Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-10 Thread LizR
On 10 March 2014 17:39, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: If I ask you to measure the value of alpha to 5 significant places, and I was to measure the same thing, then we can compare notes. Intrasubjective consistency predicts that we should get the same numerical value.

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-10 Thread meekerdb
On 3/9/2014 8:14 PM, LizR wrote: On 10 March 2014 15:09, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Decoherence is what I described above. It's tracing over the environment variables, having selected what counts as environment and what as instrument/observer,

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-10 Thread LizR
I would imagine the reason we only perceive one reality is because the brain (and body) are classical, which almost begs the question of course, but it means that whatever causes macro-objects to generally behave classically also applies to the brain. (And the senses - if the eyes are classical,

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-10 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 07:03:30PM +1300, LizR wrote: On 10 March 2014 17:39, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: If I ask you to measure the value of alpha to 5 significant places, and I was to measure the same thing, then we can compare notes. Intrasubjective consistency

Re: Vehiculus automobilius

2014-03-10 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 7 March 2014 15:46, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: If the doctor became more ambitious, and decided to replace a species with a simulation, we have a ready example of what it might be like. Cars have replaced the functionality of horses in human society. They reproduce in a

Re: The way the future was

2014-03-10 Thread Kim Jones
On 10 Mar 2014, at 4:30 am, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: Although I have very little good to say about Malcolm McLaren he did arguably launch a whole new musical experience with the Sex Pistols, a type of music which had until then only been underground (Rezillos? B52s ?) but bubbled to

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-10 Thread LizR
On 10 March 2014 22:51, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Well my answer to solipsism is generally along the lines of worlds that have evolved from simpler beginnings will have much higher measure than worlds in which we pop out of the air fully formed (Boltzmann brain like).

RE: The way the future was

2014-03-10 Thread chris peck
you are saying that something musically significant happened here Something significant happened to pop music for sure. In 1977 the charts were dominated by David Soul, Rod Stewart, Brotherhood of Man, Leo Sayer, Hot Chocolate, Boney M, Shawaddywaddy and Billy Ocean. Daddy Cool. Rockin' All

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Mar 2014, at 00:53, meekerdb wrote: On 3/8/2014 3:41 PM, LizR wrote: On 9 March 2014 08:50, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/8/2014 12:11 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The existence of the UD is a consequence of elementary axioms in arithmetic (like x+0=x, etc.). I can't hardly

Re: [foar] Amoeba's Secret, by Bruno Marchal available from Kindle store

2014-03-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Mar 2014, at 00:58, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Hi everyone, Just want to let everyone know that the English translation of Buno Marchal's The Amoeba's Secret is now available from Amazon's Kindle

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-10 Thread spudboy100
I understood, what you were going for, but I hit back on old, Chris, because he changed the conversation to invective-which I am ok with. No big deal, but I hit back. Secondly, the nice guys, the progressives world-wide, tend to become more and more oppressive as time goes by. Use a problem

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Mar 2014, at 19:32, meekerdb wrote: On 3/9/2014 12:47 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Mar 2014, at 06:16, meekerdb wrote: On 3/7/2014 8:26 PM, LizR wrote: On 8 March 2014 08:14, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/7/2014 1:24 AM, LizR wrote: On 7 March 2014 18:29, meekerdb

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Mar 2014, at 19:47, Jesse Mazer wrote: And take a look at the temperature at zero years ago, does it look colder or hotter than the average for the last 600 million years? Of course in the long term, life will be able to adapt to whatever rise in temperature is caused by global

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-10 Thread Gabriel Bodeen
On Saturday, March 8, 2014 2:37:50 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: A couple other accounts of how things might be that I take seriously are (1) physicalism in the sense that arithmetical propositions might only be true when physically realized, No problem, and indeed this would make comp

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2014-03-10 Thread Terren Suydam
Question for you Bruno:. You say (with help from Theaetetus) that 1p experience is given by Bp p. Yet, our experience is often deluded, as in optical illusions, or in various kinds of emotional psychological denial. Can we ever really say that our knowledge, even 1p experience, refers to

RE: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-10 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of spudboy...@aol.com Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 7:47 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating I understood, what you were going

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Mar 2014, at 20:17, Chris de Morsella wrote: From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com ] On Behalf Of John Clark Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 10:34 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-10 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 8:41 AM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: If only we all thought like you, the world would be fixed, eh? Concerning that I think I'll just quote Gore Vidal: there is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. Or, if the climate change

