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2010-07-17 Thread Mark Buda
 Fred Hoyle suggested the idea of quantum suicide for a civilisation in
 “October the 1st is too late” written around 1964 I think. That’s the
 first occurrence I know of it.

Thank you. I just read it. I am now more convinced than ever that I have
the right idea. I've figured out the links between the Platonic world of
ideas, the physical world, and the mental world. I can explain the reason
for the flow of time. I can explain the story of Jesus. I can explain the
real significance of the Holy Trinity. I can explain it all. And you can
believe me or not. I don't care.

There are always, always, two explanations to get the truth of reality to
anybody. And they are both perfectly rational and logical. And one is
always easy, and one is always hard. One is based on faith, and one is
based on evidence.

If you understand it, then you will understand that the one based on
evidence is so damn complicated that it just isn't worth your time to
write it down. You need a high-bandwidth face-to-face communications
channel to convince anybody. Because it's just too damn much work
otherwise. And you will understand why that is. And the only other
argument, the one based on faith, is this: I'm God, and I can prove it,
but you have to talk to me face to face and be willing to listen to me to
understand the proof. And even then I might not be able to prove it to
you. But it will certainly be an interesting conversation.

You're God too, you just don't know it yet. You will. God's an inexorable
clockwork machine of love and understanding. In a sense.

The purpose of your life is to find out what it means to be human. In the
literal and figurative sense.
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RE: Digest for everything-list@googlegroups.com - 6 Messages in 2 Topics

2010-07-17 Thread Mark Buda

 Fred Hoyle suggested the idea of quantum suicide for a civilisation in
 “October the 1st is too late” written around 1964 I think. That’s the
 first occurrence I know of it.

 I just read it.

I meant, I just read part of it. I googled it and found a PDF file and
read that, mistaking it for a short story. Okay, I didn't actually read
all of it. But the part I read shows me that Fred Hoyle had some pieces of
the answer too. The Fred Hoyle that found all the pieces lived forever.
The Fred Hoyle in our past is a bad copy of the original.

Everybody you think has lived and died on this planet has found their own
personal paradise in their own subjective reality in a different branch of
the universe, and I have figured out how it works.
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Re: Civilization-level quantum suicide

2010-07-17 Thread Mark Buda
 On 16 Jul 2010, at 14:13, Mark Buda wrote:

 But the upshot of it is this: I have found out what happens when you
 commit quantum suicide. You discover that you believe a contradiction,
 and that even though nothing about the world has changed, you
 understand the universe.

 That seems very weird.

The whole universe is very weird. Quantum mechanics is weird. Another way
to say what I'm trying to says is that you *can't* commit quantum suicide,
because if you try, something will prevent you. Remember that guy on the
list who claimed to have planned to do it, but stopped because he fell in
love? I know why that happened. That's how it works. That's part of the
plan. You're supposed to fall in love and have children. The universe
works out that way.

 But you have a hard time explaining it.
 Because you discover that you are, in Bruno's terms, a Lobian machine
 interviewing itself for the laws of physics.

 But I am saying this to explain that we can use reason to understand
 where the laws of physics come from. Not to mystified people with a
 lack of explanation.

Bruno, I think the misunderstanding here is that you're thinking that
there's one set of laws of physics. And there isn't. There are no laws.
Reality is bound by rules, but the laws of physics aren't the real rules.
It just looks that way if you take the evidence-based approach to figuring
it out. If you take the faith-based approach to figuring it out, you find
God. It doesn't matter which way you go, it's circular, and you get to
choose.

 They're right and wrong, and I understand why, but I can't explain it,
 and Bruno understands why.

 I guess I have been unclear at some point. I am just a poor scientist
 trying to be honest with myself and the others.

Then there's something I'm assuming you understand that you don't in fact
understand. If we talked I could probably figure out what it was.

 Why do you want to convince Richard Dawkins? You give him credit.

Because I know that I know how to persuade him of the truth based on
evidence *and* emotion. I can prove to him, personally, that I am God, and
that I created the universe. And he will believe it. Because I can show
him a causal loop between the mental world, the physical world, and the
ficional world that explains both intelligent design *and* evolution. I
can show him how man's sense of humor and laughter evolved, and how
they're related to the causal loop. I can show him how love and the idea
of God evolved, and how they're related to the causal loop. I can show him
that Jesus was a real person, and was really God, and that the Catholic
Church he despises is just a bad copy of the real thing, and I can show
him how to fix it. And I can show the church how to fix it. But I have to
do it one day at a time, and I have to do it by *talking* to people, or
it's not worth my effort, because I have my own personal problems, and I
can show how *they* are related to all this. And I can explain how Hari
Seldon's psychohistory worked in Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy,
because I have figured the whole damn thing out.

