Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Hi Jason, On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi Jason, It is not a question of whether or not that binary string refers

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Are we confusing the real thing with the Platonic? On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi LizR and Jason, Responding to both of you. I don't understand

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
:37, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Why do real world computers use noise oracles, or their equivalent? Do they? I think you're thinking of real world *programmes*, ones that need to simulate randomness - e.g. for games, or to generate encryption keys. -- You

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
That is the question, isn't it! On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:42 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 December 2013 17:38, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Anything that emulates a Turing machine to sufficient accuracy (i.e. can expand its tape as necessary). How

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Ah, but they do degrade. Consider your ability to access a '80s floppy drive's data. On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:44 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 December 2013 17:41, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Yeah, it is! Its about how one computer's noise is another computer's signal! On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:45 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 December 2013 17:44, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: I have studied encryptions. My mind is still recovering from reading

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Loops are sometimes allowed as outputs of computations. :-) On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:46 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 December 2013 17:45, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: That is the question, isn't it! I think this thread just disappeared into its own

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
is measuring that change? On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:49 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 December 2013 17:46, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Ah, but they do degrade. Consider your ability to access a '80s floppy drive's data. Well, that's because people haven't

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
http://kauffman2013.wordpress.com/ :-) On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:51 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 December 2013 17:47, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Loops are sometimes allowed as outputs of computations. :-) I think we came out one turn higher

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
is a computation. Where do we find a random sequence in the naturally ordered string of Integers? On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi LizR, This is fun! :-) We must

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Jason, On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 12:03 AM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi Jason, I would like to know the definition of reality that you are using here. Reality I normally define

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Brent, What is executing it? On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 1:13 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/27/2013 7:54 PM, LizR wrote: On 28 December 2013 16:44, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Hi Jason, The first, second, 10th, 1,000,000th, and 10^100th

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Computed how? By what? On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 1:30 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/27/2013 8:24 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Edgar, But here is the thing. If we assume timelessness, Bruno is CORRECT! THe question then becomes: What is time? It's a computed

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
that is not contradictory to its existence. On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 1:32 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 December 2013 18:03, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Hi Jason, I would like to know the definition of reality that you are using here. I quite like whatever

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
/2013 8:37 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Why do real world computers use noise oracles, or their equivalent? Because for some problems it is quick and easy to check a proposed solution, but difficult to calculate one. So you generate proposed solutions at random until one of them checks out

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-24 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-24 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-24 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-22 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Edger, Where does the fire come from that animates the logic? On Friday, December 20, 2013 6:52:54 PM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: All, The fundamental nature of reality is examined in detail in my recent book on Reality available on Amazon under my name. Marchal is on the right

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-22 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-22 Thread Stephen Paul King
the current state of the universe. Can we get MIT physicist Seth Lloyd to shake a stick or a laser pointer, or otherwise, display, where this abacus dwells? Thanks, Mitch -Original Message- From: Stephen Paul King stephe...@charter.net To: everything-list everything-list

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-22 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-21 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: It's really all math

2013-12-20 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, Does there really need to be a single level of the UD? What is the UD is intersecting with itself an infinite number of times? Is there a relationship. maybe an isomorphism, between the UD and the set of Godel numbers of the UD? After all, there does not exist a unique universal

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Brent, I know the difference. I am asking why? What if there is a UD related process underlying the symmetry? On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:38 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/20/2013 11:18 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Brent, On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 1:34 PM, meekerdb

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread Stephen Paul King
, 2013 at 4:27 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/20/2013 1:10 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi John, Questions On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:47 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 5:33 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: The non

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread Stephen Paul King
Numbers are no less immaterial... On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 4:43 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/20/2013 1:30 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: No no. If the mind is classical then Nature would not bother making many different version of the same software, no? I worry that we

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread Stephen Paul King
Its Immaterial! your question has a bad premise! On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 5:43 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Can you clone the number 2? Is it classical or quantum? Brent On 12/20/2013 2:38 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Numbers are no less immaterial... On Fri, Dec 20

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread Stephen Paul King
...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 December 2013 08:12, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear Jason, I think it was you that wrote (to me): I was not defending that view, but pointing out how ridiculous it would be to suppose mathematical truth does not exist before it is found

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread Stephen Paul King
The inverse square law is true in Platonia. In the real world it's just a very good approximation. How do you know this is true? On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 7:19 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/20/2013 3:28 PM, LizR wrote: On 21 December 2013 08:12, Stephen Paul King stephe

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-19 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
, we can only do so by abstracting our own sapience out of the universe: this is cheating don't you think? On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 4:05 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 December 2013 09:57, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Hi LizR, I would like to say

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi LizR, On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 4:28 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 December 2013 10:11, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: No, LizR. I reject the Laplacean vision that is used to interpret the mathematical theories. SR, GR and QM, as mathematical models

