Re: Free Floating entities

2012-02-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Feb 2012, at 16:26, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/13/2012 9:44 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/13/2012 9:16 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: RDR: Not sure if this is helpful, but a possible hypothetical communications model is the 3D 10^90 per cc set Calabi-Yau Compact Manifolds of

Re: Free Floating entities

2012-02-13 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 4:31 PM, acw a...@lavabit.com wrote: On 2/10/2012 14:01, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/9/2012 3:40 PM, acw wrote: Another way to think of it would be in the terms of the Church Turing Thesis, where you expect that a computation (in the Turing sense) to have result

Re: Free Floating entities

2012-02-13 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/13/2012 9:16 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: RDR: Not sure if this is helpful, but a possible hypothetical communications model is the 3D 10^90 per cc set Calabi-Yau Compact Manifolds of string theory that are purported to control all physical interactions as they each contain the laws of

Re: Free Floating entities

2012-02-13 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/13/2012 9:44 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/13/2012 9:16 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: RDR: Not sure if this is helpful, but a possible hypothetical communications model is the 3D 10^90 per cc set Calabi-Yau Compact Manifolds of string theory that are purported to control all physical

Re: Free Floating entities

2012-02-13 Thread meekerdb
On 2/13/2012 7:26 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/13/2012 9:44 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/13/2012 9:16 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: RDR: Not sure if this is helpful, but a possible hypothetical communications model is the 3D 10^90 per cc set Calabi-Yau Compact Manifolds of string theory

Re: Free Floating entities

2012-02-13 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/13/2012 11:48 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 2/13/2012 7:26 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/13/2012 9:44 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/13/2012 9:16 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: RDR: Not sure if this is helpful, but a possible hypothetical communications model is the 3D 10^90 per cc set

Re: Free Floating entities

2012-02-13 Thread Richard Ruquist
Stephan, Thank you for your support and kind words. Actually you may be the first learned person to actually read the paper. I sent it to Yau and to Chalmers, but I doubt that they got beyond the Abstract. Now I need to admit that I am neither expert in string theory or math logic. For example I

Re: Free Floating entities

2012-02-13 Thread meekerdb
On 2/13/2012 8:54 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/13/2012 11:48 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 2/13/2012 7:26 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/13/2012 9:44 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/13/2012 9:16 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: RDR: Not sure if this is helpful, but a possible hypothetical

Re: Free Floating entities

2012-02-13 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/13/2012 12:01 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: Stephen, Thank you for your support and kind words. Actually you may be the first learned person to actually read the paper. I sent it to Yau and to Chalmers, but I doubt that they got beyond the Abstract. Now I need to admit that I am neither

Re: Free Floating entities

2012-02-13 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/13/2012 12:09 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 2/13/2012 8:54 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/13/2012 11:48 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 2/13/2012 7:26 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/13/2012 9:44 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/13/2012 9:16 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: RDR: Not sure if this is helpful,

Re: Free Floating entities

2012-02-13 Thread meekerdb
On 2/13/2012 9:18 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/13/2012 12:09 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 2/13/2012 8:54 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/13/2012 11:48 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 2/13/2012 7:26 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/13/2012 9:44 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/13/2012 9:16 AM, Richard

Re: Free Floating entities

2012-02-11 Thread acw
On 2/10/2012 14:01, Stephen P. King wrote: On 2/9/2012 3:40 PM, acw wrote: Another way to think of it would be in the terms of the Church Turing Thesis, where you expect that a computation (in the Turing sense) to have result and that result is independent of all your implementations, such a

Re: Free Floating entities (was: Ontological Problems of COMP)

2012-02-10 Thread Stephen P. King
On 2/9/2012 3:40 PM, acw wrote: Another way to think of it would be in the terms of the Church Turing Thesis, where you expect that a computation (in the Turing sense) to have result and that result is independent of all your implementations, such a result not being changeable in any way or by