Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-06-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Jun 2014, at 00:41, David Nyman wrote: On 8 June 2014 22:47, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Ready? Have you bought the Mendelson? OK, I give in. Wonderful. I just found a reasonably-priced second-hand copy of the Mendelson on Abebooks - should be here in a few days.

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-06-08 Thread David Nyman
On 7 June 2014 20:05, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: *At step 7, it is not in principle. Like in the preceding protocol, we just assume the existence of an infinite running of the UD in our infinite (then) space-time structure.* *The proposition is that if that is the case, and don't see

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-06-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Jun 2014, at 14:28, David Nyman wrote: On 7 June 2014 20:05, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: At step 7, it is not in principle. Like in the preceding protocol, we just assume the existence of an infinite running of the UD in our infinite (then) space-time structure. The

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-06-08 Thread David Nyman
On 8 June 2014 22:47, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Ready? Have you bought the Mendelson? OK, I give in. I just found a reasonably-priced second-hand copy of the Mendelson on Abebooks - should be here in a few days. Oh, and by the way, I'm presently reading and enjoying Hines's Return

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-06-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2014, at 12:25, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-12 12:17 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 12 Feb 2014, at 01:50, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 07:46:48AM +1300, LizR wrote: On 12 February 2014 02:55, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: My problem

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-06-07 Thread David Nyman
On 12 February 2014 11:17, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: At step seven, the primitive materialist can still invoke a physicalist form of ultrafinitism, to prevent the comp reversal between physics and arithmetic (or number theology). If I've grasped this, it's that one could attempt

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-06-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Jun 2014, at 17:23, David Nyman wrote: On 12 February 2014 11:17, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: At step seven, the primitive materialist can still invoke a physicalist form of ultrafinitism, to prevent the comp reversal between physics and arithmetic (or number theology).

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Feb 2014, at 18:20, meekerdb wrote: On 2/15/2014 1:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: You might keep in mind that astonishing truth (deducible from Matiyasevitch): - The polynomial on the reals are not Turing universal (you cannot simulate an exponential with such polynomials) - the

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Feb 2014, at 18:34, Richard Ruquist wrote: Isn't quantum mechanics based on the reals? Yes. Like classical physics. And like, most plausibly the comp- physics, by the dovetailing on the reals inputs, which might play a role in the measure stabilization problem. But this has to be

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-16 Thread Kim Jones
On 11 Feb 2014, at 2:15 pm, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: The point is that if we take the assumptions of comp, then quantum duplication, hypothetical matter transmitter duplication, and living from day to day ALL involve the same amount of (or lack of) continuity. Yes. The way I now

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Feb 2014, at 20:43, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: both the W *and* the M guy are the H guy Yes. the question bear on probability of expectation for the H guy when he press the button... If that is the question

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Feb 2014, at 17:03, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-14 16:49 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 13 Feb 2014, at 21:12, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 21:05 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 13 Feb 2014, at 19:10, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Feb 2014, at 17:11, David Nyman wrote: On 14 February 2014 15:49, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: That is the origin of the white rabbits. if our brain is a universal machine, we can can be failed, and are actually failed in infinities of computations. Do you mean fooled?

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Feb 2014, at 18:06, meekerdb wrote: On 2/14/2014 1:25 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2014, at 20:56, meekerdb wrote: On 2/13/2014 3:29 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2014, at 12:07, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 11:52 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Feb 2014, at 21:12, meekerdb wrote: On 2/14/2014 8:14 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: With some definition of the abacus, it is Turing universal. With others it is not. The slide rules is not Turing universal. You can add and multiply approximation of natural numbers only, or, if you want,

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Feb 2014, at 21:32, LizR wrote: On 15 February 2014 09:12, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/14/2014 8:14 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: With some definition of the abacus, it is Turing universal. With others it is not. The slide rules is not Turing universal. You can add and

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Feb 2014, at 00:15, meekerdb wrote: On 2/14/2014 2:17 PM, LizR wrote: On 15 February 2014 10:57, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/14/2014 12:32 PM, LizR wrote: On 15 February 2014 09:12, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/14/2014 8:14 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: With some

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Feb 2014, at 22:35, meekerdb wrote: On 2/14/2014 11:05 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 14 Feb 2014, at 04:19, Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 06:07:00PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2014, at 16:40, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 16:31 GMT+01:00 Bruno

Re: Modal logic 4 (was Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas).

2014-02-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Feb 2014, at 23:27, meekerdb wrote: On 2/14/2014 1:10 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2014, at 19:34, meekerdb wrote: On 2/13/2014 1:10 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: What's the definition of G*? G* is a quite peculiar modal logic. It has as axioms all the theorem of G, + the

Re: Modal logic 4 (was Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas).

