Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Jul 2014, at 20:31, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: What difference do you se between comp and computationalism? Why ask me? Because you are the one pretending than comp is not computationalism. You're the one who felt

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
-Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, Jul 17, 2014 1:00 pm Subject: Re: Selecting your future branch On 17 Jul 2014, at 18:37, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-18 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
in arithmetic, or equivalent. It is amazing, without doubt, but part of standard computer science. Bruno -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, Jul 18, 2014 6:56 am Subject: Re: Selecting your future branch

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
. Bruno -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, Jul 17, 2014 1:00 pm Subject: Re: Selecting your future branch On 17 Jul 2014, at 18:37, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Bruno Marchal marc

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-18 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
it possible to test the computationalist hypothesis. Bruno -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, Jul 18, 2014 12:24 pm Subject: Re: Selecting your future branch On 18 Jul 2014, at 16:54, spudboy100 via

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Jul 2014, at 20:43, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: John Clark is NOT a comp believer. This contradicts the fact that you are OK with step 0, and step 1, and step 2. I'm not surprised. I've long ago forgotten what those

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-17 Thread Richard Ruquist
Computationalism is necessarily consistent, but may not be complete except in nearly infinite domains. Richard On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 16 Jul 2014, at 20:43, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Jul 2014, at 14:42, Richard Ruquist wrote: Computationalism is necessarily consistent, I am not sure we can know that, at least in any reasonably justifiable way. but may not be complete except in nearly infinite domains. It is incomplete with respect to arithmetical truth,

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-17 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
/physics_resurrection-105440 -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, Jul 17, 2014 11:29 am Subject: Re: Selecting your future branch On 17 Jul 2014, at 14:42, Richard Ruquist wrote: Computationalism is necessarily

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-17 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Computationalism is contradictory? No. Computationalism is not contradictory, but comp is. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Jul 2014, at 18:37, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Computationalism is contradictory? No. Computationalism is not contradictory, but comp is. What difference do you se between comp and computationalism? Comp is used as

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-17 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: What difference do you se between comp and computationalism? Why ask me? You're the one who felt that computationalism didn't adequately convey the idea you had and so you needed to invent a new word, a word used on this

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-17 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Message- From: Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, Jul 17, 2014 1:00 pm Subject: Re: Selecting your future branch On 17 Jul 2014, at 18:37, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Jul 2014, at 16:35, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Of course there is. You know when in Helsinki, (as a comp believer) John Clark is NOT a comp believer. This contradicts the fact that you are OK with step 0, and step 1,

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-16 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: John Clark is NOT a comp believer. This contradicts the fact that you are OK with step 0, and step 1, and step 2. I'm not surprised. I've long ago forgotten what those steps were but I do know that If one starts with

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-15 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Of course there is. You know when in Helsinki, (as a comp believer) John Clark is NOT a comp believer. what do you expect about the evolution of your subjective life, There are now 2 , so which subjective life? like

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-13 Thread LizR
On 13 July 2014 05:34, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: If there are two (and there are) why didn't Bruno Marchal ask what cities John Clark will see from *a* 1p? That is the 3p view *on* the future 1-views. The? why

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-13 Thread LizR
On 12 July 2014 23:14, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 July 2014 05:41, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:37 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: If the MWI is correct, the electron spin question is equivalent to the teleporter question. No it is not and

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-13 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 13 juil. 2014 12:42, LizR lizj...@gmail.com a écrit : On 12 July 2014 23:14, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 July 2014 05:41, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:37 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: If the MWI is correct, the electron spin question is

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Jul 2014, at 19:34, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: If there are two (and there are) why didn't Bruno Marchal ask what cities John Clark will see from *a* 1p? That is the 3p view *on* the future 1-views. The? why not *a* future

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Jul 2014, at 12:37, LizR wrote: On 13 July 2014 05:34, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: If there are two (and there are) why didn't Bruno Marchal ask what cities John Clark will see from *a* 1p? That is the 3p view

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jul 2014, at 19:41, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:37 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: If the MWI is correct, the electron spin question is equivalent to the teleporter question. No it is not and I've given my reasons why it is not over and over and over and over

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-12 Thread LizR
On 12 July 2014 05:41, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:37 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: If the MWI is correct, the electron spin question is equivalent to the teleporter question. No it is not and I've given my reasons why it is not over and over and

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-12 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: If there are two (and there are) why didn't Bruno Marchal ask what cities John Clark will see from *a* 1p? That is the 3p view *on* the future 1-views. The? why not *a* future 1-view Because as you just agree above, there

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-12 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 12 juil. 2014 19:34, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com a écrit : On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: If there are two (and there are) why didn't Bruno Marchal ask what cities John Clark will see from *a* 1p? That is the 3p view *on* the future 1-views. The?

