Re: Conway Life emulating Conway Life

2015-04-15 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Great video,served up, Bruno. Here is a less elaborate short lecture (5:45) by Eric Steinhart, and Conways' Game of Life, under-pins, much of his philosophies. Good explanation of the rule set. Mitch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouipbDkwHWA -Original Message- From: Bruno

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: there a difference between the past and the future and if Many Worlds is correct then unlike the past there is nothing linear and nothing unique about Mr.You's future. Except the disciples of MWI insist that the SWE (without

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread meekerdb
On 4/14/2015 11:29 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2015-04-15 4:53 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net: On 4/14/2015 12:48 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: No, a miracle cannot be logically contradictory. God cannot make a married bachelor.

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread meekerdb
On 4/15/2015 12:03 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 15 Apr 2015, at 01:58, Bruce Kellett wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: On 14 Apr 2015, at 03:26, Bruce Kellett wrote: It's stubborn, even if an illusion, eh? If you were duplicated, would you be prepared to kill your duplicate? Who would you kill?

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread meekerdb
On 4/15/2015 12:19 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 15 Apr 2015, at 08:33, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2015-04-15 5:12 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net: On 4/14/2015 9:47 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2015-04-14 18:40 GMT+02:00 meekerdb

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-15 Thread meekerdb
On 4/15/2015 12:58 AM, LizR wrote: On 14 April 2015 at 14:05, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/13/2015 4:35 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: LizR wrote: On 14 April 2015 at 00:42, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au

Re: It's possible dark energy isn't as powerful as we thought

2015-04-15 Thread meekerdb
On 4/15/2015 2:00 AM, LizR wrote: Assuming there isn't a future discovery that supernovae operated differently in the early universe, then yes these results mean dark energy isn't as powerful as thought, but it's still there. I'm not sure what the flatness measurement indicates, in terms of

Re: For Bruce

2015-04-15 Thread meekerdb
On 4/15/2015 2:05 AM, LizR wrote: On 14 April 2015 at 22:18, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au mailto:kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: On 14 Apr 2015, at 11:24 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com mailto:lizj...@gmail.com wrote: This makes quanta into a particular case of qualia,

Re: For Bruce

2015-04-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2015-04-15 22:09 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 4/15/2015 2:05 AM, LizR wrote: On 14 April 2015 at 22:18, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: On 14 Apr 2015, at 11:24 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: This makes quanta into a particular case of qualia, being somehow

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread meekerdb
On 4/15/2015 12:09 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 15 Apr 2015, at 05:12, meekerdb wrote: On 4/14/2015 9:47 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2015-04-14 18:40 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net: On 4/13/2015 11:31 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Le 14 avr.

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2015-04-15 20:55 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 4/14/2015 11:33 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2015-04-15 5:12 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 4/14/2015 9:47 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2015-04-14 18:40 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 4/13/2015

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread meekerdb
On 4/14/2015 11:33 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2015-04-15 5:12 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net: On 4/14/2015 9:47 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2015-04-14 18:40 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net: On

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2015-04-15 20:51 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 4/14/2015 11:29 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2015-04-15 4:53 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 4/14/2015 12:48 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: No, a miracle cannot be logically contradictory. God cannot make a married

Re: For Bruce

2015-04-15 Thread Kim Jones
Getting back to this Bruno quote that Liz threw in: On 15 Apr 2015, at 7:05 pm, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: This makes quanta into a particular case of qualia, being somehow sharable, and making physical reality a first person plural reality So what would happen if everyone died in

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-15 Thread LizR
On 16 April 2015 at 07:42, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/15/2015 12:58 AM, LizR wrote: On 14 April 2015 at 14:05, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/13/2015 4:35 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: LizR wrote: On 14 April 2015 at 00:42, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread meekerdb
On 4/15/2015 4:51 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: meekerdb wrote: On 4/15/2015 12:03 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: But the question of the number of person is a different discussion. If you agree that the W-guy, who stays in W and marries a girl in W, is the same person as the guy in M, who marries a

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: that's false that theologians (at least some) never say that god can't do self-contradictory thing. I think you're right, theologians do say such things. Have you even wondered why Thomas Jefferson insisted that the new

