Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 13:25, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 7:12 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 January 2014 13:04, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear LizR, What would happen is mathematics did not amazingly match

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread meekerdb
On 1/13/2014 3:06 PM, LizR wrote: On 14 January 2014 11:29, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/13/2014 1:29 PM, LizR wrote: On 14 January 2014 10:17, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/13/2014 10:54 AM,

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Stephen, If everything is information being computed then obviously all observers are also part of that and thus analogous to running programs interacting computationally with the other running programs of reality. I guess I hadn't made that clear yet... Everything is analogous to a running

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 13:38, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/13/2014 3:06 PM, LizR wrote: Quite possibly, of course! But in my humble opinion, Max Tegmark and Bruno and Eugene Wigner (and Galileo, Gauss, Einstein etc) do have a point, that maths does seem to kick back and to be

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 13:40, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Stephen, If everything is information being computed then obviously all observers are also part of that and thus analogous to running programs interacting computationally with the other running programs of reality. I guess I

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, Good question which I've given a lot of thought to and which is still not completely clear in my mind... The processors are not separate physical entities processing the data and they are not separated from the data (the information). So far as I can see all actual information has to

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread meekerdb
On 1/13/2014 3:42 PM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Liz, Sigh Now we have several people complaining because I haven't offered a 'formal theory'. However not a single one of the complainers has themselves offered a formal theory even though they are continually offering theories of their own, none

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Jason Resch
Tegmark's new book just arrived in my mail. I'll let everyone know what my thoughts on it are when I finish. Jason -- 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

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 14:15, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, Good question which I've given a lot of thought to and which is still not completely clear in my mind... The processors are not separate physical entities processing the data and they are not separated from the data (the

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
That's one book I will attempt to read (BOI by David Deutsch was another but he lost me in the chapter on beauty) On 14 January 2014 14:35, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: Tegmark's new book just arrived in my mail. I'll let everyone know what my thoughts on it are when I finish.

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, There is no FTL because this is not a physical dimensional space, it's a computational space. The notion of 'together' is computational interaction rather than dimensional co-location. Clock time doesn't produce the processor cycles because clock times are computed by those cycles. Only

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, Sigh Now we have several people complaining because I haven't offered a 'formal theory'. A first (and great) step would be just to explain in clear normal language (no jargon) what you assume, and what you

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, Aren't you familiar with the concept of a logical or mathematical or computational space that is non-dimensional? Simply stated it's just the locus or association of some set of elements. There is no necessary physical dimensionality associated with the concept. Edgar On Monday,

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, I've already presented a good part of my theory repeatedly in considerable detail giving good logical arguments. The only 'jargon' I've used is the single neologism 'ontological energy' which I've defined clearly. I can't help it if reality is a difficult subject. What frustrates me is

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread meekerdb
On 1/13/2014 6:14 PM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Brent, Aren't you familiar with the concept of a logical or mathematical or computational space that is non-dimensional? Simply stated it's just the locus or association of some set of elements. There is no necessary physical dimensionality

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Terren Suydam
Edgar, I'll give you another chance to answer my question. I know, I know, I'm so generous. You say P-time corresponds to the reality processors and clock time emerges from those calculations. Imagine that you now insert a dummy operation in between every cycle of the fundamental processor(s),

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 14:55, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, There is no FTL because this is not a physical dimensional space, it's a computational space. The notion of 'together' is computational interaction rather than dimensional co-location. How is a computational space

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Terren, You are right reality processors don't work like that. My theory attempts to address reality as it is, not as it hypothetically might or could be. Edgar On Monday, January 13, 2014 9:39:03 PM UTC-5, Terren Suydam wrote: Edgar, I'll give you another chance to answer my question. I

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 15:14, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Brent, Aren't you familiar with the concept of a logical or mathematical or computational space that is non-dimensional? Simply stated it's just the locus or association of some set of elements. There is no necessary physical

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Jason Resch
Edgard, You've described the conclusions you've come to in theory, but not what you are assuming at the start. So what are those minimal assumptions you took as true at the start which led to your other deductions? Thanks, Jason On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Edgar L. Owen

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Terren Suydam
OK, good luck to you. I'm tapping out of this. I have literal tolerance for someone who has a big important theory but won't answer direct questions about it (and not just mine, clearly). T On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Terren, You are right reality

