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

2022-04-30 Thread George Kahrimanis
rge number of electrons). So the gravitational measurements will produce something like an X-ray picture of a wavefunction, without destroying it. I find this queer, but here I quit for the night, waiting for any other opinions on this issue. George K. -- You received this message because you are

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

2022-04-28 Thread George Kahrimanis
tic." > We also need some additional assumption, For Gleason, it was "non-contextuality of measurements". I have seen others. I think that it is enough to assume "equal measures imply equal probabilities", but I do not remember seeing this claim before. (I am

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

2022-04-28 Thread George Kahrimanis
ov's axioms or their > logical equivalent. The information interpretation is QBism. > Formal properties are not enough to explain probabilities as a guide to life. George K. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To

Re: Everett and probability

2022-04-27 Thread George Kahrimanis
are well grounded on the errors in the construction of the box. (If, instead of errors of construction, you prefer to deal with errors of measurement, we shall be mired by the controversy in the foundation of statistics. Therefore I suggest that we just consider construction.) George K. -- You r

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

2022-04-27 Thread George Kahrimanis
ld be discussed in a separate conversation -- appealing to your "logical and mathematical skills", as you say. George K. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop rece

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

2022-04-27 Thread George Kahrimanis
ve expressed objection to the first assumption, but this is only because some work is needed in order to combine "there are no probabilities" with "there are probabilities in some sense", else one is vague to the point of being ridiculous. One needs to specify "in what s

Re: aiming to complete Everett's derivation of the Born Rule

2022-04-25 Thread George Kahrimanis
uble-slit interference experiment: Caroll's idea implies that field (outside the box) would be as if generated by the electron-as wave, without decoherence. I suggest that we look at the consequences of this conclusion, to assess the plausibility of the idea. George K. -- You received thi

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

2022-04-22 Thread George Kahrimanis
e must swallow the pill of no-probability for single outcomes, and build a decision theory on that. (Yes, we can!) >From QM we obtain only the Born Rule for large enough samples. George K. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" g

Re: aiming to complete Everett's derivation of the Born Rule

2022-04-22 Thread George Kahrimanis
On Friday, April 22, 2022 at 2:13:43 PM UTC+3 johnk...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 6:04 PM George Kahrimanis > wrote: > > >> > Strictly speaking, zero information implies "undefined probability", > > > Sure, but[...] > Sorry, but if

Re: aiming to complete Everett's derivation of the Born Rule

2022-04-22 Thread George Kahrimanis
On Friday, April 22, 2022 at 1:33:46 AM UTC+3 meeke...@gmail.com wrote: > On 4/21/2022 3:03 PM, George Kahrimanis wrote: > > [...] Strictly speaking, zero information implies "undefined probability", > or "imprecise probability between 0 and 1". The reason it

Re: aiming to complete Everett's derivation of the Born Rule

2022-04-21 Thread George Kahrimanis
an instinctive impulse. But for a RATIONAL decision theory this probability is not granted, IMO. I can give examples of a decision theory w/o probability, but they would dilute the focus of this message. George K. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups &

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

2022-04-21 Thread George Kahrimanis
On Thursday, April 21, 2022 at 3:54:04 AM UTC+3 Bruce wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 10:05 AM George Kahrimanis > wrote: > >> -2- The "box" (in which Scroedinger's cat is enclosed, with the lethal >> apparatus) contains also its "environment"

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

2022-04-20 Thread George Kahrimanis
difference between non-local HV theories, which violate relativity, and MWI, which does not. I am writing in a hurry, because these days are hectic. I may have missed some important postings, sorry. I would welcome any hints (with the name and time of posting) sent to my G-mailbox: GeKahrim.

Re: aiming to complete Everett's derivation of the Born Rule

2022-04-18 Thread George Kahrimanis
cause it has relevance to decision theory (in particular, on whether Maximisation of Expected Utility is a rationally justified method). George K. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this grou

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

2022-04-17 Thread George Kahrimanis
ce), if you prefer. I hope that these inadequacies in my exposition will not prevent you from focusing on the "Conclusion" about the locality of splits! George K. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. T

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

2022-04-16 Thread George Kahrimanis
for saying the opposite in my previous posting. First, a clarification. On Saturday, April 16, 2022 at 5:48:25 AM UTC+3 meeke...@gmail.com wrote: > "In George's description" means George knows...what? Does he know the > setting of Alice's polarizer? Does he know that she got 1

