Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-07-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 03 Jul 2014, at 20:30, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 03 Jul 2014, at 06:51, Richard Ruquist wrote: Quantum measure is the result of solving Schrodinger's Eq. yielding a different probability for each quantum state

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-07-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Jul 2014, at 02:15, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Bruno, Is the measure idempotent? How could a measure function be idempotent? It is a function from some algebra of sets into some order or number structure. You cannot apply the measure a second times on its result, as it will

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-07-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 03 Jul 2014, at 06:51, Richard Ruquist wrote: Quantum measure is the result of solving Schrodinger's Eq. yielding a different probability for each quantum state and a different measure for each different scenario unlike the invariant measure of the reals. Do you disagree? Richard The

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-07-03 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 03 Jul 2014, at 06:51, Richard Ruquist wrote: Quantum measure is the result of solving Schrodinger's Eq. yielding a different probability for each quantum state and a different measure for each different scenario

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-07-03 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 02:30:22PM -0400, Richard Ruquist wrote: It seems that the measure of the reals and the quantum measure and the comp measure are three different things. Richard They are three different measures, but all satisfy the measure axioms. What I was trying to get at was

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-07-03 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Bruno, Is the measure idempotent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idempotence? On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 03 Jul 2014, at 06:51, Richard Ruquist wrote: Quantum measure is the result of solving Schrodinger's Eq. yielding a different

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-07-02 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 04:30:52PM -0400, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Russell, Ah! I don't quite grok it completely, but thank you for this example. We had to assume an already existing measure on the Reals. Where does that come from? The standard measure on the reals is based on the

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-07-02 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 04:30:52PM -0400, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Russell, Ah! I don't quite grok it completely, but thank you for this example. We had to assume an already existing measure on the Reals.

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-07-02 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 12:23:35AM -0400, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 04:30:52PM -0400, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Russell, Ah! I don't quite grok it completely, but thank you for this

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-07-02 Thread Richard Ruquist
Quantum measure is the result of solving Schrodinger's Eq. yielding a different probability for each quantum state and a different measure for each different scenario unlike the invariant measure of the reals. Do you disagree? Richard On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Russell Standish

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-07-01 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Russell, Ah! I don't quite grok it completely, but thank you for this example. We had to assume an already existing measure on the Reals. Where does that come from? On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 08:32:37PM -0400,

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-06-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 30 Jun 2014, at 01:20, meekerdb wrote: On 6/29/2014 1:35 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Note that it is an arithmetical fact that arithmetic emulates all simulations. Saying that some of those are more real than other is a metaphysical assumption, and MGA shows that it is a gap-of-the- god

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-06-30 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi, Bruno wrote previously ...the physical reality has to be given by the measure on all computations. Would this not imply that physical reality has a zero measure? My point is that given that the chance of the occurrence of a physical universe that matches one that can be modeled as some

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-06-30 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 06:12:05PM -0400, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi, Bruno wrote previously ...the physical reality has to be given by the measure on all computations. Would this not imply that physical reality has a zero measure? My point is that given that the chance of the

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-06-30 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Russell, Let me rephrase. You wrote: With COMP, the chance of our physical reality appearing in UD* is 1. The only way it could be zero is if COMP is false. ​​ I never understood where the measure 1 comes from unless we first take the existence of an observer to be completely defined

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-06-30 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 06:44:20PM -0400, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Russell, Let me rephrase. You wrote: With COMP, the chance of our physical reality appearing in UD* is 1. The only way it could be zero is if COMP is false. ​​ I never understood where the measure 1 comes from

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-06-30 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Russell, I don't get it. How does the constraint of a finite sample overcome the inherent zero measure? On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 06:44:20PM -0400, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Russell, Let me rephrase.