Re: For Bruce

2015-04-15 Thread Kim Jones
On 16 Apr 2015, at 6:12 am, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: For all you know what you believe is logical is not and you're deluded. Quentin I daresay, yes. So, for me this suggests the following questions: Why bother discussing anything? How can we ever really have firm

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-15 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:42:30PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: On 4/15/2015 12:58 AM, LizR wrote: On 14 April 2015 at 14:05, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/13/2015 4:35 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: LizR wrote: I believe it's an open question

Re: For Bruce

2015-04-15 Thread LizR
On 16 April 2015 at 08:09, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/15/2015 2:05 AM, LizR wrote: On 14 April 2015 at 22:18, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: On 14 Apr 2015, at 11:24 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: This makes quanta into a particular case of qualia, being

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread Bruce Kellett
meekerdb wrote: On 4/15/2015 12:03 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: But the question of the number of person is a different discussion. If you agree that the W-guy, who stays in W and marries a girl in W, is the same person as the guy in M, who marries a woman in M, are the same person ... as the

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread meekerdb
On 4/15/2015 3:37 PM, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com mailto:allco...@gmail.com wrote: .. Can God make a rock so heavy He can't lift it? I can image a being who transcend anything Wow, you can imagine that! I can't do it but you can use your

Re: For Bruce

2015-04-15 Thread LizR
On 16 April 2015 at 10:33, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Getting back to this Bruno quote that Liz threw in: On 15 Apr 2015, at 7:05 pm, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: This makes quanta into a particular case of qualia, being somehow sharable, and making physical reality a

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread LizR
On 15 April 2015 at 10:15, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: Yes but I'm confused, I though you were the one arguing that Bruno had discovered something new under the sun, a new sort of uncertainty That's hardly what Bruno is claiming. Step 3 is only a small step in a logical argument.

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread meekerdb
On 4/15/2015 5:33 PM, LizR wrote: On 15 April 2015 at 05:40, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com mailto:johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com mailto:te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: My problem with any view based on

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread LizR
On 16 April 2015 at 14:44, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 16 April 2015 at 09:51, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Yes. I think that Bruno's treatment sometimes lacks philosophical sophistication. A rigorous philosophical

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 5:33 AM, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote: LizR wrote: On 16 April 2015 at 12:53, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au mailto:bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote: LizR wrote: On 15 April 2015 at 10:15, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 16 avr. 2015 01:04, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net a écrit : On 4/15/2015 3:37 PM, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: .. Can God make a rock so heavy He can't lift it? I can image a being who transcend anything Wow, you can imagine

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-04-15 Thread LizR
On 15 April 2015 at 00:11, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: John, here is a grammatical explanation of why God is referred to as He: Why Does the Quran Refer to Allah as “He”? by Nouman Ali Khan

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-04-15 Thread LizR
On 15 April 2015 at 00:11, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: A real messenger/prophet/interpreter does not ask for any personal benefit or remuneration. The pretenders seek worldly benefits. Surely just being viewed as the head of a religion - a true prophet - IS a worldly benefit?

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread LizR
On 16 April 2015 at 12:52, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/15/2015 5:29 PM, LizR wrote: On 15 April 2015 at 04:40, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/13/2015 11:31 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Le 14 avr. 2015 08:04, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com a écrit :

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread LizR
On 16 April 2015 at 12:59, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/15/2015 5:33 PM, LizR wrote: On 15 April 2015 at 05:40, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: My problem with any view based on

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread LizR
On 15 April 2015 at 04:40, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/13/2015 11:31 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Le 14 avr. 2015 08:04, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com a écrit : Certainly some theories of consciousness might not allow copying, but that cannot be a logical

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread LizR
On 15 April 2015 at 04:39, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Hi Liz, Ok. I have an idea about that, it is probably not original. Tell me what you think: The universe was not created. All possible states just exist. The moment of the big bang is one of the many possible states.

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread meekerdb
On 4/15/2015 5:50 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: meekerdb wrote: On 4/15/2015 4:51 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: That then leads to the questions of personal identity. As a person, my consciousness changes from moment to moment with changing thoughts and external stimuli, but I remain the same person.

