Re: Leibniz: Reality as Dust
On 11/8/2012 6:19 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King Time and space don't exist as substances so they don't influence the monads, which as you say are eternal. Further, there is no substance space. So the monads are not organized in any way. The monads can be thought of as a collection of an infinite number of mathematical points. From dust we come and to dust we shall return. Hi Roger, The absolute disconnection of the monads is what makes them a 'dust'. This is exactly what is a Stone space - the dual to a Boolean algebra. ;-) The idea is that any one monad has as its image of other monads the vision of a mathematical point. This fits the idea of that the classical universe is atoms in a void as taught by Democritus. http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec1.html What Craig and I are proposing is to add time to this idea. The evolution of the dust from one configuration to another is the arrow of time. Switching to the dual, we see teh evolution of Boolean algebras, whose arrow is the entailment of one state by all previous states. These two arrows face in opposite directions ... A = A' Stone space | | A*=A*' Boolean algebra The duals aspects of each monad evolve in opposite directions. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/8/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-07, 19:01:19 Subject: Re: Communicability On 11/7/2012 11:48 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King That sounds like Leibniz. Each monad contains the views of all of the other monads in order to see the whole, not from just one perspective. Hi Roger, Yes, and that is why I like the idea of a Monad. I just don't agree with Leibniz' theory of how they are organized. Leibniz demanded that their organization is imposed ab initio, he assumed that there is a special beginning of time. I see the monads as eternal, never created nor destroyed, and their mutual relationships are merely the co-occurence of their perspectives. This makes God's creativity to be an eternal action and not a special one time action. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/7/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-06, 18:17:30 Subject: Re: Communicability On 11/6/2012 11:11 AM, Roger Clough wrote: What happens if I mistake a statue of a beautiful woman for the real thing, thus turning, eg, a statue of pygmalion into an actual woman ? Or mistake fool's gold or gold foiled chocolates for actual gold coins ? Does the world actually become cloudy if I have cataracts ? It is not just about you. It is about the huge number of observers. What matters is that they can communicate with each other and mutually confirm what is real. Why do you imagine that only humans can be observers? -- Onward! Stephen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
Re: Leibniz: Reality as Dust
On 08 Nov 2012, at 14:51, Richard Ruquist wrote: Stephan, If the compact manifolds of string theory are all different and distinct (as I claim in my paper from observations of a variable fine structure constant across the universe), then the manifolds should form a Stone space if each manifold instantly maps all the others into itself, my (BEC physics) conjecture, but also a Buddhist belief- Indra's Pearls. If so, youall may be working on implications of string theory- like consciousness. However, in my paper I claim that a 'leap of faith' is necessary to go from incompleteness to consciousness (C). Would you agree? Bruno says C emerges naturally from comp. More precisely, I say that consciousness and matter emerges from elementary arithmetic, *once* you bet on comp, that is the idea that the brain or the body can be Turing emulated at some right level so that you would remain conscious. Bruno -- Forwarded message -- From: Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net Date: Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:54 AM Subject: Re: Leibniz: Reality as Dust To: everything-list@googlegroups.com On 11/8/2012 6:19 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King Time and space don't exist as substances so they don't influence the monads, which as you say are eternal. Further, there is no substance space. So the monads are not organized in any way. The monads can be thought of as a collection of an infinite number of mathematical points. From dust we come and to dust we shall return. Hi Roger, The absolute disconnection of the monads is what makes them a 'dust'. This is exactly what is a Stone space - the dual to a Boolean algebra. ;-) The idea is that any one monad has as its image of other monads the vision of a mathematical point. This fits the idea of that the classical universe is atoms in a void as taught by Democritus. http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec1.html What Craig and I are proposing is to add time to this idea. The evolution of the dust from one configuration to another is the arrow of time. Switching to the dual, we see teh evolution of Boolean algebras, whose arrow is the entailment of one state by all previous states. These two arrows face in opposite directions ... A = A' Stone space | | A*=A*' Boolean algebra The duals aspects of each monad evolve in opposite directions. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/8/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-07, 19:01:19 Subject: Re: Communicability On 11/7/2012 11:48 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King That sounds like Leibniz. Each monad contains the views of all of the other monads in order to see the whole, not from just one perspective. Hi Roger, Yes, and that is why I like the idea of a Monad. I just don't agree with Leibniz' theory of how they are organized. Leibniz demanded that their organization is imposed ab initio, he assumed that there is a special beginning of time. I see the monads as eternal, never created nor destroyed, and their mutual relationships are merely the co-occurence of their perspectives. This makes God's creativity to be an eternal action and not a special one time action. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/7/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-06, 18:17:30 Subject: Re: Communicability On 11/6/2012 11:11 AM, Roger Clough wrote: What happens if I mistake a statue of a beautiful woman for the real thing, thus turning, eg, a statue of pygmalion into an actual woman ? Or mistake fool's gold or gold foiled chocolates for actual gold coins ? Does the world actually become cloudy if I have cataracts ? It is not just about you. It is about the huge number of observers. What matters is that they can communicate with each other and mutually confirm what is real. Why do you imagine that only humans can be observers? -- Onward! Stephen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en . http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything
Re: Leibniz: Reality as Dust
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 08 Nov 2012, at 14:51, Richard Ruquist wrote: Stephan, If the compact manifolds of string theory are all different and distinct (as I claim in my paper from observations of a variable fine structure constant across the universe), then the manifolds should form a Stone space if each manifold instantly maps all the others into itself, my (BEC physics) conjecture, but also a Buddhist belief- Indra's Pearls. If so, youall may be working on implications of string theory- like consciousness. However, in my paper I claim that a 'leap of faith' is necessary to go from incompleteness to consciousness (C). Would you agree? Bruno says C emerges naturally from comp. More precisely, I say that consciousness and matter emerges from elementary arithmetic, *once* you bet on comp, that is the idea that the brain or the body can be Turing emulated at some right level so that you would remain conscious. Bruno And of course what I am hoping as a physicist rather than a mathematician or logician is that the compact manifolds may be the basis of the elementary arithmetic from which spacetime, matter (ie., strings) and consciousness emerge. However, I do not understand what it means to bet on comp. Does the whole shebang collapse if brains do not exist? Richard -- Forwarded message -- From: Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net Date: Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:54 AM Subject: Re: Leibniz: Reality as Dust To: everything-list@googlegroups.com On 11/8/2012 6:19 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King Time and space don't exist as substances so they don't influence the monads, which as you say are eternal. Further, there is no substance space. So the monads are not organized in any way. The monads can be thought of as a collection of an infinite number of mathematical points. From dust we come and to dust we shall return. Hi Roger, The absolute disconnection of the monads is what makes them a 'dust'. This is exactly what is a Stone space - the dual to a Boolean algebra. ;-) The idea is that any one monad has as its image of other monads the vision of a mathematical point. This fits the idea of that the classical universe is atoms in a void as taught by Democritus. http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec1.html What Craig and I are proposing is to add time to this idea. The evolution of the dust from one configuration to another is the arrow of time. Switching to the dual, we see teh evolution of Boolean algebras, whose arrow is the entailment of one state by all previous states. These two arrows face in opposite directions ... A = A' Stone space | | A*=A*' Boolean algebra The duals aspects of each monad evolve in opposite directions. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/8/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-07, 19:01:19 Subject: Re: Communicability On 11/7/2012 11:48 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King That sounds like Leibniz. Each monad contains the views of all of the other monads in order to see the whole, not from just one perspective. Hi Roger, Yes, and that is why I like the idea of a Monad. I just don't agree with Leibniz' theory of how they are organized. Leibniz demanded that their organization is imposed ab initio, he assumed that there is a special beginning of time. I see the monads as eternal, never created nor destroyed, and their mutual relationships are merely the co-occurence of their perspectives. This makes God's creativity to be an eternal action and not a special one time action. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/7/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-06, 18:17:30 Subject: Re: Communicability On 11/6/2012 11:11 AM, Roger Clough wrote: What happens if I mistake a statue of a beautiful woman for the real thing, thus turning, eg, a statue of pygmalion into an actual woman ? Or mistake fool's gold or gold foiled chocolates for actual gold coins ? Does the world actually become cloudy if I have cataracts ? It is not just about you. It is about the huge number of observers. What matters is that they can communicate with each other and mutually confirm what is real. Why do you imagine that only humans can be observers? -- Onward! Stephen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group