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

2022-04-15 Thread George Kahrimanis
n ("wavefunction") of a superobserver, George, who only knows that, first Alice then Bob, measure entangled spins on two pre-set axes, without him knowing the outcomes. Instead of the superobserver, you may think of an impersonal quantum description of the whole system, but I wonder what does it

Re: aiming to complete Everett's derivation of the Born Rule

2022-04-14 Thread George Kahrimanis
ing, if and when they mature. George K. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussi

Re: aiming to complete Everett's derivation of the Born Rule

2022-04-13 Thread George Kahrimanis
> I guess you refer to the theoretical possibility of the environment occasionally failing to "decohere" the state. Here is one of the approximations that are required in the translation from objective, deterministic QM (without collapse) to the application of QM in the world of experie

Re: aiming to complete Everett's derivation of the Born Rule

2022-04-12 Thread George Kahrimanis
in the particular application). Some people may think "po-tah-toes, pot-eight-os", but at some level of thinking *this* is the crucial issue. In particular, a serious consequence for decision theory results from failing to find any rationale for probability proper! George K. -- You recei

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

2022-04-12 Thread George Kahrimanis
> point I am trying to get across. > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 3:07 AM George Kahrimanis wrote: > >> A realistic version of the scenario with Bob and Alice [...] >> >> There have always been worries about detection inefficiencies and errors > in the t

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

2022-04-12 Thread George Kahrimanis
ess we still have a record indicating that, temporarily, an entanglement had been in effect! I remember David Deutsch showing this in a lecture, in 1985. George K. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe

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

2022-04-10 Thread George Kahrimanis
oidable imprecision, in the polarisers not being perfectly parallel, and in the possibility of a transcription error in the recording and of the records themselves. So, such branches will not be exactly unphysical, but rather of very small measure. So there are no "Bad Pairings", strictly

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

2022-04-08 Thread George Kahrimanis
olled, and so the requisite randomisation is supposedly introduced, and we can speak of probability proper. Where is the randomisation in a MWI? (A rhetorical question.) So, there is no probability (strictly speaking) in a MWI. We can only identify something-like-probability; I have posted ab

aiming to complete Everett's derivation of the Born Rule

2022-04-07 Thread George Kahrimanis
e Abstract and the first subsection of the Introduction. An argument for workability of QM leads to the Born Rule, for QM without collapse and for QM with collapse George Kahrimanis [, ...] 6 April 2022, incomplete work ABSTRACT Any interpretation of QM without collapse (a.k.a. a MWI) cruci

Re: Perpetual Motion Machines

2019-12-31 Thread George Levy
device designed to trigger the explosive? Would he perceive /heat quantization/ as an anthropically determined phenomenon (in analogy to the quantization of electron's orbit in our world)? George On 12/31/2019 7:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 31 Dec 2019, at 05:02, 'Brent Meeker' via

Re: Perpetual Motion Machines

2019-12-30 Thread George Levy
On 12/29/2019 4:34 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: George, Does your interpretation of Boltzmann's view on the conservation of energy invoke any observer like Boltzmann's Brain or Wigner's Friend? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%27s_friend You know, we need all the Friends we

Re: Perpetual Motion Machines

2019-12-23 Thread George Levy
vious state /even in the presence of an arrow of time,/ thereby restoring its entropy to its original value. This version of the paradox renders moot the arrow of time assumption and bypasses the H-Theorem. The paper includes a theoretical discussion, simulation and experimental data. George Levy

Re: Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2015-11-13 Thread George Levy
Thanks Bruno On 11/11/2015 12:59 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi George, Congratulations! Best wishes for you and your amazing work. I am not convinced but that might only be due to my incompetence in the field. I will make a further look. Bruno On 10 Nov 2015, at 23:10, George Levy wrote

Re: Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2015-11-10 Thread George Levy
_Temperature_Gradient_in_Non-Maxwellian_Gases Best George -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.

