Re: Tegmark is too physics-centric

2004-03-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 09:14 02/03/04 +1100, Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 03:00:30PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: comp assumes only that the sequence 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ... lives in Platonia. 3-person time apparantly does not appear. 1-person time appears through the S4Grz logic. Fair

Re: Tegmark is too physics-centric

2004-03-02 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, - Original Message - From: Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 6:28 AM Subject: Re: Tegmark is too physics-centric At 09:14 02/03/04 +1100, Russell Standish wrote: snip As I understand it, COMP refers to the conjunction of:

Re: Tegmark is too physics-centric

2004-03-02 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 12:28:04PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: As I understand it, COMP refers to the conjunction of: 1) Arithmetic realism 2) Church-Turing thesis 3) Survivability of consciousness under duplication ...and annihilation of the original (if not it could be trivial). I

Re: Black Holes and Gravity Carrier

2004-03-02 Thread Ron McFarland
On 28 Feb 2004 at 15:13, John M wrote: snip Dear Ron, allow me to reply to SOME parts of your long post (including my remarks and your remarks on them) by just quoting the appropriate The orig. message is available on the list. John M Agreed, let's try to save some bandwidth where

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

2004-03-02 Thread Ben Goertzel
; you might even be able to read the brain, scanning for neuronal activity and deducing correctly that the subject sees a red flash. However, it is impossible to know what it feels like to see a red flash unless you have the actual experience yourself. So I maintain that there is this