could function.
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Subject: Re: science only works with half a brain
On 9/15/2012 7:36 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 2:50 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
On 9
, If there's no God, we'd have to invent him
so that everything could function.
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On 9/16/2012 8:52 AM, Roger Clough wrote
On 9/17/2012 8:47 AM, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Stephen P. King
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/substance/
Descartes believed in only TWO
kinds of substance: material body, which is defined by extension,
and mental substance, which is defined by thought, which, in this context, is more
or
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Hi Roger,
You might think that you are being consistent with an anti
On 9/16/2012 8:52 AM, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Stephen P. King
Mereology seems to be something like Spinoza's metaphysics,
that there is just one stuff in the universe and that stuff is God.
So there is just one material.
Hi Roger,
Yes. Each of these philosophers focused on different
On 9/16/2012 3:06 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
Why does a physical system have to be non-invertible? My
understanding is that current physical laws imply that systems are
invertible.
Hi Jason,
Say hello to the problem of time.
--
Onward!
Stephen
On 9/16/2012 3:06 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
Where is our universe located? What could its location be
relative to?
That question presupposes that there is a large universe that
this one is embedded into and that it is possible to define both
coordinate maps
On Sep 16, 2012, at 5:01 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net
wrote:
On 9/16/2012 3:06 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
Where is our universe located? What could its location be
relative to?
That question presupposes that there is a large universe that
this one is embedded into and
On 9/16/2012 3:06 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
Yes, but note that even in the case of a purely abstract
mathematical universe, like a Hilbert space, we use a coordinate
system and sets of maps to relate the relations of where things
are in the space of the universe.
Sure, but my
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wrote:
On 9/16/2012 3:06 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
Why does a physical system have to be non-invertible? My
understanding is that current physical laws imply that systems are
invertible.
Hi Jason,
Say hello to the
On 9/16/2012 6:11 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Sep 16, 2012, at 5:00 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net
wrote:
On 9/16/2012 3:06 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
Why does a physical system have to be non-invertible? My
understanding is that current physical laws imply that systems are
On 9/16/2012 6:11 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Sep 16, 2012, at 5:00 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net
wrote:
On 9/16/2012 3:06 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
Why does a physical system have to be non-invertible? My
understanding is that current physical laws imply that systems are
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Time: 2012-09-14, 12:40:45
Subject: Re: science only works with half a brain
On 9/14/2012 8:14 AM, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Bruno Marchal
Objective things are things that can be measured (are extended) and so are
quantitative.
Numbers can
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I contend that universality is the independence of computations to
any particular machine but there must be at least one physical
system that can implement a
.
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On 9/14/2012 8:14 AM, Roger
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mailto:stephe...@charter.net wrote:
I contend that universality is the independence of computations to any
particular
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On 14 Sep 2012, at 18:36, Jason Resch wrote:
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I contend that universality is the independence
Stephen,
I'm not sure if you might have missed this message. You have made other
replies in this thread, but not to the below message:
Thanks,
Jason
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On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Stephen P.
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On Fri, Sep
On 13 Sep 2012, at 13:17, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Bruno Marchal and meekerdb,
ROGER: Hi meekerdb
First, science can only work with quantity, not quality, so
it only works with half a brain.
MEEKERDB [actually it is BRUNO]: Bad decision. You are the one
cutting the corpus callosum here.
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Subject: Re: science only works with half a brain
On 13 Sep 2012, at 13:17, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Bruno Marchal and meekerdb,
ROGER: Hi meekerdb
First, science can only work
On 9/14/2012 4:09 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 13 Sep 2012, at 13:17, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Bruno Marchal and meekerdb,
ROGER: Hi meekerdb
First, science can only work with quantity, not quality, so
it only works with half a brain.
MEEKERDB [actually it is BRUNO]: Bad decision. You are
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote:
I contend that universality is the independence of computations to any
particular machine but there must be at least one physical system that can
implement a given computation for that computation to be knowable.
idea.
Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net
9/14/2012
Leibniz would say, If there's no God, we'd have to invent him
so that everything could function.
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On 9/14/2012 12:36 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Stephen P. King
stephe...@charter.net mailto:stephe...@charter.net wrote:
I contend that universality is the independence of computations
to any particular machine but there must be at least one physical
that everything could function.
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Subject: Re: science only works with half a brain
On 13 Sep 2012, at 13:17, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Bruno Marchal and meekerdb,
ROGER: Hi meekerdb
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote:
On 9/14/2012 12:36 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote:
I contend that universality is the independence of computations to any
particular machine
On 14 Sep 2012, at 15:32, Stephen P. King wrote:
On 9/14/2012 4:09 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 13 Sep 2012, at 13:17, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Bruno Marchal and meekerdb,
ROGER: Hi meekerdb
First, science can only work with quantity, not quality, so
it only works with half a brain.
Hi Bruno Marchal and meekerdb,
ROGER: Hi meekerdb
First, science can only work with quantity, not quality, so
it only works with half a brain.
MEEKERDB: Bad decision. You are the one cutting the corpus callosum here.
ROGER: You have to. Quantity is an objective measure, quality is a
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