Re: Let There Be Something

2005-11-03 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 03:21:50PM -0800, "Hal Finney" wrote: > Russell Standish writes: > > It predicts that either a) there is no conscious life in a GoL > > universe (thus contradicting computationalism) or b) the physics as > > seen by conscious GoL observers will be quantum mechanical in natur

Re: Let There Be Something

2005-11-03 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:18:01AM +0100, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > Hi Russel, > > Le Jeudi 03 Novembre 2005 22:11, Russell Standish a ??crit??: > > > > > Even then, there is still a loophole. I suspect that 3D environment > > are far more likely to evolve the complex structures needed for > > con

Re: Let There Be Something

2005-11-03 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Tom: One of the goals of my search for a model was to explain why there is an observed dynamic. The Somethings that are launched from my Nothing/All pair include evolving Somethings [due to their incompleteness]. This evolution causes states of universes resident in the All to be given a

Re: Let There Be Something

2005-11-03 Thread "Hal Finney"
Russell Standish writes: > It predicts that either a) there is no conscious life in a GoL > universe (thus contradicting computationalism) or b) the physics as > seen by conscious GoL observers will be quantum mechanical in nature. > > If one could establish that a given GoL structure is conscious,

Re: Let There Be Something

2005-11-03 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Hi Russel, Le Jeudi 03 Novembre 2005 22:11, Russell Standish a écrit : > > Even then, there is still a loophole. I suspect that 3D environment > are far more likely to evolve the complex structures needed for > consciousness, so that conscious GoL observers are indeed a rare > thing. I don't know

Re: Let There Be Something

2005-11-03 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 12:39:27PM -0800, "Hal Finney" wrote: > Russell Standish writes: > > Lack of convincing is perhaps due to lack of understanding. Even I do > > not fully understand the true worth of my "derivation". It seems to me > > that I show that any physical theory that takes into acco

Re: Let There Be Something

2005-11-03 Thread "Hal Finney"
Russell Standish writes: > Lack of convincing is perhaps due to lack of understanding. Even I do > not fully understand the true worth of my "derivation". It seems to me > that I show that any physical theory that takes into account > observation must have that Hilbert space structure, with that fo

Re: Let There Be Something

2005-11-03 Thread "Hal Finney"
Bruno Marchal writes: > And that illustrates the advantage of the comp theory, it gives by > construction the correct physics, without any need, for a comp > "believer" to verify it. Except, of course, that comp need to be > postulated and we must be open it is could be false. With comp, you >

Re: Let There Be Something

2005-11-03 Thread daddycaylor
There was more to my post, which I've included below, which was meant to answer questions from multiple contributors here. Thanks, Hal Ruhl, for responding. Somethings coming from All AND Nothing seems just as mysterious as coming from one of them. And if the somethings which are generated ar

Re: Let There Be Something

2005-11-03 Thread John M
Thanks Russell, for the testimony for our not being omniscient. I concur with Hal in his assumption that recent-day physics is "close-to-right" - because it is within the model-view of what we identified (over centuries) as the "physical view of the world" strictly within our actual (and continual

Fwd: Re: R�p : Let there be Something

2005-11-03 Thread John M
Note: forwarded message attached. --- Begin Message --- --- Bruno Marchal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Le 02-nov.-05, à 21:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit > : > > > I should make another point, that it seems very > likely that the worm > > has no way of developing the in-apple technology >

Re: Let There Be Something

2005-11-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 03-nov.-05, à 12:12, Quentin Anciaux a écrit : Hi Bruno, Le Jeudi 3 Novembre 2005 11:14, vous avez écrit : Le 02-nov.-05, à 21:23, Quentin Anciaux a écrit : I could'nt imagine what would it be for a human to knows the why and being able to prove it... Then you should like comp (and its

Re: The Plenitude

2005-11-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
ERRATA: in the last paragraph to the post I send to Georges, instead of Another justification on the "bigness" of the 1-plenitude is that a first person cannot even give name (description) of itself: the real "I" is already undefinable. Its extension set cannot be extremely complex and b

Re: Let There Be Something

2005-11-03 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:03:21PM -0800, "Hal Finney" wrote: > > I don't think most of our versions of multiverse theories depend on the > assumption that present-day physics is close to being right. It's true > that we have some efforts such as those of Russell Standish to derive QM > from a mu

Re: The Plenitude

2005-11-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Georges, Le 03-nov.-05, à 04:23, George Levy a écrit : From the thread Re: ROSS MODEL OF THE UNIVERSE - The Simplest Yet Theory of Everything Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 22-oct.-05, à 04:50, George Levy a écrit : The 3-plenitude is equivalent with the computationnal states accessed by the

Re: Let There Be Something

2005-11-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 03-nov.-05, à 06:03, Hal Finney a écrit : In short, if there really exists a simple mathematical explanation of our universe, which IMO is a prediction of multiverse theories, I don't see our present physical models as being very close to that goal. That doesn't mean that multiverse theories

Rép : Let there be Something

2005-11-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 02-nov.-05, à 21:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I should make another point, that it seems very likely that the worm has no way of developing the in-apple technology to find out about quantum mechanics or DNA. This emphasizes the fact that we, with our quantum theories, M-theories, and l

Re: Let There Be Something

2005-11-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 02-nov.-05, à 21:23, Quentin Anciaux a écrit : I could'nt imagine what would it be for a human to knows the why and being able to prove it... Then you should like comp (and its generalisation) because it explain the why, and it justifies completely wxhy we cannot and will never been abl