Re: briefly wading back into the fray

2009-02-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Feb 2009, at 19:05, Jack Mallah wrote: Bruno is still pushing his crackpot UDA. What is it that you (still) don't understand? (good idea to resume UDA again, and so the question is asked also to the newbies). Please help yourself by printing the PDF slide 1) The (re)definition

Re: briefly wading back into the fray re: UDA

2009-02-09 Thread Jack Mallah
--- On Mon, 2/9/09, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: good idea to resume UDA again Bruno, I will post on the subject - but not yet. I do not want to get sidetracked from improving my paper. I see you have make some progress on the subject (but not yet on diplomacy, unless your

Re: briefly wading back into the fray re: UDA

2009-02-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Jack, On 09 Feb 2009, at 18:19, Jack Mallah wrote: --- On Mon, 2/9/09, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: good idea to resume UDA again Bruno, I will post on the subject - but not yet. I do not want to get sidetracked from improving my paper. I guess you understand that I do

Re: briefly wading back into the fray

2009-02-08 Thread russell standish
On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 10:05:14AM -0800, Jack Mallah wrote: --- On Fri, 2/6/09, russell standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: So sorry Jacques - you need to do better. I'm sure you can! Russell, I expected there might be some discussion of my latest eprint on this list. That's why I'm

Re: briefly wading back into the fray

2009-02-08 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2009/2/8 Jack Mallah jackmal...@yahoo.com: Suppose you differentiate into N states, then on average each has 1/N of your original measure. I guess that's why you think the measure decreases. But the sum of the measures is N/N of the original. This is trivially obvious so I saw no reason

Re: briefly wading back into the fray

2009-02-08 Thread Günther Greindl
Hello Jack, I could tell you what's wrong with his MGA, but I'm here to deal with the QS paper first. I appreciate your prioritizing your paper, but I would be interested in what you find wrong with the MGA. By the way, as I mentioned in a previous mail to John, my departure from

RE: briefly wading back into the fray - re: dualism

2009-02-08 Thread Jack Mallah
So far the responses here have not been as hostile as I feared :) --- On Sat, 2/7/09, Jesse Mazer laserma...@hotmail.com wrote: are you open to the idea that there might be truths about subjectivity (such as truths about what philosophers call 'qualia') which cannot be reduced to purely

briefly wading back into the fray

2009-02-07 Thread Jack Mallah
--- On Fri, 2/6/09, russell standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: So sorry Jacques - you need to do better. I'm sure you can! Russell, I expected there might be some discussion of my latest eprint on this list. That's why I'm here now - to see if there are any clarifications I should make in

RE: briefly wading back into the fray

2009-02-07 Thread Jesse Mazer
It seems to me that discussions of quantum immortality often founder on the fact that people don't make their assumptions about philosophy of mind explicit, or don't have a well-thought-out position on metaphysical issues relating to mind in the first place. For example, Jaques, are you

Re: briefly wading back into the fray

2009-02-07 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Hi, 2009/2/7 Jack Mallah jackmal...@yahoo.com --- On Fri, 2/6/09, russell standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: So sorry Jacques - you need to do better. I'm sure you can! Russell, I expected there might be some discussion of my latest eprint on this list. That's why I'm here now - to