Permutation City

2000-01-17 Thread Selwyn St Leger
Hi, I have been following your discussions with interest. Much of what you say was anticipated by Greg Egan in his sci fi novel Permutation City. Or is Greg Egan the nom de plume of one of you? Selwyn St Leger

Re: Turing Machines Have no Real Time Clock (Was The Game of Li

2000-01-17 Thread Marchal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the world was not quantized the comp hypothesis would not hold. Only if my generalised brain is the entire universe. Look at my discussion with Niklas Thisel. Comp entails that, from the first person perspective some universal feature of our observable neighborhood

Re: normalization

2000-01-17 Thread GSLevy
In a message dated 01/17/2000 4:58:50 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The RSSA is not another way of viewing the world; it is a category error. I use the RSSA as the basis for calculating what I call the relative probability, in this group the first person probability,