Re: The 'no miracles' argument against scientific realism

2010-04-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Apr 2010, at 05:01, rexallen...@gmail.com wrote: What would make universes with honest initial conditions + causal laws more probable than deceptive ones? For every honest universe it would seem possible to have an infinite number of deceptive universes that are the equivalent of The

Re: Was:Singularity - Re: Intelligence

2010-04-16 Thread Skeletori
Hi, I'm trying to move this to the intelligence thread. On Apr 15, 11:21 pm, Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com wrote: I agree with the above and pushing the idea further has led me to the conclusion that intelligence is only relative to an environment. If you consider Hume's argument that

Re: everything-list and the Singularity

2010-04-16 Thread Skeletori
Restoring original subject :). Please don't reply to the intelligence stuff in this thread; instead, push reply, copy all the text, then reply in the intelligence thread and paste it there. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To

Re: The 'no miracles' argument against scientific realism

2010-04-16 Thread Skeletori
On Apr 16, 6:01 am, rexallen...@gmail.com rexallen...@gmail.com wrote: What would make universes with honest initial conditions + causal laws more probable than deceptive ones?  For every honest universe it would seem possible to have an infinite number of deceptive universes that are the

Re: The 'no miracles' argument against scientific realism

2010-04-16 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:01 PM, rexallen...@gmail.com rexallen...@gmail.com wrote: Let's assume that our best scientific theories tell us something true about the way the world *really* is, in an ontological sense. And further, for simplicity, let's assume a deterministic interpretation

Re: Was:Singularity - Re: Intelligence

2010-04-16 Thread Brent Meeker
On 4/16/2010 3:16 AM, Skeletori wrote: Hi, I'm trying to move this to the intelligence thread. On Apr 15, 11:21 pm, Brent Meekermeeke...@dslextreme.com wrote: I agree with the above and pushing the idea further has led me to the conclusion that intelligence is only relative to an