Re: Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2014-12-01 Thread George
the temperature gradient(s) into low entropy energy (i.e., work) and/or low temperature matter. George On 11/30/2014 8:36 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: John, Experimental results at several high-energy colliders suggest that at some point in the big bang the universe was a quark-gluon plasma

Re: Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2014-11-29 Thread George
would not flow backward. There is a lot of literature on this topic but from the narrow point of view of a non-Maxwellian perpetual motion machine, Loschmidt was wrong with respect to the direction of time. In summary: entropy can decrease but time always flows forward. Best, George Levy

Re: Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2014-11-28 Thread George
. Best George Levy On 11/27/2014 6:33 PM, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au mailto:bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote: The 2nd law is like that - unlikely things generally failing to happen - on the molecular scale

Re: Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2014-11-26 Thread George
is built in, but can be circumvented by stepping outside of, classical physics. George Levy On 11/24/2014 12:24 PM, George wrote: The gas does not flow unidirectionally in the column as in a pipe. There is no net flow. Convection involves a cyclic, mostly vertical, movement of gas

Re: Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2014-11-24 Thread George
but answering them may enlighten the Loschmidt paradox. George Levy On 11/23/2014 5:38 PM, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 6:28 PM, George gl...@quantics.net mailto:gl...@quantics.net wrote: There is no convection current even though gas near the floor is hotter than gas near

Re: Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2014-11-23 Thread George
ground is identical to the original ** This shows that Loschmidt was wrong. A column of gas following Maxwell’s distribution cannot spontaneously develop a temperature gradient. It remains isothermal. Best George Levy On 11/23/2014 8:39 AM, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 11:48 PM

Re: Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2014-11-22 Thread George
. Best George On 11/22/2014 1:09 PM, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 , meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Loschmidt's idea was that an isolated column of gas in a gravitational field would develop a temperature gradient, warmer at the top. I

Re: Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2014-11-21 Thread George
is to justify using the exponential distribution, obviously without having to invoke the Second Law which is being challenged. On 11/21/2014 11:19 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 11/20/2014 9:07 PM, George wrote: Brent you are right. Maxwell distribution is not exponential with energy. For the purpose

Re: Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2014-11-20 Thread George
in temperature. *Figure. 12.* Renormalized Fermi-Dirac distributions at ground level (red/thick) and at elevation (blue/thin) are different. Elevation lowers energy and temperature of gas. Please look on the right of the pictures for the temperatures at the ceiling and at the floor. George Levy

Re: Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2014-11-20 Thread George
. The distribution decays exponentially with higher energies. George On 11/20/2014 6:13 PM, meekerdb wrote: If it were the momentum or velocity the mean would be zero, but it wouldn't be exponential. If you just considered the speed (absolute magnitude of velocity) in a particular direction

Re: Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2014-11-20 Thread George
is whether Maxwell distribution is exponential with _elevation_. If it is then Loschmidt falls on Maxwellian gases. If it is not, then Loschmidt is completely vindicated for any kind of gas. I need to think about this. Any idea? George On 11/20/2014 6:41 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 11/20/2014 6

Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2014-11-19 Thread George
. This paper discusses derivation of 2^nd Law from QM. I welcome any comment or criticism that you may have. George Levy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email

The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-10 Thread George
.htm George Levy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything

Re: Algorithmic Thermodynamics

2013-01-22 Thread George
energy of the gas molecules?) George Levy On 1/17/2013 6:48 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/17/2013 7:10 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: I particularly liked this statement by Baez which relates to Feynman renomalization for QED and Crammer's Transactioanal Analysis: Manin and Marcolli [20

Re: Kabbalah and the Multiverse

2010-06-19 Thread George Levy
lifetime. George -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more

Re: Kabbalah and the Multiverse

2010-06-19 Thread George Levy
Hi John Thanks for your appreciation. John Mikes wrote: Dear George, I was missing more of your contributions on this list lately (years?). Let me reflect to a few of your topics: *Chaos.* A decade or so ago I was named 'resident chaotician' on another list - later changed my mind when I

Re: Kabbalah and the Multiverse

2010-06-17 Thread George Levy
and therefore, they are in their own image. There can be many different consciousnesses, each one being in fact a whole world. Best Regards George Rabbi Rabbit wrote: Dear Jason, My assumption is that the Name of God, according to Abraham Abulafia, could be made of any possible combination

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-09 Thread George Levy
have to define the operations +, - x / with specific exceptions for overflow. The concept of BIGGEST needs to be tied with _the kind of operations you want to apply to_ the numbers. George Brent Meeker wrote: Quentin Anciaux wrote: You have to explain why the exception is needed in the first

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-05-18 Thread George Levy
you need to include the creator of the look up table in the argument. (Inclusion can be across widely different time periods and spacial location) George --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything

Re: Changing the past by forgetting

2009-03-15 Thread George Levy
as resetting the universe. No more problem or paradox associated with forgetting! George A. Wolf wrote: Thanks! This is like undoing historical events. If you forget about the fact that dinosaurs ever lived on Earth and there is an alternative history that led to your existence

