Re: Quantum Interference and the Plentitude

[Bruno Marchal]

Le 14-janv.-08, à 17:20, Günther Greindl a écrit :


 Hi,

 Very interesting thesis Mirek. I have download it, and will certainly
 try to dig a bit more on it some week-ends.

 I second that.

 For christmass, I asked my girlfrind to give me The Wisdom of
 Insecurity, Computability: An Introduction to Recursive Function 
 Theory,
 and Godel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to Its Use and Abuse, so 
 these
 books might precede the Fabric :-)

 Good books all. If you like Watts book (and also if you don't ;-) I 
 also
 recommend The Tao is silent by Raymond Smullyan (who you probably 
 know
 from his logic stuff).


That's a very nice book indeed. And in the same vein (and price) there 
is 5000 BC, quite interesting (and taoist) too.
Smullyan is dead, and I am not sure I will ever know if Raymond 
Smullyan was aware of the computationalist links between his technical 
books in self-reference logic, and his more philosophical writings. 
One of his last books Who Knows? seems to me to witness he was not 
really aware of those links, and not so much open to the comp hyp or 
even Church's thesis, but who knows?

After all, in 5000 BC he said about Mechanism that a self-pessimist 
could say I am a machine? what a pity, I knew I was not much: bad news 
for me, and a self-optimist could say Me? A machine? this shows 
machine can be as much as I am: good news for them.  ... Something 
like that.

Talking about Smullyan's books, I recall that Forever Undecided is a 
recreational (but ok ... not so easy, nor really recreational) 
introduction to the modal logic G (the one Solovay showed to be a sound 
and complete theory for the Godel-Lob (Gödel, Löb, or Goedel, Loeb) 
provability/concistency logic. G is the key for the math in the TOE 
approach I am developing. The logic G  is the entry for all 
arithmetical Plotinian Hypostases.
Search on Knight and/or Knaves in the archive for preceding discussion 
about Smullyan's Forever Undecided, and references.

I must say I love also very much his How to Mock a Mocking Bird?, 
which is a rather good introduction (imo) to the SK-combinators.

Bruno


http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/

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dark energy

[Hal Ruhl]

I have touched on this subject before but the following is my current 
view of Dark Energy

In my approach a Something is on a quest for completeness within the 
Everything.

Based on this, the following points can be made:

1) The number of current incompleteness sites for a given Something 
would be at least proportional to the surface area of its boundary 
with the rest of the Everything if not proportional to its volume.

2) Thus the larger [more information content] a Something is [has] 
the more such sites it has and the larger any given step in the quest can be.

3) This gives an increase in the average information influx as the 
quest progresses.

4) If the universe described by that Something has a maximum finite 
information packing density in its space then an accelerating 
increase in the size of that space should be observed since both 
the volume and surface area of a Something inside the Everything 
increases as the quest progresses.

  Hal Ruhl


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