Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2005-09-20 Thread Hal Ruhl
An analysis I have made of my model: My model's foundation is not mathematics but the list of potential properties of things. The only mathematical like concepts I then use are power set, incompleteness, and inconsistency and these are derived from simply parsing the list. If my list is

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2005-09-20 Thread Hal Ruhl
My analysis continued: Self awareness and consciousness: If the All is just the set of reals with an assigned meaning for each then undoubtedly some of these meanings would be kernels that contain sub kernels describing Self Aware Structures [SAS]. Given the random nature of the dynamic I

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2005-09-19 Thread Hal Ruhl
I have attached a revision to my model at (9) which makes the driver for the evolution of the Somethings more explicit. Definitions: The list of all possibilities: The list of all the possible properties and aspects of things. This list can not be empty since there is unlikely to be less

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-26 Thread Stephen Paul King
- From: Hal Ruhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: everything-list@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 1:23 PM Subject: Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model Below is a background for my model and a rewrite of the original post. My concerns with a TOE which I am trying to resolve are: I would like

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-26 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Stephen: Since the Nothing has no information by definition and the boundary between them - the Everything - has no potential to divide further [i.e. no information] then the All must have no information if the system has no information. I do not think the latter part is controversial. For

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-26 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi John: At 06:12 PM 12/26/2004, you wrote: Dear Hal, is there some draft seeable on the web? Not yet. If the idea still looks good at the end of this thread I intend to post something on my web page with visual aids etc. I thought I am comfortable with your terminology (whether I understand

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-22 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Jesse: I think some confusion took place surrounding the posts on or about 12/10. In my initial post I said: xx 9) Notice that the All also has a logical problem. Looking at the same meaningful question of its own stability it contains all possible answers because just one would

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-20 Thread Jesse Mazer
Hal Ruhl wrote: At 11:41 PM 12/18/2004, you wrote: Hal Ruhl wrote: 'The laws of logic need not be thought of as rules of discovery, they can be thought of purely as expressing Expressing seems to be a time dependent process. I don't think it needs to be. When we say a certain set of symbols

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-20 Thread Jesse Mazer
John M wrote: Dear Jesse, ashamed for breaking my decision NOT to babble into this discussion with my personal common sense, here is something to your position from my problems: (First a bit of nitpicking, as an appetizer) For example, in every world where X and Y are simultaneously true, it is

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-20 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Jesse: I do not think the conversation re: I can't think of any historical examples of new mathematical/scientific/philosophical ideas that require you to already believe their premises in order to justify these premises, has a valid place in this thread. Can you tell me why you do? Hal

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-20 Thread Jesse Mazer
Hal Ruhl wrote: I do not think the conversation re: I can't think of any historical examples of new mathematical/scientific/philosophical ideas that require you to already believe their premises in order to justify these premises, has a valid place in this thread. Can you tell me why you do?

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-19 Thread John M
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 11:41 PM Subject: Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model Hal Ruhl wrote: Snip, 2 quotes above included

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-19 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Bruno and Jesse: At 10:23 AM 12/18/2004, you wrote: At 21:48 17/12/04 -0500, Hal Ruhl wrote: Can a kernel of information be self inconsistent? From Bruno's last post I think it is possible to impose this idea on the All. I'm afraid I said the contrary (unless I misunderstand what you are

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-18 Thread Jesse Mazer
Hal Ruhl wrote: As to the Laws of Logic with respect to information [and I think I said this earlier] the information in a kernel is indeed static. The laws of Logic are just our locally grown [and apparently sequential] way of revealing it. The question I raise is the implicit inclusion of

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 21:48 17/12/04 -0500, Hal Ruhl wrote: Can a kernel of information be self inconsistent? From Bruno's last post I think it is possible to impose this idea on the All. I'm afraid I said the contrary (unless I misunderstand what you are pointing at through the expression kernel of

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 20:39 17/12/04 -0800, Pete Carlton wrote: As usual when I ask a question like this, if the answer is available in a text on logic or elsewhere, please just tell me where to look. ..I'm also interested in the implicit use of time, or sequence, in many of the ideas discussed here. For

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 03:31 18/12/04 -0500, Jesse Mazer wrote: I don't think Bruno's last post was really implying that everything would be inconsistent, I thought his point was more that you can't consider things like the collection of all possible sets to itself be a set. Exactly. It is the machine which gives

