Re: It's about time!

2013-12-27 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:31 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: PS just to give a flavour here is one of my posts :-) Alan Turing gets a royal pardon And about bloody time! (Virtually) win the second world war and (virtually) invent computers, be driven to suicide by the police and they've

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Dec 2013, at 19:39, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: He did answer and did it correctly, I somehow missed that post. What number did Bruno give? I quote myself: That's a great answer but unfortunately it's NOT a answer to

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-27 Thread Richard Ruquist
Bruno, I have to say that basing reality on the first person experience (or whatever) of humans strikes me as being no different from basing wave collapse on human consciousness. Sorry for a naive question but that seems tio be my role on this list. Richard On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:12 AM,

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Dec 2013, at 18:40, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Are we not presuming, structure, or a-priori, existence of something, doing this processing, this work? In the UDA we assume a Turing universal, or sigma_1-complete physical reality, in some local sense. We need this to just explain

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-27 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Richard, and Bruno, I agree with Richard here if that is actually what Bruno is doing. Attributing wavefunction collapse to human observation was certainly one of the most moronic 'theories' supposedly intelligent scientists have ever come up with. It's right up there with block time, and many

Re: God or not?

2013-12-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Dec 2013, at 19:26, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: The question of whether God exists is meaningless without first giving some definition of what is meant by God, of how God is defined. God noun A noise many members of

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-27 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Richard, and Bruno, I agree with Richard here if that is actually what Bruno is doing. Attributing wavefunction collapse to human observation was certainly one of the most moronic 'theories' supposedly intelligent

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 25 Dec 2013, at 18:40, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Are we not presuming, structure, or a-priori, existence of something, doing this processing, this work? In the UDA we assume a Turing universal, or

Re: Bruno's fundamental mistake (IMHO)

2013-12-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Dec 2013, at 21:35, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, Correct me if I'm wrong about where you are coming from in your basic approach. OK. Some other did already a good job. Bruno seems to believe that mathematicians discover a math that already exists in reality (as opposed to math

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-27 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, Neither of the first 2 points you make here seem correct to me but you don't express them clearly enough for me to know why you are saying what you are saying. As to the first point, the present moment is self-evident direct experience whereas wave function collapse is an outlandish

Re: A simple incontrovertible proof there are two kinds of time

2013-12-27 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 02:24:04PM -0500, Edgar Owen wrote: All, The proof is simply the fact that the time traveling twins meet up again with different clock times, but always in the exact same present moment. This proves beyond any doubt there are two kinds of time, clock time which

Re: The 'Super Anthropic Principle' - why multiverses are not needed and thus very unlikely

2013-12-27 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Spudboy, Good question. It has to be clearly understood that an observer is always a participant in the event he observes. An observation is always an event. Physics tends to think of observers as standing outside the events they observe, but what they really do is participate in subsequent

Re: The 'Super Anthropic Principle' - why multiverses are not needed and thus very unlikely

2013-12-27 Thread Edgar L. Owen
On Thursday, December 26, 2013 2:24:52 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 12/26/2013 4:25 AM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Spudboy, There is no observer in the usual sense of a human observer needed for quantum events. But in effect every participant in a quantum event acts as an observer of that

Re: A simple incontrovertible proof there are two kinds of time and a couple of implications

2013-12-27 Thread Edgar L. Owen
John, All events without exception happen in the present moment. The present moment is the only locus of actual reality in which anything can happen. Of course those events can happen with different clock times according to relativistic conditions in different frames, but they always happen in

Re: Bruno's fundamental mistake (IMHO)

2013-12-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Dec 2013, at 22:29, LizR wrote: Bruno assumes a very minimal maths (peano arithmetic I believe) many variant are possible, but for the ontology I like to take Robinson arithmetic, which can be roughly presented in this way: 0 ≠ s(x) s(x) = s(y) - x = y x+0 = x x+s(y) = s(x+y) x*0=0

Re: A simple incontrovertible proof there are two kinds of time and a couple of implications

2013-12-27 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, Thank goodness, some sanity and clarity! Yes, you are correct and that is pretty much what I'm talking about. It's quite easy to understand really. There has to be something happening in Andromeda right now simultaneously with what's happening here on earth for cosmology to make

Re: How the STc principle (special relativity) puts both the arrow of time and a common present moment on a firm physical basis.

2013-12-27 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, A more general approach than Wheeler's is to understand that all participants in every event, even down to the particle level, are effectively observers of that event. I generalize Wheeler's statement in my book on Reality to explain how every connected network of events essentially

Re: Why there is something rather than nothing...

