Re: General Relativity and Consciousness

2013-07-17 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Pierz pier...@gmail.com wrote: I pretty much agree with you Jason. The materialist simply posits that the conciousness of a person (or conscious being) represents a static track through the 4d block universe, misperceived as changing due to something about the

Re: We are all naturally racists. Political correctness is likely to get you killed.

2013-07-17 Thread Jason Resch
On Jul 17, 2013, at 5:21 PM, chris peck chris_peck...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Rog A taste for fat 'helped us survive' back in the day. Doesnt mean it will be much use now. Infact now it just causes obesity and revulsion in the people you should be trying to attract. I believe the

Can someone explain why this doesn't work?

2013-07-23 Thread Jason Resch
When there are two polarizers A and C, which are rotated by 90 degrees to each other then no photons will pass through both polarizers. However, if we insert polarizer B at a 45 degree offset to A and C then 1/4 of the photons will make it through. Now let's say we have two entangled photons

Re: Can someone explain why this doesn't work?

2013-07-23 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:48 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 7/23/2013 7:00 AM, Jason Resch wrote: When there are two polarizers A and C, which are rotated by 90 degrees to each other then no photons will pass through both polarizers. However, if we insert polarizer B at a 45

Re: Can someone explain why this doesn't work?

2013-07-23 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 5:12 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 7/23/2013 2:49 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:48 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 7/23/2013 7:00 AM, Jason Resch wrote: When there are two polarizers A and C, which are rotated by 90

Re: Can someone explain why this doesn't work?

2013-07-26 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:52 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:21 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I think this misunderstands Jason's thought experiment. I think he's assuming the source is polarized at 0deg, the same as A, not a random source

Re: Can someone explain why this doesn't work?

2013-07-26 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:57 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 26, 2013Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: If a photon passes a filter orientated at 0 degrees, then it encounters a filter at 90 degrees it will be blocked. How do you know the photon is oriented at

Re: A challenge for Craig

2013-10-08 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: On Sunday, October 6, 2013 5:06:31 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Oct 2013, at 03:17, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 5 October 2013 00:40, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.be wrote: The argument is simply

Re: A challenge for Craig

2013-10-08 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: On Tuesday, October 8, 2013 10:10:25 AM UTC-4, Jason wrote: On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comwrote: On Sunday, October 6, 2013 5:06:31 AM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06

Re: WSJ Article On Why Computers Make Lame Supermarket Cashiers

2013-10-09 Thread Jason Resch
This thread reminds me of the following cartoon from: http://www.kurzweilai.net/images/only-humans-cartoon.jpg Jason On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: Why does the relation of aesthetic experience to computation have to be reduced to a simple question

Re: WSJ Article On Why Computers Make Lame Supermarket Cashiers

2013-10-09 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:52 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 October 2013 09:47, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: It's not that computers can't do what humans do, it's that they can't experience anything. Mozart could dig a hole as well as compose music, but that doesn't

Re: The probability problem in Everettian quantum mechanics

2013-10-11 Thread Jason Resch
On Oct 11, 2013, at 9:06 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 11 Oct 2013, at 13:16, Pierz wrote: And just to follow up on that, there are still an infinite number of irrational numbers between 0 and 0.1. But not as large an infinity as those between 0.1 and 1. It is

Re: The probability problem in Everettian quantum mechanics

2013-10-14 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:30 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/14/2013 1:29 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Oct 2013, at 22:11, meekerdb wrote: On 10/13/2013 1:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Oct 2013, at 22:53, meekerdb wrote: On 10/12/2013 10:55 AM, Bruno Marchal

Re: WSJ Article On Why Computers Make Lame Supermarket Cashiers

2013-10-14 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: On Monday, October 14, 2013 4:37:35 PM UTC-4, Jason wrote: On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comwrote: On Wednesday, October 9, 2013 8:08:01 PM UTC-4, Jason wrote: On Wed,

Re: WSJ Article On Why Computers Make Lame Supermarket Cashiers

2013-10-15 Thread Jason Resch
On Oct 15, 2013, at 7:26 AM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, October 14, 2013 11:14:36 PM UTC-4, Jason wrote: On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, October 14, 2013 4:37:35 PM UTC-4, Jason wrote: On Thu, Oct

