Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-26 Thread Stephen Paul King
s, or whether or not more than > one present moment exists, so for what reason should we believe that the > current present moment will disappear and be replaced with a new future > moment? > > The idea that time flows, when followed to its logical ends, seems to > undermine the ver

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-26 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Jason, As many as are possible. On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:51 AM, Stephen Paul King < > stephe...@provensecure.com> wrote: > >> Dear Jason, >> >> I would not say " that only

Re: Church thesis => non computable functions exist (Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
is is a concept almost identical to > what Lou Kauffman uses in his notion of eigenforms. > > > It is the Dx = "xx" method. I don't see what is Heraclitean. On the > contrary, it is Parmenidian, and the Heraclitean aspect is recovered by the > "& p" n

Re: Church thesis => non computable functions exist (Re: Edge.org: 2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The Computational Metaphor

2014-01-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
hal wrote: > > On 27 Jan 2014, at 01:36, Stephen Paul King wrote: > > > Like I have written previously, I am past the point of buying the idea > that there is a Reality out there independent of us that we passively come > to experience. I am tired of explanations that ask us

Kevin Knuth's emergent spacetime

2014-01-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
, a nice alternative to the "block universe" concept. -- 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 individu

A nice semi-formal discussion that includes an example of a "computational space"

2014-02-05 Thread Stephen Paul King
arious forms of reprogramming, or reconfiguring, the propagation of information for multipartite statistics and in quantum field theory. -- Kindest Regards, Stephen Paul King -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To

Re: Amoeba's Secret, by Bruno Marchal available from Kindle store

2014-03-07 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Russel and Kim, I remember fondly when the translation of Bruno's thesis was being discussed. I am very happy to see the results of your hard work. Thank you for doing this! I will be buying a copy of it asap. :-) On Tuesday, March 4, 2014 1:43:05 AM UTC-5, Russell Standish wrote: > > H

Re: The Shale unconventional oil play is just a bubble (and one that is about to burst) -- reserves have been wildly overstated.

2014-04-04 Thread Stephen Paul King
This article is packed full of falsehoods that a simple bit of research could correct. read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shale As to its main point, all predictions are based on models. Models are never the "real thing". Duh! So some "expert" has a wrong model. Big News! LOL. What is the poin

Re: [foar] COMP => no cloning?

2014-04-04 Thread Stephen Paul King
All of those "different versions of you" have slightly different quantum states, or else they would be exactly this "you" and not "a different version". There is no contradiction. On Monday, March 24, 2014 5:55:47 PM UTC-4, yanniru wrote: > > According to MWI I am not unique for there are many v

Re: The Shale unconventional oil play is just a bubble (and one that is about to burst) -- reserves have been wildly overstated.

2014-04-04 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Climate models

2014-04-04 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Climate models

2014-04-04 Thread Stephen Paul King
some technology will it all may be > recoverable What have you been reading? > > > > *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: > everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Paul King > *Sent:* Friday, April 04, 2014 3:33 PM > > *To:* everything-list@goog

Re: Climate models

2014-04-04 Thread Stephen Paul King
t; everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Paul King > > > > Here is the thing. You are complete discounting future technological > advancements in your analysis. 50 years ago, no one considered shale to be > a source ore for hydrocarbons. Soon enough we will be syphoning h

Re: Climate models

2014-04-04 Thread Stephen Paul King
at 9:25 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: > > > > > *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: > everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Paul King > > > > Here is the thing. You are complete discounting future technological > advancements in yo

Re: Climate models

2014-04-04 Thread Stephen Paul King
; > *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: > everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Paul King > > > > Here is the thing. You are complete discounting future technological > advancements in your analysis. 50 years ago, no one considered shale to be &

Re: Climate models

2014-04-04 Thread Stephen Paul King
taken to the absurd - why > > not include all the uranium in the solar system, our entire galaxy - > > after all who knows maybe someday with some technology will it all > > may be recoverable What have you been reading? > > > > > > > > *From:*everything

Re: Climate models

2014-04-04 Thread Stephen Paul King
Again. One does not harness such a beast. One learns to ride it. On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: > > > > > *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: > everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Paul King > *Sent:* Friday, A

Re: Climate models

2014-04-04 Thread Stephen Paul King
ones that I built for myself. The data is hard to get... On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:09 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: > > > > > *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: > everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Paul King > > > > "are

