Principia Cybernetica Web

1999-06-09 Thread Christopher Maloney
Is anyone familiar with this, at http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ ? It's a collaborative effort to develop and organize philosophical theories in a kind of organic, constantly improving structure. While reading the archives of this list, I've been blown away by how much good material there is in there

Re: Why physical laws

1999-06-07 Thread Christopher Maloney
Alastair Malcolm wrote: Christopher, I have found your recent posts to everything-list very interesting, and the ideas presented overlap to a degree with my own, but there is one question that I have, if I may, which I mention below. From: Christopher Maloney [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Fwd: COUNTERFACTUALS

1999-07-09 Thread Christopher Maloney
This reply is a little stale, but here goes anyway: Marchal wrote: George Levy wrote: In a message dated 99-06-30 11:20:07 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Precisely: Maudlin and me have proved that: NOT compORNOT sup-phys i.e. computationalism and

Re: Devil's advocate against Max Tegmark's hypothesis

1999-07-07 Thread Christopher Maloney
Alastair Malcolm wrote: - Original Message - From: Higgo James [EMAIL PROTECTED] As for flying rabbits, one appeared on my ceiling as I was reading your post, but as it was only there for 10E-43 seconds, I did not notice it. The odds against it remaining there for two

Re: The Game of Life

1999-12-06 Thread Christopher Maloney
Jerry Clark wrote: Such 'Life' evolution raises an interesting question: These SAS's would ... Sooner or later a physicists would hear about this new development and the realisation would be made that their universe *is* a Life simulation. Would it? This is a questions I've thought

Re: Fwd: zombie wives - The relativistic point of view

1999-08-18 Thread Christopher Maloney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You all seem to assign to measure a soul-like quality as if measure had any value, as if it is good to maximize measure, as if measure has an objective, and absolute existence.. like the Ether. I believe that in fact, the probability of observing an event LINKED

Re: Q Wars Episode 10^9: the Phantom Measure

1999-06-08 Thread Christopher Maloney
Higgo James wrote: Well said, but I'm not sure your definition of 'I' holds. There are infinitely many 'Chris Maloneys' born in a hospital of the same name of parents of the same name... etc etc etc who are in no way connected with you. Besides, these identifiers are all social naming

Re: Extra Terrestrials

2000-08-06 Thread Christopher Maloney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to be more explicit in my characterization of the guardian angels, the fatalisitic slobs and the narcissistic gods. George, I don't know how you justify dividing the ETs into such neat categories, based on the MWI and the feasability of QS. That is

Re: Which universe are we in?

2002-07-08 Thread Christopher Maloney
Hi all -- it's been a long time since I've participated in this group. I've been lurking for a few days, and am very pleased with the quality of the posts that I've read! It's good to see that this discussion continues! Some comments below. Tim May wrote: On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 03:40