Re: Undecidability of the Spectral Gap

2015-09-22 Thread Brent Meeker
On 9/22/2015 9:26 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Sep 2015, at 19:27, Brent Meeker wrote: On 9/22/2015 5:17 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Sep 2015, at 00:29, Brent Meeker wrote: A fascinating application of computability theory to physics: Undecidability of the Spectral Gap Toby Cubit

Re: Undecidability of the Spectral Gap

2015-09-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Sep 2015, at 19:27, Brent Meeker wrote: On 9/22/2015 5:17 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Sep 2015, at 00:29, Brent Meeker wrote: A fascinating application of computability theory to physics: Undecidability of the Spectral Gap Toby Cubitt, David Perez-Garcia, and Michael M. Wolf

Re: A scary theory about IS

2015-09-22 Thread Brent Meeker
On 9/22/2015 2:55 PM, John Mikes wrote: Bruno, I am at a loss with your explanation. I lived the active first 50 years of my life in Europe and never heard about such 'liberalism' (for a short time was even connected to the Hungarian Liberal Democratic Party). "Liberal" was in no connection w

Re: A scary theory about IS

2015-09-22 Thread John Mikes
Bruno, I am at a loss with your explanation. I lived the active first 50 years of my life in Europe and never heard about such 'liberalism' (for a short time was even connected to the Hungarian Liberal Democratic Party). "Liberal" was in no connection with right/wrong, or even right/left, only poin

Re: Undecidability of the Spectral Gap

2015-09-22 Thread Brent Meeker
On 9/22/2015 5:17 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Sep 2015, at 00:29, Brent Meeker wrote: 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

Re: Could we live forever?

2015-09-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Sep 2015, at 00:09, Brent Meeker wrote: On 9/16/2015 10:27 AM, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 Brent Meeker wrote: ​ > ​ Without a built-in biological life span, people may become extremely timid and risk averse. ​ If you knew you were immortal why on earth would you ​be

Re: Could we live forever?

2015-09-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Sep 2015, at 00:09, Brent Meeker wrote: On 9/16/2015 10:27 AM, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 Brent Meeker wrote: ​ > ​ Without a built-in biological life span, people may become extremely timid and risk averse. ​ If you knew you were immortal why on earth would you ​be

Re: Undecidability of the Spectral Gap

2015-09-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Sep 2015, at 00:29, Brent Meeker wrote: 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 stat

Re: A scary theory about IS

2015-09-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Sep 2015, at 22:49, John Mikes wrote: 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 mi