Re: Ideal lamps

2003-10-26 Thread scerir
wichy: > The question of the Thompson's Lamp seems to me either doesn't not have > anything to do with physics. Time does not have to shrink; we don't even > need to deal with time. To me is the same problem than ask what happen > with the infinite sum 1-1+1-1+1-1+1... Is it 0 or 1? (Here +1 st

Re: Is reality unknowable?

2003-10-26 Thread scerir
Hal Finney > If, from a set of axioms and rules of inference, we can produce a > valid proof of a theorem, then the theorem is true, within that > axiomatic system. > I'd suggest that this notion of provability is analogous to the > "reality" of physics. Provable theorems are what we know, within