Re: Fermi Paradox defined and solved (in 15 minutes)

2018-01-07 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 01:52:00PM -0800, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: > > Can't you appreciate the humor? AG No - it came across as obtuse. If it was meant to be humour, it backfired. -- ---- Dr Russe

Re: Fermi Paradox defined and solved (in 15 minutes)

2018-01-07 Thread Russell Standish
hey should do bla" and "we should do bla". The former might refer to (say) your local government council - and the latter might refer to society in general. Contrast: "They should do something about climate change" vs "We should do something about climate change&qu

Re: What falsifiability tests has computationalism passed?

2018-01-06 Thread Russell Standish
e, or the various sorts of bacteria. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University

Re: What falsifiability tests has computationalism passed?

2018-01-06 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 04:30:35PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 6/01/2018 4:15 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > > > Other things seem possible, such as the > > extraordinary unlikelihood that all animals can be conscious. > > That is an extraordinary claim, and suffici

Re: What falsifiability tests has computationalism passed?

2018-01-05 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 03:33:44PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 6/01/2018 11:50 am, Russell Standish wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 02:22:08PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > > The original suggestion by Russell was that "our human consciousness _is_ > > >

Re: What falsifiability tests has computationalism passed?

2018-01-05 Thread Russell Standish
assume that I am a computationalist when I'm simply neutral on the matter. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Re: What falsifiability tests has computationalism passed?

2018-01-05 Thread Russell Standish
t he means by a "computation cannot be conscious" - as by analogy it would a be similar statement to "a bunch of molecules cannot be a gas". -- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119

Re: What falsifiability tests has computationalism passed?

2018-01-02 Thread Russell Standish
y of mind that Bruno et al keep saying > is impossible? > This is an astute comment. The MGA (and Maudlin's argument) supposedly works by producing a physical philosophical zombie under computationalism. Cheers -- ---

Re: Fermi Paradox defined and solved (in 15 minutes)

2018-01-01 Thread Russell Standish
t; military intelligence. AG > -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, K

Re: Fermi Paradox defined and solved (in 15 minutes)

2018-01-01 Thread Russell Standish
s in Rome in July. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://ww

Re: Another local hidden variable theory?

2018-01-01 Thread Russell Standish
were together. Communication via that common point in the past is the classic definition of a local hidden variable. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coder

Re: Fermi Paradox defined and solved (in 15 minutes)

2017-12-31 Thread Russell Standish
the conclusion before reading the remainder. You have to convince someone it is worth their while. Youtube videos are mostly a waste of time in my experience. Cheers -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 04

Re: Fermi Paradox defined and solved (in 15 minutes)

2017-12-31 Thread Russell Standish
nnecting simple dots? AG > I know what the Fermi paradox is. I was asking why a video about the Roswell "incident" sheds any light on it? TL; DW (too long, didn't watch - by analogy with TL; DR). Cheers -- -------

Re: Fermi Paradox defined and solved (in 15 minutes)

2017-12-31 Thread Russell Standish
lfM4DITeU > -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpc

Re: What falsifiability tests has computationalism passed?

2017-12-28 Thread Russell Standish
f that reasoning proves inconsistent with observed reality. In which case we've learnt something. I'm not sure what else one could expect, though. -- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Princip

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-12-25 Thread Russell Standish
s not extend to the measurement process; > onlyevolution of the wf prior to measurement. AG * Yes - that is exactly the measurement problem. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile)

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-12-25 Thread Russell Standish
an. It is a relatively trivial exercise to prove that any operator of the form exp(iA) is unitary, where A is Hermitian. Trivial when you see how to do it, but nevertheless I had to seek help from my college tutor when I first encountered this :). Cheers -- -------

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-12-25 Thread Russell Standish
are linear, which I believe is what the model affirms, > how can any measurement be non linear as it presumably is for spin > measurements. AG* > Indeed that would be a problem. A sum of unitary operators need not be unitary, though. -- ---

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-12-24 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 02:10:44PM -0800, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Saturday, December 23, 2017 at 2:11:32 PM UTC-7, Russell Standish wrote: > > > > On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 09:20:05AM -0800, agrays...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > > > &g

Re: Schrodinger's cat problem; proposed solution

2017-12-23 Thread Russell Standish
ssing from our reality. If you subscribe to Deutsch's Turing tropic principle, then mechanism = computationalism. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance C

Re: Schrodinger's cat problem; proposed solution

2017-12-23 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 11:04:58AM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 19 Dec 2017, at 00:56, Russell Standish wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 05:25:12PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > > > > > > > What is the difference you make between an instr

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-12-23 Thread Russell Standish
lapse type theory. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://ww

Re: Schrodinger's cat problem; proposed solution

2017-12-18 Thread Russell Standish
ect of consciousness or observerhood, since the continuous/discrete distinction should not be controversial to anyone, and a lot in known mathematically about it. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425

