Re: free will and mathematics

2012-05-30 Thread Stephen P. King
On 5/29/2012 11:46 PM, Jesse Mazer wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net mailto:stephe...@charter.net wrote: Hi Jesse, Would it be correct to think of arbitrary as used here as meaning some y subset Y identified by some function i

Re: free will and mathematics

2012-05-30 Thread Stephen P. King
On 5/29/2012 11:52 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 5/29/2012 8:11 PM, Aleksandr Lokshin wrote: The original poster introduces what free will means. 1) Every choice which is allowed in physics is a random choice or a determinate one. 2) If human free will choice exists, it is agreed that it is not

Re: free will and mathematics

2012-05-30 Thread Stephen P. King
On 5/30/2012 12:06 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 5/29/2012 8:47 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 5/29/2012 5:18 PM, Jesse Mazer wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Aleksandr Lokshin aaloks...@gmail.com mailto:aaloks...@gmail.com wrote: It is impossible to consider common properties of

Re: free will and mathematics

2012-05-30 Thread Stephen P. King
On 5/30/2012 1:25 AM, Aleksandr Lokshin wrote: 5) If one uses mathematics, then one operates with a process which is prohibited in physics. Rubbish! I insist on my statement which, unfortunately, is not understood. I stop taking part in the discussion. Best wishes Ale OK. --

Re: Church Turing be dammed. (Probability Question)

2012-05-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 May 2012, at 22:26, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: To see this the following thought experience can help. Some guy won a price consisting in visiting Mars by teleportation. But his state law forbid annihilation of

Re: Church Turing be dammed. (Probability Question)

2012-05-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 May 2012, at 22:41, meekerdb wrote: On 5/29/2012 1:26 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: To see this the following thought experience can help. Some guy won a price consisting in visiting Mars by teleportation. But

Re: free will and mathematics

2012-05-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 30 May 2012, at 08:12, Stephen P. King wrote: On 5/30/2012 12:06 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 5/29/2012 8:47 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 5/29/2012 5:18 PM, Jesse Mazer wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Aleksandr Lokshin aaloks...@gmail.com wrote: It is impossible to consider

Re: free will and mathematics

2012-05-30 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:02 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote: On 5/29/2012 11:46 PM, Jesse Mazer wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote: Hi Jesse, Would it be correct to think of arbitrary as used here as meaning some

Re: free will and mathematics

2012-05-30 Thread David Nyman
On 30 May 2012 04:16, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net wrote:   I think that the word free means that it is unconstrained by a pre-given or knowable function; it is not the result of a known computational process. I'm sorry if my point was not clear. I simply meant that we can define

Re: free will and mathematics

2012-05-30 Thread David Nyman
On 30 May 2012 04:41, Jesse Mazer laserma...@gmail.com wrote: Only David Nyman agreed as far as I can see See my reply to Stephen. David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: free will and mathematics

2012-05-30 Thread Stephen P. King
On 5/30/2012 4:45 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 30 May 2012, at 08:12, Stephen P. King wrote: On 5/30/2012 12:06 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 5/29/2012 8:47 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 5/29/2012 5:18 PM, Jesse Mazer wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Aleksandr Lokshin aaloks...@gmail.com

Re: free will and mathematics

2012-05-30 Thread John Clark
On Tue, May 29, 2012 Aleksandr Lokshin aaloks...@gmail.com wrote: The original poster introduces what free will means. Every choice which is allowed in physics is a random choice OK, In other words it had no cause. or a determinate one. In other words it had a cause. If human free

Re: Faster than light communication

2012-05-30 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 1:28 AM, alexalex alexmka...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello! Just watched this google presentation done by a software engineer that has done lots of reading on QM and QIT. He practically says that entanglement is akin to measurement and he presents a experiment (not

Re: free will and mathematics

2012-05-30 Thread meekerdb
On 5/29/2012 11:12 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: The point is is that what ever the choice is, there are ab initio alternatives that are not exactly known to be optimal solutions to some criterion and some not-specified-in-advance function that picks one. ??? The function is specified in

Re: Church Turing be dammed. (Probability Question)

2012-05-30 Thread meekerdb
On 5/30/2012 1:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 29 May 2012, at 22:41, meekerdb wrote: On 5/29/2012 1:26 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: To see this the following thought experience can help.