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-10 Thread meekerdb
It's this one http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0312059v4.pdf which I think is his doctoral thesis. He later expanded it into a book. Brent On 3/10/2014 12:14 AM, LizR wrote: I would imagine the reason we only perceive one reality is because the brain (and body) are classical, which almost begs

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-10 Thread spudboy100
Over a sustained time, 17 years, its no longer a hockey stick, it is climate. Because you observe weather and confuse it with climate Chris -Original Message- From: Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, Mar 9, 2014

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-10 Thread spudboy100
According to Chris, Climate is not the weather or the local weather. So if this suggestion is correct, its local anomalies over the years, driven onward, by El Nino' or La Nina' ? According to a report released, last week, by the Royal Climate Group and the US national academy of sciences, a

Re: Vehiculus automobilius

2014-03-10 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, March 10, 2014 5:48:42 AM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: On 7 March 2014 15:46, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: If the doctor became more ambitious, and decided to replace a species with a simulation, we have a ready example of what it might be like. Cars have

the real thing Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Mar 2014, at 21:46, LizR wrote: On 10 March 2014 02:15, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Russell, Yes, but that is crazy because it assumes all theories are equally valid with which I disagree. Science selects theories based on which best explain the observable universe.

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-10 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 12:31 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: According to Chris, Climate is not the weather or the local weather. So if this suggestion is correct, its local anomalies over the years, driven onward, by El Nino' or La Nina' ? According to a report released, last week, by the

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Mar 2014, at 01:17, chris peck wrote: Hi Bruno With respect to the UDA, graves and me are just using different vocabulary. Really? the last time I quoted her: What ... should Alice expect to see? Here I invoke the following premise: whatever she knows she will

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-10 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Jesse Mazer laserma...@gmail.com wrote: That looks like a pretty crappy match to me. What the hell happened 450 million years ago? And why did the CO2 start to drop 150 million years ago but the temperature start to climb at the same time? I suspect you are

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-10 Thread ghibbsa
On Sunday, March 9, 2014 4:31:07 PM UTC, John Clark wrote: Let me try that again: On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 11:08 AM, ghi...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: There's no plausible theory by which clouds could nullify the warming caused by increased CO2 If not clouds it's crystal clear

Re: the real thing Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-10 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
Nice to see you treat it this way. On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 09 Mar 2014, at 21:46, LizR wrote: On 10 March 2014 02:15, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Russell, Yes, but that is crazy because it assumes all theories are equally

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Mar 2014, at 02:15, meekerdb wrote: On 3/9/2014 5:36 PM, LizR wrote: Surely QM + collapse makes the prediction that there is a mechanism that causes the collapse (e.g. Penrose's idea about it being gravitational) and therefore predicts that at some point that mechanism will kick

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-10 Thread David Nyman
On 10 March 2014 17:43, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: or to bet on normal higher level of simulation, like with Böstrom Could you elaborate? David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-10 Thread meekerdb
On 3/10/2014 8:16 AM, Gabriel Bodeen wrote: The axiomatic of natural numbers is far more simple than anything else. You can always propose a much more complex theory to falsify a simple set of axioms. I don't know that the other cases I've mentioned are more complex. Physicalism

Re: The way the future was

2014-03-10 Thread LizR
I have 4 pistols tracks in my very large and eclectic MP3 music collection, along with many others generally called punk. John Lydon also gave me my all time favourite headline, Sex pistol attacks New Zealand butter. I even managed to turn it into a crossword clue - Enthusiastically attack

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Mar 2014, at 16:16, Gabriel Bodeen wrote: On Saturday, March 8, 2014 2:37:50 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: A couple other accounts of how things might be that I take seriously are (1) physicalism in the sense that arithmetical propositions might only be true when physically

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2014-03-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Mar 2014, at 16:28, Terren Suydam wrote: Question for you Bruno:. You say (with help from Theaetetus) that 1p experience is given by Bp p. Yet, our experience is often deluded, as in optical illusions, or in various kinds of emotional psychological denial. Can we ever really

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-10 Thread spudboy100
Since I have been on the list longer then you I ask are you here to enforce progressive ideology? If you're pissed off, that's not my fault, that is your own. I was just elucidating to Liz on her comments to me. I am aware of technology, but it has to work well and the costs, affordable. No

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-10 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 1:52 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Jesse Mazer laserma...@gmail.com wrote: That looks like a pretty crappy match to me. What the hell happened 450 million years ago? And why did the CO2 start to drop 150 million years ago