Re: Changing the past by forgetting

2009-03-15 Thread George Levy
as resetting the universe. No more problem or paradox associated with forgetting! George A. Wolf wrote: Thanks! This is like undoing historical events. If you forget about the fact that dinosaurs ever lived on Earth and there is an alternative history that led to your existence

Re: language, cloning and thought experiments

2009-03-10 Thread George Levy
. The sum is no sum at all: U = M_o Q_o where o = you as observer. George Wei Dai wrote: Jack Mallah wrote: They might not, but I'm sure most would; maybe not exactly that U, but a lot closer to it. Can you explain why you believe that? No. In U = Sum_i M_i Q_i, you sum over

Measure Increases or Decreases? - Was adult vs. child

2009-02-11 Thread George Levy
of this problem.Your paper really did not illuminate the issue in a satisfactory manner. George Jack Mallah wrote: --- On Sun, 2/8/09, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote: Suppose you differentiate into N states, then on average each has 1/N of your original measure. I

Re: Measure Increases or Decreases? - Was adult vs. child

2009-02-11 Thread George Levy
Jack Mallah wrote: Hi George. The everything list feels just like old times, no? Which is nice in a way but has a big drawback - I can only take so much of arguing the same old things, and being outnumbered. And that limit is approaching fast again. At least I think your point here

Re: Probability

2008-11-06 Thread George Levy
This last example illustrates how three different observers can see three different probabilities. George Levy --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send

Re: RE : Re: Discussion of the MUH

2008-03-08 Thread George Levy
to say if there is such a logic. George Brian Tenneson wrote: We get Tegmark on this list occasionally. He, like you, needs to acquaint himself more with the core concepts of THIS discussion. In his last post to us he admitted as much. By THIS discussion, did you mean the aspects

Re: dark energy

2008-01-19 Thread George Levy
Hal Ok, there is no feeling but there is motivation. There is no feeling of motivation and there is motivation without feeling. This is totally alien or the English language is broken. George Hal Ruhl wrote: Hi George: I see no feeling of anything in a Something. There is only

Re: dark energy

2008-01-17 Thread George Levy
Hal, Allright. You are saying that incompleteness is the (only) motivator of the members. In other words the members feel motivated by incompleteness. They do have the feeling of being incomplete that motivates their behavior. Is this correct? George Hal Ruhl wrote: Hi George: I see

Re: dark energy

2008-01-16 Thread George Levy
of the Something. which denies spirit, and on the third hand: the quest is an ... system induced need for a ongoing influx of information in which the term need goes back to supporting a spirit-based system. George Hal Ruhl wrote: Hi George: I use the term quest because a Something if incomplete

Re: dark energy

2008-01-16 Thread George Levy
Hal Ruhl wrote: This is an automatic process like a mass has to answer to the forces [meaningful questions] applied to it. What in the psyche of the mass makes it answer to the forces? George --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

Re: Are First Person prime?

2007-11-26 Thread George Levy
with A, then if M has access to M, it also has access to q. (This is a form of Anthropic principle) I am not sure if this is leading anywhere, but it's fun playing with it. Maybe a computer program could be written to express these staqtements. George Bruno Marchal wrote: George, you can do that indeed

Re: Are First Person prime?

2007-11-24 Thread George Levy
. I guess there may be cases where multiple machines can have access to the dame data. Same with statement 4 George Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 22-nov.-07, à 20:50, George Levy a écrit : Hi Bruno, I am reopening an old thread ( more than a year old) which I found very

Re: Are First Person prime?

2007-11-22 Thread George Levy
Hi Bruno, I am reopening an old thread ( more than a year old) which I found very intriguing. It leads to some startling conclusions. Le 05-août-06, à 02:07, George Levy a écrit : Bruno Marchal wrote:I think that if you want to make the first person primitive, given that neither you nor

Re: Are First Person prime?

