Re: Newbie

2013-12-22 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 03:42:23PM -0800, Edgar Owen wrote: Hi, I just joined the group and have a few questions since it's the first Google Group I'm on. First I assume the group must be moderated since it seems to take quite a while for my posts to show up. Is this so and who is/are the

Re: Newbie

2013-12-22 Thread LizR
I haven't noticed any particular delay between posting and the post appearing on the forum. Even posts about backwards causality come up in a timely fashion. Mind you I consider myself very moderate... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Dec 2013, at 00:52, Edgar Owen wrote: All, The fundamental nature of reality is examined in detail in my recent book on Reality available on Amazon under my name. Marchal is on the right track, but reality consists not just of numbers (math) Arithmetic is not just numbers, but

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Dec 2013, at 17:09, John Mikes wrote: 'Implicit assumptions'? Jason seems to me as standing on the platform of physical sciences - I let Jason answer, but this is not my feeling. It seems to me that Jason is quite cautious on this, and open to put physics on an arithmetical

Re: Minds, Machines and Gödel

2013-12-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Dec 2013, at 17:32, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, December 19, 2013 10:13:25 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Dec 2013, at 15:07, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, December 19, 2013 5:23:20 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hello Craig, That is the very well known attempt

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Dec 2013, at 17:36, John Mikes wrote: Dear Edgar Owen: thanks for a post with reason. I am sorry to be too old to read your (any?) book so I take it from your present communication. You wrote among others: ...Modern science has a major lacuna, the notion that all of reality is

The difficulties of executing simple algorithms: why brains make mistakes computers don't.

2013-12-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-12-odd-easy-feat-mind.html Even scientists are fond of thinking of the human brain as a computer, following sets of rules to communicate, make decisions and find a meal. Almost all adults understand that it's the last digit—and only the last digit —that

Re: Minds, Machines and Gödel

2013-12-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Dec 2013, at 19:06, Edgar Owen wrote: Craig, Godel's Theorem applies only to human mathematical systems. provably assuming that humans are arithmetically sound machine (which is a rather strong assumption). It doesn't apply to the logico-mathematical system of reality, of

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Dec 2013, at 19:55, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 4:46 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: That's a great answer but unfortunately it's NOT a answer to the question John Clark asked, the question never asked anything about the 3p view, it was never

Re: It's really all math

2013-12-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Liz, Hi Richard, On 21 Dec 2013, at 20:43, LizR wrote: On 21 December 2013 23:23, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 21 Dec 2013, at 10:22, LizR wrote: On 21 December 2013 22:18, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 20 Dec 2013, at 18:48, Richard Ruquist wrote: Bruno: In

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Dec 2013, at 23:28, meekerdb wrote: On 12/21/2013 1:26 AM, Jason Resch wrote: If there exists a mathematical theorem that requires a countable infinity of integers to represent, no finite version can exist of it, in other words, can its proof be found? If its shortest proof is

Re: Newbie

2013-12-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Dec 2013, at 00:42, Edgar Owen wrote: Hi, I just joined the group and have a few questions since it's the first Google Group I'm on. First I assume the group must be moderated since it seems to take quite a while for my posts to show up. Is this so and who is/are the moderator(s).

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Dec 2013, at 01:00, Edgar Owen wrote: Hi John, First thanks for the complement on my post! To address your points. Of course we do have some knowledge of reality. We have to have to be able to function within it which we most certainly do to varying degrees of competence. That is

Re: The difficulties of executing simple algorithms: why brains make mistakes computers don't.

