RE: Request to form 'Social Contract' with SAI

2007-10-22 Thread Danny Mayes
Heh. Bruno, I continue to analyse my current (human) condition to try to find a way out of this mess (I'm not a happy bloke). Still considering many possibilities. Maybe I am misreading you here, but you sound pretty depressed. If so, don't just wait around hoping for things to get better, get

RE: An idea to resolve the 1st Person/3rd person division mystery - Coarse graining is the answer!?

2007-05-04 Thread Danny Mayes
I think of time from the third person perspective as being simply a higher spatial dimension above 3 dimensional volume in the same way that 3 dimensional volume exists above 2 dimensional area. In other words it's really the same as the other dimensions. So your comment about 3 dimensional

RE: The Meaning of Life

2007-03-11 Thread Danny Mayes
: The Meaning of Life Le 07-mars-07, à 18:50, Danny Mayes a écrit : If you assume an ensemble theory, whether it be an infinite MWI or Bruno’s UD in the plenitude, is it POSSIBLE to avoid God? For the purposes of this question I’ll define “God” as an entity capable of creating everything

RE: The Meaning of Life

2007-03-11 Thread Danny Mayes
Le 07-mars-07, à 18:50, Danny Mayes a écrit : If you assume an ensemble theory, whether it be an infinite MWI or Bruno’s UD in the plenitude, is it POSSIBLE to avoid God? For the purposes of this question I’ll define “God” as an entity capable of creating everything that would

RE: The Meaning of Life

2007-03-07 Thread Danny Mayes
these sorts of discussions for quite a while! Danny Mayes On 3/7/07, Brent Meeker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Caylor wrote: I agree with the Russell quote as it stands. Unendingness is not what gives meaning. The source of meaning is not living forever in time (contrary to the trans

Interested in thoughts on this excerpt from Martin Rees

2006-07-25 Thread Danny Mayes
Which approximates my ideas on the nature of reality and the possible role of intelligence. (MARTIN REES:) This is a really good time to be a cosmologist, because in the last few years some of the questions we've been addressing for decades have come into focus. For instance, we can now

RE: Theory of Nothing available

2006-07-12 Thread Danny Mayes
I have purchased the book as well in PDF, and while I also have not had time to read much of it, skimming through it for an overview I can highly recommend it to anyone who regularly reads the everything list as it thoroughly covers so many of the topics discussed here. Congrats

RE: Fermi's Paradox

2006-07-08 Thread Danny Mayes
planets suitable for life would have life in other branches of the multiverse, but the quantum selection effects would make the separate evolution of life in the same brach of the multiverse highly unlikely. Danny Mayes -Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto

Re: The Riemann Zeta Pythagorean TOE

2006-04-15 Thread danny mayes
Bruno Marchal wrote: And then, well, yes, it could. And from Zeta's behavior, a whole many world interpretation of number theory, through a wavy approach to numbers (like Ramanujan's one) would be possible. Primes could even plausibly justified some single universe selection (if they are

Re: Fw: Numbers

2006-03-19 Thread danny mayes
Russell, Thats a good summary. However, my issue with your conclusion is this: even if I accept that a "machine" or a "prime mover" is not necessary, such explanations are still part of the plenitude and therefore part of reality. So if everything is reducible to math or information, even if

Re: belief, faith, truth

2006-02-20 Thread danny mayes
Bruno, Going back to the discussion a few days ago, I agree with the value of the UDA as an idea worthy of development, as you are doing. In fact it seems to be the only idea on the table that I'm aware of that provides some explanation for the 1-indeterminacy of QM and also gives insight into

Re: belief, faith, truth

2006-02-13 Thread danny mayes
I doubt Marchal's ideas will be made widely known or popularized in the foreseeable future. The problem isn't with the name of his theory, or with any problem with Bruno per se beyond this: There doesn't seem to be an easily reducible way to summarize the theory in a manner that is digestible

Re: Fw: belief, faith, truth

2006-02-01 Thread danny mayes
Norman Samish wrote: Hi John,   Your rhetorical questions about "heaven" point out how ridiculous the concept is Actually, with all due respect to John, I failed to see how his original message (below) in any way illustrated "how ridiculous" the concept of heaven is.  It may

