Eric Hawthorne writes:
I think each form of emergent complex order which is capable of becoming
intelligent and forming goals in general contexts
problably would have by default an ethical principle promoting the
continued existence of the most complex (high-level)
emergent system in its
Unfortunately, disallowing notions of group selection also disallows
notions of
emergent higher-level-order systems. You must allow for selection
effects at all
significantly functioning layers/levels of the emergent system, to
explain the emergence
of these systems adequately. For example, ant
I browsed through recent postings and hope
this delayed but self-contained message can clarify
a few things about probabilities and measures
and predictability etc.
What is the probability of an integer being, say,
a square? This question does not make sense without
a prior probability
Are probabilities always and necessarily positive-definite?
I'm asking this because there is a thread, started by Dirac
and Feynman, saying the only difference between the classical
and quantum cases is that in the former we assume the probabilities
are positive-definite.
Thus, speaking of
Dear Stephen,
At 12:39 21/01/04 -0500, Stephen Paul King wrote:
Dear Bruno and Kory,
Interleaving.
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From: Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: Is the universe computable
At 02:50 21/01/04
Later analyses showed that this doesn't really work; that selfish
behaviors have strong selective advantage compared to the relatively
weak effects of group selection. It would be very difficult for an
altruistic behavior to spread and persist within a group if it caused
disadvantage to the
Juergen Schmidhuber writes:
What is the probability of an integer being, say,
a square? This question does not make sense without
a prior probability distribution on the integers.
This prior cannot be uniform. Try to find one!
Under _any_ distribution some integers must be
more likely than
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