Re: WSJ Article On Why Computers Make Lame Supermarket Cashiers

2013-10-15 Thread Jason Resch
On Oct 15, 2013, at 5:52 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 October 2013 08:59, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: 7. an organism which reproduces by transforming its environment rather than reproducing by cell division Bruno said cigarettes might qualify as such life forms

Re: WSJ Article On Why Computers Make Lame Supermarket Cashiers

2013-10-15 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: On Tuesday, October 15, 2013 3:59:33 PM UTC-4, Jason wrote: On Oct 15, 2013, at 7:26 AM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, October 14, 2013 11:14:36 PM UTC-4, Jason wrote: On Mon, Oct 14,

For John Clark

2013-10-15 Thread Jason Resch
(And others who ignore the importance of first person views when it comes to duplication.) I invite you to read what Hugh Everett had to say on the matter: I believe that my theory is by far the simplest way out of the dilemma, since it results from what is inherently a simplification of the

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-15 Thread Jason Resch
On Oct 15, 2013, at 10:10 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 October 2013 16:01, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: Our theory in a certain sense bridges the positions of Einstein and Bohr, since the complete theory is quite objective and deterministic...and yet

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-15 Thread Jason Resch
On Oct 15, 2013, at 11:09 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 October 2013 16:58, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 15, 2013, at 10:10 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 October 2013 16:01, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: Our theory in a certain sense bridges

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-16 Thread Jason Resch
Subject: Re: For John Clark Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 09:15:51 +0200 On 16 Oct 2013, at 05:10, LizR wrote: On 16 October 2013 16:01, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: Our theory in a certain sense bridges the positions of Einstein and Bohr, since the complete theory is quite objective

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-16 Thread Jason Resch
say they were non-denumerable, so I'm glad I opened it. John K Clark On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.comwrote: (And others who ignore the importance of first person views when it comes to duplication.) I invite you to read what Hugh Everett had to say

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-16 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 12:48 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.comwrote: It was from the book The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III, a book I obtained and read in a large part based on you glowing review. :-) Did

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-17 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 6:23 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/16/2013 11:55 PM, Jason Resch wrote: I see your reference and raise you a reference back to section 4.1 of http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0312136 From the paper: What of the crucial question: should Alice1

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 8:04 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 October 2013 13:42, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: The basis problem is no different from the present problem under special relativity: If we exist in many times across space time, why do we find ourselves

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread Jason Resch
. As i said, Im not sure what to make of any of it. Okay, that is fair. Jason regards. -- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:04:58 +1300 Subject: Re: For John Clark From: lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com On 18 October 2013 13:42, Jason

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread Jason Resch
*On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:03 PM*, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/17/2013 6:04 PM, LizR wrote: On 18 October 2013 13:42, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: The basis problem is no different from the present problem under special relativity: If we exist in many times

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:27 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/17/2013 5:42 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 6:23 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/16/2013 11:55 PM, Jason Resch wrote: I see your reference and raise you a reference back

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:23 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18/2013 12:18 AM, Jason Resch wrote: Note: I do believe we experience all possible outcomes, and you can even say in truth there is only one I In your theory a person is a chain of experiences, so different chain

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:27 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18/2013 12:26 AM, Jason Resch wrote: *On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:03 PM*, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/17/2013 6:04 PM, LizR wrote: On 18 October 2013 13:42, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:37 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18/2013 12:42 AM, Jason Resch wrote: But that's not compatible with Bruno's idea of eliminating the physical - at least not unless he can solve the basis problem. Could you do me a favor and explain what

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 5:34 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18/2013 1:29 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:23 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18/2013 12:18 AM, Jason Resch wrote: Note: I do believe we experience all possible outcomes

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 5:56 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18/2013 1:38 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:27 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18/2013 12:26 AM, Jason Resch wrote: *On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:03 PM*, meekerdb meeke

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 6:09 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18/2013 1:45 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:37 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18/2013 12:42 AM, Jason Resch wrote: But that's not compatible with Bruno's idea

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 12:52 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18/2013 9:49 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Oct 2013, at 00:34, meekerdb wrote: On 10/18/2013 1:29 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:23 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 19 Oct 2013, at 07:52, meekerdb wrote: On 10/18/2013 9:49 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Oct 2013, at 00:34, meekerdb wrote: On 10/18/2013 1:29 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:23 AM

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 11:11 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/19/2013 12:30 AM, Jason Resch wrote: Amnesia = gap in the chain. Memories are not a necessary requirement for experience and thus are not a requirement for subjective continuation and survival. You survive

