On 15 Jan 2012, at 00:17, Russell Standish wrote:
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 07:02:52AM +0200, acw wrote:
On 1/6/2012 18:57, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 05 Jan 2012, at 11:02, acw wrote:
Thanks for replying. I was worried my post was too big and few
people will bother reading it due to size. I
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 07:02:52AM +0200, acw wrote:
On 1/6/2012 18:57, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 05 Jan 2012, at 11:02, acw wrote:
Thanks for replying. I was worried my post was too big and few
people will bother reading it due to size. I hope to read your
opinion on the viability of the
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
Assuming all possible (consistent mathematical) structures is the
simplest possible hypothesis. The problem with this is that this
'whole' might be a bit too large or inconsistent in itself (like
Russell's Paradox), and
On 07 Jan 2012, at 18:07, Jason Resch wrote:
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be
wrote:
Assuming all possible (consistent mathematical) structures is the
simplest possible hypothesis. The problem with this is that this
'whole' might be a bit too large or
On 1/6/2012 18:57, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 05 Jan 2012, at 11:02, acw wrote:
Hello everything-list, this is my first post here, but I've been
reading this list for at least half a year, and I'm afraid this post
will be a bit long as it contains many thoughts I've had on my mind
for quite some
On 9/27/2011 10:40 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:52 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net
mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
On 9/27/2011 9:13 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
I don't think that. I just noted it's logically possible, contrary to
assertions that
On Sep 28, 2011, at 1:28 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
On 9/27/2011 10:40 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:52 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net
wrote:
On 9/27/2011 9:13 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
I don't think that. I just noted it's logically possible,
Jon, (nihil0)
On 28 Sep 2011, at 01:18, nihil0 wrote:
On Sep 27, 2:46 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
I think Daniel Dennett's book Elbow Room is an excellent defense
of compatibilist free
will and why it is the only kind worth having.
Great suggestion. The wikipedia page was
On 9/26/2011 10:35 PM, nihil0 wrote:
It's a little late for this post since I've already posted 2 or 3
things, but I figured I might as well introduce myself.
I'm majoring at philosophy at the University of Michigan, however I'm
studying abroad for a trimester at Oxford. I turn 21 on Oct. 4.
Jon,
Welcome to the list.
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:35 AM, nihil0 jonathan.wol...@gmail.com wrote:
It's a little late for this post since I've already posted 2 or 3
things, but I figured I might as well introduce myself.
Its never too late ;-)
I'm majoring at philosophy at the
Hi Jon, welcome,
On 27 Sep 2011, at 07:35, nihil0 wrote:
It's a little late for this post since I've already posted 2 or 3
things, but I figured I might as well introduce myself.
I'm majoring at philosophy at the University of Michigan, however I'm
studying abroad for a trimester at Oxford. I
On Sep 27, 2:46 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
I think Daniel Dennett's book Elbow Room is an excellent defense of
compatibilist free
will and why it is the only kind worth having.
Great suggestion. The wikipedia page was fairly informative, but I'll
probably buy the book anyway.
On 9/27/2011 4:18 PM, nihil0 wrote:
On Sep 27, 2:46 am, meekerdbmeeke...@verizon.net wrote:
I think Daniel Dennett's book Elbow Room is an excellent defense of
compatibilist free
will and why it is the only kind worth having.
Great suggestion. The wikipedia page was fairly informative, but
On 9/27/2011 4:18 PM, nihil0 wrote:
1) There is an infinite number of Hubble
volumes in our universe, which are all casually disconnected (as the
theory of inflation implies). 2) There is a limit on how much matter
and energy can exist within a region of space of a given size, such as
a
On 9/27/2011 8:07 PM, nihil0 wrote:
On 9/27/2011 4:18 PM, nihil0 wrote:
1) There is an infinite number of Hubble
volumes in our universe, which are all casually disconnected (as the
theory of inflation implies). 2) There is a limit on how much matter
and energy can exist within a region of
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:52 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
On 9/27/2011 8:07 PM, nihil0 wrote:
On 9/27/2011 4:18 PM, nihil0 wrote:
1) There is an infinite number of Hubble
volumes in our universe, which are all casually disconnected (as the
theory of inflation implies). 2)
On 9/27/2011 9:13 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:52 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net
mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
On 9/27/2011 8:07 PM, nihil0 wrote:
On 9/27/2011 4:18 PM, nihil0 wrote:
1) There is an infinite number of Hubble
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:52 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
On 9/27/2011 9:13 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
I don't think that. I just noted it's logically possible, contrary to
assertions that our universe must be duplicated infinitely many times.
If our universe is not
It's a little late for this post since I've already posted 2 or 3
things, but I figured I might as well introduce myself.
I'm majoring at philosophy at the University of Michigan, however I'm
studying abroad for a trimester at Oxford. I turn 21 on Oct. 4.
