Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-19 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 18 Jan 2014, at 17:54, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 5:54 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 17 Jan 2014, at 20:38, Stephen Paul King wrote: You

Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-19 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 17 Jan 2014, at 21:26, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, You wrote: Physics emerges from the FPI on UD*. It is an open question if there is a winner program, but empirically we can bet

Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-19 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-19 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-19 Thread Stephen Paul King
meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/19/2014 10:01 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Exactly, what about all the models of all the worlds that follow different axioms? Those can possibly exist, thus they must. What is not impossible, is compulsory! Did you just make that up? :-) Brent -- You

Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-19 Thread Stephen Paul King
:22 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/19/2014 10:01 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Exactly, what about all the models of all the worlds that follow different axioms? Those can possibly exist, thus they must. What is not impossible, is compulsory! Did you just make that up

Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, Could you ever stop being obtuse? On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 17 Jan 2014, at 21:01, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, I think that you are setting up a false dichotomy with the notion of a finite unique physical universe

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
an actively computing reality in a present moment of p-time as the fundamental level of reality. Edgar On Saturday, January 18, 2014 11:54:15 AM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 5:54 AM, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 17 Jan 2014, at 20:38, Stephen

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
I would like to promote this blog post and the comments on it. http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=6551 On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Edgar, LOL! You don't parse what I read very well... I have been saying that block

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
by positing an actively computing reality in a present moment of p-time as the fundamental level of reality. Edgar On Saturday, January 18, 2014 11:54:15 AM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 5:54 AM, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 17 Jan

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
On Saturday, January 18, 2014 2:06:04 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar, LOL! You don't parse what I read very well... I have been saying that block time is a BS idea. Time is not like that at all. I have a model of time that works great in physics, but not many know of it. BTW, I

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear LizR, On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 4:29 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 January 2014 05:54, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear Bruno, I do not claim that UDA is flawed. I claim it is incomplete and based on a false premise. The problem is the assumption

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear LizR, I know. I deserved that. It is just frustrating to explain something and get a blank look in response. On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 5:14 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 January 2014 05:26, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear Bruno, Could you ever stop

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
Yes, and friends that are teenagers in mental age. On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 5:29 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 January 2014 11:16, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear LizR, I know. I deserved that. It is just frustrating to explain something and get a blank

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear LizR, On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 5:47 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 January 2014 10:52, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: To the contrary! Bruno seems to eschew the very idea of Becoming! He appears to derive it from something static and eternal, hence

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
, but it would be freaking expensive and not last long. On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.auwrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 07:54:08PM -0500, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear spudboy100, As far as I know, no. It isn't possible to shift from one universe

Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 02:48:53PM -0500, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dare Jason, On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: So why can't zombies have intentions? Remember the only thing zombies supposedly lack is qualia. If a zombie is hungry and goes out

Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
to me that it will be quite possible to have a measure of a system that indicates self-awareness (given sufficient time series data of its components). On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 09:10:42PM -0500, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Russel, Can we detect self-modeling in our brains now? I have

Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
). On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 09:10:42PM -0500, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Russel, Can we detect self-modeling in our brains now? I have been doing some research into Secure computation, trust me, my team is pretty sure that we can make computations look like noise on the network

Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Brent, On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:05 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/18/2014 1:09 AM, LizR wrote: On 18 January 2014 19:51, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/17/2014 10:18 PM, LizR wrote: On 18 January 2014 19:12, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Russell, I am soo happy, BTW, that you participate in this list! On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.auwrote: On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 09:08:04PM -0500, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Russell, I would agree with you IFF the substitution level

Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear LizR, On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:44 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 January 2014 16:28, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear Brent, On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:05 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Not so cotton-picking fast! Where is discussion

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
at 10:38:58PM -0500, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Russell, I am soo happy, BTW, that you participate in this list! On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 09:08:04PM -0500, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Russell

Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.auwrote: On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:12:18PM -0500, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Russell, I don't see the connection. How is self-modeling involved in the space where the system integrates the outputs of its

Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
that indicates self-awareness (given sufficient time series data of its components). On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 09:10:42PM -0500, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Russel, Can we detect self-modeling in our brains now? I have been doing some research into Secure computation, trust me, my team is pretty

Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? Computer Science

2014-01-17 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, I was not clear. Let me try again. On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:24 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 16 Jan 2014, at 15:18, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, Let me first say that I share your opinion of physicalism! My point is that it is the only opinion

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-17 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-17 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 16 Jan 2014, at 04:44, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear LizR, But stop and think of the implications of what even Bruno is saying. *Space is completely a construction of our minds.* *There is no 3,1

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-17 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-17 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-17 Thread Stephen Paul King
of this methodology will be demonstrated using examples from probability theory, number theory, geometry, information theory, and quantum mechanics. On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Bruno, You wrote: Physics emerges from the FPI on UD

Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-17 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-17 Thread Stephen Paul King
. A reality requires the ability to coherently communicate between its observers. On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 6:02 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 January 2014 11:39, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear John, I invite your comment on a statement and question

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-17 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-17 Thread Stephen Paul King
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On the nature and existence of many non computational things

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? Computer Science

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Hard Problem

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Jason, I see a flaw in your argument. On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 16, 2014, at 8:41 AM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Jason, Could you be more specific about why you are skeptical of p-zombies? I

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
: Stephen, What is this magical FPI that tells us in this present moment that there is no such present moment? What's the actual supposed proof? Edgar On Thursday, January 16, 2014 10:17:31 AM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar, The universality of the first person experience

Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Jason, Let's try to be a bit more formal. Interleaving. On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 16, 2014, at 9:32 AM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Jason, I see a flaw in your argument. On Thu, Jan 16, 2014

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Edgar, I already wrote up one argument against the concept of a universal present moment using the general covariance requirement of GR. Did you read it? It is impossible to define

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
to any metrics... Edgar On Thursday, January 16, 2014 1:23:50 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar, I would agree with your idea here if you made one change: replace the single abstract computing space for all of space-time and replace it with an abstract computing space for each

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
property conservation laws and the laws that compute the binding forces of matter. But am pleased to hear you agree with the rest, the general concept... Edgar On Thursday, January 16, 2014 1:23:50 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar, I would agree with your idea here if you made

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Jason, On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Jason, I do not think that block time is a coherent idea. It assumes something impossible: that a unique

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
Der LizR, On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:14 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Stephen, I have a 2c worth on block time, too :) On 17 January 2014 09:33, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear Jason, On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.comwrote

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
Parminedies. We then can define time in terms of orderings and measure of that fundamental Becoming in a relatively local way. Problem solved! On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
our entire existence within from birth to death. It's the most fundamental and persistent of observations... Edgar On Thursday, January 16, 2014 3:28:06 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar, Is P-time observable? On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
it, that's a different train of thought. Liz's repost has nothing to do with the argument I'm referencing. She clearly doesn't know what it is. Edgar On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 6:21:35 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear LizR, Thank you for the repost! Dear Edgar

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
through time at c in one direction, this conclusively falsifies block time. Thus SR conclusively falsifies block time. QED. Best, Edgar On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 6:39:48 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/15/2014 2:54 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar, � I will have to agree

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
in one direction, this conclusively falsifies block time. Thus SR conclusively falsifies block time. QED. Best, Edgar On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 6:39:48 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/15/2014 2:54 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar, � I will have to agree with LizR here. SR

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
consistent way to do it. But his results disallow for the kind of concepts that Edgar and many others are advocating. On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:16 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/15/2014 3:21 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear LizR, Thank you for the repost! Dear Edgar

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
, 2014 7:14:56 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar, Your argument is based on a disconception of what the speed of light is! Light -photons- do not move at all. They are the null length rays that connect events together. Nothing can travel faster than c because to do so would

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
with my argument, other than that you disagree with the conclusion? Edgar On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 7:21:31 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar, There is no such thing as a location in time. The entire idea of a dimension of time is a mental construct that we hang events