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 16 April 2015 at 09:51, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au javascript:; wrote: meekerdb wrote: On 4/15/2015 12:03 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: But the question of the number of person is a different discussion. If you agree that the W-guy, who stays in W and marries a girl in W, is the

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Right. Like AI's in separate but identical worlds. Don't you then run into the problem of the identity of indiscernibles? Yes exactly, that idea of Leibniz has proved to be amazingly useful. If you exchanged the position

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread Bruce Kellett
LizR wrote: On 16 April 2015 at 12:53, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au mailto:bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote: LizR wrote: On 15 April 2015 at 10:15, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com mailto:johnkcl...@gmail.com mailto:johnkcl...@gmail.com

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread LizR
On 16 April 2015 at 15:37, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Bruno has said to me that one cannot refute a scientific finding by philosophy. One cannot, of course, refute a scientific observation by philosophy, but one can certainly enter a philosophical discussion of the meaning

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread meekerdb
On 4/15/2015 5:29 PM, LizR wrote: On 15 April 2015 at 04:40, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/13/2015 11:31 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Le 14 avr. 2015 08:04, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com mailto:stath...@gmail.com a écrit :

Re: Step 3 - one step beyond?

2015-04-15 Thread Bruce Kellett
LizR wrote: In Bruno's COMP 2013 paper he says The notion of the first person, or the conscious knower, admits the simplest possible definition: it is provided by access to basic memories. Consciousness, despite its non-definability, facilitates the train of reasoning in

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread LizR
On 15 April 2015 at 04:36, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote: If I commit suicide the illusion of persisting through time is destroyed. Whenever somebody says X is an illusion the first question that should be asked

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread Bruce Kellett
meekerdb wrote: On 4/15/2015 4:51 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: That then leads to the questions of personal identity. As a person, my consciousness changes from moment to moment with changing thoughts and external stimuli, but I remain the same person. Can two spatially distinct consciousnesses

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread Bruce Kellett
meekerdb wrote: On 4/15/2015 5:50 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: meekerdb wrote: On 4/15/2015 4:51 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: That then leads to the questions of personal identity. As a person, my consciousness changes from moment to moment with changing thoughts and external stimuli, but I remain

Step 3 - one step beyond?

2015-04-15 Thread LizR
In Bruno's COMP 2013 paper he says The notion of the first person, or the conscious knower, admits the simplest possible definition: it is provided by access to basic memories. Consciousness, despite its non-definability, facilitates the train of reasoning in humans; but we justifiably might

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread Bruce Kellett
LizR wrote: On 16 April 2015 at 14:44, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au mailto:bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 16 April 2015 at 09:51, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au mailto:bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote:

Re: For Bruce

2015-04-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 16 avr. 2015 00:18, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au a écrit : On 16 Apr 2015, at 6:12 am, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: For all you know what you believe is logical is not and you're deluded. Quentin I daresay, yes. So, for me this suggests the following questions:

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-04-15 Thread meekerdb
On 4/15/2015 5:15 PM, LizR wrote: On 15 April 2015 at 00:11, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com mailto:samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: A real messenger/prophet/interpreter does not ask for any personal benefit or remuneration. The pretenders seek worldly benefits. Surely

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread LizR
On 16 April 2015 at 12:53, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote: LizR wrote: On 15 April 2015 at 10:15, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com mailto: johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: Yes but I'm confused, I though you were the one arguing that Bruno had discovered something new under

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread Bruce Kellett
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 16 April 2015 at 09:51, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Yes. I think that Bruno's treatment sometimes lacks philosophical sophistication. A rigorous philosophical analysis usually starts with a definition, I disagree. Philosophical discussion

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread Bruce Kellett
LizR wrote: On 15 April 2015 at 10:15, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com mailto:johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: Yes but I'm confused, I though you were the one arguing that Bruno had discovered something new under the sun, a new sort of uncertainty That's hardly what Bruno is claiming.

