Re: ASSA and Many-Worlds

2007-02-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 06-févr.-07, à 03:06, Russell Standish a écrit : The informatic destructive effects are due to conflicting information reducing the total amount of information. Perhaps you could expand? Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

Re: ASSA and Many-Worlds

2007-02-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 07-févr.-07, à 02:45, Hal Ruhl a écrit : Given an uncountably infinite number of objects generated from a countably infinite list of properties and an uncountably infinite number of UD's in the metaphor I can not see an issue with this re my model.  As I said above Our World can be

Re: Searles' Fundamental Error

2007-02-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 07-févr.-07, à 17:34, Mark Peaty a écrit : Bruno: 'Dont hesitate to ask why, I am sure few people have understand the whole point. Some are close to it, perhaps by having figure this out by themselves.' MP: Don't look at me boss ... I'm just glad I don't have to understand 'it' to

Re: Searles' Fundamental Error

2007-02-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 07-févr.-07, à 18:06, Torgny Tholerus a écrit : Mark Peaty skrev: And next: what do you mean by 'exist'? Our Universe is a mathemathical possibility.  That is why our Universe exists.  Every mathematically possible Universe exists in the same way.  But we can not get in touch with

Re: Searles' Fundamental Error

2007-02-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 08-févr.-07, à 00:10, John M a écrit : Mark: fascinating. I like to ask such stupid questions myself.   On my question 'what is consciousness' the best answer I got was: everybody knows it from a prof-fessional. (Yes, but everybody knows it differently).   Existence??? I wonder how

Re: The Meaning of Life

2007-02-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 08-févr.-07, à 23:42, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : John,   I agree: being open-minded is more important than being right. OK, but being open-minded would be meaningless if the notion of being right was meaningless. Being open-minded means being open to the idea that someone else

Re: Everything List FAQ/Glossary/Wiki

2007-02-09 Thread John M
Jason, the site is great, maybe greater than I can realize today. I, as a practical computer illiterate, (never learned any computerese courses, not even from books) sat before it with awe, - admiring that it works! I might have missed it when I tried: I did not find a place to look up topics

Re: Everything List FAQ/Glossary/Wiki

2007-02-09 Thread Jason
On Feb 9, 7:59 am, John M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason, the site is great, maybe greater than I can realize today. I, as a practical computer illiterate, (never learned any computerese courses, not even from books) sat before it with awe, - admiring that it works! I might have missed

Re: Everything List FAQ/Glossary/Wiki

2007-02-09 Thread John Mikes
Jason, just about the technicalities: I tried the main page with 2-3 topics and the result was no such title. Categories I did not venture into, because to find the right wording/spelling requires familiarity in our lingo and I had in mind to educate the innocent(ignorant) by passers outside

Re: Searles' Fundamental Error

2007-02-09 Thread John Mikes
Bruno, I 'may' come back to your (appreciated) remarks, to the last 'why' I respond: Because I feel my head in all these ideas - back-and-forth - like looking at a busy beehive and trying to follow ONE particular bee in it. John On 2/9/07, Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le

Everything List FAQ/Glossary/Wiki

2007-02-09 Thread Jason
John M mentioned in a recent post that many on the Everything List may have conflicting or poor understandings of all the various terminology used on the list. Hal Ruhl brought up the fact that someone had previously tried to maintain an acronym list and FAQ for the Everything List. I thought