Re: Paper+Exercises+Naming Issue-faith

2006-01-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 09-janv.-06, à 18:30, Benjamin Udell a écrit : By "ampliative induction" I mean, not mathematical induction. Nice! I hope you will be patient enough to see that this is a good description of G* \ G. G characterises the self-referential discourse of the lobian machine, which is fundament

Re: Paper+Exercises+Naming Issue

2006-01-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 11-janv.-06, à 17:57, Benjamin Udell a écrit : Bruno, list, Well, on the basis of that which you say below (much of which I unfortunately only vaguely understand), where you don't focus it all decidedly on the particular issues of faith and belief, it actually does now sound more like s

Re: Paper+Exercises+Naming Issue-faith

2006-01-12 Thread Benjamin Udell
Bruno, list, If I understand you correctly, then you mean, more generally: G* \ G will correspond to any true conclusion that the machine can draw by other than deductive (= truth-preservative)inference. Best, Ben Udell - Original Message - From: "Bruno Marchal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To

Re: Paper+Exercises+Naming Issue

2006-01-12 Thread Benjamin Udell
Bruno, list, It occurred to me that I ought not merely to "wing it" on the meaning of "theology" as a word. There are various places online to look it up, but this is an interesting one and, anyway, some may find this to be an introduction to a good resource. >From the Century Dictionary http:

Re: Paper+Exercises+Naming Issue

2006-01-12 Thread Benjamin Udell
Bruno, list, [Bruno]> The neoplatonician use often the term "God" for "ultimate explanation", and also use often (but it is an idiosyncrasies) the names of the greek Gods for concept (EROS = love, THANATOS = death, etc.). Strictly speaking, it has nothing to do with the judeo-christian notion

Re: Paper+Exercises+Naming Issue

2006-01-12 Thread Russell Standish
Tegmark's 4 level "Multiverse" (actually the Multiverse is only one of the levels) does not really have viewpoints at each level. In my book, which largely follows the tradition of this list, there is 3 viewpoints identified: 1st person, 1st person plural and 3rd person. The 3rd person correspond

Re: Paper+Exercises+Naming Issue

2006-01-12 Thread Benjamin Udell
Russell, list, > Tegmark's 4 level "Multiverse" (actually the Multiverse is only one of the > levels) does not really have viewpoints at each level. > In my book, which largely follows the tradition of this list, there is 3 > viewpoints identified: 1st person, 1st person plural and 3rd person. >

Re: Paper+Exercises+Naming Issue

2006-01-12 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Danny Mayes writes: I haven't participated in the list in a while, but I try to keep up with the discussion here and there as time permits. I personally was raised a fundamentalist Baptist, but lost most of my interest in that religion when I was taught at 9 years old that all the little kids

Re: Paper+Exercises+Naming Issue

2006-01-12 Thread Graeme Mcquilkin
Hi , Can someone please tell me how I unsubscrive from this mailing list >? Thanks Graeme Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Danny Mayes writes: I haven't participated in the list in a while, but I try to keep up with the discussion here and there as time permits. I personally was raised a fund

Re: Paper+Exercises+Naming Issue

2006-01-12 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:12:13PM -0500, Benjamin Udell wrote: > Russell, list, > > > Tegmark's 4 level "Multiverse" (actually the Multiverse is only one of the > > levels) does not really have viewpoints at each level. > > In my book, which largely follows the tradition of this list, there is 3