Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Dec 2013, at 18:08, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 4:42 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: It is clear that you don't take the first person experiences into account The not a ?? For the third time please say how many first person experiences exist on planet

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Dec 2013, at 18:29, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: Bruno: The question is: is it enough correct so that you would please us in answering step 4. If not: what is incorrect. John Clark: (No answer, deleted the question) I

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Dec 2013, at 21:02, Richard Ruquist wrote: I do not believe in #1 due to the no cloning theorem. We don't assume QM. If comp produces QM it must also produce the no cloning theorem. The non-cloning theorem should be obvious, given that any piece of observable matter needs the

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Dec 2013, at 21:36, John Mikes wrote: Here is my tuppence about the hoax-game of the fantasy-play 'teleportation': It is theoretical reasoning in the frame of an hypothesis making such theorizing meaningful, unless you believe that comp is false. But then you might have to argue

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Dec 2013, at 22:26, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Teleportation is survivable Yes. 2.Teleportation with a time delay is survivable, and the time delay is imperceptible to the person teleported Obviously. 3.

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Dec 2013, at 22:46, Jason Resch wrote: 8. There is no need to build the computer in step 7, since the executions of all programs exist within the relations between large numbers. That would only be true if everything that could exist does exist, and maybe that's the way things

Re: Minds, Machines and Gödel

2013-12-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Dec 2013, at 01:01, LizR wrote: On 20 December 2013 11:40, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/19/2013 1:30 PM, Jesse Mazer wrote: To me it seems like thinking something is true is much more of a fuzzy category that asserting something is true Maybe. But note that Bruno's MGA

Re: It's really all math

2013-12-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Dec 2013, at 02:15, Craig Weinberg wrote: If it's all just math, what is the unexpected surprise that makes it funny? Is math surprised that its math? It is of course only surprising for those deluded (assuming comp) into thinking that there is some primitive non mathematical

Re: It's really all math

2013-12-20 Thread Richard Ruquist
What surprises me is that apparently comp predicts a single multiverse rather than than multiple multiverses. Richard On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 5:26 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 20 Dec 2013, at 02:15, Craig Weinberg wrote: If it's all just math, what is the unexpected

Origin of probabilities and their application to the multiverse

2013-12-20 Thread Richard Ruquist
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1212.0953.pdf Origin of probabilities and their application to the multiverse Andreas Albrechthttp://arxiv.org/find/gr-qc/1/au:+Albrecht_A/0/1/0/all/0/1 , Daniel Phillipshttp://arxiv.org/find/gr-qc/1/au:+Phillips_D/0/1/0/all/0/1 (Submitted on 5 Dec 2012) We argue using

Re: It's really all math

2013-12-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
Richard, On 20 Dec 2013, at 12:40, Richard Ruquist wrote: What surprises me is that apparently comp predicts a single multiverse rather than than multiple multiverses. Interesting problem. Comp predicts only a single multi-dreams, which is the universal computation made by the UD, or

Re: It's really all math

2013-12-20 Thread Richard Ruquist
Bruno: In that case a multiverse could contain another multiverse, a bit like a black hole could be a door to another universe. Richard: I like that idea because Smolin hypothized and Poplawski confirmed using GR + spin that black holes yield at least an internal universe. On Fri, Dec 20,

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread meekerdb
On 12/20/2013 1:07 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The non-cloning theorem should be obvious, given that any piece of observable matter needs the entire UD* to get describe exactly, given that the appearance of matter is only the result of the FPI on all computations (an infinite object). That

Re: It's really all math

2013-12-20 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, Does there really need to be a single level of the UD? What is the UD is intersecting with itself an infinite number of times? Is there a relationship. maybe an isomorphism, between the UD and the set of Godel numbers of the UD? After all, there does not exist a unique universal

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: Do you agree that after turning this computer on, and letting it run for a long enough time (eternity let's say), there is a 100% chance John Clark will eventually find himself in this computer Yes, in fact it may have already

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, Could it be that the physical world that is associated with an observer (using your definition of an observer) is the truth of that observer? I apologize for the weirdness of this question, but consider that nothing is more true than the 1st person experience that an observer has.

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Brent, On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 1:34 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/20/2013 1:07 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The non-cloning theorem should be obvious, given that any piece of observable matter needs the entire UD* to get describe exactly, given that the appearance of

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread meekerdb
On 12/20/2013 10:50 AM, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com mailto:jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: Do you agree that after turning this computer on, and letting it run for a long enough time (eternity let's say), there is a 100% chance John Clark

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread meekerdb
On 12/20/2013 11:18 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Brent, On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 1:34 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/20/2013 1:07 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The non-cloning theorem should be obvious, given that any piece of observable

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Brent, I know the difference. I am asking why? What if there is a UD related process underlying the symmetry? On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:38 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/20/2013 11:18 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Brent, On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 1:34 PM, meekerdb

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 5:33 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: The non-cloning theorem disallows 3)-5) at the level of the quantum state. It's not so clear though how that is related to consciousness and identity. I disagree, I think it is very clear. If things need to be that

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread meekerdb
Dunno. If the UDA can show that the world must be made of indistinguishable particles and they must obey either Bose-Einstein or Fermi-Dirac statistics, but not Maxwell-Boltzman that would be fairly impressive. Brent On 12/20/2013 11:41 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Brent, I know the

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread meekerdb
On 12/20/2013 11:47 AM, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 5:33 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: The non-cloning theorem disallows 3)-5) at the level of the quantum state. It's not so clear though how that is related to consciousness and

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: How many first person experiences viewed from their first person points of view does Bruno Marchal believe exists on planet Earth right now? The question is ambiguous. I provided all the information needed to be

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: and following duplication there is a 50% chance of finding oneself at the intended destination JOHN CLARK HATES PRONOUNS! Following duplication there is a 100% chance Jason Resch will be at the intended destination.

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi John, Questions On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:47 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 5:33 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: The non-cloning theorem disallows 3)-5) at the level of the quantum state. It's not so clear though how that is related to

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread meekerdb
On 12/20/2013 1:10 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi John, Questions On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:47 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com mailto:johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 5:33 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: The

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread Stephen Paul King
No no. If the mind is classical then Nature would not bother making many different version of the same software, no? I worry that we are treating the mind and consciousness as a thing, as if we could hold it in our hands, when we try to make sense of it. THis may be a mistake... On Fri, Dec

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread meekerdb
On 12/20/2013 1:30 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: No no. If the mind is classical then Nature would not bother making many different version of the same software, no? I worry that we are treating the mind and consciousness as a thing, as if we could hold it in our hands, when we try to make

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread Stephen Paul King
Numbers are no less immaterial... On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 4:43 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/20/2013 1:30 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: No no. If the mind is classical then Nature would not bother making many different version of the same software, no? I worry that we are

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread meekerdb
Can you clone the number 2? Is it classical or quantum? Brent On 12/20/2013 2:38 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Numbers are no less immaterial... On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 4:43 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/20/2013 1:30 PM, Stephen Paul King

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread Stephen Paul King
Its Immaterial! your question has a bad premise! On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 5:43 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Can you clone the number 2? Is it classical or quantum? Brent On 12/20/2013 2:38 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Numbers are no less immaterial... On Fri, Dec 20,

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread LizR
On 21 December 2013 08:12, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear Jason, I think it was you that wrote (to me): I was not defending that view, but pointing out how ridiculous it would be to suppose mathematical truth does not exist before it is found by someone somewhere.

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread John Mikes
Jason, you 'assume' a lot what I don't. I learned those figments in college and applied in my conventional research - now reduced in my credibility (agnosticism) for phizix and its 'laws' - (in spite of the practical results which I use happily in my life-practice) - as - some *explanatory

Re: How the banks are stealing our wealth

2013-12-20 Thread John Mikes
Liz: we had a stereotypic reply in Hungary applicable to what you wrote *And THEN you woke up.* John On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 5:13 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 December 2013 09:25, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: How would you imagine to save the world (I mean: humanity)?

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear LizR, Is math in our heads or is it somehow out there. If it is out there how does it connect to what is in our heads? If it is all in our heads, what does that say about Arithmetic Realism? I am trying to get back to some basic concepts... On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 6:28 PM, LizR

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread meekerdb
On 12/20/2013 3:28 PM, LizR wrote: On 21 December 2013 08:12, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com mailto:stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Jason, I think it was you that wrote (to me): I was not defending that view, but pointing out how ridiculous it would be to

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread Stephen Paul King
The inverse square law is true in Platonia. In the real world it's just a very good approximation. How do you know this is true? On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 7:19 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/20/2013 3:28 PM, LizR wrote: On 21 December 2013 08:12, Stephen Paul King

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-20 Thread meekerdb
On 12/20/2013 3:42 PM, John Mikes wrote: Jason, you 'assume' a lot what I don't. I learned those figments in college and applied in my conventional research - now reduced in my credibility (agnosticism) for phizix and its 'laws' - (in spite of the practical results which I use happily in my