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-06-30 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 08:32:37PM -0400, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Russell, I don't get it. How does the constraint of a finite sample overcome the inherent zero measure? Because a finite constraint matches an infinite number of zero measure items. Consider the set of real numbers

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-06-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 26 Jun 2014, at 05:51, LizR wrote: On 26 June 2014 15:44, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/25/2014 8:38 PM, LizR wrote: On 26 June 2014 15:25, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/25/2014 6:47 PM, LizR wrote: On 26 June 2014 09:08, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-06-29 Thread John Clark
in effect the non-cloning theorem prevents saying yes to the doctor if you insist on there being no discontinuity in your consciousness. Only if a change in your quantum state causes a discontinuity in your consciousness, but your quantum state changes hundreds of thousands of millions of

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-06-29 Thread meekerdb
On 6/29/2014 1:35 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Note that it is an arithmetical fact that arithmetic emulates all simulations. Saying that some of those are more real than other is a metaphysical assumption, and MGA shows that it is a gap-of-the-god type of assumption. But it is not a physical

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-06-29 Thread LizR
On 30 June 2014 11:20, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/29/2014 1:35 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Note that it is an arithmetical fact that arithmetic emulates all simulations. Saying that some of those are more real than other is a metaphysical assumption, and MGA shows that it is a

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-06-29 Thread meekerdb
On 6/29/2014 10:41 AM, John Clark wrote: Only if a change in your quantum state causes a discontinuity in your consciousness, but your quantum state changes hundreds of thousands of millions of billions of trillions of times a second. And by the way, what does a discontinuity in your

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-06-29 Thread LizR
On 30 June 2014 15:50, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/29/2014 10:41 AM, John Clark wrote: Only if a change in your quantum state causes a discontinuity in your consciousness, but your quantum state changes hundreds of thousands of millions of billions of trillions of times a

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-06-25 Thread meekerdb
On 12/19/2013 1:03 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 2:36 PM, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com mailto:jami...@gmail.com wrote: Here is my tuppence about the *hoax-game* of the *fantasy-play* 'teleportation': It is what I said, never substantiated and placed into

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-06-25 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:29 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/19/2013 1:03 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 2:36 PM, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: Here is my tuppence about the *hoax-game* of the *fantasy-play* 'teleportation': It is what I said, never

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-06-25 Thread meekerdb
On 6/25/2014 11:48 AM, Jason Resch wrote: Now I know Bruno will say this is just choosing the wrong level, but the point is that it's not just the level which is sufficient for interaction with neurons, but also the level which captures interaction with 'external' or

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-06-25 Thread LizR
On 26 June 2014 05:29, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: So in effect the non-cloning theorem prevents saying yes to the doctor if you insist on there being no discontinuity in your consciousness. The Moscow man and the Washington man will be in different quantum states even before they

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-06-25 Thread LizR
On 26 June 2014 09:08, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/25/2014 11:48 AM, Jason Resch wrote: Now I know Bruno will say this is just choosing the wrong level, but the point is that it's not just the level which is sufficient for interaction with neurons, but also the level which

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-06-25 Thread meekerdb
On 6/25/2014 6:47 PM, LizR wrote: On 26 June 2014 09:08, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/25/2014 11:48 AM, Jason Resch wrote: Now I know Bruno will say this is just choosing the wrong level, but the point is that it's not just the

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-06-25 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 4:08 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/25/2014 11:48 AM, Jason Resch wrote: Now I know Bruno will say this is just choosing the wrong level, but the point is that it's not just the level which is sufficient for interaction with neurons, but also the

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-06-25 Thread LizR
On 26 June 2014 15:25, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/25/2014 6:47 PM, LizR wrote: On 26 June 2014 09:08, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/25/2014 11:48 AM, Jason Resch wrote: Now I know Bruno will say this is just choosing the wrong level, but the point is that

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-06-25 Thread meekerdb
On 6/25/2014 8:38 PM, LizR wrote: On 26 June 2014 15:25, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/25/2014 6:47 PM, LizR wrote: On 26 June 2014 09:08, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/25/2014 11:48 AM, Jason

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-06-25 Thread LizR
On 26 June 2014 15:44, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/25/2014 8:38 PM, LizR wrote: On 26 June 2014 15:25, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/25/2014 6:47 PM, LizR wrote: On 26 June 2014 09:08, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/25/2014 11:48 AM, Jason Resch

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-06-25 Thread meekerdb
On 6/25/2014 8:51 PM, LizR wrote: On 26 June 2014 15:44, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/25/2014 8:38 PM, LizR wrote: On 26 June 2014 15:25, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/25/2014 6:47 PM, LizR

