Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-12-23 Thread Russell Standish
type theory. -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpc

Re: Schrodinger's cat problem; proposed solution

2017-12-18 Thread Russell Standish
f consciousness or observerhood, since the continuous/discrete distinction should not be controversial to anyone, and a lot in known mathematically about it. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 25311

Re: Equivalence Principle and Einstein Field Equations

2017-12-11 Thread Russell Standish
riments directly testing the principle of equivalence. A finding of a departure from it would be very big news! -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visit

Re: Equivalence Principle and Einstein Field Equations

2017-12-11 Thread Russell Standish
on sign is dropped, since it is obvious from the way the equation is written. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-12-09 Thread Russell Standish
of a proof of that contention, > which I may get around to writing up sooner or later.. > I would be very interested in that. -- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principa

Re: Cosmological Red Shift

2017-12-09 Thread Russell Standish
nes are shifted by the same amount. But the lines are recognisable by the patterns - a bit like a bar code. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting

Re: Cosmological Red Shift

2017-12-09 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 08:03:48PM -0800, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Saturday, December 9, 2017 at 3:53:28 AM UTC, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > > > On Saturday, December 9, 2017 at 2:40:12 AM UTC, Russell Standish wrote: > >> >

Re: Cosmological Red Shift

2017-12-08 Thread Russell Standish
stance in terms of z factor, which is related to their Doppler shift, rather than an exlicit distance, as the latter vlaue is not model independent. Cheers -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-12-04 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 12:18:02PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 5/12/2017 11:53 am, Russell Standish wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 11:26:53AM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > > On 5/12/2017 3:15 am, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > > I think that is enough to get

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-12-04 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-12-03 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 02:11:11PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 3/12/2017 9:03 am, Russell Standish wrote: > > The point being that the uncertainty in the coin's initial position is > > itself due to the amplification of quantum uncertainty by classical > > chaos. > &

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-12-02 Thread Russell Standish
d surface, rather than the tosser's hand, which is why that is usually insisted upon. -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco.

Re: US vs North Korea

2017-12-01 Thread Russell Standish
hing" list. Anyway, as I stated, this will be an > exception. Try being tolerant. AG In particular, ensemble theories of everything. For an introduction, see my book "Theory of Nothing", or Tegmark's "Mathematical Universe". But other "theories of everything"

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-11-27 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 05:09:13PM -0800, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > On 11/27/2017 4:17 PM, Russell Standish wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 03:57:37PM -0500, John Clark wrote: > > > <agrays...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > ​> ​ &

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-11-27 Thread Russell Standish
ently to everybody else on this list, and prevent these sorts of stupid confusions. Cheers -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Resea

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-11-15 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:20:45AM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 16/11/2017 9:14 am, Russell Standish wrote: > > But not all measurements are measurements of the position of > > something. What about measuring the voltage of a circuit using an A->D > > converter? >

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-11-15 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 10:54:51PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 15/11/2017 5:02 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 02:46:21PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > > I said "one of the strongest"! I know that you want to define QM from the >

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-11-15 Thread Russell Standish
elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss, apparently. * > As Brent explained, if the universe is infinite in extent at t=0, it remains infinite in extent at finite times. -- Dr Russell Standish

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-11-14 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 02:46:21PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 15/11/2017 12:49 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:05:22AM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > > One of the strongest arguments for MWI was that it eliminates the concept > > > of

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-11-14 Thread Russell Standish
entirely requires solving the preferred basis problem without reference to an observer or observation. -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior

Re: An AI program that teaches itself

2017-10-21 Thread Russell Standish
l a gap between 100% code coverage, and correctly implementing the requirements... -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fe

The Finney phone

2017-09-27 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: Infinities

2017-09-24 Thread Russell Standish
elevant to phenomenology. -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University ht

Re: math and the treal world

2017-09-16 Thread Russell Standish
y doing here? -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpc

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-09-10 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 09:56:05AM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 9/09/2017 9:36 am, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 05:08:39PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >>OK, proper time is taken from SR and applied only locally, so the > >>concept is not r

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-09-08 Thread Russell Standish
assumptions. So far, they're not nonsense. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston Univ

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-09-08 Thread Russell Standish
ence of the latter. Computationalism is the position that it is both necessary and sufficient, of course. -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Rese

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-09-07 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 09:44:02PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 6/09/2017 5:39 pm, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >On 6/09/2017 2:52 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >>More importantly, I'm sure you appreciate that codings are also entirely > >>arbitrary, that every possib