Re: Climate models

2014-04-04 Thread Stephen Paul King
This data is interesting: http://www.indeed.com/salary/Green-Growth-Ventures-LLC.html On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:09 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: > > > > > *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: > everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Paul King &g

Re: Climate models

2014-04-04 Thread Stephen Paul King
4, 2014 at 11:09 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: > > > > > *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: > everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Paul King > > > > "are betting the destiny of planet earth that these hypothetical future > tec

Re: Climate models

2014-04-06 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-08-28 Thread Stephen Paul King
Are our fears of AI running amuck and killing random persons based on unfounded assumptions? On Monday, August 25, 2014 3:20:24 PM UTC-4, cdemorsella wrote: > > AI is being developed and funded primarily by agencies such as DARPA, NSA, > DOD (plus MIC contractors). After all smart drones with in

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-08-28 Thread Stephen Paul King
to be "sane"? What is sanity anyway? Another question is: Would AI have a view of the universe that can be matched up with ours? If not, how would we expect it to "see the world" that it interacts with? Our worlds and that of AI may be disjoint! On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 12:

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-08-30 Thread Stephen Paul King
wrote: > > > > > *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: > everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Paul King > > > > Are our fears of AI running amuck and killing random persons based on > unfounded assumptions? > > > > Perhap

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-01 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-01 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-01 Thread Stephen Paul King
ng List" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/everything-list/YJeHJO5dNqQ/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to eve

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-01 Thread Stephen Paul King
ark wrote: > On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Stephen Paul King < > stephe...@provensecure.com> wrote: > > > Hold it! Where is the information about the physical system required to >> run that 750 Meg of information contained? >> > > DNA contains informatio

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-01 Thread Stephen Paul King
014 at 1:03 PM, Stephen Paul King < > stephe...@provensecure.com> wrote: > > > Hold it! Where is the information about the physical system required >> to run that 750 Meg of information contained? >> > > DNA contains information on how to make stuff but it doesn&

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-01 Thread Stephen Paul King
rything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-01 Thread Stephen Paul King
ay, September 01, 2014 10:55 AM > > *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: AI Dooms Us > > > > On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Stephen Paul King < > stephe...@provensecure.com> wrote: > > > > > Hold it! Where is the information about the phy

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-01 Thread Stephen Paul King
e Morsella' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > > > > *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: > everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Paul King > *Sent:* Monday, September 01, 2014 4:03 PM > > *To:* everythi

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-01 Thread Stephen Paul King
t; > *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: > everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Paul King > *Sent:* Monday, September 01, 2014 2:53 PM > > *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: AI Dooms Us > > > > Hi Chris, > >

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-01 Thread Stephen Paul King
st@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Paul King > *Sent:* Monday, September 01, 2014 5:38 PM > > *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: AI Dooms Us > > > > Hi Chris, > > > >I agree. What we see in the current development is, literally, &g

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-02 Thread Stephen Paul King
ttps://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-02 Thread Stephen Paul King
nd an email to > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kindest

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-02 Thread Stephen Paul King
e required to exist and to be sequentiable properly. On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 9:48 PM, LizR wrote: > On 3 September 2014 12:43, Stephen Paul King > wrote: > >> Hi LizR, >> >>My point about Aliens being AGI is simple. A sufficiently advanced >> alien civilizatio

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-02 Thread Stephen Paul King
that distributed computation is an AGI, we would never know it is there and neither would it know we are here. On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 11:23 PM, LizR wrote: > On 3 September 2014 15:09, Stephen Paul King > wrote: > >> Hi LizR, >> >> But here is the thing: the

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-02 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi LizR, Sequentiable means that the correct sequence of operations occurs. Information is sensitive to orderings after all. 101001010010 is not the same number as 00100110001 On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 11:23 PM, LizR wrote: > On 3 September 2014 15:09, Stephen Paul King > wrote: &

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-02 Thread Stephen Paul King
tion" behaviors associated - See Dawkin's The extended Phenotype <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Extended_Phenotype> - Humans are quite capable of becoming members of a sufficiently expressive language as silicon hardware... On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 11:57 PM, LizR wrote: > On 3 Septe

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-02 Thread Stephen Paul King
Modulo decryption On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 11:59 PM, LizR wrote: > On 3 September 2014 15:45, Stephen Paul King > wrote: > >> Hi LizR, >> >> Sequentiable means that the correct sequence of operations occurs. >> Information is sensitive to orderings a

