> On 28 Sep 2019, at 11:20, Alan Grayson <agrayson2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 28, 2019 at 2:28:14 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 27 Sep 2019, at 18:42, Alan Grayson <agrays...@gmail.com <javascript:>> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday, September 27, 2019 at 10:31:02 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> On 27 Sep 2019, at 11:23, Alan Grayson <agrays...@gmail.com <>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 5:47:10 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> >>>> On 24 Sep 2019, at 17:03, Alan Grayson <agrays...@gmail.com <>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tuesday, September 24, 2019 at 8:52:50 AM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tuesday, September 24, 2019 at 8:37:23 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 23 Sep 2019, at 15:18, Alan Grayson <agrays...@gmail.com <>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Monday, September 23, 2019 at 5:21:38 AM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Monday, September 23, 2019 at 2:44:05 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On 21 Sep 2019, at 17:00, Alan Grayson <agrays...@gmail.com <>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 4:02:09 AM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: >>>>>> I think he means one can replace a human brain and/or nervous system >>>>>> with computer microchips and consciousness will be preserved, or >>>>>> perfectly simulated so the person who says "Yes doctor", will awake from >>>>>> the surgery thinking he/she's the same person, like awakening from >>>>>> unremarkable surgery. From my pov, this belief is a huge, huge stretch >>>>>> since we can even define what consciousness IS. AG >>>>>> >>>>>> Bruno; does "Yes doctor" mean that a patient accepts as fact that >>>>>> removing his/her brain and/or nervous system and replacing it with >>>>>> microcircuits preserving the same functions, yields a surgical result >>>>>> such that the patient upon awakening seems to him or herself, and >>>>>> others, as the same "person" who previously approved the surgery? >>>>> >>>>> The patient cannot accept this as a fact. It is something he can hope >>>>> only. Then, if mechanism is true, by definition he was correct, but even >>>>> after the operation, he cannot claim that as a fact, despite its personal >>>>> impression. He might have lose a faculty and not be aware of it, like >>>>> people can become blind and be unaware of the change, in some special >>>>> brain disease (anosognosia). >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Is this the essence of mechanism? If not, please elaborate. TIA, AG >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Yes, it is mechanism, but it requires an act of faith. >>>>> >>>>> Now, to be sure, taking a plane, or even a bike, requires some faith too, >>>>> but here, that play an important role in the sequel, and so that nuance >>>>> has to be taken into account. >>>>> >>>>> Rational machine have a surrational corona extending what they can >>>>> justify. That corona has a precise mathematical structure, and is used to >>>>> derive the laws of physics from arithmetic. >>>>> >>>>> Bruno >>>>> >>>>> Can you name one law you have established or proved using your theory? AG >>>> >>>> I have written a theorem prover generating the propositional physical laws. >>>> >>>> It predicts many laws including the very existence of non trivial >>>> physical laws, and the quantum nature of the observable. It predicts >>>> general statements, like the bottom of the physical reality is highly >>>> symmetrical (and plausibly necessarily reversible). >>>> >>>> Then it predicts the qualia and consciousness, at a place where physics is >>>> either wrong or dismiss its existence and makes it into an illusion. >>>> >>>> Keep in mind that Mechanism is not an hypothesis in physics, but in >>>> cognitive science. This predicted the possibility of AI (the reason what I >>>> have mocked 40 years ago). >>>> >>>> I am not so much proposing a new theory than showing that all physicalist >>>> theory of everything are wrong if we assume Mechanism (like Descartes, >>>> Darwin, and many others more or less explicitly). >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Calculating everything, even if that were possible, >>>> >>>> The possibility of this is a theorem in arithmetic + Church’s thesis. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> doesn't mean you know anything! >>>> >>>> >>>> We agree on that. You know the main axiom from which I derive everything >>>> is named “the Modesty axiom” by Rohit Parikh and Raymond Smullyan. >>>> >>>> Not only I don’t know everything, but I know-for-sure only my >>>> consciousness, and only god knows if I know more than that. But I have >>>> theories/beliefs, and I show how to test them. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> How would you know our universe uses inverse square for gravity (to a >>>>> good approximation) and not inverses of higher order? >>>> >>>> That kind of thing is explained by many theorems in mathematics already. A >>>> beautiful illustration is given in the following very nice video which >>>> computes the sum of the inverse of saure numbers 1 + 1/4 + 1/9 + 1/16 + >>>> 1/25 + … using (and explaining) the inverse square laws. >>>> >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-o3eB9sfls >>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-o3eB9sfls> >>>> >>>> I can’t use this with Mechanism though, because we have not yet extracted >>>> any notion of physical space (although I do have ideas how to get them, >>>> but the math get very complex. A recent progress has been made as it is >>>> related to possible deep relation between the theory of brads and knots >>>> and very large cardinal in set theory (the cardinal of Laver). >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Also, since no computer can calculate a single irrational number, >>>> >>>> That is false. A computer can calculate PI, e, sqrt(2), sqrt(3), sqrt(5) >>>> etc.. all irrational. >>>> >>>> No. A computer cannot calculate any irrational exactly. >>> >>> Nor could a human. >>> >>> >>> >>>> It can only approximate them, such as PI. AG >>>> >>>> With PI, you at least have a series representation and can approximate it >>>> to any degree desirable, >>> >>> OK. And that is how we define what is a computable real number. We can >>> compute the approximations. Actually we need also to be able to compute a >>> modulus of convergence, to assure that addition of the computable real >>> numbers is a computable operation. Turing get this wrong in his paper, but >>> corrected this in a footnote in most re-publication of his paper. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> but with most of the others you don't even know how to represent them >>>> mathematically and thus haven't a prayer for calculating them. AG >>> >>> Yes, in classical logic/theories, most real numbers are not computable. >>> Note that in intuitionistic mathematics, Brouwer has introduce the axioms >>> that all real numbers are computable, but as I use classical logic, that >>> does not concern us. Yet that play a role in the logic of the subject ([]p >>> & p, S4Grz, …). >>> >>> Listen; you can't compute, even approximately, a real number you have no >>> way of defining. >> >> No problem with this. I cannot compute a non computable real. OK. >> >> >> >> >>> In fact, the act of defining it, would be tantamount to computing it! >> >> Hmm… OK (with a large sense of tantamount). >> >> But what I can still do, is generating it, even if I will generate many >> other real numbers, and be unable to recognise where is the one which is >> uncomputable. >> >> >> >> >> >>> So this is all nonsense. >> >> You confuse generating the decimal of a real number, and just that one >> (computable real number), and generating a real number, among many one. That >> are different procedures. >> >> >> >> >> >>> But let's suppose the monkey at the keyboard produces a text defining the >>> axioms of QM, along with a multitude of other theories. Without a physical >>> universe to test these theories, there's no way to determine which one is >>> "true”. >> >> With mechanism, no universe, nor god, could do that. But the relative state >> of the machine have just the math showing that the physical reality will >> look like a quantum multiverse, so no need to add a universe when actually, >> it cannot do the work we would expect it to do, without violating Mechanism. >> >> Your machine can generate other theories, such as one corresponding to >> universes which don't obey QM. > > The universal dovetailer does not generate theories. It generates all > computations, and the physical universe is the unique structure emerging from > the statistics on all computation. Physics is theory-independent, or > universal-machine-independent. That is why the “TOE” is anything Turing > equivalent to Arithmetic (without induction). Physics is independent of the > phi_i. It is the same for all universal machine. There is only one physics > (with Mechanism). That’s the beauty of it. > > Does this mean you have given up,
… given up what? > or have never endorsed the MW theory? AG I have endorse the MW just by looking at bacteria and amoeba, studying how they reproduce themselves at the molecular level, and then discovering, in a book on Gödel’s proof, that arithmetic already emulate all possible digital machines. That was a long time before I heard about conceptual problem in QM, and even then, it will take time (and my reading of Everett) to see that the physicist were already there (I mean, conceiving that the physical reality is a statistics on many histories. Bruno > > > > >> Presumably, all of these are assumed to produce physically appearing >> universes. > > No. > > > >> I don't see that anything has been proven, or even that any of these >> universes must exist just because some axioms are typed by the monkey. > > You are right. Monkey's typing does not produce any universe. Study my > papers, perhaps, you would have seen that your monkey does not generate any > universe. A physical universe becomes a first person plural appearance > associated to a unique statistics on all relative computations. A monkey can > only type a texte, and no texte ever produced anything y itself. Don’t > confuse a computation emulated in a reality, and a description of a > computation (in any reality). > > In fact, with Mechanism, it is proven that the physical universe is not > described by *any* computation. Mechanism is at the antipodes of “digital > physics” which is simply inconsistent (Digital physics implies Mechanism, but > Mechanism negates digital Physics, so Digital physics, as a fundamental > theory is self-contradictory). > > > >> And regardless of how you parse words, you cannot compute most irrational >> numbers; only a few that have known mathematical expressions like PI and e. >> AG > > On the contrary. I cannot compute a few non computable real numbers, but I > can generate them all, and that explains why the universal dovetailer > executes all computations with all Turing’s Oracles. > > Bruno > > > >> >> >> >> >> >>> Frankly, I don't see what's been discovered by "computability". AG >> >> A precise mathematical notion of universality. >> >> Bruno >> >> >> >> >> >>> >>> Bruno >>> >>>>> they can only calculate to a measure zero (the rationals) of what exists; >>>>> not to mention the finite time constraint for any of these calculations. >>>>> AG >>>> >>>> If you study my papers, you will see that the physical laws are not >>>> computable: they emerge from the first person indeterminacy (step 3) and >>>> the delay invariance (step 2 and 4). The universal machine is partially >>>> computable only, which means that she is partially not computable, also, >>>> and that plays a key role, for both consciousness and matter. >>>> >>>> Bruno >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Everything List" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to everyth...@googlegroups.com <>. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/ee2e1087-327f-495e-9b0d-f192665dff0b%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/ee2e1087-327f-495e-9b0d-f192665dff0b%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to everyth...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/d44c3b79-c88b-4c0d-b7b0-87f5ecbdce59%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/d44c3b79-c88b-4c0d-b7b0-87f5ecbdce59%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/87411840-7a03-4972-a81a-8339104dab65%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/87411840-7a03-4972-a81a-8339104dab65%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/32A4F656-CC66-48E0-844C-CA7437FD769A%40ulb.ac.be.
