Re: Devil's advocate against Max Tegmark's hypothesis

I comment last posts by Russell, Alasdair, George. I am very glad with the fact that people here are aware of the flying white rabbit appearance problem in Tegmark/Schmidhuber-like approach. I really think that it is not possible to solve the rabbit problem with Tegmark hypothesis (that all math

Re: Devil's advocate against Max Tegmark's hypothesis

Alastair Malcolm wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: Higgo James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > As for flying rabbits, one appeared on my ceiling as I was reading your > > post, but as it was only there for 10E-43 seconds, I did not notice it. > The > > odds against it remaining there fo

Re: Devil's advocate against Max Tegmark's hypothesis

- Original Message - From: Higgo James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Alastair Malcolm' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 06 July 1999 11:10 Subject: RE: Devil's advocate against Max Tegmark's hypothesis > Can you provide any evidence for your extravagant, dualist assertion th

re: Relative consciousness (was: Alternate deductive route ...)

[1: human in physical world, 2: AI robot in world, 3: human in VR, 4: AI in VR] Russell Standish In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from "Hans Moravec" at Jul 7, 99 06:02:12 pm >> [ 1: human in physical world, >> 2: AI in physical world robot, >> 3: human in VR, >> 4: AI in VR ] > We have alr

Re: A Puzzle

How about the misconception that vacuum sucks? What exactly is the Torricelli vacuum doing then? I'm sure there are countless common sense misconceptions that _don't_ involve space or time. What about heavier objects falling faster than light ones? Cheers

A Puzzle

Guys, I want to pose a puzzle ! Did somebody think about why overcoming misconceptions of “common sense” (e.g., flatness of the earth; geocentrism; absoluteness of time) is always related one way or another to space and what could mean the maxim of Shvetashvatara Upanishad “When people rol

Alternate deductive route to the existence of all universes

Just peeked in on the list, having come to its central position by my own means, from the artificial intelligence position that simulated minds can be conscious of their own existence. Chapter 7 of my recent "Robot" derives the idea that all universes are

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