Re: belief, faith, truth

2006-02-01 Thread danny mayes
The easy answer for you, John, is that given an infinite afterlife, an intelligent being would probably experience everything that it is possible to experience. Heck, eventually I'd probably even get around to checking out what life as John M was all about. Danny Mayes John M wrote

Re: belief, faith, truth

2006-01-31 Thread danny mayes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...even the statement 'I am not making sense' does not make sense because I don't believe in sense. I'll shut up... and be alone... and die... Tom Thats funny stuff. And true! Danny Mayes

Re: Paper+Exercises+Naming Issue

2006-01-18 Thread danny mayes
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Danny Mayes writes: I haven't participated in the list in a while, but I try to keep up with the discussion here and there as time permits. I personally was raised a fundamentalist Baptist, but lost most of my interest in that religion when I was taught at 9

[Fwd: Re: subjective reality]

2005-08-07 Thread danny mayes
. Danny Mayes John M wrote: Dear Bruno, you (and as I guess: others, too) use the subject phrase. Does it make sense? Reality is supposed to be something independent from our personal manipulations (=1st person interpretation) and so it has got to be objective, untouched by our experience

Re: MODERATOR'S NOTE: Theology Discussion

2005-08-01 Thread danny mayes
discussion. Unfortunately it takes me a long time to decipher some of these posts, so I have to pick and choose what to read. I need to give up the practice of law to read all of the great posts made to the everything list! Danny Mayes Russell Standish wrote: I commiserate with you. I fi

Re: has anyone ever proposed a version of the anthropic principle

2005-05-26 Thread danny mayes
community and they grow long in the tooth, realized the reality of their own mortality and have tried to use their knowledge to build theories to give themselves some hope of an afterlife. Stephen - Original Message - From: Russell Standish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: danny mayes [EMAIL

Re: Many worlds theory of immortality

2005-05-26 Thread danny mayes
I'll answer your question (at the risk of incurring your wrath): those people are real in the sense that his brain is devoting processing power to creating the mental image of the individual, and everything related to this individual's personality. So even though the person in his head isn't

has anyone ever proposed a version of the anthropic principle

2005-05-24 Thread danny mayes
to the effect that not only must the universe allow for intelligent observers, specifically us, but that the universe must allow for intelligent observers to be able to recreate or emulate their existence? Maybe a stronger version would be to recreate or emulate infinitely. I am aware of the

Re: [Fwd: Re: Many worlds theory of immortality]

2005-05-11 Thread danny mayes
ME hypothesis. Could you refer me to a source for information, or summarize for me? Danny Mayes Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:13:33AM -0400, John M wrote: Russell wrote to Danny: The Grover algorithm is a form of accessing informati

Re: Everything Physical is Based on Consciousness

2005-05-10 Thread danny mayes
Bruno, You've probably already addressed this recently, but given the number of posts and my work load I have not been able to read the much of the list recently. What does comp make of time? Is it merely some measure of the relationships among bitstrings in platonia? Danny Bruno Marchal

[Fwd: Re: Many worlds theory of immortality]

2005-05-10 Thread danny mayes
aet.radal ssg wrote: Dear Jeanne: Message - From: "Jeanne Houston" To: "Stathis Papaioannou" , [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Many worlds theory of immortality Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 07:19:01 -0400 I didn't read the article but I am aware of the conceptual basis for

Re: follow-up on Holographic principle and MWI

2005-04-25 Thread danny mayes
remarks only to make listmembers (whom I honor no end) to think twice before spending their time and braingrease to work into it and - maybe - getting a Nobel prize (ha ha). If there is something logical, understandable, followable, in your position, I would be happy to learn about it. John Mike

clarification of earlier posts (RE: Holigraphic principle and MWI)

2005-04-25 Thread danny mayes
). This is the distinctive core of the quantum concept of time: Other times are just special cases of other universes - David Deutsch, FOR, p. 278. My follow up: Other outcomes/worlds are other universes beyond our world-line on the time axis. Danny Mayes

Re: follow-up on Holographic principle and MWI

2005-04-23 Thread danny mayes
because the rest of the time area has been lost to the other outcomes/universes/stacks (or whatever allows you to conceptualize it the best). This is speculative (obviously). I'd like to hear some feedback, as this explains a lot (to me anyway) if the concept is right. Danny Mayes