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-10 Thread spudboy100
Understood. It's not for fixing a bad problem, but for taking more power by saying there's a bad problem. There probably is, but the behavior of world leaders is not a response that I would expect, if they really though Florida was going to disappear in 2 years. There is no cause and effect

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-10 Thread Gabriel Bodeen
On Monday, March 10, 2014 2:08:14 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: That relativism argues against comp, and even implicitly against Church thesis. But my point is not that comp is true, just that with comp, the theory QM + comp is redundant, and we have to justify QM (at the least its

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-10 Thread LizR
Thanks. Do you know the title of the book, in case I get the chance to read it? On 11 March 2014 05:20, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: It's this one http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0312059v4.pdf which I think is his doctoral thesis. He later expanded it into a book. Brent On

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-10 Thread LizR
Actually I assume it's this... http://www.amazon.com/Decoherence-Quantum---Classical-Transition-Collection/dp/3642071422/ref=sr_1_2?s=booksie=UTF8qid=1394489389sr=1-2keywords=Maximilian+Schlosshauer Well I will start with the paper. It maye be beyond my brain (no fluffy kittens). On 11 March

RE: The way the future was

2014-03-10 Thread chris peck
whoever put Hendrix as a proto punk should on the same basis add Cream and even the Stones. (At this rate everyone will be in on it...) Rick Astley ... post punk rocker... Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:45:50 +1300 Subject: Re: The way the future was From: lizj...@gmail.com To:

Re: The way the future was

2014-03-10 Thread LizR
Elvis (not Costello)... On 11 March 2014 12:00, chris peck chris_peck...@hotmail.com wrote: whoever put Hendrix as a proto punk should on the same basis add Cream and even the Stones. (At this rate everyone will be in on it...) Rick Astley ... post punk rocker...

Re: The way the future was

2014-03-10 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
Electric instruments just amplified what was already here. Beethoven istm was first in rock, metal, punk etc. all the way to dubstep department;crystallizing sound's relations with explosive power, defiance, melancholy or magnificence. Bach was more goth than punk, I'd guess, especially with the

Re: The way the future was

2014-03-10 Thread LizR
All sounds very plausible to me, PGC. Especially the Neolithic rockers. Live fast and die young, indeed... On 11 March 2014 12:26, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.comwrote: Electric instruments just amplified what was already here. Beethoven istm was first in rock, metal, punk

RE: The way the future was

2014-03-10 Thread chris peck
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:26:56 +0100 Subject: Re: The way the future was From: multiplecit...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Electric instruments just amplified what was already here. Beethoven istm was first in rock, metal, punk etc. all the way to dubstep

RE: The way the future was

2014-03-10 Thread chris peck
Hi PGC yep. All art, like language, has an etymology. The Pistols weren't special because they did anything 'new', but because they did something that challenged the status quo of the time. When it comes to shocking people The Rite of Spring had the audience rioting at its premier, so suck

Re: The way the future was

2014-03-10 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:48 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: All sounds very plausible to me, PGC. Especially the Neolithic rockers. Live fast and die young, indeed... Lol, yeah leather clothing, bones, fire, snakes, demons, goddesess and breasts, phallic rocks and symbols, body art,

Re: The way the future was

2014-03-10 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:59 AM, chris peck chris_peck...@hotmail.comwrote: Hi PGC yep. All art, like language, has an etymology. The Pistols weren't special because they did anything 'new', but because they did something that challenged the status quo of the time. When it comes to

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-10 Thread meekerdb
On 3/10/2014 2:35 PM, LizR wrote: Thanks. Do you know the title of the book, in case I get the chance to read it? Decoherence and The Quantum-to-Classical Transition Springer Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To

Re: The way the future was

2014-03-10 Thread LizR
Yeah this is why I try to be as eclectic as possible. Working with lots of young people helps, as I was (far more) in my previous job... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-10 Thread LizR
Ta. On 11 March 2014 14:36, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/10/2014 2:35 PM, LizR wrote: Thanks. Do you know the title of the book, in case I get the chance to read it? Decoherence and The Quantum-to-Classical Transition Springer Brent -- You received this message because

RE: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-10 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of spudboy...@aol.com Since I have been on the list longer then you I ask are you here to enforce progressive ideology? If you're pissed off, that's not my fault, that is your own. I was just

RE: The way the future was

2014-03-10 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Platonist Guitar Cowboy Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 6:14 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The way the future was On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:59 AM, chris peck