Re: UDA query

2010-01-04 Thread Nick Prince
Thanks Bruno. I'll look this up and also I want to scan through your seven steps series for November. The later posts in these I think will help me make contact with the concepts.I want to be able to understand your Sane paper - especially the later parts. Is there any english translation of

Re: UDA query

2010-01-04 Thread Nick Prince
Is this because you think of your stream of consciousness as somehow like a reel of film? All the individual pictures could be cut from the reel and laid out any which way but the implicit order is always there. I can understand this because all the spatio temporal relationships for the actors in

Re: UDA query

2010-01-04 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2010/1/4 Brent Meeker : > I think you give an excellent explication of the problem, Stathis.  However, > one thing about it that still worries me is the role of time. You say the > mapping need not be consistent even moment to moment, and yet the mapping is > a timeless Platonic object.  To be a t

Re: UDA query

2010-01-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Nick, Oops, soory. I sent an empty answer. Actually I agree with all you say here, so an empty comment was a good comment! I think all this becomes simpler once you grasp that a computation, in the math sense, is a very well defined object. If a computation exists, it can be proved to exi

Re: UDA query

2010-01-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 03 Jan 2010, at 14:55, Nick Prince wrote: > Thank you Stathis > This has helped move me on a bit. “The hardwareless computer” has been > giving me some real problems. Let me replay my understanding of what > you said back just to check it is on the right lines. > As a possible example of one

Re: UDA query

2010-01-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 03 Jan 2010, at 12:05, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > 2010/1/3 Nick Prince : >> HI Bruno >> Thank you so much for your answers to my queries so far. I really >> need to do some more thinking about all that you have said so far and >> to understand why I am having difficulty replacing a real phy

Re: UDA query

2010-01-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 02 Jan 2010, at 17:06, Nick Prince wrote: > HI Bruno > Thank you so much for your answers to my queries so far. I really > need to do some more thinking about all that you have said so far and > to understand why I am having difficulty replacing a real physical > universal machine existing in