On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 10:05:14AM -0800, Jack Mallah wrote: > > --- On Fri, 2/6/09, russell standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote: > > So sorry Jacques - you need to do better. I'm sure you can! > > Russell, I expected there might be some discussion of my latest eprint on > this list. That's why I'm here now - to see if there are any clarifications > I should make in it. I intend to make it better - and perhaps I'll have you > guys to thank!
I'm happy to help - hopefully any criticisms I and others make will be constructive. But it may take a few days, as work commitments intervene! > > > What I think he is trying to discuss, somewhat clumsily, in the > > section on measure, is the ASSA notion of a unique well-defined > > measure for all observer moments. > > The charge of 'clumsiness' is too vague for me to do anything about, so > perhaps you could be more specific. As for self-sampling, I didn't want to > use that term because it can create the confusion that something random is > really going on. Instead I covered the Bayesian issues in my sections on the > Reflection Argument and Theory Confirmation. Fair comment. I will try to be more specific. But for now, take it as a signpost that the discussion does not adequately explain the concepts of "amount of consciousness", "effective probability", the sampling measure used in anthropic arguments and the interrelations between all of these. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 hpco...@hpcoders.com.au Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
