On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 09:56:05AM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote:
> On 9/09/2017 9:36 am, Russell Standish wrote:
> >On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 05:08:39PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote:
> >>OK, proper time is taken from SR and applied only locally, so the
> >>concept is not rule
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elevant to phenomenology.
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a gap between 100% code coverage, and
correctly implementing the requirements...
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requires solving the preferred basis problem without reference to an
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On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 02:46:21PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote:
> On 15/11/2017 12:49 pm, Russell Standish wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:05:22AM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote:
> > > One of the strongest arguments for MWI was that it eliminates the concept
> > > of
t; is the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss, apparently. *
>
As Brent explained, if the universe is infinite in extent at t=0, it
remains infinite in extent at finite times.
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On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 10:54:51PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote:
> On 15/11/2017 5:02 pm, Russell Standish wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 02:46:21PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote:
> > > I said "one of the strongest"! I know that you want to define QM from the
>
On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:20:45AM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote:
> On 16/11/2017 9:14 am, Russell Standish wrote:
> > But not all measurements are measurements of the position of
> > something. What about measuring the voltage of a circuit using an A->D
> > converter?
>
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this list, and prevent these sorts of stupid confusions.
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On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 05:09:13PM -0800, Brent Meeker wrote:
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>
> On 11/27/2017 4:17 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 03:57:37PM -0500, John Clark wrote:
> > >wrote:
> > >
> > > > >
> > > > Your so
way, as I stated, this will be an
> exception. Try being tolerant. AG
In particular, ensemble theories of everything. For an introduction,
see my book "Theory of Nothing", or Tegmark's "Mathematical Universe".
But other "theories of everything"
coin lands on a hard surface, rather than the
tosser's hand, which is why that is usually insisted upon.
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On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 02:11:11PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote:
> On 3/12/2017 9:03 am, Russell Standish wrote:
> > The point being that the uncertainty in the coin's initial position is
> > itself due to the amplification of quantum uncertainty by classical
> > chaos.
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On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 12:18:02PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote:
> On 5/12/2017 11:53 am, Russell Standish wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 11:26:53AM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote:
> > > On 5/12/2017 3:15 am, Bruno Marchal wrote:
> > > > I think that is enough to get
ce in terms of z factor, which is related to their Doppler
shift, rather than an exlicit distance, as the latter vlaue is not
model independent.
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On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 08:03:48PM -0800, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote:
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>
> On Saturday, December 9, 2017 at 3:53:28 AM UTC, agrays...@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Saturday, December 9, 2017 at 2:40:12 AM UTC, Russell Standish wrote:
> >>
>
lines are shifted by the same amount. But the lines
are recognisable by the patterns - a bit like a bar code.
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eory. I have an idea for an outline of a proof of that contention,
> which I may get around to writing up sooner or later..
>
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n is dropped, since it is obvious from the way
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e still experiments directly testing the principle of
equivalence. A finding of a departure from it would be very big news!
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ect of consciousness or observerhood, since the continuous/discrete
distinction should not be controversial to anyone, and a lot in known
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On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 11:04:58AM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote:
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> On 19 Dec 2017, at 00:56, Russell Standish wrote:
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> > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 05:25:12PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > What is the difference you make between an instr
ssing from our reality.
If you subscribe to Deutsch's Turing tropic principle, then mechanism
= computationalism.
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On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 02:10:44PM -0800, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote:
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> On Saturday, December 23, 2017 at 2:11:32 PM UTC-7, Russell Standish wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 09:20:05AM -0800, agrays...@gmail.com
> > wrote:
> > >
> > &g
are linear, which I believe is what the model affirms,
> how can any measurement be non linear as it presumably is for spin
> measurements. AG*
>
Indeed that would be a problem. A sum of unitary operators need not be
unitary, though.
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operator of the form exp(iA) is unitary, where A is Hermitian. Trivial
when you see how to do it, but nevertheless I had to seek help from my
college tutor when I first encountered this :).