2013-12-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Dec 2013, at 23:54, LizR wrote: Arithmetical reality theories like comp and Tegmark's MUH assume that the only things that exist are those that must exist (in this case some simple numerical relations). This seems to me to be a good starting hypothesis - show that some specific

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-27 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason, Neither of the first 2 points you make here seem correct to me but you don't express them clearly enough for me to know why you are saying what you are saying. As to the first point, the present moment is

Re: A simple incontrovertible proof there are two kinds of time and a couple of implications

2013-12-27 Thread Jesse Mazer
But you haven't really given an argument for why there has to be something happening in Andromeda right now simultaneously with what's happening here on earth for cosmology to make sense--that seems to be just an assertion of faith on your part. Cosmology is perfectly coherent as an attempt to

Re: A simple incontrovertible proof there are two kinds of time and a couple of implications

2013-12-27 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: All events without exception happen in the present moment. An event is specified by a unique time and space, a asteroid crashing into Chicxulub 66 million years ago was an event, but it did not happen in the present

Re: It's about time!

2013-12-27 Thread meekerdb
On 12/27/2013 5:42 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:31 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com mailto:lizj...@gmail.com wrote: PS just to give a flavour here is one of my posts :-) Alan Turing gets a royal pardon And about bloody time! (Virtually) win the second world war

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-27 Thread Richard Ruquist
I do not know if it matters but quantum mechanics is based on the Dirac equation, not Shrodinger's equation On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason, Neither of the first 2

Re: Bruno's fundamental mistake (IMHO)

2013-12-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 26 Dec 2013, at 19:06, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Jason, and Bruno, I went through Bruno's paper which is interesting but speculative and based, as he admits, on a number of unestablished assumptions. Yes. yes doctor + Church's thesis, in the UD Argument , and only elementary arithmetic

Re: The 'Super Anthropic Principle' - why multiverses are not needed and thus very unlikely

2013-12-27 Thread spudboy100
Very good, Edgar. Do you now consider Wheeler's Participatory Anthropic Principle, to not be involved as an observer, but instead, an unconscious participant? As merely a point of laser light striking an unaware photo-receptor? It is there to measure, but no cognition behind it. Mitch

Re: Why there is something rather than nothing...

2013-12-27 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Non existence can not exist. but non existence is not the same than nothing. Nothing can exist . it is not the same than non existence because something exist: nothing. therefore the question why there are things different than nothing, (that is, something) instead of nothing (that is the most

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-27 Thread meekerdb
On 12/27/2013 9:18 AM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Jason, Neither of the first 2 points you make here seem correct to me but you don't express them clearly enough for me to know why you are saying what you are saying. As to the first point, the present moment is self-evident direct experience

Re: A simple incontrovertible proof there are two kinds of time and a couple of implications

2013-12-27 Thread meekerdb
On 12/27/2013 9:55 AM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Brent, Thank goodness, some sanity and clarity! Yes, you are correct and that is pretty much what I'm talking about. It's quite easy to understand really. There has to be something happening in Andromeda right now simultaneously with what's

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-27 Thread Richard Ruquist
Brent: But it's also divided up according to the probability measure, so I don't think conservation laws are violated in Everett's formulation. Richard: I do not understand how it is divided up according to the probability measure. For example in the Schrodinger Cat experiment, the cat is 50%

Re: How the STc principle (special relativity) puts both the arrow of time and a common present moment on a firm physical basis.

2013-12-27 Thread meekerdb
On 12/27/2013 10:06 AM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: I generalize Wheeler's statement in my book on Reality to explain how every connected network of events essentially functions as a mini-reality accessible only to event participants of their networks, and it is only through networks connecting

Re: A simple incontrovertible proof there are two kinds of time and a couple of implications

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
Thi common present moment (CPM for short?) sounds like something introduced to make the universe seem more intuitively obvious. There is no reason I know of (theoretical or experimental) to suggest that it really does exist, and several reasons (theoretical and experimental) to suggest that it

Re: It's about time!

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
Turing is just a particularly vivid case - a poster boy - for the injustice suffered by I believe something like 50,000 people (I guess Oscar Wilde was an earlier one). As Brent pointed out, Turing may not have killed himself like Snow White biting a poisoned apple, as per the popular image,

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
On 28 December 2013 05:51, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: It has always seemed to me that UDA cannot solve the mind-body problem strictly because it cannot comprehend the existence of other minds. Actually, I have wondered about this. How do all these threads of

Re: God or not?

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
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Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi LizR, That is what is not explicitly explained! I could see how one might make an argument based on Godel numbers and a choice of a numbering scheme could show the existence of a string of numbers that, if run on some computer, would generate a description of the interaction of several

Re: Why there is something rather than nothing...