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 19 Oct 2013, at 09:42, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 6:09 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18/2013 1:45 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:37 AM, meekerdb meeke

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 4:30 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/19/2013 10:15 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 11:11 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/19/2013 12:30 AM, Jason Resch wrote: Amnesia = gap in the chain. Memories

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 4:30 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/19/2013 10:15 AM, Jason Resch wrote: branching, etc. Any state eventually leads to every other state. Sounds like wishful thinking. I will accept that when you can point to a computational state

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.auwrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 06:02:14PM -0500, Jason Resch wrote: Across the many worlds you will find a nearly continuous spectrum of persons from those just like you to those like someone else, and everything

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-20 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.auwrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 07:33:42PM -0500, Jason Resch wrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 06:02:14PM -0500, Jason Resch wrote

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-20 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:11 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/20/2013 8:18 PM, Jason Resch wrote: If the first person views/memories are not integrated, they are not experienced by the Jupiter brain, only instantiated, and it learns nothing of what it is like

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-21 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 1:02 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/20/2013 10:51 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:11 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/20/2013 8:18 PM, Jason Resch wrote: If the first person views/memories are not integrated

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 5:49 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/21/2013 12:27 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 1:02 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/20/2013 10:51 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:11 AM, meekerdb meeke

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-22 Thread Jason Resch
Russell, Out of curiosity, is that link density of ~62% derived from 1 - (e^-1) ? The concept seems related, as it is also the proportion of hash values that can be reached by hashing all possible hash values (for a good hash function with a uniform distribution). Jason On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:38 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/22/2013 1:09 AM, Jason Resch wrote: If it's simply a set of experiences, then it can't choose to simulate anything. The mind has the tools available to generate any experience it wants, somewhat like a lucid

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 3:42 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/22/2013 9:52 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:38 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/22/2013 1:09 AM, Jason Resch wrote: If it's simply a set of experiences, then it can't choose

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-26 Thread Jason Resch
John, I came across this today, which you might find of interest: http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9709032v1.pdf In particular section 3 goes to great pains to describe the importance of the first person / third person distinction. From the paper: A. “It doesn’t explain why we perceive

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-26 Thread Jason Resch
other basis. If you do not find this answer satisfying, I would be interested to know why. Thanks. Jason On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: John, I came across this today, which you might find of interest: http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9709032v1.pdf

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-27 Thread Jason Resch
John, Do you have any comment on the article I posted? Jason On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 10:52 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: You're just lying... You are the one treating things inconsistently, it's a

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-27 Thread Jason Resch
John, Sorry, I missed your reply. Some comment's in-line below: On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 9:54 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: I came across this today, which you might find of interest: http://arxiv.org

Survey of Philosophers

2013-10-27 Thread Jason Resch
I came across this surveyhttp://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl?affil=Philosophy+faculty+or+PhDareas0=0areas_max=1grain=coarseof various professional philosophers. It is interesting that two mutually contradictory opinions are the leading positions among philosophers (according to Bruno's

Rate of Convergence for Born Probabilities

2013-10-27 Thread Jason Resch
Frank Tipler published a paper which aims to show he can predict the rate of convergence toward Born probabilities using the Bayesian probability density and the assumption of many worlds: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0809.4422.pdf He says: As one watches the distribution (1) build up, one is really

Re: Step 3

2013-10-29 Thread Jason Resch
Chris, Perhaps it is simpler to think about first person indeterminacy like this (it requires some familiaraity with programming, but I will try to elaborate those details): Imagine there is a conscious AI inside a virtual environment (an open field) Inside that virtual environment is a ball,

Re: Neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain

2013-10-29 Thread Jason Resch
To add to this point, the main property of spindle cells (being very long and thereby able to connect disjoint regions) might simply be necessary in larger brains (not necessarily more intelligent brains), but since there is a correlation between large brains and more intelligent brains, and so we

Re: Step 3

2013-10-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 2:06 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/29/2013 8:19 AM, Jason Resch wrote: Chris, Perhaps it is simpler to think about first person indeterminacy like this (it requires some familiaraity with programming, but I will try to elaborate those details

Re: Step 3

2013-10-29 Thread Jason Resch
copy is the original? How can you distinguish an original from a copy? Jason On 30 October 2013 09:41, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 2:06 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/29/2013 8:19 AM, Jason Resch wrote: Chris, Perhaps

