning of technological slavery.
I suspect, but cannot prove, that consciousness requires, in order to be able to affect physical reality, as a foundation, something with a non-discrete complexity like what we see in the brain.
And unfortunately no political party is truly anti slavery. So we'd be collectively fucked.
This means that the particle cannot have a definite spin in every direction before it’s measured, Kochen and Specker concluded. If it did, physicists would be able to occasionally observe it breaking the 1-0-1 rule, which never happens. Instead, it must “decide” which spin to have on the fly.
When he wrote his first book on consciousness, The Emperor's New Mind in 1989, Penrose lacked a detailed proposal for how quantum processing could be implemented in the brain. Subsequently, Hameroff read Penrose's book, and suggested that microtubules could be suitable candidates for quantum processing. The Orch-OR theory arose from the collaboration of Penrose and Hameroff in the early 1990s.
Microtubules are the main component of a supportive structure within neurons known as the cytoskeleton. In addition to providing a supportive structure, the known functions of microtubules include transport of molecules including neurotransmitters bound for synapses and control of the development of the cell.
Microtubules are composed of tubulin protein dimer subunits. The tubulin dimers each h
Someone made a post elsewhere saying that the trend list is based not on mentions per second, but in the increase in mentions per second. Anonymous Footballer's (I'm in England BTW) lack of presence is probably because he is being tweeted slightly less now than when this really broke out. Just a thought. (We don't know how the trending algorithms work in detail, so we can't tell from behaviour whether they are being interfered with.)
Those were the days, we even had someone at one LAN party with his computer set up at the top of the stairs because of limitations as to where machines could go due to the coax cables available to us. In the next house, we ordered an 8 port hub and took up the floorboards to wire in the rooms, with a 486 linux pc in the closet downstairs as our internet router.
In truth, I find 1920x1080 on a 15.5 inch laptop makes the pixels too small for Windows 7, and changing the font size makes things readable again, but just doesn't look pretty.
In the many decades that psychiatry has been around, there is insufficient evidence of this: brain changes are caused by the drugs, not the condition. The mind body problem has plagued philosophy for many years and the materialist reductionist way of explaining it away as just brain chemistry is far from proven. Until we can answer that, we cannot hope to seriously try to pin down mental health issues as brain diseases or perhaps something else. We may never truly understand since the complexity of the overall behaviour of the brain is still well beyond what we can deal with.
I've been on antipsychotics for a while, and I can attest to the fact that my memory is significantly worse than before I was on them. Part of the action against schizophrenia (not me, since I am diagnosed bipolar) seems to be reducing what you can recall in the hope of reducing the disruptive memories that one could think that schizophrenics recall. That said, far too little is known about mental health issues for anybody (professional or otherwise) to really say anything concrete.
And similar things can be said for Bipoler Disorder(s).
I've often described psychiatry as a quasi-religious, pseudo-scientific cult that believes in drugs. Big Pharma knows it is in their interest to maintain that situation. Arguing with a psychiatrist can often seem like trying to debate evolution with a hardcore creationist.
With the previous menubar system we could do alt key shortcuts with visual feedback as to where our keystrokes went. MS has destroyed this with the ribbon. Toolbars were easy to customise and this could be done via macros when necessary, again MS has messed this up. You cannot use the 'difference' argument as a defence against the fact that a number of great features of what was Office 2003's (and before's) interface have been removed in the name of progress. The ribbon may improve somethings but it should have been kept in MS's labs until they came up with a better 'different' way of doing things.
Office used to be better on Windows until MS came out with their flouncy bouncy ribbon thing. On the mac they weren't able to get rid of the menu bar and so the mac version has the best of both worlds while the Windows version has the worst. It seem MS may be trying to spread this mistake through the rest of the OS.
Way too many cheap quality phones
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At one stage I was a Nokia user, then went over to Sony-E and am wondering about Blackberry, not liking the idea of a phone in my iPod, Windows in a mobile or the stuff that Sony-E is now coming out with.
I imagine leg breaks don't swing much, so would probably travel in a rough parabola, relying on their contact with the ground to make them move rather than the aerodynamics that swing bowling uses. Not totally sure on this one, so please don't crucify me if I'm wrong...
Paper money can be scrunched up, rubbed against other paper and much more. I doubt this TFT thingamo will survive some of the rougher treatment that current paper money can go through.