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
On 28 December 2013 07:11, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 25 Dec 2013, at 23:54, LizR wrote: Arithmetical reality theories like comp and Tegmark's MUH assume that the only things that exist are those that must exist (in this case some simple numerical relations). This seems to me

Re: Why there is something rather than nothing...

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
On 28 December 2013 08:23, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: Non existence can not exist. but non existence is not the same than nothing. Nothing can exist . it is not the same than non existence because something exist: nothing. therefore the question why there are things

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
On 28 December 2013 11:55, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Hi LizR, That is what is not explicitly explained! I could see how one might make an argument based on Godel numbers and a choice of a numbering scheme could show the existence of a string of numbers that, if

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear LizR, Multi-solipsism, exactly! We each live in our very own world and all interactions between pairs of separable entities are supported at lower levels where the pair collapse to a single entity. This would be very similar to Bruno's substitution level. On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:03

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:03 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 December 2013 11:55, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Hi LizR, That is what is not explicitly explained! I could see how one might make an argument based on Godel numbers and a choice of a numbering

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Jason, Interleaving below. On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:03 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 December 2013 11:55, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Hi LizR, That is what is not

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
On 28 December 2013 12:20, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:03 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 December 2013 11:55, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Hi LizR, That is what is not explicitly explained! I could see how one might

Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-27 Thread Edgar L. Owen
All, I haven't made any progress getting the idea of a common universal present moment across so here's another approach with a thought experiment To start consider two observers standing next to each other. Do they share the same common present moment? Yes, of course. Any disagreement?

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
On 28 December 2013 12:57, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: All, I haven't made any progress getting the idea of a common universal present moment across so here's another approach with a thought experiment Au contraire, the idea is really simple, and I imagine everyone

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-27 Thread Jesse Mazer
Have you considered that people understand what you mean, but just don't *agree* with your intuition? I am an eternalist rather than a presentist (see http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time/#PreEteGroUniThe or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentism_(philosophy_of_time) and

Re: How the STc principle (special relativity) puts both the arrow of time and a common present moment on a firm physical basis.

2013-12-27 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, That's not what I say but roughly true. However the classical world is mostly a construct of internal mental models of the external computational reality rather than being an actual external physical world. When we study how minds simulate and model external reality this becomes clear

Re: The 'Super Anthropic Principle' - why multiverses are not needed and thus very unlikely

2013-12-27 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Mitch, Glad you seem to agree. I don't think about in those Wheelerian terms but that sounds pretty consonant with my thinking but there is a lot more to it as explained in Part III, Elementals of my book... Best, Edgar On Friday, December 27, 2013 2:13:29 PM UTC-5, spudb...@aol.com wrote:

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-27 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, To address one of your points wavefunctions never collapse they just interact via the process of decoherence to produce discrete actual (measurable/observable) dimensional relationships between particles. Decoherence is a well verified mathematical theory with predictable results, and

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Jason, Interleaving below. On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:03 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 December 2013 11:55,

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-27 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason, To address one of your points wavefunctions never collapse they just interact via the process of decoherence to produce discrete actual (measurable/observable) dimensional relationships between particles.

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, You state The UDA is a comparatively short program, and provably contains the program that is identical to your mind. You can't be serious! As stated that's the most ridiculous statement I've heard here today in all manner of respects! Edgar On Friday, December 27, 2013 7:56:44 PM

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
On 28 December 2013 13:56, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: The UDA is a comparatively short program, and provably contains the program that is identical to your mind. To be more precise (I hope) - assuming that thoughts, experiences etc are a form of computation at some level, the

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
On 28 December 2013 14:03, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason, You state The UDA is a comparatively short program, and provably contains the program that is identical to your mind. You can't be serious! As stated that's the most ridiculous statement I've heard here today in all

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-27 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, See my new topic what is a wavefunction for my reply Edgar On Friday, December 27, 2013 8:01:04 PM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jason, To address one of your points wavefunctions never collapse they

Re: A simple incontrovertible proof there are two kinds of time and a couple of implications

2013-12-27 Thread Pierz
Edgar is on the right track, but I need to point out his fundamental error. There is indeed a different time from clock time. But it's not called P-time, it's called U-time and every moment does not occur at the same time across the universe for all observers. Rather, no two events can ever

Re: A simple incontrovertible proof there are two kinds of time and a couple of implications

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
On 28 December 2013 14:09, Pierz pier...@gmail.com wrote: Edgar is on the right track, but I need to point out his fundamental error. There is indeed a different time from clock time. But it's not called P-time, it's called U-time and every moment does not occur at the same time across the

What are wavefunctions?

