Re: A paper by Bas C. van Fraassen

2011-01-21 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, Thank you for writing further on this. I can understand the metaphor of “dreams shared by a continuum of running machines, and they can define (non constructively) notion of worlds, and proximity of worlds” and agree with it if I weaken the definition of the word “machine” to be

Re: Observers and Church/Turing

2011-01-21 Thread Andrew Soltau
Hi I have an answer to the nature of the relation between the first-person and specific third-person phenomena. It is based very simply on logical type. Here's the concept as brief as I can make it. As Deutsch, Barbour, Davies, and others hold, the universe is clearly static. Relativity show

Re: A paper by Bas C. van Fraassen

2011-01-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
Colin, David seems to understand we are closer than you might think. Here I answer again to an interesting old post. I am not sure you commented my answer. On 23 Oct 2010, at 23:37, Colin Hales wrote: I am pretty sure that there is a profound misinterpretation and/or unrecognized presup

Randomness Through Computation

2011-01-21 Thread HZ
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