2014-02-15 Thread Alberto G. Corona
;) From what I observed here, people in this list pass trough the following phases: 1- enter with an apparently bright idea 2- is exposed to comp bombardment 3- comp seduction 4- comp dislike (really comp explains everything and nothing. That means nothing) 5- comp aversion (too much comp, every

Re: Modal logic 4 (was Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas).

2014-02-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Feb 2014, at 12:14, Alberto G. Corona wrote: ;) From what I observed here, people in this list pass trough the following phases: 1- enter with an apparently bright idea 2- is exposed to comp bombardment 3- comp seduction 4- comp dislike (really comp explains everything and nothing.

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-02-15 10:01 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: I don't beg the question, I don't see a problem generating a virtual world where F=ma does not hold true... that world exists in an infinity of versions in the UD deployment as our own reality... You have no point proving our own

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-15 Thread John Clark
On 15 February 2014 09:03, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: LizR: but WHO is the observer? The one great advantage that Many Worlds has over other quantum interpretations is that Everett doesn't need to answer that question. That's the reason I like it. John K Clark -- You received

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-15 Thread meekerdb
On 2/15/2014 1:08 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 14 Feb 2014, at 18:06, meekerdb wrote: On 2/14/2014 1:25 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2014, at 20:56, meekerdb wrote: On 2/13/2014 3:29 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2014, at 12:07, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 11:52

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-15 Thread meekerdb
On 2/15/2014 1:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: You might keep in mind that astonishing truth (deducible from Matiyasevitch): - The polynomial on the reals are not Turing universal (you cannot simulate an exponential with such polynomials) - the polynomial on the integers are Turing universal, you

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-15 Thread Richard Ruquist
Isn't quantum mechanics based on the reals? On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 12:20 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/15/2014 1:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: You might keep in mind that astonishing truth (deducible from Matiyasevitch): - The polynomial on the reals are not Turing

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Feb 2014, at 14:10, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-15 10:01 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: I don't beg the question, I don't see a problem generating a virtual world where F=ma does not hold true... that world exists in an infinity of versions in the UD deployment as

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Feb 2014, at 17:55, John Clark wrote: On 15 February 2014 09:03, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: LizR: but WHO is the observer? The one great advantage that Many Worlds has over other quantum interpretations is that Everett doesn't need to answer that question. That's the

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Feb 2014, at 18:05, meekerdb wrote: On 2/15/2014 1:08 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 14 Feb 2014, at 18:06, meekerdb wrote: On 2/14/2014 1:25 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2014, at 20:56, meekerdb wrote: On 2/13/2014 3:29 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2014, at 12:07,

Re: Modal logic 4 (was Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas).

2014-02-15 Thread LizR
On 16 February 2014 00:14, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: ;) From what I observed here, people in this list pass trough the following phases: 1- enter with an apparently bright idea 2- is exposed to comp bombardment 3- comp seduction 4- comp dislike (really comp explains

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-15 Thread Russell Standish
On 14 Feb 2014, at 05:40, Russell Standish wrote: thesis. This doesn't bother me - if you ever bothered to read my thesis (not that I'm recommending you do so), you would find it consists of two faily different topics, with only the most tenuous connection between them. Oopsa-daisy! All

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-15 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 09:30:52PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 14 Feb 2014, at 05:42, meekerdb wrote: On 2/13/2014 8:40 PM, Russell Standish wrote: I had a look at your SANE paper, which is the main paper where you describe your work that you published since your thesis. I can sort of

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-15 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 09:20:43AM -0800, meekerdb wrote: On 2/15/2014 1:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: You might keep in mind that astonishing truth (deducible from Matiyasevitch): - The polynomial on the reals are not Turing universal (you cannot simulate an exponential with such polynomials)

Re: Modal logic 4 (was Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas).

2014-02-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Feb 2014, at 19:34, meekerdb wrote: On 2/13/2014 1:10 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: What's the definition of G*? G* is a quite peculiar modal logic. It has as axioms all the theorem of G, + the axiom: []A - A But is NOT close for the necessitation rule (can you see why that is

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Feb 2014, at 20:51, meekerdb wrote: On 2/13/2014 2:52 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2014, at 09:44, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 9:32 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 12 Feb 2014, at 21:47, LizR wrote: On 13 February 2014 09:18, Bruno Marchal

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Feb 2014, at 20:56, meekerdb wrote: On 2/13/2014 3:29 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2014, at 12:07, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 11:52 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 13 Feb 2014, at 09:44, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 9:32 GMT+01:00 Bruno

Re: Modal logic 4 (was Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas).