2013-12-27 Thread Edgar L. Owen
All, I'm starting a new topic on wavefunctions in this reply to Jason because he brings up a very important issue. The usual interpretation of wavefunctions are that particles are 'spread out' in the fixed common pre-existing space that quantum theory mistakenly assumes, that they are

Re: A simple incontrovertible proof there are two kinds of time and a couple of implications

2013-12-27 Thread Edgar L. Owen
PIerz, Thanks for the laugh, though something smells fishy about your argument! Though clocks measure only clock time it is clear that present time exists as it is the most fundamental experience of our existence. Second P-time can be measured by Omega, the curvature of our hyperspherical

Re: A simple incontrovertible proof there are two kinds of time and a couple of implications

2013-12-27 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, Not at all. What SR shows that there are relativistic situations in which it is impossible to establish simultaneous clock time t values, for relativistic observers to agree on the clock time t value of some event, and then ONLY in the case that relativistic frames are different. When the

Re: A simple incontrovertible proof there are two kinds of time and a couple of implications

2013-12-27 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Pierz, Thanks for the laugh, but there is something very fishy about your PU theory! :-) Edgar On Friday, December 27, 2013 8:09:24 PM UTC-5, Pierz wrote: Edgar is on the right track, but I need to point out his fundamental error. There is indeed a different time from clock time. But

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Jason, I snipped the portion of the thread out to cut of the tail... Interleaving in Blue. I am also interested to hear what Bruno has to say. My perspective is that most of the computations that support you and I are not isolated and short-lived computational Boltzmann brains but much

Re: A simple incontrovertible proof there are two kinds of time and a couple of implications

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
On 28 December 2013 14:44, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, Not at all. What SR shows that there are relativistic situations in which it is impossible to establish simultaneous clock time t values, for relativistic observers to agree on the clock time t value of some event, and

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2013-12-27 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: All, I'm starting a new topic on wavefunctions in this reply to Jason because he brings up a very important issue. The usual interpretation of wavefunctions are that particles are 'spread out' in the fixed common

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
There is certainly evidence that particles are small amounts of digital information. Garrett Lisi's ESTOE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Exceptionally_Simple_Theory_of_Everything for example assumes this, and it is part of the support for mathematical theories of reality like Tegmark's (imho).

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason, You state The UDA is a comparatively short program, and provably contains the program that is identical to your mind. My apologies, I meant the UD which short for Universal Dovetailer, not the UDA, which is the

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
On 28 December 2013 14:19, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: enables us to conceptually unify GR and QM and also resolves all so called quantum 'paradox' as quantum processes are paradoxical ONLY with respect to the fixed pre-existing space mistakenly assumed. I would expect any

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
What I think Jason is saying is that the TRACE of the UD (knowns as UD* - I made the same mistake!) will *eventually* contain your mind. See my previous post for an elaboration. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Jason, Could you discuss the trace of the UD that LizR mentioned? How is it computed? Could you write an explicit example? I have never been able to grok it. On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 9:29 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: What I think Jason is saying is that the TRACE of the UD (knowns as

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
On 28 December 2013 15:31, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Hi Jason, Could you discuss the trace of the UD that LizR mentioned? How is it computed? Could you write an explicit example? I have never been able to grok it. This is something that I also find it rather hard

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
I think friending is something to do with facebook, or similar social media, so I think SPK is saying that programmes which reference other programmes give them more reality. (Or something like that! :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2013-12-27 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, Answers to your 3 questions. 1. No. 2. Determined by which observer? The cat is always either dead or alive. It's just a matter of someone making a measurement to find out. 3. Of course quantum computers are possible. Simple examples already exist, but fundamentally all computations

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi Jason, Could you discuss the trace of the UD that LizR mentioned? How is it computed? Could you write an explicit example? I have never been able to grok it. Bruno has written an actual UD in the

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
There is one point to add which I think you've missed, Jason (apologies if I've misunderstood). The UD generates the first instruction of the first programme, then the first instruction of the second programme, and so on. Once it has generated the first instruction of every possible programme, it

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
PS I like the while (true) statement. What would Pontius Pilate have made of that? :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

Re: It's about time!

2013-12-27 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:50 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/27/2013 5:42 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:31 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: PS just to give a flavour here is one of my posts :-) Alan Turing gets a royal pardon And about bloody time!

Re: It's about time!

