Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Dec 2013, at 23:09, Stephen Paul King wrote: 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

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Dec 2013, at 22:17, Richard Ruquist wrote: Bruno: Please tell me if above helped. Richard: Yes. Very much so. We being celestial, divine creatures, if you want. We (first person) are already in heaven, or Platonia, is completely consistent with my thinking OK. Bruno: To get

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Dec 2013, at 22:30, Richard Ruquist wrote: Bruno: If our subst level is far above the quantum level, then QM can still be derivable from arithmetic, but some constants can be geographical (and thus variable in the whole of the physical reality). Richard: Astronomical

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-13 Thread Richard Ruquist
Bruno: Where do that [Calabi-Yau Compact manifolds] comes from? Richard: There are the most immediate consequence of all string theories where the extra dimensions beyond 4D spacetime must precipitate out of 3D space. Harvard physics Prof. Vafa describes the Big Bang as 2 dimensions folding up

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-13 Thread Richard Ruquist
Bruno: Why do you want emulate RA? Simple animals emulates RA, billiard ball, Gàc gas, your computer, yourself, all emulate RA. Richard: I am proposing that the finite 3D array of 10^90/cc compact space particles are a computer for implementing RA. I must have used the word emulation improperly.

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Dec 2013, at 13:17, Richard Ruquist wrote: Bruno: Why do you want emulate RA? Simple animals emulates RA, billiard ball, Gàc gas, your computer, yourself, all emulate RA. Richard: I am proposing that the finite 3D array of 10^90/cc compact space particles are a computer for

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-13 Thread Richard Ruquist
On 13 Dec 2013, at 13:17, Richard Ruquist wrote: Bruno: Why do you want emulate RA? Simple animals emulates RA, billiard ball, Gàc gas, your computer, yourself, all emulate RA. Richard: I am proposing that the finite 3D array of 10^90/cc compact space particles are a computer for implementing

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 Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/13 Stephen Paul King stephe...@charter.net Hi Bruno, Why does an entire universe need to be simulated? It does not... it is an example showing that the substitution level could be arbitrarily low... anyway as I said some years ago, if the level is that low, I don't see how

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
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 not emulable, nor even well definable. Could not just finite portions of

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 not

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-13 Thread LizR
I must admit I'm more likely to say yes if the Doctor in question is Matt Smith :) On 14 December 2013 11:09, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: 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

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Dec 2013, at 17:06, Richard Ruquist wrote: Bruno: but the human will say yes to the doctor anyway, and without thinking to much on the theoretical consequences of the possible survival. Richard: I would always say no to the doctor because of the no- cloning theorem. The goal

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Dec 2013, at 22:18, LizR wrote: ISTM that Yes Doctor sums up comp. If a digital brain made below my substitution level can substitute for my organic one, then I literally have a 50% chance of waking up as the digital version. However if the Subst Level is quantum, no cloning stops

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-12 Thread Richard Ruquist
Bruno: So, indeterminacy, non-locality, and non-cloning, are, qualitatively, consequence of the comp hypothesis. [if the sub level is above the quantum level, which you say is empirically likely] Richard: So if non-cloning is a consequence of comp, how is duplication possible? I read your

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Dec 2013, at 21:35, John Mikes wrote: Yes - to the doctor? I was always kept aback from agreeing, because I still believe to have included M O R E in my mind (brainfunctions, as you say) then whatever that good doctor and his device may supply. You have to assumed that there

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Dec 2013, at 21:10, meekerdb wrote: On 12/11/2013 12:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Dec 2013, at 20:20, George wrote: Hi List I haven't contributed to this list for a while but I thought you might be interested in this article from the Science Daily on line magazine Neural

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Dec 2013, at 12:00, Richard Ruquist wrote: Bruno: So, indeterminacy, non-locality, and non-cloning, are, qualitatively, consequence of the comp hypothesis. [if the sub level is above the quantum level, which you say is empirically likely] Richard: So if non-cloning is a consequence

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-12 Thread meekerdb
On 12/12/2013 9:21 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: 2) the lower level: the description of the Heisenberg matrix state of the entire (quantum observable) state of the entire local cluster of galaxies, (including dark matter!) and all this at the level of the right fields, or at the level of elementary

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Dec 2013, at 19:06, meekerdb wrote: On 12/12/2013 9:21 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: 2) the lower level: the description of the Heisenberg matrix state of the entire (quantum observable) state of the entire local cluster of galaxies, (including dark matter!) and all this at the level of

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-12 Thread Richard Ruquist
Bruno: Please tell me if above helped. Richard: Yes. Very much so. We being celestial, divine creatures, if you want. We (first person) are already in heaven, or Platonia, is completely consistent with my thinking Bruno: To get non-comp, you need to install some function, which should be shown

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-12 Thread Richard Ruquist
Bruno: If our subst level is far above the quantum level, then QM can still be derivable from arithmetic, but some constants can be geographical (and thus variable in the whole of the physical reality). Richard: Astronomical observations/measurements of the structure constant across nearly the

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Dec 2013, at 20:20, George wrote: Hi List I haven't contributed to this list for a while but I thought you might be interested in this article from the Science Daily on line magazine Neural Prosthesis Restores Behavior After Brain Injury Yes, things progress. Nice to hear of

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-11 Thread Richard Ruquist
Bruno: but the human will say yes to the doctor anyway, and without thinking to much on the theoretical consequences of the possible survival. Richard: I would always say no to the doctor because of the no-cloning theorem. I read your recent paper where you discuss how comp circumvents that

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-11 Thread meekerdb
On 12/11/2013 12:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Dec 2013, at 20:20, George wrote: Hi List I haven't contributed to this list for a while but I thought you might be interested in this article from theScience Daily http://www.sciencedaily.com/ on line magazine Neural Prosthesis Restores

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-11 Thread John Mikes
*Yes - to the doctor?* I was always kept aback from agreeing, because I still believe to have included M O R E in my mind (brainfunctions, as you say) then whatever that good doctor and his device may supply. So I consider a mechanical substitution to the 'living' (what is it?) capabilities a

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-11 Thread LizR
ISTM that Yes Doctor sums up comp. If a digital brain made below my substitution level *can* substitute for my organic one, then I literally have a 50% chance of waking up as the digital version. However if the Subst Level is quantum, no cloning stops it being actually possible. Although in this

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-11 Thread meekerdb
On 12/11/2013 1:18 PM, LizR wrote: ISTM that Yes Doctor sums up comp. If a digital brain made below my substitution level /can/ substitute for my organic one, then I literally have a 50% chance of waking up as the digital version. However if the Subst Level is quantum, no cloning stops it

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-11 Thread LizR
On 12 December 2013 11:25, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/11/2013 1:18 PM, LizR wrote: ISTM that Yes Doctor sums up comp. If a digital brain made below my substitution level *can* substitute for my organic one, then I literally have a 50% chance of waking up as the digital

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-11 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 12 December 2013 11:53, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 December 2013 11:25, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/11/2013 1:18 PM, LizR wrote: ISTM that Yes Doctor sums up comp. If a digital brain made below my substitution level can substitute for my organic one, then I

The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-10 Thread George
Hi List I haven't contributed to this list for a while but I thought you might be interested in this article from theScience Daily http://www.sciencedaily.com/ on line magazine Neural Prosthesis Restores Behavior After Brain Injury

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-10 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 11 December 2013 06:20, George gl...@quantics.net wrote: Hi List I haven't contributed to this list for a while but I thought you might be interested in this article from the Science Daily on line magazine Neural Prosthesis Restores Behavior After Brain Injury George Levy The rat has