On 3 March 2015 at 05:23, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote:
Ambiguity is some kind of disease, is it?
Well...it doesn't exactly help in developing a logically healthy mind.
Aren't you just expressing your distaste for
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 9:50 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 4:16 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote:
Who's personal experience?
Bruno makes it clear that he only considers what someone writes in a
diary as being what counts for the purposes of the
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote:
Ambiguity is some kind of disease, is it?
Well...it doesn't exactly help in developing a logically healthy mind.
Aren't you just expressing your distaste for such things?
Yes and no.
John K Clark
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On 1 March 2015 at 14:29, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote:
Who's personal experience?
Bruno makes it clear that he only considers what someone writes in a diary
as being what counts for the purposes of the thought experiment. (This is
obviously a proxy for memory in most situations, but
On 1 March 2015 at 16:52, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote:
Can you clarify where you do and don't have a problem with the pronoun
you? Presumably there is no problem for you if there is a unique world
with only one
On 2 Mar 2015, at 2:50 pm, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote:
But very special type of duplicating machine where the laws of physics forbid
anyone from observing any of the duplicates that the machine has made, so the
personal pronoun you never causes ambiguity.
John K Clark
On 2 March 2015 at 04:27, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote:
Instead of saying I hope I win the lottery they may say, if they are
pedantic, I hope I end up the version of me that wins the lottery.
If the lottery is tomorrow and they are pedantic they would say I hope the
day after
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 4:16 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote:
Who's personal experience?
Bruno makes it clear that he only considers what someone writes in a
diary as being what counts for the purposes of the thought experiment.
(This is obviously a proxy for memory in most situations, but
On 01 Mar 2015, at 02:29, John Clark wrote:
On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com
wrote:
2) Like Everett Bruno is interested in predictions but unlike
Everett Bruno thinks that good predictions are the key to personal
identity, and that's just nuts. The sense
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 12:42 AM, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com
wrote:
If we discovered some way of communicating with the other worlds, that
would be interesting
Interesting is a understatement, communicating with other worlds would
change everything, then the situation really would
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote:
To be fair to Bruno, that is not what he claims. The FPI comes from the
fundamental uncertainty in know which person you are,
^^^
John Clark doesn't understand the question. Which person who is?
it seems Everett did
On 28 Feb 2015, at 16:38, John Clark wrote:
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote:
To be fair to Bruno, that is not what he claims. The FPI comes
from the fundamental uncertainty in know which person you are,
^^^
John Clark doesn't understand the question.
On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 9:38 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote:
To be fair to Bruno, that is not what he claims. The FPI comes from the
fundamental uncertainty in know which person you are,
^^^
John Clark
On 27 Feb 2015, at 19:50, John Clark wrote:
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 6:29 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know about all the peepee stuff but I do know that If
Everett is right then all experiences exist, and if Everett is right
nothing is random because the Schrodinger wave
On 28 Feb 2015, at 00:06, Russell Standish wrote:
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 01:50:21PM -0500, John Clark wrote:
Yes, people very often, usually in fact, don't know with certainty
what the
future will bring. Bruno apparently believes he's the first to
notice that,
well he is the first to
On Sunday, March 1, 2015, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com
javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','stath...@gmail.com'); wrote:
Can you clarify where you do and don't have a problem with the pronoun
you? Presumably there is no problem
On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote:
2) Like Everett Bruno is interested in predictions but unlike Everett
Bruno thinks that good predictions are the key to personal identity, and
that's just nuts. The sense of self depends on the past not the future. You
On Sunday, March 1, 2015, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com
javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jasonre...@gmail.com'); wrote:
2) Like Everett Bruno is interested in predictions but unlike Everett
Bruno thinks that good
On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote:
Can you clarify where you do and don't have a problem with the pronoun
you? Presumably there is no problem for you if there is a unique world
with only one version of you. What about the MWI
With Everett and with everyday
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 6:29 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know about all the peepee stuff but I do know that If Everett is
right then all experiences exist, and if Everett is right nothing is random
because the Schrodinger wave equation is not random.
He means it appears
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 01:50:21PM -0500, John Clark wrote:
Yes, people very often, usually in fact, don't know with certainty what the
future will bring. Bruno apparently believes he's the first to notice that,
well he is the first to give that concept a pompous sounding acronym. As I
said,
On 26 Feb 2015, at 18:47, John Clark wrote:
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
There is another quote from Asimov that I quite like:
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever
conceived.
Which confirms again how much the atheist needs
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
It is very simple. If we are machine, we are duplicable, and in that
case, using the precise (3p) definition of 3p and 1p pov I have given (more
than one times), it is an exercise for high school students, as Kim
explained once,
On 27 February 2015 at 09:38, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
It is very simple. If we are machine, we are duplicable, and in that
case, using the precise (3p) definition of 3p and 1p pov I have given (more
than one times),
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