Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-24 Thread Edgar Owen
Jason, John, and Bruno,

One must distinguish here between consciousness itself (the subject of the Hard 
Problem), and the contents of consciousness and their structure (the subjects 
of the Easy Problems).

The contents and their structure are most certainly computed by the minds of 
organisms, but the fact that the results of these computations are conscious is 
due to the self-manifesting immanent nature of reality as I explained in more 
detail in a post yesterday

Edgar



On Dec 22, 2013, at 10:41 PM, Jason Resch wrote:

 
 
 
 On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
 
 On 21 Dec 2013, at 17:09, John Mikes wrote:
 
 'Implicit assumptions'? Jason seems to me as standing on the platform of 
 physical sciences -
 
 I let Jason answer, but this is not my feeling. It seems to me that Jason is 
 quite cautious on this, and open to put physics on an arithmetical platform 
 instead. 
 
 
 
 John's initial critique was that I seemed to be assuming a lot that he doe 
 not.  I replied to ask what specifically he thinks I am assuming which he was 
 not.  To clarify, I was assuming arithmetical truth and the idea that the 
 correct computation can instantiate our consciousness.
 
 Jason
 
 
 
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Re: Minds, Machines and Gödel

2013-12-24 Thread Edgar Owen
Liz,

No, that doesn't make Reality subject to the halting problem. The halting 
problem is when a computer program is trying to reach some independently 
postulated result and may or may not be able to reach it. 

Reality doesn't have any problem like this. It just computes the logical 
results of the evolution of the current information state of the universe. 
There are no independently postulated states that aren't directly computed by 
reality which reality then attempts to reach (prove).

Edgar



On Dec 21, 2013, at 3:26 PM, LizR wrote:

 Reality is analogous to a running software program. Godel's Theorem does not 
 apply. A human could speculate as to whether any particular state of Reality 
 could ever arise computationally and it might be impossible to determine 
 that, but again that has nothing to do with the actual operation of 
 Reality,since it is only a particular internal mental model of that reality.
 
 Wouldn't that make reality susceptible to the halting problem?
 
 ...hello, is anybody there? Why have all the stars gone out?
 
 
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Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-24 Thread Edgar Owen
 from the actual logico-mathematical 
 structure of reality in important ways (e.g. infinities and infinitesimals 
 which don't actually exist in external reality).
 
 I can explain further if anyone is interested, or you can read about it in my 
 book...
 
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Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-24 Thread Edgar Owen
Bruno,

Thanks for your comments. However I think you are coming at Reality from the 
POV of human logico-mathematical theory whose results you are trying to impose 
on reality. My approach is to closely examine reality and then try to figure 
out how it works and what ITS innate rules and structures are.

I would probably agree with much of what you say, if you were saying it about 
human logico-mathematical structures, but the logico-mathematical structure of 
reality is not bound by human rules. It runs according to its own logic and 
science is the process of trying to figure out what those rules are and how 
they work...

For example, reality is clearly a computational process, and it runs against 
pure information which is the fundamental stuff of the universe. There is 
simply no other way current information states of reality could result from 
previous ones other than by a computational process. How that computational 
process works must be determined by examining reality itself. We may try to 
make sense of it in terms of traditional human math theory, but when there are 
differences then reality always trumps human math theory, which applies to 
human math rather than reality's logico-mathematical system.

Edgar



On Dec 22, 2013, at 6:44 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:

 
 On 21 Dec 2013, at 00:52, Edgar Owen wrote:
 
 All,
 
 The fundamental nature of reality is examined in detail in my recent book on 
 Reality available on Amazon under my name.
 
 Marchal is on the right track, but reality consists not just of numbers 
 (math)
 
 Arithmetic is not just numbers, but numbers + some laws (addition and 
 multiplication).
 
 
 
 
 but is a running logical structure analogous to software
 
 
 When you have the laws (addition and multiplication), it can be shown that a 
 tiny part of arithmetic implement all possible computations (accepting Church 
 thesis). Without Church thesis, you can still prove that that tiny part of 
 arithmetic emulates (simulate exactly) all Turing (or all known) computations.
 
 
 
 
 that continually computes the current state of the universe.
 
