Re: Why is Church's thesis a Miracle?

2018-09-26 Thread Bruce Kellett
From: *Bruno Marchal* mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be>> On 26 Sep 2018, at 02:36, Bruce Kellett > wrote: I agree that the quote does not make sense. But it is what you said. It does not make sense out of hits context. It is the the “…” which does not make sense.

Re: The codical-material universe

2018-09-26 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 1:24 PM Bruno Marchal wrote: *>If someone else can explain the problem that John Clark see, let him or > her helps him.* > So even the originator of the theory can't make sense out of it and asks third parties to figure out exactly what the question asked of the guy in

Re: Why is Church's thesis a Miracle?

2018-09-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 26 Sep 2018, at 02:36, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > From: Bruno Marchal mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be>> >>> On 24 Sep 2018, at 02:25, Bruce Kellett >> > wrote: >>> >>> From: Bruno Marchal mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be>> > On 23 Sep 2018, at 13:10, Bruce

Re: Why is Church's thesis a Miracle?

2018-09-26 Thread Philip Thrift
On Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 11:46:51 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 25 Sep 2018, at 21:20, Philip Thrift > > wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at 12:01:22 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 25 Sep 2018, at 15:35, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tuesday,

Re: Gene Drive and morality

2018-09-26 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 3:04 AM Russell Standish wrote: > *It's not morality, but the precautionary principle in action.* Every single year you delay doing this you will be condemning 725,000 people to die from malaria and other diseases and incapacitate hundreds of millions more for weeks at

Re: Why is Church's thesis a Miracle?

2018-09-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 25 Sep 2018, at 21:20, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at 12:01:22 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 25 Sep 2018, at 15:35, Philip Thrift > >> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at 7:12:13 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> On 24

Re: Probability in MWI as self-locating uncertainty

2018-09-26 Thread Brent Meeker
On 9/21/2018 9:38 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: From: *Brent Meeker* mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> On Friday, September 21, 2018 at 12:11:01 AM UTC-5, Bruce Kellett wrote: Adrian Kent (arXiv:1408.1944) makes some interesting comments about the recent argument by Sebens and Carroll

Re: Why is Church's thesis a Miracle?

2018-09-26 Thread Philip Thrift
On Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at 7:36:48 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote: > > Elementary arithmetic, such as 2+2=4, is tautologically true. In other > words, if is true by virtue of the meaning of the terms involved. It has no > ontological content outside itself. So arithmetic is used in physics, but

Re: Gene Drive and morality

2018-09-26 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 12:08:10PM -0400, John Clark wrote: > > Mosquitoes carry many diseases, malaria alone killed 450,000 people last year > and made many millions more very sick, nevertheless self styled guardians of > morality are already calling for a moratorium on the use of this