Re: For Bruce

2015-04-15 Thread LizR
I think this is probably the relevant passage from the COMP (2013) paper Those two “arithmetical interpretations” of the dual Aristotle–Plotinus notions of matter inherit also the G/G* split between communicable (or provable) and true. Both lead to arithmetical quantisations. We suggest that

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread meekerdb
On 4/15/2015 9:02 AM, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: there a difference between the past and the future and if Many Worlds is correct then unlike the past there is nothing linear and nothing unique

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Apr 2015, at 00:15, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: I predict that I will win 1 million dollar by tomorrow. I know my prediction is correct because this will happen in one of the branches of the multiverse. Do you agree with this

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2015-04-15 5:12 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 4/14/2015 9:47 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2015-04-14 18:40 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 4/13/2015 11:31 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Le 14 avr. 2015 08:04, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com a écrit :

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Apr 2015, at 01:58, Bruce Kellett wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: On 14 Apr 2015, at 03:26, Bruce Kellett wrote: It's stubborn, even if an illusion, eh? If you were duplicated, would you be prepared to kill your duplicate? Who would you kill? It can be shown that, indeed, killing

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Apr 2015, at 05:12, meekerdb wrote: On 4/14/2015 9:47 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2015-04-14 18:40 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 4/13/2015 11:31 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Le 14 avr. 2015 08:04, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com a écrit : Certainly some

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Apr 2015, at 08:33, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2015-04-15 5:12 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 4/14/2015 9:47 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2015-04-14 18:40 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 4/13/2015 11:31 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Le 14 avr. 2015 08:04, Stathis

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2015-04-15 9:19 GMT+02:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 15 Apr 2015, at 08:33, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2015-04-15 5:12 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 4/14/2015 9:47 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2015-04-14 18:40 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 4/13/2015

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2015-04-15 4:53 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 4/14/2015 12:48 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: No, a miracle cannot be logically contradictory. God cannot make a married bachelor. Yes it can.. that's the whole point of what is a miracle and God. God is not bound to logic, what

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2015-04-15 9:35 GMT+02:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 15 Apr 2015, at 00:15, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: I predict that I will win 1 million dollar by tomorrow. I know my prediction is correct because this will happen in one

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-15 Thread LizR
On 14 April 2015 at 14:05, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/13/2015 4:35 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: LizR wrote: On 14 April 2015 at 00:42, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au mailto:bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote: The expansion of the wave function in the einselected basis

Re: Conway Life emulating Conway Life

2015-04-15 Thread LizR
That's rather mind-boggling - GOL rather than GOD? On 15 April 2015 at 20:03, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Hi, Here is a wonderful video showing an emulation of the game of life, programmed in the game of life. It illustrates well the notion of emulation. In fact the program is

Re: It's possible dark energy isn't as powerful as we thought

2015-04-15 Thread LizR
Assuming there isn't a future discovery that supernovae operated differently in the early universe, then yes these results mean dark energy isn't as powerful as thought, but it's still there. I'm not sure what the flatness measurement indicates, in terms of global deceleration-vs-acceleration. Is

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Apr 2015, at 09:26, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2015-04-15 9:19 GMT+02:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 15 Apr 2015, at 08:33, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2015-04-15 5:12 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 4/14/2015 9:47 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2015-04-14 18:40

Re: For Bruce

2015-04-15 Thread LizR
On 14 April 2015 at 22:18, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: On 14 Apr 2015, at 11:24 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: This makes quanta into a particular case of qualia, being somehow sharable, and making physical reality a first person plural reality So what would happen if

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Wednesday, April 15, 2015, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: But what would it mean to duplicate consciousness. It doesn't have a location in spacetime, so any two instances will be identical and hence only one by Leibniz's identity of indiscernables. Yes, it should be spelt out what

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2015-04-15 12:23 GMT+02:00 Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com: On Wednesday, April 15, 2015, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: But what would it mean to duplicate consciousness. It doesn't have a location in spacetime, so any two instances will be identical and hence only one by

Conway Life emulating Conway Life

2015-04-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi, Here is a wonderful video showing an emulation of the game of life, programmed in the game of life. It illustrates well the notion of emulation. In fact the program is supposed to emulate itself, so there is a nice inception effect, also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8

Re: The MGA revisited

2015-04-15 Thread Bruce Kellett
LizR wrote: On 14 April 2015 at 14:05, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net I think Bruno's answer to this is that for every such experiment there are arbitrarily many threads of the UD going throught at experiment and this provides the order 1/epsilon ensemble. But this somewhat