2013-12-27 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:47 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Turing is just a particularly vivid case - a poster boy - for the injustice suffered by I believe something like 50,000 people (I guess Oscar Wilde was an earlier one). Yes. Sometimes our species is really nothing to write home

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2013-12-27 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason, Answers to your 3 questions. 1. No. If there are no faster-than-light (FTL) influences, then how does your interpretation address the EPR paradox ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox )? As a previously

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2013-12-27 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, PS to answer your other question. In the double slit experiment there is no pre-existing dimensional space for the electron to be in more than one place in. Everything is being computed exactly in the fundamental non-physical dimensionless information space. What we call space is

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
On 28 December 2013 16:26, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason, Answers to your 3 questions. 1. No. If there are no faster-than-light (FTL) influences, then how does your interpretation address the

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2013-12-27 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, What I haven't deciphered in Lisi's theory is what its elementals are. He seems to have come up with a set of elemental particle properties that populate his E8 group exactly and completely but they do not all appear to be commonly recognized particle properties such as charges, spins,

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Jason, ISTM that the line For each program we have generated that has not halted, execute one instruction of it for each (Program p in listOfPrograms) is buggy. It assumes that the space of programs that do not halt is accessible. How? On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Jason Resch

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:20 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: There is one point to add which I think you've missed, Jason (apologies if I've misunderstood). The UD generates the first instruction of the first programme, then the first instruction of the second programme, and so on. Once it

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Jason, Any program, and whether or not it ever terminates can be translated to a statement concerning numbers in arithmetic. Thus mathematical truth captures the facts concerning whether or not any program executes forever, and what all of its intermediate states are. this also captures

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:20 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: There is one point to add which I think you've missed, Jason (apologies if I've misunderstood). The UD generates the first instruction of the first

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Jason, The first, second, 10th, 1,000,000th, and 10^100th, and 10^100^100th state of the UD's execution are mathematical facts ... Umm, how? Godel and Matiyasevich would disagree! If there does not exist a program that can evaluate whether or not a UD substring is a faithful representation of

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
Yeah, sorry, I re-read your post and realised I'd misunderstood, so I deleted my post (thinking you hadn't replied...I forgot the time delay and the fact we're in different reference frames :) On 28 December 2013 16:41, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:20

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Jason, ISTM that the line For each program we have generated that has not halted, execute one instruction of it for each (Program p in listOfPrograms) is buggy. It assumes that the space of

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
On 28 December 2013 16:44, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Hi Jason, The first, second, 10th, 1,000,000th, and 10^100th, and 10^100^100th state of the UD's execution are mathematical facts ... Umm, how? Godel and Matiyasevich would disagree! If there does not exist a

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Cool! On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:52 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Jason, ISTM that the line For each program we have generated that has not halted, execute one instruction of

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi Jason, Any program, and whether or not it ever terminates can be translated to a statement concerning numbers in arithmetic. Thus mathematical truth captures the facts concerning whether or not any

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2013-12-27 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, All your questions assume a pre-existing space that doesn't actually exist. When it is recognized that space emerges from events rather than being a fixed background to them these questions disappear. E.g. in the EPR 'paradox' the opposite spin relationship of the two particles is

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:54 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 December 2013 16:44, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Hi Jason, The first, second, 10th, 1,000,000th, and 10^100th, and 10^100^100th state of the UD's execution are mathematical facts ... Umm, how?

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
How do we distinguish a program from a string of random numbers. (Consider OTP encryptions). On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi Jason, Any program, and

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi jason, Do programs have to be deterministic. What definition of deterministic are you using? On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:54 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 December 2013 16:44, Stephen Paul King

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
I ask this because I am studying Carl Hewitt's Actor Model... On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi jason, Do programs have to be deterministic. What definition of deterministic are you using? On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Jason

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi Jason, The first, second, 10th, 1,000,000th, and 10^100th, and 10^100^100th state of the UD's execution are mathematical facts ... Umm, how? Godel and Matiyasevich would disagree! If there does not

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
Clearly programmes don't have to be deterministic. They could contain a source of genuine randomness, in principle. I don't think the UD does, however. The definition of deterministic would be - gives the same output on each run (given that the UD has no input). On 28 December 2013 17:03,

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: How do we distinguish a program from a string of random numbers. (Consider OTP encryptions). By we do you mean the UD or something else? Jason On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Jason Resch

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, Let me point out one fatal problem with Bruno's theory as you present it. According to you there is some single processor that runs all this UD stuff, but the truth is that in actual computational reality every logical element functions as a processor so all computations proceed at once

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Jason, It is not a question of whether or not that binary string refers to anything that is true or not, only what its particular value happens to be. No no no! We can not make statements without showing how their proof are accessible! Consider the i-th through j_th values of pi's expansion

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