Re: follow-up on Holographic principle and MWI

2005-04-22 Thread danny mayes
Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 11:02:12PM -0400, danny mayes wrote: Well, as described in the FOR think of the multiverse as a block, made up of different stacks of pictures that comprise individual universes as they move through time. Now try to adjust

Re: follow-up on Holographic principle and MWI

2005-04-22 Thread danny mayes
Russell Standish wrote: the divisor would be 10^300. Perhaps you meant proportional to length, but then I do not see why this should be. Don't know if I directly answered this in my first reply. If time-area equal an equivalent spatial area, we use length as the divisor to represent the

follow-up on Holographic principle and MWI

2005-04-21 Thread Danny Mayes
that is really a fully 4D world. That seems to explain the holographic principle from a MWI perspective. Danny Mayes

How much of this is really science?

2005-04-19 Thread danny mayes
us only to a certain point, from which we must then apply logic, circumstantial evidence, etc. It occurred to me while reading Laughlin's book that in Cosmology reductionism can be roughly compared to a study of the past, while emergence can be roughly considered a study of the future, or at the lea

Does Colin Bruce have the answer to the size of the multiverse?

2005-04-19 Thread danny mayes
principle to the MWI. Anyone care to weigh in on the prospects for Bruce's idea? Danny Mayes

Re: many worlds theory of immortality

2005-04-14 Thread Danny Mayes
is not the end result of our consciousness. It's just too strange (and this coming from someone who accepts some pretty strange beliefs in the name of QM). Danny Mayes Stathis Papaioannou wrote: I think you can apply the same reasoning to show you will be not only the only sentient being, but ultimately

Re: Belief Statements

2005-01-18 Thread Danny Mayes
I remember your previous posts on nothing, and how it decays. However, this concept requires an intelligence to be present with nothing to cause nothingness to decay, does it not? It is intelligence and consciousness which defines things and makes relative comparisons. Danny Mayes Hal

Re: Belief Statements

2005-01-18 Thread Danny Mayes
, this concept requires an intelligence to be present with nothing to cause nothingness to decay, does it not? It is intelligence and consciousness which defines things and makes relative comparisons. Danny Mayes Actually no. The meaningful question that the Nothing must resolve is its own stability

Re: Belief Statements

2005-01-13 Thread Danny Mayes
Could you explain this last line? Bruno Marchal wrote: At 10:24 13/01/05 +1100, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: As for the failure of induction if all possible worlds exist, I prefer to simply bypass the problem. Mmm... I think you make the same mistake as David Lewis (In the plurality of worlds,

[Fwd: Re: Observation selection effects]

2004-10-05 Thread Danny Mayes
Original Message Subject: Re: Observation selection effects Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 02:29:54 -0400 From: Danny Mayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References

Re: regarding QM and infinite universes

2004-07-27 Thread Danny Mayes
er (within the range of computability)? I do not understand the math behind infinite sets well enough to answer these questions... Hal Finney wrote: Danny Mayes writes: First, regarding the idea of magical universes or quantum immortality for that matter, doesn't this assume a trul

regarding QM and infinite universes

2004-07-26 Thread Danny Mayes
I posted this today on the Fabric of Reality Yahoo Group, but would like to get responses to it over here as well. First, regarding the idea of magical universes or quantum immortality for that matter, doesn't this assume a truly infinite number of universes? However, if you start with the idea

Does Omega point theory allow for an eternally self-creating universe?

2004-07-26 Thread Danny Mayes
Assuming MWI is correct, and that Tipler's Omega point theory is correct in that in at least some portion of the multiverse there will exist the physical capacity for a computer to exist with infinite computing power, even in the confines of a finite universe, does this then allow for an

Re: regarding QM and infinite universes

2004-07-26 Thread Danny Mayes
particular universe is going to expand forever or collapse pointless? Danny Mayes

Joining

2004-07-17 Thread Danny Mayes
a number of books and papers on the subject matter. Given my background, my approach is often more logical and philosophical than science based. I look forward to further enlightening discussion! Danny Mayes