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 16:03, Terren Suydam terren.suy...@gmail.com wrote: OK, good luck to you. I'm tapping out of this. I have literal tolerance for someone who has a big important theory but won't answer direct questions about it (and not just mine, clearly). Very wise (although I think you

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, The elements of the set are the information encoding the current state of the universe and how it is evolving - whatever that may be. What that may be needs to be further clarified. I've put forth a whole list of likely possibilities on this group over the past week or so including

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Terren Suydam
haha, yes, I meant little. It's a fun game until it's not. On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:08 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 January 2014 16:03, Terren Suydam terren.suy...@gmail.com wrote: OK, good luck to you. I'm tapping out of this. I have literal tolerance for someone who has a big

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 16:10, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Brent, The elements of the set are the information encoding the current state of the universe and how it is evolving - whatever that may be. What that may be needs to be further clarified. I've put forth a whole list of likely

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, A good question, that's why I've already listed a number of the most basic axioms and concepts of the theory. 1. Existence must exist because non-existence cannot exist. 2. Reality is a logically consistent and logically complete structure. 3. The theory must be consistent with and

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, Sure, the particle property conservation laws that conserve the amounts of particle properties in elementary particle interactions, and the laws that govern the binding of elementary particles in matter. These are the fundamental computations that determine most of the structure of the

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason, A good question, that's why I've already listed a number of the most basic axioms and concepts of the theory. Okay, thanks. Could you clarify which are axioms (assumptions) and which are the ones derived from

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 16:49, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, Sure, the particle property conservation laws that conserve the amounts of particle properties in elementary particle interactions, and the laws that govern the binding of elementary particles in matter. These are the

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jan 2014, at 13:54, Terren Suydam wrote: Hi Bruno, The WM experiment is easy to grasp. For me the difficulty lies, as Liz guessed, with the infinity of possibilities. For continuation Cn does p(n) stabilize as the number of computations approaches infinity? If not, comp is false.

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jan 2014, at 14:05, Terren Suydam wrote: Hi Bruno, Unfortunately I don't have enough familiarity with the math to follow you here. It is something I'd like to become fluent in one of these days but unfortunately I barely have enough time these days to read this list. OK. Good

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jan 2014, at 15:38, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 11 Jan 2014, at 08:56, Stephen Paul King wrote: Der Bruno, The UD has no output. I guess you think to the trace of the UD, UD*, which from the

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-12 Thread LizR
On 12 January 2014 18:33, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear LizR, On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 12:00 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 January 2014 14:52, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear LizR, That is the claim and I show that it is

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jan 2014, at 23:11, meekerdb wrote: On 1/10/2014 11:43 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: But what is the measure of relative persistence? It is the measure almost defined by the material hypostases (in S4Grz1, Z1* and X1*). It defines the comp physical laws. How do those different logics

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jan 2014, at 15:43, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, You wrote: AR provides the neutral monism! Comp is neutral monism. Neither mind, nor matter are taken as primitive. Both emerge from the additive-multiplicative structure of arithmetic (AR), and that structure provides the

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jan 2014, at 18:57, Jason Resch wrote: On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 3:14 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 11 Jan 2014, at 08:56, Stephen Paul King wrote: Der Bruno, The UD has no output. I guess you think to the trace of the UD, UD*, which from the first person

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jan 2014, at 22:05, LizR wrote: On 11 January 2014 23:32, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 11 Jan 2014, at 11:01, LizR wrote: nor does it do anything - it's simply there, in a timeless realm. UD* does not do anything, but we can say that relatively to the addition and

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Jan 2014, at 06:33, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear LizR, On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 12:00 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 January 2014 14:52, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear LizR, That is the claim and I show that it is false. A class that has a

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Jan 2014, at 08:05, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Brent, I am writing about concepts that are more fundamental than physics, but some of the same ideas transfer from the fundamental to the phenomenal. Physics is phenomena that we can observe and measure... Neutrality is the

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-12 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2014/1/12, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com: 2014/1/10, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 10 Jan 2014, at 13:13, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2014/1/10, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 10 Jan 2014, at 10:52, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2014/1/10, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com:

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-12 Thread ghibbsa
On Wednesday, January 8, 2014 5:49:38 AM UTC, Kim Jones wrote: Maximus writes: The Higgs Boson was predicted with the same tool as the planet Neptune and the radio wave: with mathematics. Why does our universe seem so mathematical, and what does it mean? In my new book, Our Mathematical

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jan 2014, at 23:25, meekerdb wrote: On 1/10/2014 10:27 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: But what about Glak, a being in an alternative physics? If Glak mind obeys to the laws of Boole, and if Glak as a finite body, and if he is self-referentially correct, then we share with Glak the same

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, I don't see how it follows that Pratt's theory does not allow for a FPI. I have repeatedly said that a 3p is a construct from 1p and does not have content outside of some 1p. He does not assume that the universe is classical, as you do. You are the one making a mistake, I am afraid.

