Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-04 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Measure is relative, it doesn't drop while you approach death. Probabilities add up to one... And by no cul de dac you should not count where you 're dead. Le 5 déc. 2013 03:44, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com a écrit : On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-04 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: Measure is relative, Yes, so your current measure of next finding yourself in a Drelb continuation, is relatively low compared to the measure of you still being

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-04 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/12/5 Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: Measure is relative, Yes, so your current measure of next finding yourself in a Drelb continuation, is relatively low compared

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-02 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/2 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 01 Dec 2013, at 21:36, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/12/1 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be If a machine equates God with ultimate reality, I do not... I don't equate god with anything. Which means that you defend some inconsistent theory

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-02 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/2 Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/12/2 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 01 Dec 2013, at 21:36, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/12/1 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-02 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/2 LizR lizj...@gmail.com On 3 December 2013 09:40, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/2/2013 8:43 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I'm sorry but we will have to agree we disagree on that. You're also misleading atheistic position, and you're wrongly attributing belief to atheist

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-02 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/2 Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/12/2 Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/12/2

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-01 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/1 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com As I said to Telmo talking about sacrifices somewhere above, individual sacrifices are the only way to create trust among non cloning entities. And what higher sacrifice than to negate'what is screaming in his mind, in the universe and in

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-01 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/1 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com If what I said were absurd you would have not responded so quickly and so seriously. Sorry if I offended your faith. That was an experiment. Oh easy to do that, the first to say is... childish. 2013/12/1 Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-01 Thread Quentin Anciaux
you who said atheist must be deaf because they don't hear what's screaming in their mind, if it's not a superiority mode, don't know what is... anyway, I'll stop here, it's useless. Quentin 2013/12/1 Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com 2013/12/1 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-01 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/1 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 30 Nov 2013, at 22:37, meekerdb wrote: I can conceive of (with apologies to H. L. Mencken), Agdistis or Angdistis, Ah Puch, Ahura Mazda, Alberich, Allah, Amaterasu, An, Anansi, Anat, Andvari, Anshar, Anu, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apsu, Ares, Artemis,

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-01 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/1 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 30 Nov 2013, at 23:33, meekerdb wrote: On 11/30/2013 10:03 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Brent, I hope you don't mind I re-answer this. On 28 Nov 2013, at 21:19, meekerdb wrote: I can conceive of (with apologies to H. L. Mencken), Agdistis

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-01 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/1 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 01 Dec 2013, at 08:45, Samiya Illias wrote: We exist, OK. then why should we reject the idea of having been created, Or of having a non physical origin. creation involves the idea of someone doing something with something, and so that

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-01 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/1 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 01 Dec 2013, at 09:51, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/12/1 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 30 Nov 2013, at 22:37, meekerdb wrote: I can conceive of (with apologies to H. L. Mencken), Agdistis or Angdistis, Ah Puch, Ahura Mazda, Alberich

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-12-01 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/12/1 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 01 Dec 2013, at 12:32, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/12/1 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 01 Dec 2013, at 09:51, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/12/1 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be On 30 Nov 2013, at 22:37, meekerdb wrote: I can

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-11-29 Thread Quentin Anciaux
my iPhone On 29-Nov-2013, at 12:32 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/11/29 Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com I understand that so many deities and faith-systems and all the myths and fantasies in them easily put off any thinking mind. Yet, the more we discover

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-11-29 Thread Quentin Anciaux
. Is it not enough that your Lord is the witness of all things? [Quran 41:53] We created human from a mingled drop to test him, and We made him hearing and seeing. (Qur'an 76:2) Regards, Samiya On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/11/29 Samiya Illias

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-11-29 Thread Quentin Anciaux
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/11/29 Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com Simple? It takes intelligence and knowledge to write computer program, build a machine, and so on. How can we conclude that the software of life, the creation

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-11-28 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/11/28 Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com Bruno wrote: 'I was of course alluding to the greek (neo)platonists. They did invented the God used by both the abramanic cultures (even if terribly deformed, notably by the abandon of science about it, and the use of authoritative arguments, by

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-11-28 Thread Quentin Anciaux
beings and we can *do* evil. If such being(s) existed, it would not allow that, but there is evil... Quentin Samiya Sent from my iPhone On 28-Nov-2013, at 8:18 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: if there was an all loving god, it wouldn't allow for hell and evil.. -- You