2014-02-14 Thread Alberto G. Corona
To summarize: there are all possible combinations of 1 and 0's therefore everithing can be made isomorphic or emergent from 0 and 1's. So stop thinking and praise 0s and 1s hypothesis. -Why people make apparently weird distincitions? it does not matter: comp says nothing about it. it depends on

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread David Nyman
On 14 February 2014 15:49, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: That is the origin of the white rabbits. if our brain is a universal machine, we can can be failed, and are actually failed in infinities of computations. Do you mean fooled? David -- You received this message because you

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Feb 2014, at 21:39, LizR wrote: On 14 February 2014 08:56, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: So no matter what is refuted we can save comp by saying that it is true but at a lower level and what we have observed that appears to refute comp is a dream or simulation at a higher

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread meekerdb
On 2/14/2014 1:25 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2014, at 20:56, meekerdb wrote: On 2/13/2014 3:29 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2014, at 12:07, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 11:52 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 13 Feb 2014,

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 6:06 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/14/2014 1:25 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2014, at 20:56, meekerdb wrote: On 2/13/2014 3:29 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2014, at 12:07, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 11:52 GMT+01:00 Bruno

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: In the MWI John Clark doesn't have to worry about who I or you is because however many copies of I or you there may or may not be they will never meet. That changes absolutely nothing... just put the

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
+1300 Subject: Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas From: lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com On 14 February 2014 08:56, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: So no matter what is refuted we can save comp by saying that it is true but at a lower level and what we have observed

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-02-14 19:29 GMT+01:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: In the MWI John Clark doesn't have to worry about who I or you is because however many copies of I or you there may or may not be they will never meet.

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
Words God and Ideas From: lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Personally, I feel that objections to comp on the basis of what we can and can't do with our present technology are a bit hair splitting, or perhaps simply evading the issue. Anyone who has accepted the MWI has

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: John, You need to read about the latest developments in string theory. The sad fact is that there are no recent developments in string theory , and in fact in its entire history it only made one prediction that could be

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Feb 2014, at 04:19, Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 06:07:00PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2014, at 16:40, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 16:31 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 13 Feb 2014, at 12:36, Quentin Anciaux wrote:

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: both the W *and* the M guy are the H guy Yes. the question bear on probability of expectation for the H guy when he press the button... If that is the question then the answer will be of zero help in understanding

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread John Mikes
LizR: but WHO is the observer? In my vocabulary observer is anyrhing/body acknowledging input on anything/body. (from a charged ion to G.B.Shaw upon an electric charge up to a drama-input.Observation is part of consciousness (again in my terms: as response to relations). (Now Brent, please, do not

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Feb 2014, at 05:40, Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:42:21AM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2014, at 05:38, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:24:18PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Feb 2014, at 02:02, Russell Standish wrote: On Tue,

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread meekerdb
On 2/14/2014 8:14 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: With some definition of the abacus, it is Turing universal. With others it is not. The slide rules is not Turing universal. You can add and multiply approximation of natural numbers only, or, if you want, you can analogically add and multiply the real

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread LizR
On 15 February 2014 09:03, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: LizR: but WHO is the observer? In my vocabulary observer is anyrhing/body acknowledging input on anything/body. (from a charged ion to G.B.Shaw upon an electric charge up to a drama-input.Observation is part of consciousness

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Feb 2014, at 05:42, meekerdb wrote: On 2/13/2014 8:40 PM, Russell Standish wrote: I had a look at your SANE paper, which is the main paper where you describe your work that you published since your thesis. I can sort of see you saying something a bit like the above on page 11 Now DU

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread LizR
On 15 February 2014 09:12, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/14/2014 8:14 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: With some definition of the abacus, it is Turing universal. With others it is not. The slide rules is not Turing universal. You can add and multiply approximation of natural numbers

Re: Modal logic 4 (was Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas).

2014-02-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Feb 2014, at 12:17, Alberto G. Corona wrote: To summarize: there are all possible combinations of 1 and 0's therefore everithing can be made isomorphic or emergent from 0 and 1's. ? So stop thinking and praise 0s and 1s hypothesis. ? -Why people make apparently weird

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread meekerdb
On 2/14/2014 11:05 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 14 Feb 2014, at 04:19, Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 06:07:00PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2014, at 16:40, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 16:31 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 13 Feb 2014, at

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread meekerdb
On 2/14/2014 12:32 PM, LizR wrote: On 15 February 2014 09:12, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/14/2014 8:14 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: With some definition of the abacus, it is Turing universal. With others it is not. The slide rules is not

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread LizR
On 15 February 2014 10:57, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/14/2014 12:32 PM, LizR wrote: On 15 February 2014 09:12, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/14/2014 8:14 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: With some definition of the abacus, it is Turing universal. With others it is

Re: Modal logic 4 (was Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas).

