Binary logic is insufficient

2009-01-12 Thread Brian Tenneson
*The universe is not just black and white...* Or another way to state that is that two truth values (true and false) are insufficient to describe all propositions. I propose the following: If the universe exists and if

Binary Logic is Insufficient

2009-01-12 Thread Brian Tenneson
The universe is not just black and white... Or another way to state that is that two truth values (true and false) are insufficient to describe all propositions. I propose the following: If the universe exists and if for all things X and Y, the utterance X contains Y is proposition, then the

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-02 Thread Brian Tenneson
Thank you for starting this discussion. I have only joined recently and have little knowledge of your research. To see it laid out in the sequence you describe should make it clear to me what it is all about. I'm particularly interested in the interaction between consciousness and

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-02 Thread Brian Tenneson
-awareness, a kind of abstract self-awareness devoid of sensation (or so it would appear). -Brian Bruno Marchal wrote: On 02 Jun 2009, at 18:54, Brian Tenneson wrote: Thank you for starting this discussion. I have only joined recently and have little knowledge of your research. To see it laid

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-03 Thread Brian Tenneson
I don't know if Bruno is about to answer this in messages I haven't checked yet but one can visualize the square root of 2. If you draw a square one meter by one meter, then the length of the diagonal is the square root of 2 meters. It is approximately 1.4. What's relevant to Bruno's

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-03 Thread Brian Tenneson
How do you know that there is no biggest number? Have you examined all the natural numbers? How do you prove that there is no biggest number? In my opinion those are excellent questions. I will attempt to answer them. The intended audience of my answer is everyone, so please forgive

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-03 Thread Brian Tenneson
Thank you very much. I realized I made some false statements as well. It seems likely that reliance on (not P - Q and not Q) - P being a tautology is the easiest proof of there being no largest natural number. Brent Meeker wrote: Brian Tenneson wrote: How do you know

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-04 Thread Brian Tenneson
This is a denial of the axiom of infinity. I think a foundational set theorist might agree that it is impossible to -construct- an infinite set from scratch which is why they use the axiom of infinity. People are free to deny axioms, of course, though the result will not be like ZFC set

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-04 Thread Brian Tenneson
Torgny Tholerus wrote: Brian Tenneson skrev: This is a denial of the axiom of infinity. I think a foundational set theorist might agree that it is impossible to -construct- an infinite set from scratch which is why they use the axiom of infinity. People are free to deny axioms

Re: Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe

2009-06-04 Thread Brian Tenneson
From my understanding of logic, there is made the distinction between objects and descriptions of objects. For example, the relation is less than is considered different from the relation symbol So what you said makes sense. Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi Ronald, On 02 Jun 2009, at 16:45,

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-05 Thread Brian Tenneson
Torgny Tholerus wrote: Brian Tenneson skrev: On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Torgny Tholerus tor...@dsv.su.se mailto:tor...@dsv.su.se wrote: Brian Tenneson skrev: Torgny Tholerus wrote: It is impossible to create a set where the successor of every

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-09 Thread Brian Tenneson
I think that resorting to calling the biggest natural number BIGGEST, rather than specifying exactly what that number is, is a tell-tale sign that the ultrafinitist knows that any specification for BIGGEST will immediately reveal that it is not the biggest because one could always add one

Re: Non unique Universe

2009-07-02 Thread Brian Tenneson
If it lives up to its abstract, it will be a very interesting read. ronaldheld wrote: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0907/0907.0216v1.pdf comments? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Non unique Universe

2009-07-02 Thread Brian Tenneson
would really deem a a very interesting read? JohnM On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:34 AM, Brian Tenneson tenn...@gmail.com mailto:tenn...@gmail.com wrote: If it lives up to its abstract, it will be a very interesting read. ronaldheld wrote: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf

Re: Non unique Universe

2009-07-02 Thread Brian Tenneson
I'm ignorant of what you mean by mind body problem. Can you explain this or send me some place on the net that explains it? Thanks. Bruno Marchal wrote: I will take a further look, but I already see that the author is not aware of the mind body problem. On logic he seems not too bad ... (he

