Re: A profound lack of profundity

2017-08-15 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 9:31 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: ​ >> ​>>​ >> a rat can remember the past and a rat can use induction to make a >> prediction, and most important of all a rat knows if it's prediction turned >> out to be correct or not and that enables the rat to

Re: A profound lack of profundity

2017-08-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Aug 2017, at 20:06, Brent Meeker wrote: On 8/14/2017 10:40 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: If after a rat has been duplicated the 2 rats then have different experiences, such as one getting a electric shock and one not getting one, then they will no longer be identical and will behave

Re: A profound lack of profundity

2017-08-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Aug 2017, at 23:37, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 8/14/2017 10:40 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: If after a rat has been duplicated the 2 rats then have different experiences, such as one getting a electric shock and one not getting one, then they will no longer be identical and will

Re: A profound lack of profundity

2017-08-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Aug 2017, at 20:35, Brent Meeker wrote: On 8/14/2017 10:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 14 Aug 2017, at 18:25, Brent Meeker wrote: On 8/14/2017 1:16 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Aug 2017, at 21:25, Brent Meeker wrote: On 8/13/2017 10:30 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Aug

Re: A profound lack of profundity

2017-08-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Aug 2017, at 01:09, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 Stathis Papaioannou wrote: ​> ​By their behaviour, rats show an operational understanding of probability. ​That because a rat can remember the past and a rat can use induction to make a prediction,

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Re: A profound lack of profundity

2017-08-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Aug 2017, at 00:40, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ​> ​I let you know that some people understand the result without ever doing this thought I have no doubt. ​Some people on this list understand things without giving

Re: P vs NP result?

2017-08-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Aug 2017, at 02:40, Brent Meeker wrote: Forwarded Message Whoa. Anyone have opinions on this? https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.03486.pdf "A Solution of the P versus NP Problem" Norbert Blum Institut f¨ur Informatik, Universit¨at Bonn Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 144,