Re: Dreaming On

2009-09-14 Thread David Nyman
2009/9/14 Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com: So then question then becomes how close together do the intermediate points have to be to constitute the same experience. An interesting question. We might investigate it empirically by noting how closely the brain processes during one

Re: Dreaming On

2009-09-14 Thread David Nyman
2009/9/2 Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com: I'm afraid that still doesn't work. I realise it's counter intuitive, but this is the point - to recalibrate the intuitions. 'Standard' CTM postulates that the mind is a computation implemented by the brain, and hence in principle

Re: The seven step series

2009-09-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Sep 2009, at 09:21, Bruno Marchal wrote: Next post: Cantor theorem(s). There is NO bijection between N and N^N. I will perhaps show that there is no bijection between N and {0, 1}^N. The proof can easily be adapted to show that there is no bijection between N and many sets.

Re: Yablo, Quine and Carnap on ontology

2009-09-14 Thread Flammarion
On 13 Sep, 18:12, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Marty, Could you please clarify to a non-mathematician why the principle of excluded middle is so central to your thesis (hopefully without using acronyms like AUDA, UD etc.). Without the excluded middle (A or not A),

Re: Yablo, Quine and Carnap on ontology

2009-09-14 Thread Flammarion
On 13 Sep, 09:02, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 12 Sep 2009, at 16:42, Flammarion wrote: On 11 Sep, 19:34, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 11 Sep 2009, at 17:45, Flammarion wrote: Once you say yes to the doctor, there is a clear sense in which you (that is