Re: The Pythagorean View and the Lamp

2003-10-22 Thread George Levy
Dear everythingers Reading Bruno Marchal's last email, I realized that it may contain the answer that Norman seeks. The answer I think is simply that the set of states for the lamp is incomplete under the operation of turning the lamp on and off an infinite number of times as described by No

Re: The Pythagorean View and the Lamp

2003-10-22 Thread Marcelo Rinesi
[Warning: maths ahead :-P and I've just stumbled into this thread, so I might be waaay off; my apologies if that's the case] I don't think there's necessarily an answer to this question. The history of the lamp is a series of points in the set {ON, OFF}X R_[0,2], but you have only defined it for