What in the name of Sam Hell is this "assumption" in your telegraph poles???No, I assume the dog exists independent of my states. I can't know for sure, because there is no absolute reference!
What in the name of Sam Hell is this "assumption" in your telegraph poles???No, I assume the dog exists independent of my states. I can't know for sure, because there is no absolute reference!
You compute. I compute. But physical space computes.Then you are clearly not understanding my argument, because even if my brain is entirely and strictly a binary computer, that would not in any way preclude me from using or creating a unary or ternary or any n-ary system of computation. Why? Because computation is independent from choice of representation.
Think of it this way: using your binary computer, you could write an emulator for a CPU that only uses unary computations. Likewise, using a unary computer, you could write an emulator for a binary CPU. The entire point is that it doesn't matter whether we use base-1 or base-2 or base-99, the results are ALWAYS the same.
No, the opposite; at least please read the Wiki entry for analog computers.
Quite true, and -- here's the kicker -- there is no discretization in analog computing! In other words, there are no (zero, zilch) boolean functions in an analog computer. Yet, somehow!?!?!, analog computers can compute anything a binary boolean computer can compute. Please explain how that can be.
There is only one correct answer: computation is independent of representation.
Now, follow the logic:
1) Computation is independent of representation.
2) Our brains (or the universe, or whatever) compute.
Therefore,
3) Our brains (or the universe, or whatever) are independent of representation.
Thus, the claim that base-2 is ontologically fundamental is unsound. The only reasonable induction is that all bases are ontologically equivalent. There is nothing special about TRUE/FALSE.
In case we need to repeat it: a number is not its representation. Anyway, you claim that the mantissa is an integer in disguise, requiring a sentient being to don a Sherlock Holmes hat and use his great amalgamating intellect to find it. Hark! An integer behind the decimal point!But I'm saying, take real number:
5.1454424
What is it? 2 parts. Integer 5. What is the mantissa on the right? It's actually another integer in disguise — the integer 1454424. The magic amalgamater is piecing them together and seeing them as connected.
Not all of them. Certainly not ℝ. Up to some finite count, computers can represent numbers in ℕ ⊂ ℤ ⊂ ℚ, including, of course, all the finite fields, such as ℤ/2ℤ. Computers can do this in any base we desire, base-2 just happens to be the cheapest option.The 100% proof is that machines working with binary integers/logic states 0 and 1 are able to represent all of them.
So, if I don't know the difference between ℕ and ℝ, please explain how I can say with full certainty that |ℕ| < |ℝ|?Actually, as you describe yourself, you don't. 100% full stop. You have no idea what anything is, because I don't consider telegraph pole 3001084 to know what something is, nor telegraph pole 3919301, nor any discrete "combination" of telegraph poles any more than the fuse box switches in my basement "knows" what my piano is. What is the dog in the light vs. the "concept" in your mind that you magically coalesce. Yes, magically. You think that somehow if you have enough telegraph pole flip-flops flipped high, that you can somehow "know" qualitative conscious elements of "fur" and "saliva" of the dog are in the poles! No, you really do!!
Wolfram Alpha and I "represent the knowledge" but don't actually know it. What does that mean? What can you, with your actual knowledge of numbers, do that I cannot do? No metaphors, please, just a clear list of differences.Nope, neither you, nor a T-800, nor Wolfram Alpha truly "know" anything — you "represent the knowledge" of it, because I see bits as different than continuous mathematical forms as the uncalculated basis of knowledge in the mind, not brain.
You declare that banks of switches cannot lead to "qualia" without providing any evidence.No, no, no.
Again, what you call concepts is literally as connected to the dog as Hillary Clinton is to Donald Trump. You make it sound like "one bank" has more partiality than another, when they're just nondescript switches flicked high or low! Your "concept" representation of the dog is nothing more than different quantities of switches flicked! The TV, the car, the dog, the horse, the rabbi! NONE of those switches actually carry the discriminatory QUALIA of the information, and I don't care how many of the switches you have, vs. any other bank. BITS of data do NOT have QUALIA, or qualitative elements that the Hard Problem of Consciousness is talking about!