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-09-07 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 05:39:07PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 6/09/2017 2:52 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 11:44:12AM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >>I find the discussion in your book rather cursory, unless I have not > >>located the r

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-09-05 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 11:44:12AM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 5/09/2017 2:55 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 11:58:57AM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >>I have no problems with the assumption that all forms of data can be > >>represented by bi

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-09-04 Thread Russell Standish
of time and projection postulates in the book, as well as the evolutionary framework within which it sits. Obviously, we would like a more detailed account of observation at some point, but that seems like a good start. -- Dr Russell

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-09-04 Thread Russell Standish
eory is dualist or not. It's kind of irrelevant. (Or maybe that should be irrelephant - cf story of the blind men that I quote at the end of my book). -- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-09-04 Thread Russell Standish
m was property dualism, not Decartes' substance dualism). I actually put this to David on the one and only lunch meeting I had with him, and he admitted his classification was for a specific purpose (which he didn't go into), and probably not at all universal. -- ----

Re: Is math real?

2017-09-04 Thread Russell Standish
putations possible with a quantum computer, and that a working 512 qubit quantum computer will be strong empirical evidence that we live in a robust universe anyway. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-09-04 Thread Russell Standish
the bit strings is the information that one knows?  How > does a bitstring know > a different bitstring? > Information is in the constraints. If I know something or other, then this entails that some bitstrings are compatible with my existence, and others are not. --

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-09-03 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 12:28:26PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 29/08/2017 3:17 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >I attach a brief PDF of what I have so far. It shows how observer > >moments, modelled as sets of bitstrings classified by looking at a > >finite number

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-08-29 Thread Russell Standish
, but think are plausible). Cheers On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 04:55:02AM +1000, Russell Standish wrote: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 12:03:24PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > On 6/07/2017 5:55 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > > >On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 04:18:49PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote:

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-07-21 Thread Russell Standish
emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-07-20 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 12:03:24PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 6/07/2017 5:55 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 04:18:49PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >>On 6/07/2017 2:33 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >>>Establishing linearity is key.

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-07-11 Thread Russell Standish
e task is going to be quite so easy... -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, King

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-07-11 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 03:04:13PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 11/07/2017 2:12 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >You're still missing the point. The quantum reality is a 1p thing, it > >is the observed phenomenal physics. Substrate independence is a 3p > >thing, and may

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-07-10 Thread Russell Standish
to support universal computation. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-07-09 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 10:56:27AM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 7/07/2017 10:40 am, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 10:22:40PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > > >>No, position and momentum are dual in the sense I defined. The > >>observabl

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-07-06 Thread Russell Standish
e conventional term is "complementary". Observing S=X+P does not imply simultaneously observing X and P. Prove that I can't observe S, or provide a reference to someone doing so. It appears rather crucial to your critique. -- -------

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-07-06 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 04:18:49PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 6/07/2017 2:33 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >Establishing linearity is key. > > Yes, and you haven't made progress with that. All I ask is to give me some more time on this. I have some further ideas in this r

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-07-05 Thread Russell Standish
Sorry for having gone dark, although maybe you relished the respite. I've been travelling, and its not been all that convenient to check and respond to emails. On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 02:56:58PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 1/07/2017 11:18 am, Russell Standish wrote: > >To summa

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-30 Thread Russell Standish
contact with regular QM). -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University ht

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-29 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 11:26:50AM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 29/06/2017 5:36 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 03:19:40PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >>On 28/06/2017 2:26 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >>>On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 05:09:4

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-29 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 03:19:40PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 28/06/2017 2:26 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 05:09:49PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >>On 27/06/2017 10:21 am, Russell Standish wrote: > >>>No, you are just dealing wit

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-28 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 05:09:49PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 27/06/2017 10:21 am, Russell Standish wrote: > >No, you are just dealing with a function from whatever set the ψ and ψ_α > >are drawn from to that same set. There's never been an assumption that > >ψ are

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-26 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 08:52:15AM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 26/06/2017 3:57 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 11:50:45AM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >>That is not what is normally meant by the '+' symbol. You have > >>simply defined a conj

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-25 Thread Russell Standish
ve in a Multiverse, and that observer moments are drawn from a much more general measure than classical probability theory allows. I still claim that my argument needs to looked at seriously on its own terms, rather than trying to interpret it in terms of other failed attempts (eg branch co

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-25 Thread Russell Standish
station of physical supervenience. My argument for that goes by the name of the Occam catastrophe. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiti

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-25 Thread Russell Standish
teresting. I've downloaded it, and added it to my stack. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.c

