Re: relevant probability distribution

2002-06-15 Thread Matthieu Walraet
On 15 Jun 2002, at 14:27, Russell Standish wrote: No the issue concerns any conscious program, rather than any particular one. The fact that there are vastly more amoeba than homo sapiens tends to argue against amoebae being consious. This remind me of Jack Vance novels Alastor. One of

Re: decision theory papers

2002-04-19 Thread Matthieu Walraet
On 18 Apr 2002, at 20:03, H J Ruhl wrote: 5) I do not see universes as splitting by going to more than one next state. This is not necessary to explain anything as far as I can see. 6) Universes that are in receipt of true noise as part of a state to state transition are in effect

Re: Juergen's paper

2002-01-23 Thread Matthieu Walraet
On 22 Jan 2002, at 23:28, H J Ruhl wrote: I do not see that at all. Why does it need a history? All it needs is the capability of finding a next state. It doesn't need the capacity to find the next state. If it has that capacity, then the history is computable. I said

Little presentation

2002-01-16 Thread Matthieu Walraet
Hi, Instead of replying too quickly to a mail, maybe I should introduce myself before. I'm a 28 years old network software engineer. I have exchanged some mails with Bruno Marchal quite a long time ago, after an article in Pour la Science (french edition of Scientific American.) I also have

Re: Finite time and infinite space

2002-01-15 Thread Matthieu Walraet
On 15 Jan 2002, at 11:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the things that strikes me as most peculiar and unexpected about the universe is this: that it is apparently finite and inhomogeneous in time, yet infinite and homogeneous in space. The universe is finite : My short term memory last