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jan 2014, at 23:26, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Brent! Indeed! A theory that explains everything must be more than a list of tautologies! Good. And that's the case with comp. We get 8 logics and mathematics. Bruno On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 5:25 PM, meekerdb

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jan 2014, at 00:21, LizR wrote: On 11 January 2014 07:27, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 10 Jan 2014, at 17:57, Terren Suydam wrote: Bruno, It seems that the UDA implies that physics is uniquely determined - but only for a particular point of view. Yes, but it is a

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jan 2014, at 00:24, LizR wrote: On 11 January 2014 10:57, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/10/2014 1:34 AM, LizR wrote: On 10 January 2014 22:27, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I don't think that there can be a single or multiple processor computing the state of the

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jan 2014, at 02:04, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Terren, Yes, it is about the continuations and measures thereof. I am not having much luck discovering how the measures are defined. Yes, that *is* the problem. And that is the result: that very problem and a translation of that

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jan 2014, at 02:34, Terren Suydam wrote: Yeah, if there's one thing about the UDA that seems like magic to me, that's it - how an infinity of emulations condense into a single conscious experience. I would be please to understand the problem. If you are OK with step 3, you know

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jan 2014, at 03:57, Terren Suydam wrote: If they're all truly identical then yes, it's much easier to see how it could be experienced as a single consciousness. But what precisely does it mean for an infinity of computations to go through my state? It means that from your first

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jan 2014, at 04:12, LizR wrote: On 11 January 2014 15:57, Terren Suydam terren.suy...@gmail.com wrote: If they're all truly identical then yes, it's much easier to see how it could be experienced as a single consciousness. But what precisely does it mean for an infinity of

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jan 2014, at 06:05, 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 algebras and totally disconnected compact Hausdorff spaces. The former are

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jan 2014, at 08:29, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Brent, Hmm? Steven turns into a White Rabbit is not a logical contradiction, it's a nomological one. If there's a transition from (t1,x1) to (t2,x2) it seems the only logical contradiction would be x2=Not x1 at t1. Logical is

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jan 2014, at 08:56, Stephen Paul King wrote: Der Bruno, The UD has no output. I guess you think to the trace of the UD, UD*, which from the first person perspective is entirely given, by the 1p delay invariance. The UD never stops. If a process lasts forever, it is eternal,

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jan 2014, at 09:04, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, I don't see how it follows that Pratt's theory does not allow for a FPI. I have repeatedly said that a 3p is a construct from 1p But then you make the 1p primitive, which contradicts many of your saying. You know the

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jan 2014, at 09:28, Bruno Marchal wrote: Your consciousness condenses into here and now for the same measure the guy in Washington feel to be in only once city after the WM-duplication. Read: Your consciousness condenses into here and now for the same REASON the guy in Washington

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread LizR
On 11 January 2014 17:41, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/10/2014 7:36 PM, LizR wrote: On 11 January 2014 16:08, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/10/2014 6:01 PM, LizR wrote: On 11 January 2014 14:34, Terren Suydam terren.suy...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, if there's

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread LizR
On 11 January 2014 20:56, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Der Bruno, The UD has no output. I guess you think to the trace of the UD, UD*, which from the first person perspective is entirely given, by the 1p delay invariance. The UD never stops. If a process lasts

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jan 2014, at 11:01, LizR wrote: On 11 January 2014 20:56, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Der Bruno, The UD has no output. I guess you think to the trace of the UD, UD*, which from the first person perspective is entirely given, by the 1p delay invariance.