How is this different than my description: the brain detects an external stimulus and does a pattern match on its memory states."Meaning" is FIRST associated with matching the actual inner thought form in my mind with the 3D thing in "physical space".
How is this different than my description: after finding a pattern match to the external stimulus, various associated states are loaded into working memory. This process includes the release of neurotransmitters, such as dopamine and serotonin The quantities and proportions of these are determined by the particular associations that were invoked. The taste of ice cream triggers more than the taste of a pencil.Then there are magnitudes of experiential dopamine and serotonin, etc. connected to computations involving those things.
"ORDER is NOT just a bank of switches". That's ironic.One laughs at one particular computation differently than another, WHY? Because the ORDER is different! The ORDER is NOT just banks of switches!
I asked what proximity had to do with anything? You still haven't answered. What does it matter if a bit is 1 mm or 1 m apart from the other? Obviously, the farther they are apart, the longer a signal will take, but we seem to do just fine with our toe sensors being several meters from our brains.Just to illustrate the unreality that is this "concept" situation you have going on!
I asked why the spatial arrangement on a chip of RAM matters. Your response above didn't answer. I can organize data on the RAM chip top-to-bottom, or bottom-to-top. I can do it inside-out, or interleaved, or whatever. What difference does it make?See above.
Is the "5D mind" made of the same stuff as the brain? How do they interface? Where do they interface? Does the 5D mind go away when we die? Do dead people weigh differently than they did just before they died? How is the 5D mind powered? Does it give off heat?NO NO NO!!! I don't argue the brain is more than a computer!! I say it is ONLY a computer! You have a 5D MIND processor colocated WITH the brain that contains the 5D forms that are the basis of the recognition and AMALGAMATION of bits to create meaning from "real continuous form"
A number in your brain is a “concept” is it not? You got bits and “groups of bits.” The output of your calculation is discrete bits. When does it become a “number?”In case we need to repeat it: a number is not its representation. Anyway, you claim that the mantissa is an integer in disguise, requiring a sentient being to don a Sherlock Holmes hat and use his great amalgamating intellect to find it. Hark! An integer behind the decimal point!
But. Your. Bits, Don’t. Know. What. Base 10. Is. versus any other! you are reprsenting base 10 using base 2!! You only have highs and lows to work with! You have created an abstract concept called “base 10!” So try answering again if you will, from tabula foot pedals!But I say that's silly. The symbols 5.1454424 represent a rational number. That representation is called base-10 decimal. This same number can also be represented as the ratio of two base-10 integers: 51454424/10000000.
And the irrational numbers are integers that are related in a special way! .57397 is 57397 integer over Integer 100000 “associated” with the primary integer to the left of the decimal point ! Again, tabula rasa with no amalgamation!!We can of course pick any other base. But the defining characteristic of the numbers in ℚ is that they can be represented as the ratio of two integers. In other words, the integers in a rational number are by no means "disguised", they're dangling about in gratuitous full-frontal sight. There's nothing surprising or enlightening about finding integers within rational numbers; that's how we defined them.
Analog computers represent elements of R. No computer can represent any of the sets in totality, because they’e infinite in some manner.Not all of them. Certainly not ℝ. Up to some finite count, computers can represent numbers in ℕ ⊂ ℤ ⊂ ℚ, including, of course, all the finite fields, such as ℤ/2ℤ. Computers can do this in any base we desire, base-2 just happens to be the cheapest option.
You’re not, because you have no knower, only a processor and RAM with discrete bits. To amalgamate the bits into concepts and meaning requires a “knower.” This is the “qualia” or “hard problem of consciousness.” Your states are a bit-wise discretization of continuous mathematical objects and forms that you take for granted exist the moment you differentiate any one group of bits from another. The dog exists in reality. You “know” neither of them, and yet all the waves that gave you the knowledge represent something you can’t know, as you say!So, if I don't know the difference between ℕ and ℝ, please explain how I can say with full certainty that |ℕ| < |ℝ|?
