Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Stephen Paul King
to asking how we could communicate with someone outside of our light cone. I am trying to not assume that a space-time is defined a priori. Terren On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Terren, Good question! I ask that you take what

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Stephen Paul King
supporting the ability of more than one observer to communicate becomes quite difficult in the computationalist framework. Jason Terren On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Terren, Good question! I ask

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Stephen Paul King
sources that are millions of light-years away. This makes the notion of quantized space-time dubious. On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 4:14 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 January 2014 06:06, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear Terren, Good question! I ask that you take

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Stephen Paul King
to be carefully considered. On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 6:36 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 January 2014 11:20, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear LizR, I am trying to get a somewhat complicate question out and understood. Let me state it crudely: Given

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Stephen Paul King
conflict with Bruno's AR!) On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:02 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/10/2014 2:23 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Brent, Vaughn Pratt's dualist theory is consistent with QM and does show a mechanism that prohibits White Rabbits. It is intelligible

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Stephen Paul King
running in some UD)? On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:45 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/10/2014 9:05 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Brent, I will try a crude summary and hope to not be misunderstood... It starts with the Stone duality, a well known isomorphism between Boolean

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Stephen Paul King
marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 10 Jan 2014, at 22:51, meekerdb wrote: On 1/10/2014 1:04 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Jan 2014, at 23:00, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear LizR, That is the key question that remains, IMHO, unanswered. It is answered, completely. On Thu, Jan 9

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Stephen Paul King
Wait, Brent may have written that and I missattributed the quote. On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 2:51 AM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Bruno, You wrote: Comp does not predict the existence of the moon, but should predict the physical laws, that is, what is invariant

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-09 Thread Stephen Paul King
don't you look into such? Edgar On Thursday, January 9, 2014 1:26:16 AM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Brent, I have given my definition of reality previously, but here it is again. For some collection of observers that can communicate, a reality is that which

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-09 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-09 Thread Stephen Paul King
reality math, and those generalizations introduce the well known problems addressed by Godel, Bruno etc. which DO NOT apply to the actual logico-mathematical system of reality. Edgar On Thursday, January 9, 2014 9:04:39 AM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar, On Thu, Jan 9, 2014

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-09 Thread Stephen Paul King
, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar, On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net wrote: Stephen, I define 'Reality' in my book on the subject very simply as everything that exists. I denote everything that exist as 'the Total Universe' or simply Existence. The key

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-09 Thread Stephen Paul King
with them myself many years ago, but don't find much that applies to the present discussion, or that sheds much light on reality IMHO... Edgar On Thursday, January 9, 2014 12:53:08 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar, Check out this article by S. Wolfram: http

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-09 Thread Stephen Paul King
, 2014 at 1:55 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 January 2014 03:04, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear Edgar, On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Stephen, I define 'Reality' in my book on the subject very simply as everything

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-09 Thread Stephen Paul King
: On 1/9/2014 10:58 AM, LizR wrote: On 10 January 2014 06:50, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear Bruno, I have to agree with Alberto on this point. On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.bewrote: On 09 Jan 2014, at 16:30, Alberto G

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-09 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-09 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-09 Thread Stephen Paul King
a definition of computation: Any transformation of information. On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Stephen, There is NO such requirement. See my response to Liz.. Edgar On Thursday, January 9, 2014 8:45:40 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-09 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Tegmark's New Book

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Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-09 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Brent, On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:27 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/9/2014 8:26 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Brent, On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:19 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/9/2014 7:07 PM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: No Liz, I told you what

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-08 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear LizR, Tegmark's What data feels like when it is processes seems to require some ability to tell the difference whether it is being processed or it merely exists as Platonic strings of numbers, No? Did my hypothesis using Wheeler's Surprise 20 questions idea make any sense? My claim

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-08 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Brent, I agree with you 100%! But that seems to imply that there is something real about the physical. I think that we can obtain a form of realism that does not involve a god's eye view by appealing to the possibility of coherent communication between multiple observers. Observers

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-08 Thread Stephen Paul King
? On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 8:26 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 January 2014 14:16, Stephen Paul King stephe...@charter.net wrote: Dear LizR, Tegmark's What data feels like when it is processes seems to require some ability to tell the difference whether it is being processed or it merely