Re: Step 3

2013-10-30 Thread Jason Resch
copied, other parts erased, and so on. Comp says none of this matters - that its experiences are at a fundamental level exactly like ours. So. What's wrong with this picture, if anything? On 30 October 2013 09:41, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 2:06 PM

Re: Step 3

2013-10-30 Thread Jason Resch
On Oct 30, 2013, at 4:31 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 October 2013 19:03, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: My point was only that the traditional notions of personal identity: saying this person is that one particular continuation of that biological organism

Re: Step 3

2013-10-30 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 4:24 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 October 2013 10:50, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/30/2013 11:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: and that personal survival from moment to moment is exactly the same as survival during a duplication experiment. In

Re: Is Earth F**ked?

2013-10-30 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 5:24 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 October 2013 12:13, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Of course if there are 7 billion people it's more likely there will be survivors than if there are only few million. But an asteroid strike could easily be big

Re: If human beings are nothing more than matter, why are you conscious as yourself?

2013-10-30 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: A Quora answer to the following question. Nothing new for me here probably, but It's maybe organized in a more concise way. Philosophy: If human beings are nothing more than matter, why are you conscious as

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-31 Thread Jason Resch
John, I reformulated the UDA in a way that does not use any pronouns at all, and it doesn't matter if you consider the question from one view or from all the views, the conclusion is the same. Perhaps you wouldn't mind commenting on whether or not you agree with my conclusion. I will re-post it

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-31 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 7:51 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: A) The test described where the simulation process forks 8 times and 256 copies are created and they each see a different pattern of the ball

Re: For John Clark

2013-11-01 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 11:40 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 2:04 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: So, has step 3 gone from that's absurd to everyone knows that ?! Yes that is the situation right now, but with backpedaling and additional caveats and

Re: For John Clark

2013-11-02 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 19 Oct 2013, at 19:30, Jason Resch wrote: Normally this is explained in Albert's book, which I think you have. Are you referring to Quantum Mechanics and Experience (1992)? I do not have this book but will add

Re: For John Clark

2013-11-03 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 02 Nov 2013, at 20:11, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 19 Oct 2013, at 19:30, Jason Resch wrote: Normally this is explained in Albert's book

Re: For John Clark

2013-11-03 Thread Jason Resch
John, You seemed convinced that observers within duplicated but divergent simulations cannot distinguish their observations from a single course that evolves randomly. Why not proceed to the next step? Jason On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 9:22 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov

Re: For John Clark

2013-11-03 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 03 Nov 2013, at 09:17, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 02 Nov 2013, at 20:11, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Bruno Marchal

Re: For John Clark

2013-11-04 Thread Jason Resch
On Nov 4, 2013, at 2:06 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 03 Nov 2013, at 18:51, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 03 Nov 2013, at 09:17, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Bruno Marchal marc

Re: For John Clark

2013-11-04 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 04 Nov 2013, at 15:57, Jason Resch wrote: On Nov 4, 2013, at 2:06 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 03 Nov 2013, at 18:51, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Bruno Marchal marc

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-08 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 07 Nov 2013, at 00:51, LizR wrote: I was thinking specifically of Max Tegmark's MUH. He considers minds to be subsystems of the maths - he doesn't say anything about computations existing in arithmetic. So I think he

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-08 Thread Jason Resch
I read it. On 9 November 2013 10:16, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 07 Nov 2013, at 00:51, LizR wrote: I was thinking specifically of Max Tegmark's MUH. He considers minds to be subsystems of the maths

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-10 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 1:37 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 November 2013 08:13, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/9/2013 1:57 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Tegmark thinks he will survive, if the gun works sufficiently well. if not he might degrade and eventually ... die. This

Re: QM Primer

2013-11-10 Thread Jason Resch
! Best, Telmo. On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: All, I've put together a primer on QM, as I think in the process of explaining something in simple terms can help improve one's understanding of a given subject. I thought I would share

Re: QM Primer

2013-11-10 Thread Jason Resch
do you suggest I make it more clear what is responsible for classical appearances? Thanks, Jason Brent On 11/10/2013 1:49 AM, Jason Resch wrote: All, I've put together a primer on QM, as I think in the process of explaining something in simple terms can help improve one's

Re: QM Primer

2013-11-10 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks for uploading it, great job! Here's what I propose to re-interpret QM: http://multisenserealism.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/instant_eternal.jpg Beams exist only within the experience of the various