Re: Leibniz: Reality as Dust
On 08 Nov 2012, at 16:35, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 08 Nov 2012, at 14:51, Richard Ruquist wrote: Stephan, If the compact manifolds of string theory are all different and distinct (as I claim in my paper from observations of a variable fine structure constant across the universe), then the manifolds should form a Stone space if each manifold instantly maps all the others into itself, my (BEC physics) conjecture, but also a Buddhist belief- Indra's Pearls. If so, youall may be working on implications of string theory- like consciousness. However, in my paper I claim that a 'leap of faith' is necessary to go from incompleteness to consciousness (C). Would you agree? Bruno says C emerges naturally from comp. More precisely, I say that consciousness and matter emerges from elementary arithmetic, *once* you bet on comp, that is the idea that the brain or the body can be Turing emulated at some right level so that you would remain conscious. Bruno And of course what I am hoping as a physicist rather than a mathematician or logician is that the compact manifolds may be the basis of the elementary arithmetic from which spacetime, matter (ie., strings) and consciousness emerge. Is it not more elegant if we can derived the strings (which are rather sophisticated mathematical object) from arithmetic (through computationalism)? It seems to me that string theory assumes or presumes arithmetic. Indeed it even assumes that the sum (in some sense, 'course) of all natural numbers gives -1/12. In fact all theories assume the arithmetical platonia, except some part of non Turing universal algebraic structures. However, I do not understand what it means to bet on comp. You bet on comp when you bet that that you can survive with a digital brain (a computer) replacing the brain. Comp is just Descartes Mechanism, after the discovery of the universal machine. The biggest discovery that nature do and redo all the times. Does the whole shebang collapse if brains do not exist? No. But brains cannot not exist, as they exist, in some sense, already in arithmetic. The whole shebang is a sharable dream. I call the computer universal number to help people to keep their arithmetical existence in mind. I will say more in FOAR asap. You can find my papers on that subject from my URL, but don't hesitate to ask any question, even on references. The simplest, concise, yet complete (with the references!) paper is this one: http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/publications/SANE2004MARCHALAbstract.html Simply state, what I say is that consciousness *and* matter (physics) is in your head, a bit like the mystics. But then I show a constructive version of that statement allowing any Universal machine to derived physics by looking inward, and then we can compare the comp- physics (the physics in the head of the universal Turing machine) with empirical physics, so that we can test comp. Bruno -- Forwarded message -- From: Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.net Date: Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:54 AM Subject: Re: Leibniz: Reality as Dust To: everything-list@googlegroups.com On 11/8/2012 6:19 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King Time and space don't exist as substances so they don't influence the monads, which as you say are eternal. Further, there is no substance space. So the monads are not organized in any way. The monads can be thought of as a collection of an infinite number of mathematical points. From dust we come and to dust we shall return. Hi Roger, The absolute disconnection of the monads is what makes them a 'dust'. This is exactly what is a Stone space - the dual to a Boolean algebra. ;-) The idea is that any one monad has as its image of other monads the vision of a mathematical point. This fits the idea of that the classical universe is atoms in a void as taught by Democritus. http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec1.html What Craig and I are proposing is to add time to this idea. The evolution of the dust from one configuration to another is the arrow of time. Switching to the dual, we see teh evolution of Boolean algebras, whose arrow is the entailment of one state by all previous states. These two arrows face in opposite directions ... A = A' Stone space | | A*=A*' Boolean algebra The duals aspects of each monad evolve in opposite directions. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/8/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-07, 19:01:19 Subject: Re: Communicability On 11/7/2012 11:48 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King That sounds like Leibniz. Each monad contains the views of all of the other monads in order to see the whole, not from just one perspective