Re: Non unique Universe

2009-07-02 Thread Brian Tenneson
results are not yet very well known. But they fit with many intuitions discussed in this list. Bruno On 02 Jul 2009, at 20:02, Brian Tenneson wrote: I'm ignorant of what you mean by mind body problem. Can you explain this or send me some place on the net that explains it? Thanks. Bruno

Re: consciousness and self-awareness

2009-07-10 Thread Brian Tenneson
/42 Cheers, Günther Brian Tenneson wrote: Dear Everything List, Tegmark mentioned in an article the idea of self-aware structures, SAS. He wrote that the search for such structures is ongoing, i.e., he postulated the existence of such structures without giving examples. I'm

Re: Some comments on The Mathematical Universe

2009-07-20 Thread Brian Tenneson
I found a paper that might be of interest to those interested in Tegmark's work. http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0867 Abstract I discuss some problems related to extreme mathematical realism, focusing on a recently proposed shut-up-and-calculate approach to physics (arXiv:0704.0646

Re: Some comments on The Mathematical Universe

2009-07-20 Thread Brian Tenneson
Comments below. Bruno Marchal wrote: Exercise: criticize the following papers mentioned below in the light of the discovery of the universal machine and its main consequences from incompleteness to first person indeterminacy. Think of the identity thesis. To be sure Tegmark is less wrong

Re: Dreams and Machines

2009-07-22 Thread Brian Tenneson
Hi Brent, You are asserting monism. But the One, the ur-stuff, is ineffable/unknowable. So when we place ourselves in the world it is by making distinctions within the unity. To become distinct from the background (the One) is what it means to be RITSIAR. Right? Brent How do

Re: Dreams and Machines

2009-07-22 Thread Brian Tenneson
Brent Meeker wrote: Brian Tenneson wrote: Hi Brent, You are asserting monism. But the One, the ur-stuff, is ineffable/unknowable. So when we place ourselves in the world it is by making distinctions within the unity. To become distinct from the background (the One) is what

Re: Dreaming On

2009-07-26 Thread Brian Tenneson
Hi Kim, RITSIAR means real in the sense that I am real. Cheers Brian Kim Jones wrote: Could somebody kindly tell me/explain to me what RITSIAR means? I cannot find any explanation of this in the threads which mention it. Sorry to be dumb, Kim On 27/07/2009, at 12:52 AM, David Nyman

Re: The seven step series

2009-08-13 Thread Brian Tenneson
There is an explicit formula that maps N onto Q.. I found it some years back. Brent Meeker wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: ... 4) Key questions for the sequel, on which you can meditate: - is there a bijection between N and NxN? (NxN = the cartesian product of N with N) - is there a

Re: Definition of universe

2010-02-07 Thread Brian Tenneson
Assuming a 4-level hierarchy of universe as posited by Tegmark here... http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1283v1 Then the universe would be an aggregate of all mathematical structures. On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:07 AM, Mindey min...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I was just wondering, we are talking so much

Re: numbers?

2010-07-26 Thread Brian Tenneson
Does this mean that sets of numbers are inventions or just particular numbers are inventions? If the latter, then there must be a largest number which is, to me, counterintuitive. Numbers existed before 10,000 years ago when they were first understood by humans to some extent. There was a

Re: numbers?

2010-07-29 Thread Brian Tenneson
Numbers existed before people on this rock began to understand them. If not number of atoms in the universe, then the number of cells in organisms one day prior to 10,000 years ago. or anything really, that had the potential to be counted, one day prior to 10,000 years ago. If all numbers are

Re: numbers?

2010-08-01 Thread Brian Tenneson
2:01 PM, Brian Tenneson tenn...@gmail.com wrote: Numbers existed before people on this rock began to understand them. If not number of atoms in the universe, then the number of cells in organisms one day prior to 10,000 years ago. or anything really, that had the potential to be counted, one

Re: numbers?

2010-08-01 Thread Brian Tenneson
As a corollary to some of Tegmark's theory I believe it will be possible to prove that the level 4 multiverse is accounted for by a mathematical structure.. It's a project I've been working on which assumes that the reality hypothesis implies the mathematical universe hypothesis. Bruno

Re: numbers?

2010-08-04 Thread Brian Tenneson
John Mikes wrote: Brian, nothing could be more remote for me than to argue 'math' (number's application and theories) with you. I thinkyou mix up* 'counting'* for the stuff that serves it. As I usually do, I looked up Google for the Peano axioms and found nothing in them that pertains to the

Re: numbers?

2010-08-06 Thread Brian Tenneson
John Mikes wrote: ...Rectangles are not found in nature and not are numbers; both are abstractions of things we see in nature... Pray: what things? and how are they 'abstracted into numbers? (Rectangles etc. - IMO - are artifacts made (upon/within) a system of human application). Yet

Re: numbers?

2010-08-06 Thread Brian Tenneson
Bruno Marchal wrote: Tegmark argues that reality is a mathematical structure and states that an open problem is finding a mathematical structure which is isomorphic to reality. This might or might not be clear: the mathematical structure with the property that all mathematical structures can be

Another paper for your Comments

2010-10-06 Thread Brian Tenneson
I figure this is especially of interest because of the references to Tegmark's works. From a logician's standpoint, it may be of interest that I show that there is a structure U such that all structures, regardless of symbol set, can be elementarily embedded within it. From a physicist's

Re: Another paper for your Comments

2010-10-06 Thread Brian Tenneson
My apologies, I didn't mean to insert this into your thread! Sorry! On Oct 6, 8:43 am, Brian Tenneson tenn...@gmail.com wrote: I figure this is especially of interest because of the references to Tegmark's works.  From a logician's standpoint, it may be of interest that I show

A possible structure isomorphic to reality

2010-10-09 Thread Brian Tenneson
I am starting a new thread which begins with some quotes by myself and to continue the conversation with Bruno. I figure this is especially of interest because of the references to Tegmark's works. From a logician's standpoint, it may be of interest that I show that there is a structure U

Re: A possible structure isomorphic to reality

2010-10-16 Thread Brian Tenneson
If they are all elementary embeddable within it, then they are all   elementary equivalent, given that the truth of first order formula are   preserved. How would all structures be elementarily equivalent? All mathematical theories would have the same theorems. So   eventually there has to

Re: A possible structure isomorphic to reality

2010-12-03 Thread Brian Tenneson
I'm going to try to concentrate on each issue, one per post. Let me say again that your feedback is absolutely invaluable to my work. In an earlier post you say something that implies the following: Suppose M1, M2, and M3 are mathematical structures Let denote the elementarily embedded relation

Remarks on the form of a TOE

2010-12-03 Thread Brian Tenneson
If there is a TOE, I would expect it to be pretty lengthy and complicated. The TOE would basically be a conjunction of all answers to all questions. But can this even be done in human terms? Wouldn't there be infinitely many questions (e.g., what is 1+1, what is 1+2, what is 1+3)? That would

Re: Remarks on the form of a TOE

2010-12-04 Thread Brian Tenneson
So is it impossible that there are enough redundancies in an infinitely long statement of a TOE to make it into an equivalent, finite document? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: A possible structure isomorphic to reality

2010-12-04 Thread Brian Tenneson
On Dec 4, 2:52 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I just said that if M1 M2, then M1 [=] M2. This means that M2 needs   higher order logical formula to be distinguished from M1. Elementary embeddings () are a too much strong notion of model   theory. It is used in context where we

Re: A possible structure isomorphic to reality

2010-12-08 Thread Brian Tenneson
On Dec 5, 12:02 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 04 Dec 2010, at 18:50, Brian Tenneson wrote: That means that R (standard model of the first order theory of the reals + archimedian axiom, without the term natural number) is not elementary embeddable in R*, given

Re: A possible structure isomorphic to reality

2010-12-09 Thread Brian Tenneson
I'm trying to do? What I'm trying to do is one major leg of my paper: there is a superstructure to all structures. What super means could be any comparitive relation. But what relation is 'good'? On Dec 9, 8:12 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 09 Dec 2010, at 05:12, Brian Tenneson

Re: A possible structure isomorphic to reality

2010-12-17 Thread Brian Tenneson
There is evidently a weaker version of the embedding concept. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedding#Universal_algebra_and_model_theory (No references as far as I can tell for this definition) I am looking at this definition and the flaw in my proof on page 13 and, while I will have to study it

