Re: Statistical Measure, does it matter?

2007-03-22 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 3/22/07, Brent Meeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No. I'm talking about a sort of program/data division - which I recognize > is arbitrary in computer program - but I think may have an analogue in > brains. When I write a simulation of a system of ODEs the time evolution of > the ODEs define t

Re: Evidence for the simulation argument

2007-03-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 21-mars-07, à 17:41, Brent Meeker a écrit : > Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> Le 20-mars-07, à 18:05, Brent Meeker a écrit : >> >>> What are those relations? Is it a matter of the provenance of the >>> numbers, e.g. being computed by some subprocess of the UD? Or is an >>> inherent relation li

Re: String theory and Cellular Automata

2007-03-22 Thread Mark Peaty
Brent, how is this for whimsy: what are now called black holes, and apparently quite well verified [and totally not falsified], are conceived to be regions of space time in which gravity is so strong that nothing from within can escape. Each black hole is centred upon and generated by a mass

Re: String theory and Cellular Automata

2007-03-22 Thread Jef Allbright
On 3/14/07, Colin Hales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See previous posts here re EC - Entropy Calculus. This caught my eye, > thought I'd throw in my $0.02 worth. > > I have been working on this idea for a long while now. Am writing it up as > part of my PhD process. Makes *complete* sense to

Re: String theory and Cellular Automata

2007-03-22 Thread Brent Meeker
Mark Peaty wrote: > Brent, how is this for whimsy: > > what are now called black holes, and apparently quite well > verified [and totally not falsified], are conceived to be > regions of space time in which gravity is so strong that nothing > from within can escape. Each black hole is centred