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-11-28 Thread Quentin Anciaux
consequences! Well if you want... but let me appreciate it for the BS it is... thanks. Quentin Samiya Sent from my iPhone On 28-Nov-2013, at 8:42 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: Because we are not all loving, omnipotent, omniscient beings and we can *do* evil

Re: Atheism is wish fulfillment

2013-11-28 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/11/29 Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com I understand that so many deities and faith-systems and all the myths and fantasies in them easily put off any thinking mind. Yet, the more we discover, the closer we get to theorizing about everything, the more difficult it is to believe that

Re: Is Roger Clough an effect of global warming?

2013-11-26 Thread Quentin Anciaux
No, you just have to filter him. If you use gmail, just add a filter to send that to the trash or tag it. You can add filter with almost all email reader programs. Quentin 2013/11/26 Gabriel Bodeen gabebod...@gmail.com Is there another version of this list anywhere with a lower density of

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-19 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/11/20 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/11/19 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/11/18 meekerdb

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-18 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/11/18 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/18/2013 4:43 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:23 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/17/2013 4:25 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 8:41 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/16/2013

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-12 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/11/12 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/12/2013 10:24 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/11/12 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/12/2013 7:19 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 7:14 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Benjamin Button lived his life

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-12 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/11/12 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/12/2013 11:15 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/11/12 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/12/2013 10:24 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/11/12 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/12/2013 7:19 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Nov 11

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-12 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/11/12 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/12/2013 11:30 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/11/12 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/12/2013 11:15 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/11/12 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/12/2013 10:24 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/11/12

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-12 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/11/12 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/12/2013 12:23 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: This is ASSA, and I find that absurd, there is no absolute probability of being alive, probability is only meaningful between two moments... But there's a probability of being alive at time t

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-12 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/11/12 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/12/2013 12:23 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: This is ASSA, and I find that absurd, there is no absolute probability of being alive, probability is only meaningful between two moments... But there's a probability of being alive at time t

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-12 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/11/12 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/12/2013 12:45 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/11/12 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/12/2013 12:23 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: This is ASSA, and I find that absurd, there is no absolute probability of being alive, probability is only

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-12 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/11/12 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/12/2013 1:02 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/11/12 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/12/2013 12:45 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/11/12 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/12/2013 12:23 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: This is ASSA

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-12 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/11/12 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/12/2013 1:37 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/11/12 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/12/2013 1:02 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/11/12 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/12/2013 12:45 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/11/12

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-12 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/11/12 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/12/2013 1:57 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: So *you* Quentin Anciaux (incidentally, how do pronounce that?) don't necessarily continue. It is just that there is a continuation of 1p POVs. So we're down to the question of what constitutes a 1p POV

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-12 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/11/13 Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com 2013/11/12 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/12/2013 1:57 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: So *you* Quentin Anciaux (incidentally, how do pronounce that?) don't necessarily continue. It is just that there is a continuation of 1p POVs. So

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-12 Thread Quentin Anciaux
12, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/11/12 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/12/2013 1:37 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/11/12 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/12/2013 1:02 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/11/12 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-12 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 12 nov. 2013 22:53, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net a écrit : On 11/12/2013 1:37 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/11/12 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/12/2013 1:02 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/11/12 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/12/2013 12:45 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/11/11 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/10/2013 5:59 PM, LizR wrote: On 11 November 2013 13:53, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/10/2013 3:54 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Sure, but the thing is that *you have to*, and asking such question at that stage is very likely

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/11/11 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/11/2013 12:11 AM, LizR wrote: On 11 November 2013 18:18, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/10/2013 5:59 PM, LizR wrote: On 11 November 2013 13:53, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/10/2013 3:54 PM, Quentin Anciaux

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/11/11 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/11/2013 1:47 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: Sure, but if I live infinitely long I will have almost all my experiences older than 75. So when I note that I'm not that old and that seems improbable, The thing is as I said is that you have

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-11 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/11/11 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/11/2013 11:21 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: You find you every day, according to you, every day should not happen, only being 10¹⁰⁰ is likely, it's just non-sense, your life is not random sampled, yesterday happen