What it all boils down to, guys, is that the reason marriage counseling
works is that when two people love each other but can't live together they
need a neutral third party to mediate because they can't understand each
other's arguments.

I understand Richard Dawkins and the Catholic Church well enough to get
them talking, if they'll listen to me. I don't know how to get their
attention without ruining my marriage. I'm trapped in God's logic trap.
I've done my best to talk to the Church - I have spent a couple of hours
with a priest, and he seems interested, but I can't figure out how to get
him to do anything helpful.

Is anybody willing to help me? I need help to get this done. I know the
help will come one way or another, but I'm asking the members of the list:
does anybody understand me or want to help me?
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RE: Fred Hoyle's story

2010-07-17 Thread Stephen P. King

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RE: Fred Hoyle's story

2010-07-17 Thread Mark Buda
 A question: does it make any sense that one goes to live in a
 personal paradise in their own subjective reality in a different branch
 of the universe only after death? Would it not make sense that we are
 always in the state of existing in a subjective reality in some branch
 of the universe? How is this not solipsism?

None of it makes any sense because it's a paradox. Reality is impossible.
You can understand it, but it can't all make sense to you at once.

I once remarked that half of all marriages end in divorce, but that isn't
so bad when you consider the other half end in death. I realize now that
there are two more alternatives: apotheosis and oblivion.

I'm in an impossible situation right now, a love triangle of sorts, and if
all my ideas are correct it will end with all three of us spending
eternity together, even if the whole of reality gets turned inside out in
the process. From my perspective, that is. And I am determined to obtain
that outcome.

However, from your perspective, one of four things will appear to happen:
(1) I get a divorce. But the me you see isn't the subjective me talking to
you now. It is, from my subjective perspective, a philosophical zombie.
(2) My wife or I die. But the me you see in this case is, as in case (1),
a philosiphical zombie from my perspective.
(3) You completely forget about me. (That's the oblivion alternative, from
the outside, which corresponds from my point of view to traveling
backwards in time, which impossible for me.)
(4) You realize that I am God, but God doesn't mean what you thought it
meant. After you realize that I am God, if you want to be God, you'll have
to leave me, by appearing to die, or by my forgetting you. Otherwise,
you'll still share my subjective reality if we interact, and there will
only be room for three Gods - the Holy Trinity - and you won't be one of
them, unless I change my mind.

I realize this makes no fucking sense. It's insanely complicated. That's
why I can't figure all of it out by myself, and that's why I don't have
to.

I'm pretty certain that I can find clues to string theory in coincidences
in the Mayan calendar and my genealogy and family relationships, if I have
the time to work on it. I'm willing to be dissuaded by facts. I'm willing
to listen to reason. I'm willing to leave the list if people ask me to
shut up. I won't hang around where I'm not welcome.

But seriously, I can't figure out where I've made a mistake.
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Re: Fred Hoyle's story

2010-07-17 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Well maybe going to see a psychiatrist will help you figure out what's wrong
with you...

In the meantime if what you write is not bullshit, don't arm anyone.

Quentin

2010/7/17 Mark Buda her...@acm.org

  A question: does it make any sense that one goes to live in a
  personal paradise in their own subjective reality in a different branch
  of the universe only after death? Would it not make sense that we are
  always in the state of existing in a subjective reality in some branch
  of the universe? How is this not solipsism?

 None of it makes any sense because it's a paradox. Reality is impossible.
 You can understand it, but it can't all make sense to you at once.

 I once remarked that half of all marriages end in divorce, but that isn't
 so bad when you consider the other half end in death. I realize now that
 there are two more alternatives: apotheosis and oblivion.

 I'm in an impossible situation right now, a love triangle of sorts, and if
 all my ideas are correct it will end with all three of us spending
 eternity together, even if the whole of reality gets turned inside out in
 the process. From my perspective, that is. And I am determined to obtain
 that outcome.

 However, from your perspective, one of four things will appear to happen:
 (1) I get a divorce. But the me you see isn't the subjective me talking to
 you now. It is, from my subjective perspective, a philosophical zombie.
 (2) My wife or I die. But the me you see in this case is, as in case (1),
 a philosiphical zombie from my perspective.
 (3) You completely forget about me. (That's the oblivion alternative, from
 the outside, which corresponds from my point of view to traveling
 backwards in time, which impossible for me.)
 (4) You realize that I am God, but God doesn't mean what you thought it
 meant. After you realize that I am God, if you want to be God, you'll have
 to leave me, by appearing to die, or by my forgetting you. Otherwise,
 you'll still share my subjective reality if we interact, and there will
 only be room for three Gods - the Holy Trinity - and you won't be one of
 them, unless I change my mind.

