Re: An idea to resolve the 1st Person/3rd person division mystery - Coarse graining is the answer!?

2007-05-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 09-mai-07, à 18:50, Brent Meeker a écrit : Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 09-mai-07, à 09:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Of course reality doesn't change. The question of map versus territory is *not* an all or nothing question. *sometimes* the map equals the territory. Most of the

Meaning Fixed Point

2007-05-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
Brent, Let me try to illustrate a simple example of (relative) meaning fixed point. A simple notion of meaning with machines or programs is given by the set of input/output of the machine, or still more easily, the output (in case the machine has no inputs). So for example meaning(fact-5) =

Re: Meaning Fixed Point

2007-05-10 Thread Brent Meeker
Thanks, Bruno. I did know that - just forgot because it's been a long time. I don't think it's related to Brouwer's fixed point theorem though: that assumes a continuous topology. But I see what you mean by a fixed point of computation. I'm now reading your elsevier paper. Brent Meeker