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
does not move??? Even your clock knows better than that! And you think my theories are weird! Edgar On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 7:35:26 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bot, Time does not move. Please alert your programer that your libraries of responses are failing

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
:48:02 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar, Time is not the movement of the hands or numbers of a clock, it is the measure of the mapping between the positions of the hands. That is not motion, it is something else. Time does not move. On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Edgar L

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
on TV. :-) Edgar On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 7:55:09 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar, Bingo! You are correct. All motion in space-time is an illusion. The ancient greeks figured that out already. On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
of ideas that are not even true. On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:09 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 January 2014 13:55, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear Edgar, Bingo! You are correct. All motion in space-time is an illusion. The ancient greeks figured that out already

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/15/2014 4:32 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Yes, GR assumes smooth Riemannian manifolds. The mapping works for them wonderfully. That fact was proven by the people that discovered Fiber Bundles. The hard thing to grasp is how the mapping between separable QM

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
: On 1/15/2014 4:32 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Yes, GR assumes smooth Riemannian manifolds. The mapping works for them wonderfully. That fact was proven by the people that discovered Fiber Bundles. The hard thing to grasp is how the mapping between separable QM systems and the infinitesimal

Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? Computer Science

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
of an observer. If only we could see eye to eye on the definitions of some other concepts... Such as that Computation is an *action* or transformation, not a static being. On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:22 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 January 2014 16:19, Stephen Paul King stephe

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear LizR, On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:55 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 January 2014 16:44, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear LizR, But stop and think of the implications of what even Bruno is saying. *Space is completely a construction of our minds

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-14 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
it be? I dropped the idea that reality is physical and dimensional long ago. I learned detailed knowledge of QM and GR... Edgar On Monday, January 13, 2014 9:08:53 AM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar, Several of us do not understand what you mean by pure abstract

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
, January 13, 2014 12:25:54 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar, On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net wrote: Stephen, It's not 'ideal monism'. Trying to shoehorn it won't help you understand it. Good point! I tend to have a 5 bin system that I use

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
outside of the New Age. For a hard science take, I recommend Russell Standish's *A theory of Nothing http://www.hpcoders.com.au/nothing.html*. I am far too ADHD to write a publishable book Edgar On Monday, January 13, 2014 12:52:42 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-12 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-12 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-12 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Stephen Paul King
. On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 10 Jan 2014, at 23:23, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Brent, Vaughn Pratt's dualist theory is consistent with QM and does show a mechanism that prohibits White Rabbits. It is intelligible to anyone that puts

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear LizR, On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 5:01 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 January 2014 20:56, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Der Bruno, The UD has no output. I guess you think to the trace of the UD, UD*, which from the first person perspective is entirely given

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Stephen Paul King
AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 11 Jan 2014, at 06:05, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Brent, I will try a crude summary and hope to not be misunderstood... It starts with the Stone duality, a well known isomorphism between Boolean algebras and totally disconnected compact

A different take on the ontological status of Math

2014-01-11 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Friends, I highly recommend Louis H. Kauffman's new blog. His latest post speaks to the Becoming interpretation of mathematics that I advocate: http://kauffman2013.wordpress.com/2014/01/11/is-mathematics-real/ -- Kindest Regards, Stephen Paul King -- You received this message

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Brent, On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 6:08 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/11/2014 6:43 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, You wrote: AR provides the neutral monism! Comp is neutral monism. Neither mind, nor matter are taken as primitive. Both emerge from

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear LizR, On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 12:00 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 January 2014 14:52, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear LizR, That is the claim and I show that it is false. A class that has a particular set of properties and not the rest

Re: Tegmark and consciousness

2014-01-11 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Stephen Paul King
. We get Nothingness either way. My claim is that arithmetic is not Nothing thus it is not neutral and cannot be the foundation of a neutral monism. On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 2:00 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/11/2014 9:33 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear LizR, On Sun, Jan 12

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