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-18 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Jesse: At 03:31 AM 12/18/2004, you wrote: I think it would be simpler if you responded directly to quotes from my previous post, rather than just making general statements about issues raised in that post. For example, here you continue to *assert* that there is something inherently

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-18 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Pete: At 11:39 PM 12/17/2004, you wrote: As usual when I ask a question like this, if the answer is available in a text on logic or elsewhere, please just tell me where to look. ..I'm also interested in the implicit use of time, or sequence, in many of the ideas discussed here. For instance

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-18 Thread Jesse Mazer
Hal Ruhl wrote: I think it would be simpler if you responded directly to quotes from my previous post, rather than just making general statements about issues raised in that post. For example, here you continue to *assert* that there is something inherently time-based about logical statements,

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-17 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Jesse: I think I respond to most earlier questions and comments below: As to the Laws of Logic with respect to information [and I think I said this earlier] the information in a kernel is indeed static. The laws of Logic are just our locally grown [and apparently sequential] way of

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-17 Thread Pete Carlton
As usual when I ask a question like this, if the answer is available in a text on logic or elsewhere, please just tell me where to look. ..I'm also interested in the implicit use of time, or sequence, in many of the ideas discussed here. For instance you might say that some of your Somethings

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 23:12 12/12/04 -0500, Jesse Mazer wrote: Hal Ruhl wrote: At 09:35 PM 12/12/2004, you wrote: Godel's theorem would also apply to infinite axiomatic systems whose axioms are recursively enumerable (computable). But sure, if you allow non-computable axiomatic systems, you could have one that was

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-13 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Jesse and Bruno: To consolidate my response: Yes indeed. Most books give different definition of axiomatic and recursively enumerable, but there is a theorem by Craig which shows that for (most) theories, the notion are equivalent. (See Boolos and Jeffrey for a proof of Craig's theorem).

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-13 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Jesse: I will go over the thread and try to clear things up but I am having eye surgery in the morning and ran out of time. Why would mathematics be the only thing in the All? Is that not a selection? At 07:38 PM 12/13/2004, you wrote: It is controversial that mathematics contains any

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-12 Thread Hal Ruhl
At 07:28 PM 12/11/2004, you wrote: Hal Ruhl wrote: You wrote: Well, what I get from your answer is that you're justifying the idea that the All is inconsistent in terms of your own concept of evolving Somethings, not in terms of inconsistent axiomatic systems. Just the reverse. The evolving

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-12 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Jesse: At 04:46 PM 12/12/2004, you wrote: Hal Ruhl wrote: OK, since I don't really understand your system I should have said something more general, like you're justifying the idea that the All is inconsistent in terms of your own theoretical framework, not in terms of inconsistent

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-12 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Jesse: At 09:35 PM 12/12/2004, you wrote: Hal Ruhl: Hi Jesse: At 04:46 PM 12/12/2004, you wrote: Hal Ruhl wrote: OK, since I don't really understand your system I should have said something more general, like you're justifying the idea that the All is inconsistent in terms of your own

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-12 Thread Jesse Mazer
Hal Ruhl wrote: OK, since I don't really understand your system I should have said something more general, like you're justifying the idea that the All is inconsistent in terms of your own theoretical framework, not in terms of inconsistent axiomatic systems. Do you grant that the All which

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-12 Thread Jesse Mazer
Hal Ruhl: Hi Jesse: At 04:46 PM 12/12/2004, you wrote: Hal Ruhl wrote: OK, since I don't really understand your system I should have said something more general, like you're justifying the idea that the All is inconsistent in terms of your own theoretical framework, not in terms of

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-11 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Jesse You wrote: Well, what I get from your answer is that you're justifying the idea that the All is inconsistent in terms of your own concept of evolving Somethings, not in terms of inconsistent axiomatic systems. Just the reverse. The evolving Somethings inevitably encompass the

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-11 Thread Norman Samish
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 11:56 AM Subject: Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model Hi Jesse You wrote: Well, what I get from your answer is that you're justifying the idea that the All is inconsistent in terms of your own concept of evolving Somethings

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-11 Thread Hal Ruhl
] Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 11:56 AM Subject: Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model Hi Jesse You wrote: Well, what I get from your answer is that you're justifying the idea that the All is inconsistent in terms of your own concept of evolving Somethings, not in terms of inconsistent axiomatic

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-11 Thread Jesse Mazer
Hal Ruhl wrote: You wrote: Well, what I get from your answer is that you're justifying the idea that the All is inconsistent in terms of your own concept of evolving Somethings, not in terms of inconsistent axiomatic systems. Just the reverse. The evolving Somethings inevitably encompass the

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-10 Thread Hal Ruhl
To continue: As I said attach no significance to the little thought pictures I am using to illustrate various aspects of my system. They illustrate little chunks and then break down. The system has no net information. The Nothing has no internal information. The Everything is the boundary of

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-10 Thread Jesse Mazer
Hal Ruhl wrote: A kernel of information is the that information constituting a particular potential to divide. The All contains all such kernels. The All is internally inconsistent because it contains for example a complete axiomatized arithmetic as well as an infinity of other such kernels

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-10 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Jesse: Meaning can not be assigned as an inherent component of the All. That would be a selection. Meaning can only be assigned if at all within the wave of physical reality associated with an evolving Something. Evolving Somethings will eventually encompass pairs of counterfactual and

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 20:08 07/12/04 -0500, Hal Ruhl wrote: I believe we discussed this and you agreed that a complete arithmetic would be inconsistent. I have not found the applicable posts. If by arithmetic you mean an axiomatizable theory, then indeed, by incompleteness it follows that such an arithmetic, if

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 16:29 08/12/04 +0100, I wrote: Before axiomatic set theories like Zermelo-Fraenkel, ... Cantor called the collection of all sets the Inconsistent. But this does make sense for me. Only a theory, or a machine, or a person can be inconsistent, not a set, or a realm, or a model. Read instead: But

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Hal, In my questions about truth etc I was not really looking for a response but was rather trying to demonstrate the need for additional information in your theory. I don't have a theory. Just an argument showing that if we are machine then eventually physics is derivable from machine

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-07 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Bruno: At 06:40 AM 12/7/2004, you wrote: Hi Hal, In my questions about truth etc I was not really looking for a response but was rather trying to demonstrate the need for additional information in your theory. I don't have a theory. Just an argument showing that if we are machine then

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-07 Thread Hal Ruhl
At 06:37 PM 12/7/2004, you wrote: To clarify - the All contains all information simultaneously [see the definition in the original post] - including ALL Truing machines with ALL possible output tapes - so it contains simultaneously both output tapes re your comment below. But if there is a fact

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-07 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Jesse: At 09:23 PM 12/7/2004, you wrote: Hal Ruhl wrote: To clarify - the All contains all information simultaneously [see the definition in the original post] - including ALL Truing machines with ALL possible output tapes - so it contains simultaneously both output tapes re your comment

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-07 Thread Hal Ruhl
Maybe this will help: The All contains all possible output states of all Turing machines [among all manner of other info such as states of really messy universes] simultaneously. These states are given Physical reality by evolving Somethings in random order over and over. Some such sequences

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-07 Thread Jesse Mazer
From: Hal Ruhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jesse Mazer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 22:19:02 -0500 Hi Jesse: At 09:23 PM 12/7/2004, you wrote: Hal Ruhl wrote: To clarify - the All contains all information simultaneously [see the definition

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-07 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Jesse: The All contains inconsistent FAS [we have no issue here as far as I can tell] and thus all of the theorems of such FAS as some of the kernels of information simultaneously. [Do we have an issue here?] This content makes the All inconsistent. [OK?] The All does not output anything

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-07 Thread Jesse Mazer
From: Hal Ruhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 22:41:45 -0500 Maybe this will help: The All contains all possible output states of all Turing machines [among all manner of other info such as states of really messy

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 17:15 03/12/04 -0500, Hal Ruhl wrote: Hi Bruno: I assume your theory is intended to give the range of descriptions of worlds. The All in my model contains - well - ALL so it includes systems to which Godel's theorem applies. Your theory has problems for me. What is truth? Truth is a queen who

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-06 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Bruno: In my questions about truth etc I was not really looking for a response but was rather trying to demonstrate the need for additional information in your theory. Your responses made my point I think. It is this issue I struggle with. I seek a TOE that has no net information. Though

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-06 Thread Jesse Mazer
Hal Ruhl wrote: To answer these questions it seems necessary to inject information into your theory beyond what may already be there - the sentences - ... Right. This indeed follows from Goedel's incompleteness. Here you appear to me to be saying that your theory is indeed subject to random

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-06 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Jesse: My originating post appeals only to the result of Turing to the effect that there is in general no decision procedure. As a result FAS in general can not be both complete and consistent. Since my All contains all FAS including the complete ones then the All is inconsistent. That is

