White Rabbits

2008-01-07 Thread Hal Ruhl
Using my approach White Rabbits can be dealt with as follows [I think]: The dynamic starts with and continues a pattern - a path to completeness. The path is not deterministic because most states would be multiply incomplete so any two successive states will differ by some fractional

Re: White Rabbits, WAND gates and WACOs

2001-06-21 Thread George Levy
More on White Rabbits. Here is a thought experiment which attempts to prove the non existence of White Rabbits and of Black Rabbits. Definitions: 1) White Rabbits: phenomena that we cannot understand. Their existence indicates that the set of physical phenomena is larger than the set of ideas

Re: White Rabbits, Consistency and Dreaming

2001-06-14 Thread George Levy
is the hunt for, and extermination of, all white rabbits... I think, they are in for a big surprise the mother of all white rabbits is just around the cornerand she is morphing into a lion. George Levy

Re: White Rabbits, Consistency and Dreaming

2001-06-11 Thread rwas rwas
Rabbits Some more thoughts about dreaming. I wrote: To summarize: White rabbits are inconsistent by definition. The issue is inconsistent with respect which frame of reference? If we dream of a real world white rabbit (inconsistency as seen from the real world point of view

Re: Consistency? + Programs for G, G*, ...+ White Rabbits

2001-06-11 Thread George Levy
Marchal wrote: Do you think the dream and awake state are symmetrical? I am not sure. It seems to me that in the dream state you can realise you are dreaming, but that in the "awake" state you can never realise you are awake. "awakenings" go from more relative inconsistencies to less relative

Re: White Rabbits, Consistency and Dreaming

2001-06-10 Thread George Levy
This is a continuation of Consistency? + Programs for G, G*, ...+ White Rabbits Some more thoughts about dreaming. I wrote: To summarize: White rabbits are inconsistent by definition. The issue is inconsistent with respect which frame of reference? If we dream of a real world white

Re: Consistency? + Programs for G, G*, ...+ White Rabbits

2001-06-07 Thread George Levy
there are no white rabbits. White rabbits are not consistent. Unfortunately I don't think this is true. The problem with the white rabbits is that there are consistent! For exemple we can dream of white rabbits. This is too simplistic. It could be that we differ because of semantics or maybe because

Re: White Rabbits and QM

1999-11-16 Thread Alastair Malcolm
- Original Message - From: Russell Standish [EMAIL PROTECTED] My much hyped paper is now available for review and criticism (hopefully constructive). The URLs are http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks/docs/ps/occam.ps.gz or http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks/docs/occam/ depending on

White Rabbits and QM

1999-11-11 Thread Russell Standish
My much hyped paper is now available for review and criticism (hopefully constructive). The URLs are http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks/docs/ps/occam.ps.gz or http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks/docs/occam/ depending on whether you like your papers in postscript or HTML. The abstract reads: