On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 Pierz wrote:
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> Here's something that bothers me when I try to think of the brain too much
> as a computer. How would I teach a computer the notion of infinity?
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A computer already knows about some integers, and it knows how to find the
successor to some integers; it'
On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at 2:08:35 AM UTC+10, Brent wrote:
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> Just ask yourself how you grasp the notion of infinity. It's not by
> dividing by zero. It's by using "and then..."
Sure. It's a concept even very young children can understand - probably
almost as easily as zero. "There are
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 Bruno Marchal wrote:
But I do not accept “comp”.
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> You do accept comp by definition of comp.
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"Comp" has a definition?? That's news to me, it's certainly not in any
dictionary and from your usage I gathered it was just a sequence of ASCII
characters that you liked to
On 13 Jul 2015, at 18:08, meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
Just ask yourself how you grasp the notion of infinity. It's not by
dividing by zero. It's by using "and then..." There's no obstacle
in principle to having a computer reason about the consequences of
having an axiom of succession.
Just ask yourself how you grasp the notion of infinity. It's not by dividing
by zero. It's by using "and then..." There's no obstacle in principle to
having a computer reason about the consequences of having an axiom of
succession. It doesn't need to have an infinite memory capacity to do s
On 13 Jul 2015, at 15:29, Pierz wrote:
Here's something that bothers me when I try to think of the brain
too much as a computer. How would I teach a computer the notion of
infinity?
That's an excellent question.
Logic put some light on this, by showing that the notion of
"finite" (and t
My issue is that yes, at this point ISIS seem to present no domestic danger,
however leaders of the word have continuously underestimated their successes.
Italy may be their next target, or Spain in a Re-Conquista of their own.
Moreover, this ideology is not in its actions, alone in the Islamic
Here's something that bothers me when I try to think of the brain too much
as a computer. How would I teach a computer the notion of infinity? In
simple terms, how can I represent infinity in a computer program? All a
computer knows about infinity is 'stack overflow' (or simply integer
overflow
On 12 Jul 2015, at 19:43, John Clark wrote:
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Bruno Marchal
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> You know in Helsinki with certainty (accepting comp
But I do not accept “comp”.
You do accept comp by definition of comp. You might believe there is a
flaw in comp => "reversal", bu
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