Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Mar 2014, at 04:18, chris peck wrote: So has Tegmark convinced me that in his thought experiment I would assign 50/50 probability of seeing one or the other room each iteration? Not really. The question is: can you refute this. And for the UDA, you don't need the 50%. You need

Re: [foar] Amoeba's Secret, by Bruno Marchal available from Kindle store

2014-03-04 Thread LizR
I would like to get a non-kindle version (!) - is that available? On 4 March 2014 19:43, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Hi everyone, Just want to let everyone know that the English translation of Buno Marchal's The Amoeba's Secret is now available from Amazon's Kindle store.

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-04 Thread meekerdb
On 3/3/2014 11:55 PM, chris peck wrote: * I'm not reading Max's book, so I don't know exactly what he said,* Im reading the quote Jason kindly provided and responding to exactly what Tegmark said. *but using FPI as in Everett QM and writing down which of two equally likely events you

Re: [foar] Amoeba's Secret, by Bruno Marchal available from Kindle store

2014-03-04 Thread LizR
Please let me know when the hard copy is available, as I would like a physical version (ironic, I suspect, given the subject). On 4 March 2014 19:43, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Hi everyone, Just want to let everyone know that the English translation of Buno Marchal's The

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Mar 2014, at 04:49, LizR wrote: I'm not sure I follow. Tegmark said If you repeated the cloning experiment from Figure 8.3 many times and wrote down your room number each time, you'd in almost all cases find that the sequence of zeros and ones you'd written looked random, with zeros

Re: Alien Hand/Limb Syndrome

2014-03-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 03 Mar 2014, at 21:17, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, March 3, 2014 1:16:49 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 02 Mar 2014, at 17:42, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, March 2, 2014 3:50:07 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 01 Mar 2014, at 12:24, Craig Weinberg wrote: On

Re: Amoeba's Secret, by Bruno Marchal available from Kindle store

2014-03-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
Many thanks, Russell. Many thanks, Kim. Best, Bruno On 04 Mar 2014, at 07:43, Russell Standish wrote: Hi everyone, Just want to let everyone know that the English translation of Buno Marchal's The Amoeba's Secret is now available from Amazon's Kindle store. See

Re: If it's all math, then where does math come from?

2014-03-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Mar 2014, at 03:11, Kim Jones wrote: On 4 Mar 2014, at 9:48 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Without listening to that (since I'm at work) I am under the impression that Carmina Burana is, at the beginning at least, 4 beats to the bar, not 3? Maybe I missed the point. I am not

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-04 Thread LizR
On 4 March 2014 18:43, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I'm not reading Max's book, so I don't know exactly what he said, It's quoted in the first post on this thread. but using FPI as in Everett QM and writing down which of two equally likely events you actually experience is an

Re: Block Universes

2014-03-04 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, I'm interested in finding the truth, not in assigning blame. The important thing is we both now agree that there IS ALWAYS A CORRELATION OF ACTUAL AGES between any two observers. The difference is I think it's an EXACT correlation, and you think that it's ALMOST EXACT except for cases

Re: If it's all math, then where does math come from?

2014-03-04 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, It may be that some plants respond to music or at least to sound but to claim some plants love music is an unwarranted anthropomorphism that demonstrates a rather 'New Agey' mentality. Can you link me to any slow motion videos in which plants move IN SYNCH WITH MUSIC? I rather doubt it

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Mar 2014, at 01:04, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: I don't have a great comprehension of UDA, but that the foundation of everything must be arithmetic as you say. If computationalism is correct, yes. And the base theory can be be any logical specification or axiomatization of any

Re: MODAL Last exercise

2014-03-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Mar 2014, at 01:18, LizR wrote: OK, so ignoring Brent who I'm sure is way ahead of me... The problem is to show that (W, R) respects []A - A if and only if R is reflexive, Where reflexive means for all alpha, { alpha R alpha } (and nothing more is implied!) OK. (better not to use