2013-12-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Dec 2013, at 13:28, Craig Weinberg wrote: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-12-odd-easy-feat-mind.html Even scientists are fond of thinking of the human brain as a computer, following sets of rules to communicate, make decisions and find a meal. I thought that only Dreyfus

Re: Minds, Machines and Gödel

2013-12-22 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, December 22, 2013 7:21:05 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Dec 2013, at 17:32, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, December 19, 2013 10:13:25 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Dec 2013, at 15:07, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Thursday, December 19, 2013

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-22 Thread John Mikes
Bruno wrote: *(JM)...Finally: I hope what you deem computational is not restricted to a numbers-based mathematical lingo -* It is, by definition. *((ONE definition you happen to choose - JM))* *(JM:)...rather a sophisticational ways of arriving at conclusions by ANY ways we may, or may not even

Re: Minds, Machines and Gödel

2013-12-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Dec 2013, at 14:56, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, December 22, 2013 7:21:05 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: Mathematics is not enough for the mind and experience of ... the machines. i agree, of course, but how is that view compatible with computationalism? It prevents the

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
That is not computability, but provability, or inductive inference, which are indeed NOT universal. There are as many ways to get conclusion than there exist thinking creatures. That is why Church thesis is truly miraculous. Limiting us on the arithmetical reality, all theories gives

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-22 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: Let me be sure I understand you correctly, on this entire planet there is only one first person experience viewed from their first person points of view. Is that what you're saying? If so who is he, who is the lucky

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-22 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Edger, Where does the fire come from that animates the logic? On Friday, December 20, 2013 6:52:54 PM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: All, The fundamental nature of reality is examined in detail in my recent book on Reality available on Amazon under my name. Marchal is on the right

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-22 Thread John Clark
Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: That's a great answer but unfortunately it's NOT a answer to the question John Clark asked, the question never asked anything about the 3p view, it was never mentioned. So John Clark will repeat the question for a fifth time: how many first person

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-22 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi John, I will try to answer for Bruno as I think I understand what he means. The number is equal to the number of entities that have a first person experience. The point here is that each entity can only experience their own. The notion of a 3rd person experience can only consider the

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-22 Thread spudboy100
Your theory comes from Von Neumann, and Chaitin, and Wolfram, does it not, Edgar? That everything is a program or cellular automata, and in the beginning was a program. Following along, what is this Logic comprised of (sort of like SPK's query) is it electrons, is it virtual particles, is it

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-22 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Mitch, No, not a thing, as in ...what is this Logic comprised of If it is a thing then it could not possibly be any subset of the universe (this particular subset of the multiverse or the total multiverse). It would have to be the entire omniverse; all that exists. But that would not

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-22 Thread meekerdb
On 12/22/2013 5:04 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Dec 2013, at 23:28, meekerdb wrote: On 12/21/2013 1:26 AM, Jason Resch wrote: If there exists a mathematical theorem that requires a countable infinity of integers to represent, no finite version can exist of it, in other words, can

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-22 Thread meekerdb
On 12/22/2013 5:14 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Dec 2013, at 01:00, Edgar Owen wrote: Hi John, First thanks for the complement on my post! To address your points. Of course we do have some knowledge of reality. We have to have to be able to function within it which we most certainly do

Re: It's really all math

2013-12-22 Thread LizR
This is an ancient story that I would be embarrassed for anyone to read and intend to leave where it is. However I could send you my latest one, although it is unfinished... mind you so was that one. I seem to have a problem with finishing... On 23 December 2013 01:53, Bruno Marchal

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-22 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Brent, Is there a reason why we only consider the 'standard models to apply when we are considering foundation theory (or whatever you might denote what we are studying)? Have you ever looked at the Tennenbaum

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 21 Dec 2013, at 17:09, John Mikes wrote: 'Implicit assumptions'? Jason seems to me as standing on the platform of physical sciences - I let Jason answer, but this is not my feeling. It seems to me that Jason is

Re: How the banks are stealing our wealth

2013-12-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.comwrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 9:02 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/16/2013 12:53 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 5:59 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/15/2013 4:23 AM,

Re: How the banks are stealing our wealth

2013-12-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 6:40 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 December 2013 12:23, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: The first step has to be to stop population growth. That's pretty much happened in all the OECD nations, except the U.S. and it would be the case there too except

Re: How the banks are stealing our wealth

2013-12-22 Thread meekerdb
On 12/22/2013 7:59 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 6:40 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com mailto:lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 December 2013 12:23, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: The first step has to be to stop population growth.