I read the other day that indium may well become hard to come by in the not too distant future... indium tin oxide is heavily used in the now trendy touch screen displays, so will this technology become mainstream before the indium reserves run dry???
The Theory of Quantum Interpretation of Uncertain Passages of Law
by John
...
31.4.15.9. If it isn't obvious at first glance, ignore it!
Rationale: it could have been made obvious if it was necessary (the logic approach proves this) and thus it is simply not intended as a message for you and so you may logically just ignore it.
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...56
The Theory of Quantum Interpretation of Uncertain Passages of Law
by John
...
31.4.15.9. If it isn't obvious at first glance, ignore it!
Rationale: it could have been made obvious if it was necessary (the logic approach proves this) and thus it is simply not intended as a message for you and so you may logically just ignore it.
Good Medications For Your may (or may not, at your option) include things like: food, beer, having a good time etc.
Unfortunately there is no obvious way of patenting that sort of thing in such a way as to be able to construct multi billion dollar corporations that have an uncanny knack of finding ways of getting government mandated things like the Medical Profession to cough up sums of money for problems that may or may not exist (since the existence questions must be legally sorted out by a Medical community that don't know enough about existential philosophy.)
I imagine Apple aren't too worried, because when you think about it in simple terms, if you want to buy something like an Apple, there is a very good company in Cupertino that makes Apples, happens to be called Apples, and has very nice Apple Stores that you can go into to buy them, talk to other people who like Apples, get advice and technical support, and things are quite simple.
Also, if your Mac plays up in a funny way, you can take it into the Apple store and they will be able to ask around the clever people at Apple who know these things and see if there is a decent solution.
Problem is, if you psystar machine plays up, the best you can do is take it to somebody called Bob down the road who can have a go, but the trouble is that there will always be interesting software/hardware conflicts floating around somewhere that are basically impossible to reproduce on a real Mac, because Apple did a good enough job of software/hardware integration. So you can't even reproduce the spurious problems on a real Mac take it into the Apple store and ask around.
Now, if your time is worth anything, and you value it, and you want something that runs Mac OS X properly, it pays to buy a Mac that Apple make.
Apple, however, can simply watch what psystar do, make interesting modifications that make problems in funny places on the psystar machine, but not on a Mac, because the software guys can go and talk to the hardware guys over a coffee in the Apple cafe. And they can also give there legal team some interesting legal exercise by throwing a few lawyers at psystar and seeing what happens.
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Kurzweil believes in Strong AI which, amongst its absurdities, appears to claim that the reals are countable. In more detail, the continuity of consciousness that we experience is inexplicable in a universe in which Strong AI could be true. Unfortunately the proof is a little complicated and I haven't got all the fine detail figured out yet.
And to think that a few weeks ago some commentators were saying that governments would try and fail to ban it because it was going to be soooo biiiig. Currency needs to be rooted reasonably in the real world and Bitcoin is too imaginary.
The best thing to do with advertising in the modern world is to learn to see through it and to ignore stuff that you don't want. This is a harder discipline to learn than to state, but it is worthwhile.
I may have written a little too soon. But I still believe that built in to and a standard part of iOS5 is the right place for this kind of technology, not a paid for app.
Firstly, Apple may have rejected the app precisely because they were already developing the technology for iOS5 and knew that a syncing app would be redundant when iOS5 came out (and may have got into more trouble by allowing the app and then bringing out wireless sync technology in iOS5 when an app already provided the functionality.) Also, a third party app is not the place for this technology: it should be embedded in iOS5 as Apple are doing. Secondly, the logo combines the wireless logo (which is standard and is not an invention of this student) with the sync logo (two arrows round a circle) which is again standard and predates this student's app. Combining the two in the obvious way makes sense and it is hard to think of a better way of doing it. Again, Apple may have been developing this in house before this app and thus were right to reject it as they would an app that duplicates current built in functionality of iOS.
Even then, you have to look critically at the assumptions that the math you refer to makes. All rational reasoning requires assumptions, and depends on the soundness of these assumptions for the reliability of its conclusions. It has been proven that, if X, Y, Z, T, (whatever these assumptions are), then if free will exists in the sense of a human observer being able to choose, then free will exists in some sense at the quantum scale.
Nobody has shown that free will can effectively be represented mathematically. And, in my opinion, there is plenty of room at the quantum level for consciousness to manifest at higher levels (of meaning).