Re: Remarks on the form of a TOE

2010-12-26 Thread Brian Tenneson
Limits To Science: God, Godel, Gravity http://www.science20.com/hammock_physicist/limits_science_god_godel_gravity Here is my comment: An important question is whether or not a TOE will be finite in length. I am taking 'TOE' to be, as a working definition, a complete description of reality or a

Re: Remarks on the form of a TOE

2010-12-28 Thread Brian Tenneson
Thank you, happy new year to you, too! On Dec 27, 8:36 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 26 Dec 2010, at 22:51, Brian Tenneson wrote: Limits To Science: God, Godel, Gravity http://www.science20.com/hammock_physicist/limits_science_god_godel_g... Here is my comment

Re: Remarks on the form of a TOE

2010-12-29 Thread Brian Tenneson
If a complete description of arithmetical truth is not possible, what exactly are we talking about? We, humans, have a rather good intuition of what is a true   arithmetical sentence, independently of the fact that we have to   recognize that it can be quite tricky to decide if this or

Re: Remarks on the form of a TOE

2010-12-31 Thread Brian Tenneson
On Dec 31, 1:42 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 29 Dec 2010, at 13:50, Brian Tenneson wrote: If a complete description of arithmetical truth is not possible,   what exactly are we talking about? We, humans, have a rather good intuition of what is a true arithmetical

Re: Remarks on the form of a TOE

2011-01-01 Thread Brian Tenneson
How can we know that?  Reality is the totality of all that exists is a finite complete description. Well, that is my favorite definition of reality. But it is not a   theory: you don't say what exist. RA says what exist. It says that 1 exists (Ex(x = s(0)), it says that   you current

Dovetailing

2011-01-01 Thread Brian Tenneson
I was unaware of this. Seems like it's a crucial part of Bruno's work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dovetailing_%28computer_science%29 Trying to understand the concept here. Suppose there are infinitely many instructions of two programs. One way to run that program is to start putting green

Re: Remarks on the form of a TOE

2011-01-01 Thread Brian Tenneson
We're talking about a mathematical theory about E. silky wrote: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Brian Tenneson tenn...@gmail.com wrote: [...] One way to describe something, a real basic way to describe something, is to form an aggregate of all things that meet that description. There may

Re: Remarks on the form of a TOE

2011-01-02 Thread Brian Tenneson
Have you read the whole thread? silky wrote: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Brian Tenneson tenn...@gmail.com wrote: We're talking about a mathematical theory about E. What relevance does this comment have? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: Remarks on the form of a TOE

2011-01-02 Thread Brian Tenneson
In the case of a TOE, the model IS reality. Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: on 02.01.2011 08:47 silky said the following: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Brian Tennesontenn...@gmail.com wrote: We're talking about a mathematical theory about E. What relevance does

Re: Remarks on the form of a TOE

2011-01-02 Thread Brian Tenneson
at 8:31 PM, Brian Tenneson tenn...@gmail.com wrote: In the case of a TOE, the model IS reality. Okay, I won't reply further, this has become irrelevant noise. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List&q

Re: Remarks on the form of a TOE

2011-01-02 Thread Brian Tenneson
e is physical existence (which Tegmark puts into a -testable- theory in the paper I cited), chairs are mathematical structures which agrees with your quote. But Bruno is really the expert here. Evgenii http://blog.rudnyi.ru/2010/08/computable-universes.html on 02.01.2011 10:31 Bri

Re: Remarks on the form of a TOE

2011-01-02 Thread Brian Tenneson
Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: on 02.01.2011 12:07 Brian Tenneson said the following: Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: ... Some time ago, I have read David Chalmers, The Matrix as Metaphysics http://consc.net/papers/matrix.pdf Let me make one

Re: Fw: the world as mathematical. was pythagoras right after all ?

