A fascinating application of computability theory to physics:
Undecidability of the Spectral Gap
Toby Cubitt, David Perez-Garcia, and Michael M. Wolf
The spectral gap—the difference in energy between the ground state and
the first excited state—is one of the most important prop-
erties of a q
Bruno wrote.
*That is capitalism, or equivalent. I don't use capitalism is the Marxist
sense, but in the sense of european liberalism (liberal = right, in
europa). The idea is that the state is limited in power as much as
possible. Ideally, it might even disappear, or become itself competitive by
a
Interesting set-up. Goes around the notion that our 'environment' is a
subjective composition upon whatever we (humans etc.) can compose as a
result of OUR
(partial) views collected from Nature (whatever we call so). Without such
composite there is no 'human' identified.
The details my learned list
I liked her answer to this:
*User:*Do you think the US should engage in the Syrian civil war?
*Rose:*Only when it involves robots. The Terminator movies were good.
Even Transformers are better than the usual war movie.
Brent
On 9/21/2015 8:51 AM,:
For the best "chatbot" in a "Turing test" is
I believe a person subjected to that kind of experiment would rather quickly
become insane! And that if they were born into such an "experiment" the outcome
result would be the same.
-Chris
From: Bruno Marchal
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Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 6:09 AM
On 21 Sep 2015, at 02:49, John Clark wrote:
On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at Bruno Marchal wrote:
> Yes, arithmetic can simulates a Turing machine,
Arithmetic can't simulate anything unless it has access to
something physical like a biological brain or a electronic
microprocessor.
You c
On 21 Sep 2015, at 03:16, Brent Meeker wrote:
If you raise kittens in complete darkness for a few weeks they never
develop vision. I don't think people who are born blind hallucinate
visions. Those are couple of data points. I suspect that if a
person were to grow up without any sensory
Hi Brian, Telmo and others,
On 21 Sep 2015, at 02:49, Telmo Menezes wrote:
Hi Brian,
That's an interesting question. My take is this: I think trying to
understand that experience is like trying to understand what it
feels like to be an amoeba. It's just too alien.
I am not sure. I can im
Is it possible that there is a memory capture 'mechanism' naturally, using the
Planck space level of the universe? The fun part would be that the bit streams
(or stings) would be magically restored back to life.Hence, immortality.
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