Re: Overcoming Incompleteness

2007-05-31 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 30-mai-07, à 16:00, Bruno Marchal a écrit : Le 29-mai-07, à 07:31, Russell Standish a écrit : On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 03:05:52PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: Of course many things depends on definitions, but I thought it was clear that I consider that any theorem prover machine,

Interesting talk about how our minds shape our perception of reality

2007-05-31 Thread Jason
I came across this speech given by Richard Dawkins which I found quite interesting, he ponders whether or not there are some elements of reality so strange that they are ungraspable by any mind. This reminded me of Bruno's categorization of the knowable, provable, believable, etc. Another part

Boltzmann brains

2007-05-31 Thread Russell Standish
I came across a reference to Boltzmann brains in a recent issue of New Scientist. The piece, quoted in full is: Spikes in space-time There is another way to think about why our universe began in a highly ordered or low entropy state. In 2002, a group of physicists led by Leonard Susskind at

Re: Boltzmann brains

2007-05-31 Thread Hal Finney
Russell Standish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I came across a reference to Boltzmann brains in a recent issue of New Scientist. Coincidentally (or not) I was reading all about this last night, from the fqxi.org web site Max Tegmark mentioned a few weeks ago. The new blog entry by Anthony Aguirre