2007-11-22 Thread George Levy
One more question: can or should p be the observer? George George Levy wrote: Hi Bruno, I am reopening an old thread ( more than a year old) which I found very intriguing. It leads to some startling conclusions. Le 05-août-06, à 02:07, George Levy a écrit : Bruno Marchal wrote:I think

Theory of Everything based on E8 by Garrett Lisi

2007-11-21 Thread George Levy
/dn12891-is-mathematical-pattern-the-theory-of-everything.html The Wiki entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E8_%28mathematics%29 on E8 is also interesting. George --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: OM measure and universe size

2007-11-05 Thread George Levy
Sorry the nice equation formats did not make it past the server. Anyone interested in the equations can find them at the associated wiki links. George Russell Standish wrote: On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 12:20:35PM -0700, George Levy wrote: Russel, We are trying to related the expansion

Re: OM measure and universe size

2007-11-02 Thread George Levy
ve trouble relating these facts to your equation H = C + S or maybe to the differential version dH = dC + dS. What do you think? Can we push this further? George Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 05:11:01PM -0700, George Levy wrote: Could we relate the expansion of th

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2007-10-08 Thread George Levy
platonic frame of reference respectively. A common platonic frame of reference implies that there are other platonic frames of references.This is unthinkable... literally. Maybe I have painted myself into a corner Yet maybe not... No one in this Universe can say... George Bruno Marchal

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2007-10-03 Thread George Levy
Oops: replace Newton's demon by Maxwell's demon. George George Levy wrote: Hi Bruno, Yes I am still on the list, barely trying to keep up, but I have been very busy. Actually the ball was in my court and I was supposed to answer to your last post to me about a year ago!!!. Generally I

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2007-10-02 Thread George Levy
instead of matter over mind), so I would very much like to see an argument that could prove it, but in my opinion Maudlin's does not cut it. More comments below. Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi George, Are you still there on the list? I am really sorry to (re)discover your post just now, with a label

Re: Hypostases (was: Natural Order Belief)

2006-12-09 Thread George Levy
the capacity for suffering, favouring pleasure rather than avoidance of pain as a motivating factor. A sado-masochistic world would do the trick, wouldn't it? George :-) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2006-10-10 Thread George Levy
Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 09-oct.-06, 21:54, George Levy a crit : To observe a split consciousness, you need an observer who is also split, ? This is simple. The time/space/substrate/level of the observer must match the time/space/substrate/level of what he observes

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2006-10-09 Thread George Levy
Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 08-oct.-06, 08:00, George Levy a crit : Bruno, Finally I read your filmed graph argument which I have stored in my computer. (The original at the Iridia web site http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/bxlthesis/Volume3CC/3%20%202%20.pdf is not accessible

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2006-10-08 Thread George Levy
that consciousness does not supervene the physical. The example is just an instance of consciousness operating across two different time intervals by mean of a physical substrate and a physical means (recording) of connecting these two time intervals. George

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2006-10-04 Thread George Levy
. To understand the insertion of Maudlin into the consciousness of The Conscious_Subroutine, you must agree that this consciousness is independent of time, space, substrate and level. This Maybe is the Moral of Maudlin's Machinations...? George Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 03-oct.-06, 21:33, George

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2006-10-04 Thread George Levy
Oops. Read: IF (Input = 27098217872180483080234850309823740127) George George Levy wrote: Bruno, Stathis, Thank you Stathis for the summary. I do have the paper now and I will read it carefully. Based on Sathis summary I still believe that Maudlin is fallacious. A computer program

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2006-10-04 Thread George Levy
rating in a bootstrapping reflexive emergent manner. Bruno is right in applying math/logic to solve the consciousness/physical world (Mind/Body) riddle. Physics can be derived from machine psychology. George Russell Standish wrote: If I can sumarise George's summary as this: In order to gener

Maudlin's argument

2006-10-02 Thread George Levy
e resolved by tracing how information flows and Maudlin is certainly in the circuit, using information, just like Maxwell's demon is affecting entropy. George --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everyt

Re: Solipsism unplugged

2006-09-20 Thread George Levy
also exist (the Plenitude). Hence he is not alone. Solipsism is dead. George Colin Hales wrote: This is an extract from the full work on solipsism. It is one special section written in the first person, for what else could a solipsist scientist do? I'd be interested in any comments

It's a mad mad mad world (was computationalism and supervenience)

2006-08-21 Thread George Levy
If you're not sure that you are sane, then you must be crazy to say "Yes Doctor.".. ...yet a man could say it but not a "sane" machine. Bruno's quest based on machine psychology runs the risk of leaving unanswered the really big quest based on human

It's a mad mad mad world (was computationalism and supervenience)]

2006-08-21 Thread George Levy
nanswered the really big quest based on human psychology. George Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 21-aot-06, 07:11, Stathis Papaioannou a crit : It seems to me that there are two main sticking points in the discussions on several list threads in recent weeks. One is computationalism: i

Re: I think, was Difficulties in communication. . .

