Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-27 Thread LizR
On 25 October 2014 06:16, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: And doesn't such a god exist necessarily in the UD? And doesn't the egomanical, despotic god of Abraham also exist necessarily? As well as all the gods of Olympus and the Norse gods and the Hindu gods... Is this true? And do

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2014-10-27 Thread LizR
On 27 October 2014 15:09, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Sent from AOL Mobile Mail Since when is general relativity, wrong? What news did I miss? It's (generally :-) assumed to break down in the vicinity of (what would otherwise be) singularities.

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-10-27 Thread LizR
On 25 October 2014 05:32, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: the only one giving ambiguity is you In a world where matter duplication machines exist it is not clear who is giving ambiguity; in such a world

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-10-27 Thread LizR
On 25 October 2014 12:19, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:38:48PM -0400, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Bruno's argument shows that they must be a part of the phenomenal

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-10-27 Thread LizR
It would be nice if Mr Clark would EITHER stop joining in with discussions just to say that he doesn't care about comp, OR state what he agrees or disagrees with in Bruno's stated argument. Just saying it's obviously wrong doesn't really cut it. So far the only real (non-sarcastic,

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-10-27 Thread LizR
On 27 October 2014 07:33, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: Just go reread the thread Re: For John Clark october 2013... or read the last 5 years of John Clark Bullshit... for someone who don't give a damn about comp, that someone spent years of his own life answering bullshit about

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-10-27 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:20:59PM +1300, LizR wrote: On 25 October 2014 12:19, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: So you know for certainty that the arrival times of electrons in a Geiger counter from a beta decay source is computable. How? This point was originally about

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-27 Thread Richard Ruquist
I have not seen any discussion of what Bruno calls the Gaussian nature of comp or MWI with which he claims that his beliefs in this universe are not found in the negative in other universes of the multiverse. I referred to this as the GWI of reality and suggested that it might be consistent with

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2014-10-27 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Ok Hawkings old sales pitch! Thanks. It's (generally :-) assumed -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Oct 27, 2014 6:09 am Subject: Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2014-10-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 26 Oct 2014, at 16:47, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: And now in physics we have this- http://stardrive.org/stardrive/index.php/news2/science/14152-when-parallel-worlds-collide-quantum-mechanics-is-born MWI worlds interact Then QM is wrong. Weinberg but also Plaga (on this list)

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2014-10-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Oct 2014, at 03:09, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: Sent from AOL Mobile Mail Since when is general relativity, wrong? What news did I miss? Quantum Mechanics. I guess. But GR per se seems not consistent by itself. A bit like Newton physics, it seems it divides by zero, and

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2014-10-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Peter, You are replying to my post (I am Bruno, not Brent, although I am open that we are all the same person, it is better to keep the name right for helping in future references) On 26 Oct 2014, at 17:52, Peter Sas wrote: Thanks for your comments, which are very useful, even if

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-10-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 26 Oct 2014, at 18:58, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Like I explained to you more than once, Everett was interested in predictions but you are interested in consciousness, That is not relevant for the point you made.

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-10-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Oct 2014, at 12:04, Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:20:59PM +1300, LizR wrote: On 25 October 2014 12:19, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: So you know for certainty that the arrival times of electrons in a Geiger counter from a beta decay source is

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Oct 2014, at 13:05, Richard Ruquist wrote: I have not seen any discussion of what Bruno calls the Gaussian nature of comp or MWI with which he claims that his beliefs in this universe are not found in the negative in other universes of the multiverse. It is like the quantum white

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Oct 2014, at 10:57, LizR wrote: On 25 October 2014 06:16, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: And doesn't such a god exist necessarily in the UD? And doesn't the egomanical, despotic god of Abraham also exist necessarily? As well as all the gods of Olympus and the Norse gods and

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-27 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 27 Oct 2014, at 13:05, Richard Ruquist wrote: I have not seen any discussion of what Bruno calls the Gaussian nature of comp or MWI with which he claims that his beliefs in this universe are not found in the

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2014-10-27 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 11:48 PM, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote: it expands for ever even though closed). So you can never see the back of your own head. Obviously if it expands forever you could never see the back of your head, and our universe is not only expanding

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2014-10-27 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Sent from AOL Mobile Mail Okay, I don't see how quantum mechanics can be wrong either? It was a fresh new paper that came out and it didn't seem to go against him WY such just a subtle interpretation difference. For me, philosophically, the validity of the science, is our ability to do

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2014-10-27 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Sent from AOL Mobile Mail Very well Prof. Marchal, but my take away from both general and special relativity is this: Traveling the fastest we can go, that's the same physical effect as falling down a deep gravity hole. In both cases relatively speaking time slows down. Q him seems kind of

