How does a human differ in kind from a rock?
-Well both are well modelled as being slow processes (i.e. localized
states and events) in spacetime.
- A process is a particular kind of pattern of organization of some
subregion of spacetime.
- We share being made of similar kinds of matter
Eric Hawthorne writes:
So does that mean we just say think of the substrate of the universe as
being a turing machine equivalent,
any old turing machine equivalent. Ok, but still, you have to admit that
every easy to think of instantiation
of a turing machine (e.g. a PC with a lot of time
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 01:03:03AM -0700, Hal Finney wrote:
How about Tegmark's idea that all mathematical structures exist, and we're
living in one of them? Or does that require an elderly mathematician,
a piece of parchment, an ink quill, and some scribbled lines on paper in
order for us
Eugen,
an outsider thought to your interesting attachment:
We know about two parallel worlds (wit languages?):
A. the 'physos'-observable one - som call material reality (I don't),
B. mathematics
I extend A into all white elephant/rabbit versions we can 'talk' about.
B exists in the mind of
Eric,
an apology:
I just misplaced a remark to this post of yours into my response
to Eugen as a PS.
Please forgive
John Mikes
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At 11:42 15/04/04 +0200, Saibal Mitra wrote:
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0404045
Quantum mechanics without quantum logic
Authors: D.A. Slavnov
Comments: 24 pages, no figures, Latex
We describe a scheme of quantum mechanics in which the Hilbert space and
linear operators are only secondary
Hal Finney wrote:
How about Tegmark's idea that all mathematical structures exist, and we're
living in one of them? Or does that require an elderly mathematician,
a piece of parchment, an ink quill, and some scribbled lines on paper in
order for us to be here?
It seems to me that mathematics
Hi Eric:
At 03:03 AM 4/17/2004, you wrote:
How does a human differ in kind from a rock?
-Well both are well modelled as being slow processes (i.e. localized
states and events) in spacetime.
- A process is a particular kind of pattern of organization of some
subregion of spacetime.
- We share
Hal Ruhl wrote:
I see nothing in the rest of your post that makes my believe there is
a difference of kind between rocks and humans.
I believe it is a mistake to concentrate only on the reductionist theory
of the very small, and to assume that there
is nothing else interesting about systems
Dear Friends,
I found the seventh paragraph on page 9 to be telling:
The conditions of the Kochen-Specker theorem are not carried out in the
approach described in present paper. ...
This might be the locus upon which the fallacy of the paper turns.
Stephen
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