Re: Amoeba's Secret openly available under CC-BY license

On Friday 13 September 2024 at 11:47:31 UTC+12 Bruce Kellett wrote: On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 9:28 AM Liz R wrote: Yes I wondered about that, but it's possible that physics isn't *intrinsically* random. No, that isn't possible. Randomness is intrinsic, and not derivable from

Re: Amoeba's Secret openly available under CC-BY license

On Friday 13 September 2024 at 12:20:01 UTC+12 Russell Standish wrote: One of the consequences of the universal dovetailer argument is that if conciousness is computational, then physics is not. That's interesting. I don't see how that could happen, would you mind elaborating? (I've read "The

Re: Amoeba's Secret openly available under CC-BY license

domness. > > Brent > > > > On 9/12/2024 3:10 PM, Liz R wrote: > > On the subject of whether consciousness is computation (or is it > "supervenes on computation" or something? Anyway...) - if it turns out that > physics is computable, that undercuts that qu

Re: Amoeba's Secret openly available under CC-BY license

On the subject of whether consciousness is computation (or is it "supervenes on computation" or something? Anyway...) - if it turns out that physics is computable, that undercuts that question, in that assuming consciousness is the product of physics, it must also be. the product of computation

Re: Amoeba's Secret openly available under CC-BY license

hursday 12 September 2024 at 19:10:55 UTC+12 Russell Standish wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 11:48:02PM -0700, Liz R wrote: > > Thanks, Russell. Bruno tried to explain this to me a while ago but I > probably > > didn't take it all in. Am I right in thinking this has somethi

Re: Amoeba's Secret openly available under CC-BY license

t as an oracle, while it appears any area of space-time contains finite data (the Deckenstein bound?) - does that make it Turing complete, in principle? Or am I talking nonsense? On Thursday 12 September 2024 at 18:39:30 UTC+12 Russell Standish wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 09:40:32PM

Re: Amoeba's Secret openly available under CC-BY license

o only posits a small part of mathematics as true. > I'm not sure how he relates "true" and "exists". > > Brent > > > > On 9/11/2024 8:36 PM, Liz R wrote: > > The question is whether or not maths exists independently of the material > unive

Re: Amoeba's Secret openly available under CC-BY license

The question is whether or not maths exists independently of the material universe. Some people think it does (that it's true in all worlds, regardless of their laws of physics) while others think that it's a human invention approximating to physical phenomena. Personally I'm inclined to think

Re: Amoeba's Secret openly available under CC-BY license

Thanks Russell. Hope you are all well on the Everything list. On Monday 29 April 2024 at 17:04:14 UTC+12 Russell Standish wrote: > I did get a response from him when I suggested making Amoeba's Secret > open access. > > According to Kim Jones, who visited him 2022, he is well and taking a > break

My son the mathematician

Here is his first co-authored paper (at the age of 20). Topology and its Applications Volume 254 , 1 March 2019, Pages 85-100 Extending bonding functions in generalized i

Re: Black holes and the information paradox

I thought QM was deterministic, at least mathematically - and I guess in the MWI? I mean everyone can't have forgotten quantum indeterminacy when discussing the BHIP, surely? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe f

Re: What is the largest integer you can write in 5 seconds?

I have a simpler answer! "the largest integer you can write in 5 seconds" ...can be written in 5 seconds. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ev

Re: What is the largest integer you can write in 5 seconds?

Graham's number tetrated Graham's number times? That took about 5 seconds, does it come close? On Wednesday, 6 March 2019 07:06:24 UTC+13, John Clark wrote: > > It's easy to prove that the Busy Beaver Function grows faster than *ANY* > computable function because if there were such a faster grow

Is Google groups shutting down?

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Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

On Saturday, 28 December 2013 06:18:26 UTC+13, Edgar L. Owen wrote: > > > Many worlds is probably the most outlandishly improbable theory of all > time, and should have been laughed out of existence as soon as it was > proposed. Do > Fortunately, science is not decided on what seems probable to

Re: Unexpected Hanging

If someone told me that I was going to be hung, I can assure you I would be expecting it every day. I wouldn't bother with any logical analysis. (The unexpected exam, on the other hand...) On Thursday, 12 September 2013 21:33:24 UTC+12, telmo_menezes wrote: > > Time for some philosophy then :)