Does a vantruiliquist’s puppet know what the puppet is saying or doing? Because again, all bits are discrete as are the parts of a contraptional machine. Without a continuum “knower” your voice doesn’t know it’s talking, what bits were used to make it speak, what the bits represent in reality. You claim the dog is “out there”, can’t know what it is, but claim the knowledge you have of it reflects it or your voice is discussing it vs. any other object? Wha???You keep insisting that telegraph poles have something to do with my lack of knowledge, but are you able to clearly explain how I can recite theorems about numbers in seemingly cogent ways, yet not know about them?
The iEVH replicant from 2090 can do and “know” everything Eddie can do and “know.”Wolfram Alpha and I "represent the knowledge" but don't actually know it. What does that mean? What can you, with your actual knowledge of numbers, do that I cannot do? No metaphors, please, just a clear list of differences.
Great, let's get anal about "know" (there's a sentenceYou know how you are anal about terms? Well, you've met your match in this area. The term "know" I believe is about THINGS in physical space, TRUTH to see FACTS concerning them, which is that the dog exists as a stand-alone element.
Does an infant know what a turkey sandwich is? No? Then not everyone. Be precise.Everyone agrees what a turkey sandwich is at its core.
LOL, that's exactly our situation. The greatness of communication is that it is possible at all; the eternal frustration of communication is that we are constantly misinterpreting each other. We tend to have similar experiences, and we build a vocabulary as best we can around those similarities. But these are fuzzy sets of fuzzy concepts.I defy you to live in a reality where there is no objective baseline to work subjectivities from.
I feel music in my chest region only when the bass is too loud. Infinite waves cannot be stored, as that would require infinite energy.What Newton might call the extra-physical (5D) mind that is co-located with the brain. It's why you feel music in your chest region and not your head. It's where infinite wave forms are stored, etc.
But we only have access to the information resulting from the phenomenon! We have no access to the thing itself, so why would I think that we can somehow guess what it actually is? At best, I can infer some of its properties from the information I receive.Hello ToE. What makes you think we can't "get" to this by honing down the semantic system to triangulate its existence? if the dog ITSELF exists, then it is a PHENOMENON that is extra-dimensional!
Again with the telegraph poles. Literally everything you described can be done on a computer. If that's what counts for "mind", then computers have minds.Yes, you can characterize it. Imagine a dog in your mind having the characteristics of a flame on a match. you can take another match to the flame and "spawn" another dog, theoretically more and more dogs instantiated in the mind that you did NOT see. "NEW" dogs from "the existing" repository that is dog 1. Then give all the dogs a polyphonic cartoon voice where they can "sing" with their own unique timbres and play instruments. Give them all sorts of abstract qualia. Your mind will continue to add things on its own. Zoom in on one of the voices you or IT gave it, pull apart the waves, transpose just one of the wavelings to a lampshade and have it talk with just that waveling's timbre. Tell me, where is all that in the telegraph poles? NO WHERE.
Except bits have no shape. You can't talk about 1D bits if you're using "1D" geometrically.I'm talking shape and form, so 3D, Euclid, etc.
It is impossible to accurately graph physical motion in three dimensions. Just sayin'.Meh, I don't even grok anything observable beyond 3. It's x, y, z... everything else is non-observable, and we can graph anything in 3 dimensions.
So, REALITY is everything "outside of us"? Why are we not included in REALITY? This is my point. Everything is in REALITY, therefore, REALITY is a superfluous word. "External" and "internal" are perfectly suitable to characterize any difference between me and "the outside". Likewise, "physical space" and "abstract space" are perfectly suitable to characterize any difference between, say, dogs and numbers.Why do you hate REALITY so much if it is truly describing everything outside of us, the light, the dog, the street, the lamp post, everything observable and even unobservable? Why is "physical space" different?
You're just making sh!t up, though. There are no bits in the op-amp on my desk. There are no infinite-anythings in the op-amp. It calculates by obeying the laws of physics. The op-amp is doing precisely the same thing as the water flowing down a river.It's really good you brought this up. What's happening here? I'd say quite a few bits are found. As in, unbounded, infinite per unit of time.
