Re: Re:Is the universe computable?

2004-01-15 Thread Eric Cavalcanti
- Original Message - From: David Barrett-Lennard [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0xf2f75022aa10b5ef6c69f2f59f34b03e26cb5bdb467eec82780 didn't exist in this universe (with a very high probability, it being a 512 bit number, generated from physical system noise) before I've generated it. Now it

Re: Determinism

2004-01-15 Thread Norman Samish
Doug Porpora, You have some interesting ideas. For example, a probability so close to zero it takes infinite chances for the event to be expected even once. My understanding of the properties of infinity is that this cannot be true - in an infinite set, anything that can occur, even at the

Re: Strange Anthropic Probabilities

2004-01-15 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 12th January 2004 Doug Porpora wrote: ... Let me also say I find it a morally ghastly proposition that each of us is duplicated an infinite number of times in an infinite number of universes. If so, why ever bother to do the right thing?... Whatever else may be said in response to this

RE: Is the universe computable?

2004-01-15 Thread David Barrett-Lennard
Hi Eric, 0xf2f75022aa10b5ef6c69f2f59f34b03e26cb5bdb467eec82780 didn't exist in this universe (with a very high probability, it being a 512 bit number, generated from physical system noise) before I've generated it. Now it exists (currently, as a hex string (not necessarily ASCII) on

Determinism

2004-01-15 Thread Doug Porpora
Hi all, It is very hard for me to tell on this list what is being sent me privately and what is coming over the list. I am trying to respond in the mode I received. Sorry for any mistake. Norman and John, I believe, responded on list, so here goes. Norman, you say: Also, I'm unable to