Re: consciousness questions bruno or anyone

2014-03-04 Thread spudboy100
Thanks, Professor Marchal, I shall be purchasing your newly, translated, book on Amazon, and a hat tip to professor Standish for the alert on this. Mitch -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Mar 4,

RE: [foar] Amoeba's Secret, by Bruno Marchal available from Kindle store

2014-03-04 Thread Chris de Morsella
Thanks. I will look for the paperback version towards the end of this month. Chris From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 12:16 AM To: f...@googlegroups.com; everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject:

Re: [foar] Amoeba's Secret, by Bruno Marchal available from Kindle store

2014-03-04 Thread Telmo Menezes
Great news! I've got mine already on my trusty ebook reader. Let's displace Paul McCartney http://www.amazon.com/Amoebas-Secret-Paul-Mccartney/dp/B001OD6HRW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8qid=1393954155sr=8-1keywords=the+secret+of+the+amoeba :) On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Chris de Morsella

Re: MODAL Last exercise (+ a zest of the real thing)

2014-03-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Mar 2014, at 03:00, LizR wrote: Hm. I don't know if the first one was OK but anyway let's look at the second one. A Kripke multiverse (W, R) is said transitive if R is transitive. That is alpha R beta, and beta R gamma entails alpha R gamma, for all alpha beta and gamma in W.

Re: If it's all math, then where does math come from?

2014-03-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
Edgar, On 04 Mar 2014, at 15:02, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, It may be that some plants respond to music or at least to sound but to claim some plants love music is an unwarranted anthropomorphism that demonstrates a rather 'New Agey' mentality. Can you link me to any slow motion

Re: Alien Hand/Limb Syndrome

2014-03-04 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, March 4, 2014 3:27:58 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 03 Mar 2014, at 21:17, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Monday, March 3, 2014 1:16:49 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 02 Mar 2014, at 17:42, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, March 2, 2014 3:50:07 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-04 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:42 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: What if the sad choice is saving the environment or human beings? At least to some degree that is indeed the choice. There are over 7 billion people on the planet, never before in the history of the Earth has a large animal (over 50

Re: If it's all math, then where does math come from?

2014-03-04 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, March 4, 2014 1:05:57 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: Edgar, In this list we are open minded and basically agnostic, we don't a priori assume god, matter, universe, numbers, or whatever, and then try theories by making clear the assumptions. The a priori assumption is that

Re: Block Universes

2014-03-04 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Jesse Mazer laserma...@gmail.com wrote: So you are just going to COMPLETELY IGNORE my response, which pointed out that your supposed error relied on using the ambiguous phrase B's and C's proper ages are simultaneous in p-time because they are at the same

Re: Block Universes

2014-03-04 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, You ask me to choose between 1. and 2. 1. If B's proper age at this point in spacetime is T, then C's proper age at this point in spacetime must be T as well (i.e. their proper ages are simultaneous in the sense that they must reach the same age simultaneously). 2. If B and C's

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-04 Thread meekerdb
But there's no rule that there have to be 7 billion people (and going to 9). Where ever the Enlightenment and technology have displaced religion and poverty the birthrate has dropped to below replacement. Brent On 3/4/2014 10:23 AM, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:42 PM,

Re: If it's all math, then where does math come from?

2014-03-04 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, I only insult people who insult me first, which you and Liz did earlier today and yesterday by referring to me as a Troll. If you insult someone you should expect to receive the same. If you don't I certainly won't. OK? Edgar On Tuesday, March 4, 2014 1:05:57 PM UTC-5, Bruno

Re: Block Universes

2014-03-04 Thread meekerdb
On 3/4/2014 11:19 AM, Jesse Mazer wrote: On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net mailto:edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jesse, You ask me to choose between 1. and 2. 1. If B's proper age at this point in spacetime is T, then C's proper age at this point in