 You mean the physical universe. Have you read my papers or posts? if we are 
 machine, there is no physical reality that we can assume. the whole of 
 physics must be derived from arithmetic.
 
 
 
 
 Just as software includes but doesn't consist only of numbers and math, so 
 does reality.
 
 It depends on your initial assumption.
 
 
 
 
 In fact the equations of physical science make sense only when embedded in a 
 logical structure just as is the case in computational reality.
 
 The computational reality is a tiny part of arithmetic. Logic is just a tool 
 to explore such realities.
 
 
 
 
 Modern science has a major lacuna, the notion that all of reality is 
 mathematical,
 
 Most scientists do not believe this, and indeed criticize my work for seeming 
 to go in that direction. 
 Then term like reality and mathematical are very fuzzy. 
 Now, if we are machine, then it can be shown that for the ontology we need 
 arithmetic, or any equivalent Turing universal system, and we *cannot* assume 
 anything more (that is the key non obvious point). Then, it is shown that the 
 physical reality is:
 1) an internal aspect of arithmetic
 2) despite this, it is vastly bigger than arithmetic and even that any 
 conceivable mathematics. That is why I insist that the reality we can access 
 to is not mathematical, but theological. It contains many things provably 
 escaping all possible sharable mathematics.
 That arithmetic is (much) bigger viewed from inside than viewed from outside 
 is astonishing, and is a sort of Skolem paradox (not a contradiction, just a 
 weirdness).
 
 
 
 that prevents science from grasping the complete nature of reality. In truth 
 all of reality is logical, as is software, and the mathematics is just a 
 subset of the logic.
 
 I disagree, with all my respect. Even arithmetic escapes logic. It is logic 
 which is just a branch of math, but math, even just arithmetic, escapes 
 logic. Arithmetical truth escapes all effective theories (theories with 
 checkable proofs).
 
 
 
 
 After all, modern science with its misguided insistence that all of reality 
 is mathematical,
 
 I really do not believe this. Except for Tegmark and Schmidhuber, I doubt any 
 scientist believes this. But its is a consequence of computationalism, for 
 the ontology. Yet, the physical is purely epistemological, and go beyond 
 mathematics. I show that all universal machine, when believeing in enough 
 induction axioms, can discovered this by introspection only.
 
 
 
 has had nothing useful to say about the nature of either consciousness or 
 the present moment, the two most fundamental aspects of experience.
 
 I suggest you read my sane paper.:
 http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/publications/SANE2004MARCHALAbstract.html 
 
 It explains the present moment by using Gödel form of indexical (with 
 explicit fixed points), including the non

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-24 Thread Edgar Owen
Mitch,

No, my theory comes not from those gentlemen, but (at least hopefully) from 
reality itself.

As to where reality's 'computer network' exists see my previous reply to Mitch 
where I explain in a fair amount of detail trying to answer his excellent 
question...

Edgar



On Dec 22, 2013, at 2:04 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote:

 Your theory comes from Von Neumann, and Chaitin, and Wolfram, does it not, 
 Edgar? That everything is a program or cellular automata, and in the 
 beginning was a program. Following along, what is this Logic comprised of 
 (sort of like SPK's query) is it electrons, is it virtual particles, is it 
 field lines? Where doth the logical structure sleep? In Planck Cells? I 
 apologize if my questions annoy, but where is the computer network that 
 computes the current state of the universe. Can we get MIT physicist Seth 
 Lloyd to shake a stick or a laser pointer, or otherwise, display, where this 
 abacus dwells? 
  
 Thanks,
 Mitch
 -Original Message-
 From: Stephen Paul King stephe...@charter.net
 To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com
 Sent: Sun, Dec 22, 2013 1:36 pm
 Subject: Re: Bruno's mathematical reality
 
 Dear Edger,
 
   Where does the fire come from that animates the logic?
 
 
 On Friday, December 20, 2013 6:52:54 PM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote:
 All,
 
 The fundamental nature of reality is examined in detail in my recent book on 
 Reality available on Amazon under my name.
 
 Marchal is on the right track, but reality consists not just of numbers 
 (math) but is a running logical structure analogous to software that 
 continually computes the current state of the universe. Just as software 
 includes but doesn't consist only of numbers and math, so does reality. In 
 fact the equations of physical science make sense only when embedded in a 
 logical structure just as is the case in computational reality.
 
