On Tuesday, August 13, 2019, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 9:40 AM Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 7 Aug 2019, at 15:08, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> What exactly is the difference between something that it is >> impossible in principle to detect and something that does not exist? >> > > > *> It is like the difference between the human existence and the human non >> existence, for an alien situated in a very far away galaxy. The fact that >> this alien cannot detect us does not make the human disappearing. * >> > > You're dodging the question. We can certainly detect ourselves, and it is > not impossible in principle for a alien in a distant galaxy to detect us, > and that is very different from your silly phantom computations that pure > numbers are suposed to be able to perform. > > > *It is like the other side of the moon before we built rocket. * >> > > Nobody ever said there was a philosophical problem in observing the far > side of the moon, it was always just a matter of engineering, but no amount > of engineering can make your ridiculous phantom calculations real. If they > existed it would be possible in principle to count the number of angels > that were sitting on the head of a pin, but your non-material Turing > Machine is hopeless. > > The conversation was about other branches of the wavefunction. (Which I think you believe in despite not being able to see, nor them being able to make a CPU useful to you). Jason > John K Clark > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv16Ojzy26NDxWmmBC2f8kQix > CEf_H5oVVyQLu4HerF4nw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv16Ojzy26NDxWmmBC2f8kQixCEf_H5oVVyQLu4HerF4nw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CA%2BBCJUj2DUGRY-FC5_nvEKUhRWks%2Bo7SDRfAmvPOdQXo1qKi-w%40mail.gmail.com.