2012-12-24 Thread Brian Tenneson
What do you think of Tegmark's version of a mathematical Platoia? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/6WzRUmWbHY0J. To post to this group,

Re: Ten top-of-my-head arguments against multiverses

2012-12-25 Thread Brian Tenneson
, rclough wrote: Hi Brian Tenneson Tegmark has many many good ideas, but I am not a believer in multiverses, which only a strict mechanistic 19th century type can believe. Multiverses defy reason. Just off the top of head: 1) For one reason because of Occam's razor: it is a needless

Re: Ten top-of-my-head arguments against multiverses

2012-12-29 Thread Brian Tenneson
Why not take the categories of all categories (besides that Lawyere tried that without to much success, except rediscovering Grothendieck topoi). I'm more interested in the smallest mathematical object in which all mathematical structures are embedded but the category of all categories

Re: Fw: the world as mathematical. was pythagoras right after all ?

2012-12-30 Thread Brian Tenneson
Is there a physical object that exists physically which is not isomorphic to a mathematical object, having mathematical existence? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To view this discussion on the web visit

Re: Fw: the world as mathematical. was pythagoras right after all ?

2012-12-31 Thread Brian Tenneson
So is that a yes? If so, can you stipulate such a physical object? On Sunday, December 30, 2012 9:08:27 PM UTC-8, Brent wrote: On 12/30/2012 11:23 AM, Brian Tenneson wrote: Is there a physical object that exists physically which is not isomorphic to a mathematical object, having

Re: free will and mathematics

2012-05-29 Thread Brian Tenneson
It doesn't take free will to prove that every even number is divisible by 2. How to prove a statement with a universal quantifier is pretty basic. On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Aleksandr Lokshin aaloks...@gmail.comwrote: *The notion of choosing isn't actually important--if a proof says

Re: free will and mathematics

2012-05-30 Thread Brian Tenneson
What about Gabriel's Horn or the Koch Snowflake curve? They may also contradict intuition but the results are not dependent upon the axiom of choice. On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:17 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 5/30/2012 1:45 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Banach and Tarski proved an

Re: free will and mathematics

2012-05-31 Thread Brian Tenneson
Of course it doesn't, nothing real can have anything to do with free will because free will is gibberish. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: free will and mathematics

2012-06-01 Thread Brian Tenneson
Cannot comment, don't know what ASCII string free will means and neither do you. John K Clark Of course there are various degrees to which it can be free but that doesn't mean free will is a meaningless string. Freedom is defined by the observer. I note the freedom I have in choosing

Re: free will and mathematics

2012-06-01 Thread Brian Tenneson
The fact that free will is debated lends credence to the notion that Free will is not meaningless. Free will has to mean something before it can be attacked. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:30 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/1/2012 11:43 AM, Brian Tenneson wrote: Cannot comment

Re: free will and mathematics

2012-06-02 Thread Brian Tenneson
, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 Brian Tenneson tenn...@gmail.com wrote: The fact that free will is debated lends credence to the notion that Free will is not meaningless. Free will has to mean something before it can be attacked. But I'm not saying free

Re: free will and mathematics

2012-06-02 Thread Brian Tenneson
FREE means being *able *to choose *any *among a number of choices. You want freedom of will to mean an agent can choose something beyond what the given choices are? That would imply free will does not exist yet, in that event, free will is still NOT meaningless. Right now I am unconcerned with

Re: free will and mathematics

2012-06-02 Thread Brian Tenneson
with free will. To test something you need an operational definition. Agent might be defined as an entity with acts unpredictably but purposefully. But both of those are a little fuzzy. Brent On 6/2/2012 10:40 AM, Brian Tenneson wrote: The capacity (which can be defined) of an agent (which

Re: free will and mathematics

2012-06-06 Thread Brian Tenneson
I will exercise my *insert gibberish here* by disagreeing. On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:53 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: while you do not *always* know what you're going to do, you know your preferences most of the time.

Re: free will and mathematics

2012-06-06 Thread Brian Tenneson
Speaking of the legal aspect, Yes, Hitler exercised his *insert gibberish here* when he issued orders to kill the Jews. IF *gibberish* does not exist, then how can we hold criminals culpable in that they had no choice but to commit crime? Seems unfair to punish anyone under those circumstances.