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Terren Suydam
Hi Bruno, The WM experiment is easy to grasp. For me the difficulty lies, as Liz guessed, with the infinity of possibilities. For continuation Cn does p(n) stabilize as the number of computations approaches infinity? Are there an infinity of possible continuations? Are they enumerable? I mean

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Terren Suydam
Hi Bruno, Unfortunately I don't have enough familiarity with the math to follow you here. It is something I'd like to become fluent in one of these days but unfortunately I barely have enough time these days to read this list. However one thing still nags me. I don't find it hard to imagine that

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear LizR, On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 5:01 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 January 2014 20:56, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Der Bruno, The UD has no output. I guess you think to the trace of the UD, UD*, which from the first person perspective is entirely given,

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, You wrote: AR provides the neutral monism! Comp is neutral monism. Neither mind, nor matter are taken as primitive. Both emerge from the additive-multiplicative structure of arithmetic (AR), and that structure provides the neutral stuff. Ontological neutrality is that there are no

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 3:14 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 11 Jan 2014, at 08:56, Stephen Paul King wrote: Der Bruno, The UD has no output. I guess you think to the trace of the UD, UD*, which from the first person perspective is entirely given, by the 1p delay invariance.

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread LizR
On 11 January 2014 23:32, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 11 Jan 2014, at 11:01, LizR wrote: nor does it do anything - it's simply there, in a timeless realm. UD* does not do anything, but we can say that relatively to the addition and multiplication laws, the UD does something,

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread meekerdb
On 1/10/2014 11:29 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Brent, Hmm? Steven turns into a White Rabbit is not a /*logical*/ contradiction, it's a /*nomological*/ one. If there's a transition from (t1,x1) to (t2,x2) it seems the only /*logical*/ contradiction would be x2=Not x1 at t1. Logical is

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread meekerdb
On 1/10/2014 11:43 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: But what is the measure of relative persistence? It is the measure almost defined by the material hypostases (in S4Grz1, Z1* and X1*). It defines the comp physical laws. How do those different logics define a measure over possible physics? Brent

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Brent, If there exit an infinite number of observers and similarities in the 1p content of those observers is a priori possible, it follows that there will be regularities as those are the similarities that observers share. The brain in a vat thought experiment is an attempt to ask

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread meekerdb
On 1/11/2014 6:43 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, You wrote: AR provides the neutral monism! Comp is neutral monism. Neither mind, nor matter are taken as primitive. Both emerge from the additive-multiplicative structure of arithmetic (AR), and that structure provides the neutral

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Brent, On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 6:08 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/11/2014 6:43 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, You wrote: AR provides the neutral monism! Comp is neutral monism. Neither mind, nor matter are taken as primitive. Both emerge from the

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread LizR
On 12 January 2014 12:08, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Because everything is arithmetic IS neutral monism: Neutral monism is a monistic metaphysics. It holds that ultimate reality is all of one kind. To this extent neutral monism is in agreement with idealism and materialism. What

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear LizR, That is the claim and I show that it is false. A class that has a particular set of properties and not the rest of the properties required to balance it all out to Nothing is not neutral. It is biased! On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 8:32 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 January

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread LizR
On 12 January 2014 14:52, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear LizR, That is the claim and I show that it is false. A class that has a particular set of properties and not the rest of the properties required to balance it all out to Nothing is not neutral. It is biased!

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear LizR, On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 12:00 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 January 2014 14:52, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear LizR, That is the claim and I show that it is false. A class that has a particular set of properties and not the rest of the

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread meekerdb
On 1/11/2014 9:33 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear LizR, On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 12:00 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com mailto:lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 January 2014 14:52, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com mailto:stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear LizR,

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-11 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Brent, I am writing about concepts that are more fundamental than physics, but some of the same ideas transfer from the fundamental to the phenomenal. Physics is phenomena that we can observe and measure... Neutrality is the absence of properties or the sum of all possible properties.

