Computationalist supervenience

2010-05-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
Brent, Have you still an objection? I am not sure I remember. I think I have answered your 'environment objection' by the fact that the UD reasoning remains unchanged with the notion of "generalized brain". DM is, from that point of view very weak. The substitution level can be so 'low' t

Re: The past hypothesis

2010-05-04 Thread russell standish
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 02:08:44PM -0400, Jesse Mazer wrote: > If this notion of considering the frequency of different finite sequences in > an infinite sequence is a well-defined one, perhaps something similar could > also be applied to an infinite spacetime and the frequency of Boltzmann > brain