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From: Brent Meeker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Saibal Mitra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 02:23 PM
Subject: RE: Observer-Moment Measure from Universe Measure
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From: Saibal Mitra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday,
Hal Finney writes, in his usual eloquent and enlightening way:
I was working on an essay on the nature of thought experiments about
copying, but it got bogged down, so I will make this short. I am trying
to analyze it based on evolutionary considerations. Copying is much like
biological
Here's a little tongue-in-cheek rant...
From an Unhappy Observer-Moment to its Future Observer-Moments
Dear Observer-Moments of my future:
Philosophical musing has forced me to reconsider my relationship to
you, the observer moments which follow my own in the existence of the
observer who ties
At 12:43 PM 6/11/2005, Hal Finney wrote:
Here's a little tongue-in-cheek rant...
(snip)
Yet how many philosophers are willing to seriously consider abandoning
this arbitrary conditioning in deciding what is right and wrong? How many
of us here are willing to take the logical path to its
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 08:15:25AM -0400, Jesse Mazer wrote:
OK, is that why you're saying the ASSA and RSSA are incompatible? But my
point is that I think this incompatibility is removed if you always take
the ASSA as applying to your current observer-moment, and the RSSA as
applying to
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:59:16PM +0100, Patrick Leahy wrote:
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Russell Standish wrote:
Yes, if you think there is a concrete reality in which everything exists
(your question of where does the observer live?), then the AP is a
tautology.
What I meant by where does
Russell Standish wrote:
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 08:15:25AM -0400, Jesse Mazer wrote:
OK, is that why you're saying the ASSA and RSSA are incompatible? But my
point is that I think this incompatibility is removed if you always take
the ASSA as applying to your current observer-moment, and
Jesse Mazer writes:
But I explained in my last post how the ASSA could also apply to an
arbitrary next observer-moment as opposed to an arbitrary current
one--if you impose the condition I mentioned about the relation between
conditional probability and absolute probability, which is
Hal Finney wrote:
Jesse Mazer writes:
But I explained in my last post how the ASSA could also apply to an
arbitrary next observer-moment as opposed to an arbitrary current
one--if you impose the condition I mentioned about the relation between
conditional probability and absolute
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