Re: Numbers, Machine and Father Ted

2006-10-24 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > > > > Peter Jones writes: ... >>> If you died today and just by accident a possible next >>> moment of consciousness was generated by a computer a trillion years in the >>> future, then ipso facto you would find yourself a trillion years in the >>> future. >

RE: Numbers, Machine and Father Ted

2006-10-24 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Peter Jones writes: > > > The other issue matter is able to explain as a result of having no > > > properties of its own is the issue of change and time. For change to be > > > distinguishable from mere succession, it must be change in something. > > > It could be a contingent natural law th

Re: Numbers, Machine and Father Ted

2006-10-24 Thread Tom Caylor
Brent Meeker wrote: > Tom Caylor wrote: > > 1Z wrote: > >> Tom Caylor wrote: > >>> 1Z wrote: > Tom Caylor wrote: > > David and 1Z: > > > > How is exploring the Mandelbrot set through computation any different > > than exploring subatomic particles through computation (needed t

Re: Numbers, Machine and Father Ted

2006-10-24 Thread Brent Meeker
Tom Caylor wrote: > 1Z wrote: >> Tom Caylor wrote: >>> 1Z wrote: Tom Caylor wrote: > David and 1Z: > > How is exploring the Mandelbrot set through computation any different > than exploring subatomic particles through computation (needed to > successively approach the accu

Re: Numbers, Machine and Father Ted

2006-10-24 Thread Tom Caylor
1Z wrote: > Tom Caylor wrote: > > 1Z wrote: > > > Tom Caylor wrote: > > > > > > > > David and 1Z: > > > > > > > > How is exploring the Mandelbrot set through computation any different > > > > than exploring subatomic particles through computation (needed to > > > > successively approach the accura

Re: Numbers, and Teddy

2006-10-24 Thread jamikes
Bruno: Your individual 'believing' the invisible horses (excellent parable) - when learned physics etc., will not 'deny' even the necessity of those invisible horses: he will "EXPLAIN" and CALCULATE what they are in his belief-system of the invisible horses. That is exactly what the developing phy

Re: Numbers, Machine and Father Ted

2006-10-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le Mardi 24 Octobre 2006 21:00, 1Z a écrit : > Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > Le Mardi 24 Octobre 2006 19:25, 1Z a écrit : > > > Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Le Mardi 24 Octobre 2006 18:29, 1Z a écrit : > > > > > I've never seen an HP universe. Yet they *must* exist in a > > > >

Re: Numbers, Machine and Father Ted

2006-10-24 Thread 1Z
Tom Caylor wrote: > 1Z wrote: > > Tom Caylor wrote: > > > > > > David and 1Z: > > > > > > How is exploring the Mandelbrot set through computation any different > > > than exploring subatomic particles through computation (needed to > > > successively approach the accuracies needed for the collisi

Re: Numbers, Machine and Father Ted

2006-10-24 Thread 1Z
Quentin Anciaux wrote: > Le Mardi 24 Octobre 2006 19:25, 1Z a écrit : > > Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Le Mardi 24 Octobre 2006 18:29, 1Z a écrit : > > > > I've never seen an HP universe. Yet they *must* exist in a mathematical > > > > reality, because there are no random gaps in

Re: Numbers, Machine and Father Ted

2006-10-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le Mardi 24 Octobre 2006 19:25, 1Z a écrit : > Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Le Mardi 24 Octobre 2006 18:29, 1Z a écrit : > > > I've never seen an HP universe. Yet they *must* exist in a mathematical > > > reality, because there are no random gaps in Platonia. Since all > > > mathematical

Re: Numbers, Machine and Father Ted

2006-10-24 Thread Tom Caylor
1Z wrote: > Tom Caylor wrote: > > > > David and 1Z: > > > > How is exploring the Mandelbrot set through computation any different > > than exploring subatomic particles through computation (needed to > > successively approach the accuracies needed for the collisions in the > > linear accelerator)

Re: Numbers, Machine and Father Ted

2006-10-24 Thread 1Z
Quentin Anciaux wrote: > Hi, > > Le Mardi 24 Octobre 2006 18:29, 1Z a écrit : > > > > I've never seen an HP universe. Yet they *must* exist in a mathematical > > reality, because there are no random gaps in Platonia. Since all > > mathematical > > structures are exemplified, the structure corresp

Re: Numbers, Machine and Father Ted

2006-10-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Hi, Le Mardi 24 Octobre 2006 18:29, 1Z a écrit : > > I've never seen an HP universe. Yet they *must* exist in a mathematical > reality, because there are no random gaps in Platonia. Since all > mathematical > structures are exemplified, the structure corresponging to (me up till > 1 second ago) >

Re: Numbers, Machine and Father Ted

2006-10-24 Thread 1Z
Tom Caylor wrote: > 1Z wrote: > > Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > Le 23-oct.-06, à 15:58, David Nyman a écrit : > > > > > > > > > > > Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > > > > > >> Here I disagree, or if you want make that distinction (introduced by > > > >> Peter), you can sum up the conclusion of the UD Argu

Re: Numbers, Machine and Father Ted

2006-10-24 Thread 1Z
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > In an excellent and clear post Peter Jones writes: > > > Matter is a bare substrate with no properties of its own. The question > > may well be asked at this point: what roles does it perform ? Why not > > dispense with matter and just have bundles of properties -- wh

Re: Numbers, Machine and Father Ted

2006-10-24 Thread Tom Caylor
1Z wrote: > Bruno Marchal wrote: > > Le 23-oct.-06, à 15:58, David Nyman a écrit : > > > > > > > > Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > > > >> Here I disagree, or if you want make that distinction (introduced by > > >> Peter), you can sum up the conclusion of the UD Argument by: > > >> > > >> Computationali

Re: Numbers, Machine and Father Ted

2006-10-24 Thread 1Z
Bruno Marchal wrote: > Le 23-oct.-06, à 15:58, David Nyman a écrit : > > > > > Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > >> Here I disagree, or if you want make that distinction (introduced by > >> Peter), you can sum up the conclusion of the UD Argument by: > >> > >> Computationalism entails COMP. > > > > Brun

Re: Numbers, Machine and Father Ted

2006-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 23-oct.-06, à 15:58, David Nyman a écrit : > > Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> Here I disagree, or if you want make that distinction (introduced by >> Peter), you can sum up the conclusion of the UD Argument by: >> >> Computationalism entails COMP. > > Bruno, could you distinguish between your rema

Mail problem

2006-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 23-oct.-06, à 18:52, David Nyman a écrit : > Bruno, I think it's the Beta version that's intermittently losing posts > - Colin lost one, and I've lost two. I've posted a topic to this effect > for the list. You may wish to revert to the old version. That does not work either but apparently

Re: To observe is to......EC

2006-10-24 Thread David Nyman
Colin Hales wrote: > When you are in EC it looks like more relative speed (compared your local EC > string), time goes slower. Traveling faster than the speed of light is > meaningless EC can't 'construct/refresh' you beyond the rate it's () operate > at. There's nothing to travel in anything an