Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 05:14:41PM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote: > > If there are probabilities attached to the branches, then Gleason's theorem > shows that the probabilities must satisfy the Born rule.  So I don't seen any > inconsistency in simply saying they are probabilities of measurement

Re: John K. Clark

Larry Krauss and Sir Martin Rees both had made jokes about the dangers of astronomers causing a collapse of the cosmos by viewing it? I am hoping that your tale is allegorical, but being something of a rightist, I see the crap that goes on at "public" universities, and grind my molars.  In

Re: Is Artificial Life Conscious?

Thanks Jason. The ant or the fish or the ape will retain whatever as long as it produces survival, now, no longer just a biochemical thing. I once thought of creating a comic where a room temp QC chip could be attached to a sponge in a fishbowl. Developing consciousness, the chipped sponge

Re: It feels like Groundhog Day

On 5/6/2022 4:35 AM, John Clark wrote: I'm changing the title because I think it's bad form for the title of a thread to contain the name of a list member, and because I really do feel like Bill Murray, we've been over this exact same ground over and over again almost verbatim. I'm (probably

Re: It feels like Groundhog Day

On Friday, May 6, 2022 at 8:37:28 AM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: > On Friday, May 6, 2022 at 5:36:38 AM UTC-6 johnk...@gmail.com wrote: > >> I'm changing the title because I think it's bad form for the title of a >> thread to contain the name of a list member, and because I really do feel >>

Re: It feels like Groundhog Day

On Friday, May 6, 2022 at 5:36:38 AM UTC-6 johnk...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm changing the title because I think it's bad form for the title of a > thread to contain the name of a list member, and because I really do feel > like Bill Murray, we've been over this exact same ground over and over

It feels like Groundhog Day

I'm changing the title because I think it's bad form for the title of a thread to contain the name of a list member, and because I really do feel like Bill Murray, we've been over this exact same ground over and over again almost verbatim. I'm (probably foolishly) going to do it one more time:

Re: John K. Clark

On Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 10:43:14 PM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: > On Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 9:05:47 PM UTC-6 meeke...@gmail.com wrote: > >> >> >> On 5/5/2022 6:04 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: >> >> On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 10:45 AM Brent Meeker wrote: >> >>> If the mass-energy of the Sun is

Re: Artists will soon be unemployed

They already are. * ba dum tss * Am Do, 5. Mai 2022, um 18:23, schrieb John Clark: > DALL-E2 Draws Anything You Describe > > John K Clark > > > > -- > You received this message because you are