Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread ghibbsa
On Saturday, February 8, 2014 7:26:45 AM UTC, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, February 8, 2014 6:06:17 AM UTC, Brent wrote: On 2/7/2014 9:50 PM, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: But the question then remains the same, and the process of dealing with it doesn't change in principle either.

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread LizR
I think Edgar's basic idea is that there is a plane of simultaneity which sweeps through space-time, and that all events in space time intersect with it - for example an astronaut moving at 0.9c will be intersecting it at the same time as his twin on Earth, but intersecting it at an angle that

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Feb 2014, at 19:03, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 5:53 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Computation is 3p, and consciousness is 1p, and no 1p thing can be a 3p thing. Sure it can. There is no consistent definition of p ? What is inconsistent with the

Re: Unput and Onput

2014-02-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Feb 2014, at 17:59, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, February 7, 2014 11:52:24 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Feb 2014, at 19:50, meekerdb wrote: On 2/6/2014 8:22 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Yes. But it is not a back and forth. It just happen that when machine looks inward, and

Re: Unput and Onput

2014-02-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Feb 2014, at 20:17, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, February 7, 2014 12:33:07 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Feb 2014, at 20:54, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, February 6, 2014 11:22:24 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 05 Feb 2014, at 20:29, Craig Weinberg wrote:

Re: Unput and Onput

2014-02-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Feb 2014, at 01:40, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, February 7, 2014 7:33:28 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 8 February 2014 07:48, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 06 Feb 2014, at 21:43, LizR wrote: Because Turing universality is a mathematical notion. It has nothing to do with

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Feb 2014, at 21:05, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Jesse, I'm willing to accept the notion that time, like everything else is quantized at the finest scale, but even so I would maintain that everything is at one and only one point in time as the current state is continually recomputed into

Re: Biology, Buddha and the irreflexive Multiverse (was Re: Modal Logic (Part 3: summary + 1 exercise)

2014-02-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Feb 2014, at 23:21, meekerdb wrote: On 2/7/2014 10:40 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Feb 2014, at 21:29, meekerdb wrote: On 2/6/2014 12:14 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: In Kripke semantic all statements are relativized to the world you are in. []A can be true in some world and false in

Re: Eidetic memory and the comp hypothesis

2014-02-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Feb 2014, at 21:36, Chris de Morsella wrote: From: Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, February 7, 2014 7:09 AM Subject: Re: Eidetic memory and the comp hypothesis Thanks for the link Chris. It has also been discovered, some years ago,

Re: Films I think people on this forum might like

2014-02-08 Thread LizR
Seconds (1966) is also worth a look. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send

Re: Unput and Onput

2014-02-08 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 8, 2014 3:31:24 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 07 Feb 2014, at 17:59, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Friday, February 7, 2014 11:52:24 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Feb 2014, at 19:50, meekerdb wrote: On 2/6/2014 8:22 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Yes. But

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Ghibbsa, Brent, Russell, Jesse, What Ghibbsa and others are trying to do here is establish a notion of a universal CLOCK time, and there are several approaches to doing this. The best way we would do this is to take an observer in deep space with no gravitational field or acceleration and

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Russell, Yes, that's correct. I'm just saying my theory predicts Omega MUST be 1 and the universe a positively curved hypersphere. 1. Because that's the only cosmological geometry consistent with p-time. 2. Because an Omega 1 results in a universe either infinite or with edges, neither of

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, No, that's not my idea. See my proximate reply to Ghibbsa. Edgar On Saturday, February 8, 2014 3:15:42 AM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: I think Edgar's basic idea is that there is a plane of simultaneity which sweeps through space-time, and that all events in space time intersect with it -

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, No 5D embedding space. The rate of expansion is just the intrinsic processor cycle 'rate'. The only real measure of that is how it manifests in the computations it produces because only they have any measure because only they have dimensionality. Again whenever we try to measure p-timel

Re: A theory of dark matter...

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, For the first part of my answer to the question of in what sense might space be absolute see my new topic post on 'Newton's Bucket and Mach's Principle'.. Edgar On Friday, February 7, 2014 9:57:32 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 8 February 2014 15:45, ghi...@gmail.com javascript: wrote:

Lakoff and Arithmetic Origins

2014-02-08 Thread Craig Weinberg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Mathematics_Comes_From Lakoff and Núñez's avowed purpose is to begin laying the foundations for a truly scientific understanding of mathematics, one grounded in processes common to all human cognition. They find that four distinct but related processes

Re: A theory of dark matter...