The main questions I've been researching
Hi! My academic background is an MSc in computer science including
lots of math, plus some years of graduate studies and AI research. I'm
a very rational person (with Asperger's) and am interested in many
intellectual topics.
I subscribed to the multiverse idea a long time ago by following this
I am new to this group so I thought I give my background.
I have a BS in physics and chemistry and a BA in philosophy (UNC), an
MS in materials science (Stevens Inst), a PhD in physics (Southampton)
and I have completed ~70 additional hours of graduate studies in
computer science, mathematics,
Brent Meeker wrote:
Actually it collapses before, see quant-ph/0402146 v1. It is shown that
in a Young's slit experiment with C70 buckyballs, the interference
fringes disappear when the buckyballs are sufficiently heated to radiate
some IR photons. No observer is needed, only the
On Jan 3, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
Hi,
Is hurting or make the puppet suffer morally correct with your position ?
If it is not, then this is strange since they are only puppets and you
*are*...(means you can't hurt them because they aren't) This is simply
sollipsism and (un)fortunately
Gevin Giorbran wrote:
On Jan 3, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
Hi,
Is hurting or make the puppet suffer morally correct with your position ?
If it is not, then this is strange since they are only puppets and you
*are*...(means you can't hurt them because they aren't) This is simply
sollipsism
On Jan 2, 9:47 pm, Gevin Giorbran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Three years of college, no degrees, no status. Left school and started
writing, and authored three books about the existence and structure of
all possible universes, including Exploring A Many Worlds Universe
in 1997, arguing as the
Hi,
Sorry, yes you are a puppet, well perhaps the reader of this post
isn't a puppet, but the responses I observe will be from puppets,
while only real pilots are left to question if the set of possible
pilots is more or less restricted than the spectrum of people a pilot
experiences in the
Hi,
Is hurting or make the puppet suffer morally correct with your position ?
If it is not, then this is strange since they are only puppets and you
*are*...(means you can't hurt them because they aren't) This is simply
sollipsism and (un)fortunately completely circular.
Also as you
Thanks for your answers to my joining post! Dear Russell, your book
Theory of Nothing has overwhelmed me, it's a fantastic work. Several
months ago, I slowly began writing a book on the theory that
everything exists (in German) -- but I will not go on because your
book seems to be so great
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 12:40:08AM -0700, Youness Ayaita wrote:
Hello everyone.
Yesterday I found this list. I am still surprised and pleased that my
old ideas are also developed and discussed by others than myself.
Since my thought is only little influenced by the literature, I hope
Hi Youness,
Le 31-août-07, à 09:40, Youness Ayaita wrote :
Hello everyone.
You are welcome.
My name's Youness Ayaita and currently I'm a graduate student of
physics and mathematics at Heidelberg University, with special
interests in the field of theoretical quantum physics and in the
Hello everyone.
My name's Youness Ayaita and currently I'm a graduate student of
physics and mathematics at Heidelberg University, with special
interests in the field of theoretical quantum physics and in the
question how it comes to our specific laws of nature.
In the beginning of the year
Recent dialogues with Russell, plus discovering and finding helpful
previous joining posts, prompts me to post this for reference
purposes.
I was born in 1950 in Glasgow Scotland of Anglo-Scottish parents, and
come from Hungarian, Middle Eastern, Russian, and Polish ancestry
insofar as I can
You are psychic...I was going to ask for a bio!
it is refreshing to find a computer scientist that honestly faces the
brute biological reality of messy neuro-cells and their cognitive
faculties and really lets it speak its story ... one more complex than
mere symbol manipulation ...As
On Jun 27, 7:41 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
you are necessarily delittantish, for there is no profession
for it!
None indeed. But for the amateur, all is done for love.
Cheers
D
You are psychic...I was going to ask for a bio!
it is refreshing to find a computer scientist that
the misunderstandability. Sorry.
John Mikes
- Original Message -
From: 明迪
To: everything-list@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: JOINING post
Dear John Mikes, I thought your words 'Origin of (our) universe' are the
same as the word 'origination
- Original Message -
From: 明迪
To: everything-list@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 2:45 AM
Subject: Re: JOINING post
Dear John,
I feel I understand your view and distinction of origination point
and origination.
Origination is entailment of origination point
- Original Message -
From: 明迪
To: everything-list@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: JOINING post
Dear John Mikes, I thought your words 'Origin of (our) universe' are the
same as the word 'origination-point'.
You said: (1)
1 Origin of (our
2 objections:
A. If I state that i cannot do something that does not (logically) imply
that I CAN do another thing.
B. Your last line is your opinion substantiated by nothing, I appreciate
anybodies opinion as such, it may have a personal (not factual) meaning -
weight.
