Re: Why is there something rather than nothing?

2011-09-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:36 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 9/21/2011 9:58 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:59 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 9/21/2011 6:01 PM, Jason Resch wrote: When you aren't thinking about what your mother looks like, she

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing?

2011-09-22 Thread meekerdb
On 9/21/2011 11:01 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:36 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 9/21/2011 9:58 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:59 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing?

2011-09-22 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/22/2011 1:18 AM, Roger Granet wrote: Everyone, Hi. My comments on all of today's comments :) happy on this thread are below: o In regard to Jon's below comment: Pearce later concludes that if, in all, there is 0, i.e no (net) properties whatsoever, then there just isn't

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing?

2011-09-22 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/22/2011 1:19 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net mailto:stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 9/21/2011 11:00 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sep 21, 2011, at 9:11 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing?

2011-09-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote: On 9/22/2011 1:19 AM, Jason Resch wrote: [SPK] Sure, let us consider this similarity to Leibniz' per-established harmony idea. Could you sketch your thoughts on the similarity that you see? I have my own

Re: bruno list

2011-09-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Sep 2011, at 23:26, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sep 21, 2:08 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 20 Sep 2011, at 04:58, Craig Weinberg wrote: I include comparison as a function of counting. Counting + the full first order logic is not enough for comparison. Counting + second

Re: Interesting paper on consciousness, computation and MWI

2011-09-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Sep 2011, at 12:41, Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 01:14:04PM -0400, Stephen P. King wrote: Exactly why are there not a continuum of OMs? It seems to me if we parametrize the cardinality of distinct OMs to *all possible* partitionings of the tangent spaces of

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing?

2011-09-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Sep 2011, at 20:51, meekerdb wrote: On 9/21/2011 9:20 AM, Jason Resch wrote: The Mandelbrot set has a definition which we can use to explore it's properties. Would you say the set was non-existent before Mandelbrot found it? If we have to define something for it to exist, then

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing?

2011-09-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Sep 2011, at 08:32, meekerdb wrote: On 9/21/2011 11:01 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:36 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 9/21/2011 9:58 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:59 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 9/21/2011

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing?

2011-09-22 Thread meekerdb
On 9/22/2011 10:02 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I think what Bruno calls the 323 principle is questionable. Can I deduce from this that UDA1-7 is understood. This shows already that either the universe is little or physics is (already) a branch of computer science (even if there is a physical

Re: Leibnizian ideas

2011-09-22 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/22/2011 11:22 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net mailto:stephe...@charter.net wrote: On 9/22/2011 1:19 AM, Jason Resch wrote: [SPK] Sure, let us consider this similarity to Leibniz' per-established harmony

Re: Leibnizian ideas

2011-09-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote: On 9/22/2011 11:22 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote: On 9/22/2011 1:19 AM, Jason Resch wrote: [SPK] Sure, let us consider this