Speaking about Mathematicalism

2007-04-03 Thread Tim Boykett
Hello Everythingers, I was introduced to this list by Jurgen Schmidhuber, who spoke at a meeting that we had here in Linz in 2005. A very interesting meeting with Ed Fredkin, Tom Toffoli, Karl Svozil and a few others to make it a very full couple of days. One of the recurring ideas here

Re: Statistical Measure, does it matter?

2007-04-03 Thread John Mikes
Jamie, wise words, but no cigar here. For a RE-Evaluation I have insufficient knowledge even in the E - to compare it into a RE-. Statistical is different: I question the topical meaning, as being just a 'model'-related idea (in MY sense: as a limited topical fraction of the totality within

Re: Statistical Measure, does it matter?

2007-04-03 Thread James N Rose
Well, my friend, I am no Georg Cantor, but I am of a like-mind to him. What I have discerned, is an important insight that indeed resolves the chasm, and does, as you point out, make things mightily more complicated. There is level of complication that has been with us all the time, but which

Re: Evidence for the simulation argument

2007-04-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Mark, Just a preliminary remark before I comment your post. Contrary to what Russell says in his book, I am not at all a philosopher, I am not trying to propose a view of the world or a conception of reality. As I said in the joining post my initial goal was just to understand molecular

Re: Speaking about Mathematicalism

2007-04-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Tim Le 03-avr.-07, à 12:03, Tim Boykett wrote (in part): One of the recurring ideas here is that of mathematicalism - an idea that I understand to be that we perceive things as physical that have a certain mathematical structure. One of the everything ideas that results is that

Re: Speaking about Mathematicalism

2007-04-03 Thread Brent Meeker
Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi Tim Le 03-avr.-07, à 12:03, Tim Boykett wrote (in part): One of the recurring ideas here is that of mathematicalism - an idea that I understand to be that we perceive things as physical that have a certain mathematical structure. One of the everything ideas

Re: Evidence for the simulation argument

2007-04-03 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 05:37:25PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi Mark, Just a preliminary remark before I comment your post. Contrary to what Russell says in his book, I am not at all a philosopher, I am not trying to propose a view of the world or a conception of reality. As I I