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-03 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Chris, Could you send me your thoughts about dependency injection to my gmail address so that we can continue? kingstephenp...@gmail.com On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Stephen Paul King < stephe...@provensecure.com> wrote: > Hi Chris, > >Could we discuss this further

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-03 Thread Stephen Paul King
t of some kind? Or a > 'mental nightpot'? as long as we supply, we last. Then we are out. > (A similarly unfounded fantasy - just as the so called 'scientific' ones). > John M > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Stephen Paul King < > s

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-03 Thread Stephen Paul King
Umm, not really. It is "exploitation". On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 9:43 PM, LizR wrote: > On 4 September 2014 13:38, Stephen Paul King > wrote: > >> Hi John, >> >>"why would have want the Zookeepers intelligence from the Earthlings? >> "

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-03 Thread Stephen Paul King
Humans interacting with each other form very nice (in terms of expressiveness <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressive_power>) adaptive networks. On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Stephen Paul King < stephe...@provensecure.com> wrote: > Umm, not really. It is "exploitation&q

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-03 Thread Stephen Paul King
Umm, explain: "Absorbed". I'm not groking it... On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 9:46 PM, LizR wrote: > On 4 September 2014 13:45, Stephen Paul King > wrote: > >> Umm, not really. It is "exploitation". >> >> Only if you aren't absorbed. Otherwise

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-03 Thread Stephen Paul King
Zerg <http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Overmind>! ? On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 9:46 PM, LizR wrote: > On 4 September 2014 13:45, Stephen Paul King > wrote: > >> Umm, not really. It is "exploitation". >> >> Only if you aren't absorbed. Otherwise

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-03 Thread Stephen Paul King
appen. It always goes the opposite direction: minds tend to diverge and become diverse and not merge to an infinite limit. Merging actually destroys information. Witness the Black Hole. On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 9:53 PM, LizR wrote: > On 4 September 2014 13:48, Stephen Paul Ki

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-03 Thread Stephen Paul King
3, 2014 at 9:53 PM, LizR wrote: > On 4 September 2014 13:48, Stephen Paul King > wrote: > >> Zerg <http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Overmind>! ? >> >> Well, quite. I believe the name comes from "Childhood's End" although > obviously Olaf Staple

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-03 Thread Stephen Paul King
​Right! Damping down random fluctuations in one's computer is an optimization move. Oh!, your thinking in more "Borg" terms, re: absorption​ On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 10:25 PM, LizR wrote: > On 4 September 2014 14:06, Stephen Paul King > wrote: > >> OTOH,

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-03 Thread Stephen Paul King
But something is amiss! Why would the OverLords wish to share their largess with us? On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 10:25 PM, LizR wrote: > On 4 September 2014 14:06, Stephen Paul King > wrote: > >> OTOH, becoming capable of exploiting computational resources that are >> "fr

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-03 Thread Stephen Paul King
Are the resources available to the OverLords that would allow the sharing to be "cost-free" then it would make no difference, otherwise On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 10:37 PM, LizR wrote: > On 4 September 2014 14:31, Stephen Paul King > wrote: > >> But something is amiss

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-04 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi, I am looking for any papers on the effects of allowing neural networks to couple to each other On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 4:16 AM, LizR wrote: > On 4 September 2014 17:02, Stephen Paul King > wrote: > >> Are the resources available to the OverLords that would allow th

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-04 Thread Stephen Paul King
nd all its topics, send an email to > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-04 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-04 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi LizR, I will repeat my question: What makes us think that the AGI will be aware that we exist? On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:21 PM, LizR wrote: > On 5 September 2014 00:38, Stephen Paul King > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >>OTOH, one can control the available re

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-04 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-04 Thread Stephen Paul King
et the machines to interpret the data patterns in ways consistent with how we do. On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 9:08 PM, LizR wrote: > On 5 September 2014 12:58, Stephen Paul King > wrote: > >> Hi LizR, >> >>I will repeat my question: What makes us think that the

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-04 Thread Stephen Paul King
it interacts with every > day. In this particular scenario, it seems very unlikely it wouldn't be > aware that other people existed. > > (Excuse me, I have to go AFK for a bit. I need to recharge my batteries...) > > > > On 5 September 2014 13:08, LizR wrote: > >

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-04 Thread Stephen Paul King
o reason to > believe for instance that we couldn't carry on a conversation with an AI of > sufficient cognitive ability (and the motivation to do so). > > Terren > > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Stephen Paul King < > stephe...@provensecure.com> wrote: >

