Re: Fwd: why is death painful? - Validity and Morality of QS

1999-06-09 Thread Gilles HENRI
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RE: Fwd: Why physical laws

1999-06-09 Thread Higgo James
You have jsut asked: "There would be more unfamiliar environments, so why don't I find myself in an unfamiliar environment?" Err... because you're used to it. In fact, we are less likely to find ourselves in regions where raindrops are like elephants because they would be less conducive to life.

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Re: Why physical laws

1999-06-09 Thread Marchal
WHY PHYSICAL LAWS ? --- >Chris Maloney wrote: ><<< The answer is that the structure(s) we are in obey physical laws, >not because they were cast by fiat from some omnipotent being, but >simply because the structures that do obey physical laws are more >numerous than those that do

Re: Why physical laws

1999-06-09 Thread Gilles HENRI
A 11:16 +0100 9/06/99, Marchal a écrit: >WHY PHYSICAL LAWS ? >--- > >>Chris Maloney wrote: >><<< The answer is that the structure(s) we are in obey physical laws, >>not because they were cast by fiat from some omnipotent being, but >>simply because the structures that do obey phys

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Principia Cybernetica Web

1999-06-09 Thread Christopher Maloney
Is anyone familiar with this, at http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ ? It's a collaborative effort to develop and organize philosophical theories in a kind of organic, constantly improving structure. While reading the archives of this list, I've been blown away by how much good material there is in there

Re: Why physical laws

1999-06-09 Thread Marchal
Gilles Henri wrote >I suspect that the comp hypothesis would in fact favour the solution where >there is actually no external world at all, but only your (for me, my!) >mind, because it is much shorter to describe ONLY a brain state than the >whole Universe surrounding it, although perfectly equiv

Re: Fwd: Why physical laws

1999-06-09 Thread Christopher Maloney
Wei Dai wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 01:54:03AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > To answer your question, I could say that, in my opinion, the real essence of > > the world is disorder. The world is becoming undone every Planck time and is > > also reconstituted every Planck Time, as Jam

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