 I realize this makes no fucking sense. It's insanely complicated. That's
 why I can't figure all of it out by myself, and that's why I don't have
 to.

 I'm pretty certain that I can find clues to string theory in coincidences
 in the Mayan calendar and my genealogy and family relationships, if I have
 the time to work on it. I'm willing to be dissuaded by facts. I'm willing
 to listen to reason. I'm willing to leave the list if people ask me to
 shut up. I won't hang around where I'm not welcome.

 But seriously, I can't figure out where I've made a mistake.
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Re: Fred Hoyle's story

2010-07-17 Thread Bruno Marchal


On 17 Jul 2010, at 19:30, Mark Buda wrote:


But seriously, I can't figure out where I've made a mistake.


You talk like if you know the truth. This is not the game favorized by  
most people of the list, I think.


The game here is science, or as close as possible (which is the very  
essence of science). That means that we attempt to put all the carts  
on the table, agree to admit some starting propositions, and some ways  
of reasoning, and then derived propositions from that, and compared  
those propositions with observation. The starting propositions are  
called hypothesis, and strictly speaking we remains aware that they  
may be false. They are always hypothesis, be it F = ma, E = mc^2, Ephi  
= e phi, or even '0 ≠ s(x) for all x natural numbers'. We put the  
carts on the table and we discuss with those who agree with them,  
deducing facts; and confronting them, publicly with the third person  
sharable observations, and privately with the non sharable one.
Here a difficulty is that we theorize in a field which contains terms  
concerning non sharable knowledge, like the term qualia, for  
example. This makes the subject difficult and delicate, but then guess  
what:


We are lucky to live a rather wonderful discovery, which is the  
discovery of the universal machine (a mathematical discovery) preceded  
by a deep results concerning vast class of self-referential extensions  
of those machines, and the discovery, mainly made by people like  
Gödel, and Löb, leading to a completely axiomatizable, at some key  
level of complexity, of the logic of self-reference, making it  
possible to search an agreement on some definitions, or modelization  
tools, and make the *question*, mainly the mind-body problem, or the  
consciousness-reality problem amenable to a mathematical formulation  
(in the frame of that hypothesis).
And I appreciate to share some modest findings, admittedly shocking  
from an Aristotelian conception of reality wnating to keep mechanism.  
Forgetting the greeks, it may be the originality of my work: to be  
serious on the subject. Digital mechanism gives pretty much light  
through computer science and number theory. I am just searching my key  
near the réverbère, pal.


You may be interested to compare your findings with the discourse of  
the universal machine which introspects itself. Some of your comments,  
some of which notably attributes me beliefs that I haven't, but also  
like truth which have the incommunicable status, (unless you are not  
turing emulable), makes me think you have not really read my work with  
enough attention, I'm afraid.


You may give a different theory (of everything), assuming or using in  
some ways principles some can agree with. The list is open to many  
theories, but most people here seems to agree that they are turing  
emulable at some level, and from that we can already say a lot, even  
on what cannot be said.


But coming here by talking like if you have found the truth is very  
naïve, and then mentioning 2012, and coincidences makes some of us  
fearing for your mental health. I have a dear friend whose fatal  
mental illness begun by collecting coincidences.


All universal machine already knows that, as far as their are correct/ 
honest/sane, they can both find truth by introspecting themselves, or  
looking inwards, but also knows that most of them, if not all, can  
only be found in that only way (introspection), and they know that  
communicating them can only lead to the contrary of what was naively  
intended in the proposition (preventing other machine to pursue  
correctly the inward looking). But NOT ONE universal machine knows  
that she is correct/honest/sane, unless she is incorrect/dishonest/ 
insane. The public doubt remains, and has to remain. For correct  
universal machine it is a sort of divine politeness (in Plotinus  
terms).


I am serious about your powering coincidences problem. There are  
coincidences, but if you weight them you can argue on the dangerosity  
of cannabis, and develop all myths. It is rethorical sophistic technic  
to manipulate people, and fear sellers exceeds at that. If you  
continue to weight the coincidences, well, keep your findings for you,  
or go in 2012 Forum, there are many, or eventually consult.


