Re: Speaking about "Mathematicalism"

On Apr 3, 5:03 am, Tim Boykett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Everythingers, > >I was introduced to this list by Jurgen Schmidhuber, who spoke at a > meeting that we had here in Linz in 2005. A very interesting meeting > with Ed Fredkin, Tom Toffoli, Karl Svozil and a few others to make

Re: Evidence for the simulation argument

On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 05:37:25PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > Just a preliminary remark before I comment your post. Contrary to what > Russell says in his book, I am not at all a philosopher, I am not > trying to propose a view of the world or a conception of reality. As I

Re: Speaking about "Mathematicalism"

Bruno Marchal wrote: > Hi Tim > > Le 03-avr.-07, à 12:03, Tim Boykett wrote (in part): > >>One of the recurring ideas here is that of "mathematicalism" - an >> idea >> that I understand to be that we perceive things as physical that have >> a certain >> mathematical structure. One of the "ev

Re: Speaking about "Mathematicalism"

Hi Tim Le 03-avr.-07, à 12:03, Tim Boykett wrote (in part): >One of the recurring ideas here is that of "mathematicalism" - an > idea > that I understand to be that we perceive things as physical that have > a certain > mathematical structure. One of the "everything" ideas that results is >

Re: Evidence for the simulation argument

Hi Mark, Just a preliminary remark before I comment your post. Contrary to what Russell says in his book, I am not at all a philosopher, I am not trying to propose a view of the world or a conception of reality. As I said in the joining post my initial goal was just to understand molecular bi

Re: Statistical Measure, does it matter?

Well, my friend, I am no Georg Cantor, but I am of a like-mind to him. What I have discerned, is an important insight that indeed resolves the chasm, and does, as you point out, make things mightily more complicated. There is level of complication that has been with us all the time, but which we

Re: Statistical Measure, does it matter?

Jamie, wise words, but no cigar here. For a "RE-Evaluation" I have insufficient knowledge even in the "E" - to compare it into a "RE-". Statistical is different: I question the topical meaning, as being just a 'model'-related idea (in MY sense: as a limited topical fraction of the totality within b

Speaking about "Mathematicalism"

Hello Everythingers, I was introduced to this list by Jurgen Schmidhuber, who spoke at a meeting that we had here in Linz in 2005. A very interesting meeting with Ed Fredkin, Tom Toffoli, Karl Svozil and a few others to make it a very full couple of days. One of the recurring ideas here