Re: No(-)Justification Justifies The Everything Ensemble

2007-09-18 Thread Hal Ruhl
I do see one mistake I made. >A "Nothing" is incomplete since it can not resolve any question but >there is one it must resolve - that of its own duration. So it is >unstable - it eventually "decays" [Big Bang] into a something that >follows a path to completion by becoming an ever increasing s

Re: No(-)Justification Justifies The Everything Ensemble

2007-09-18 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Marc: The objects I use are divisions of the list - such divisions are static elements of the power set. My objects have nothing to do with programing and do not change - they can be the current state of a something on its path to completion. Hal At 12:13 AM 9/18/2007, you wrote: >On S

Re: One solution to the Measure Problem: UTM outputs a qualia, not a universe

2007-09-18 Thread Wei Dai
Hal wrote: > Yes, as you note later this is very similar to the concept I called > UD+ASSA or just UDASSA and described in a series of postings to this > list back in 2005. It was not original with me but actually was based > on an idea of Wei Dai, who founded this last way back in 1998. I was > w

Re: Space-time is a liquid!

2007-09-18 Thread Torgny Tholerus
John Mikes skrev: > > JM: Then what makes them into a continuous 'string'? OR: do those > individual points arrange in unassigned directions they just wish? If > they only fluctuate by themselves, what reference do they > (individually) follow to be callable 'string' -'fluctuate' - or just > "

Re: No(-)Justification Justifies The Everything Ensemble

2007-09-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 17-sept.-07, à 14:22, Russell Standish a écrit : > Sorry my fingers are slipping. Machines (computable functions) are a > type of map, but not all maps are machines (or perhaps you prefer the > word function to map). OK. You know I like your little book as an introduction to the field, b

A question concerning the ASSA/RSSA debate

2007-09-18 Thread Youness Ayaita
When Bruno spoke of the "ASSA" I looked up some messages in this list dealing with the ASSA and RSSA. My message does not aim at initiating yet another controversial discussion of the subject. But I rather hope that you will assist me resolving a misunderstanding. Searching for the self-sampling

Re: No(-)Justification Justifies The Everything Ensemble

2007-09-18 Thread Youness Ayaita
Many thanks! I'll give my current attitudes to your hints: Bruno: You mentioned the ASSA. Yesterday, motivdated by your hint, I have read about the ASSA/RSSA debate that is said to have divided the list into two camps. Since I have trouble with the reasoning I read, I will probably send a new me