 Modern science has a major lacuna, the notion that all of reality is 
 mathematical, that prevents science from grasping the complete nature of 
 reality. In truth all of reality is logical, as is software, and the 
 mathematics is just a subset of the logic. After all, modern science with its 
 misguided insistence that all of reality is mathematical, has had nothing 
 useful to say about the nature of either consciousness or the present moment, 
 the two most fundamental aspects of experience. However I present a 
 computational based information approach to these in my book among many other 
 things.
 
 The second clarification that needs to be made to the post on Marchal's work 
 is that human math and logic are distinct from the actual math and logic that 
 computes reality. The human version is a generalized and extended 
 approximation of the actual that differs from the actual logico-mathematical 
 structure of reality in important ways (e.g. infinities and infinitesimals 
 which don't actually exist in external reality).
 
 I can explain further if anyone is interested, or you can read about it in my 
 book...
 
 Edgar Owen
 
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Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-24 Thread Edgar Owen
Brent,

I don't avoid infinities but Reality does. When one understands what infinities 
are and how they are defined as an unending and uncompletable process of 
addition it is quite clear that nothing physical can be infinite.

As I've posted in other replies Reality is a computational system like running 
software. Godel and the implications for the Principia don't apply to the 
logico-mathematical computational system of reality, they apply only to human 
logico-mathematical systems.

The logico-mathematical system of Reality simply computes one state of the 
universe from the previous. There are no statements out of the blue that are 
subject to proof which what Godel, Halting, Russell and Whitehead are all about.

It's like trying to apply these to a piece of software, there is no relevance, 
in this case reality's software

Edgar



On Dec 21, 2013, at 5:14 PM, meekerdb wrote:

 On 12/20/2013 3:52 PM, Edgar Owen wrote:
 All,
 
 The fundamental nature of reality is examined in detail in my recent book on 
 Reality available on Amazon under my name.
 
 Marchal is on the right track, but reality consists not just of numbers 
 (math) but is a running logical structure analogous to software that 
 continually computes the current state of the universe. Just as software 
 includes but doesn't consist only of numbers and math, so does reality. In 
 fact the equations of physical science make sense only when embedded in a 
 logical structure just as is the case in computational reality.
 
 Modern science has a major lacuna, the notion that all of reality is 
 mathematical, that prevents science from grasping the complete nature of 
 reality. In truth all of reality is logical, as is software, and the 
 mathematics is just a subset of the logic.
 
 After the difficulties of Russell and Whitehead, and Godel's incompleteness 
 theorem I thought the idea that mathematics was a subset of logic had been 
 laid to rest.
 
 
 After all, modern science with its misguided insistence that all of reality 
 is mathematical, has had nothing useful to say about the nature of either 
 consciousness or the present moment, the two most fundamental aspects of 
 experience. However I present a computational based information approach to 
 these in my book among many other things.
 
 The second clarification that needs to be made to the post on Marchal's work 
 is that human math and logic are distinct from the actual math and logic 
 that computes reality. The human version is a generalized and extended 
 approximation of the actual that differs from the actual logico-mathematical 
 structure of reality in important ways (e.g. infinities and infinitesimals 
 which don't actually exist in external reality).
 
 I'm interested in how you avoid infinities. Do you eschew even potential 
 infinities?
 
 Brent
 
 
 I can explain further if anyone is interested, or you can read about it in 
 my book...
 
 Edgar Owen
 
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A simple incontrovertible proof there are two kinds of time

2013-12-24 Thread Edgar Owen
All,

The proof is simply the fact that the time traveling twins meet up again with 
different clock times, but always in the exact same present moment. This proves 
beyond any doubt there are two kinds of time, clock time which varies by 
relativistic observer, and the time of the present moment (what I call P-time) 
which is absolute and common to all observers across the universe.

When this is realized there are a number of profound implications. 

First that time travel outside the common present moment is impossible since 
all of reality (the entire universe) exists within/is the common present 
moment. The only time travel that is possible is having different clock times 
within the same shared present moment.

