Re: why can't we erase information?

2006-05-10 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 10:24:05PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russell, my apologies for the approximate typing. I don't assign to your not following my comments to that awful new keyboard I tried to use (light grey letters on a slightly less light grey base - not visible and I am not a

Re: why can't we erase information?

2006-05-10 Thread jamikes
Thanks, Russell, I really do not want to continue - seems side-line to you and side line to me. I just cannot keep my mouse shut. 1. The 'nonequilibrium' topics still identify a certain 'cut' within the boundaries of them, neglecting wider - maybe unobserved/able - effects from 'unrelated'

Re: Smullyan Shmullyan, give me a real example

2006-05-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 10-mai-06, à 04:19, Russell Standish a écrit : James Higgo published a web page describing the history of quantum suicide aka comp suicide. The notion obvious predates both Tegmark and Marchal - and there is some anecdotal evidence that Edward Teller knew about the argument in the early

Re: Smullyan Shmullyan, give me a real example

2006-05-10 Thread George Levy
Bruno, Thank you for still working on my post. I am working on the reply, in particular designing the set of function or number that can be diagonalized to generate a large number. I shall be busy this weekend with family matters but I will reply to you in detail. I agree that the idea of

Re: Smullyan Shmullyan, give me a real example

2006-05-10 Thread Patrick Leahy
On who invented quantum suicide, the following is from the biography of Hugh Everett by Eugene B. Shikhovtsev and Kenneth W. Ford, at http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/everett/ Atheist or not, Everett firmly believed that his many-worlds theory guaranteed him immortality: His consciousness,

Re: why can't we erase information?

2006-05-10 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:28:44AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Russell, I really do not want to continue - seems side-line to you and side line to me. I just cannot keep my mouse shut. Seems I'm the same :) 1. The 'nonequilibrium' topics still identify a certain 'cut'

Re: Smullyan Shmullyan, give me a real example

2006-05-10 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:13:27PM +0100, Patrick Leahy wrote: On who invented quantum suicide, the following is from the biography of Hugh Everett by Eugene B. Shikhovtsev and Kenneth W. Ford, at http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/everett/ Atheist or not, Everett firmly believed that