This is provably not the case, as an infinite-bit computation could solve the halting problem.Continuous computation, or infinite-bit is what an analog processor is, and its output is bounded quantities.
What's the big deal?And consider a moment, that these "discrete brains" create continuous analog computers!??
Again, I don't understand why you think this is surprising or weird. The various vocalizations of the English word "dog" are pattern-matched to a CONCEPT stored in memory. The same thing happens when I see a dog: the various visual patterns on my retina that can result when I see a dog are pattern-matched to the CONCEPT stored in memory.Consider our use of words. Each word is a discrete vibration, and our voice is a unique timbre vocalizing it. Where is the word stored for "dog?" You say have a "concept" called "dog" in your switches, but then you have a bunch of switches representing the "sound" of dog, when it comes to your concept and the actual frigging dog in the light that is the origin of the term?
I wouldn't characterize our physiology as purely analog or digital (which isn't surprising, as analog and digital are human-invented CONCEPTs).Consider the amount of ANALOG processing in a person with respect to words ALONE
In this context, assumptions and beliefs are the same thing. Within my set of CONCEPTs is a CONCEPT of validity. Validity is a complex CONCEPT that includes many associations, such as the identity CONCEPT, i.e., that one state is equal to another if they have the same configurations, and the similarity CONCEPT (two states are similar if they are mostly the same). Through the feedback loop of experience, the validity CONCEPT is developed and extended so that non-similar states can be compared and contrasted.What in the name of Sam Hell is this "assumption" in your telegraph poles???
Wrong, wrong, and wrong. We treat the pits in a CD as if it were binary, but the surface of the CD is not discrete (look at one under a microscope). Likewise, the elements in a flash drive are transistors, which are not discrete devices. No one has ever called the grooves in a record player "binary", not sure where you got that one.The pits in a CD are binary. A flash drive’s elements, binary. The grooves in a record player, binary.
My axioms are not in any base. If I happen to use base-2 or base-10 representation some where, it is only because it is convenient to do so.The axioms we made earlier, why not rewrite them to base-1 or 9472?
An analog computer's HARDWARE is much closer to base-5744 than it is to base-2. You keep ignoring this inconvenient fact.What is the HARDWARE using. There are no base 5744 circuits.
Again, you keep ignoring the fact that "dog there, dog not there" is decidedly not how we experience the world. You claim true/false are "bare essence" but fail to prove it, whereas I provide an abundance of counterexamples, even though only a single counterexample is needed. On this point, you're simply insisting and not engaging in rational discourse.True and False exists. These 2 logic states are bare essence, based on light being there or not there. Dog there, dog not there.
We don't actually know that it did -- it seems to be a hybrid -- but even if the brain did evolve as a binary computer, how is that an argument for "essence"? We can consider a protein as a high-dimensional, non-binary computer that optimizes for minimal energy folding states. The brain is made of proteins. Therefore, high-dimensional, non-binary computation is "essence"? Nah. Computation is independent of representation. That's the essence.There’s a reason why “nature” made your brain binary!
Lol, no, sine waves do not in any way fit into your binary pigeonhole. Even knowing that a waveform is a sine wave, we still need three pieces of information -- amplitude, frequency, and phase -- to characterize it. And then there's that whole issue of sine being a function of a continuous variable.Waves have crests and troughs or phases from one to the other. Sine wave periods on which are built all knowledge are about these two fundamental extremes.
I find we often end up agreeing often once terminology is found on parity. A friend of mine tracking the thread recommended we make a shared doc with things we agree on + elements of discussion.Be careful what you poo-poo on the integer-speak, because, as Kronecker’s secretary, you might end up eating Crow(necker). Kronecker went tabula rasa on that. You aren’t as of yet!
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Yes, a number is a CONCEPT. You say "the output of your calculation" . . . what calculation? I don't need to calculate to conceptualize number. Indeed, I can't calculate until I first have numbers.A number in your brain is a “concept” is it not? You got bits and “groups of bits.” The output of your calculation is discrete bits. When does it become a “number?”