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-25 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 04:25:07PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 24/06/2017 8:36 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 06:29:54PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >>On 24/06/2017 5:23 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >> > >>OK, it was possibly the

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-24 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 06:29:54PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 24/06/2017 5:23 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > > OK, it was possibly the case that you gave arguments earlier in the > book. But I was going on the basis of the Appendix "Derivation of > Quantum postulates&quo

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-24 Thread Russell Standish
overwhelming more likely to occur in the Multiverse of Everything than Boltzmann brain existences. -- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-23 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 01:09:41PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 24/06/2017 11:20 am, Russell Standish wrote: > >The 3p is what is left after removing all personal baggage of each 1p > >view point. It is literally the view from nowhere (since location is > >just such a

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-23 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 04:21:09PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 21/06/2017 4:03 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 12:15:31PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >>On 19/06/2017 10:23 am, Russell Standish wrote: > >>>I know Scott wouldn'

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-21 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 12:15:31PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 19/06/2017 10:23 am, Russell Standish wrote: > >I know Scott wouldn't go as far as me. For me, all such irreversible > >processes are related to conscious entities in some way. Whilst > >agreeing that Geiger

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-18 Thread Russell Standish
st, so that could be the source of our disagreement :). -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kin

Re: substitution level

2017-06-12 Thread Russell Standish
difference from a computational complexity point of view. I confess to not understanding that proof, but it is in Chang et al op. cit. Cheers -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, H

Re: substitution level

2017-06-04 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 11:48:23AM -0400, John Clark wrote: > On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 9:48 PM, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> > wrote: > > > > ​> ​ > > That is not the same thing. The largest prime number doesn't exist, so > > ​ ​ > > the

Re: substitution level

2017-06-03 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 09:20:29PM -0400, John Clark wrote: > On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote: > > ​> ​ > > Random oracle computers appear to be faster for some problems in a > > similar way, but don't compute anyt

Re: substitution level

2017-06-03 Thread Russell Standish
ers appear to be faster for some problems in a similar way, but don't compute anything a Turing machine can't do. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Vis

Re: A thought on MWI and its alternative(s)

2017-05-28 Thread Russell Standish
m first principles without making any further measurements, then we don't live in such a superposition. But I still think that if it requires a measurement (no matter how indirect) to determine the fact of colour, than we do live in a superposition. Cheers -- ------

Re: Answers to David 4

2017-05-28 Thread Russell Standish
. Cheers -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcode

Re: A thought on MWI and its alternative(s)

2017-05-28 Thread Russell Standish
t FAPP), in which case the two histories do not interfere, and there is no quantum interference phenomena. -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Se

Re: A thought on MWI and its alternative(s)

2017-05-27 Thread Russell Standish
and the 3p looks more like Everett, with deterministic wave functions and many worlds. The incompatibility between relativity and wave function collapse can be seen as a manifestation of the incommensurate nature of the 1p/3p distinction. Cheers -- -----

Re: A thought on MWI and its alternative(s)

2017-05-27 Thread Russell Standish
you can leverage that into support for the MWI. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.

Re: Question about physical supervenience

2017-05-18 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 08:42:22AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote:> > > On 16 May 2017, at 10:20, Russell Standish wrote: > > >On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 09:47:14AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> > >>On 16 May 2017, at 04:44, Russell Standish wrote: > >>

Re: Question about physical supervenience

2017-05-16 Thread Russell Standish
e consciousness is no longer supervenient on the original program, but on the transformation. I can't help feeling this is telling me something is awry with the definition of supervenience, rather than of computationalism or materialism. -- -------

Re: Question about physical supervenience

2017-05-16 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 09:47:14AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 16 May 2017, at 04:44, Russell Standish wrote: > > >On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 11:41:04AM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote: > >> > >>We had extended arguments starting from "Why isn't > >>t

Re: Question about physical supervenience

2017-05-15 Thread Russell Standish
niversal dovetailer and IMHO the classroom (see the paper) are counterexamples to that belief. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research

Re: What are atheists for?

2017-05-08 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: What are atheists for?

2017-05-07 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, May 07, 2017 at 07:26:02AM +0100, David Nyman wrote: > On 7 May 2017 5:02 a.m., "Russell Standish" <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote: > Anyway, back to our sheep (as they say in French). Bruno has been > reluctant to really address the question of physical supervenie

Re: What are atheists for?

2017-05-06 Thread Russell Standish
sical supervenience in his theories. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University

Re: What are atheists for?