Re: free will and mathematics

2012-05-30 Thread meekerdb
On 5/30/2012 1:45 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Banach and Tarski proved an amazing theorem with the axiom of choice, but it is not a paradox, in the sense that it contradicts nothing, and you can't get anything from it. Bruno It contradicts intuition. Brent -- You received this message because

Re: free will and mathematics

2012-05-30 Thread John Clark
On Wed, May 30, 2012 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: The axiom of choice is not a physical law. That is true, but it is consistent with empirical physical evidence about how the universe works. In non-mathematical language the Axiom of Choice says that every event need not have an

Re: free will and mathematics

2012-05-30 Thread Brian Tenneson
What about Gabriel's Horn or the Koch Snowflake curve? They may also contradict intuition but the results are not dependent upon the axiom of choice. On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:17 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 5/30/2012 1:45 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Banach and Tarski proved an

Re: Free will in MWI

2012-05-30 Thread Craig Weinberg
On May 28, 1:40 pm, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: Did I ever once say that free will means acting for no reason? That is a very hard question to answer, you said that people don't do things for a reason

Re: free will and mathematics

2012-05-30 Thread meekerdb
On 5/30/2012 9:31 AM, John Clark wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: The axiom of choice is not a physical law. That is true, but it is consistent with empirical physical evidence about how the universe works. In non-mathematical

Re: Faster than light communication

2012-05-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 30 May 2012, at 16:29, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 1:28 AM, alexalex alexmka...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello! Just watched this google presentation done by a software engineer that has done lots of reading on QM and QIT. He practically says that entanglement is akin to

Re: Church Turing be dammed. (Probability Question)

2012-05-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 30 May 2012, at 18:16, meekerdb wrote: On 5/30/2012 1:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 29 May 2012, at 22:41, meekerdb wrote: On 5/29/2012 1:26 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: To see this the following thought

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-30 Thread Craig Weinberg
On May 29, 3:02 am, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: You always put that level confusion on the table. You could expect to have dinner in a virtual paris if you were in a virtual world. If you want an computational AI to interact with you, it must be able to control real world

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-30 Thread Craig Weinberg
On May 29, 1:45 am, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: So which of the following four link(s) in the logical chain do you take issue with? A. human brain (and body) comprises matter and energy So does a cadaver's brain and body. The fact that a cadaver is not intelligent should show us

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-30 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2012/5/30 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com On May 29, 3:02 am, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: You always put that level confusion on the table. You could expect to have dinner in a virtual paris if you were in a virtual world. If you want an computational AI to interact

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-30 Thread Craig Weinberg
On May 30, 4:36 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/5/30 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com On May 29, 3:02 am, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: You always put that level confusion on the table. You could expect to have dinner in a virtual paris if

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-30 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2012/5/30 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com On May 30, 4:36 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/5/30 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com On May 29, 3:02 am, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: You always put that level confusion on the table.

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-30 Thread Craig Weinberg
On May 30, 6:09 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: You are defining a 'real computer' in terms in terms that you are smuggling in from our real world of physics. In a Church-Turing Matrix, why would there be any kind of arbitrary level separation? The whole point is that there

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-30 Thread Jason Resch
Craig, You mentioned that you can open a remote desktop connection from a virtualized computer to a real computer (or even the one running the virtualization). This, as Quentin mentioned, requires an interface. In this case it is provided by the virtual network card made available to the

Re: Church Turing be dammed.

2012-05-30 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2012/5/31 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com On May 30, 6:09 pm, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: You are defining a 'real computer' in terms in terms that you are smuggling in from our real world of physics. In a Church-Turing Matrix, why would there be any kind of