And to be sure not to be misunderstood by the others, I tell them, to  
not reject everything concerning the 2012 idea. For example I could  
argue that, in all its naivety, the following 2012 videos describes  
rather well some occurring universal phenomena:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYAMPA6AgZ4NR=1   (please take nothing  
literally here)


But then I may argue that  2012 has already happened, at least in  
mathematics, through the discovery of the universal machine(s). There  
are many 2012.


Bruno

http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/



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Re: Fred Hoyle's story

2010-07-17 Thread Brent Meeker

On 7/17/2010 2:30 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote:

On 17 Jul 2010, at 19:30, Mark Buda wrote:


But seriously, I can't figure out where I've made a mistake.


It may come to be known as Buda's last theorem.  He discover the 
truth, but his bandwidth was to small to contain it.


Brent

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time cube

2010-07-17 Thread Mark Buda
I finally have a testable prediction for my Theory of Everything.

Gene Ray will die today, peacefully, in his sleep. And the true meaning of
the Time Cube will be revealed to the world. :-)
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RE: Civilization-level quantum suicide

2010-07-17 Thread Jesse Mazer



  Why do you want to convince Richard Dawkins? You give him credit.
 
 Because I know that I know how to persuade him of the truth based on
 evidence *and* emotion. I can prove to him, personally, that I am God, and
 that I created the universe. And he will believe it. Because I can show
 him a causal loop between the mental world, the physical world, and the
 ficional world that explains both intelligent design *and* evolution. I
 can show him how man's sense of humor and laughter evolved, and how
 they're related to the causal loop. I can show him how love and the idea
 of God evolved, and how they're related to the causal loop. I can show him
 that Jesus was a real person, and was really God, and that the Catholic
 Church he despises is just a bad copy of the real thing, and I can show
 him how to fix it. And I can show the church how to fix it. But I have to
 do it one day at a time, and I have to do it by *talking* to people, or
 it's not worth my effort, because I have my own personal problems, and I
 can show how *they* are related to all this. And I can explain how Hari
 Seldon's psychohistory worked in Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy,
 because I have figured the whole damn thing out.
 
 What it all boils down to, guys, is that the reason marriage counseling
 works is that when two people love each other but can't live together they
 need a neutral third party to mediate because they can't understand each
 other's arguments.
 
 I understand Richard Dawkins and the Catholic Church well enough to get
 them talking, if they'll listen to me. I don't know how to get their
 attention without ruining my marriage. I'm trapped in God's logic trap.
 I've done my best to talk to the Church - I have spent a couple of hours
 with a priest, and he seems interested, but I can't figure out how to get
 him to do anything helpful.
 
 Is anybody willing to help me? I need help to get this done. I know the
 help will come one way or another, but I'm asking the members of the list:
 does anybody understand me or want to help me?

Mark, if you're not kidding here I honestly think you may be experiencing some 
kind of mental disorder, perhaps a manic state (good description of these kinds 
of states by Oliver Sacks at 
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2008/sep/25/a-summer-of-madness/?pagination=false
 ) or even the onset of schizophrenia...please consider seeing a psychiatrist, 
just to check! Of course it could be that you are psychologically normal but 
have just fallen under the sway of some very weird ideas...the fact that you 
can't actually explain these ideas but expect some weird synchronicity to occur 
in the physical presence of others that will allow you to convince them of the 
validity of these ideas is suspicious though, it seems like a form of magical 
thinking.
  

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RE: Civilization-level quantum suicide

2010-07-17 Thread Mark Buda
 Mark, if you're not kidding here I honestly think you may be experiencing
 some kind of mental disorder, perhaps a manic state (good description of
 these kinds of states by Oliver Sacks at
 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2008/sep/25/a-summer-of-madness/?pagination=false
 ) or even the onset of schizophrenia...please consider seeing a
 psychiatrist, just to check!

I'm not kidding. I understand your concern. If you were to interact with
me in real time I'd probably seem fairly normal (assuming I wanted to seem
normal, of course).

But I'm fairly certain now that not only am I not experiencing a mental
disorder, but that many so-called mental disorders are in fact, um,
well, I'm not sure how to explain it yet. That's why I want people who
know about this stuff to talk to me. I can explain schizophrenia. I can
explain depression. I can explain visions, dreams, hallucinations, and all
of that stuff. I have figure out the relationship betweeen all the
disparate fields. I'm a jack of all trades, master of none. I don't have
specialized knowledge of much of anything except computers, but I am a
self-organizing autodidact who has figured it all out so can somebody
*please* talk to me?