Re: Equivalence Principle and Einstein Field Equations

2017-12-11 Thread Russell Standish
e still experiments directly testing the principle of equivalence. A finding of a departure from it would be very big news! -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performan

Re: Equivalence Principle and Einstein Field Equations

2017-12-11 Thread Russell Standish
n is dropped, since it is obvious from the way the equation is written. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-12-09 Thread Russell Standish
eory. I have an idea for an outline of a proof of that contention, > which I may get around to writing up sooner or later.. > I would be very interested in that. -- Dr Russell Standish

Re: Cosmological Red Shift

2017-12-09 Thread Russell Standish
lines are shifted by the same amount. But the lines are recognisable by the patterns - a bit like a bar code. -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visi

Re: Cosmological Red Shift

2017-12-09 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 08:03:48PM -0800, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Saturday, December 9, 2017 at 3:53:28 AM UTC, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > > > On Saturday, December 9, 2017 at 2:40:12 AM UTC, Russell Standish wrote: > >> >

Re: Cosmological Red Shift

2017-12-08 Thread Russell Standish
ce in terms of z factor, which is related to their Doppler shift, rather than an exlicit distance, as the latter vlaue is not model independent. Cheers -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (m

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-12-04 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 12:18:02PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 5/12/2017 11:53 am, Russell Standish wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 11:26:53AM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > > On 5/12/2017 3:15 am, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > > I think that is enough to get

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-12-04 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-12-03 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 02:11:11PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 3/12/2017 9:03 am, Russell Standish wrote: > > The point being that the uncertainty in the coin's initial position is > > itself due to the amplification of quantum uncertainty by classical > > chaos. &g

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-12-02 Thread Russell Standish
coin lands on a hard surface, rather than the tosser's hand, which is why that is usually insisted upon. -- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Res

Re: US vs North Korea

2017-12-01 Thread Russell Standish
way, as I stated, this will be an > exception. Try being tolerant. AG In particular, ensemble theories of everything. For an introduction, see my book "Theory of Nothing", or Tegmark's "Mathematical Universe". But other "theories of everything"

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-11-27 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 05:09:13PM -0800, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > On 11/27/2017 4:17 PM, Russell Standish wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 03:57:37PM -0500, John Clark wrote: > > >wrote: > > > > > > > ​> ​ > > > > Your so

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-11-27 Thread Russell Standish
this list, and prevent these sorts of stupid confusions. Cheers -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpco

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-11-15 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:20:45AM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 16/11/2017 9:14 am, Russell Standish wrote: > > But not all measurements are measurements of the position of > > something. What about measuring the voltage of a circuit using an A->D > > converter? > &

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-11-15 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 10:54:51PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 15/11/2017 5:02 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 02:46:21PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > > I said "one of the strongest"! I know that you want to define QM from the >

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-11-15 Thread Russell Standish
t; is the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss, apparently. * > As Brent explained, if the universe is infinite in extent at t=0, it remains infinite in extent at finite times. -- Dr Russell Standish

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-11-14 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 02:46:21PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 15/11/2017 12:49 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:05:22AM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > > One of the strongest arguments for MWI was that it eliminates the concept > > > of

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-11-14 Thread Russell Standish
rvers entirely requires solving the preferred basis problem without reference to an observer or observation. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting S

Re: An AI program that teaches itself

2017-10-21 Thread Russell Standish
a gap between 100% code coverage, and correctly implementing the requirements... -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpc

The Finney phone

2017-09-27 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: Infinities

2017-09-24 Thread Russell Standish
elevant to phenomenology. -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University ht

Re: math and the treal world

2017-09-16 Thread Russell Standish
y doing here? -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpc

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-09-10 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 09:56:05AM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 9/09/2017 9:36 am, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 05:08:39PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >>OK, proper time is taken from SR and applied only locally, so the > >>concept is not rule

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-09-08 Thread Russell Standish
ne the various assumptions. So far, they're not nonsense. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Econ

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-09-08 Thread Russell Standish
f the latter. Computationalism is the position that it is both necessary and sufficient, of course. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-09-07 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 09:44:02PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 6/09/2017 5:39 pm, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >On 6/09/2017 2:52 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >>More importantly, I'm sure you appreciate that codings are also entirely > >>arbitrary, that every possi

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-09-07 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 05:39:07PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 6/09/2017 2:52 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 11:44:12AM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >>I find the discussion in your book rather cursory, unless I have not > >>located the rele

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-09-05 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 11:44:12AM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 5/09/2017 2:55 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 11:58:57AM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >>I have no problems with the assumption that all forms of data can be > >>represented by bi

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-09-04 Thread Russell Standish
y bit string. But I do - see the discussion of time and projection postulates in the book, as well as the evolutionary framework within which it sits. Obviously, we would like a more detailed account of observation at some point, but that seems like a good start. -- ---

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-09-04 Thread Russell Standish
ther my theory is dualist or not. It's kind of irrelevant. (Or maybe that should be irrelephant - cf story of the blind men that I quote at the end of my book). -- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile)

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-09-04 Thread Russell Standish
here the dualism was property dualism, not Decartes' substance dualism). I actually put this to David on the one and only lunch meeting I had with him, and he admitted his classification was for a specific purpose (which he didn't go into), and probably not at all universal.