2017-04-28 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 09:42:45AM -0500, Jason Resch wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 1:51 AM, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> > > HAVEGE periodically dumps entropy into /dev/random, when available. Do you > know what the consumption-rate of your ALife simulat

Re: What are atheists for?

2017-04-28 Thread Russell Standish
without any significant speedup in random number generation. Maybe it requires a massive workload of parallel scientific computations to work :). Anyway, it is a question that I will return to in the next few years - I now have a completely new implementation of Tierra and the complexity analysis too

Re: R: Re: What are atheists for?

2017-04-26 Thread Russell Standish
e accurate to say that arithmetic can be induced (maybe inferred?) from physics, rather than derived as originally claimed. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance C

Re: What are atheists for?

2017-04-25 Thread Russell Standish
ch is that all truths are observer dependent, with some truths being globally applicable to all observers being the equivalent of ontological truth. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal

Re: What are atheists for?

2017-04-25 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 10:38:51PM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > On 4/24/2017 7:49 PM, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 07:12:38PM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote: > >> > >>On 4/24/2017 2:15 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >&g

Re: What are atheists for?

2017-04-24 Thread Russell Standish
ld be nice to handle the more usual QM statements where probability is less than 1. Also, it is open whether Z describes exactly Birkhoff and Neumann's quantum logic, or merely something like it. Nevertheless an intriguing result. -- ---

Re: What are atheists for?

2017-04-24 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:42:44AM -0400, John Clark wrote: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 11:42 PM, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> > wrote: > > > > ​> ​ > > If we > > ​ ​ > > take the usual (mathematical) meaning of computation, then I can p

Re: What are atheists for?

2017-04-23 Thread Russell Standish
omputationalism. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://www.

Re: What are atheists for?

2017-04-23 Thread Russell Standish
utation, and that mathematical > >platonism is true, but that there is still a primitive physical > >universe and that any actual computations require a physical > >substrate -- as JC keeps insisting. > > > >No contradiction has been demonstrated. > &g

Re: What are atheists for?

2017-04-23 Thread Russell Standish
using a clock and electron detector gives a time series that to our best knowledge is random and hence uncomputable. It is an undeniable physical process that is not a computation. Back to my pop corn! -- -------- Dr Russell Sta

Re: What are atheists for?

2017-04-02 Thread Russell Standish
here life is hard and medical services are sparse > people cling to religion and their children often die - so they have > more children to compensate...and having more children contributes > to their poverty. All the major religions encourage fertility. > Religion as a p

Re: What are atheists for?

2017-04-01 Thread Russell Standish
nsubscribe 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-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For

Re: The Weirdening

2016-12-29 Thread Russell Standish
do when he takes office? -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University ht

Re: No gravity / no dark matter

2016-12-16 Thread Russell Standish
n't think Brent was doing that - but maybe Brent can chime in. 'Nuff said. Cheers -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fel

Re: No gravity / no dark matter

2016-12-15 Thread Russell Standish
sort of satirical response. Nevertheless, I didn't see anywhere where he claimed that the models of physics were ontological. -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performan

Re: No gravity / no dark matter

2016-12-14 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 05:23:16PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 14 Dec 2016, at 02:12, Russell Standish wrote: > > >I don't see why you would say physicalism needs to be assumed to > >explain the predictive power of physics. > > To predict (exactly and in princi

Re: No gravity / no dark matter

2016-12-13 Thread Russell Standish
ind > and matter, and a univocal link between, which, at the level of > metaphysics or theology becomes as much invalid than an evocation to > God, which makes no sense in any theory, even theology. > > --

Re: No gravity / no dark matter

2016-12-04 Thread Russell Standish
Cheers > > > On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 11:26 PM, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> > wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 04:26:25PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> > >> I am not sure why he says that Einstein was wrong, as I am not sure > >&

Re: No gravity / no dark matter

2016-12-04 Thread Russell Standish
oking fun of :). -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcode

Re: No gravity / no dark matter

2016-12-01 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 10:02:49AM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 2/12/2016 9:26 am, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 04:26:25PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >>I am not sure why he says that Einstein was wrong, as I am not sure > >>Einstein ev

Re: No gravity / no dark matter

2016-12-01 Thread Russell Standish
eed of light. It is just a nonlinear reparameterisation of our coordinates. Verlinde's proposal is much, much more than that. -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Perfor

Re: No gravity / no dark matter

2016-11-30 Thread Russell Standish
ost to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -------- Dr Russell

Re: Peano Axioms are wrong (at least in our universe)

2016-09-19 Thread Russell Standish
hought. -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.

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