Re: Maudlin & How many times does COMP have to be false before its false?

2011-02-13 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Brent Meeker wrote: > On 2/13/2011 10:13 PM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Brent Meeker wrote: > >> On 2/13/2011 5:21 AM, 1Z wrote: >> >>> >>> On Feb 12, 3:18 am, Brent Meeker wrote: >>> >>> >>> What do you think the chances

Re: Maudlin & How many times does COMP have to be false before its false?

2011-02-13 Thread Brent Meeker
On 2/13/2011 10:13 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Brent Meeker mailto:meeke...@dslextreme.com>> wrote: On 2/13/2011 5:21 AM, 1Z wrote: On Feb 12, 3:18 am, Brent Meekermailto:meeke...@dslextreme.com>> wrote: What do you think

Re: Maudlin & How many times does COMP have to be false before its false?

2011-02-13 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 7:46 PM, 1Z wrote: > > > On Feb 12, 9:05 am, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > 2011/2/12 1Z > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Feb 11, 11:50 pm, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > > 2011/2/11 1Z > > > > > > > On Feb 10, 1:24 pm, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > > > > On 09 Feb 2011, at 16:49,

Re: Maudlin & How many times does COMP have to be false before its false?

2011-02-13 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Brent Meeker wrote: > On 2/13/2011 5:21 AM, 1Z wrote: > >> >> On Feb 12, 3:18 am, Brent Meeker wrote: >> >> >> >>> What do you think the chances are that any random object in >> Plato's heaven, or any random Turing machine will support intelligent >> life

Re: Are our brains in that VAT? Yep.

2011-02-13 Thread Brent Meeker
On 2/13/2011 3:29 PM, John Mikes wrote: Since the Honored Listers refrain from signing their remarks, it is hard to decipher to whom I write: Brent, Stathis, maybe others who just barged in? So I go topical. First: randomness in the mind. I am functionally against the term because it would elim

Re: Are our brains in that VAT? Yep.

2011-02-13 Thread John Mikes
Since the Honored Listers refrain from signing their remarks, it is hard to decipher to whom I write: Brent, Stathis, maybe others who just barged in? So I go topical. First: randomness in the mind. I am functionally against the term because it would eliminate all logical consequence and order wha

Re: Multisolipsism

2011-02-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Bruno, -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 3:48 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Multisolipsism On 13 Feb 2011, at 09:23, Stephen Paul King wrote: I am very interested in this question as it directly relates to my question

Re: Maudlin & How many times does COMP have to be false before its false?

2011-02-13 Thread Brent Meeker
On 2/13/2011 5:21 AM, 1Z wrote: On Feb 12, 3:18 am, Brent Meeker wrote: What do you think the chances are that any random object in Plato's heaven, or any random Turing machine will support intelligent life? 1 in 10, 1 in 1000, 1 in a billion? Zero. Does that allow us

Re: Maudlin & How many times does COMP have to be false before its false?

2011-02-13 Thread 1Z
On Feb 12, 3:18 am, Brent Meeker wrote: > >>> What do you think the chances are that any random object in > >>> Plato's heaven, or any random Turing machine will support intelligent > >>> life? > >>> 1 in 10, 1 in 1000, 1 in a billion? > > Zero. Does that allow us to argue: 1) A universe sel

Re: Are our brains in that VAT? Yep.

2011-02-13 Thread 1Z
On Feb 12, 3:02 am, Charles wrote: > > That's a bit simplistic. The nett result of EPR/Bell/Aspect is either- > > indeterminism-or-nonlocal-hidden-variable. If NLHV's can be disproved, > > that proves indeterminism > > Actually there is a third alternative, which is to take the time > symmetry o

Re: Multisolipsism

2011-02-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Feb 2011, at 09:23, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Bruno, -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 3:00 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Multisolipsism Hi Stephen, On 10 Feb 2011, at 16:33, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Bruno and

Re: Multisolipsism

2011-02-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Bruno, -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 3:00 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Multisolipsism Hi Stephen, On 10 Feb 2011, at 16:33, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Bruno and Brent, -Original Message- From: Bruno March

Re: Multisolipsism

2011-02-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Stephen, On 10 Feb 2011, at 16:33, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Bruno and Brent, -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 9:35 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Multisolipsism On 09 Feb 2011, at 20:51, Brent Meeker wrote: On 2/9