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-04 Thread spudboy100
according to a study today out in New Scientist, a researcher has estimated that OTEC power,even with 3% efficiency, can produce 4000 times our current consumption. It may even be affordable. We may have a good way out. -Original Message- From: John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com To:

Re: Block Universes

2014-03-04 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, BTW, in spite of your claim it can't be done, here is another simple way for any two observers at rest with respect to each other but separated by any arbitrary distance in space to determine their 1:1 age correlation. If A and B are separated at any distance but at rest with respect to

Re: Block Universes

2014-03-04 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jesse, BTW, in spite of your claim it can't be done, here is another simple way for any two observers at rest with respect to each other but separated by any arbitrary distance in space to determine their 1:1 age

Re: Block Universes

2014-03-04 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, First thanks for your comment. I think Jesse and I are both aware of that, but we are considering the age relationship JUST BETWEEN A and B and so must consider only how they see it in their OWN frames, not the view of a 3rd observer of that relationship. Though Jesse would probably

Re: Block Universes

2014-03-04 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, Good, we agree it's a valid method for determining 1:1 age correlations in a common inertial frame in which they are both at rest. I claim that frame is the correct one to determine the actual age correlation because it expresses the actual relation in a manner both A and B agree, is

Re: Block Universes

2014-03-04 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jesse, Good, we agree it's a valid method for determining 1:1 age correlations in a common inertial frame in which they are both at rest. I claim that frame is the correct one to determine the actual age correlation

Re: [foar] Amoeba's Secret, by Bruno Marchal available from Kindle store

2014-03-04 Thread LizR
On 5 March 2014 06:29, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Great news! I've got mine already on my trusty ebook reader. Let's displace Paul McCartney

Re: [foar] Amoeba's Secret, by Bruno Marchal available from Kindle store

2014-03-04 Thread spudboy100
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Re: [foar] Amoeba's Secret, by Bruno Marchal available from Kindle store

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Re: MODAL Last exercise

2014-03-04 Thread LizR
On 5 March 2014 04:18, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Good. To prove that P - Q, you can prove that P ~Q leads to a contradiction, or you can prove that ~Q leads to ~P. But it helps a lot if you start from what you want to prove, up to the conclusion, so that not only you prove

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-04 Thread LizR
On 5 March 2014 09:56, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: according to a study today out in New Scientist, a researcher has estimated that OTEC power,even with 3% efficiency, can produce 4000 times our current consumption. It may even be affordable. We may have a good way out. What's OTEC? Oops

Re: If it's all math, then where does math come from?

2014-03-04 Thread LizR
On 5 March 2014 08:14, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Bruno, I only insult people who insult me first, which you and Liz did earlier today and yesterday by referring to me as a Troll. If you insult someone you should expect to receive the same. It wasn't an insult, merely an

Re: Block Universes

2014-03-04 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Jesse Mazer laserma...@gmail.com wrote: I promise you the example has nothing to do with any frames other than the ones in which each pair is at rest. Again, the only assumptions about p-time that I make in deriving the contradiction are: ASSUMPTION 1. If

RE: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-03-04 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 4:40 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating On 5 March 2014 09:56, spudboy...@aol.com

Re: Alien Hand/Limb Syndrome

2014-03-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Mar 2014, at 19:14, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Tuesday, March 4, 2014 3:27:58 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 03 Mar 2014, at 21:17, Craig Weinberg wrote: Why don't we see such a (meta) link in our own languages? Because we duplicate too slowly, unlike amoeba, which have not

Max and FPI

2014-03-04 Thread meekerdb
Here's Max! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC0zHIf2Gkw Brent -- 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

Re: If it's all math, then where does math come from?

2014-03-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Mar 2014, at 20:14, Edgar L. Owen wrote: I only insult people who insult me first, No. You have insulted many people a long time before they react to the insult. You arrive in a list, and you don't seem to have follow any previous thread. people suggested you to read the UDA, which