Re: this very moment

2000-05-16 Thread Scott D. Yelich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 15 May 2000, Jacques Mallah wrote: Another way to go is to consider an implementation of a computation, extended over time, as you. You can't tell which implementation you are just from the available information in an observer-moment. I

RE: this very moment

2000-05-15 Thread Jacques Mallah
--- Higgo James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the ideas Bruno, Jacques and I put forward are idealist. My view is that math is fundamental. Ideas should be derivable from the math of computations. The physical world is real in that it is mathematical. = - - - - - - -

Re: this very moment

2000-05-14 Thread Alastair Malcolm
- Original Message - From: Scott D. Yelich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alastair Malcolm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 May 2000 20:35 Subject: Re: this very moment -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 13 May 2000, Alastair Malcolm wrote: One way is to try

Re: this very moment

2000-05-13 Thread Marchal
Fabien Besnard wrote: I surely am [materialist], as anyone should be when dealing about a scientific subject. This is a rather dogmatic assertion. See my posts, or my thesis* for a proof that computationnalism entails materialism contradict very weak form of Occam. Bruno * which you can

RE: this very moment

2000-05-13 Thread Fritz Griffith
From: Higgo James [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: this very moment Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 17:26:35 +0100 Jacques is right: there is no first person, so the distinction is spurious. 'you' have no 'future' so it's meaningless to try to predict it Well

Re: this very moment

2000-05-13 Thread Alastair Malcolm
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Re: this very moment

2000-05-03 Thread Russell Standish
Jacques Mallah wrote: --- Russell Standish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There needs to be psychological time in which to unravel the history embedded in a single observer moment. Once one has psychological time, one may as well go the whole hog and have a complete history, with an

RE: this very moment

2000-05-03 Thread Scott D. Yelich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 3 May 2000, Higgo James wrote: 'Psychological time' is a concept of time, part of your current psychology. Occam would disapprove of assuming that psychological events are real events; assuming a hard, physical world when there is no need for one. I