Re: Spacetime is (nonphysical, platonic) mind

2013-11-10 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/11/10 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 11/9/2013 11:37 PM, LizR wrote: On 10 November 2013 08:13, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/9/2013 1:57 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Tegmark thinks he will survive, if the gun works sufficiently well. if not he might degrade and

Re: For John Clark

2013-11-01 Thread Quentin Anciaux
? Quentin On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/10/31 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: As I said before there is a profound difference between the two. After Everett's thought

Re: For John Clark

2013-11-01 Thread Quentin Anciaux
OK... but then you shouldn't have use that as an argument... I respect intuition, I don't respect using that as an argument. Quentin 2013/11/1 Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com Intuition On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 5:17 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: Le 1 nov. 2013 00:39

Re: For John Clark

2013-11-01 Thread Quentin Anciaux
, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: OK... but then you shouldn't have use that as an argument... I respect intuition, I don't respect using that as an argument. Quentin 2013/11/1 Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com Intuition On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 5:17 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco

Re: For John Clark

2013-11-01 Thread Quentin Anciaux
-fashioned bullying. It's also true, but these people did everything to deserve that sort of bullying, nobody forced these two individuals to spam the list. Quentin On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: OK... but then you shouldn't have use

Re: For John Clark

2013-11-01 Thread Quentin Anciaux
discuss, he listen to himself. Quentin On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.comwrote: On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/11/1 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Richard

Re: For John Clark

2013-11-01 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/11/1 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 2:04 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: So, has step 3 gone from that's absurd to everyone knows that ?! Yes that is the situation right now, but with backpedaling and additional caveats and restrictions made by Bruno and

Re: For John Clark

2013-11-01 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/11/1 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:06 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote The diary is useless because the diary was written by you and contains predictions about the further adventures of you, but now there are 2 (or more) people with the title you

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-31 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/31 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: I think this entire matter could be clarified if you could reformulate the following question in such a way that a simple yes or no answer can be given: Do you die

Re: Is Earth F**ked?

2013-10-31 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/31 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 10/31/2013 3:55 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: I believe there's an important aspect of this type of discussion that is rarely considered. This sort of thing takes almost a religious tone where we are supposed to feel guilty. I'm very suspicious of this

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-31 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/31 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: this distracts from the question asked, which concerns the first person pov, from the first person pov. That is the first person experience. [...] Comp accepts that both

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-31 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/31 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: As I said before there is a profound difference between the two. After Everett's thought experiment is over only ONE person is seen by a third party so it's easy to determine

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-30 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/30 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: Bruno asked me Do you think that you die in a self-duplication experience? and I said that depends on what the meaning of you is. Bruno responded with We have already agree

Re: String theory and superconductors and classical liquids...

2013-10-29 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Yeah and a chicken is a dog. Le 29 oct. 2013 03:41, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com a écrit : So matter is just maya-illusion. That is really religion- right? On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/10/28 Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com Bruno

Re: String theory and superconductors and classical liquids...

2013-10-29 Thread Quentin Anciaux
a taboo. I like to say: bad faith fears reason, bad reason fears faith. Bruno On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/10/28 Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com Bruno: The fact that something is enumerable does not entail that you can derive it from

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-29 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/29 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: If John Clark was lying and Bruno has not changed his mind and you is still the guy(s) who will remember having been in Helsinki then it is beyond dispute that YOU

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-29 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/29 Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com 2013/10/29 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: If John Clark was lying and Bruno has not changed his mind and you is still the guy(s) who will remember having been

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-28 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/28 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I give the two definition of the pronouns used in the reasoning, and often confused by the use of an identical term in natural language, but clearly distinguishes in UDA step

Re: String theory and superconductors and classical liquids...