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-27 Thread meekerdb
On 10/27/2014 2:57 AM, LizR wrote: On 25 October 2014 06:16, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: And doesn't such a god exist necessarily in the UD? And doesn't the egomanical, despotic god of Abraham also exist necessarily? As well as all the gods of

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-10-27 Thread meekerdb
On 10/27/2014 3:38 AM, LizR wrote: It would be nice if Mr Clark would EITHER stop joining in with discussions just to say that he doesn't care about comp, OR state what he agrees or disagrees with in Bruno's stated argument. Just saying it's obviously wrong doesn't really cut it. So far the

Re: The Span of Infinity

2014-10-27 Thread zibbsey
On Sunday, October 26, 2014 9:53:36 PM UTC, JohnM wrote: Brent, these guys are SO smart! They even knew how to convert infinity into a definitely lucrative career with awards and stuff. you made a good insight here, so my thanks that you shared it. Reading the fuller laid down by

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-27 Thread meekerdb
On 10/27/2014 9:53 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: What remains amazing is the negative amplitude of probability, but then that is what I show being still possible thanks to the presence of an arithmetical quantization in arithmetic, at the place we need the probabilities. I don't recall you having

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Brent, I recall reading a few papers that discussed this question. I think that one can only obtain Hermiticity http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hermitian with complex valued amplitudes. Self-adjointness does not obtain very easily On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 4:08 PM, meekerdb

Re: The Span of Infinity

2014-10-27 Thread LizR
I don't have time to watch the video, but the title seems a bit weird. How can infinity have a span (span implies finitude, surely?) With infinity it's more span, span, span, span, span, span, span, span ... span, wonderful span! Maybe someone can summarise for me? -- You received this message

Re: The Span of Infinity

2014-10-27 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Dinsdale! -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Oct 27, 2014 4:49 pm Subject: Re: The Span of Infinity I don't have time to watch the video, but the title seems a bit weird. How can infinity have a span

Re: The Span of Infinity

2014-10-27 Thread John Mikes
Dear Zibsey, what a response to my short-cut exuberance in my 'agnosticism'! Reminds me Rostand's tirade by Cyrano to the vicompt's brief Sir, your nose is big.. I read it with gusto and - as usual - don't want to argue in detail. I accept it as an addage to my ideas which I never want to get

Re: The Span of Infinity

2014-10-27 Thread LizR
On 28 October 2014 09:51, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Dinsdale! Now you're just parroting... :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

Re: The Span of Infinity

2014-10-27 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Sent from AOL Mobile Mail That! My friend is an ex-parrot. I didn't come here for an argument. Yes you did! -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Oct 27, 2014 04:11 PM Subject: Re: The Span of Infinity div

Re: The Span of Infinity

2014-10-27 Thread LizR
On 28 October 2014 10:18, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Sent from AOL Mobile Mail That! My friend is an ex-parrot. I didn't come here for an argument. Yes you did! This could go on forever.. maybe we've discovered the span of infinity --

Re: The Span of Infinity

2014-10-27 Thread Richard Ruquist
But the span of infinity is outside spacetime. On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 5:44 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 October 2014 10:18, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Sent from AOL Mobile Mail That! My friend is an ex-parrot. I didn't come here

Re: The Span of Infinity

2014-10-27 Thread LizR
On 28 October 2014 10:56, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: But the span of infinity is outside spacetime. I would say it's an abstract property of certain mathematical systems (or something similar). If GR is right and spacetime is a continuum, then it will contain infinities even in a

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2014-10-27 Thread Bruce Kellett
John Clark wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 11:48 PM, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au mailto:bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote: it expands for ever even though closed). So you can never see the back of your own head. Obviously if it expands forever you

Re: The Span of Infinity

2014-10-27 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Sent from AOL Mobile Mail Nobody spans the Spanish Inquistion! -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Oct 27, 2014 04:44 PM Subject: Re: The Span of Infinity div

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-27 Thread LizR
On 28 October 2014 08:51, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/27/2014 2:57 AM, LizR wrote: On 25 October 2014 06:16, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: And doesn't such a god exist necessarily in the UD? And doesn't the egomanical, despotic god of Abraham also exist

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-10-27 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 6:38 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: So far the only real (non-sarcastic, non-insult-based) objection I've heard comes down to a semantic quibble to do with redefining our concept of an individual person. The entire point of Bruno's proof and all of his bizarre

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-10-27 Thread Richard Ruquist
My simple-minded view of MWI is that it is deterministic and if it is true then my consciousness is an illusion, period On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:10 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 6:38 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: So far the only real

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-10-27 Thread Kim Jones
On 28 Oct 2014, at 1:10 pm, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't make a single one up, they were what Wikipedia or Google though they most likely meant. For example, Wikipedia lists 27 possible means of comp and not one of them has anything to do with intelligence or