RE: Vehiculus automobilius

2014-03-07 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Craig Weinberg Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 8:46 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Vehiculus automobilius If the doctor became more ambitious, and decided to replace a species

Re: Amoeba's Secret, by Bruno Marchal available from Kindle store

2014-03-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Mar 2014, at 00:05, meekerdb wrote: On 3/6/2014 2:58 PM, Russell Standish wrote: My only comment is that I don't think X's hostility towards Bruno started when he mentioned the question Goedel? in class. That, in itself, should not be sufficient to earn the ire of even the most seasoned

Re: Amoeba's Secret, by Bruno Marchal available from Kindle store

2014-03-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Mar 2014, at 00:06, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Russell, Are you telling me only a single person, Bruno's advisor, was the judge of whether Bruno's paper should be awarded the prize? And that single person first approved it and then rejected it when he had some dispute with Bruno? That

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Mar 2014, at 00:33, chris peck wrote: Hi Bruno Refuting means to the satisfaction of everyone. pfft! let me put it this way. There are a bunch of perspectives on subjective uncertainty available. Yours and Greave's to mention just two. With respect to the UDA, graves and me are

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-07 Thread LizR
The fact that climate modelling is hard is not a reason to ignore it or to disregard the results. Water vapour is the main greenhouse gas but it comes and goes (clouds, fog, etc). CO2 stays put and has increased by 50% since the Industrial Revolution (indeed about 20% in my lifetime). A warmer

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Mar 2014, at 00:41, meekerdb wrote: On 3/6/2014 3:35 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 04:48:37PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Mar 2014, at 09:51, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: What about others - like Russell (who might just read this and be willing to answer ).

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Mar 2014, at 01:14, Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 03:41:51PM -0800, meekerdb wrote: On 3/6/2014 3:35 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 04:48:37PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: For example, a brain cannot think. Brain activity cannot think, a computer

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Mar 2014, at 03:12, chris peck wrote: Then you omit, like Clark, the simple and obvious fact that if in H you predict P(M) = 1, then the guy in Moscow will understand that the prediction was wrong. The question you pose to H in step 3 is badly formed. It is not, once you get

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Mar 2014, at 06:29, meekerdb wrote: On 3/6/2014 9:15 PM, Jason Resch wrote: A related question is, is there any such thing as true randomness at all? Or is every case of true randomness an instance of FPI? Or is FPI just a convoluted way to pretend there isn't true randomness?

Re: Amoeba's Secret, by Bruno Marchal available from Kindle store

2014-03-07 Thread LizR
Dear Bruno, I am shocked and saddened to hear what has been done to you. You have my greatest sympathies. (I too have been susceptible to manipulation, as I am rather shy and awkward in person, so I speak from experience.) I am very eager to obtain a copy of the Amoeba's Secret, even more than I

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-07 Thread LizR
On 7 March 2014 15:12, chris peck chris_peck...@hotmail.com wrote: The question you pose to H in step 3 is badly formed. You ask H, 'what is the probability that you will see M' but this question clearly presupposes the idea that there will be only one unique successor of H. The only

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-07 Thread LizR
On 7 March 2014 18:29, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/6/2014 9:15 PM, Jason Resch wrote: A related question is, is there any such thing as true randomness at all? Or is every case of true randomness an instance of FPI? Or is FPI just a convoluted way to pretend there isn't true

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Mar 2014, at 10:04, Bruno Marchal wrote (to Brent): On 07 Mar 2014, at 06:29, meekerdb wrote: On 3/6/2014 9:15 PM, Jason Resch wrote: A related question is, is there any such thing as true randomness at all? Or is every case of true randomness an instance of FPI? Or is FPI just a

Re: Vehiculus automobilius

2014-03-07 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi Craig, On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 5:46 AM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: If the doctor became more ambitious, and decided to replace a species with a simulation, we have a ready example of what it might be like. Cars have replaced the functionality of horses in human society.

Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
All, An empty space within which events occur does not exist. There is no universal fixed pre-existing empty space common to all events and observers. Why? Because we cannot establish its existence by any observation whatsoever. We NEVER observe such an empty space. All we actually observe is

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
All, re global warming Global warming slows down Antarctica’s coldest currents, poses huge threathttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/zmescience/~3/w9XOKUpInB0/?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=email Oceanographers believe that Antarctica‘s oceanic waters, which are turning from briny to fresh in

Re: Vehiculus automobilius

2014-03-07 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, March 7, 2014 3:06:54 AM UTC-5, cdemorsella wrote: *From:* everyth...@googlegroups.com javascript: [mailto: everyth...@googlegroups.com javascript:] *On Behalf Of *Craig Weinberg *Sent:* Thursday, March 06, 2014 8:46 PM *To:* everyth...@googlegroups.com javascript:

Re: Vehiculus automobilius

2014-03-07 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, March 7, 2014 7:14:15 AM UTC-5, telmo_menezes wrote: Hi Craig, On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 5:46 AM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: If the doctor became more ambitious, and decided to replace a species with a simulation, we have a ready example of what it

Re: Amoeba's Secret, by Bruno Marchal available from Kindle store

2014-03-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Mar 2014, at 10:16, LizR wrote: Dear Bruno, I am shocked and saddened to hear what has been done to you. You have my greatest sympathies. Thanks Liz. Actually I think we are all victims of this sad and so much contingent happening. Without it, perhaps I would have published more

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, March 7, 2014 7:21:15 AM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: All, An empty space within which events occur does not exist. There is no universal fixed pre-existing empty space common to all events and observers. I agree. Why? Because we cannot establish its existence by any

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Mar 2014, at 13:21, Edgar L. Owen wrote: All, An empty space within which events occur does not exist. There is no universal fixed pre-existing empty space common to all events and observers. In which theory? In QM, the vacuum is full of events. Indeed the quantum state of the

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-07 Thread Gabriel Bodeen
On Thursday, March 6, 2014 12:32:32 PM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Mar 2014, at 16:40, Gabriel Bodeen wrote: Did you mean to address me, or did you mean to address Chris? I don't object to any step in UDA. It seems internally consistent and plausible to me. I'm unsure what

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Mar 2014, at 17:05, Gabriel Bodeen wrote: On Thursday, March 6, 2014 12:32:32 PM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Mar 2014, at 16:40, Gabriel Bodeen wrote: Did you mean to address me, or did you mean to address Chris? I don't object to any step in UDA. It seems internally

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-07 Thread ghibbsa
On Thursday, March 6, 2014 3:48:37 PM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Mar 2014, at 09:51, ghi...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Thursday, March 6, 2014 8:31:29 AM UTC, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, March 6, 2014 8:06:19 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 05 Mar 2014, at 22:15,

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Mar 2014, at 17:51, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, I've repeatedly answered your question. I define computational OPERATIONALLY as whatever is necessary and sufficient to actually compute But this is what I ask you to define. What do you mean by compute? the evolving state of the

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-07 Thread meekerdb
On 3/6/2014 11:51 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Mar 2014, at 20:06, meekerdb wrote: On 3/6/2014 7:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: (b) think computation is intrinsically conscious But this wording is worst, as it looks like it insists that a computation (or some computation) are conscious.

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread ghibbsa
On Friday, March 7, 2014 12:21:15 PM UTC, Edgar L. Owen wrote: All, An empty space within which events occur does not exist. There is no universal fixed pre-existing empty space common to all events and observers. Why? Because we cannot establish its existence by any observation

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-07 Thread meekerdb
On 3/7/2014 1:24 AM, LizR wrote: On 7 March 2014 18:29, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/6/2014 9:15 PM, Jason Resch wrote: A related question is, is there any such thing as true randomness at all? Or is every case of true randomness an

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-07 Thread meekerdb
On 3/7/2014 1:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 07 Mar 2014, at 10:04, Bruno Marchal wrote (to Brent): On 07 Mar 2014, at 06:29, meekerdb wrote: On 3/6/2014 9:15 PM, Jason Resch wrote: A related question is, is there any such thing as true randomness at all? Or is every case of true

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Mar 2014, at 18:10, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, March 6, 2014 3:48:37 PM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Mar 2014, at 09:51, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, March 6, 2014 8:31:29 AM UTC, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, March 6, 2014 8:06:19 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-07 Thread spudboy100
extinction rate is already 10,000 times the average background rate; Chris, this is an artificial rate, as useless, except to Greens, as events cause extinctions, not averages. It's akin to saying of we added all the average dick lengths on Earth, it'd reach 2/3rds to the Moon. An

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-07 Thread Gabriel Bodeen
On Friday, March 7, 2014 10:59:06 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 07 Mar 2014, at 17:05, Gabriel Bodeen wrote: An argument on its own merits is presumably either valid or invalid, and either sound or unsound. Regarding UDA's soundness: I have no problem saying Yes Doctor.