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-06 Thread Jesse Mazer
Hal Ruhl wrote: Hi Jesse: My originating post appeals only to the result of Turing to the effect that there is in general no decision procedure. There's no single decision procedure for a Turing machine, but if you consider more general kinds of machines, like a hypercomputer that can check an

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-06 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Jesse: I think you miss my point. The All contains ALL including Turing machines that model complete FAS and other inconsistent systems. The All is inconsistent - that is all that is required. Godel's theorem is a corollary of Turing's. As you say a key element of Godel's approach to

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-06 Thread Jesse Mazer
Hal Ruhl wrote: Hi Jesse: I think you miss my point. The All contains ALL including Turing machines that model complete FAS and other inconsistent systems. The All is inconsistent - that is all that is required. You mean because the All contains Turing machines which model axiomatic systems

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-04 Thread Hal Ruhl
of dicussion. Nevertheless I submit them FYI: I quote and reply below.- Original Message - From: Hal Ruhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:49 PM Subject: Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model (Hal: BrunoJM: blank lines) Hi Bruno

Fw: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-03 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, How is the trueness of members of this theory (of all true arithmetical sentences) given? By fiat? Kindest regards, Stephen - Original Message - From: Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 8:03 AM Subject: Re: An All/Nothing

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-03 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Bruno: I assume your theory is intended to give the range of descriptions of worlds. The All in my model contains - well - ALL so it includes systems to which Godel's theorem applies. Your theory has problems for me. What is truth? What is a sentence? What is arithmetical? As Stephen Paul

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-01 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Bruno: At 09:38 AM 11/30/2004, you wrote: At 13:40 26/11/04 -0500, Hal Ruhl wrote: What does logically possible mean? In the above I meant in the context of the larger phrase of: logically possible worlds. In the following call an individual [Ai,Dj] pair logic system Ln where i, j, and n can

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-22 Thread John M
: An All/Nothing multiverse model Hi John: I am trying to make the model independent of what might be the detail structure of individual universes within it. Hal At 10:41 AM 11/21/2004, you wrote: Hal: how about this: a 'concept' is THE part of ALL cut (limited?) by topical boundaries

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-21 Thread John M
. (I am not the best in formulating). John Mikes - Original Message - From: Hal Ruhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 11:32 PM Subject: Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model I was asked about concepts. I would define concept as any division

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-21 Thread Hal Ruhl
: Saturday, November 20, 2004 11:32 PM Subject: Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model I was asked about concepts. I would define concept as any division of the All into two sub components, each of the sub components is a concept. Usefullness of a concept as judged by a SAS [if they exist

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-20 Thread Hal Ruhl
I was asked about concepts. I would define concept as any division of the All into two sub components, each of the sub components is a concept. Usefullness of a concept as judged by a SAS [if they exist] is not an issue. Hal

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-18 Thread John M
: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 7:29 PM Subject: Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model In my [is, is not] definitional pair the is not component is the All minus the is component. Thus the is not member is not simply unwinged horses or the like. In most of these pairs I suspect the is not component

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-18 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi John: At 11:27 AM 11/18/2004, you wrote: Hal: makes sense to me - with one question: I take: ALL stands for the totality (wholeness as I say) and your -- is is confined to whatever we do, or are capable (theoretically) to know - whether already discovered or not. It is more than that. The All

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-18 Thread Hal Ruhl
I forgot to point out that the definitional information for the [All,Nothing] pair cancels because the inverse definition i.e. the [Nothing, All] pair is the same system. Hal

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-17 Thread Georges Quenot
Hal Ruhl wrote: Hi George: Hi Hal, At 09:13 PM 11/16/2004, you wrote: Hal Ruhl wrote: My use of these words is convenience only but my point is why should existence be so anemic as to prohibit the simultaneous presence of an All and a Nothing. The prohibition does not come from an anemia of

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-17 Thread John Collins
AM Subject: Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model Hal Ruhl wrote: Hi George: Hi Hal, At 09:13 PM 11/16/2004, you wrote: Hal Ruhl wrote: My use of these words is convenience only but my point is why should existence be so anemic as to prohibit the simultaneous presence

Re: Fw: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-17 Thread Hal Ruhl
All members of [is,is not] definitional pairs including the [All, Nothing] pair have a conceptual foundation within the All. Why would the [All, Nothing} pair be the only one denied a mutual and concurrent physical expression? Hal

Re: Fw: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-17 Thread Georges Quenot
Hal Ruhl wrote: All members of [is,is not] definitional pairs including the [All, Nothing] pair have a conceptual foundation within the All. Why would the [All, Nothing} pair be the only one denied a mutual and concurrent physical expression? Well... It seems that we do not share the same

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-17 Thread Georges Quenot
rmiller wrote: This is starting to sound like discussion Hume must have had with himself. Might be. And was Hume finally able to conclude something ? Georges.