I disagree -- you presume that the free will and the rest of the mind is an indivisible lump. If the free will part observes and influences, and another part learns, there is no problem. If the free will part is structured, so that some part of it is free and the rest constrained in some way, it too can learn.
All consciousness relies on electrons. You cannot have consciousness without electrons. So this would be one place to look.
But you cannot say that you can understand consciousness given only an understanding of electrons -- they are only a link in the chain.
But basically, if you don't have quantum consciousness you can't have consciousness on higher scales. So on some level these particles have self recognition even if it's through us. This doesn't answer whether or not there is free will, but the math is clear that if there is consciousness on the large scale it will also have to exist on the quantum scale. It's also proven mathematically that if free will exists on the large scale that it also has to exist somewhere somehow on the quantum scale.
For this reason, the fact that the math supports it, it's worth doing research and experimenting on. The problem or fear I have is if we did discover what particle or wave function is responsible for consciousness, or how, we'd have governments around the world using these discoveries to enslave and oppress people. It's the kind of question that I'd personally want to know the answer to, but I also recognize that as soon as we find the answer, it will open pandora's box which governments and corporations intend to completely exploit.
I share that fear
If we found a way to for example give consciousness to inanimate objects, or a way to have complete control over life in some way, or if we discovered that quantum computers could be made conscious, it would change everything probably for the worst because governments would then use this technology to enslave rather than use it in a transhumanist fashion. It would be used to make the perfect cyborg slaves, who have the mix of human consciousness, with the absolute obedience of a programmable robot. In essence this discover could lead to the end of "free will" as we know it, and lead to the beginning of technological slavery.
I suspect, but cannot prove, that consciousness requires, in order to be able to affect physical reality, as a foundation, something with a non-discrete complexity like what we see in the brain.
And unfortunately no political party is truly anti slavery. So we'd be collectively fucked.
Sources Quantum Entanglement Can be a Measure of Free Will The same experiments that reveal the nature of entanglement can also be interpreted as a measure of free will, say researchers.
Do subatomic particles have free will?
This means that the particle cannot have a definite spin in every direction before it’s measured, Kochen and Specker concluded. If it did, physicists would be able to occasionally observe it breaking the 1-0-1 rule, which never happens. Instead, it must “decide” which spin to have on the fly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind
When he wrote his first book on consciousness, The Emperor's New Mind in 1989, Penrose lacked a detailed proposal for how quantum processing could be implemented in the brain. Subsequently, Hameroff read Penrose's book, and suggested that microtubules could be suitable candidates for quantum processing. The Orch-OR theory arose from the collaboration of Penrose and Hameroff in the early 1990s. Microtubules are the main component of a supportive structure within neurons known as the cytoskeleton. In addition to providing a supportive structure, the known functions of microtubules include transport of molecules including neurotransmitters bound for synapses and control of the development of the cell. Microtubules are composed of tubulin protein dimer subunits. The tubulin dimers each h
Someone made a post elsewhere saying that the trend list is based not on mentions per second, but in the increase in mentions per second. Anonymous Footballer's (I'm in England BTW) lack of presence is probably because he is being tweeted slightly less now than when this really broke out. Just a thought. (We don't know how the trending algorithms work in detail, so we can't tell from behaviour whether they are being interfered with.)
Those were the days, we even had someone at one LAN party with his computer set up at the top of the stairs because of limitations as to where machines could go due to the coax cables available to us. In the next house, we ordered an 8 port hub and took up the floorboards to wire in the rooms, with a 486 linux pc in the closet downstairs as our internet router.
In truth, I find 1920x1080 on a 15.5 inch laptop makes the pixels too small for Windows 7, and changing the font size makes things readable again, but just doesn't look pretty.
In the many decades that psychiatry has been around, there is insufficient evidence of this: brain changes are caused by the drugs, not the condition. The mind body problem has plagued philosophy for many years and the materialist reductionist way of explaining it away as just brain chemistry is far from proven. Until we can answer that, we cannot hope to seriously try to pin down mental health issues as brain diseases or perhaps something else. We may never truly understand since the complexity of the overall behaviour of the brain is still well beyond what we can deal with.