2014-02-14 Thread meekerdb
On 2/14/2014 1:10 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2014, at 19:34, meekerdb wrote: On 2/13/2014 1:10 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: What's the definition of G*? G* is a quite peculiar modal logic. It has as axioms all the theorem of G, + the axiom: []A - A But is NOT close for the

Re: Modal logic 4 (was Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas).

2014-02-14 Thread LizR
On 15 February 2014 11:27, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I was merely using teleportation as an example to illustrate that possible is a relative concept depending on the accessiblity relation. What does possible in principle mean? Does it only mean not self contradictory? Does it

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread meekerdb
On 2/14/2014 2:17 PM, LizR wrote: On 15 February 2014 10:57, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/14/2014 12:32 PM, LizR wrote: On 15 February 2014 09:12, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/14/2014 8:14

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2014, at 21:47, LizR wrote: On 13 February 2014 09:18, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 12 Feb 2014, at 18:58, meekerdb wrote: That doesn't follow. If there are disjoint worlds, as contemplated in some versions of cosmology, they may have different physics. Nice, comp

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-02-13 9:32 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 12 Feb 2014, at 21:47, LizR wrote: On 13 February 2014 09:18, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 12 Feb 2014, at 18:58, meekerdb wrote: That doesn't follow. If there are disjoint worlds, as contemplated in some

Re: Modal logic 4 (was Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas).

2014-02-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Feb 2014, at 04:03, meekerdb wrote: On 2/12/2014 11:37 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Liz, if Brent don't mind, my answer to Brent here contains a bit on modal logic, directly related to the machine discourse (and this will be justified later, as it is not obvious at all). snip

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Feb 2014, at 05:38, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:24:18PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Feb 2014, at 02:02, Russell Standish wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 07:31:24PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: You are right, the qualia are in X1* \ X1, like we get quanta

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Feb 2014, at 09:44, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 9:32 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 12 Feb 2014, at 21:47, LizR wrote: On 13 February 2014 09:18, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 12 Feb 2014, at 18:58, meekerdb wrote: That doesn't follow. If there are

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-02-13 11:52 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 13 Feb 2014, at 09:44, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 9:32 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 12 Feb 2014, at 21:47, LizR wrote: On 13 February 2014 09:18, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 12 Feb

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Feb 2014, at 12:07, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 11:52 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 13 Feb 2014, at 09:44, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 9:32 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 12 Feb 2014, at 21:47, LizR wrote: On 13 February 2014 09:18,

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-02-13 12:29 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 13 Feb 2014, at 12:07, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 11:52 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 13 Feb 2014, at 09:44, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 9:32 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Feb 2014, at 12:36, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 12:29 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 13 Feb 2014, at 12:07, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 11:52 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 13 Feb 2014, at 09:44, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-02-13 16:31 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 13 Feb 2014, at 12:36, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 12:29 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 13 Feb 2014, at 12:07, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 11:52 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be:

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Feb 2014, at 16:40, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 16:31 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 13 Feb 2014, at 12:36, Quentin Anciaux wrote: hence F=ma cannot be universaly true if comp is true. So if you extract F= KmM/r^2 from comp, and you refute it

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-02-13 18:07 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 13 Feb 2014, at 16:40, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 16:31 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 13 Feb 2014, at 12:36, Quentin Anciaux wrote: hence F=ma cannot be universaly true if comp is true.

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread Richard Ruquist
The duplication of human beings, such a significant prediction of comp, should then be amenable to test- using mice of course. On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-02-13 18:07 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 13 Feb 2014, at 16:40,

Re: Modal logic 4 (was Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas).

2014-02-13 Thread meekerdb
On 2/13/2014 1:10 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: What's the definition of G*? G* is a quite peculiar modal logic. It has as axioms all the theorem of G, + the axiom: []A - A But is NOT close for the necessitation rule (can you see why that is impossible). This entails that G* has no Kripke

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread meekerdb
On 2/13/2014 2:52 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2014, at 09:44, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 9:32 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 12 Feb 2014, at 21:47, LizR wrote: On 13 February 2014 09:18, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread meekerdb
On 2/13/2014 3:29 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2014, at 12:07, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 11:52 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 13 Feb 2014, at 09:44, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 9:32 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread LizR
On 14 February 2014 07:26, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: The duplication of human beings, such a significant prediction of comp, should then be amenable to test- using mice of course. I don't think comp predicts this. Bruno only uses it as a thought experiment. However if this is