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi LizR, On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 5:31 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 December 2013 10:45, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Hi LizR, On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 4:28 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 December 2013 10:11, Stephen Paul King stephe

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
Kevin Knuth's talk: http://pirsa.org/10050054/ On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi LizR, On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 5:31 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 December 2013 10:45, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Hi

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
! On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 6:45 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 December 2013 12:13, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/18/2013 1:05 PM, LizR wrote: On 19 December 2013 09:57, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi LizR, I would like to say

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/18/2013 3:16 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: My point is not about any kind of specialness, *the same condition follows for any frame that is consistent with the math*. There is no such thing, mathematically, as a view from nowhere

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 6:55 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 December 2013 12:16, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: What else is a mathematical theory, such as SR, GR and QM, for but to ...perform a particular calculation? This is the problem, we figure out ways

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Brent, On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 8:01 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/18/2013 4:27 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Ever attempt to do a particular calculation with an actual infinite dimensional Hilbert space? Sure. Why not? Sure, you can mod out (using symmetries

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-17 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Jason, On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi Jason, On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
, QM does not. There is no such a thing as a view from nowhere nor a single narrative of all events in a QM consistent universe. On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 9:42 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 December 2013 15:33, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Hi, On Mon, Dec 16

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
An observer in such a univer could never count to 17... On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 9:42 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 December 2013 15:34, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Hi Liz, Yes! Consider a universe with only 16 objects in it. What about it? -- You

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
:51 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: There couldn't be an observer in such a universe, it's far too simple. But if there was one, he could deduce the existence of 17 theoretically, and work out its properties. On 17 December 2013 15:48, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear LirZ, On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:52 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 December 2013 16:22, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear LizR, That is exactly the point that I wanted to make: 'There couldn't be an observer in such a universe, it's far too simple

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
No, your making the mistake of identifying a representation of a thing with the thing. The symbol 10^80 does not have 10^80 components, so to act as it is does... On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:29 AM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Stephen Paul King

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: No, your making the mistake of identifying a representation of a thing with the thing. The symbol 10^80 does not have 10^80 components, so to act as it is does... Tell me this, is the following (270

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
other universes? Does the first person ever to check and verify that a number is prime, make it prime for all people, in all universes, forever? Jason On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: I do not assume that computations can occur

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
I agree with Jason! On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:06 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/16/2013 10:02 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Jason, On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Yes, but why are you being anthropocentric? I thought that was your position, or at least (observer-centric

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Bruno, Why does an entire universe need to be simulated? Could not just finite portions of some universe be simulated, that which is perceived by the observers (however such might be defined). Why does it seem that a god's eye view needs to be simulated? BTW, David Albert's argument

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 13 Dec 2013, at 19:37, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Bruno, Why does an entire universe need to be simulated? ? If I (third person self-reference) is Turing emulable, then the entire universe is certainly

Re: Worth while video

2013-07-01 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Mitch, Great comments! I would only wonder why the BB concept is not seen, by Susskind et al, as equivalent to the Observer Moment (or Barborian Time Capsule) concept. My question is how do they justify the 'memory of a past state' of a BB; or do they ignore this? Additionally, it seems

Re: Worth while video

2013-07-01 Thread Stephen Paul King
that the notion of bisimulation between computations can be used... On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 01 Jul 2013, at 21:00, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Mitch, Great comments! I would only wonder why the BB concept is not seen, by Susskind et al, as equivalent

Re: How to tell whether you are a zombie or have a materialist mind

2013-06-25 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Chris, On Monday, June 24, 2013 9:03:26 PM UTC-4, chris peck wrote: Hi Roger So long as Im not a hapless monad subjected to an influx of incomplete and distorted 'percepts' via a supreme monad, I'm more than happy to be a Zombie. I might be dead but at least I'm not deluded and

Re: Looking for energy in all the wrong places.

2013-06-25 Thread Stephen Paul King
One wonders why this simple observed fact does not percolate down to the masses that continue to spout nonsense that is contrary to the fact. The zero point energy is, at best, electromagnetic in nature and since it is off-mass-shell cannot contribute to the momentum-energy source of

Re: How to tell whether you are a zombie or have a materialist mind

2013-06-25 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Chris, A few remarks. On Monday, June 24, 2013 9:03:26 PM UTC-4, chris peck wrote: Hi Roger So long as Im not a hapless monad subjected to an influx of incomplete and distorted 'percepts' via a supreme monad, I'm more than happy to be a Zombie. I might be dead but at least I'm not

Re: Looking for energy in all the wrong places.

2013-06-25 Thread Stephen Paul King
Ah, an even more elegant argument against ZPE than the off-mass shell argument. Thanks for that tip, Brent. :-) On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 7:38 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/25/2013 1:27 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: One wonders why this simple observed fact does not percolate

Re: Fictionalism!