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-06-25 Thread LizR
On 26 June 2014 16:10, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: That isn't the reason I gave. I pointed out that for the consciousness of the MGA to be achieved it had to consciousness of a world and that world had to have a physics and the consciousness then depended on events and processes in

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-01-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Dec 2013, at 16:12, Stephen Paul King wrote: 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

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-01-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Jan 2014, at 21:35, meekerdb wrote: On 1/1/2014 3:57 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 31 Dec 2013, at 22:27, meekerdb wrote: On 12/31/2013 2:22 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: 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

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-01-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Jan 2014, at 21:38, meekerdb wrote: On 1/1/2014 4:42 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 01 Jan 2014, at 01:18, meekerdb wrote: On 12/31/2013 1:58 PM, LizR wrote: On 1 January 2014 10:46, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 31 Dec 2013, at 03:09, LizR wrote: But I feel that you must

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-01-02 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:51 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 01 Jan 2014, at 21:38, meekerdb wrote: On 1/1/2014 4:42 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 01 Jan 2014, at 01:18, meekerdb wrote: On 12/31/2013 1:58 PM, LizR wrote: On 1 January 2014 10:46, meekerdb

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-01-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
Richard, On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:51 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 01 Jan 2014, at 21:38, meekerdb wrote: On 1/1/2014 4:42 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: snip I disagree with this. Everett did propose a new theory. It is SWE, that is QM without collapse. *All*

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-01-02 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Richard, On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:51 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 01 Jan 2014, at 21:38, meekerdb wrote: On 1/1/2014 4:42 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: snip I disagree with this. Everett did

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-01-02 Thread meekerdb
On 1/2/2014 12:51 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 01 Jan 2014, at 21:38, meekerdb wrote: On 1/1/2014 4:42 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 01 Jan 2014, at 01:18, meekerdb wrote: On 12/31/2013 1:58 PM, LizR wrote: On 1 January 2014 10:46, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-01-01 Thread meekerdb
On 12/31/2013 7:19 PM, LizR wrote: That sounds a bit like multi-solipsism - and a bit like Kant (?) indicating that we can never know the thing in itself only our interpretation of it. (Actually isn't that also what comp says?) I think that's what science has taught metaphysics. We make up

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-01-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 31 Dec 2013, at 22:27, meekerdb wrote: On 12/31/2013 2:22 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: 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

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-01-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 31 Dec 2013, at 22:58, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi Brent, It is only vicious if there is no time. For example: Math-Physics-Biology-Evolution-Humans-Culture-Science-Math' - Physics' - ... That spiral too in the UD*, but the Brent's circles also. Without any paradox involved. Note

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-01-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Jan 2014, at 01:18, meekerdb wrote: On 12/31/2013 1:58 PM, LizR wrote: On 1 January 2014 10:46, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 31 Dec 2013, at 03:09, LizR wrote: But I feel that you must already know this. Are you just being Devil's Advocate, or do you honestly not see the

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-01-01 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 3:22 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/31/2013 7:19 PM, LizR wrote: That sounds a bit like multi-solipsism - and a bit like Kant (?) indicating that we can never know the thing in itself only our interpretation of it. (Actually isn't that also what comp

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-01-01 Thread meekerdb
On 1/1/2014 3:57 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 31 Dec 2013, at 22:27, meekerdb wrote: On 12/31/2013 2:22 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: 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

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-01-01 Thread meekerdb
On 1/1/2014 4:42 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 01 Jan 2014, at 01:18, meekerdb wrote: On 12/31/2013 1:58 PM, LizR wrote: On 1 January 2014 10:46, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 31 Dec 2013, at 03:09, LizR wrote: But I feel that you must

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2014-01-01 Thread meekerdb
On 1/1/2014 11:46 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 3:22 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/31/2013 7:19 PM, LizR wrote: That sounds a bit like multi-solipsism - and a bit like Kant (?) indicating that we can never

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-31 Thread Bruno Marchal
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.com wrote: Dear Bruno, Why do you not consider an isomorphism between the Category of computer/universal-numbers and physical realities? That

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-31 Thread Bruno Marchal
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. In