Second, that this is compatible with only one cosmological geometry, named that 
the universe is a 4-dimensional hypersphere with P-time (not clock time) as its 
continually extending radial dimension. That is cosmological space is 
positively curved and finite. In fact we all see all 4-dimensions of this 
geometry all the time and visually verify this, as the radial P-time dimension 
is seen as distance in every direction from every point in the 3-dimensional 
space of the hypersphere's surface.

What amazes me is that no one recognized this simple obvious fact prior to my 
stating it in my 1997 paper 'Spacetime and Consciousness'. It's a great example 
of how the trivially obvious can remain unrecognized, no matter how important, 
if it isn't part of the accepted world view of, in this case, either common 
sense or science.

Edgar


 


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Re: Posting problems

2013-12-24 Thread Edgar Owen
Yes, of course it is set to that. We'll see if this gets posted

Edgar



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 I'm using gmail and it works flawlessly. Just check when replying that the 
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 default to that as the Reply-To header is set to that address).
 
 Regards,
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 I've set option of getting all posts as emails which seems to be working OK I 
 think. But when I reply to a post via my Mac mail it never seems to get 
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 simply using a new subject line however none of either type of post ever 
 seems to show up on the group website. I sent 8-9 posts via MacMail over 24 
 hours ago and none have appeared on the group website.
 
 Can anyone tell me how to fix this please? It works on Yahoo Groups just fine.
 
 Is anyone here using their email to receive and reply to the group OK?
 
 Thanks,
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Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-24 Thread Edgar Owen
Stephen,

A very important point which I cover extensively in my book, but rather subtle 
to grasp.

Reality clearly exists. There is something really here now and actual and 
happening. The totality of that is defined as reality and I refer to its 
'stuff' (non-physical but real and actual) as an entity I call 'ontological 
energy'. It is somewhat similar to the ancient concept of Tao.

This ontological energy is originally formless, similar to a generalized 
quantum vacuum, and contains the possibilities of all information forms which 
can arise within it. Similar to a formless sea of water whose nature determines 
what forms of waves, currents and ripples which can arise within it.

The universe, at its fundamental level, is all the information forms that are 
actualized within ontological energy, beginning with the big bang, and which 
continue to evolve according to the laws of nature (the logico-mathematics of 
reality which we have been discussing).

Thus the complete picture of reality consists of the original formless sea 
(logical space) of ontological energy and all the evolving forms which exist 
within it. These forms, everything in the universe, are pure information only 
and have no self-substances other than the ontological energy in which they 
arise. Just as the self-substances of all wave forms in water is only water.

Now to answer your question, it is the fact that the information forms are 
forms that exist in the sea of reality (the ontological energy) that makes them 
real and actual, and the fact that happening is one of the fundamental aspects 
of ontological energy that gives them the fire of life as they continually 
computationally evolve to manifest the real actual universe. This is why the 
information structures of reality are real and actual but those of computer 
software simulating something is not, because they run in reality rather than 
some silicon computer

The universe can/must be considered a living entity in the sense that it is 
self-animated from within. There is no external force that moves it and there 
could not be since by definition it includes everything. Therefore the universe 
is a living entity, and our life and the life of all things comes from the fact 
that we are information forms, programs, that run within reality.

This is the source of the 'fire' that animates the information

Edgar



On Dec 22, 2013, at 1:36 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote:

 Dear Edger,
 
   Where does the fire come from that animates the logic?
 
 
 On Friday, December 20, 2013 6:52:54 PM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote:
 All,
 
 The fundamental nature of reality is examined in detail in my recent book on 
 Reality available on Amazon under my name.
 
 Marchal is on the right track, but reality consists not just of numbers 
 (math) but is a running logical structure analogous to software that 
 continually computes the current state of the universe. Just as software 
 includes but doesn't consist only of numbers and math, so does reality. In 
 fact the equations of physical science make sense only when embedded in a 
 logical structure just as is the case in computational reality.
 
 Modern science has a major lacuna, the notion that all of reality is 
 mathematical, that prevents science from grasping the complete nature of 
 reality. In truth all of reality is logical, as is software, and the 
 mathematics is just a subset of the logic. After all, modern science with its 
 misguided insistence that all of reality is mathematical, has had nothing 
 useful to say about the nature of either consciousness or the present moment, 
 the two most fundamental aspects of experience. However I present a 
 computational based information approach to these in my book among many other 
 things.
 