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-11 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:37 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: If the MWI is correct, the electron spin question is equivalent to the teleporter question. No it is not and I've given my reasons why it is not over and over and over and over again. If you disagree with my reasons then fine but

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-11 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 11 juil. 2014 19:41, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com a écrit : On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:37 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: If the MWI is correct, the electron spin question is equivalent to the teleporter question. No it is not and I've given my reasons why it is not over and over

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
Now, I take some rest by answering an easy an rather clear post. On 10 Jul 2014, at 21:40, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I assume comp Well good for comp. I will push on the button, and I know I will not find myself in both

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-10 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I assume comp Well good for comp. I will push on the button, and I know I will not find myself in both city. Exactly. Only in one from my future first person perspective, There are 2 future first person

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-10 Thread LizR
If the MWI is correct, the electron spin question is equivalent to the teleporter question. In the electron spin scenario, the scientist could reasonably answer I expect to see spin up with 50% probability, and spin-down with 50% probability, and everyone would know what he meant. But he *could*

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-09 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 2:37 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Obviously if duplication is possible then singular pronouns become plural ones in the process. Yes, and yet Bruno still demands to know what one and only one city *you* will see. And things are not made clear if Bruno

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Jul 2014, at 18:19, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 2:37 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Obviously if duplication is possible then singular pronouns become plural ones in the process. Yes, and yet Bruno still demands to know what one and only one city

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 03 Jul 2014, at 21:10, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 10:13 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: The yes doctor thing says that if H-guy is destroyed in the process of being scanned prior to transmission, then he will see Then who will see? M or W (or both, depending on how

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 03 Jul 2014, at 21:51, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I predict that the H-guy will see Helsinki, unless you destroy him immediately after duplication That is indeed the case in the step 3 protocol. Fine, then currently

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Jul 2014, at 03:31, LizR wrote (to John Calrk) Well, perhaps. I'm no so sure I'd be happy that there is a duplicate of me who's OK if I'm facing death. How about a duplicate who split off from you a week ago? Would you be happy to be murdered knowing that he was alive and well, and

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-04 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 9:31 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Obviously if duplication is possible then singular pronouns become plural ones in the process. Yes, and yet Bruno still demands to know what one and only one city *you* will see. And things are not made clear if Bruno adds from

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-04 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: the H-guy has not vanished. That depends on what the H-guy means. By comp I don't give a rat's ass about comp. he is in both W and M, So the H-guy is in both W and M but the H-guy is not in W and M. Are you SURE

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-03 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I predict that the H-guy will see Helsinki, unless you destroy him immediately after duplication That is indeed the case in the step 3 protocol. Fine, then currently nobody is seeing Helsinki. in which case the

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-03 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-07-03 21:51 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I predict that the H-guy will see Helsinki, unless you destroy him immediately after duplication That is indeed the case in the step 3 protocol. Fine,

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-03 Thread LizR
On 4 July 2014 07:10, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 10:13 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: The yes doctor thing says that if H-guy is destroyed in the process of being scanned prior to transmission, then he will see Then who will see? Two copies of

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-03 Thread Kim Jones
On 4 Jul 2014, at 11:31 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Another bloviating blustering belligerent bellicose bunch of bollocks from Mr Clark follows: For the moment forget what your third grade English teacher may have said and answer the following question: For the moment maybe switch

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-02 Thread Kim Jones
On 2 Jul 2014, at 12:46 pm, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Brent: I don't think that's true. I think differently than I did as a child. As a child one experiences many more things as new, fresh, surprising. Liz: OK, so you disagree with Kim (or my reading of Kim) on that. You're on

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-02 Thread meekerdb
On 7/2/2014 5:07 AM, Kim Jones wrote: On 2 Jul 2014, at 12:46 pm, LizR lizj...@gmail.com mailto:lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Brent: I don't think that's true. I think differently than I did as a child. As a child one experiences many more things as new, fresh, surprising. Liz:

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-02 Thread Kim Jones
On 3 Jul 2014, at 5:09 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: A brain simply hosts a self, best generalised as a mind. This might be the same as soul, but I'm not really into the supernatural, only a vastly expanded reality. Based on assertions about your feelings? Brent Yes.

