On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:20:59PM +1300, LizR wrote: > On 25 October 2014 12:19, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > So you know for certainty that the arrival times of electrons in a > > Geiger counter from a beta decay source is computable. How? > > > > This point was originally about real numbers (wasn't it?) > > You (Russell) said that Bruno has shown that real numbers must be part of > the phenomenal world if comp is true, but not ontological (because comp > assumes only integer arithmetic and that only with certain operations). > > I'm not sure if I follow this, but my guess is that comp says that some > phenomena we experience can generate an arbitrary string of random digits - > as many digits as we care to measure. Or something like that...? I guess > that has to be the case if there is first person indeterminacy. Or have I > got this completely wrong? >
No, you're right on the money. Real numbers are basically just infinite sequences of random integers, most of which are uncomputable. Which is what FPI is. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
