Commander Data

I can explain vividly the difference between metaphysical physicalism and ontological physicalism by reference to a fictional character. Commander Data (Block, 2002, 2007b). The TV series Star Trek The Next Generation 16 February 1989) includes an episode ( The Measure of a Man ) in which there is a trial to decide whether a human-like android. Commander Data, may legally be turned off and taken apart by someone who does not know whether he can put the parts together again. (The... 

Suppose that — as seems conceivable — Commander Data is conscious. For vividness, suppose that Commander Data is exactly like us, phenomenologically speaking. That supposition leads immediately to metaphysical dualism about phenomenology. The case has been set up so as to preclude any substantive physical similarity between Commander Data and us that can ground the postulated phenomenal similarity between him and us. That is, a physicalist metaphysical account has to ground the phenomenology we share with Commander Data in a physical property that we share with Commander Data, but it can t. For, by hypothesis, he... 

Of course the mental could be claimed to be grounded in the com-monsense concepts whose supposed a priori grasp provides the superficial functional organization that we share with Commander Data. However, that superficial functional organization would seem a merely nominal similarity between Data and us and so a poor candidate for any kind of substantive grounding claim. 

The Canberra Plan is supposed to be a model of reductive physicalism, but it neglects ground, sacrificing what I am calling metaphysics on the altar of ontology. In particular, it has no room for an account of the physicalistic ground of mentality. I mentioned that the kind of reductive physicalism acknowledged by the Canberra Plan is blind to the dualistic implications of the Commander Data case, so the account of reductive physicalism is inadequate. 

Figure 6.30 shows command Data Filename that enables a user to read data from the file stored in a user s own computer, local network, or internet. 

Voice interfaces are a fascinating subject. The human dream of talking to computers in a natural way is not new. Science fiction books and movies that live in our imagination present several examples of this aspiration, as old television and movie series like Star Trek, where the Enterprise s staff talk to the ship systems and androids like commander DATA Lost in Space, where Will Robinson had in his robot a very loyal and confident friend the conversations and human interactions with the robots C3PO and R2-D2 in Star Wars Blade Runner and its androids and voice driven interfaces among others [3]. 

Command DATA-STAR DIALOG ESA-IRS ORBIT QUESTEL STN... 

Subsystem An integrated set of assemblies, components, and parts which performs a cleanly and clearly separated function, involving similar technical skills, or a separate supplier. Power Conditioning and Distribution Subsystem Telecommunications Subsystem Bus Structure Subsystem Command Data Handling Subsystem... 

This database has some additional commands and search fields, which are tailored to the specific requirements of retrieving spectroscopic data, e.g., peak or multiplicity searches. 

We shall find the equation that best fits the points in columns 1 and 3 of Table 1-3 with TableCurve. On opening TableCurve, one is presented with a blank desktop with several commands at the top. The command to enter data is not Enter but Edit. Two formats are available, the TableCurve editor and the ASCII editor. The TableCurve format is probably a little simpler than the ASCII format, but they are both fairly self-evident and either should yield a data file resembling the data... 

Some SpartanView procedures are identical to SpartanBuild procedures and are not described m detail In particular the same mouse button keyboard combinations are used to rotate translate and scale models Also the same menu commands are used to change the model display and obtain geometry data Please refer back to the SpartanBuild instructions for help with these operations... 

This book is the result of a number of years experience in the compiling and editing of data useful to chemists. In it an effort has been made to select material to meet the needs of chemists who cannot command the unlimited time available to the research specialist, or who lack the facilities of a large technical library which so often is not conveniently located at many manufacturing centers. If the information contained herein serves this purpose, the compiler will feel that he has accomplished a worthy task. Even the worker with the facilities of a comprehensive library may find this volume of value as a time-saver because of the many tables of numerical data which have been especially computed for this purpose. 

