I will think about it. Somehow, the "best" layman intro to UDA and AUDA are in this list. The first 15-step version of UDA was a reply to Russell Standish a long time ago. UDA is the logical guide to AUDA, which is just a deeper second pass on UDA.
AUDA *is* UDA explained to the "dummy", with the "dummy" played by the machine. Can we still access the everything list posts individually through web address? Give me time to think on the best book for the technical understanding of AUDA, I have already made some advertising on some books like the one by Boolos, or (better for the layman) Smullyan, especially Forever Undecided, for a recreative introduction to the modal logic G. Any good textbook in mathematical logic is a necessary companion. AUDA uses the most standard notion and results there. Probably a key book (even for just the seventh step of UDA) is the book by Webb. See the reference of the paper linked below). For UDA, good popular training are SIMULACRON 3, MATRIX, but also Plato, and many other up to the book Minds'I edited by Dennett and Hofstadter. The original paper on the UD and UDA (and MGA) is my 1991 paper. It contains the seeds of AUDA. It contains a shorter bibliography, which could help... Marchal B., 1991, Mechanism and Personal Identity, proceedings of WOCFAI 91, M. De Glas & D. Gabbay (Eds), Angkor, Paris. Except that for understanding the UD itself, and thus the "seventh step", and to comprehend its generality, you have to know a bit of theoretical computer science and mathematical logic. Rereading "Conscience et Mécanisme" I realize Russell Standish was right, and that book should be translated in english because it contains an almost complete (self-contained) explanation of logic (for the physicists), including the historical foundations which are genuine, and a detailed explanation of the measurement problem in quantum physics, for the logicians. (beyong the most detailed account of the UD). It renders also justice to all the contributors in the debate on Gödel (like Benacerraf, Reinhardt, Webb, Wang, and many others). There are many misunderstandings, which reminds me the book by Torkel Franzen ... Also, it is hard to *believe* in the plausibility of the conclusion of UDA without having a good understanding of Everett's Quantum Mechanics. What could be a "good" introduction to Everett? ... Deutch' FOR book, but also Albert's one, D'Espagnat, ..... There are many good books, working at different levels. Let me think a bit, Best, Bruno On 25 Jan 2009, at 18:45, Günther Greindl wrote: > > Hi Bruno, > >>> Goldblatt, Mathematics of Modality >> Note that it is advanced stuff for people familiarized with >> mathematical logic (it presupposes Mendelson's book, or Boolos & >> Jeffrey). >> >> Two papers in that book are "part" of AUDA: the UDA explain to the >> universal machine, and her opinion on the matter. > > I would like to add a "guide to AUDA" section on the resources page. > Maybe you could specify the core references necessary for > understanding > the AUDA (if you like and have the time)? > > Here a first suggestion of what I am thinking of: > > Boolos Et Al. Computability and Logic. 2002. 4th Edition > > Chellas. Modal Logic. 1980. > > Goldblatt, Semantic Analysis of Orthologic and > Arithmetical Necessity, Provability and Intuitionistic Logic > to be found in Goldblatt, Mathematics of Modality. 1993. > > > > What do you think? > > Best Wishes, > Günther > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