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread LizR
On 8 March 2014 01:21, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: All, An empty space within which events occur does not exist. There is no universal fixed pre-existing empty space common to all events and observers. Why? Because we cannot establish its existence by any observation whatsoever.

Re: Block Universes

2014-03-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, Finally hopefully getting a minute to respond to at least some of your posts. I'm looking at the two 2 world line diagram on your website and I would argue that the world lines of A and B are exactly the SAME LENGTH due to the identical accelerations of A and B rather than different

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, You have a point and I devote an entire part of my book on Reality to discussing these kinds of interactions of mind and external computational reality of which individual minds are just subsets of. But you have to be careful to understand how mind and reality interact. When you do you

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-07 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.comwrote: Really I am laughing out loud -- for real. John I would love to see you try to get into the hard drug distribution black market Just curious, is there any particular reason you think I haven't already done so?

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, March 7, 2014 3:52:33 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 8 March 2014 01:21, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote: All, An empty space within which events occur does not exist. There is no universal fixed pre-existing empty space common to all events and observers. Why?

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread ghibbsa
On Friday, March 7, 2014 4:51:26 PM UTC, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, I've repeatedly answered your question. I define computational OPERATIONALLY as whatever is necessary and sufficient to actually compute the evolving state of the universe. This guarantees my definition is CORRECT, and

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread LizR
On 8 March 2014 10:29, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, March 7, 2014 3:52:33 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 8 March 2014 01:21, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net wrote: All, An empty space within which events occur does not exist. There is no universal fixed pre-existing

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread meekerdb
On 3/7/2014 12:52 PM, LizR wrote: On 8 March 2014 01:21, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net mailto:edgaro...@att.net wrote: All, An empty space within which events occur does not exist. There is no universal fixed pre-existing empty space common to all events and observers.

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread LizR
On 8 March 2014 10:10, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, You have a point and I devote an entire part of my book on Reality to discussing these kinds of interactions of mind and external computational reality of which individual minds are just subsets of. But you have to be

Re: Block Universes

2014-03-07 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jesse, Finally hopefully getting a minute to respond to at least some of your posts. I'm looking at the two 2 world line diagram on your website and I would argue that the world lines of A and B are exactly the SAME

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-07 Thread ghibbsa
On Tuesday, March 4, 2014 3:49:21 AM UTC, Liz R wrote: I'm not sure I follow. Tegmark said If you repeated the cloning experiment from Figure 8.3 many times and wrote down your room number each time, you'd in almost all cases find that the sequence of zeros and ones you'd written looked

RE: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-07 Thread chris peck
Hi Bruno With respect to the UDA, graves and me are just using different vocabulary. Really? the last time I quoted her: What ... should Alice expect to see? Here I invoke the following premise: whatever she knows she will see, she should expect (with certainty!) to see. So, she should

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-07 Thread ghibbsa
On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 9:42:57 PM UTC, cdemorsella wrote: -- *From:* John Clark johnk...@gmail.com javascript: *To:* everyth...@googlegroups.com javascript: *Sent:* Wednesday, March 5, 2014 7:39 AM *Subject:* Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, Yes, exactly. The agreement of nearly all minds on the values of empirical observations is truly remarkable. The vast edifice of science whose accuracy is confirmed by the incredibly complex technologies based upon it would not exist if this were not so. So there is quite obviously some

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, No, you are referring to two different categories of ontological assumption. There are some things we don't directly observe that we DEDUCE by logic from what we can observe. That is true. But my point is that everyone assumes we can directly observe empty space because our mind makes an

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 04:02:46PM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Brent, Yes, exactly. The agreement of nearly all minds on the values of empirical observations is truly remarkable. The vast edifice of science whose accuracy is confirmed by the incredibly complex technologies based upon it

Re: Block Universes

2014-03-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, Do you understand why the world line that is depicted as LONGER in the typical world line diagram is ACTUALLY SHORTER? E.g. in your diagram do you understand why even though A's world line looks longer than C's world line, it is ACTUALLY SHORTER? Edgar On Friday, March 7, 2014

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Russell, Sure, but that only works if what the similar minds observe is also similar. If similar minds observe different things they will get different answers Edgar On Friday, March 7, 2014 7:23:46 PM UTC-5, Russell Standish wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 04:02:46PM -0800, Edgar L.

