From: Osher Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sat. Aug. 31, 2002 9:52PM
Hal Finney, John Mikes, and the others on the parts of this thread that I
have read have contributed some interesting ideas and questions.
I have not read the *time* articles in Scientific American, but I would like
to put
From: Osher Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tues. Sept. 3, 2002 8:26AM
It also depends on the logic that one chooses (e.g., Lukaciewicz/Rational
Pavelka and Product/Goguen and Godel fuzzy multivalued logics - see P. Hajek
Metamathematics of Fuzzy Logics, Kluwer: Dordrecht 1998 for an excellent
From: Osher Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thurs. Sept. 5, 2002 5:07PM
Wei Dai,
Good! I will try to access the paper almost immediately. I have long
been partial to FTL as a conjecture. When Professor Nimtz of U.
Koln/Cologne came up with his results, or shortly thereafter, and
interpreted
From: Osher Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thurs. Sept. 5, 2002 5:43PM
I have accessed the paper by Yurstever, and I want to mention that I have
been pursuing the algorithmic incompressibility thread on
[EMAIL PROTECTED] in connection with supersymmetric theories of
memory. The reception
From: Osher Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thurs. Sept. 5, 2002 6:17PM
I have now read page 2 of Yurtsever, having previous read page 1, and I must
confess that his style does not quite have the clarity of my style - his is
more like the clarity of Sigmund Freud's style : ) However, I am happy
From: Osher Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thurs. Sept. 5, 2002 10:25PM
I don't know whether Hal Finney is right or wrong after reading pages 5-8 of
Yurtsever, since Yurtsever writes like David Deutsch and Julian Brown and so
many other members of the quantum entanglement school - no matter how
From: Osher Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fri. Sept. 6, 2002 8:36AM
After my discouragement of yesterday, I have decided to give myself one more
chance to try to be compatible with everything-list. I have just
downloaded J. Schmidthuber's *A computer scientist's view of life, the
universe
From: Osher Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fri. Sept. 6, 2002 11:45AM
I have read about half of J. Schmidthuber's *A computer scientist's view of
life, the universe, and everything,* (1997), and he has interesting ideas
and clarity of presentation, but I have to disagree with him on a number
From: Osher Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fri. Sept. 6, 2002 6:17PM
Bill Jefferys says:
Nonsense. It's done all the time for events of low probability.
If *doing something all the time* is your reply to nonsense, then can I
assume that not doing something is your reply to *sense*?Ah well
From: Osher Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sat. Sept. 21, 2002 10:39PM
I've glanced over one of Tegmark's papers and it didn't impress me much, but
maybe you've seen something that I didn't.
As for your question (have you ever been accused of being over-specific?),
the best thing for a person
From: Osher Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sat. Sept. 21, 2002 11:38PM
Hal,
Well said. I really have to have more patience for questioners, but
mathematics and logic are such wonderful fields in my opinion that we need
to treasure them rather than throw them out like some of the Gung-Ho
computer
From: Osher Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mon. Sept. 23, 2002 12:32PM
I refer readers to http://www.superstringtheory.com/forum, especially to the
String - M Theory - Duality subforum of their Forum section (membership is
free, and archives are open to members, and many of my postings
From: Osher Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sunday Nov. 10, 2002 5PM
Thanks to Tim May for the site reference. I read the story, and it's quite
interesting. It's the first time I've looked at this in detail, although I
heard a rumor about it. I have a few comments that I'd like to make now.
1
From: Osher Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sunday Nov. 10, 2002 5:45PM
Duraid,
Well said! I am very happy that some Australians have a sense of humor,
which I hadn't realized until now. I know that British and Irish humor are
excellent. USA humor varies between the mediocre and the sublime
From Osher Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sat. Nov. 30, 2002 1005
I agree generally with Tim May on mathematics and physics vs computers and
AI. My most amusing example is something of a Jonathon Swift parody of all
four of these fields. Gulliver lands on an island inhabited by
mathematicians
From Osher Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sunday Dec. 1, 2002 1243
Sorry for keeping prior messages in their entirety in my replies.
Let us consider the decision of category theory to use functors and
morphisms under composition and objects and commuting diagrams as their
fundamentals. Because
From Osher Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tues. Dec. 3, 2002 1326
Tim May gives a very detailed account of his ideas on category and topos
theories, and I will only comment on a few of his ideas and some of Ben
Goertzel because of space and time limitations.
I think that Tim and I, and hopefully
From Osher Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tues. Dec. 3, 2002 1601
Tim,
I quote first your comment early in your posting on my RET theory.
[TIM]
I don't think the world's nonacceptance of RET means it is on par
with category theory, just because some here don't think much of it.
[OSHER]
Next, I
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