Re: Is math real?

2017-09-04 Thread Russell Standish
f computations possible with a quantum computer, and that a working 512 qubit quantum computer will be strong empirical evidence that we live in a robust universe anyway. -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 042

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-09-04 Thread Russell Standish
> Where in the bit strings is the information that one knows?  How > does a bitstring know > a different bitstring? > Information is in the constraints. If I know something or other, then this entails that some bitstrings are compatible with my existence, and others are

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-09-03 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 12:28:26PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 29/08/2017 3:17 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >I attach a brief PDF of what I have so far. It shows how observer > >moments, modelled as sets of bitstrings classified by looking at a > >finite number of

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-08-29 Thread Russell Standish
, but think are plausible). Cheers On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 04:55:02AM +1000, Russell Standish wrote: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 12:03:24PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > On 6/07/2017 5:55 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > > >On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 04:18:49PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wr

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-07-20 Thread Russell Standish
ng List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/every

Re: Do Observer Moments form a Vecor Space?

2017-07-20 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 12:03:24PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 6/07/2017 5:55 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 04:18:49PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >>On 6/07/2017 2:33 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >>>Establishing linearity is key.

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-07-11 Thread Russell Standish
know that the task is going to be quite so easy... -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-07-11 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 03:04:13PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 11/07/2017 2:12 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >You're still missing the point. The quantum reality is a 1p thing, it > >is the observed phenomenal physics. Substrate independence is a 3p > >thing, and ma

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-07-10 Thread Russell Standish
st needing to support universal computation. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston Un

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-07-09 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 10:56:27AM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 7/07/2017 10:40 am, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 10:22:40PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > > >>No, position and momentum are dual in the sense I defined. The > >>observabl

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-07-06 Thread Russell Standish
onventional term is "complementary". Observing S=X+P does not imply simultaneously observing X and P. Prove that I can't observe S, or provide a reference to someone doing so. It appears rather crucial to your critique. -- ------

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-07-06 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 04:18:49PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 6/07/2017 2:33 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >Establishing linearity is key. > > Yes, and you haven't made progress with that. All I ask is to give me some more time on this. I have some further ideas in t

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-07-05 Thread Russell Standish
Sorry for having gone dark, although maybe you relished the respite. I've been travelling, and its not been all that convenient to check and respond to emails. On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 02:56:58PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 1/07/2017 11:18 am, Russell Standish wrote: > >To summ

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-30 Thread Russell Standish
ad-hoc assumption to make contact with regular QM). -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kings

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-29 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 11:26:50AM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 29/06/2017 5:36 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 03:19:40PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >>On 28/06/2017 2:26 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >>>On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 05:09:4

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-29 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 03:19:40PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 28/06/2017 2:26 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 05:09:49PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >>On 27/06/2017 10:21 am, Russell Standish wrote: > >>>No, you are just dealing with a

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-28 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 05:09:49PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 27/06/2017 10:21 am, Russell Standish wrote: > >No, you are just dealing with a function from whatever set the ψ and ψ_α > >are drawn from to that same set. There's never been an assumption that > >ψ are

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-26 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 08:52:15AM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 26/06/2017 3:57 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 11:50:45AM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >>That is not what is normally meant by the '+' symbol. You have > >>simply defi

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-25 Thread Russell Standish
ublished. I have never claimed that I do any such thing, of course, whilst admitting that it does look a bit like it. What I suspect the case is, is that I've started with a different set of metaphysical assumptions, namely that we live in a Multiverse, and that observer moments are dr

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-25 Thread Russell Standish
anifestation of physical supervenience. My argument for that goes by the name of the Occam catastrophe. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders V

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-25 Thread Russell Standish
ds interesting. I've downloaded it, and added it to my stack. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-25 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 04:25:07PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 24/06/2017 8:36 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 06:29:54PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >>On 24/06/2017 5:23 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >> > >>OK, it was possibly the

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-24 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 06:29:54PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 24/06/2017 5:23 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > > OK, it was possibly the case that you gave arguments earlier in the > book. But I was going on the basis of the Appendix "Derivation of > Quantum postulates&quo

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-24 Thread Russell Standish
nings, meaning an evolved world is overwhelming more likely to occur in the Multiverse of Everything than Boltzmann brain existences. -- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Cod