Re: free will and mathematics

2012-06-06 Thread Brian Tenneson
I think people make choices from among available options many times every day and that is why the concept in question exists. On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:15 AM, R AM ramra...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Brian Tenneson tenn...@gmail.com wrote: Speaking of the legal aspect

truth

2012-06-21 Thread Brian Tenneson
I have many questions. One is what if truth were malleable? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: truth

2012-06-28 Thread Brian Tenneson
What I was wondering, and I know this is ill-formed, is if in different parallels, different things are absolutely true. Things like 2+2=17. It may be completely impractical to imagine such parallels since there is presumably zero overlap and no means of travel to there. The basic premise is

Re: truth

2012-06-28 Thread Brian Tenneson
What I meant is an omnipotent being being able to manipulate what is actually, absolutely true (so in a parallel 2+2 might actually be 17). Not manipulate the perception of truth. On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 1:11 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/28/2012 1:06 PM, Brian Tenneson wrote

Re: truth

2012-07-04 Thread Brian Tenneson
The thread is about the possibility of an omnipotent being being able to manipulate what is true. On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everythinglisters, First post here, and seems fun to get lost reading the discussions from time to

Re: Free will: a definition

2012-08-01 Thread Brian Tenneson
We may be overthinking things here. What's wrong with defining it as the capacity to make choices when more than one option is available? On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:17 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/1/2012 5:04 AM, Russell Standish wrote: Yes - and rationality often does not

Re: Free will: a definition

2012-08-01 Thread Brian Tenneson
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:24 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: So free will is the ability to always get what we want, after all if we don't get what we want its because something has stopped us from doing so. Thus even God doesn't have free will because He doesn't want us to sin and

Re: Physics and Tautology.

2012-08-01 Thread Brian Tenneson
Isn't every (alleged) proof of something's truth just a list of things (steps) implied by the previous statement until one arrives at the final statement...a tautology? Briefly: isn't every proof just a (possibly lengthy) list of tautologies? Therefore, using that notion, calling out alleged

Re: Free will: a definition

2012-08-03 Thread Brian Tenneson
So you don't know what God wants. Is that what you're saying? I hope you're not for any reason obsessed with the Bible. On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:43 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Brian Tenneson tenn...@gmail.com wrote: How do you know what God

Re: God has no name

2012-08-10 Thread Brian Tenneson
Yeah but you can't define what a set is either, so... On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Hi Roger, On 07 Aug 2012, at 11:53, Roger wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal OUR FATHER, WHICH ART IN HEAVBEN, HALLOWED BE THY NAME. Luther said that to meditate of the

Re: Words vs experience

2012-08-12 Thread Brian Tenneson
This is already a consequence of computer science. All sound machines looking inward, or doing self-reference, cannot avoid the discovery between what they can justify with words, and what they can intuit as truth. What do justify and intuit mean? There are some machines out there that do not

Re: 0s and 1s

2012-08-17 Thread Brian Tenneson
The universe is purely subjective. Is that statement purely subjective? Maybe you meant: other than this statement, the universe is purely subjective. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email

Re: What is thinking ?

2012-08-30 Thread Brian Tenneson
Thinking implies a progression of time. So perhaps it is equally important to define time. On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi John Clark Please define the term thinking. What is thinking ? Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 8/30/2012 Leibniz

Re: Re: What is thinking ?

2012-08-30 Thread Brian Tenneson
as something abstract. On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Brian Tenneson Thought itself, IMHO, is beyond spacetime. It belongs to that Platonic realm to which the circumstances of time are wholly irrelevant. But the brain is not. Perhaps it is something

Re: Where do numbers and geometry come from ?

2012-09-06 Thread Brian Tenneson
All numbers can be defined in terms of sets. The question becomes this: do sets have ontological primacy relative to mankind or are sets invented or created by mankind? On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Stephen P. King Yes, of course, but I wanted a

Re: Re: Where do numbers and geometry come from ?

2012-09-06 Thread Brian Tenneson
do agree that numbers are not created by man but neither are sets. On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Brian Tenneson I'm just to establish the fact that numbers are a priori and so not created by man. Given that, it doesn't matter if sets are a priori

Re: Where do numbers and geometry come from ?