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-04 Thread Stephen Paul King
I agree, but I strongly suspect that one does not "program" an AGI, we would "grow" it and "teach" it On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:15 AM, LizR wrote: > On 5 September 2014 15:13, Stephen Paul King > wrote: > >> But you seem to assume that it h

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-04 Thread Stephen Paul King
We learn of each other by interacting this becomes communication once languages emerge... On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:16 AM, LizR wrote: > On 5 September 2014 15:18, Stephen Paul King > wrote: > >> Sure, that would set up synchronization of sensory data input streams, >

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-04 Thread Stephen Paul King
Nah, I get what you mean. Connecting an AGI to a body is one way of teaching it to recognize us, but do we really want to do that? On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:18 AM, LizR wrote: > On 5 September 2014 16:08, Stephen Paul King > wrote: > >> We are freaking AGI ourselves, operatin

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-05 Thread Stephen Paul King
ntionally created by other 'intelligence'. It reminds me of the debates in the 19th century about the origin of life. On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 7:10 AM, LizR wrote: > On 5 September 2014 16:42, Stephen Paul King > wrote: > >> Nah, I get what you mean. Connecting an AGI to

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-05 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-05 Thread Stephen Paul King
com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer > > > On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Stephen Paul King < > stephe...@provensecure.com> wrote: > >> AFAIK, if the AGI and humanity are not competing for the same resources, >> no conflict need arise... >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 a

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-05 Thread Stephen Paul King
AM, Terren Suydam wrote: > http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer > > > On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Stephen Paul King < > stephe...@provensecure.com> wrote: > >> AFAIK, if the AGI and humanity are not competing for the same resources, >> no confli

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-05 Thread Stephen Paul King
y that bears on the potential > realities of AGI. > > > On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Stephen Paul King < > stephe...@provensecure.com> wrote: > >> Hi Terren, >> >> Ah, nice link. Thank you. Does the assumption of a finite and fixed set >> of resource

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-05 Thread Stephen Paul King
an email to > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kindest

Re: my "artificial scientist"

2014-09-05 Thread Stephen Paul King
Very Nice Telmo! We need to talk! I am working with Marius Muliga and Lou Kauffman and others on a form of 'software computer" that might run on top of your networks! See: http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.4333 On Friday, September 5, 2014 8:20:20 AM UTC-4, telmo_menezes wrote: > > Hi all, > > Sinc

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-07 Thread Stephen Paul King
aybe I am not giving most people enough credit. > > -Chris > > > > On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 3:13 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List < > everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: > everythin

Fish can communicate and UNDERSTAND each other!

2014-09-08 Thread Stephen Paul King
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/09/08/when-your-preys-in-a-hole-and-you-dont-have-a-pole-use-a-moray/ -- Kindest Regards, Stephen Paul King Senior Researcher Mobile: (864) 567-3099 stephe...@provensecure.com http://www.provensecure.us/ “This message (including any

Re: Higgs Boson particle, a.k.a. the "God particle," could end the universe

2014-09-08 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi, Has any one figured out how Hawking for that number and will you explain it to us? Do energies of that scale even occur in the formation of black holes? On Sunday, September 7, 2014 11:17:19 PM UTC-4, cdemorsella wrote: > > What do the physicists on this list think about Hawkins recen

Re: Higgs Boson particle, a.k.a. the "God particle," could end the universe

2014-09-09 Thread Stephen Paul King
gt; > > On 9 September 2014 17:46, Stephen Paul King > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >>Has any one figured out how Hawking for that number and will you >> explain it to us? Do energies of that scale even occur in the formation of >> black holes? >> >> &g

Re: Higgs Boson particle, a.k.a. the "God particle," could end the universe

2014-09-09 Thread Stephen Paul King
le. > > > On 9 September 2014 17:46, Stephen Paul King > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >>Has any one figured out how Hawking for that number and will you >> explain it to us? Do energies of that scale even occur in the formation of >> black holes? >> >&g

Re: Higgs Boson particle, a.k.a. the "God particle," could end the universe

2014-09-09 Thread Stephen Paul King
e the results, even in principle. > > > On 9 September 2014 17:46, Stephen Paul King > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Has any one figured out how Hawking for that number and will you >> explain it to us? Do energies of that scale even occur in the formation of >

Re: Higgs Boson particle, a.k.a. the "God particle," could end the universe

2014-09-09 Thread Stephen Paul King
://groups.google.com/d/topic/everything-list/N640uTPeGn8/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http:

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-19 Thread Stephen Paul King
04 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 01 Sep 2014, at 17:57, Stephen Paul King wrote: > > Hi Brent, > >Have you seen any studies of the "Ameoba dubia > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychaos_dubium>" that look into what > their genome is expressing? >

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-19 Thread Stephen Paul King
look right... On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:22 PM, LizR wrote: > Does this mean evolution is intelligent but (probably) not conscious? > > > > On 20 September 2014 03:01, Stephen Paul King > wrote: > >> Dear Bruno, >> >>I agree, this introduces the possibil

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-14 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Brent, I have had a couple of experiences that proved to me that there exists something like the theist God. Things that I can not explain otherwise are some kind of "divine intervention" that saved my life. Could there be an explanation that is completely secular? I am open to such, but

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-14 Thread Stephen Paul King
legroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kindest Regards, Stephen Paul King Senior Researcher Mobile: (864) 5

Reversing time = local reversal of thermodynamic arrows?

2014-10-14 Thread Stephen Paul King
structure that would modulate decoherence. This "decoherence" thing, IMHO, needs to be looked at carefully. In deference to Bruno, I should ask a question relevant to the ongoing discussions. Is a finite universe with locally reversible time consistent as a 1p world? -- Kindest Regards

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visi

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
is> of adjoint categories <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functor_category>. I can't find a good mathematical description of the concept yet... On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Stephen Paul King < > stephe.

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Telmo, On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Stephen Paul King < > stephe...@provensecure.com> wrote: > >> Hi Telmo, >> >>You wrote: "If I understand the ideas in Mitra's paper correc

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-17 Thread Stephen Paul King
view and tracing out all distinctions of computations (modulo complexity class) and hardware (modulo resource availability), otherwise I thing we agree. On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 16 Oct 2014, at 16:48, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: Reversing time = local reversal of thermodynamic arrows?

2014-11-06 Thread Stephen Paul King
ry would simply > deliver. Something mind boggling before, like emergence, suddenly > understood as something very simple and invariant that doesn't explain > emergence or talk about levels or scales, because all of that is about to > be > > > On Wednesday, October 15, 20

Re: Reversing time = local reversal of thermodynamic arrows?

2014-11-08 Thread Stephen Paul King
dict > the first assumption!!! > > > > 2014-10-15 2:14 GMT+02:00 Stephen Paul King >: > >> Hi, >> >>I re-read S. Mitra's paper <http://arxiv.org/pdf/0902.3825v2.pdf> >> again and it made more sense than before if I assumed that the reversible >

Re: Reversing time = local reversal of thermodynamic arrows?

2014-11-09 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi LizR, Interesting! On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 3:11 AM, LizR wrote: > On 9 November 2014 14:25, Stephen Paul King wrote: > >> Hi Alberto, >> >>Is there really a global thermodynamic arrow of time? We can only >> infer its existence based on theoretical

Re: Reversing time = local reversal of thermodynamic arrows?

2014-11-09 Thread Stephen Paul King
n AFAIK > > 2014-11-09 2:25 GMT+01:00 Stephen Paul King : > >> Hi Alberto, >> >>Is there really a global thermodynamic arrow of time? We can only >> infer its existence based on theoretical organizations of data that we >> collect. AFAIK, all "arr

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Bruno, Why does an entire universe need to be simulated? Could not just finite portions of some universe be simulated, that which is perceived by the "observers" (however such might be defined). Why does it seem that a "god's eye view needs to be simulated? BTW, David Albert's argument ag

Re: The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 13 Dec 2013, at 19:37, Stephen Paul King wrote: > > Hi Bruno, > >Why does an entire universe need to be simulated? > > > ? > > If "I" (third person self-reference) is Turing emulable, th

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
Surely the maths we "made up" to deal with the "classical" world applies > to quantum mechanics, too? Or are you saying that we had to make up a new > load of maths to deal with QM, and that "quantum maths" is incommensurate > with "Relativistic mat

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
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Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
, QM does not. There is no such a thing as a "view from nowhere" nor a single narrative of all events in a QM consistent universe. On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 9:42 PM, LizR wrote: > On 17 December 2013 15:33, Stephen Paul King > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Mon,

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
An observer in such a univer could never count to 17... On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 9:42 PM, LizR wrote: > On 17 December 2013 15:34, Stephen Paul King > wrote: > >> Hi Liz, >> >> Yes! Consider a universe with only 16 objects in it. >> > > What about

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