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, and Liz, We have to be careful in our choice of words here. It is quite clear that e.g. during relative motion of frames A and B, that each sees the other's clock running slower. So the two frames DO NOT give the same results here. However when one twin returns with a different clock

Re: Real science versus interpretations of science

2014-02-08 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 12:52 AM, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, February 7, 2014 6:36:21 PM UTC, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, February 7, 2014 4:50:39 PM UTC, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, February 6, 2014 9:09:23 PM UTC, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Thu, Feb

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, No, they do NOT have the same time coordinates in their respective frames because their clocks read different t-values. You simply cannot invent any frame that makes the actual difference in their ages go away. All you are doing is trying to ignore the effect by assigning a new

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, When I say 'everything happens in the same present moment'. 1. By everything I mean everything that actually happens, not everything you can imagine happening like Jesus not being crucified or Hitler winning WW2. I would think that would be obvious. 2. Everything in the history of the

Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-08 Thread John Clark
The invention of language was obviously of great benefit to the species called Homo sapiens, but like all tools it is not perfect and sometimes the brain can waste a great deal of processing power spinning its wheels over questions of words rather than ideas. For example, a recent poll showed that

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-08 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: here is no consistent definition of p ? ! What is inconsistent with the definition of 3p and 1p Just as there is no absolute meaning to the word motion there is no consistent meaning to the 1p or the 3p. Your 3p

RE: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-08 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2014 8:01 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Suicide Words God and Ideas The invention of language was obviously of great benefit to the

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
John, and Chris, The problem is that language evolved to describe and make sense of daily life, what I call 'the logic of things'. Thus it is not really designed to properly describe many of the deeper more fundamental aspects of reality. Trying to do that often leads to wrong or misleading

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Jesse Mazer
Edgar, it's very frustrating trying to have a discussion with you when I repeatedly ask you questions that are meant to clarify things that seem unclear to me in your arguments, and you just completely ignore these questions and just give me a broad restatement of your overall views, which for me

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Feb 2014, at 17:53, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: here is no consistent definition of p ? ! What is inconsistent with the definition of 3p and 1p Just as there is no absolute meaning to the word motion there is no

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, Yes, I think there is always a way to determine if any two events happen at the same point in p-time or not, provided you know everything about their relativistic conditions. You do this by essentially computing their relativistic cases BACKWARDS to determine which point in each of

Re: Modal Logic (Part 3: summary + 1 exercise)

2014-02-08 Thread LizR
On 8 February 2014 08:43, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 07 Feb 2014, at 02:29, LizR wrote: On 7 February 2014 09:14, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 06 Feb 2014, at 07:39, LizR wrote: On 6 February 2014 08:25, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Which among

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, Yes, of course there is an objective truth that events such as you mention happen at the clock times they did according to clocks on earth. How could we think otherwise? As for how to determine whether past events happen at the same p-times see my just previous post in response to your

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread meekerdb
On 2/8/2014 12:15 AM, LizR wrote: I think Edgar's basic idea is that there is a plane of simultaneity which sweeps through space-time, and that all events in space time intersect with it - for example an astronaut moving at 0.9c will be intersecting it at the same time as his twin on Earth,

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-08 Thread meekerdb
On 2/8/2014 12:23 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: An epiphenomenalist would say that consciousness is just a necessary side effect of intelligence. But I don't follow this: it is a phenomena having some role, I would say, and so evolution is just not a problem. To say it has some role implies that

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jesse, Yes, I think there is always a way to determine if any two events happen at the same point in p-time or not, provided you know everything about their relativistic conditions. You do this by essentially computing

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread LizR
On 9 February 2014 11:28, Jesse Mazer laserma...@gmail.com wrote: HOW would you back calculate it though? Even if we set aside my questions about gravity above and just look at a case involving flat SR spacetime, your answer gives no details. If you have any procedure in mind, could you apply

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jesse, No, they do NOT have the same time coordinates in their respective frames because their clocks read different t-values. In the post you're responding to here I had another request for clarification which you

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, The ages are the only 'real' clocks here because they are not arbitrary but real and actual and cannot be reset. They show different clock times in the same present moment. All other clocks are arbitrary. I don't know what else I can add to this. I did address all of your questions

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, I gave you a clear easy to follow and understand procedure that I believe works in every case to determine if any two clock time labeled events occurred in the same p-time moment or not. I'm sorry if you don't see how it works. I don't see how I can make it much clearer. It's just

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, A simple example: Suppose A and B. Assume no relative motion but A is in a gravitational well that makes his clock runs 1/2 the speed of B's clock. Assume both clocks were synchronized when the gravitational field at A suddenly turned on. In this simple case both A and B were in the

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jesse, I gave you a clear easy to follow and understand procedure that I believe works in every case to determine if any two clock time labeled events occurred in the same p-time moment or not. No you didn't, because

Re: Films I think people on this forum might like

2014-02-08 Thread freqflyer07281972
I've been following this thread with some interest, waiting for one movie to be invariably mentioned among this crowd, and surprised that it hasn't been yet: Waking Life by Richard Linklater. Not only would members of this list like this movie, they would also be reminded of the different

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread ghibbsa
On Saturday, February 8, 2014 2:57:44 PM UTC, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Liz, No, that's not my idea. See my proximate reply to Ghibbsa. Edgar I wusn't messin' with your idea man promise! I was just ranting away full of good intentions but basically a bit sick in the head. On Saturday,