Wines may be imported for reasons at either of two extremes because they are relatively inexpensive, or because they are in high demand, and thus command a higher price. Those exported from the United States tend to be the former, and those imported, the latter, based on the data shown in Table 5. There is some market, even in countries that are overproducing wine, for wines with exotic labels. This tendency illustrates another way in which wines differ from other products. Information on and cuisine from foreign countries associated with their wines serve as the vehicles for a form of a cultural exchange, besides the stricdy commercial one. 

Fig. 19. Reversible data storage by means of a command surface (149,151—153).

English-language commands. This sample SQL query says, "Give me all sample request data containing John Smith as the customer."... 

Central processing unit (CPU) This is in the form of a micro controller and can be called the brain of the PLC. It computes and analyses the various data fed into it. It acts like a comparator and makes decisions on the corrective action necessary to fulfil process needs according to the instructions received from the program stored in the memory and generates the output commands. 

After eleven iterations, hinfopt identifies that 7 in equation (9.176) has a best value of 0.13. The command sigma calculates the data for a singular value Bode diagram as shown in Figures 9.32, 9.34 and 9.35. Other information printed in the command window is given below... 

Calling "Statistics NonlinearFit" will allow us to fit the data with the command "Non-linearFit," whichwecanthencall "g" with the command g = %and, finally, we can Plot andShowgversusthedataset ... 

The Rome Air Development Command (RADC - Rome NY) provides the MIL HDBK 217 series of detailed electronics information. Early reports in this series provided failure rates for electronic components. The development of integrated circuits resulted in the approach of providing parameters for mathematical models of transistors and integrated circuits. RADC also publishes Nonelectronic Parts Reliability Data covering the failure rates of components ranging from batteries to valves. 

The NPRDS is an industry-wide system for monitoring the performance of selected systems and components at U.S. commercial nuclear power plants. Information in NPRDS is derived from a standardized format input report prepared by U.S. nuclear plant licensees. The plants are as)ced to submit failure reports on catastrophic events and degraded failures within the defined reportable scope reporting of incipient events is optional. Command faults are not reportable unless they malce an entire system unavailable. In addition, the plants are as)ced to file component engineering reports on all components within the selected systems and reportable scope. These reports contain detailed design data, operating characteristics, and performance data on the selected systems and components (over 3000 components, from approximately 30 systems, per unit). The selected systems are primarily safety systems. 

EGSG Idaho s Idaho National Engineering Laboratory reviewed Licensee Event Reports (LERs), both qualitatively and quantitatively, to extract reliability information in support of the USNRC s effort to gather and analyze component failure data for U.S. commercial nuclear power plants. LERs describing failures or command faults (failure due to lack of needed input) for selected components have been analyzed in this program. Separate reports have been issued for batteries and battery chargers, control rods and drive mechanisms, diesel generators, ISC, Inverters, primary containment penetrations, protective relays and circuit breakers, pumps, and valves. 

As already stated above, the database has been developed using ISIS software. The program operation is very simple, and about 30 min to learn the particular commands of this structure-searching program. ISIS provides both storage and retrieval of chemical structures. It is also possible to store text and numeric data into database entries. Because molecular structures are searchable in many ways, ISIS software is an excellent tool for exploiting data, and not simply archiving it. 

Command modules communicate with other modules through a local area network (LAN). Through this LAN, command modules receive information from the local control modules and store data. These data can be stored from a week to two years, depending on the recording interval and the number of points to be monitored. Unlike host-based systems, which use a central computer to interrogate each command module individually, the computer interface can tap into the network like any other command module. 

With regard to the common European market, the European Economic Community (EEC) has undertaken numerous activities concerned with materials and material information systems. In one demonstration program for material databases eleven such databases from various countries in the EEC are being cooperatively developed with joint standards for terminology, data presentation, database access, and the user interface of search commands, aids, and menus. For the materials class of plastics, Polymat was selected to participate in this cooperative work. Interesting developments occur from which the users of central material databases in the entire EEC area can benefit. 

DOT. 1986a. CHRIS (Chemical Hazards Response Information System) Hazardous chemical data. Department of Transportation, U.S. Coast Guard. Washington, DC U.S. Government Printing Office. Commandant Instruction M.16465.12A. 

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