Re: Are we simulated by some massive computer?

At 16:14 30/04/04 -0400, John M wrote: How about: self? is it a good enoug 1st person soul? Here you put your finger on something quite important but rather hard to explain without saying more on the incompleteness phenomenon. We will certainly come back on this more than once. The idea is

Re: Private Minds in 3rd Person views?

Hi Stephen, At 20:00 30/04/04 -0400, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, I missed something that you wrote earlier! Do you truly think that the solution to the mind/body problem involves explaining how a private mind can be attached to anything third-person describable? I don't see how

The Map of the territory

Hi, I have put on my web page a link toward a pdf slide giving the main map of the territory. http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/MapOfTerritory.pdf It is a graph whose vertex give the main propositional logics used in the derivation of physics from machine introspection, and the edges are just

Questions about MWI and mathematical formalism

I'm a layperson fascinated with quantum mechanics and the MWI, and have reached a point where to obtain a better understanding of the qualitative descriptions (universes splitting, measure of a universe, etc.) I must learn the mathematical formalism. It appears that the popular descriptions of

Re: Questions about MWI and mathematical formalism

This is a slight expansion on my previous post under the simulation thread. 1) The first step is to examine the act of definition. In this case the definition of a Nothing. Any definition process simultaneously defines two entities. The definition is a boundary between an entity of interest