Hi Kim, I didn't expect you to send the translation of the Amoeba's Secret (AS) on the list. But it is OK, and you did a rather very good job.
For the other: "The Amoeba's Secret" is the book which has been ordered to me when I won the LE MONDE prize of the best thesis in 1998. For obscure reasons (which I don't want to talk about) it has not been published, it is the only prize LE MONDE which has not been published. They were supposed to publish the thesis, but judging it to technical they asked me to describe the story of the thesis, despite they new it is a bit sad. But it t contains a good explanation of both UDA and its arithmetical translation AUDA (the interviex of the introspective universal machine) and where those ideas come from. That could help if only because it is far shorter than "Conscience et Mécanisme". You can see it as an enlarged joining post. In that book I am using the term "psychology" of machine instead of "theology", which despite its connotation is far more well suited, especially concerning the secret feature of the "amoeba's" discourse, and which basically concerns the corona G* minus G of the discourse of the self- referentially correct machine. The machine is mute on that, or assert those proposition in an interrogative way. It is the magic of comp: it gives you a logic of what is "true" (ASSUMING comp) but unprovable (ASSUMING comp and some amount of self-consistency). Best, Bruno On 28 Feb 2009, at 13:27, Kim Jones wrote: > The Amoeba’s Secret > > > > by Bruno Marchal > > > > May 19 2000 > > > > English version by K. Jones > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
