Re: The free will function

2012-02-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Feb 2012, at 05:20, 1Z wrote: On Feb 20, 4:10 am, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Feb 19, 10:57 pm, meekerdb wrote: Comp says that any UM's experience is indistinguishable from primitive physics, right? Computaionalism or Bruno's comp? We have already discussed this. Comp, as I use it,

Quantum Computing breakthrough

2012-02-19 Thread Kim Jones
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/nanotransistor-breakthrough-to-offer-billion-times-faster-computer-20120220-1thqk.html Kim Jones -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@g

Re: The free will function

2012-02-19 Thread 1Z
On Feb 20, 4:41 am, Craig Weinberg wrote: > On Feb 19, 10:59 pm, 1Z wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Feb 20, 3:35 am, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > On Feb 19, 8:36 pm, 1Z wrote: > > > > > On Feb 20, 1:08 am, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > > > On Feb 19, 2:19 pm, 1Z wrote: > > > > > > > > > It

Re: The free will function

2012-02-19 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 19, 10:59 pm, 1Z wrote: > On Feb 20, 3:35 am, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Feb 19, 8:36 pm, 1Z wrote: > > > > On Feb 20, 1:08 am, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > > On Feb 19, 2:19 pm, 1Z wrote: > > > > > > > > It is with some trepidation that I enter into this discussion

Re: The free will function

2012-02-19 Thread acw
On 2/20/2012 03:35, Craig Weinberg wrote: > If I am a simulation, and a programmer watches 'me' and can intervene > and change my program and the program of my universe at will, then to > me they are a true God, and I would be well advised to pray to them. > I think you might be misunderstanding C

Re: The free will function

2012-02-19 Thread 1Z
On Feb 20, 4:10 am, Craig Weinberg wrote: > On Feb 19, 10:57 pm, meekerdb wrote: > Comp says that any UM's > experience is indistinguishable from primitive physics, right? > Computaionalism or Bruno's comp? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everyt

Re: The free will function

2012-02-19 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 19, 10:57 pm, meekerdb wrote: > > > What you suggest in saying that no event can be known to be > > supernatural is the same as saying that all video games would have to > > have the same basic rules. > > No all MWI have the same basic rules.  MWI is an interpretation of quantum > mechani

Re: The free will function

2012-02-19 Thread 1Z
On Feb 20, 3:35 am, Craig Weinberg wrote: > On Feb 19, 8:36 pm, 1Z wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Feb 20, 1:08 am, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > On Feb 19, 2:19 pm, 1Z wrote: > > > > > > > It is with some trepidation that I enter into this discussion, but > > > > > > I would > > > > > > lik

Re: The free will function

2012-02-19 Thread meekerdb
On 2/19/2012 7:16 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Feb 19, 8:29 pm, meekerdb wrote: On 2/19/2012 5:08 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Feb 19, 2:19 pm, 1Zwrote: It is with some trepidation that I enter into this discussion, but I would like to suggest that if MWI is true, where MWI is th

Re: The free will function

2012-02-19 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 19, 8:36 pm, 1Z wrote: > On Feb 20, 1:08 am, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > On Feb 19, 2:19 pm, 1Z wrote: > > > > > > It is with some trepidation that I enter into this discussion, but I > > > > > would > > > > > like to suggest that if MWI is true, where MWI is the Many Worlds > > > > > In

Re: The free will function

2012-02-19 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 19, 8:29 pm, meekerdb wrote: > On 2/19/2012 5:08 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Feb 19, 2:19 pm, 1Z  wrote: > > It is with some trepidation that I enter into this discussion, but I > would > like to suggest that if MWI is true, where MWI is the Many World

Re: The free will function

2012-02-19 Thread 1Z
On Feb 20, 1:08 am, Craig Weinberg wrote: > On Feb 19, 2:19 pm, 1Z wrote: > > > > > It is with some trepidation that I enter into this discussion, but I > > > > would > > > > like to suggest that if MWI is true, where MWI is the Many Worlds > > > > Interpretation of quantum mechanics, which is

Re: The free will function

2012-02-19 Thread meekerdb
On 2/19/2012 5:08 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Feb 19, 2:19 pm, 1Z wrote: It is with some trepidation that I enter into this discussion, but I would like to suggest that if MWI is true, where MWI is the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics, which is where every quantum state in ever