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-01 Thread LizR
On 1 July 2014 17:38, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/30/2014 9:03 PM, LizR wrote: Well, that's quite straightforward. Brent is assuming the (so called) Aristotelean paradigm, and hence that his mother *is* her brain. I'm assuming (on some evidence) that she, her stream of

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-01 Thread meekerdb
On 7/1/2014 1:09 AM, LizR wrote: On 1 July 2014 17:38, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/30/2014 9:03 PM, LizR wrote: Well, that's quite straightforward. Brent is assuming the (so called) Aristotelean paradigm, and hence that his mother /is/

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-07-01 Thread LizR
On 2 July 2014 05:44, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 7/1/2014 1:09 AM, LizR wrote: On 1 July 2014 17:38, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/30/2014 9:03 PM, LizR wrote: Well, that's quite straightforward. Brent is assuming the (so called) Aristotelean paradigm, and

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-30 Thread Kim Jones
Liz: Another way of looking at it Kim (interrupting in annoying fashion): There speaks a real thinker with precisely those words. Perception and observation is where we start. There is - wait for it - more than one way of viewing a bunch of data. It depends which glasses you have on your

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Jun 2014, at 18:33, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:54 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: the H-guy cannot be sure about its future 1-view *from the unique 1-view Unique? That implies that there is one and only one correct answer to the question of what the

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-30 Thread meekerdb
On 6/30/2014 12:51 AM, Kim Jones wrote: You are all of these people. You can only experience one of these people. You or God can never know which one you will most likely experience 5 minutes from now let alone after a year's storage before being emailed to Uranus or Washington or Scotland.

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-30 Thread Kim Jones
On 1 Jul 2014, at 4:57 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Much is made of observer-moments and their sequence, but I just got back from my mother's 100th birthday party. She's still relatively sharp and lives alone, but it's also clear that she's fading. Her sensory perceptions

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-30 Thread LizR
Well, that's quite straightforward. Brent is assuming the (so called) Aristotelean paradigm, and hence that his mother *is* her brain. Kim is assuming that it's possible the (so called) Platonic paradigm holds, and she may not be (and that something like comp may therefore be correct). I wonder

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-30 Thread meekerdb
On 6/30/2014 9:03 PM, LizR wrote: Well, that's quite straightforward. Brent is assuming the (so called) Aristotelean paradigm, and hence that his mother /is/ her brain. I'm assuming (on some evidence) that she, her stream of consciousness, is what her brain does. For example, she remembers

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 26 Jun 2014, at 22:27, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: We use the usual sense of self defined by the yes doctor. Nobody does that, even you don't do that to define yourself except when you're arguing philosophy on the

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 26 Jun 2014, at 03:58, LizR wrote: On 26 June 2014 03:06, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: And that one guy is Mr. You. Yes, it's perfectly true that other guys have seen different sequences and those other guys are not each other, but they are all Mr. You because they all

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-29 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:54 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: the H-guy cannot be sure about its future 1-view *from the unique 1-view Unique? That implies that there is one and only one correct answer to the question of what the Helsinki Man will see, so after the exparament is

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-29 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Le 29 juin 2014 18:33, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com a écrit : On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:54 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: the H-guy cannot be sure about its future 1-view *from the unique 1-view Unique? That implies that there is one and only one correct answer to the

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-29 Thread LizR
On 30 June 2014 04:33, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:54 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: the H-guy cannot be sure about its future 1-view *from the unique 1-view Unique? That implies that there is one and only one correct answer to the

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Jun 2014, at 17:06, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Predictions are great for validating scientific theories but predictions, good bad or ugly, have absolutely nothing to do with establishing a sense of self. We use the

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-26 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: We use the usual sense of self defined by the yes doctor. Nobody does that, even you don't do that to define yourself except when you're arguing philosophy on the internet. ? ! We use that all the time. I do it

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-25 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Predictions are great for validating scientific theories but predictions, good bad or ugly, have absolutely nothing to do with establishing a sense of self. We use the usual sense of self defined by the yes doctor.

