Re: Why Objective Values Exist

2007-08-19 Thread Giu1i0 Pri5c0
Hi Marc welcome back! I had not seen you here for months. Concerning objective values, as we have discussed in the past, I don't see any rational argument in support of their existence. For example if one has chosen to consider the elimination of the human species as a priority value (like some fu

Re: Sociological approach

2005-05-23 Thread Giu1i0 Pri5c0
This may be clarified by a paper that Richard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and I wrote together. http://www.futuretag.net/hitbang/2005/03/shadows-and-concept-of-self.php We would love hearing what you guys think. On 5/23/05, rmiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm approaching this as a sociologist w

Re: Help With Attribution

2005-05-22 Thread Giu1i0 Pri5c0
Yes I wrote it. How do you guys like it? G. On 5/23/05, Russell Standish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It appears to have been written by someone called Giulio Prisco, who > signs his name Giu1i0 Pri5c0, and is active in the Society for > Universal Immortalism. His home page is htt

Movie: WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW!?

2004-11-25 Thread Giu1i0 Pri5c0
Has anyone seen this movie? Looks interesting - santatcruztoday.com: This sure-to-be cult favorite is a hybrid of documentary and melodrama, combining a story about an unhappy, divorced photographer (Marlee Matlin) wandering the streets of Portland, Ore., with highly abstract theoretical constructs

Top scientist asks: is life all just a dream?

2004-11-18 Thread Giu1i0 Pri5c0
The Times: Professor Sir Martin Rees is to suggest that "life, the universe and everything" may be no more than a giant computer simulation with humans reduced to bits of software. Rees, Royal Society professor of astronomy at Cambridge University, will say that it is now possible to conceive of co

Quantum astronomy experiment proposed

2004-11-12 Thread Giu1i0 Pri5c0
Space.com: Quantum astronomy experiment proposed, possibly using the Allen Array Telescope and the narrow-band radio-wave detectors being build by the SETI Institute and the University of California, Berkeley.There are many ways we could go now in examining quantum results. If conscious observation

Shadows and smeared selves

2004-06-12 Thread Giu1i0 Pri5c0
In this note I try to outline my current thoughts on quantum physics, for your comments. I am sending this to a few mailing lists with overlapping memberships, so you may have received this twice or more. I apologise if this is the case and also for the very imprecise language and gross simplificat

Re: Papers of Lockwood, Albert-Loewer

2004-01-25 Thread Giu1i0 Pri5c0
for Synthese at http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0039-7857/contents, but it only goes back to 1997. You'll have to find the physical journal in an academic library. Or try writing to the authors and asking for a copy to be mailed to you. On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 10:52:09AM +, Giu1i0 Pri5c0 wrote: I wi

RE: Extended Response on Modern Physical theory as a basis for Ethical and Existential Nihilism

2004-01-22 Thread Giu1i0 Pri5c0
Interesting, and I agree with the last paragraph: making good choice increases the measure of the region of the multiverse where good choices have been made and everyone is better off. An alternative view of which I am thinking a lot is that our conscious thought processes actually take place in th

Papers of Lockwood, Albert-Loewer

2004-01-19 Thread Giu1i0 Pri5c0
I wish to read these 3 papers, which I have not found on the net in full text. Would anyone have them or know where they can be found? Thanks Albert, D and Loewer, B.: 1988, `Interpreting the Many Worlds Interpretation', Synthese, 77, 195-213 Lockwood, M. [1996a]: Many Minds Interpretations of

Shadows of reality

2004-01-16 Thread Giu1i0 Pri5c0
Some thoughts on the MWI for your comments. I am sending this to a few mailing lists with overlapping memberships, so you may have received this twice or more. I apologise if this is the case and also for the very imprecise language and gross simplifications and analogies that I am using to make my

Re: Is the universe computable?

2004-01-14 Thread Giu1i0 Pri5c0
Please correct me if I am wrong: Bruno believes that information, for example mathematical concepts and theorems, exist independently of their encoding in some physicsl systems (arithmetic realism); in other words, that the number 4 esists independently of the presence in the physical world of s

JOINING

2004-01-13 Thread Giu1i0 Pri5c0
Hi there. I have been reading the list for a quite long time, never posted so far. I wish to contribute to the ongoing discussion on computability of the universe, and future discussions, so this is my joining post. I studied theoretical physics in the 70s and 80s, then I moved to computer science