Re: The limit of all computations

2012/5/23 Stephen P. King > On 5/22/2012 6:01 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > > 2012/5/22 Stephen P. King > >> >> No, Bruno, it is not Neutral monism as such cannot assume any >> particular as primitive, even if it is quantity itself, for to do such is >> to violate the very notion of neutra

Re: The limit of all computations

On 5/22/2012 4:22 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 5/22/2012 6:01 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2012/5/22 Stephen P. King mailto:stephe...@charter.net>> No, Bruno, it is not Neutral monism as such cannot assume any particular as primitive, even if it is quantity itself, for to do such is

Re: The limit of all computations

On 5/22/2012 6:01 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2012/5/22 Stephen P. King > No, Bruno, it is not Neutral monism as such cannot assume any particular as primitive, even if it is quantity itself, for to do such is to violate the very notion of neutrality

RE: The limit of all computations

Hi Everyone: Unfortunately I have been unable to support a post reading/creation activity on this list for a long time. I had started this post as a comment to one of Russell's responses [Hi Russell] to a post by Stephen [Hi Stephen]. I have a model (considerably revised here) that I have been d

Re: The limit of all computations

2012/5/22 Stephen P. King > On 5/22/2012 11:53 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 22 May 2012, at 14:36, Stephen P. King wrote: > > On 5/21/2012 6:26 PM, Russell Standish wrote: > > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 07:42:01AM -0400, Stephen P. King wrote: > > On 5/21/2012 12:33 AM, Russell Standish wro

Re: The limit of all computations

On 5/22/2012 11:53 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 May 2012, at 14:36, Stephen P. King wrote: On 5/21/2012 6:26 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 07:42:01AM -0400, Stephen P. King wrote: On 5/21/2012 12:33 AM, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 12:06:05PM -0700

Re: Free will in MWI

On May 22, 12:49 pm, John Clark wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > In addition to approving of one presented option and disapproving of > > another, > > Approved for a reason or approved for no reason. right > > > free will allows us to nominate our own option

Re: Free will in MWI

On May 21, 7:44 pm, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > >> In a branching multiverse where all possibilities happen at a decision > >> point, some versions of you decide to type the sentence and others do > >> not. This could be completely determi

Re: Free will in MWI

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > In addition to approving of one presented option and disapproving of > another, Approved for a reason or approved for no reason. > free will allows us to nominate our own option for approval. > Nominated for a reason or nominated for no

Re: The limit of all computations

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: > On 5/22/2012 10:56 AM, Joseph Knight wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: > >> On 5/21/2012 6:26 PM, Russell Standish wrote: >> >> snip >> >> Hi Russell, >> >> I once thought that consistency, in ma

Re: The limit of all computations

2012/5/22 Stephen P. King > On 5/22/2012 10:56 AM, Joseph Knight wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: > >> On 5/21/2012 6:26 PM, Russell Standish wrote: >> >> snip >> >> Hi Russell, >> >> I once thought that consistency, in mathematics, was the indication

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Re: The limit of all computations

On 5/22/2012 10:56 AM, Joseph Knight wrote: On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Stephen P. King mailto:stephe...@charter.net>> wrote: On 5/21/2012 6:26 PM, Russell Standish wrote: snip Hi Russell, I once thought that consistency, in mathematics, was the indication of

Re: The limit of all computations

On 22 May 2012, at 14:36, Stephen P. King wrote: On 5/21/2012 6:26 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 07:42:01AM -0400, Stephen P. King wrote: On 5/21/2012 12:33 AM, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 12:06:05PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: On 5/20/2012 9:27 AM, Ste

Re: The limit of all computations

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: > On 5/21/2012 6:26 PM, Russell Standish wrote: > > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 07:42:01AM -0400, Stephen P. King wrote: > > On 5/21/2012 12:33 AM, Russell Standish wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 12:06:05PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: > > On 5

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Re: The limit of all computations

On 5/22/2012 3:35 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2012/5/22 meekerdb mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> On 5/21/2012 10:56 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2012/5/22 Stephen P. King mailto:stephe...@charter.net>> On 5/21/2012 3:49 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2012/5/21 Stephen P.

Bases and other strange things

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Re: The limit of all computations

On 5/21/2012 6:26 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 07:42:01AM -0400, Stephen P. King wrote: On 5/21/2012 12:33 AM, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 12:06:05PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: On 5/20/2012 9:27 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: 4) What is the cardinality of "a

Re: The limit of all computations

2012/5/22 meekerdb > On 5/21/2012 10:56 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > > 2012/5/22 Stephen P. King > >> On 5/21/2012 3:49 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: >> >> >> >> 2012/5/21 Stephen P. King >> >>> On 5/21/2012 7:54 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> 2012/5/21 Stephen P. King >>>