Physicists attack cosmological model

2004-02-06 Thread CMR
-- > > News > > Physicists attack cosmological model (Feb 6) > http://physicsweb.org/article/news/8/2/4 >Many astronomers believe that the universe is dominated by cold 'dark >matter' and 'dark energy' - a view t

Re: measure and observer moments

2004-02-06 Thread Eric Hawthorne
Given temporal proximity of two states (e.g. observer-moments), increasing difference between the states will lead to dramatically lower measure/probability  for the co-occurrence as observer-moments of the same observer (or co-occurrence in the same universe, is that maybe equivalent?) . Whe

Re: More on qualia of consciousness and occam's razor

2004-02-06 Thread John M
Wei Dai asks: > Does this convince you that it makes sense to ask what other people > experience? Nobody KNOWS what other people experience. We can KNOW only what other people communicate about their experience. Just as: our experience is a first person secret, even we ourselves don't 'know' it, on

Fw: NKSwire -- News about A New Kind of Science

2004-02-06 Thread CMR
> February 2004 > > The complete NKS book is now available online, with full text, > images, 30,000+ links and more... > http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline >

Re: More on qualia of consciousness and occam's razor

2004-02-06 Thread Wei Dai
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 02:55:53PM -0800, Pete Carlton wrote: > But even this goes way out in front of what we can possibly know. You > say we have no idea what these feelings are like to experience--but why > should we assume we even are entitled to ask this question? Here's my basic philosoph

Re: Request for a glossary of acronyms

2004-02-06 Thread Saibal Mitra
- Original Message - From: Jesse Mazer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 12:19 AM Subject: Re: Request for a glossary of acronyms > Saibal Mitra wrote: > > > >This means that the relative measure is completely fixed by the absolute > >measure.

Re: Request for a glossary of acronyms

2004-02-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 20:17 03/02/04 -0500, Jesse Mazer wrote: Personally, I would prefer to assign a deeper significance to the notion of absolute probability, since for me the fact that I find myself to be a human rather than one of the vastly more numerous but less intelligent other animals seems like an obser