2013-10-28 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/28 Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com Bruno: The fact that something is enumerable does not entail that you can derive it from PA, nor that it is a necessary part of physics. Richard: You got it backwards. The CY Compact manifolds are the machine that computes because they are

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-27 Thread Quentin Anciaux
You're just lying... You are the one treating things inconsistently, it's a shame your pride so high you can't even recognize it. Believe what you want to believe. Quentin 2013/10/27 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-27 Thread Quentin Anciaux
The following is a flow diagram of the conversation we've been having on this thread: 1) Point John Clarck mistakes. 2) John Clark ignores it. Repeat the same mistake ad nauseam. 3) goto 1 Quentin 2013/10/27 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Quentin Anciaux

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-27 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/27 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: I came across this today, which you might find of interest: http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9709032v1.pdf In particular section 3 goes to great pains to describe the

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-26 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Yes it's me... you're the one who is bragging for **years** about useless confusion that only exists in your mind. Quentin 2013/10/26 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: Well, you could always

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-26 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/26 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: Well, you could always reciprocate Quentin's courtesy and [...] Courtesy? This is the fellow who said: Your agenda is not to try to comprehend something,

Re: This is not a trick! (I'm SERIOUS)

2013-10-25 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Can you stop ? or is it too much to ask from you ? What do you think you achieve by doing that ? 2013/10/25 Stephen Lin sw...@post.harvard.edu Tomorrow this will be harder but today this is the easiest thing in the world. Bill Murray? Andie MacDowell? Yes I said yes I will Yes. Stream of

Re: This is not a trick! (I'm SERIOUS)

2013-10-25 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Ok, then continue, I'll filter you. It's a shame that new participant on the list will have to read your nonsense. Say hello to the boitakon. Bye. 2013/10/25 Stephen Lin sw...@post.harvard.edu How do I stop what I never started? On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-25 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/25 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Do you think that [you] die in a self-duplication experience? ^^^ We've been through this, it depends on who the hell you is. Is you

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-25 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/25 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: Be consistent, reject MWI, or ask *the same question* about the probability of *you* (who is you ? pinocchio maybe ?) In the MWI John Clark doesn't have to worry about who

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-25 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/25 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: We have already agree that you concerns the guy(s) who will remember having been in Helsinki. Fine, then obviously You will survive and equally obvious you will see

Re: String theory and superconductors and classical liquids...

2013-10-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/24 Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com ** ** ** ** *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Bruno Marchal *Sent:* Wednesday, October 23, 2013 5:45 AM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: String theory

Re: What's my name and what do you think I need to help me along my journey?

2013-10-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/24 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com Why is it that people who have faith in some kind of higher power I don't have faith in some kind of higher power, but still I don't see spamming non-sense as sense of humor. Quentin never seem to have a sense of humor? On Thu, Oct 24, 2013

Re: String theory and superconductors and classical liquids...

2013-10-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
for computation is unwarranted in a finite universe. In my paper I circumvent that limitation by assuming that the metaverse is the computational source of matter. http://vixra.org/abs/1303.0194 Richard On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: Computationalism

Re: String theory and superconductors and classical liquids...

2013-10-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com The recent observation of a galaxy 30 billion light years away, just 700 million years after the Big Bang, suggests that the universe is finite. On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: Comp does not assume universe at the start

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/24 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: That will not increase precision unless you give a name (and NOT a pronoun!) to the guy who wrote the diary, if its Mr. The Guy Who Is Experiencing Helsinki On October 21

Re: Dialetheism

2013-10-23 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Go meet Roger Please stop the spamming. 2013/10/23 Stephen Lin sw...@post.harvard.edu Ooops, I did it again, I played with your heart. On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialetheism Dialetheism is the view that

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-22 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/22 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 6:03 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/21/2013 9:16 AM, John Clark wrote: Let me put it in this way: accepting that P(W) = P(M) =1/2, with W and M describing the first person experiences of the

Re: I have a very good question but I don't know how to ask it...

2013-10-22 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/22 Stephen Lin sw...@post.harvard.edu Without coaching anyway assume an answer. Trust me, it really is on-optic; it has something to do with a supercomputer. Annywy, here does: Give that I am Neo, is it possible for me to bot attended and not addending the wedding of Tim Lee and Jess

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-21 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/21 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: When John Clark asks who is you? Bruno responds that he could no more answer that question than he could square a circle. The quote, please. John Clark will be happy

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-21 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/21 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: I don't give a damn about predictions, correct ones or incorrect ones, because they have nothing to do with what we were talking about, the sense of self. I only care if I

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/19 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: As I've said many times, being deterministic and being predictable is NOT the same thing. There is not *uncertainty* from the 3rd POV... nothing, zip, nada (both event