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-08 Thread Stephen Paul King
as such can be defined arbitrarily to suit one's whim. On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:11 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/8/2014 5:20 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Brent, I agree with you 100%! But that seems to imply that there is something real about the physical. I think

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2014-01-03 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2014-01-02 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2014-01-01 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, I think that we should start with 1p - the solipsist - as fundamental and then work from there to solve the problem of the other which will give us a 3p. On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 5:20 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 31 Dec 2013, at 19:59, Stephen Paul King wrote

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2014-01-01 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 5:39 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Dear Stephen, On 31 Dec 2013, at 20:19, Stephen Paul King wrote: I really do appreciate the details! On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 5:04 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 30 Dec 2013, at 19:33

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-31 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-31 Thread Stephen Paul King
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 30 Dec 2013, at 19:44, meekerdb wrote: On 12/30/2013 2:07 AM, LizR wrote: On 30 December 2013 21:02, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear Bruno, Why do you not consider an isomorphism

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-31 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-31 Thread Stephen Paul King
, December 31, 2013 11:57:46 AM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar, I am curious. Have you every read A. Wheeler's It from Bit? Did you understand the concept of the Surprise 20 Questions game? On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net wrote: Jason, Not quite

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-31 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-31 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-31 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-31 Thread Stephen Paul King
: On 30 Dec 2013, at 21:43, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear LizR and Brent, I will try to go at this from a different direction. What exactly does fundamental level mean? Does there have to be something fundamental? Fundamental is often used in two senses. either as very important

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-31 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-30 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-30 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-30 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Brent, On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 1:40 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/30/2013 1:56 AM, LizR wrote: On 30 December 2013 20:53, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Hi LizR, Round and round we go... This sentence It emerges because instants

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-30 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear LizR, On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 4:23 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 December 2013 07:40, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/30/2013 1:56 AM, LizR wrote: On 30 December 2013 20:53, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi LizR, Round and round we

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-30 Thread Stephen Paul King
...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/30/2013 1:56 AM, LizR wrote: On 30 December 2013 20:53, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi LizR, Round and round we go... This sentence It emerges because instants are connected to each other in a way that makes there appear

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-30 Thread Stephen Paul King
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 4:49 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/30/2013 1:44 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Brent, But then the explanation for *this* is that it's just a random one we happen to exist in. I don't see that as any better than saying that somethings happen

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-30 Thread Stephen Paul King
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 5:07 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 December 2013 10:30, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear LizR, On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 4:23 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 December 2013 07:40, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-30 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-30 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-30 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi LizR, On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 9:19 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 December 2013 09:43, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear LizR and Brent, I will try to go at this from a different direction. What exactly does fundamental level mean? Does there have

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-30 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi LizR, On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 9:53 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 December 2013 15:37, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Why is this necessary? Sure, physics has come a long way since Democritus and his Atoms in a void. But we have reached a point where

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-30 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Brent, On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 10:20 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/30/2013 6:09 PM, LizR wrote: On 31 December 2013 07:44, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/30/2013 2:07 AM, LizR wrote: On 30 December 2013 21:02, Stephen Paul King stephe

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, I think that you are reading too much into what I wrote. Interleaving. On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 28 Dec 2013, at 17:07, Stephen Paul King wrote: I agree with what you wrote to Richard. If we then consider interactions between

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-29 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Edgar, I like Kevin Knuth's theory of emergent space time. It is far more simple and does not need to get into quantum aspects other than a basic notion of an observer. An observer is a simple entity whose state is changed as the result of an observation/interaction: A nice video of one

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-29 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-29 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-29 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Jason, So what is turning the knob on the values of y (or x)? On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Brent, I have a persisting question. How

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-29 Thread Stephen Paul King
wrote: On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi Jason, So what is turning the knob on the values of y (or x)? Nothing, the whole graph exists at once, but y varies as x varies. Why does x=1,y=9 have to be destroyed to make room for x

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-29 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Jason, On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 1:20 AM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Jason, You seem to be ignoring the role of the transitory that is involved in the discussion here. I am

