Re: The seven step series

2009-07-02 Thread m.a.
Bruno, Comments and questions are interspersed below. marty - Original Message - From: Bruno Marchal To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, July

Re: Non unique Universe

2009-07-02 Thread Brent Meeker
John Mikes wrote: > Brian, > I started to read the text and found the 1st sentence: > > /"In modern cosmology, a / > > /multiverse is defined to be a collection of possible physical universes"/ > > that pissed me off: 'possible' in our today's sense includes many > 'impossibilities' in the sen

Re: Non unique Universe

2009-07-02 Thread Brian Tenneson
Thanks. How does Tegmark's Physical Existence = Mathematical Existence hypothesis fit or not fit into this? Bruno Marchal wrote: > The problem is as old as humanity, and is often answered by religion, > which are or are not authoritative. A reformulation appears with > Descartes, in the mechan

Re: Non unique Universe

2009-07-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
The problem is as old as humanity, and is often answered by religion, which are or are not authoritative. A reformulation appears with Descartes, in the mechanist frame. But frankly, read the UDA, which can be seen as a new formulation in the frame of the digital mechanist hypothesis in the

Re: Non unique Universe

2009-07-02 Thread Brian Tenneson
I'm ignorant of what you mean by "mind body problem." Can you explain this or send me some place on the net that explains it? Thanks. Bruno Marchal wrote: > I will take a further look, but I already see that the author is not > aware of the mind body problem. On logic he seems not too bad ...

Re: Non unique Universe

2009-07-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
I will take a further look, but I already see that the author is not aware of the mind body problem. On logic he seems not too bad ... (he is unaware also that very few people knows anything in model theory). The way he tackles the everything question is flawed by his unconscious use of the

Re: The seven step series

2009-07-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 02 Jul 2009, at 00:22, John Mikes wrote: > I don't deny the practicality of applying 'numbers-based' science in > sending a man to Mars, but it is NOT the numbers that does the job. > It is the complexity of the state of the art we reached, which > includes science, technology, skills,

Re: The seven step series

2009-07-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
You are quick! On 02 Jul 2009, at 18:42, m.a. wrote: > > > Could you tell me if you understand and/or remember those > definitions (where a and b denoting arbitrary sets): > > (a INTERSECTION b) = {x SUCH-THAT (x BELONGS-TO a) and (x BELONGS-TO > b)} > > (a UNION b) = {x SUCH THAT (x BELONGS

Re: The seven step series

2009-07-02 Thread m.a.
Could you tell me if you understand and/or remember those definitions (where a and b denoting arbitrary sets): (a INTERSECTION b) = {x SUCH-THAT (x BELONGS-TO a) and (x BELONGS-TO b)} (a UNION b) = {x SUCH THAT (x BELONGS-TO a) or (x BELONGS-TO b)} Can you compute {1, 2, 7, 789

Re: Non unique Universe

2009-07-02 Thread Brian Tenneson
Well to give the writer the benefit of the doubt, a way to modify the statement's wording might be: In modern cosmology, a multiverse is defined to be a collection of all physical universes consistent with the laws of physics, whatever those might be. That leaves room for physics revising itse

Re: Non unique Universe

2009-07-02 Thread John Mikes
Brian, I started to read the text and found the 1st sentence: *"In modern cosmology, a **multiverse is defined to be a collection of possible physical universes"* that pissed me off: 'possible' in our today's sense includes many 'impossibilities' in the sense of a mindset of 1000 years ago and I

Re: The seven step series

2009-07-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Marty, On 01 Jul 2009, at 18:57, m.a. wrote: > Hi Bruno, > I'm responding to the quiz (see below). What does > "high non booleanity" mean in the context of para.2? > We will need more math for the details, but "boolean" refer to classical or even platonist logic, when appl

Re: Non unique Universe

2009-07-02 Thread Brian Tenneson
If it lives up to its abstract, it will be a very interesting read. ronaldheld wrote: > http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0907/0907.0216v1.pdf > comments? > > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Non unique Universe

2009-07-02 Thread ronaldheld
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