I've been on antipsychotics for a while, and I can attest to the fact that my memory is significantly worse than before I was on them. Part of the action against schizophrenia (not me, since I am diagnosed bipolar) seems to be reducing what you can recall in the hope of reducing the disruptive memories that one could think that schizophrenics recall. That said, far too little is known about mental health issues for anybody (professional or otherwise) to really say anything concrete.
And similar things can be said for Bipoler Disorder(s). I've often described psychiatry as a quasi-religious, pseudo-scientific cult that believes in drugs. Big Pharma knows it is in their interest to maintain that situation. Arguing with a psychiatrist can often seem like trying to debate evolution with a hardcore creationist.
With the previous menubar system we could do alt key shortcuts with visual feedback as to where our keystrokes went. MS has destroyed this with the ribbon. Toolbars were easy to customise and this could be done via macros when necessary, again MS has messed this up. You cannot use the 'difference' argument as a defence against the fact that a number of great features of what was Office 2003's (and before's) interface have been removed in the name of progress. The ribbon may improve somethings but it should have been kept in MS's labs until they came up with a better 'different' way of doing things.
Office used to be better on Windows until MS came out with their flouncy bouncy ribbon thing. On the mac they weren't able to get rid of the menu bar and so the mac version has the best of both worlds while the Windows version has the worst. It seem MS may be trying to spread this mistake through the rest of the OS.
At one stage I was a Nokia user, then went over to Sony-E and am wondering about Blackberry, not liking the idea of a phone in my iPod, Windows in a mobile or the stuff that Sony-E is now coming out with.
I imagine leg breaks don't swing much, so would probably travel in a rough parabola, relying on their contact with the ground to make them move rather than the aerodynamics that swing bowling uses. Not totally sure on this one, so please don't crucify me if I'm wrong...
Paper money can be scrunched up, rubbed against other paper and much more. I doubt this TFT thingamo will survive some of the rougher treatment that current paper money can go through.
I read the other day that indium may well become hard to come by in the not too distant future... indium tin oxide is heavily used in the now trendy touch screen displays, so will this technology become mainstream before the indium reserves run dry???
The Theory of Quantum Interpretation of Uncertain Passages of Law
by John
...
31.4.15.9. If it isn't obvious at first glance, ignore it!
Rationale: it could have been made obvious if it was necessary (the logic approach proves this) and thus it is simply not intended as a message for you and so you may logically just ignore it.
...
...56
The Theory of Quantum Interpretation of Uncertain Passages of Law
by John
...
31.4.15.9. If it isn't obvious at first glance, ignore it!
Rationale: it could have been made obvious if it was necessary (the logic approach proves this) and thus it is simply not intended as a message for you and so you may logically just ignore it.
...
...56
Good Medications For Your may (or may not, at your option) include things like: food, beer, having a good time etc.
Unfortunately there is no obvious way of patenting that sort of thing in such a way as to be able to construct multi billion dollar corporations that have an uncanny knack of finding ways of getting government mandated things like the Medical Profession to cough up sums of money for problems that may or may not exist (since the existence questions must be legally sorted out by a Medical community that don't know enough about existential philosophy.)
I imagine Apple aren't too worried, because when you think about it in simple terms, if you want to buy something like an Apple, there is a very good company in Cupertino that makes Apples, happens to be called Apples, and has very nice Apple Stores that you can go into to buy them, talk to other people who like Apples, get advice and technical support, and things are quite simple.
Also, if your Mac plays up in a funny way, you can take it into the Apple store and they will be able to ask around the clever people at Apple who know these things and see if there is a decent solution.
Problem is, if you psystar machine plays up, the best you can do is take it to somebody called Bob down the road who can have a go, but the trouble is that there will always be interesting software/hardware conflicts floating around somewhere that are basically impossible to reproduce on a real Mac, because Apple did a good enough job of software/hardware integration. So you can't even reproduce the spurious problems on a real Mac take it into the Apple store and ask around.
Now, if your time is worth anything, and you value it, and you want something that runs Mac OS X properly, it pays to buy a Mac that Apple make.
Apple, however, can simply watch what psystar do, make interesting modifications that make problems in funny places on the psystar machine, but not on a Mac, because the software guys can go and talk to the hardware guys over a coffee in the Apple cafe. And they can also give there legal team some interesting legal exercise by throwing a few lawyers at psystar and seeing what happens.
I wonder if psystar have thought of this yet???
'better than the previous'??
Surely good enough in all the right places would suffice. It would be cheaper that way.