<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Thanks, I think. You do know that I last had physics in 1959 and think a vector is something related to disease spread?<br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:07 AM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="">On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:45 AM, William Flynn Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><font size="4">> I rather think that I am a verb, doing something, rather than an adjective, just descriptive of something else. <br>
</font></blockquote></div><font size="4"><br>An adverb perhaps because a verb like "ran" is just a scalar, in the real world that would tell you little; you need a vector so you say "I ran swiftly northeasterly". I associate adjectives and adverbs with information but verbs with just energy, so I certainly hope you're wrong because if so it would be impossible to be uploaded. But I don't think you're right because if a correct description of how atoms are arranged is provided there is no need to say what it's doing, the laws of physics will take care of that. And even if I know what you're doing now I still won't know what you're going to do a minute from now or were doing a minute ago; but if I know how all your atoms are arranged right now I would have a pretty good idea of what you were doing in the past and could make a duplicate of you that will do the same thing you are going to do a minute from now. <br>
<br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4">So the key thing that makes you you is not matter (nouns) or energy (verbs) its information (adjectives and adverbs).<br><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote">
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</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 10:36 AM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:51 PM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<font size="4">> It still seems like there is a bit of dualism here, just a whiff,<br></font></blockquote></div><font size="4"><br>That's probably because I am indeed a dualist, that is to say I think that nouns and adjectives are NOT the same. Your body is a thing made of atoms and thus is a noun, but you are not a thing or even a noun; you are an adjective, you are the way that atoms behave when they are organized in a Williamflynnwallaceian way. There are lots of green things but there are far fewer Williamflynnwallaceian things, in fact at the present time there is only one, but there is no law of physics that demands that always be the case.<br>
<br></font><div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><font size="4">> I am completely comfortable with the idea that consciousness is totally physical<br>
</font></blockquote></div><font size="4"><br>I am too, and I am comfortable with the idea that adjectives are the way that physical things like nouns behave.<br><br></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font size="4"> John K Clark<br>
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