Dear Stephen,
COMP is basically a variant of the familiar "Problem of Other Minds", which
is not just philosophical esoterica but something we have to deal with in
everyday life. How do you know that all your friends and family are really
conscious in the way you are conscious, and not merely zo
I think he is drawing an unwarranted conclusion. The fact that a physical
clock must have finite extent doesn't mean it can't work. Diffeomorphism
invariance is a requirement we impose on our theories to reflect the fact that
choice of coordinates is a matter of description, not physics. To supp
Stephen Paul King:
Dear Jesse,
I thought that you knew that there are serious problems with all known
forms of QFT!
See, for example:
http://www.cgoakley.demon.co.uk/qft/
Yes, I've heard there are some conceptual problems with them, questions
about whether the renormalization is mathematicall
Dear Jesse,
I thought that you knew that there are serious problems with all known
forms of QFT!
See, for example:
http://www.cgoakley.demon.co.uk/qft/
Stephen
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Stephen Paul King writes:
> I would agree that Time is just a coordinate (system), or as Leibniz
> claimed "an order of succession", if we are considering only events in
> space-time that we can specify, e.g. take as a posteriori. What I am trying
> to argue is that we can not do this in the
Stephen Paul King wrote:
Dear Hal,
[HF]
Granted, relativity theory is not a complete and accurate specification
of the world in which we live (that requires QM to be incorporated),
but it is still a self-consistent model which illustrates how time can
be dealt with mathematically in a uniform way w
Dear Hal,
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Subject: Re: Bitstrings, Ontological Status and Time
Time is just a coordinate, in relativity theory. The time coordinate
has an opposite sign to the space coordinates, and
Time is just a coordinate, in relativity theory. The time coordinate
has an opposite sign to the space coordinates, and that subtle difference
is responsible for all of the enormous apparent difference between space
and time.
Granted, relativity theory is not a complete and accurate specification
Greetings Steven,
With due respect and paraphrasing Dawkin's paraphrasing of someone else,
"your incredulity is not a convincing measure of a idea's validity" at
least not in an objective sense. Nor is mine either, but I wonder if
Davies is not on to something when he posits that "strong emergen
- Original Message - From: "Stathis Papaioannou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Many worlds theory of immortality Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 22:40:46 +1000 > snip<> I don't see how you could get anywhere if you disregard the > relationship between observer moments. It is
Hi Stephen:
At 04:37 PM 5/6/2005, you wrote:
Dear Hal,
No, I disagree. The mere a priori existence of bit strings is not
enough to imply necessity that what we experience 1st person view points.
At best it allows the possibility that the bit strings could be
implemented. You see the problem i
Dear Jesse,
I must apologize for my post last night, I had drunk a little too much
beer. ;-)
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Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: Bitstrings, Ontological Status and Time
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The mind
Dear Brian,
Don't we first have to establish that strings of ones and zeros can
encode all of the basic structure that we would agree are necessary for
consciousness? I still do not understand how one bitstring can encode
necessity of the illusion of making a choice between eating Apples or
Dear Stathis,
It is exactly this seeming requirement that we accept COMP by faith and
demand no possibility of empirical falsification that troubles me the most.
For me, a theory must make predictions that "might be confirmed to be
incorrect" otherwise all one has, at best, is the internal co
Hello,
Note that Juergen Schmidhuber is talking at this event, it might be
of interest to a few people on the list. There will be a stream, so
you can watch it from a distance.
Best,
Tim
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Stephen Paul King wrote:
Could I oppose the idea that consiousness is not Turing Emulable
without being a "biological chauvinist"? ;-)The main problem I have is
that these two assumptions are mutually exclusive!
1) Observer-moments exist: This requires that observer-moments have an
ontologi
Charles wrote:
> > [Stephen]
> > The perpetual question I have (about the epiphenomena problem that
> > any form of Idealism has), regarding this notion of a Platonic
> > Reality, is that IF all possible Forms of existence *exist* a
> > priori - "from the beginning" - what necessitates any form of
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