Re: The free will function

2012-02-19 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 19, 2:19 pm, 1Z wrote: > > > It is with some trepidation that I enter into this discussion, but I would > > > like to suggest that if MWI is true, where MWI is the Many Worlds > > > Interpretation of quantum mechanics, which is where every quantum state in > > > every particle interaction

Re: The free will function

2012-02-19 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 19, 2:19 pm, 1Z wrote: > On Feb 19, 4:52 pm, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > On Feb 18, 5:36 pm, Richard Ruquist wrote: > > > > It is with some trepidation that I enter into this discussion, but I would > > > like to suggest that if MWI is true, where MWI is the Many Worlds > > > Interpretati

Re: COMP theology

2012-02-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Feb 2012, at 06:16, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > That solipsism. I don't see why you believe that people have to believe in comp to avoid solipsism. Everybody, when not arguing philosophy on the internet, believes that physical action

Re: The thermodynamics of computation

2012-02-19 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:21:01AM -0500, John Clark wrote: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: > > > > > > If one well defines a thought experiment with the Maxwell's demon, then > > it is quite clear that such thing does not exist. Why then to spend on it > > so much time?

Re: The free will function

2012-02-19 Thread 1Z
On Feb 19, 4:52 pm, Craig Weinberg wrote: > On Feb 18, 5:36 pm, Richard Ruquist wrote: > > > It is with some trepidation that I enter into this discussion, but I would > > like to suggest that if MWI is true, where MWI is the Many Worlds > > Interpretation of quantum mechanics, which is where e

Re: The free will function

2012-02-19 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 18, 5:36 pm, Richard Ruquist wrote: > It is with some trepidation that I enter into this discussion, but I would > like to suggest that if MWI is true, where MWI is the Many Worlds > Interpretation of quantum mechanics, which is where every quantum state in > every particle interaction is r

Re: The thermodynamics of computation

2012-02-19 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 19.02.2012 17:21 John Clark said the following: On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: If one well defines a thought experiment with the Maxwell's demon, then it is quite clear that such thing does not exist. Why then to spend on it so much time? Maxwell's demon is poss

Re: The free will function

2012-02-19 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 18, 1:35 pm, John Clark wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012  Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > It's not trying to explain how God did it though, it gets around that by > > collapsing all whats and hows into a single overarching Who and Why. > > Exactly, religion takes everything we don't understand

Re: The thermodynamics of computation

2012-02-19 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: > > > If one well defines a thought experiment with the Maxwell's demon, then > it is quite clear that such thing does not exist. Why then to spend on it > so much time? Maxwell's demon is possible in classical physics and it was not clear

Re: The free will function

2012-02-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
John, On 18 Feb 2012, at 22:54, John Mikes wrote: A bit from 'outside the box': the 'religious' ideas emerged from the 'awe' how very ancient apes looked at the world. It went through innumerable changes to reach a tribe with writing skills and the Bible was established saving positive at

Re: COMP theology

2012-02-19 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 19.02.2012 15:52 Bruno Marchal said the following: ... Both Cantor and Gödel used the word theology ... Could you please cite these works? By the way, recently I have listened to the course Theorien der Wahrheit (Theories of truth) by Prof Hoenen. Among other works he has discussed Logisc

Everythingness Perturbed: Function, Experience, and Context

2012-02-19 Thread Craig Weinberg
Since every organism produces itself from a single dividing cell, it can be said that there is a single history which unites that body back to the cellular level. Atoms do not literally reproduce by themselves so that a machine that is assembled has a no single history to unite it. This becomes mo

Re: COMP theology

2012-02-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Feb 2012, at 21:49, meekerdb wrote: On 2/18/2012 12:08 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 18 Feb 2012, at 17:57, meekerdb wrote: On 2/18/2012 2:53 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: but I don't see the point. The point is to come back to the scientific attitude in the field of theology. Exce

Re: The thermodynamics of computation

2012-02-19 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 18.02.2012 23:37 Russell Standish said the following: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 04:49:44PM +0100, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 09.02.2012 07:49 meekerdb said the following: There's an interesting paper by Bennett that I ran across, which discusses the relation of Shannon entropy, thermodynamic en