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-31 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 31 Dec 2013, at 03:09, 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...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Bruno, Why do you not consider an isomorphism between the Category

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-31 Thread Stephen Paul King
Not at all! On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:11 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: ...or am I??? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this topic, visit

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: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-31 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 1:44 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: But Everything happens is just as useless as God did it. Not quite, it might not explain much but at least the Everything happens theory doesn't make the problem worse. The everything happens because God made things that way

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-31 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 31 Dec 2013, at 17:37, Stephen Paul King wrote: 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.com wrote:

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-31 Thread meekerdb
On 12/31/2013 2:22 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: 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

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-31 Thread meekerdb
On 31 Dec 2013, at 03:09, LizR wrote: But I feel that you must already know this. Are you just being Devil's Advocate, or do you honestly not see the usefulness of multiverse theories? Partly playing Devil's Advocate - but doing so because I'm not convinced that Everett's MWI is the last

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-31 Thread LizR
On 1 January 2014 10:46, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 31 Dec 2013, at 03:09, LizR wrote: But I feel that you must already know this. Are you just being Devil's Advocate, or do you honestly not see the usefulness of multiverse theories? Partly playing Devil's Advocate - but

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-31 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Brent, It is only vicious if there is no time. For example: Math-Physics-Biology-Evolution-Humans-Culture-Science-Math' -Physics' - ... The knowledge evolves in time. On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 4:27 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/31/2013 2:22 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-31 Thread meekerdb
On 12/31/2013 1:58 PM, LizR wrote: On 1 January 2014 10:46, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 31 Dec 2013, at 03:09, LizR wrote: But I feel that you must already know this. Are you just being Devil's Advocate, or do you honestly not see

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-31 Thread LizR
On 1 January 2014 13:18, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/31/2013 1:58 PM, LizR wrote: On 1 January 2014 10:46, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 31 Dec 2013, at 03:09, LizR wrote: But I feel that you must already know this. Are you just being Devil's Advocate, or do

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-31 Thread meekerdb
On 12/31/2013 4:47 PM, LizR wrote: I don't know about the SBI, unless I know it under a different name - please explain? The subjective Bayesian interpretation is what Jason dismisses as don't ask. It's the interpretation advocated by Asher Peres (who's excellent textbook is available

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-31 Thread LizR
That sounds a bit like multi-solipsism - and a bit like Kant (?) indicating that we can never know the thing in itself only our interpretation of it. (Actually isn't that also what comp says?) On 1 January 2014 14:39, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/31/2013 4:47 PM, LizR wrote:

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-30 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, Why do you not consider an isomorphism between the Category of computer/universal-numbers and physical realities? That way we can avoid a lot of problems! I think that it is because of your insistence of the Platonic view that the material/physical realm is somehow lesser in

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Dec 2013, at 21:47, meekerdb wrote: On 12/29/2013 9:36 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 29 Dec 2013, at 14:52, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, Glad we agree that decoherence falsifies collapse. That's a good start! But decoherence also falsifies MW. Non collapse = many-worlds, to me.

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-30 Thread LizR
On 30 December 2013 21:02, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear Bruno, Why do you not consider an isomorphism between the Category of computer/universal-numbers and physical realities? That way we can avoid a lot of problems! I think that it is because of your

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 30 Dec 2013, at 09:02, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, Why do you not consider an isomorphism between the Category of computer/universal-numbers and physical realities? Gibve me the axioms. I know the dominical categories (of Turing morphism), but just to get the definition

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-30 Thread meekerdb
On 12/30/2013 2:07 AM, LizR wrote: On 30 December 2013 21:02, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com mailto:stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Bruno, Why do you not consider an isomorphism between the Category ofcomputer/universal-numbers and physical realities? That

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-30 Thread Stephen Paul King
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? Consider Leibniz' monadology: strip it of the anthropocentrism and religiosity and one obtains a nice any one thing is made from

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-30 Thread LizR
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...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear Bruno, Why do you not consider an isomorphism between the Category of computer/universal-numbers

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-30 Thread LizR
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 to be something fundamental? Consider Leibniz' monadology: strip it of the

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 to

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-30 Thread LizR
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 that way of thinking fails. Look at Superstrings, no empirical evidence of