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-10 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 1:48 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/10/2013 9:25 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 1:37 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 November 2013 08:13, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/9/2013 1:57 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-12 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 7:14 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Benjamin Button lived his life in reverse. So I'll ask you the same thing I asked Quentin, what's you inference from the fact you, and every body you've ever heard of died before reaching age 150? That observation is

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-12 Thread Jason Resch
Also, I found this related thread on QTI, archived by James Higgo, which took place on this list many years ago: http://higgo.com/qti/rplaga.htm Jason On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 7:14 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-12 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:15 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/12/2013 2:37 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Both with Comp and with Everett-QM we have lost that unique theoretical evidence, because our best current explanation (comp, or QM) makes that mind-brain identity non

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-12 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:45 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/12/2013 2:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Nov 2013, at 04:44, meekerdb wrote: Experience may be like that; everything has 'experience', it's just not human experience and when you stop having human experience

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-12 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: Every one of the perhaps inifinite copies of you will grow old and die in less than 150 years. There is no quantum immortality I guess that settles it. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-12 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 5:57 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 November 2013 11:12, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: Every one of the perhaps inifinite copies of you will grow old and die in less than 150 years. There is no quantum immortality A pretty bold statement. I

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-12 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 7:18 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/12/2013 4:59 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:45 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/12/2013 2:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Nov 2013, at 04:44, meekerdb wrote: Experience

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-12 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 7:20 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/12/2013 5:14 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 5:57 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 November 2013 11:12, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: Every one of the perhaps inifinite copies

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-12 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 8:12 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/12/2013 5:27 PM, Jason Resch wrote: There is a continuation from being anesthetized to waking up from anesthesia. Did you leave out a no? It was intentional, I meant there is a continuation, as in subjectively

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-12 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: Simple. Shooting yourself with a gun or whatever means you use to end your life in one universe does not guarranttee that you do not grow in all other universes. Unless the laws of physics differ across the multiverse,

Re: QM Primer

2013-11-16 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 1:13 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/14/2013 11:00 PM, Jason Resch wrote: Telmo, Bruno, I've incorporated your suggestions into an updated document. Thank you. To all: feel free to use these however you find appropriate. Jason If I use it (and I

Re: Everything is real or unreal?

2013-11-17 Thread Jason Resch
On Nov 16, 2013, at 8:56 AM, smi...@zonnet.nl wrote: Quantum mechanics is only an approximate description of the Mathematical Multiverse. The only things that are real are the elements of that Multiverse, which are algorithms (some of them describe people in some computational state).

Re: Telmo On the US COnstitution

2013-11-21 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 2:54 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: OK, fair enough. I wouldn't have said anything more if you'd said it was a joke after I made my first comment, but since you gave an explanation, I assumed you were serious. I mean, obviously it was a flippant comparison but I

Re: Telmo On the US COnstitution

2013-11-21 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 21 Nov 2013, at 15:50, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 3:45 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 20 Nov 2013, at 21:35, John Mikes wrote: Telmo wrote: *I admire the US constitution too

Re: Telmo On the US COnstitution

2013-11-21 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 3:45 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 20 Nov 2013, at 21:35, John Mikes wrote: Telmo wrote: *I admire the US constitution too. In fact, my political position is essentially to follow it (although I like to imagine possibilities for **peaceful world

Computers teach themselves to recognize cats

2013-11-21 Thread Jason Resch
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/15/google_thinking_machines/ Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

Re: Telmo On the US COnstitution

2013-11-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 4:09 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 21 Nov 2013, at 18:55, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 21 Nov 2013, at 15:50, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 3:45 AM, Bruno Marchal

Re: Telmo On the US COnstitution

2013-11-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:00 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/22/2013 5:38 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 7:51 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/21/2013 1:50 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 20 Nov 2013, at 22:20, Richard

Re: Telmo On the US COnstitution

2013-11-23 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 2:40 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/22/2013 11:06 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:00 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/22/2013 5:38 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 7:51 PM, meekerdb meeke

Re: Telmo On the US COnstitution

2013-11-23 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 1:23 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/23/2013 3:42 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 5:00 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/22/2013 5:38 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 7:51 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net

Re: Telmo On the US COnstitution

2013-11-23 Thread Jason Resch
On Nov 23, 2013, at 10:19 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/23/2013 2:21 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 1:23 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/23/2013 3:42 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 5:00 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net

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