Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 May 2011, at 19:44, meekerdb wrote: On 5/20/2011 3:54 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 18 May 2011, at 18:54, meekerdb wrote: On 5/18/2011 9:21 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Brent, Interesting! If we follow this idea, that memory is not necessary for consciousness, then

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 May 2011, at 22:18, meekerdb wrote: On 5/20/2011 3:59 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 18 May 2011, at 19:47, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Rex, A very good point! There must be a place for false memories in our modal logics. Indeed. and G* proves DBf. Lies and falsities abounds in

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 May 2011, at 22:44, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Brent and Bruno, From: meekerdb Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 1:44 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments On 5/20/2011 3:54 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 18 May 2011, at 18:54, meekerdb

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-21 Thread meekerdb
On 5/21/2011 4:04 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 20 May 2011, at 19:44, meekerdb wrote: On 5/20/2011 3:54 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 18 May 2011, at 18:54, meekerdb wrote: On 5/18/2011 9:21 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Brent, Interesting! If we follow this idea, that memory is not

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-21 Thread meekerdb
On 5/21/2011 4:43 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: 3-OMs are sequenced by the computations they belongs too. 1-OM are structured by the topology on those computations derived from the application of Theaetetus' theory of knowledge. What topology is that? What's the open set? Brent -- You

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 May 2011, at 19:13, meekerdb wrote: On 5/21/2011 4:04 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 20 May 2011, at 19:44, meekerdb wrote: On 5/20/2011 3:54 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 18 May 2011, at 18:54, meekerdb wrote: On 5/18/2011 9:21 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Brent,

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 May 2011, at 19:15, meekerdb wrote: On 5/21/2011 4:43 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: 3-OMs are sequenced by the computations they belongs too. 1-OM are structured by the topology on those computations derived from the application of Theaetetus' theory of knowledge. What topology is

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-21 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Bruno, -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 3:28 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments On 21 May 2011, at 19:15, meekerdb wrote: On 5/21/2011 4:43 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: 3-OMs are sequenced

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
! Stephen -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 10:58 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments On 18 May 2011, at 02:46, meekerdb wrote: On 5/17/2011 5:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: snip It is also difficult

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments On 5/18/2011 7:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: That is how meditation and dissociative drug can help you to remind the consciousness of the blanche machine, the consciousness of the virgin Löbian machine. Memories

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
. All this work because we cannot know that we are consistent. Bruno Onward! Stephen -Original Message- From: Rex Allen Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 1:30 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:38 AM

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-20 Thread meekerdb
On 5/20/2011 3:54 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 18 May 2011, at 18:54, meekerdb wrote: On 5/18/2011 9:21 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Brent, Interesting! If we follow this idea, that memory is not necessary for consciousness, then consciousness does not require a persistent structure

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-20 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Brent and Bruno, From: meekerdb Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 1:44 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments On 5/20/2011 3:54 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 18 May 2011, at 18:54, meekerdb wrote: On 5/18/2011 9:21 AM, Stephen Paul

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-19 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:35 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: It may have started a nanosecond ago, even though I remember starting to count up from zero and am now at the number ten. That is, I am at the number ten but it may only be the last part, the n of the ten that I have

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-19 Thread meekerdb
On 5/19/2011 4:45 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:35 AM, meekerdbmeeke...@verizon.net wrote: It may have started a nanosecond ago, even though I remember starting to count up from zero and am now at the number ten. That is, I am at the number ten but it may only

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-19 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 1:41 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: The important point for this argument is that we would have no way of knowing if Last Tuesdayism is true, and this shows that the OM's can be sequenced implicitly from their content. Only if their content is sufficiently

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-19 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:37:29AM +1000, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 1:41 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: The important point for this argument is that we would have no way of knowing if Last Tuesdayism is true, and this shows that the OM's can be

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-19 Thread meekerdb
On 5/19/2011 6:08 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:37:29AM +1000, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 1:41 AM, meekerdbmeeke...@verizon.net wrote: The important point for this argument is that we would have no way of knowing if Last Tuesdayism

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-19 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 07:50:57PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: Is this the psi of the universe or just of the observer (which observer)? How is it unit of experience? It is closer to the psi of the universe concept than anything else. Here, a universe means either a single observer moment, or a

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-18 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:40 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: The other theory that Stathis is explicating takes OM's to be atomic and discrete. In that case they would have to be strung together by some internal reference, one to another.  I don't think that's a viable theory since

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 May 2011, at 02:46, meekerdb wrote: On 5/17/2011 5:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 May 2011, at 19:40, meekerdb wrote: On 5/16/2011 7:13 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: [SPK] I was trying to be sure that I took that involves the possibility that the OMs are computationally

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-18 Thread meekerdb
On 5/18/2011 7:51 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:40 PM, meekerdbmeeke...@verizon.net wrote: The other theory that Stathis is explicating takes OM's to be atomic and discrete. In that case they would have to be strung together by some internal reference, one to

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-18 Thread meekerdb
On 5/18/2011 7:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: That is how meditation and dissociative drug can help you to remind the consciousness of the blanche machine, the consciousness of the virgin Löbian machine. Memories only differentiate consciousness. Are you claiming that every thought includes a

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
- From: Bruno Marchal Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 10:58 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments On 18 May 2011, at 02:46, meekerdb wrote: On 5/17/2011 5:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: snip It is also difficult to see how the empirical experience

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 May 2011, at 17:38, meekerdb wrote: On 5/18/2011 7:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: That is how meditation and dissociative drug can help you to remind the consciousness of the blanche machine, the consciousness of the virgin Löbian machine. Memories only differentiate consciousness.