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Jan 2014, at 22:32, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear LizR, There is an interdependency that should not be ignored between the objects that express the quantities and relations that are represented by the logic and arithmetic. A universe that does not contain any persistent entities

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Jan 2014, at 22:45, LizR wrote: On 10 January 2014 10:33, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I think the question is whether comp determines that the world is (locally) Lorentz invariant. If it is, then c is just a unit conversion factor between the + and - signature terms. It's

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread LizR
On 10 January 2014 21:54, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 09 Jan 2014, at 22:45, LizR wrote: On 10 January 2014 10:33, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I think the question is whether comp determines that the world is (locally) Lorentz invariant. If it is, then c is just a

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
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, 2014 at 4:45 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 January 2014 10:33, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I think the

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread LizR
This is a fascinating but difficult subject - is being or becoming more mysterious? In a way becoming is stranger than positing something that is merely eternally there, perhaps from logical necessity. It's hard for us as time-bound beings to imagine a block universe - or multiverse - although

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Jan 2014, at 23:34, LizR wrote: On 10 January 2014 06:50, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: (Unless comp is false or that we are manipulated through a normal simulation). Physics is transformed into the study of a lawful precise arithmetical phenomenon of a type

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jan 2014, at 02:16, LizR wrote: On 10 January 2014 14:01, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Stephen, There is no single observer that can take in all events I never said that and don't believe it. However there has to be a single universal processor cycling for a

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jan 2014, at 02:31, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Liz, No, there is not a single universal processor, there is a single processor CYCLE. All information states are effectively their own processors, so the computational universe consists of myriads of processors, as many as there are

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread LizR
On 10 January 2014 22:27, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I don't think that there can be a single or multiple processor computing the state of the universe. In fact there is no such universe. The universe is an appearance emerging, from below the substitution level, on all

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2014/1/10, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: 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. Stephen, LizR From what I can understand, once cleared from arithmetic-logic-metaphysic

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2014/1/10, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com: 2014/1/10, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: 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. Stephen, LizR From what I can understand,

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jan 2014, at 04:13, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Stephen, Your error here is assuming the computations take place in a single wide physical dimensional space. They don't. They take place in a purely computational space prior to the existence of physical dimensional spacetime. Physical

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jan 2014, at 09:58, LizR wrote: On 10 January 2014 21:54, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 09 Jan 2014, at 22:45, LizR wrote: On 10 January 2014 10:33, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I think the question is whether comp determines that the world is (locally) Lorentz

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jan 2014, at 10:34, LizR wrote: On 10 January 2014 22:27, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I don't think that there can be a single or multiple processor computing the state of the universe. In fact there is no such universe. The universe is an appearance emerging, from below

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Jan 2014, at 20:39, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Bruno: Sorry but I do not understood point seven when I read it and I do not understand you now. No problem. I am here to explain (or discover a flaw!). I understand Solomonoff theorem about inductive inference that involve infinite

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jan 2014, at 10:43, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2014/1/10, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: 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. Stephen, LizR From what I can

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jan 2014, at 10:52, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2014/1/10, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com: 2014/1/10, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: 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,

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2014/1/10, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 10 Jan 2014, at 10:52, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2014/1/10, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com: 2014/1/10, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 09 Jan 2014, at 23:00, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear LizR, That is the key question that

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Jason Resch
Liz, I think Edgar's computational reality can be consistent with the computational theory of mind if you somehow constrain reality to be small and finite. The moment you let the universe be very big (eternal inflation) then you also get an infinite number of computers built by aliens in

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Terren Suydam
Bruno, It seems that the UDA implies that physics is uniquely determined - but only for a particular point of view. So I, Terren, experience one and only one physics, because my consciousness is the selection criteria among the infinity of computations going through my state. But what about

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Terren, Good question! I ask that you take what you wrote and add the following question: How do Glak and Terren Communicate? On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Terren Suydam terren.suy...@gmail.comwrote: Bruno, It seems that the UDA implies that physics is uniquely determined - but

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Terren Suydam
Hi Stephen, Well, I'm not sure if what I'm asking is even coherent within the UDA, as it may betray a misunderstanding on my part. But if that's not the case, then it seems to me that I could never communicate with Glak because our consciousnesses are selecting different universes within the

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jan 2014, at 13:13, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2014/1/10, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 10 Jan 2014, at 10:52, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2014/1/10, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com: 2014/1/10, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 09 Jan 2014, at 23:00, Stephen Paul King

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jan 2014, at 16:23, Jason Resch wrote: Liz, I think Edgar's computational reality can be consistent with the computational theory of mind if you somehow constrain reality to be small and finite. OK. The moment you let the universe be very big (eternal inflation) then you

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-10 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Terren, On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Terren Suydam terren.suy...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Stephen, Well, I'm not sure if what I'm asking is even coherent within the UDA, as it may betray a misunderstanding on my part. I agree, interaction and the question of different physical laws

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