Re: "I" the mirror

2003-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Stephen, At 10:52 -0500 22/01/2003, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, Thank you for the reference to the Case papers. It is ironic that his argument makes the case for the subtle issue that I am trying to point out to you, that there is a grave problem with your model. In http://w

Re: Constraints on "everything existing"

2003-01-22 Thread Eric Hawthorne
My comment at the bottom of the message. Eric Jean-Michel Veuillen wrote: Eric Hawthorne wrote: Unless a world (i.e. a sequence of information state changes) has produced intelligent observers though, there will be no one around in it to argue whether it exists or not. Then our universe

Re: It is easy to prove NOT-COMP from the dualist assumption?

2003-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
Dear Stephen, [SPK] I am not asking that we "postulate materialism", I am trying to reason through an idea that seems to require the existence of "physicality" at least in the sense of allowing for the notions of durations and the related notion of "persistence in time". I am using as a foun

Re: "I" the mirror

2003-01-22 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, Thank you for the reference to the Case papers. It is ironic that his argument makes the case for the subtle issue that I am trying to point out to you, that there is a grave problem with your model. In http://www.cis.udel.edu/~case/self-ref.html we find a very informative dis