2006-08-13 Thread George Levy
Brent Meeker wrote: George Levy wrote: Brent Meeker wrote: That brings us back to Descartes "I think therefore I am"; which Russell pointed out was an unsupported inference. IMHO everything hinges on "I think." "I th

Re: I think, was Difficulties in communication. . .

2006-08-13 Thread George Levy
Brent Meeker wrote: George Levy wrote: Brent Meeker wrote: George Levy wrote: Brent Meeker wrote: That brings us back to Descartes "I think therefore I am"; which Russell pointed out was an u

Re: Are First Person prime? - time

2006-08-10 Thread George Levy
are in fact emergent according to the Anthropic principle. The logical links (or consistencies) exist because you are there to observe them. Just as a Rorschach test . You are making the links as you go along. George --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because

Re: Are First Person prime?

2006-08-09 Thread George Levy
especially the long ones, should be preceded by an abstract. ;-) Could you point me in the right direction? George --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group,

Re: Are First Person prime?

2006-08-09 Thread George Levy
David Nyman wrote: George Levy wrote: Not at all. A bidirectional contingency is superfluous. The only relevent contingency is: If the observed event will result in different probabilities of survival for myself and for others observing me, then our perceptions will be different

Re: Are First Person prime?

2006-08-08 Thread George Levy
othesis our primary perception of the world is first person. Thus first person perception of the world comes about when our own existence is contingent on our observation. Third person perception comes about in situations when our own existence is not continge

Re: Are First Person prime?

2006-08-08 Thread George Levy
David Nyman wrote: George Levy wrote: Thus first person perception of the world comes about when our own existence is contingent on our observation. Hi George I think I agree with this. It could correspond with what I'm trying to model in terms of FP1 etc. Perhaps

Re: Are First Person prime?

2006-08-07 Thread George Levy
1Z wrote: George Levy wrote: A conscious entity is also information. I am assuming here that a conscious entity is essentially "software." George --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

Re: Are First Person prime?

2006-08-06 Thread George Levy
d. The second one is a reflective form probably necessary for consciousness. The third statement taken seriously is intringing. If entity p thinks that entity q is necessary for p's existence, then if p thinks then q thinks. In other words all necessary condi

Re: Are First Person prime?

2006-08-04 Thread George Levy
ntails q" reminds me vaguely of the Anthropic principle. I am not sure what to make of this. My children think???) George Levy --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List

Re: K the Master Set (+ partial answer to Tom's Diagonalization)

2006-07-18 Thread George Levy
: a first level would be as if your were talking to your grandmother; a second level, talking to your kids (if they listen); a last level, talking to your colleagues. George --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Only Existence is necessary?

2006-07-09 Thread George Levy
and finally with QM (MWI). As science had progressed, the observer has acquired a greater and greater importance. Extrapolating to the limit, I becomes central and its existence anthropically defines (creates) the world where it resides. George

Re: Symmetry, Invarance and Conservation

2006-07-07 Thread George Levy
Hi Stephen Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear George, Could it be that Consciousness is more related and identifiable with the "processing" of Information than with Information itself? I agree that consciousness is not just information. As you say, conscious

Re: Only Existence is necessary?

2006-07-07 Thread George Levy
is important to avoid confusion. George Levy --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group

Symmetry, Invarance and Conservation (Was Number and function for non-mathematician)

2006-07-06 Thread George Levy
eeds no medium!" Marshall McLuhan got it all wrong! :-) George Levy Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 05-juil.-06, 20:36, George Levy a crit : My background is more engineering and physics than mathematics and I do share some of Norman misgivings. Some of it has to do with terminolo

Re: Number and function for non-mathematician

2006-07-05 Thread George Levy
ss with (change in physical) substrate?" George --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from th

Re: A calculus of personal identity

2006-06-24 Thread George Levy
Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 23-juin-06, 07:29, George Levy a crit : In Bruno's calculus what are the invariances? (Comment on Tom Caylor's post) Logicians, traditionally, are interested in deduction invariant with respect of the interpretation. A typical piece

Re: Only Existence is necessary?

2006-06-22 Thread George Levy
ll the implied logical meaning and/or axiomatic system:  This should cut through the Gordian Knot of the mind-body problem. We'll have to refer to Bruno's work to flesh out this idea in a formal fashion. George --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are s

Re: A calculus of personal identity

2006-06-22 Thread George Levy
are taken into account. Until then all data is subjective. George --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe

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