2012-09-06 Thread Brian Tenneson
Unicorns! The idea is just silly! The point is that properties do not occur at the whim of any one thing, never have and never will. On 9/6/2012 11:19 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Brian Tenneson I'm just to establish the fact that numbers are a priori and so not created by man. Given

Re: The All

2012-09-06 Thread Brian Tenneson
A too much powerful God leads to inconsistency. What if reality does not always obey the laws of logic? What if reality is sometimes inconsistent? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: imaginary numbers in comp

2012-09-13 Thread Brian Tenneson
We might as well just use ordered pairs of integers or rational numbers. On Thursday, September 13, 2012 8:45:53 AM UTC-7, rclough wrote: Hi everything-list Since human thought and perception consists of both a logical quantitative or objective component as well as a feelings-spiritual

Re: questions on machines, belief, awareness, and knowledge

2012-09-24 Thread Brian Tenneson
Hi Bruno On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Hi Brian, On 13 Sep 2012, at 22:04, Brian Tenneson wrote: Bruno, You use B as a predicate symbol for belief I think. I use for the modal unspecified box, in some context (in place of the more common

Re: Can a computer make independent choices ?

2012-09-25 Thread Brian Tenneson
So suppose there is a choice to be made. A or B. Is there software that enables the computer to independently choose A or B. What about a neural network of many nodes and connections that has been through many epochs to the point where its outputs perfectly *resemble*pseudorandom number

Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating

2014-02-26 Thread Brian Tenneson
This is what they call a google bomb. Historians may think google searches represent something about the mind of humanity. So this particular google bomb might lead them to think the Fukushima reactor exploded in 2014. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-21 Thread Brian Tenneson
I had a question about the quote below of Edgar's. In what sense of 'compute' do you believe that something computes reality? Also, I'm wondering if Laplace's demon is relevant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%27s_demon According to the article, we have: In 2008, David

Would math make God obsolete ?

2014-01-23 Thread Brian Tenneson
There are undecidable statements (about arithmetic)... There are true statements lacking proof. There are also false statements about arithmetic the proof of whose falsehood is impossible; not just impossible for you and me but for a computer of any capacity or other forms of rational

Re: Would math make God obsolete ?

2014-01-27 Thread Brian Tenneson
are a smaller set than the reals. I'd suppose that if people can figure that out with our nifty fleshy brains, then a well-designed computer brain could, too. -Gabe On Friday, January 24, 2014 1:23:40 AM UTC-6, Brian Tenneson wrote: There are undecidable statements (about arithmetic

Re: Would math make God obsolete ?

2014-01-27 Thread Brian Tenneson
: On 27 Jan 2014, at 16:12, Brian Tenneson wrote: Yes, some day a computer might be able to figure out that the set of rationals is not equipollent to the set of real numbers. A Lôbian machine like ZF can do that already. I saw somewhere that using an automated theorem prover, one of Godel's

Re: Would math make God obsolete ?

2014-01-27 Thread Brian Tenneson
You could always just add it and its negation to the list of axioms (though not at the same time, of course) and see where that leads, if anywhere. On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:55 AM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 2:23 AM, Brian Tenneson tenn...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Rationals vs Reals in Comp

2013-04-23 Thread Brian Tenneson
Interesting read. The problem I have with this is that in set theory, there are several examples of sets who owe their existence to axioms alone. In other words, there is an axiom that states there is a set X such that (blah, blah, blah). How are we to know which sets/notions are meaningless

Re: Rationals vs Reals in Comp

2013-04-23 Thread Brian Tenneson
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: Searle wasn't wrong. The whole point of the Chinese Room is to point out that computation is a disconnected, anesthetic function which is accomplished with no need for understanding of larger contexts. How do we

Re: Rationals vs Reals in Comp

2013-04-23 Thread Brian Tenneson
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 4:31:05 PM UTC-4, Brian Tenneson wrote: On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comwrote: Searle wasn't wrong. The whole point of the Chinese Room is to point

Re: Rationals vs Reals in Comp

2013-04-23 Thread Brian Tenneson
...@gmail.comwrote: On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 7:59:26 PM UTC-4, Brian Tenneson wrote: On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comwrote: On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 4:31:05 PM UTC-4, Brian Tenneson wrote: On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Craig Weinberg whats

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