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-17 Thread Georges Quenot
John Collins wrote: There do exist consistent approaches to set theory where you do have a universal set and can therefore consider taking complements to be a sinle-argument operation. to bypass the obvious paradox (that any set can be used to make a necessarily larger powerset) you need to

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-17 Thread Hal Ruhl
In my [is, is not] definitional pair the is not component is the All minus the is component. Thus the is not member is not simply unwinged horses or the like. In most of these pairs I suspect the is not component has no apparent usefulness [to most SAS [if they exist]]. Be that as it may

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-16 Thread Georges Quenot
Hal Ruhl wrote: [...] The idea that defining a thing actually defines two things seems self evident [once you notice it]. At least one case of unavoidable definition also seems self evident [once you notice it]. The problem with evidence is that on one side there is no other known basis to

Fw: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-16 Thread John M
- Original Message - From: John M [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Hal Ruhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 4:26 PM Subject: Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model Hi, Hall, (to your post below and many preceding that): I feel there is a semantic game going on. ALL we know

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-16 Thread Georges Quenot
Hal Ruhl wrote: Boundaries: I have as I said in one post of this thread and as I recall in some earlier related threads defined information as a potential to erect a boundary. So the All is chuck full of this potential. Actual boundaries are the Everything and any evolving Something. This is

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-16 Thread Eric Cavalcanti
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 08:39, Georges Quenot wrote: Hal Ruhl wrote: [...] The idea that defining a thing actually defines two things seems self evident [once you notice it]. At least one case of unavoidable definition also seems self evident [once you notice it]. The problem

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-16 Thread Hal Ruhl
At 05:39 PM 11/16/2004, you wrote: Hal Ruhl wrote: [...] The idea that defining a thing actually defines two things seems self evident [once you notice it]. At least one case of unavoidable definition also seems self evident [once you notice it]. The problem with evidence is that on one side

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-16 Thread Georges Quenot
Eric Cavalcanti wrote: On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 08:39, Georges Quenot wrote: Hal Ruhl wrote: [...] The idea that defining a thing actually defines two things seems self evident [once you notice it]. At least one case of unavoidable definition also seems self evident [once you notice it]. The

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-16 Thread Hal Ruhl
At 05:58 PM 11/16/2004, you wrote: Hal Ruhl wrote: Boundaries: I have as I said in one post of this thread and as I recall in some earlier related threads defined information as a potential to erect a boundary. So the All is chuck full of this potential. Actual boundaries are the Everything

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-16 Thread Georges Quenot
Hal Ruhl wrote: At 05:39 PM 11/16/2004, you wrote: Hal Ruhl wrote: [...] The idea that defining a thing actually defines two things seems self evident [once you notice it]. At least one case of unavoidable definition also seems self evident [once you notice it]. The problem with evidence is

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-16 Thread Georges Quenot
Hal Ruhl wrote: At 05:58 PM 11/16/2004, you wrote: Hal Ruhl wrote: Boundaries: I have as I said in one post of this thread and as I recall in some earlier related threads defined information as a potential to erect a boundary. So the All is chuck full of this potential. Actual boundaries

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-16 Thread Hal Ruhl
At 08:48 PM 11/16/2004, you wrote: Hal Ruhl wrote: At 05:39 PM 11/16/2004, you wrote: Hal Ruhl wrote: [...] The idea that defining a thing actually defines two things seems self evident [once you notice it]. At least one case of unavoidable definition also seems self evident [once you notice

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-16 Thread Georges Quenot
Hal Ruhl wrote: At 08:48 PM 11/16/2004, you wrote: Darwin seems to have felt this way about Origins [Stephen Gould's The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, page 2] so why should my ideas be special? We agree here. Interesting reference. Georges.

