Re: language, cloning and thought experiments

2009-03-09 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2009/3/9 Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com Stathis Papaioannou wrote: 2009/3/8 Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com: And if it went to zero you certainly wouldn't know and wouldn't care. If I died I wouldn't be around to know or care, but I would care in anticipation of dying,

Re: language, cloning and thought experiments

2009-03-09 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2009/3/9 Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com wrote: Stathis Papaioannou wrote: 2009/3/8 Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com: And if it went to zero you certainly wouldn't know and wouldn't care. If I died I wouldn't be around to know or care, but I would care in anticipation of dying,

Cellular automata @ home?

2009-03-09 Thread Feliciano GuimarĂ£es
Hello! I invite to check my idea of a *home made complex self-organizing system:* ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTEWUTl_OcI Greetings!! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group.

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-09 Thread John Mikes
Bruno, - again the bartender... * Initial remark: I like Gunther's parenthetical condition of arithmetic consistency - which I find not assured in DIFFERENT universes. As I said axioms (2+2=4) are in my opinion *thought - conditions* to make one's theory workable and so they are conditioned by

Reality as simplicity

2009-03-09 Thread ronaldheld
Not certain what thread this belongs in so I started up a new one. arxiv.org:0903.1193v1 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Cellular automata @ home?

2009-03-09 Thread Tim Boykett
if I correctly understand they are syncing with one another through their sensors. so it is a bit of Gleich's Sync book implemented in lights. Or have I completely misunderstood? Tim On 9 Mar 2009, at 15:16, Feliciano GuimarĂ£es wrote: Hello! I invite to check my idea of a home made

Re: Cellular automata @ home?

2009-03-09 Thread Colin Hales
What you have here is a phenomenon which has been described a lot for 50 years. It appears in the literature in the descriptions of the synchronous behaviour of crickets, cicadas and fireflies. Eg: D. E. Kim, A spiking neuron model for synchronous flashing of fireflies, Biosystems, vol. 76,

Wolfram Alpha

2009-03-09 Thread Kim Jones
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=10240m=41581 Universities and schools should now re-invent themselves. We no longer need any institution to dole out knowledge because all (non-fuzzy factual) knowledge can be downloaded from the Net. Education can now only have a

Re: Wolfram Alpha

2009-03-09 Thread Brent Meeker
Kim Jones wrote: http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=10240m=41581 http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=10240m=41581 Universities and schools should now re-invent themselves. We no longer need any institution to dole out knowledge because all

Re: Wolfram Alpha

2009-03-09 Thread Kim Jones
Certainly wouldn't disagree with you, Brent but I'm just wondering whether it's ever worth bringing out your yellow Positive Thinking hat before you automatically reach for your black Negative/Cautionary thinking hat? Please go right ahead and invent a bullshit detector ( a real one - not