I am deeply shocked by that terrible news.   
I know most of you know how James was an everything 
pillar, and how much we appreciate his short and accurate
posts.

I got the chance to meet James in Brussels the
22 june and I was so happy with the idea to
meet him again. He shows me the beginning
of a promising book he was working on. James will
perhaps finish it somewhere, but that will
not help us. We will miss him a lot.

My deepest thought for all who loved him.

Bruno


 

>----- Forwarded message from Jenny Higgo -----
>
>Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 06:09:44 -0700
>From: Jenny Higgo
>To: Hal Ruhl, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Consistency?   Programs for G, G*, ...
>X-Diagnostic: Not on the accept list
>
>James Higgo was killed in an air accident on 22nd July.  He would be very 
>sorry not to receive this e-mail.  Still, if his many worlds theory is 
>correct, perhaps he has received it another.
>Best wishes,
>Jenny Higgo (James' mother)
>
>> Dear George:
>> 
>> Just a quick comment since I happened to read the end first.
>> 
>> At 6/3/01, you wrote:
>> 
>> >hmmmm... I thought that was a trick question. An axiomatic system cannot 
>> >be both
>> >complete and consistent. Therefore there can't be a program for it. We go 
>> >back on how
>> >you implement both G and G*.....
>> >
>> >
>> >George(s)
>> 
>> As far as I know that is not true.  I understand it to be that some 
>> axiomatic systems are both complete and consistent.
>> 
>> Godel deals with systems at the complexity of arithmetic and above.
>> 
>> Chaitin puts an upper limit on the complexity of a proof in any axiomatic 
>> system.
>> 
>> IMO the everything is sufficiently low in complexity - no information at 
>> all - that it is both
>> complete and consistent, thus it can not answer any question including that 
>> of its own stability.  So also with its [in my model] oscillatory alter ego 
>> - The Nothing.
>> 
>> Since at its heart I feel that Bruno's approach and mine are linked - 
>> though at the moment I can not follow the majority of his explanation - 
>> There is only one axiom => Nothing.
>> 
>> While this must lead to an all universes concurrently system - again no 
>> information - there can be no answer as to why we find ourselves in this 
>> one based on a distribution of types because there can be no such 
>distribution.
>> 
>> The one we are in works to support SAS because large events are almost but 
>> not quite deterministic.  On the small event end of the spectrum I expect 
>> that the curve hangs a bit -  our universe's true noise content - before 
>> rolling off to almost no one bit events.
>> 
>> Hal
>> 
>> 
>> 
>
>----- End forwarded message -----

Reply via email to