 Of course it could be that you are psychologically normal but have
 just fallen under the sway of some very weird ideas...the fact that
 you can't actually explain these ideas but expect some weird
 synchronicity to occur in the physical presence of others that will
 allow you to convince them of the validity of these ideas is
 suspicious though, it seems like a form of magical thinking.

But it's a testable and falsifiable hypothesis, no?

The reason the explanation of reality sounds crazy is that the precise
form of the explanation depends on who is doing the explaining to whom.
That's why you can't write it down. It can't all make sense at the same
time to the same person, unless you're me. Got it? That's why you need me.
You can't get the answers any other way.

I think. It's really rather confusing.
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Re: Civilization-level quantum suicide

2010-07-17 Thread Kevin Fischer
I'm not kidding. I understand your concern

It's also statistically more likely if you're a male between 18-25... that's
when these sorts of brain farts are most common. It doesn't mean you're
crazy, but the most important step to understanding what you're thinking is
to understand that you're stuck in a set of thought patterns that is
different than your normal thought patterns.

You did post a testable prediction though -- that Gene Ray of Time Cube will
die today. Let's say that today means within 24 hours of your post.

If Gene Ray does die today, that would be reasonable evidence that you're
onto *something* here, but I would want to see three predictions like that
in a row to be sure. If he doesn't die today, would you accept that as
evidence that you have not developed superpowers of super understanding? If
Gene Ray doesn't die, the rational thing to do will be to accept your
failure and calmly move on, rather than come up with some complex reason to
rationalize it.

If you do need to talk to someone, I'm willing to talk to you via video on
Skype for 30 minutes or so. Send me an email off-list.

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Mark Buda her...@acm.org wrote:

  Mark, if you're not kidding here I honestly think you may be experiencing
  some kind of mental disorder, perhaps a manic state (good description of
  these kinds of states by Oliver Sacks at
 
 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2008/sep/25/a-summer-of-madness/?pagination=false
  ) or even the onset of schizophrenia...please consider seeing a
  psychiatrist, just to check!

 I'm not kidding. I understand your concern. If you were to interact with
 me in real time I'd probably seem fairly normal (assuming I wanted to seem
 normal, of course).

 But I'm fairly certain now that not only am I not experiencing a mental
 disorder, but that many so-called mental disorders are in fact, um,
 well, I'm not sure how to explain it yet. That's why I want people who
 know about this stuff to talk to me. I can explain schizophrenia. I can
 explain depression. I can explain visions, dreams, hallucinations, and all
 of that stuff. I have figure out the relationship betweeen all the
 disparate fields. I'm a jack of all trades, master of none. I don't have
 specialized knowledge of much of anything except computers, but I am a
 self-organizing autodidact who has figured it all out so can somebody
 *please* talk to me?

  Of course it could be that you are psychologically normal but have
  just fallen under the sway of some very weird ideas...the fact that
  you can't actually explain these ideas but expect some weird
  synchronicity to occur in the physical presence of others that will
  allow you to convince them of the validity of these ideas is
  suspicious though, it seems like a form of magical thinking.

 But it's a testable and falsifiable hypothesis, no?

 The reason the explanation of reality sounds crazy is that the precise
 form of the explanation depends on who is doing the explaining to whom.
 That's why you can't write it down. It can't all make sense at the same
 time to the same person, unless you're me. Got it? That's why you need me.
 You can't get the answers any other way.

 I think. It's really rather confusing.
 --
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Re: Civilization-level quantum suicide

2010-07-17 Thread Mark Buda
I'm not kidding. I understand your concern

 It's also statistically more likely if you're a male between 18-25...

Statistics govern groups. I am an individual. I am 42. As was my father
when I was born. What an interesting coincidence. Not.

 You did post a testable prediction though -- that Gene Ray of Time Cube
 will die today. Let's say that today means within 24 hours of your post.

Sure.

 If Gene Ray does die today, that would be reasonable evidence that you're
 onto *something* here, but I would want to see three predictions like that
 in a row to be sure.

Not only do I predict Gene Ray's death, but I can show you the
relationship between Time Cube and string theory! I am not making this up.
Why would I make this up?

 If he doesn't die today, would you accept that as
 evidence that you have not developed superpowers of super understanding?

I'm not claiming super powers of super understanding. In fact, it is pure
random luck that I happen to be in this position. I think.

 If Gene Ray doesn't die, the rational thing to do will be to accept your
 failure and calmly move on, rather than come up with some complex reason
 to rationalize it.

It wasn't some kind of ironclad guarantee. It was just a prediction. Based
on intuition, mainly.
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