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/18 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 10/18/2013 12:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 18 Oct 2013, at 01:23, meekerdb wrote: On 10/16/2013 11:55 PM, Jason Resch wrote: I see your reference and raise you a reference back to section 4.1 of http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0312136

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/18 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 10/18/2013 10:48 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/10/18 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 10/18/2013 12:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 18 Oct 2013, at 01:23, meekerdb wrote: On 10/16/2013 11:55 PM, Jason Resch wrote: I see your

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-17 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/17 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: And I don't understand the difference between first person uncertainty and plain old fashioned uncertainty. The difference is that from 3rd POV it is deterministic

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-16 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/16 chris peck chris_peck...@hotmail.com * But that feeling only arises from the assumption (or gut feeling) that there is only one observer, both before and after the measurement.* Quite, it arises from a mistake which would vanish in a true 'comp practitioner'. The feeling that

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-16 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/16 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.comwrote: It was from the book The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III, a book I obtained and read in a large part based on you glowing review. :-) Did Everett use the word

Re: The probability problem in Everettian quantum mechanics

2013-10-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/15 Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com Bruno: On the contrary: I assume only that my brain (or generalized brain) is computable, then I show that basically all the rest is not. In everything, or just in arithmetic, the computable is rare and exceptional. Richard: Wow. This contradicts

Re: The probability problem in Everettian quantum mechanics

2013-10-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/15 Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com -- Forwarded message -- From: Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 6:54 AM Subject: Re: The probability problem in Everettian quantum mechanics To: everything-list@googlegroups.com 2013/10/15

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-10-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/15 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 5:39 AM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.comwrote: Alright, but this again leaves us at a crossroad: 1) You believe that teleportation is fundamentally impossible No. 2) You believe that teleportation is possible

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-10-07 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/7 chris peck chris_peck...@hotmail.com Hi Bruno * Are you saying that the step 3 would provide a logical reason to say no to the doctor, and thus abandoning comp?* I'm saying only the suicidal would expect a 50/50 chance of experiencing Moscow (or Washington) after teleportation

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-10-07 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/7 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 4:48 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: The H-guy turns into the M-guy, but they are not identical just as you are not identical with the Bruno Marchal of yesterday. This is true, but it's also something Bruno has said many

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-27 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/9/27 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: I do remember a conversation you had with Bruno about 5 years ago when you were discussing what a man in Helsinki would experience when undergoing the duplicator experiment.

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-12 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/9/12 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.comwrote: In a conference Dennet said that a country with religious soldiers would be defeated by a country ruled by engineers and economists. There is certainly some truth in

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-05 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/9/5 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:13 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: while consciousness may just the data processing feels, there are obviously going to be different feelings about different data processing (e.g. hope, fear, lust,...) Yes. So

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-05 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/9/5 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: Coercion is by persons, not by object or logical things... So if I were shipwrecked on a desert island then no matter how much I hated it there and wanted to get back home I would have

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-09-04 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/9/4 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: ** Can not comment, don't know what ASCII sequence free will means. You are merely being argumentative here. I AM NEVER ARGUMENTATIVE! You certainly do have a very

Re: Question for the QM experts here: quantum uncertainty of the past

2013-09-03 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/9/3 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 9/3/2013 6:14 AM, smi...@zonnet.nl wrote: Yes, that's also my favorite way of thinking about this, you are precisely that what you experience at any one time, and that may well include memories of the past. What was discussed earlier in this thread

Re: Is Determinism Falsifiable?

2013-09-03 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Since MWI is deterministic, and MWI has not beean falsfied... your statement is wrong. Quentin 2013/9/3 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com Determinism is not only falsifiable it has been falsified. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Is Determinism Falsifiable?

2013-09-02 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/9/2 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 9/2/2013 11:45 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: Is it scientific? As a general principle, determinism is meta-physics. I doubt that it can be strictly falsified because every possible test depends on auxiliary hypotheses which one might be willing to

Re: When will a computer pass the Turing Test?

2013-08-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/8/24 Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com ** ** ** ** *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *John Clark *Sent:* Friday, August 23, 2013 12:58 PM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: When will a computer

<    3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   >