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-25 Thread LizR
On 26 June 2014 03:06, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: And that one guy is Mr. You. Yes, it's perfectly true that other guys have seen different sequences and those other guys are not each other, but they are all Mr. You because they all remember being the Helsinki Man even if

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Jun 2014, at 18:29, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: according to you not believing in God is a variant of Christianity, and obviously believing in God is another variant of Christianity, therefore every human being who

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Jun 2014, at 20:25, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: That machine does not know in advance its future state, and that is what I meant. So a Turing Machine has free will. Not all turing machine, you need one which can

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-23 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: there is a 1-3 confusion here (is it volontarily?). Oh yes, I always voluntarily strive to be confused because when one is presented with nonsense the only logical response is confusion. I predict only 0.5 in most

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-23 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: according to you not believing in God is a variant of Christianity, and obviously believing in God is another variant of Christianity, therefore every human being who ever lived is a Christian except for those who don't

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Jun 2014, at 18:17, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: there is a 1-3 confusion here (is it volontarily?). Oh yes, I always voluntarily strive to be confused because when one is presented with nonsense the only logical

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-22 Thread LizR
On 21 June 2014 16:00, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 9:14 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: that doesn't actually alter the logic of the argument, which is only concerned with what he reports in his diary. He? 3 people are keeping a diary, one writes

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-22 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 6:29 PM, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: I won't enter with you again on this debate Coward. Call him a coward johnnie boy OK I will ghibbsaboy. wot about you? At least I have enough courage to sign my real name, the name on my birth certificate is John K Clark,

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Jun 2014, at 02:00, LizR wrote: PS I must say I find step 3 an odd place to attempt to refute comp. Presumably you've accepted the original assumptions and the first two steps. Most people either disagree with the original assumption(s), or go for the MGA (i.e. the reversal - the

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Jun 2014, at 02:00, LizR wrote: PS I must say I find step 3 an odd place to attempt to refute comp. Presumably you've accepted the original assumptions and the first two steps. Most people either disagree with the original assumption(s), or go for the MGA (i.e. the reversal - the

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-22 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 7:15 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: the probability that Mr. He will see Moscow is 1.0 not 0.5 as Bruno says. I agree, Good. but But? There is no but, Bruno predicted 0.5, we observe 1.0, game over. I don't see that it invalidates his argument. In

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Jun 2014, at 19:25, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: You mean that you made many attempts to find a blunder, but we were more than three to show you that in each case, you were confusing 1-views and 3-views. That was your

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Jun 2014, at 19:49, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 7:15 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: the probability that Mr. He will see Moscow is 1.0 not 0.5 as Bruno says. I agree, Good. but But? There is no but, Bruno predicted 0.5, we observe 1.0, game over. OK. That

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-22 Thread LizR
On 23 June 2014 05:49, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 7:15 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: the probability that Mr. He will see Moscow is 1.0 not 0.5 as Bruno says. I agree, Good. but But? There is no but, Bruno predicted 0.5, we observe 1.0,

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-22 Thread LizR
On 23 June 2014 06:24, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 22 Jun 2014, at 19:49, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 7:15 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: the probability that Mr. He will see Moscow is 1.0 not 0.5 as Bruno says. I agree, Good. but But? There

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-21 Thread ghibbsa
On Saturday, June 21, 2014 4:53:29 AM UTC+1, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Quentin Anciaux allc...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: I won't enter with you again on this debate Coward. Call him a coward johnnie boywot about you? :O) I just went to that trouble

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-20 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: And in the MWI how will YOU know if the 0.5 prediction was correct? And in the comp experiment how will YOU know [...] Just like Bruno Quentin Anciaux is incapable of expressing Quentin Anciaux's ideas without

