Re: Do we live within a Diophantine equation?

2018-06-30 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 09:45:35AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > The quantum vacuum is not vacuum at all. Then there are as many notion of > nothing than there are notions of thing. If the thing are number, the nothing > is the number zero. If the things are sets, the nothing is the empty set,

Re: Bruno's UDA and Solomonoff's theory of induction

2018-06-30 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 02:27:49PM -0500, Jason Resch wrote: > It looks like Bruno's idea of extracting physics from all computations is > catching on. I came across this article: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff%27s_theory_of_inductive_inference ... I also want to comment that this

Re: Bruno's UDA and Solomonoff's theory of induction

2018-06-30 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 12:36:19AM +0200, smitra wrote: > On 30-06-2018 21:27, Jason Resch wrote: > > It looks like Bruno's idea of extracting physics from all computations > > is catching on. I came across this article: > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff%27s_theory_of_inductive_infe

Re: Bruno's UDA and Solomonoff's theory of induction

2018-06-30 Thread smitra
On 30-06-2018 21:27, Jason Resch wrote: It looks like Bruno's idea of extracting physics from all computations is catching on. I came across this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff%27s_theory_of_inductive_inference [1] And this idea (from the 1960s) is being used in recent papers

Bruno's UDA and Solomonoff's theory of induction

2018-06-30 Thread Jason Resch
It looks like Bruno's idea of extracting physics from all computations is catching on. I came across this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff%27s_theory_of_inductive_inference And this idea (from the 1960s) is being used in recent papers, such as this one: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712

Re: Do we live within a Diophantine equation?

2018-06-30 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 5:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: *> Nowhere anybody has ever defended the idea that books or texts can > think. You are the only one mentioning that* I don’t believe that’s true. There is a fellow by the name of Bruno Marchal who is constantly mentioning that pure mathemati