We diverted from my
@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: JOINING post
Dear John Mikes, I thought your words 'Origin of (our) universe' are the same
as the word 'origination-point'.
You said: (1)
1 Origin of (our) universe: we have no way to know.
And you also said: (2
Dear John Mikes, I thought your words 'Origin of (our) universe' are the
same as the word 'origination-point'.
You said: (1)
1 Origin of (our) universe: we have no way to know.
And you also said: (2)
we CANNOT reach to earlier items than the origination-point (whatever it
may be) of our
Dear John Mikes.
I am sorry for the late response. I will reply only to 1 part of your
letter:
1 Origin of (our) universe: we have no way to know.
If we do come up with an alorythm that actually does produce the data that
we postdict (predict in the past), we may be able to (with some
Dear Mindaugas Indriunas,
what I meant consists of the worldview that we can use
in our speculations only our present cognitive
inventory of our existing mind.
No information from super(extra)natural sources
included. Accoredingly we CANNOT reach to earlier
items than the origination-point
Hello,
I am an undergraduate student of mathematics, I come from Europe,
Lithuania. My lifetime research interests are the universe and it's origin
(it's structure). I have been studying physics, but changed my field to
mathematics because physics has no model which can explain the earliest
Bruno Marchal wrote:
I will take a look once I get enough time. It seems you belong to the
ASSA group, that is you accept some form of bayesianism for fundamental
probability question. Hope you will wake them up ...
(ASSA = absolute self-sampling assumption). You should read Nick
Bostrom and
Hello Everyone,
I am a 22 year old male who majored in computer science. I have some
level of familiarity with Ultimate Ensemble, Digital physics, the
many-worlds interpretation, as well as philosophy. Some people that
have influenced my ideas include: Max Tegmark, David Deutsch, Wei Dai,
Hi Jason,
Welcome,
Le 03-janv.-07, à 11:07, Jason a écrit :
http://home.gcn.cx/users/jason/ideas.html
I will take a look once I get enough time. It seems you belong to the
ASSA group, that is you accept some form of bayesianism for fundamental
probability question. Hope you will wake
Hi Maurizio,
Le 11-déc.-06, à 14:29, Maurizio Morabito a écrit :
Hello everybody
I am a 39-year-old male with a Master in Engineering, a scientific
background and an enduring passion for Cosmology
I have been elaborating something along lines similar to Tegmark's
myself for a few years,
Hello everybody
I am a 39-year-old male with a Master in Engineering, a scientific
background and an enduring passion for Cosmology
I have been elaborating something along lines similar to Tegmark's
myself for a few years, albeit starting from a more philosophical point
of view
My original
Hello everyone,
I have an M.S. in Mathematics. I've done casual reading, e.g. The Loss of Certainty (Kline), The Emperor's New Mind (Penrose), The Elegant Universe (Greene),Pensees (Pascal), lots of papers online.
Tom Caylor
Hello...
I am subscribing to this list, and as requested by the list-creator, here is
a brief introduction of moi-meme.
I found this list while Google x-referencing doomsday argument x reference
class. I am interested in metaphysika such as the DDA, MWI, Simulation
Argument, Anthropic Principle,
andy wrote:
Hi Everyone,
This is really a cool list, where even the most exotic
scenarios are seriously taken into account.
I'm andy, have mostly worked in IT during the 13 years
since my physics graduation.
I like simple theories. You may notice this in future
postings and on my web site.
Hi Everyone,
This is really a cool list, where even the most exotic
scenarios are seriously taken into account.
I'm andy, have mostly worked in IT during the 13 years
since my physics graduation.
I like simple theories. You may notice this in future
postings and on my web site.
Hopefully
Hi all,
I am Georges Quénot. I have a PhD in Computer Science. I have worked
on computer architectures dedicated to speech recognition and image
processing. I am now more on the software side and I am working in
the field of Multimedia Information Retrieval. My main work is not
so related to the
Hi,
My name is Eric Cavalcanti, and I am joining this list.
As was solicited in the website, I am sending this Joining post with details
of my background.
I am a physicist, recently received my MSc in atomic physics.
I have been participating in the Fabric of Reality list for some time, so I
08 July 2003
Sign me up ...
Bio / background : http://www.umsl.edu/~altmanc/news.html
..
Christopher Altman
Chairman
First Committee on Disarmament and International Security
United
My name is Lloyd David Raub. I'm a retired executive from Ohio State
University. I have a Ph.D. in Public Administration from Penn. State and my
interests now include TOE's, alternate universes, MWI, inflationary other
cosmologies {cyclic universes, quasi steady state, plasma,etc.} I am
Hi all,
I'm Ben Goertzel. This is my initial joining post
I'm a math PhD originally, spent 8 years as an academic in math, CS and
psych departments. Have been in the software industry for the last 5 years.
My primary research is in Artificial General Intelligence (see
www.realai.net
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