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
Subject: Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments On 5/18/2011 7:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: That is how meditation and dissociative drug can help you to remind the consciousness of the blanche machine, the consciousness of the virgin Löbian machine. Memories only differentiate consciousness

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-18 Thread meekerdb
*Subject:* Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments On 5/18/2011 7:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: That is how meditation and dissociative drug can help you to remind the consciousness of the blanche machine, the consciousness of the virgin Löbian machine. Memories only differentiate consciousness

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-18 Thread Rex Allen
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:40 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 5/16/2011 7:13 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: [SPK]   I was trying to be sure that I took that involves the possibility that the OMs are computationally disjoint into account. This covers your example, I think...   I am

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-18 Thread Rex Allen
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:38 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 5/18/2011 7:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: That is how meditation and dissociative drug can help you to remind the consciousness of the blanche machine, the consciousness of the virgin Löbian machine. Memories only

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
their implications, a sort of attempt at a reductio ad absurdum. Onward! Stephen From: meekerdb Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 12:54 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments On 5/18/2011 9:21 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Brent, Interesting! If we

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments On 18 May 2011, at 17:38, meekerdb wrote: On 5/18/2011 7:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: That is how meditation and dissociative drug can help you to remind the consciousness of the blanche machine, the consciousness of the virgin Löbian machine. Memories only

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
Allen Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 1:24 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:40 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 5/16/2011 7:13 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: [SPK] I was trying to be sure that I

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:38 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 5/18/2011 7:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: That is how meditation and dissociative drug can help you to remind the consciousness of the blanche

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-18 Thread meekerdb
On 5/18/2011 10:44 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Rex, I agree with you 100%! I am amazed that this idea is considered as a horrid heresy by most physicists You seem to have an uninformed opinion of physicists. The physicists I know don't consider anything heresy because they consider

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-18 Thread meekerdb
Marchal mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be *Sent:* Wednesday, May 18, 2011 12:11 PM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments On 18 May 2011, at 17:38, meekerdb wrote: On 5/18/2011 7:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-18 Thread meekerdb
On 5/18/2011 10:30 AM, Rex Allen wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:38 AM, meekerdbmeeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 5/18/2011 7:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: That is how meditation and dissociative drug can help you to remind the consciousness of the blanche machine, the consciousness of the

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Brent, I am happy to be wrong inn that opinion! But nevertheless finding a physicists what will admit publicly what you mention is difficult. Onward! Stephen From: meekerdb Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 2:00 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: On the Sequencing

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
: meekerdb Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 2:01 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments On 5/18/2011 10:39 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, How beautifully said! This is a rediscovery of ideas that we find in many mythological systems

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-18 Thread meekerdb
mailto:meeke...@verizon.net *Sent:* Wednesday, May 18, 2011 2:00 PM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments On 5/18/2011 10:44 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Rex, I agree with you 100%! I am amazed

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-18 Thread meekerdb
On 5/18/2011 11:29 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Brent, Oh you bet! Chopra and those like him have not done us any favors, but can we truly begrudge people from making a buck of a book that is a soft version of the ideas we are considering? I can certainly begrudge a charlatan who

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
and ask ontological questions. ;-) Onward, Stephen From: meekerdb Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 3:17 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments On 5/18/2011 11:29 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Brent, Oh you bet! Chopra and those like

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 May 2011, at 19:40, meekerdb wrote: On 5/16/2011 7:13 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: [SPK] I was trying to be sure that I took that involves the possibility that the OMs are computationally disjoint into account. This covers your example, I think... I am wondering how they are

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-16 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@charter.net wrote: Hi Brent and Everything List Members,     Let me start over and focus on the sequencing of OMs. I argue that the Schrodinger Equation does not work to generate a sequencing of Observer moments for multiple

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Stathis, -Original Message- From: Stathis Papaioannou Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 9:08 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@charter.net wrote: Hi Brent and Everything

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 May 2011, at 15:08, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@charter.net wrote: Hi Brent and Everything List Members, Let me start over and focus on the sequencing of OMs. I argue that the Schrodinger Equation does not work to

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 May 2011, at 16:13, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Stathis, -Original Message- From: Stathis Papaioannou Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 9:08 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Stephen Paul King

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-16 Thread meekerdb
On 5/16/2011 7:13 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: [SPK] I was trying to be sure that I took that involves the possibility that the OMs are computationally disjoint into account. This covers your example, I think... I am wondering how they are strung together, to use the analogy of

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Brent, -Original Message- From: meekerdb Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 1:40 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments On 5/16/2011 7:13 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: [SPK] I was trying to be sure that I took that involves

Re: On the Sequencing of Observer Moments

2011-05-10 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Brent and Everything List Members, Let me start over and focus on the sequencing of OMs. I argue that the Schrodinger Equation does not work to generate a sequencing of Observer moments for multiple interacting observers because it assumes a physically unreal notion of time, the