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> onlyevolution of the wf prior to measurement. AG *
Yes - that is exactly the measurement problem.
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f that reasoning proves
inconsistent with observed reality. In which case we've learnt something.
I'm not sure what else one could expect, though.
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nnecting simple dots? AG
>
I know what the Fermi paradox is. I was asking why a video about the
Roswell "incident" sheds any light on it?
TL; DW (too long, didn't watch - by analogy with TL; DR).
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the conclusion before reading the remainder.
You have to convince someone it is worth their while. Youtube videos
are mostly a waste of time in my experience.
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were
together. Communication via that common point in the past is the
classic definition of a local hidden variable.
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y of mind that Bruno et al keep saying
> is impossible?
>
This is an astute comment. The MGA (and Maudlin's argument) supposedly
works by producing a physical philosophical zombie under computationalism.
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On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 03:33:44PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote:
> On 6/01/2018 11:50 am, Russell Standish wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 02:22:08PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote:
> > > The original suggestion by Russell was that "our human consciousness _is_
> > >
On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 04:30:35PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote:
> On 6/01/2018 4:15 pm, Russell Standish wrote:
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> > Other things seem possible, such as the
> > extraordinary unlikelihood that all animals can be conscious.
>
> That is an extraordinary claim, and suffici
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hey should do bla" and "we should
do bla". The former might refer to (say) your local government council
- and the latter might refer to society in general.
Contrast: "They should do something about climate change" vs "We
should do something about climate change&qu
On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 01:52:00PM -0800, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Can't you appreciate the humor? AG
No - it came across as obtuse. If it was meant to be humour, it backfired.
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On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 02:06:23PM -0800, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote:
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>
> On Sunday, January 7, 2018 at 3:03:11 PM UTC-7, Russell Standish wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 01:52:00PM -0800, agrays...@gmail.com
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > C
years before the Chicxulub impact, for
instance. The The above mentioned paper puts the Antidpodes of
Chicxulub in NW Australia, which was certainly not true 65 million
years ago.
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depent origins, and ubiquity of
life. Likewise would finding life on Jovian/Saturnian moons. OTOH, if
these world prove barren of life, it strengthens the rarity of life in
the cosmos.
These experiments all sound feasible within the next 50 years or so.
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t;
They follow from the principle of conservation of momentum, also
sometimes known as Newton's first law.
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You can also come to the same conclusion using an extremum principle
such as Laplace's principle of least action, but for sheer intuition,
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Exactly - POVI is a choice, not a necessity. It makes the theories simpler.
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y of which is that one cannot implement a
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On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 07:14:16PM -0800, Brent Meeker wrote:
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>
> On 3/10/2018 5:19 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 04:14:13PM -0800, Brent Meeker wrote:
> > > We want POVI. We look for symmetries, which are no more than patterns,
>
On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 01:24:19PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote:
> From: *Russell Standish* <mailto:li...@hpcoders.com.au>>
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 10:17:01AM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote:
> > >
> > > My feeling is that we observe that the
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your favourite - the planarians), but even most insects cannot be
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Robinson Arithmetic is conscious too (plausibly even more) is more tricky.
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The premisses are already quite stretch :)
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On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 10:22:57PM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote:
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>
> On 3/31/2018 1:30 AM, Russell Standish wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 05:14:21PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote:
> > > Now, is a jellyfish conscious?
> > >
> > > I bet they are,
On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 08:25:59AM +0200, Telmo Menezes wrote:
> Hi Russell,
>
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 10:30 AM, Russell Standish
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 05:14:21PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote:
> >>
> >> Now, is a jellyfish conscious?
> >&g
gt; that it can prove enough of some special formula.
>
Isn't it true that the actual set of universal numbers rather depends
on one chosen enumeration? So universality is not a property of the
numbers per se?
