Re: Evidence for the simulation argument

2007-03-17 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 3/17/07, Brent Meeker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But what is Platonia - Tegmarks all mathematically consistent universe? or Bruno's Peano arithmetic - or maybe Torny's finite arithmetic (which would be a much smaller everything). And while we're at it, why exclude non-mathematical

Re: Evidence for the simulation argument

2007-03-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 17-mars-07, à 00:11, Brent Meeker a écrit : But what is Platonia - Tegmarks all mathematically consistent universe? or Bruno's Peano arithmetic - or maybe Torny's finite arithmetic (which would be a much smaller everything). And how do things run in Platonia? Do we need temporal

Re: String theory and Cellular Automata

2007-03-17 Thread Mohsen Ravanbakhsh
Hi, It was an interesting hypothesis, When we're talking black holes we should consider them as the sources of reduction of entropy; since when something gets into a black hole we have no more information about it and so the overall information of the world decreases and the same happens to

Re: The Meaning of Life

2007-03-17 Thread John M
Brent: ...No parent expects to receive anything but satisfaction from raising their children - as perfectly well explained by Darwin. And how dare you assert that money I sent to Katrina victims was simply calculated to get something back. There are many possible Darwinian explanations for

Re: JOINING post

2007-03-17 Thread John M
Dear Mindaugas. you wrote: Analogically, if we find that our world is some cellular automata ... I PRESUME THIS IS your STARTING POINT: if... if not, if we find that our world is more(?) than a cellular automaton - which is in my word-use 'reductionist' - then the world is NOT governed by some

Re: Evidence for the simulation argument

2007-03-17 Thread John M
I was so glad to have some 'text' on UD(A), comp, the P-words (Platonia, Paeano, Plotinus), the hypostases, in your post. Alas! Still all techy, only for the adepts. Not in Mark's required plain language. (English or what?) (I still stumble among them). My question now: How do we

Re: String theory and Cellular Automata

2007-03-17 Thread Brent Meeker
Mohsen Ravanbakhsh wrote: Hi, It was an interesting hypothesis, When we're talking black holes we should consider them as the sources of reduction of entropy; since when something gets into a black hole we have no more information about it and so the overall information of the world

Re: Evidence for the simulation argument

2007-03-17 Thread Brent Meeker
Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 17-mars-07, à 00:11, Brent Meeker a écrit : But what is Platonia - Tegmarks all mathematically consistent universe? or Bruno's Peano arithmetic - or maybe Torny's finite arithmetic (which would be a much smaller everything). And how do things run in Platonia?