Re: PSYCHE Vol 16 #1 ... essay

2010-06-14 Thread Colin Hales
Bruno Marchal wrote: Colin, I think we have always agreed on this conclusion. We may differ on the premises. It just happen that I am using a special hypothesis, which is very common, but not so well understood, and which is the digital mechanist hypothesis. I think things are more subtle t

Re: PSYCHE Vol 16 #1 ... essay

2010-06-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jun 2010, at 09:09, Colin Hales wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: Colin, I think we have always agreed on this conclusion. We may differ on the premises. It just happen that I am using a special hypothesis, which is very common, but not so well understood, and which is the digital me

Re: Kabbalah and the Multiverse

2010-06-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Rabbi Rabbit, welcome, I entered to your discussion list from the back door. I am not a scientist or a philosopher, but a graduate student researching Kabbalah, popularly known as Jewish mysticism. We talk a lot about Plotinus in this list, and it is known that Kabbalah is related to Pla

Re: PSYCHE Vol 16 #1 ... essay

2010-06-14 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > You have added the UTM and its variants to the pile. Any of these could be > just as right as you think COMP is. > > > I have no idea about the truth status of Digital Mechanism, except nothing > in nature suggest it to be false. On the co

Re: PSYCHE Vol 16 #1 ... essay

2010-06-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Jason, On 14 Jun 2010, at 15:55, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: You have added the UTM and its variants to the pile. Any of these could be just as right as you think COMP is. I have no idea about the truth status of Digital Mechanism, exce

Re: Kabbalah and the Multiverse

2010-06-14 Thread John Mikes
Hi, Rabbi Rabbit, welcome to our 'list about our ignorance'. You wrote about "ALL 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet (Babel)" so I clicked (as is my habbit) Google for Hebrew alphabet and found 27 letters. Also: texts I bounce into from Israeli sources look different from those images reproduced in