Leibniz' note on his Dialogs:
When God calculates and thinks things through, the world is made.
Cum Deus calculat et cogitationem exercet, mundus fit.
I have found it in M. Heller, Ultimate Explanations of the Universe.
Evgenii
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@ Pierz
>> If he refuses to
> acknowledge MWI as a valid account due to his pronoun concerns, then
> fine, maybe he should publish a refutation of Everett to that
> effect.
but isn't John's point that pro-nouns do not cause much trouble when duplicates
end up in separate universes? Thats
On Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 8:06:31 PM UTC+10, Bruno Marchal wrote:
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> On 06 Aug 2015, at 02:39, Pierz wrote:
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> > Mein Gott, this argument reminds me of the fire in Siberia that
> > started burning in the Holocene and is still going. Why do you keep
> > taking the troll bait Bruno?
On Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 11:39:47 AM UTC+10, John Clark wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Pierz >
> wrote:
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>> if the quantum state evolves deterministically
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>
> The wave function most certainly evolves deterministically but that's
> not important because the wav
You can just define personal identity as a single observer moment, which
includes any memories of the outcomes of the duplication experiments, so
the string of the "W"'s and "M"'should be included in the definition of
"you".
You can also invent a machine that creates a consciousness that has
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 5:13 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
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>>> the nuance is not in the name or in the pronouns, but in the 1p/3p
>>> difference, or in the 1-1p/3-1p difference.
>>
>> >>
>> In a world with people duplicating machines what exactly is the
>> difference between
>> *THE*
>>
On 06 Aug 2015, at 02:39, Pierz wrote:
Mein Gott, this argument reminds me of the fire in Siberia that
started burning in the Holocene and is still going. Why do you keep
taking the troll bait Bruno?
Because it is not under my back, and I want to make clear that the
person who have a pro
On 06 Aug 2015, at 02:37, John Clark wrote:
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>> But there is no genuine reason to prefer one over the other.
> Thta's the point, and that is why they both get one bit of
information,
No new information has been received. Long before the d
On 06 Aug 2015, at 00:57, John Clark wrote:
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Bruno Marchal
wrote:
>> Since Bruno is clear about all this Bruno should have
no difficulty in complying to the request of substituting "John
Clark" for the personal pronoun "you".
> We did this already, b
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