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-29 Thread Stephen Paul King
it On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 2:43 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 December 2013 19:36, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Hi Jason, On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 1:20 AM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Stephen Paul King stephe

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-28 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-28 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 27 Dec 2013, at 17:51, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 25 Dec 2013, at 18:40, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Are we

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-28 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 28 Dec 2013, at 04:39, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Jason, ISTM that the line For each program we have generated that has not halted, execute one instruction of it for each (Program p

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-28 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 7:09 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 28 Dec 2013, at 04:56, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi Jason, Any program, and whether or not it ever terminates can

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-28 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 28 Dec 2013, at 05:03, Stephen Paul King wrote: I ask this because I am studying Carl Hewitt's Actor Model... Also know today as object oriented languages. c++ win against smaltalk, which won against

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-28 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 28 Dec 2013, at 05:27, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi LizR and Jason, Responding to both of you. I don't understand the claim of determinism is random noise is necessary for the computations. Turing

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-28 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-28 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 28 Dec 2013, at 07:34, LizR wrote: On 28 December 2013 19:31, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Computed how? By what? I know the answer to this one! To quote Brent -- He proposes

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-28 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-28 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-28 Thread Stephen Paul King
them. On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 6:56 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/28/2013 3:17 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Brent, Does it necessarily have to be one or the other? Could both be true in a sense? Consider how QM has a matrix formulation and a wave function

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-28 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
observer's point of view that assumes a choice of Godel numbering scheme. Something doesn't seem right about this! On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 5:50 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 December 2013 05:51, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: It has always seemed to me that UDA

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 December 2013 11:55, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Hi LizR, That is what is not explicitly explained! I could see how one might make an argument based on Godel numbers and a choice of a numbering scheme could show the existence

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Jason, Interleaving below. On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:03 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 December 2013 11:55, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Hi LizR, That is what

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
the path that connects a pair of observers, I think, is equivalent to computing the smooth diffeomorphism between the pair of manifolds that each experiences as a world. On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Stephen Paul King

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi Jason, Could you discuss the trace of the UD that LizR mentioned? How is it computed? Could you write an explicit example? I have never been able to grok it. Bruno has

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi Jason, Could you discuss the trace of the UD that LizR mentioned? How is it computed? Could you write an explicit example? I have never been able to grok it. Bruno has written an actual

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
of a true theorem, then how is it a fact? On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi Jason, Could you discuss the trace of the UD that LizR mentioned? How

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Cool! On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:52 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Jason, ISTM that the line For each program we have generated that has not halted, execute one instruction

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
How do we distinguish a program from a string of random numbers. (Consider OTP encryptions). On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi Jason, Any program

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi jason, Do programs have to be deterministic. What definition of deterministic are you using? On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:54 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 December 2013 16:44, Stephen Paul King

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
I ask this because I am studying Carl Hewitt's Actor Model... On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi jason, Do programs have to be deterministic. What definition of deterministic are you using? On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Jason

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
in binary. If it is a finite string, how do we know that it is a Turing machine program? On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi Jason, The first, second, 10th

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Jason, On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: How do we distinguish a program from a string of random numbers. (Consider OTP encryptions). By we do you mean

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Jason, It is Markov... OK. On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi jason, Do programs have to be deterministic. What definition of deterministic are you

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
If it is Markov, the BB problem automatically follows. On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi Jason, It is Markov... OK. On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:03 PM

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
talking about sequences of computations, and befores and afters. How can sequences occur if there's no time? And how does time arise? Seems awfully unrealistic to me Edgar On Friday, December 27, 2013 11:11:04 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar, In Bruno's Platonia

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Jason, On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi Jason, It is not a question of whether or not that binary string refers to anything that is true or not, only

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
This low measure, how is its lowness determined? What is doing the comparing operation? On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: If it is Markov, the BB problem

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Kindest Regards, Stephen Paul King Senior Researcher Mobile: (864) 567-3099 stephe...@provensecure.com http://www.provensecure.us/ “This message (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Why do real world computers use noise oracles, or their equivalent? On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:31 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 December 2013 17:27, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Hi LizR and Jason, Responding to both of you. I don't understand the claim

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