 The second clarification that needs to be made to the post on Marchal's work 
 is that human math and logic are distinct from the actual math and logic that 
 computes reality. The human version is a generalized and extended 
 approximation of the actual that differs from the actual logico-mathematical 
 structure of reality in important ways (e.g. infinities and infinitesimals 
 which don't actually exist in external reality).
 
 I can explain further if anyone is interested, or you can read about it in my 
 book...
 
 Edgar Owen
 
 
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Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-21 Thread Edgar Owen
All,

The fundamental nature of reality is examined in detail in my recent book 
on Reality available on Amazon under my name.

Marchal is on the right track, but reality consists not just of numbers 
(math) but is a running logical structure analogous to software that 
continually computes the current state of the universe. Just as software 
includes but doesn't consist only of numbers and math, so does reality. In 
fact the equations of physical science make sense only when embedded in a 
logical structure just as is the case in computational reality.

Modern science has a major lacuna, the notion that all of reality is 
mathematical, that prevents science from grasping the complete nature of 
reality. In truth all of reality is logical, as is software, and the 
mathematics is just a subset of the logic. After all, modern science with 
its misguided insistence that all of reality is mathematical, has had 
nothing useful to say about the nature of either consciousness or the 
present moment, the two most fundamental aspects of experience. However I 
present a computational based information approach to these in my book 
among many other things.

The second clarification that needs to be made to the post on Marchal's 
work is that human math and logic are distinct from the actual math and 
logic that computes reality. The human version is a generalized and 
extended approximation of the actual that differs from the actual 
logico-mathematical structure of reality in important ways (e.g. infinities 
and infinitesimals which don't actually exist in external reality).

I can explain further if anyone is interested, or you can read about it in 
my book...

Edgar Owen

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2013-12-21 Thread Edgar Owen
Hi, I just joined the group and have a few questions since it's the first 
Google Group I'm on.

First I assume the group must be moderated since it seems to take quite a 
while for my posts to show up. Is this so and who is/are the moderator(s).

Second I thought I set my settings to get all posts as emails on my MacMail 
so I can reply there which is best for me. But I see a lot of posts on the 
group website I don't seem to be getting in my MacMail. Can anyone tell me 
if there is some delay or how to set that correctly?

Thanks,
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Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-21 Thread Edgar Owen
Hi John,

First thanks for the complement on my post!

To address your points. Of course we do have some knowledge of reality. We 
have to have to be able to function within it which we most certainly do to 
varying degrees of competence. That is proof we do have sufficient 
knowledge of reality to function within it.

Yes, computations include logic as well as math.

Best,
Edgar




On Friday, December 20, 2013 6:52:54 PM UTC-5, Edgar Owen wrote:

 All,

 The fundamental nature of reality is examined in detail in my recent book 
 on Reality available on Amazon under my name.

 Marchal is on the right track, but reality consists not just of numbers 
 (math) but is a running logical structure analogous to software that 
 continually computes the current state of the universe. Just as software 
 includes but doesn't consist only of numbers and math, so does reality. In 
 fact the equations of physical science make sense only when embedded in a 
 logical structure just as is the case in computational reality.

 Modern science has a major lacuna, the notion that all of reality is 
 mathematical, that prevents science from grasping the complete nature of 
 reality. In truth all of reality is logical, as is software, and the 
 mathematics is just a subset of the logic. After all, modern science with 
 its misguided insistence that all of reality is mathematical, has had 
 nothing useful to say about the nature of either consciousness or the 
 present moment, the two most fundamental aspects of experience. However I 
 present a computational based information approach to these in my book 
 among many other things.

 The second clarification that needs to be made to the post on Marchal's 
 work is that human math and logic are distinct from the actual math and 
 logic that computes reality. The human version is a generalized and 
 extended approximation of the actual that differs from the actual 
 logico-mathematical structure of reality in important ways (e.g. infinities 
 and infinitesimals which don't actually exist in external reality).

 I can explain further if anyone is interested, or you can read about it in 
 my book...

 Edgar Owen



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