2013-06-11 Thread Stephen Paul King
wrote: On 6/7/2013 4:00 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Yes, if there was a text of this it would be nice... I found this: http://plato.stanford.edu/**entries/fictionalism-**mathematics/http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fictionalism-mathematics/ A fictionalist account holds that some things

Re: Fictionalism!

2013-06-10 Thread Stephen Paul King
Menezes wrote: On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 08 Jun 2013, at 17:55, meekerdb wrote: On 6/8/2013 1:02 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Jun 2013, at 05:15, meekerdb wrote: On 6/7/2013 4:00 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Yes, if there was a text

Re: Fictionalism!

2013-06-09 Thread Stephen Paul King
: On 08 Jun 2013, at 15:56, Stephen Paul King wrote: Wrong Bruno, Flying pink elephants could be 'off mass shell', virtual elephants. Their color is a superposition of pink and not pink, which makes them, on average, colorless unless we look *very* carefully. Your test for 'reality

Re: Fictionalism!

2013-06-09 Thread Stephen Paul King
, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Stephen, there is a problem with the format. Could you please to reformat it as it is impossible to reply to it. Thanks. I will answer asap, but probably not today. best, Bruno On 09 Jun 2013, at 17:53, Stephen Paul King wrote: Wrong Bruno

Re: Fictionalism!

2013-06-08 Thread Stephen Paul King
marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 08 Jun 2013, at 05:15, meekerdb wrote: On 6/7/2013 4:00 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Yes, if there was a text of this it would be nice... I found this: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fictionalism-mathematics/ A fictionalist account holds that some things

Re: Fictionalism!

2013-06-08 Thread Stephen Paul King
I can easily prove that flying pink elephant does not exist, as far as I am consistent. Bruno On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:15 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/7/2013 4:00 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Yes, if there was a text of this it would be nice... I found this: http

Re: Fictionalism!

2013-06-08 Thread Stephen Paul King
...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 08 Jun 2013, at 07:41, Stephen Paul King wrote: If you believe that a flying pink elephant is pink, must you believe a flying pink elephant exists? Yes, at least for the chap that holds the belief and the belief is true (ala Bruno). Right, but like I said, I

Re: Fictionalism!

2013-06-08 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Brent, So what would a computer generated simulation of a Pink Elephant in a simulated world be? Would it exist? On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 4:39 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/8/2013 12:03 PM, John Mikes wrote: You are mixing conventional physicalist-materialist apples with

Re: Fictionalism!

2013-06-08 Thread Stephen Paul King
I am trying to make a point about existence... On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 7:49 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/8/2013 4:38 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Brent, So what would a computer generated simulation of a Pink Elephant in a simulated world be? Would it exist

Re: Fictionalism!

2013-06-08 Thread Stephen Paul King
smi...@zonnet.nl viahttp://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=enctx=mailanswer=1311182 googlegroups.com 8:37 PM (31 minutes ago) to everything-list But if such a real physical pink elephant can't exist, that means that it is not a logically consistent concept to begin with. If one starts

Re: Fictionalism!

2013-06-08 Thread Stephen Paul King
My complaint is that there doesn't seem to be a consistent definition of existence! On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Stephen Paul King kingstephenp...@gmail.com wrote: smi...@zonnet.nl viahttp://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=enctx=mailanswer=1311182 googlegroups.com 8:37 PM

Re: Fictionalism!

2013-06-07 Thread Stephen Paul King
appreciate to have it as URL somewhere. John Mikes On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@charter.netwrote: For your entertainment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=TbNymweHW4E#! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Fictionalism!

2013-06-07 Thread Stephen Paul King
If you believe that a flying pink elephant is pink, must you believe a flying pink elephant exists? Yes, at least for the chap that holds the belief and the belief is true (ala Bruno). On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:15 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/7/2013 4:00 PM, Stephen Paul

Fictionalism!

2013-06-06 Thread Stephen Paul King
For your entertainment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=TbNymweHW4E#! -- 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

Re: Belief vs Truth

2013-06-02 Thread Stephen Paul King
How do we integrate empirical data into Bpp? On Saturday, June 1, 2013 3:41:56 PM UTC-4, JohnM wrote: Russell wrote: *...When it comes to Bp p capturing the notion of knowledge, I can see it captures the notion of mathematical knowledge, ie true theorems, as opposed to true conjectures,

Re: Why do particles decay randomly?

2013-05-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
We should add that computationalism postulates that consciousness is a process that can be exactly specified by a recursively enumerable function. No? On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:16 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 5/13/2013 5:41 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 7:05

Re: Why do particles decay randomly?