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On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 08:08:50PM -0400, John Clark wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 6:15 PM, Russell Standish
> wrote:
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> >
> > *Yes, of course a Loebian machine is a type of Turing machine.*
>
>
> How can I determine if that particular Turing Machine is d
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tudied in dynamical systems
theory. Just doing a quick Google search indicates that I have been
unsuccessful in getting the term "open dimensional" adopted - it looks
like "unbounded dimensional" might have won the day :P.
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On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 11:41:34AM -0400, John Clark wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 9:06 PM, Russell Standish
> wrote:
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> >
> > you already said, quite wisely, that if you had correctly used the ZFC
> >> > axioms to produce a proof the Goldbach Conjecture wa
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On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 04:59:47PM -0700, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote:
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>
> On Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at 11:37:42 PM UTC, Russell Standish wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:36:29AM -0700, agrays...@gmail.com
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > >
ional is useful, in that you prevent your enemies
from exploiting the predictability of you actions if you were
perfectly rational.
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ame of Machiavellian
Intelligence theory.
But this implies that consciousness is identified with self-awareness?
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is not an optimal colour nowadays.
BTW - red-blue algae find oxygen poisonous, it was photosynthetic
plants that killed off most of the red-blue algae, setting the scene
for animals to arise, which depend on their oxygen waste gas.
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presence of oxygen. I couldn't find a quick statement of whether
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hich is the peak of the sun's spectrum. This
appears to be what evolution did with cyanobacteria, giving its
purply-red colour. Of course it would be better to absorb the whole
spectrum, and appear black, but evolution is not omnipotent :).
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> non relevant.
But step 8 only works for universes too feeble to run a UD.
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e story,
and is the (English translation of the) book for which the prize was give.
And note above that Bruno mixes up prize and price in English - they
are the same word in French (well technically homonyms) - prix.
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y for process on strings is
naturally Markovian. The latter portion of my proof, in particular
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bout certain cognitive skills which
helped our species be extraordinarily successful, and also gave us the
capability to understand algebraic topology.
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> wrote:
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> > I've been meaning to get this in publishable form, but time and other
> > commitments have gotten in my way.
> >
> >
> I
On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:50:05PM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote:
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>
> On 6/18/2018 4:44 AM, Steven Ridgway wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 01:25 Dr Russell Standish wrote:
> > > "But presumably the argument is about certain cognitive skills whi
settle the question this way: we'll each send a check to Brent
> Meeker, payable for $5000. Brent will then decide who is telling the truth
> about my papers with Carl Sagan. Brent will then send $9000 to the winner
> and keep $1000 for himself. If you don't agree, apologize an
e meaningless.
>
>
>
> > >
> > * It is physically impossible to move your pencil over a piece of paper
> > such that it writes a valid proof that 7 has more than 2 integer factors >
> > 0*
> >
>
> Yes, it is a physical law that the physic
servations, and consequently is a logic of empirical knowledge.
That this is so, seems vaguely plausible, built as it were on the
ideas of Theatetus. That it exhaustively captures all of empirical
science is decidedly less plausible IMHO, but there you go.
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> list:
Please don't. It is, as you say, bad enough that many people leave
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m of infinity to have a
> Hilbert Hostel.
>
> My axioms are only classical logic + Kxy = x and Sxyz = xz(yz).
>
Yes - but Deutsch's point would be: why just those axioms, and not say
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reached out to him about 6 months ago, he complained of being very
alone. I don't think he had heard of this list.
Maybe you were thinking of either Juergen Schmidhuber, or Marcus
Hutter, who were briefly involved on this list in the early days, and
both fellow Swiss (although Mar
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Mind, my friend would argue that everything and nothing are ineffable,
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rove that if
> mechanism is true, then we cannot assume more than arithmetic (or Turing
> equivalent) without being inconsistent.
That is surprising. Why would assuming the existence of real numbers
make one inconsistent? Otiose, perhaps, but not inconsistent, surely.
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