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-20 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:53 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: So if you ask Helsinki-man what he expects to see when he steps out of the matter transmitter At that point its no longer the Helsinki Man, the things seen after he steps out of the matter transmitter booth will transform the

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-20 Thread Quentin Anciaux
You're so full of it... well I won't enter with you again on this debate... I've waited too much years... so ok. Byebye 2014-06-20 21:28 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: And in the MWI how will YOU know

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-20 Thread LizR
On 21 June 2014 07:45, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:53 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: So if you ask Helsinki-man what he expects to see when he steps out of the matter transmitter At that point its no longer the Helsinki Man, the things seen after

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-20 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: I won't enter with you again on this debate Coward. Byebye Byebye John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-20 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 9:14 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: that doesn't actually alter the logic of the argument, which is only concerned with what he reports in his diary. He? 3 people are keeping a diary, one writes I'm still here in Helsinki and nothing has happened, maybe the

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: You mean that you made many attempts to find a blunder, but we were more than three to show you that in each case, you were confusing 1-views and 3-views. That was your one and only retort in our debate, no explanation

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-06-19 19:25 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: You mean that you made many attempts to find a blunder, but we were more than three to show you that in each case, you were confusing 1-views and 3-views.

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: That machine does not know in advance its future state, and that is what I meant. So a Turing Machine has free will. Not all turing machine, you need one which can guess that she does not know. There is nothing

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 7:50 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: If after saying whats wrong with Bruno's vacuous proof over and over and over and over and over and over again for 3 years and you still ask what is it then what would be the point of me repeating it yet again? If you've said

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:25 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: That machine does not know in advance its future state, and that is what I meant. So a Turing Machine has free will. Not all turing machine,

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: you accept 1/3 distinction in MWI Forget MWI, EVERYBODY who is not in a padded cell accepts the 1/3 distinction. please do not come again with the I could meet my doppelganger crap. In MWI the laws of physics

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-06-19 21:10 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: you accept 1/3 distinction in MWI Forget MWI, EVERYBODY who is not in a padded cell accepts the 1/3 distinction. please do not come again with

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: No the I before measuring the spin, is as clear as the I pushing the button, no confusion... When I ask that I what is the probability he'll see spin up *UNDER MWI WHERE YOU'LL BE DUPLICATED DOING SUCH EXPERIMENT*,

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-06-19 21:55 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: No the I before measuring the spin, is as clear as the I pushing the button, no confusion... When I ask that I what is the probability he'll see spin up

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-06-19 22:52 GMT+02:00 Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com: 2014-06-19 21:55 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: No the I before measuring the spin, is as clear as the I pushing the button, no

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread LizR
On 20 June 2014 06:32, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 7:50 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: If after saying whats wrong with Bruno's vacuous proof over and over and over and over and over and over again for 3 years and you still ask what is it then what

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-19 Thread LizR
On 20 June 2014 07:10, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: you accept 1/3 distinction in MWI Forget MWI, EVERYBODY who is not in a padded cell accepts the 1/3 distinction. OK, so there isn't any real problem

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-18 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 6:41 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote : I read the first 3 steps, Bruno made blunders in step 3; a proof is built on the foundations of previous steps therefor it would be idiotic to keep reading a proof, any proof, after a mistake has been found. That's fair

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Jun 2014, at 19:57, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: If free will just means will then why stick on the free ? Because we believe that free does not add anything, Except bafflegab. Only because you quote an half

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Jun 2014, at 21:46, meekerdb wrote: On 6/13/2014 9:13 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Free-will or will are high level cognitive ability of machine having enough introspective ability. But not to much! :-) Indeed :-) Bruno Brent -- You received this message because you are

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Jun 2014, at 21:53, meekerdb wrote: On 6/13/2014 9:23 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Jun 2014, at 01:00, meekerdb wrote: On 6/12/2014 6:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Actually Grim and another guy studied version of Gödel and Löb theorem in fuzzy logic (meaning that they

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Jun 2014, at 00:41, LizR wrote: On 18 June 2014 04:23, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 5:55 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Other that the fact than your use of personal pronouns was inexcusably sloppy and inconsistent for a good logician, I have long

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