Re: MIND and MATTER

2002-08-31 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, Interleaving. ;-) - Original Message - From: Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stephen Paul King [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 5:40 AM Subject: Re: MIND and MATTER Dear Stephen, I only have the vaguest hand waving reasoning at this time but

Re: MIND and MATTER

2002-08-31 Thread Brent Meeker
On 31-Aug-02, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, Interleaving. ;-) - Original Message - From: Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stephen Paul King [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 5:40 AM Subject: Re: MIND and MATTER Dear Stephen, I only have the

Re: Time

2002-08-31 Thread jamikes
Dear George, would it be too strenuous to briefly (and understandably???) summarize a position on time which is in the 'spirit' of the 'spirited' members of this list? (I mean not the - as you wrote - just a rehash of old science-fiction technology of the fifties and sixties). I have a hard

Re: Time

2002-08-31 Thread Hal Finney
John Mikes writes: would it be too strenuous to briefly (and understandably???) summarize a position on time which is in the 'spirit' of the 'spirited' members of this list? It seems to me that there are two views of time which we have considered, which I would classify as the Schmidhuber and

Re: Time

2002-08-31 Thread Osher Doctorow
From: Osher Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sat. Aug. 31, 2002 9:52PM Hal Finney, John Mikes, and the others on the parts of this thread that I have read have contributed some interesting ideas and questions. I have not read the *time* articles in Scientific American, but I would like to put in a

Re: Time

2002-08-31 Thread Russell Standish
In the Schmidhuber model, the ordering of program outputs is rather incidental - in fact the dovetailer program could output a completely different order of outputs, but the output is still equivalent. As you say in the last paragraph, time really enters the system in the Tegmark sense of being