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-23 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 01:09:41PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 24/06/2017 11:20 am, Russell Standish wrote: > >The 3p is what is left after removing all personal baggage of each 1p > >view point. It is literally the view from nowhere (since location is > >just such a ba

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-23 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 04:21:09PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 21/06/2017 4:03 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 12:15:31PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >>On 19/06/2017 10:23 am, Russell Standish wrote: > >>>I know Scott wouldn'

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-20 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 12:15:31PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 19/06/2017 10:23 am, Russell Standish wrote: > >I know Scott wouldn't go as far as me. For me, all such irreversible > >processes are related to conscious entities in some way. Whilst > >agreeing that Ge

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

2017-06-18 Thread Russell Standish
MWIist, so that could be the source of our disagreement :). -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics

Re: substitution level

2017-06-12 Thread Russell Standish
a difference from a computational complexity point of view. I confess to not understanding that proof, but it is in Chang et al op. cit. Cheers -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Princip

Re: substitution level

2017-06-04 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 11:48:23AM -0400, John Clark wrote: > On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 9:48 PM, Russell Standish > wrote: > > > > ​> ​ > > That is not the same thing. The largest prime number doesn't exist, so > > ​ ​ > > there's no answer to

Re: substitution level

2017-06-03 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 09:20:29PM -0400, John Clark wrote: > On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 Russell Standish wrote: > > ​> ​ > > Random oracle computers appear to be faster for some problems in a > > similar way, but don't compute anything a Turing machine can't do. >

Re: substitution level

2017-06-03 Thread Russell Standish
r for some problems in a similar way, but don't compute anything a Turing machine can't do. -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting S

Re: A thought on MWI and its alternative(s)

2017-05-28 Thread Russell Standish
of T. Rexes from first principles without making any further measurements, then we don't live in such a superposition. But I still think that if it requires a measurement (no matter how indirect) to determine the fact of colour, than we do live in a superposition. Cheers -- ------

Re: Answers to David 4

2017-05-28 Thread Russell Standish
se :). Cheers -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://www.h

Re: A thought on MWI and its alternative(s)

2017-05-28 Thread Russell Standish
=0 (at FAPP), in which case the two histories do not interfere, and there is no quantum interference phenomena. -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiti

Re: A thought on MWI and its alternative(s)

2017-05-27 Thread Russell Standish
pses, and the 3p looks more like Everett, with deterministic wave functions and many worlds. The incompatibility between relativity and wave function collapse can be seen as a manifestation of the incommensurate nature of the 1p/3p distinction. Cheers -- ----

Re: A thought on MWI and its alternative(s)

2017-05-27 Thread Russell Standish
But I don't see how you can leverage that into support for the MWI. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Re: Question about physical supervenience

2017-05-18 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 08:42:22AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote:> > > On 16 May 2017, at 10:20, Russell Standish wrote: > > >On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 09:47:14AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> > >>On 16 May 2017, at 04:44, Russell Standish wrote: > >>

Re: Question about physical supervenience

2017-05-16 Thread Russell Standish
onsciousness is no longer supervenient on the original program, but on the transformation. I can't help feeling this is telling me something is awry with the definition of supervenience, rather than of computationalism or materialism. -- ------

Re: Question about physical supervenience

2017-05-16 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 09:47:14AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 16 May 2017, at 04:44, Russell Standish wrote: > > >On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 11:41:04AM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote: > >> > >>We had extended arguments starting from "Why isn't > >

Re: Question about physical supervenience

2017-05-15 Thread Russell Standish
the universal dovetailer and IMHO the classroom (see the paper) are counterexamples to that belief. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior

Re: What are atheists for?

2017-05-08 Thread Russell Standish
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Re: What are atheists for?

2017-05-07 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, May 07, 2017 at 07:26:02AM +0100, David Nyman wrote: > On 7 May 2017 5:02 a.m., "Russell Standish" wrote: > Anyway, back to our sheep (as they say in French). Bruno has been > reluctant to really address the question of physical supervenience in > his work. It has to

Re: What are atheists for?

2017-05-06 Thread Russell Standish
ny real derivation of physical supervenience in his theories. -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Econo

Re: What are atheists for?

2017-04-28 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 09:42:45AM -0500, Jason Resch wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 1:51 AM, Russell Standish > > HAVEGE periodically dumps entropy into /dev/random, when available. Do you > know what the consumption-rate of your ALife simulation is in relation to > the intr

Re: What are atheists for?

2017-04-27 Thread Russell Standish
n random number generation. Maybe it requires a massive workload of parallel scientific computations to work :). Anyway, it is a question that I will return to in the next few years - I now have a completely new implementation of Tierra and the complexity analysis tools... Cheers -- -

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