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-16 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi George: At 09:13 PM 11/16/2004, you wrote: Hal Ruhl wrote: At 05:58 PM 11/16/2004, you wrote: Hal Ruhl wrote: Boundaries: I have as I said in one post of this thread and as I recall in some earlier related threads defined information as a potential to erect a boundary. So the All is chuck

Re: Fw: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-16 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi John: At 05:46 PM 11/16/2004, you wrote: snip My Multiverse consists of universes unlimited in number and qualia (process capability, whatever). My All would be infinite and could contain multiple multiverses - multiple Somethings - evolving all at once. I see no restriction on the nature

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-16 Thread rmiller
This is starting to sound like discussion Hume must have had with himself. RM

Re: Who believe in Concepts ? (Was: An All/Nothing multiverse model)

2004-11-15 Thread Georges Quenot
Hal Ruhl wrote: At 07:56 AM 11/14/2004, you wrote: Hal Ruhl wrote: I would appreciate comments on the following. I placed the definitions at the end for easy group reference. Proposal: The Existence of our and other universes and their dynamics are the result of unavoidable definition and

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-15 Thread Georges Quenot
Hal Ruhl wrote: At 08:16 AM 11/14/2004, you wrote: Hal Ruhl wrote: 4) A Something: A division of the All into two subparts. That too, sounds bad to me. It might well be that the only something that deserve the title of Something would be the All itself. Everything else might

Who believes in Boundaries ? (Was: An All/Nothing multiverse model)

2004-11-15 Thread Georges Quenot
Georges Quenot wrote: Hal Ruhl wrote: At 08:16 AM 11/14/2004, you wrote: Hal Ruhl wrote: 4) A Something: A division of the All into two subparts. That too, sounds bad to me. It might well be that the only something that deserve the title of Something would be the All itself.

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-15 Thread Hal Ruhl
I received the following comments from Eric Cavalcanti but did not see them post on the Everything list. It is the same idea as Godel's approach to showing the incompleteness of arithmetic. The structure of arithmetic was asked a question [the truth or falseness of a grammatically valid

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-15 Thread Norman Samish
Hal, I'm way out of my depth, but if I'm correctly interpreting what you are saying, it looks to me that your multiverse model cannot be valid. This is because it answers the question Why does anything exist? with the answer Because it's not possible to conceive of Nothing, since the concept

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-15 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Norman: My model has both a Nothing, the All, and a set of Somethings simultaneously. Hal At 06:10 PM 11/15/2004, you wrote: Hal, I'm way out of my depth, but if I'm correctly interpreting what you are saying, it looks to me that your multiverse model cannot be valid. This is because it answers

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-15 Thread Benjamin Udell
PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 6:10 PM Subject: Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model Hal, I'm way out of my depth, but if I'm correctly interpreting what you are saying, it looks to me that your multiverse model cannot be valid. This is because it answers the question Why does anything

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-15 Thread Hal Ruhl
://www.something.com - Ben Udell. - Original Message - From: Norman Samish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Hal Ruhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 6:10 PM Subject: Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model Hal, I'm way out of my depth, but if I'm correctly interpreting

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-15 Thread Hal Ruhl
To answer a few other comments/questions: Boundaries: I have as I said in one post of this thread and as I recall in some earlier related threads defined information as a potential to erect a boundary. So the All is chuck full of this potential. Actual boundaries are the Everything and any

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-15 Thread Hal Ruhl
To respond to comments on consistency. I see no reason why components of the system need to be internally consistent. And I have indicated that the All is not internally consistent. Generally speaking evolving Somethings are also not consistent. Actually evolving Somethings are a sequence

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-15 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Eric: At 09:46 PM 11/15/2004, you wrote: On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 10:13, Hal Ruhl wrote: To respond to comments on consistency. I see no reason why components of the system need to be internally consistent. And I have indicated that the All is not internally consistent. Generally speaking

Who believe in Concepts ? (Was: An All/Nothing multiverse model)

2004-11-14 Thread Georges Quenot
Hal Ruhl wrote: I would appreciate comments on the following. I placed the definitions at the end for easy group reference. Proposal: The Existence of our and other universes and their dynamics are the result of unavoidable definition and logical incompleteness. Justification: 1) Given

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-11-14 Thread Georges Quenot
Hal Ruhl wrote: 4) A Something: A division of the All into two subparts. That too, sounds bad to me. It might well be that the only something that deserve the title of Something would be the All itself. Everything else might appear so only in our minds (and/or in other types of minds). Georges.

Re: Who believe in Concepts ? (Was: An All/Nothing multiverse model)

2004-11-14 Thread Hal Ruhl
At 07:56 AM 11/14/2004, you wrote: Hal Ruhl wrote: I would appreciate comments on the following. I placed the definitions at the end for easy group reference. Proposal: The Existence of our and other universes and their dynamics are the result of unavoidable definition and logical

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