Hi Stephen P. King Leibniz simply assumed that the PEH existed. My followup was that at least for large groups of particles, not of small groups or 1, thermodynamincs is the PEH.
In a way this makes sense, since God seems to act only on groups (such as killing all besides noah and his family in the Flood). And He lets the rain fall on the unjust as well as the just. Jesus acts on individuals, who must be judged individually. Quantum computing or logic possibly (???) could achieve the individual motions. [Roger Clough], [[email protected]] 12/18/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-12-17, 16:55:48 Subject: Re: Avoiding the use of the word God On 12/17/2012 2:15 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> Is it possible to define a "relative probability" in the case where >> it is not possible to count or otherwise partition the members of the >> ensemble? > > Yes. "relative probability" is not necessarily a constructive notion. Dear Bruno, Is this not a confession that there is something fundamentally non-computable in the notion of a relative measure? I know about this from my study of the problem of the axiom of choice, but I would like to see your opinion on this. > >> Not that I know of! If you know how, please explain this to me! > > Normally if you follow the UDA you might understand intuitively why > the relative probability are a priori not constructive. So you can't > use them in practice, but you still can use them to derive physics, > notably because the case "P = 1" can be handled at the proposition > level through the logic of self-references (Bp & Dt, p sigma_1). Was it not Penrose that was roundly criticized to claiming that there had to be something non-computable in physics? It seems that you might have proven his case! I go much further (faster!) and claim that this non-constructable aspect is the main reason why there cannot exist a pre-established harmony in the Laplacean sense of the universe. -- Onward! Stephen -- 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. -- 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.
