This is a slight expansion on my previous post under the "simulation" thread.
1) The first step is to examine the act of definition. In this case the
definition of a "Nothing". Any definition process simultaneously defines
two entities. The definition is a boundary between an entity of interes
I'm a layperson fascinated with quantum mechanics and the MWI, and have
reached a point where to obtain a better understanding of the
qualitative descriptions (universes "splitting", "measure of a
universe", etc.) I must learn the mathematical formalism. It appears
that the popular descriptions of
Hi,
I have put on my web page a link toward a "pdf" slide
giving the main "map of the territory".
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/MapOfTerritory.pdf
It is a graph whose vertex give the main propositional
logics used in the "derivation of physics from machine introspection",
and the edges are just
Hi Stephen,
At 20:00 30/04/04 -0400, Stephen Paul King wrote:
Dear Bruno,
I missed something that you wrote earlier! Do you truly think that the
solution to the mind/body problem involves "explaining how a private mind
can be attached to anything third-person describable"?
I don't see how
At 16:14 30/04/04 -0400, John M wrote:
How about: "self"? is it a good enoug "1st person" "soul"?
Here you put your finger on something quite
important but rather hard to explain without saying more
on the incompleteness phenomenon. We will certainly
come back on this more than once.
The idea i
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