Re: Films I think people on this forum might like

2014-02-08 Thread LizR
Not sure if that's a recommendation or just a chance to let off steam but anyway - thanks, I will try to get hold of that. On 9 February 2014 13:34, freqflyer07281972 thismindisbud...@gmail.comwrote: I've been following this thread with some interest, waiting for one movie to be invariably

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread LizR
On 9 February 2014 04:18, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, No 5D embedding space. The rate of expansion is just the intrinsic processor cycle 'rate'. What is this 'rate' ? Is it like 'time' ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, Consider another simple example: A and B in deep space. No gravity. Their clocks, t and t', are synchronized. They are in the same current p-time moment and whenever t = t', which is always their clock times confirm they are the same current p-time as well as the same clock time. Now

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, See my other post that discusses the minimum p-time cycle time must be less than the minimum possible interval of events, where I discuss that... Edgar On Saturday, February 8, 2014 7:49:03 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 9 February 2014 04:18, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote:

Re: Real science versus interpretations of science

2014-02-08 Thread ghibbsa
On Saturday, February 8, 2014 3:41:14 PM UTC, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 12:52 AM, ghi...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Friday, February 7, 2014 6:36:21 PM UTC, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, February 7, 2014 4:50:39 PM UTC, ghi...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-08 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 7 February 2014 07:47, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Well, I *could* be a zombie and still say that, unless you consider the idea of zombies contradictory (which maybe it is). I bet you are not a zombie. But you seem to illustrate my point, if epiphenomenalism is true, despite

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-08 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 8 February 2014 05:03, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: If there were identical triplets, and one of them grew up on the other side of the world and spoke a different language, while the others grew up in the same state and spoke the same language, do you think that a

Re: A theory of dark matter...

2014-02-08 Thread ghibbsa
On Saturday, February 8, 2014 3:36:08 PM UTC, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Brent, and Liz, We have to be careful in our choice of words here. It is quite clear that e.g. during relative motion of frames A and B, that each sees the other's clock running slower. So the two frames DO NOT give the

THIS LIST HAS TURNED ME ON TO......

2014-02-08 Thread ghibbsa
RELATIVITY THEORY I love it...I'm being reeled in by it. A lot of people here have said really weird and wonderful things. A couple of things have been talked about as if fundamental, that I'm betting is not fundamental. A lot of other questions have been coming up for melike is

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 07:18:06AM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Liz, No 5D embedding space. The rate of expansion is just the intrinsic processor cycle 'rate'. The only real measure of that is how it manifests in the computations it produces because only they have any measure because only

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread LizR
On 9 February 2014 14:10, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, See my other post that discusses the minimum p-time cycle time must be less than the minimum possible interval of events, where I discuss that... So I assume that's a yes, then. Edgar On Saturday, February 8, 2014

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-08 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, February 8, 2014 8:47:26 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: On 7 February 2014 07:47, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.be javascript: wrote: Well, I *could* be a zombie and still say that, unless you consider the idea of zombies contradictory (which maybe it is). I bet you are

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread ghibbsa
On Sunday, February 9, 2014 3:44:09 AM UTC, Russell Standish wrote: On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 07:18:06AM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Liz, No 5D embedding space. The rate of expansion is just the intrinsic processor cycle 'rate'. The only real measure of that is how it manifests

Re: A theory of dark matter...

2014-02-08 Thread LizR
On 9 February 2014 04:36, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Brent, and Liz, We have to be careful in our choice of words here. It is quite clear that e.g. during relative motion of frames A and B, that each sees the other's clock running slower. So the two frames DO NOT give the same

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread LizR
Heh heh. Have you ever read The Hole In The Zero by M K Joseph? On 9 February 2014 17:17, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: It can't be understood intellectually. I turn to art. Paint the frontiers, string theory knackers yards. brains and their higher consciousness. The world that has everything

Re: Real science versus interpretations of science

2014-02-08 Thread LizR
On 9 February 2014 14:31, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: Nothing phazes Edgar lol. Edgar is like our very own Saga Norén. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an

Turing Reductio ad Absurdum

2014-02-08 Thread Craig Weinberg
How do you know that you are really reading these words? People misread things all the time. Maybe it just feels like you are reading them? You could be having a brain aneurism. Logically, there is no way to prove that you are reading these words right now. The fact that you might not really

Re: Real science versus interpretations of science

2014-02-08 Thread ghibbsa
On Sunday, February 9, 2014 4:21:32 AM UTC, Liz R wrote: On 9 February 2014 14:31, ghi...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Nothing phazes Edgar lol. Edgar is like our very own Saga Norén. I was getting these spasms of hilarity earlier on. Not very funny thoughts by normal standards. I

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Richard Ruquist
The hole in zero is like the closed circular string which in two dimensions maps everything outside of it to its interior with a r-1/r mapping in every direction. If so then infinity is mapped to the center of the zero, like 1/0=infinity. On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 11:19 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jesse, Consider another simple example: A and B in deep space. No gravity. Their clocks, t and t', are synchronized. They are in the same current p-time moment and whenever t = t', which is always their clock times

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread LizR
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