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread LizR
On 14 February 2014 08:56, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: So no matter what is refuted we can save comp by saying that it is true but at a lower level and what we have observed that appears to refute comp is a dream or simulation at a higher level. If this is true, comp isn't a

RE: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread chris peck
beef is impotent anyhow. The most you'd ever show was that Clark applied his argument inconsistently, you certainly wouldn't show that he was wrong about Bruno's metaphysics. all the best Chris. Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:39:21 +1300 Subject: Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas From: lizj

RE: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread chris peck
Subject: RE: Suicide Words God and Ideas Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 22:23:08 + Hi Quentin I do not, valid critics are valid, By definition mate. but when you point to someone the inconsistency in his argument and that he maintains for years the same invalid argument that means that person does

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread LizR
it is in reality you who has failed to convince him. All the best Chris -- From: chris_peck...@hotmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Suicide Words God and Ideas Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 22:23:08 + Hi Quentin I do not, valid critics

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread Quentin Anciaux
applied his argument inconsistently, you certainly wouldn't show that he was wrong about Bruno's metaphysics. all the best Chris. -- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:39:21 +1300 Subject: Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas From: lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread LizR
Personally, I feel that objections to comp on the basis of what we can and can't do with our present technology are a bit hair splitting, or perhaps simply evading the issue. Anyone who has accepted the MWI has accepted that duplication is possible. (And anyone who thinks consciousness is digital

RE: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread chris peck
with the correct way to predict expectancy in a universe in which every possible outcome occurs. They didn't concern technological limitations. I don't think anyone has objected on that score have they? All the best Chris. Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:31:28 +1300 Subject: Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread LizR
a similar problem?) All the best Chris. -- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:31:28 +1300 Subject: Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas From: lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Personally, I feel that objections to comp on the basis of what we can

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 06:07:00PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2014, at 16:40, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-13 16:31 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 13 Feb 2014, at 12:36, Quentin Anciaux wrote: hence F=ma cannot be universaly true

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:42:21AM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Feb 2014, at 05:38, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:24:18PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Feb 2014, at 02:02, Russell Standish wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 07:31:24PM +0100, Bruno Marchal

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread meekerdb
On 2/13/2014 8:40 PM, Russell Standish wrote: I had a look at your SANE paper, which is the main paper where you describe your work that you published since your thesis. I can sort of see you saying something a bit like the above on page 11 Now DU [sic - should be UD in English] is emulated

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:12 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 February 2014 17:16, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:45 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 February 2014 16:33, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Quentin Anciaux
:00:42 +1300 Subject: Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas From: lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com On 12 February 2014 10:55, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 4:10 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 February 2014 08:50, Richard Ruquist

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Feb 2014, at 14:55, meekerdb wrote: On 2/11/2014 12:42 AM, LizR wrote: On 11 February 2014 17:21, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 04:57:50PM +1300, LizR wrote: You wouldn't need to say that if you could show what's wrong with it! :-)

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Richard Ruquist
: Suicide Words God and Ideas From: lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com On 12 February 2014 10:55, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 4:10 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 February 2014 08:50, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2014, at 01:50, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 07:46:48AM +1300, LizR wrote: On 12 February 2014 02:55, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: My problem with this is that I don't believe in arithmetical realism in the sense required for this argument. I think

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2014, at 02:02, Russell Standish wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 07:31:24PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: You are right, the qualia are in X1* \ X1, like we get quanta in S4Grz1, Z1*, X1*. The only thing you can say is that qualia ought to obey the axioms of X1*\X1, (and even that

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-02-12 12:17 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 12 Feb 2014, at 01:50, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 07:46:48AM +1300, LizR wrote: On 12 February 2014 02:55, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: My problem with this is that I don't believe in

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2014, at 02:22, meekerdb wrote: On 2/11/2014 10:21 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: What Everett did for the quantum universal wave, we can do that on any universal system, and comp predicts that this will always give the same physics. How does it predict that? All universal systems

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2014, at 02:28, meekerdb wrote: On 2/11/2014 10:21 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: But I think what is shown is that there can be a world including conscious beings which does not require physical events in our world, i.e. they can be merely arithmetical or Turing machince events. In

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2014, at 02:40, meekerdb wrote: On 2/11/2014 4:50 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 07:46:48AM +1300, LizR wrote: On 12 February 2014 02:55, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: My problem with this is that I don't believe in arithmetical realism in the sense

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2014, at 02:43, meekerdb wrote: On 2/11/2014 4:56 PM, LizR wrote: On 12 February 2014 13:50, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 07:46:48AM +1300, LizR wrote: On 12 February 2014 02:55, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: My problem with

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