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 that

RE: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-30 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Monday, December 30, 2013 6:19 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ? On 31 December 2013 09:43, Stephen Paul King stephe

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-30 Thread meekerdb
On 12/30/2013 6:09 PM, LizR wrote: On 31 December 2013 07:44, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/30/2013 2:07 AM, LizR wrote: On 30 December 2013 21:02, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com mailto:stephe...@provensecure.com wrote:

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

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-30 Thread meekerdb
On 12/30/2013 7:44 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Brent, On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 10:20 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/30/2013 6:09 PM, LizR wrote: On 31 December 2013 07:44, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-30 Thread LizR
On 31 December 2013 16:20, 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...@provensecure.com wrote:

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

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

2013-12-29 Thread LizR
On 29 December 2013 16:23, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Brent, No, reality just makes a random choice, that's the computation made. But the difference between reality math and human QM math is that reality actually makes an actual choice, whereas human QM math just gives us the

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread LizR
Oops apologies to Jason - great minds etc! I should have read to the end of the thread before I posted... but the question stands, regardless. On 29 December 2013 23:34, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 December 2013 16:23, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Brent, No, reality

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
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 multiple separate QM systems, there will be a low level where the many are only one and thus the superposition of state remains. It can be shown that at the

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Dec 2013, at 18:32, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote How many unique 1-views from 1-view are there on planet Earth right now? Bruno Marchal's answer: Bruno Marchal refuses to answer. I answered this two times already. The

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Dec 2013, at 19:30, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Not at all. Decoherence falsifies collapse. ? That is my point. Decoherence falsifies collapse. Exactly. Decoherence falsifies many worlds. Decoherence is just the contagion of superposed states to the observer/ environment. It

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, Glad we agree that decoherence falsifies collapse. That's a good start! But decoherence also falsifies MW. First of all you have to understand what a wavefunction is. It's not a physical object. It's a description of a physical object in human math. Basically in QM its formulated as the

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, Reality doesn't seem to have any difficulty computing the results of random choices. That's how practically all computations occur. If we assume, or define, reality as computational then reality is computing random results by definition. It's obviously something that reality math does

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, O, for God's sakes! You believe souls exist? I thought this was supposed to be a scientific forum! Edgar On Saturday, December 28, 2013 11:24:04 PM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Richard and Stephen,

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Dec 2013, at 22:40, John Mikes wrote: Dear Bruno, when you wrote: ...arithmetic number's dreams = physics OK? Physics is based on experience, but not on human one. And experiences are based on arithmetic/computer-science... for the 'unbiased reader ' you started to seem

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Dec 2013, at 02:26, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Stephen, In a sense that's correct, they are actions and the actions are the computations, but they aren't physical, at least in the usual sense. Computations are not physical. I agree. They are arithmetical notion. But I can't understand

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: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: With Quantum Mechanics NOTHING is a wave function, that is to say no observable quantity is. The wave function is a calculation device of no more reality than lines of longitude and latitude. If you want to talk about

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Dec 29, 2013, at 8:19 AM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason, O, for God's sakes! You believe souls exist? I do. I think many accepted and leading theories in science suggest that the soul for lack of a better word. It is that each of us has that feels and experiences, it

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, O, for God's sakes. No wonder you believe in block time, MW, the nonexistence of the present moment and the tooth fairy!;-) Just wait till I present my theory of consciousness! Edgar On Sunday, December 29, 2013 12:04:31 PM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Dec 29, 2013, at 8:19 AM, Edgar

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Dec 2013, at 14:52, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, Glad we agree that decoherence falsifies collapse. That's a good start! But decoherence also falsifies MW. Non collapse = many-worlds, to me. If I make a quantum choice, by QM, I will put myself in a superposition and execute the

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Dec 2013, at 15:19, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Jason, O, for God's sakes! You believe souls exist? I thought this was supposed to be a scientific forum! I guess *you* take seriously some theory of soul, to be so sure that it does not exist, or could not have any sense. soul is often

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, To answer your last question please refer to the new topic I just started Another stab at how spacetime emergences computationally or something like that. I forget exactly how I titled it... Best, Edgar On Sunday, December 29, 2013 12:36:05 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 29 Dec

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