2013-05-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
of states in this computation, if I understand him correctly. Brent On 5/13/2013 10:39 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: We should add that computationalism postulates that consciousness is a process that can be exactly specified by a recursively enumerable function. No? On Mon, May 13

Re: Why do particles decay randomly?

2013-05-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
So all possible functions are computed equally? ISTM that some functions would take an eternity to compute and that the number of such vastly outnumber the recursively enumerable ones. On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 6:24 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 5/13/2013 2:49 PM, Stephen Paul King

Re: Why do particles decay randomly?

2013-05-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
: On 5/13/2013 2:49 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Does the UD compute *all* functions or only those that are recursively enumerable? It computes all of them. Brent Sorry - it does not compute all functions, just all partially recursive ones. As Stephen says, there are only countably many

Re: Why do particles decay randomly?

2013-05-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
: Right. It's not computing all possible functions, it's executing all possible programs - most of which don't terminate and so don't compute a function at all. Brent On 5/13/2013 3:30 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: So all possible functions are computed equally? ISTM that some functions would

Re: Why do particles decay randomly?

2013-05-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
Therefore we might argue that only programs that halt can contribute to our polls. This unfortunately does not allow for a true 3p. On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Stephen Paul King kingstephenp...@gmail.com wrote: OK, so that would require that all programs would be simultaneously

Re: Why do particles decay randomly?

2013-05-12 Thread Stephen Paul King
ISTM that this you are everyone aspect is the definition of that it is like to be at the substitution level. On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.comwrote: On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 9:35

Re: Why do particles decay randomly?

2013-05-10 Thread Stephen Paul King
Kevin Knuth has shown how to derive space-time structure and lorentz invariance from ordered lattices of observers. I suspect that the UD can be considered to 'run' on chains of observer events per Knuth picture. This gives us a nice toy model of how space-time is emergent. On Fri, May 10, 2013

Re: Why do particles decay randomly?

2013-05-10 Thread Stephen Paul King
For more on Kevin Knuth's work please see http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.4172 On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Stephen Paul King kingstephenp...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin Knuth has shown how to derive space-time structure and lorentz invariance from ordered lattices of observers. I suspect

Re: Why do particles decay randomly?

2013-05-10 Thread Stephen Paul King
Brent, I gave a non-circular explication of that ... based on faith in some supernatural revelation. Right, that is not circular. Are you OK with infinite regress based explanations? On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 8:40 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 5/10/2013 2:49 PM, Jason Resch

Re: Monads within monads within monads-- Leibniz, strings, and atomic structure

2013-05-09 Thread Stephen Paul King
spudboy...@aol.com 11:10 AM (44 minutes ago) How far down, or up, do the Monads go? Perhaps how for in or out. Do monads stop at the Planck length, or the Beckenstein Bound?? Monads seem, somehow more primal then an average particle. I could see neutrinos being real monads, because they can alter

Re: Why do particles decay randomly?

2013-05-09 Thread Stephen Paul King
If I may. We do so because we cannot account for such undetectable 'things' except perhaps as some randomness in the system that we can observe. On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:21 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:

Re: Monads within monads within monads-- Leibniz, strings, and atomic structure

2013-05-07 Thread Stephen Paul King
*Any* compositions of monads is a monad. On Tuesday, May 7, 2013 7:15:27 AM UTC-4, yanniru wrote: Monads within composite monads. How can you discuss Leibniz without mention of composite monads In addition, Indras Pearls were known before the time of Leibniz On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 7:09

Re: Why do particles decay randomly?

2013-05-07 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, As a former and recovering fundamentalist Christian, I am 100% in agreement with your words above. I merely wish that I could communicate better with you. On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 29 Apr 2013, at 11:32, Telmo Menezes wrote: On

Re: Why do particles decay randomly?

2013-05-05 Thread Stephen Paul King
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 02 May 2013, at 23:54, Telmo Menezes wrote: Well, we can hope the best, but we can fear the worst. Even the bitcoin has made a little crack due to exaggerate speculation. The exaggerate speculation phase was to be

Re: Why do particles decay randomly?

2013-05-02 Thread Stephen Paul King
Brent, I think you may be reading my question in the wrong way. I didn't mean to equate your consciousness with that of every if/else decision you make, but rather ask something like, What does the shortest possible program that is conscious look like? I have trouble seeing why some short piece

Re: Why do particles decay randomly?

2013-05-02 Thread Stephen Paul King
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Stephen Paul King kingstephenp...@gmail.com wrote: Brent, I think you may be reading my question in the wrong way. I didn't mean to equate your consciousness with that of every

Re: Why do particles decay randomly?

2013-05-02 Thread Stephen Paul King
think it's more feasible to try to reverse-engineer the morphogenetic algorithms encoded in the DNA. We would still not understand the creation, but would have a greater chance of success, and we would understand how to create the conditions for our creation to grow. Fully understanding a

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