WTF are you talking about? If a binary computer can use base-10 -- and they clearly can, or are you entering "10010 + 1010111" in your calculator? -- then how can it not "know" base-10? How the is it possible to use a number representation without knowing it?But. Your. Bits, Don’t. Know. What. Base 10. Is. versus any other! you are reprsenting base 10 using base 2!! You only have highs and lows to work with! You have created an abstract concept called “base 10!}
So try answering again if you will, from tabula foot pedals!
No. An irrational number is most definitely not an integer or a pair of integers or anything of the sort. You're making stuff up.And the irrational numbers are integers that are related in a special way!
Analog computers do not represent numbers at all. They calculate with the laws of physics.Analog computers represent elements of R.
This is called begging the question. Instead of assuming your conclusion, why don't you try being open to the possibility that a set of states can exhibit all the properties that you associate with consciousness? Isn't that the intellectually honest thing to do, start with the most basic assumption? All you need is a single counterexample to show that consciousness cannot emerge from a state machine. If it truly is impossible, it shouldn't be too difficult to find one.To amalgamate the bits into concepts and meaning requires a “knower.”
I would say no, but not because of bits or discreteness or anything like that. The puppet is one of the simplest machine that can be made, simpler even than a telegraph, so I wouldn't expect it to know much. But this is a strawman, since I am very clearly not a simple machine. So, once again, how am I and Wolfram Alpha able to recite true properties about things such as numbers that supposedly we cannot know?Does a vantruiliquist’s puppet know what the puppet is saying or doing? Because again, all bits are discrete as are the parts of a contraptional machine.
You're invoking magical spirits in place of addressing the supposed flaw in my reasoning. What part of talking is not mechanical?Without a continuum “knower” your voice doesn’t know it’s talking, what bits were used to make it speak, what the bits represent in reality.
I said that I'm guessing that there is a dog "out there". If there is, I cannot know it directly, only what my senses tell me. Other objects cause my senses to react differently, so what's the big deal? You act like differentiating objects requires super powers, when it's utterly pedestrian. Computers do it all the time.You claim the dog is “out there”, can’t know what it is, but claim the knowledge you have of it reflects it or your voice is discussing it vs. any other object? Wha???
That's quite presumptuous. How do you know what iEVH knows or does not know? And, matter of fact, the "AI" characters in some games do know how well they are doing, and will change tactics accordingly. Adaptive AI is a big deal in game design.The iEVH replicant from 2090 can do and “know” everything Eddie can do and “know.”
Difference is, it’s not alive, and has no idea it’s doing it. No different than an “intelligent video game character” knows it’s “fighting you well or not well.”
You still haven't addressed the weather aspect. What exactly can you know about the weather that Siri can't?Same way Siri insists the weather is “partly cloudy” with no actual knowledge of the reality-based elements.
Does a baby know how to Fourier transform? No, it learns to associate a growing set of CONCEPTs with the sensory data it receives.You said it yourself, the dog might be out there, but you don’t know what it is! Your circuits rely on sine wave amalgamtions and digital photons that come you your ears. You have to “know” what to do to fourier transform those waves to get at the data it contains! You don’t know what they represent, neither does a CCD chip, since each thing Is discrete. When Mario jumps over a green tube in Mario, it has no “knowledge” of it.
Demonstrably false. Movies are digital now, ya know. And how do you think drones fly through space?In the end, all discrete bits in your system’s brain can at best represent Mario on a screen in geometric 2D.
Nah, here's where I say, You are Meta-Luigi, a DOS prompt that thinks it knows the difference between 3D and 1D, and insists it has a "knower" inside of it somewhere. ;-)You are Mario in the end. A DOS prompt in 3D that insists it’s 1D with more pixels whose reality is 1D representing spatial 3D it can’t know exists. Here’s where you might say, “don’t call me a DOS prompt or Mario! I’m my own man!” ;—)