Re: Block Universes

2014-03-07 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jesse, Do you understand why the world line that is depicted as LONGER in the typical world line diagram is ACTUALLY SHORTER? E.g. in your diagram do you understand why even though A's world line looks longer than C's

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 04:23:15PM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Russell, Sure, but that only works if what the similar minds observe is also similar. If similar minds observe different things they will get different answers Edgar Perhaps the similar thing is a mere reflection of the

Re: Amoeba's Secret, by Bruno Marchal available from Kindle store

2014-03-07 Thread ghibbsa
On Friday, March 7, 2014 2:38:03 PM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 07 Mar 2014, at 10:16, LizR wrote: Dear Bruno, I am shocked and saddened to hear what has been done to you. You have my greatest sympathies. Thanks Liz. Actually I think we are all victims of this sad and so much

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread LizR
On 8 March 2014 11:03, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/7/2014 12:52 PM, LizR wrote: On 8 March 2014 01:21, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: All, An empty space within which events occur does not exist. There is no universal fixed pre-existing empty space common to all

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread LizR
On 8 March 2014 13:10, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, No, you are referring to two different categories of ontological assumption. There are some things we don't directly observe that we DEDUCE by logic from what we can observe. That is true. It's true of everything. We

Re: The Dalai Lama's Ski Trip

2014-03-07 Thread ghibbsa
On Sunday, March 2, 2014 2:08:39 AM UTC, Liz R wrote: I feel there's a category error here somewhere... I wonder what the Dalai Lama would make of Brave New World ? I think he'd make another killing out of it, on the LA lunch circuit . I don't really buy that guy. Don't see a lot in the

Re: Block Universes

2014-03-07 Thread LizR
This is why time has a minus sign in SR. (I believe the usual way this informally is put is that the space-traveller trades space for time.) On 8 March 2014 13:26, Jesse Mazer laserma...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jesse, Do you

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, March 7, 2014 5:02:51 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 8 March 2014 10:29, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: On Friday, March 7, 2014 3:52:33 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 8 March 2014 01:21, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net wrote: All, An empty space within which

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread meekerdb
On 3/7/2014 4:23 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 04:02:46PM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Brent, Yes, exactly. The agreement of nearly all minds on the values of empirical observations is truly remarkable. The vast edifice of science whose accuracy is confirmed by the

Re: Block Universes

2014-03-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, I guess I'm supposed to take that as a yes? You do agree that A's world line is actually shorter than C's (even though it is depicted as longer) because A's proper time along it is less than C's from parting to meeting? Correct? Strange how resistant you are to ever saying you agree

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread ghibbsa
On Saturday, March 8, 2014 12:49:58 AM UTC, Liz R wrote: On 8 March 2014 13:10, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote: Liz, No, you are referring to two different categories of ontological assumption. There are some things we don't directly observe that we DEDUCE by logic

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Russell, Now that is true solipsism. A rather strange view of two projectors, each viewing what it projects and taking that as reality. But in that model each observer is a reflection of the projection of the other. So how do they confirm similarity since for two things to be similar they must

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread meekerdb
On 3/7/2014 4:46 PM, LizR wrote: On 8 March 2014 11:03, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/7/2014 12:52 PM, LizR wrote: On 8 March 2014 01:21, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net mailto:edgaro...@att.net wrote: All, An empty space

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, But we CAN see atoms. They are routinely imaged. That's just a matter of using a powerful enough microscope. But we can't see empty space no matter how good a microscope or telescope we make. That's why I pointed out it's an ontological difference. Seeing atoms is just a matter of using

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, I agree that we can use our OBSERVATIONS of the dimensional relationships of particulate events to construct a meaningful THEORY of space. Newton did it. But Einstein found that it really didn't quite work out and came up with a new theory. But now we know that doesn't quite work out

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Ghibbsa, I agree with Bruno that physical reality is not primitively real. In my view the fundamental or primitive level of reality is purely computational in a dimensionless logico-mathematical space. The results of these computations are the information states of the universe, and so

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-07 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, March 7, 2014 1:20 PM Subject: Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, But we CAN see atoms. They are routinely imaged. That's just a matter of using a powerful enough microscope. But we can't see empty space no matter how good a microscope or telescope we make. That's why I pointed out it's an ontological difference. Seeing atoms is just a matter of

