Re: Movie cannot think

2011-03-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Mar 2011, at 03:39, Stephen Paul King wrote: From: Bruno Marchal Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 12:48 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Movie cannot think Dear Stephen, On 10 Mar 2011, at 16:27, Stephen Paul King wrote: -Original Message- From: Bruno

Re: Movie cannot think

2011-03-11 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Bruno, I deeply appreciate your corrections to my misunderstandings in your response. I learned many things so far from you. I will re-read sane04. Onward! Stephen From: Bruno Marchal Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 3:24 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Movie cannot

Hutter's article on a complete theory of everything

2011-03-11 Thread Digital Physics
Rummaging through the archives, I realized that a highly relevant article by Marcus Hutter apparently has not yet been discussed on this list, although many have downloaded it: A Complete Theory of Everything (Will Be Subjective) Algorithms 2010, 3(4), 329-350; doi:10.3390/a3040329 Part of

Re: Movie cannot think

2011-03-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Mar 2011, at 16:15, Stephen Paul King wrote: From: Andrew Soltau Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 7:47 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Movie cannot think On 09/03/11 16:53, Brent Meeker wrote: The appearance of change is already explained by the fact that there

Re: Movie cannot think

2011-03-11 Thread Andrew Soltau
On 10/03/11 14:10, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Mar 2011, at 13:47, Andrew Soltau wrote: All the moments exist, and as Deutsch points out, as you summarise, 'The appearance of change is already explained by the fact that there are different frames that have an implicit sequence and in which

Re: Molecular Motion and Heat, was ON THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING was Another TOE short paper

2011-03-11 Thread 1Z
On Mar 10, 8:57 pm, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: To Evgeniy's train of thought I would attach another question (what you, savants of Q-science may answer easily): if the universe expands (does it, indeed?) do the interstitial spaces in an atom expand similarly, or they are exempt and

Re: Movie cannot think

2011-03-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Mar 2011, at 13:07, Andrew Soltau wrote: On 10/03/11 14:10, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Mar 2011, at 13:47, Andrew Soltau wrote: All the moments exist, and as Deutsch points out, as you summarise, 'The appearance of change is already explained by the fact that there are different

Re: Implementing Machines

2011-03-11 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Andrew and Bruno, Please forgive my intrusion here but I both share a concern with Andrew about a concept being discussed and have a series of comments. -Original Message- From: Andrew Soltau Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 7:07 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject:

Re: universal numbers

2011-03-11 Thread Brent Meeker
On 3/9/2011 9:14 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 08 Mar 2011, at 20:11, Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/8/2011 10:41 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: We could start with lambda terms, or combinators instead. A computation (of phi_4(5) is just a sequence phi_4^0 (5) phi_4^1 (5) phi_4^2 (5) phi_4^3 (5)

Re: Molecular Motion and Heat, was ON THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING was Another TOE short paper

2011-03-11 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
John, I am probably not that far from agnosticism but the question is how to make it useful for practitioners like me who have to earn money. I mean that it is still necessary to take decisions and then the question would be how. Although this could be just illusion somehow made by numbers

Re: Implementing Machines

2011-03-11 Thread Andrew Soltau
On 11/03/11 16:54, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Andrew and Bruno, Please forgive my intrusion here but I both share a concern with Andrew about a concept being discussed and have a series of comments. Dear Stephen I am delighted you have interjected. I find your thoughts most helpful

Re: Hutter's article on a complete theory of everything

2011-03-11 Thread Andrew Soltau
On 11/03/11 09:39, Digital Physics wrote: Rummaging through the archives, I realized that a highly relevant article by Marcus Hutter apparently has not yet been discussed on this list, although many have downloaded it: Highly relevant indeed. He states in his summary I have demonstrated that a

Re: Implementing Machines

2011-03-11 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Andrew, The answer to the simple question that you see that all of this detail leads to is that at its core, Existence is Change itself. Becoming is the fundamental ontological primitive., just as Bergson argued. This is the result that Hitoshi discovered and discussed in his

Re: Implementing Machines (errata)

2011-03-11 Thread Stephen Paul King
fixing my typos From: Stephen Paul King Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 10:24 PM To: everything-list Subject: Re: Implementing Machines Hi Andrew, The answer to the simple question that you see in all of this detail leads to is, that at its core essence, Existence is Change itself. Becoming

Re: Implementing Machines

2011-03-11 Thread Brent Meeker
On 3/11/2011 7:24 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Andrew, The answer to the simple question that you see that all of this detail leads to is that at its core, Existence is Change itself. Becoming is the fundamental ontological primitive., just as Bergson argued. This is the result that

Re: Implementing Machines (errata)

2011-03-11 Thread Andrew Soltau
Thanks, this is fascinating. On 12/03/11 03:34, Stephen Paul King wrote: fixing my typos *From:* Stephen Paul King mailto:stephe...@charter.net *Sent:* Friday, March 11, 2011 10:24 PM *To:* everything-list mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: Implementing Machines Hi Andrew,

Re: Implementing Machines

2011-03-11 Thread Andrew Soltau
On 12/03/11 03:43, Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/11/2011 7:24 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Andrew, The answer to the simple question that you see that all of this detail leads to is that at its core, Existence is Change itself. Becoming is the fundamental ontological primitive., just as