Re: Amoeba's Secret, by Bruno Marchal available from Kindle store

2014-03-07 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Russel and Kim, I remember fondly when the translation of Bruno's thesis was being discussed. I am very happy to see the results of your hard work. Thank you for doing this! I will be buying a copy of it asap. :-) On Tuesday, March 4, 2014 1:43:05 AM UTC-5, Russell Standish wrote: Hi

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread ghibbsa
On Saturday, March 8, 2014 2:13:39 AM UTC, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Brent, But we CAN see atoms. They are routinely imaged. That's just a matter of using a powerful enough microscope. But we can't see empty space no matter how good a microscope or telescope we make. That's why I pointed out

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread ghibbsa
On Saturday, March 8, 2014 2:13:39 AM UTC, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Brent, But we CAN see atoms. They are routinely imaged. That's just a matter of using a powerful enough microscope. But we can't see empty space no matter how good a microscope or telescope we make. We can't. It's actually

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread LizR
On 8 March 2014 13:02, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Brent, Yes, exactly. The agreement of nearly all minds on the values of empirical observations is truly remarkable. The vast edifice of science whose accuracy is confirmed by the incredibly complex technologies based upon it

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread LizR
On 8 March 2014 14:50, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/7/2014 4:46 PM, LizR wrote: On 8 March 2014 11:03, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/7/2014 12:52 PM, LizR wrote: On 8 March 2014 01:21, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: All, An empty space within which

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread LizR
On 8 March 2014 15:13, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Brent, But we CAN see atoms. They are routinely imaged. That's just a matter of using a powerful enough microscope. But we can't see empty space no matter how good a microscope or telescope we make. That's why I pointed out it's

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-07 Thread LizR
On 8 March 2014 08:14, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/7/2014 1:24 AM, LizR wrote: On 7 March 2014 18:29, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/6/2014 9:15 PM, Jason Resch wrote: A related question is, is there any such thing as true randomness at all? Or is every case of

RE: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-07 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of spudboy...@aol.com extinction rate is already 10,000 times the average background rate; Chris, this is an artificial rate, as useless, except to Greens, as events cause extinctions, not

Re: Why an empty space within which events occur does NOT exist.

2014-03-07 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 05:46:58PM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Russell, Now that is true solipsism. A rather strange view of two projectors, each viewing what it projects and taking that as reality. But in that model each observer is a reflection of the projection of the other. So how do

Re: MODAL Last exercise

2014-03-07 Thread LizR
On 6 March 2014 21:44, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 05 Mar 2014, at 23:06, LizR wrote: On 5 March 2014 20:59, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: You have to show two things: 1) R is transitive - (W,R) respects []A - [][]A and 2) (W,R) respects []A - [][]A- R

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-07 Thread meekerdb
On 3/7/2014 8:26 PM, LizR wrote: On 8 March 2014 08:14, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/7/2014 1:24 AM, LizR wrote: On 7 March 2014 18:29, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/6/2014 9:15 PM, Jason

Re: MODAL Last exercise

2014-03-07 Thread LizR
On 6 March 2014 22:06, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 05 Mar 2014, at 23:31, LizR wrote: Let's take 3 worlds A B C making a minimal transitive multiverse. ARB and BRC implies ARC. So if we assume ARB and BRC we also get ARC Right. (if we don't assume this we don't have a

Re: MODAL Last exercise

2014-03-07 Thread LizR
On 6 March 2014 22:06, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Liz, meanwhile you might try this one, which is a bit more easy than the transitivity case: Show that (W,R) respects []A - A if and only if R is ideal. (I remind you that R is ideal means that there is no cul-de-sac world at

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-07 Thread LizR
On 8 March 2014 18:16, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/7/2014 8:26 PM, LizR wrote: On 8 March 2014 08:14, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/7/2014 1:24 AM, LizR wrote: On 7 March 2014 18:29, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/6/2014 9:15 PM, Jason Resch

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-07 Thread LizR
Phew! Problem solved! http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/ON-British-boy-builds-fusion-reactor-080314st.html -- 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: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-07 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:39 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: There's no plausible theory by which clouds could nullify the warming caused by increased CO2 If not clouds it's crystal clear that SOMETHING is capable of nullifying the warming caused by increased CO2 because during the

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-07 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.comwrote: -- Energy and all other non-renewable and critical resources should be taxed and taxed heavily So you think it likely that people will not voluntarily use less energy but will

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-07 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.comwrote: You seem innocent of how the drug cartels operate and just how violent they are. I not only know they're very violent I know why they're violent. If government made chocolate bars illegal the demand for chocolate