Hal Finney wrote:
The question of free will has generated an enormous
amount of philosophical literature. I'd suggest reading
at least the first part of this page on Compatibilism,
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/. Compatibilism is the
doctrine that free will is compatible with
In various places including a post in the All/Nothing multiverse thread:
http://www.escribe.com/science/theory/m5859.html
I have defined information as the potential to establish a boundary.
I have been arguing that Turing's decision procedure result points towards
the multiverse being a
Please find my remarks interspaced below.
John M
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Russell wrote in
Stathis wrote:
A person's decisions and actions must either follow
deterministically from a set of rules (which at bottom must reduce to the
laws of physics, whatever these ultimately turn out to be), or else they
must be random; what other possibility is there?...
[JM]:
The inaccuracy of the
Stathis Papaioannou writes
Here is my definition: a decision I make is free when I feel that I could
have decided otherwise.
Is the question of free will just a matter of definitions? Definitional
arguments are sterile and have no meaning. If I define free will to be
a 14 pound bowling ball,
Hello all,
I am a 5th year computer engineering student at Memorial University of
Newfoundland (Canada). I have an avid interest in quantum mechanics
and philosophy. I would like to take this opportunity to introduce
myself and thank you all for making this list available and
interesting.
Yours
Mark Fancey writes:
I am a 5th year computer engineering student at Memorial University of
Newfoundland (Canada). I have an avid interest in quantum mechanics
and philosophy. I would like to take this opportunity to introduce
myself and thank you all for making this list available and
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[JM]:
I am sure you do a decent job. Tierra, however, does not
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 06:03:57PM -0400, John M wrote:
Please find my remarks interspaced below.
As are mine...
John M
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My apologies to the group for bringing up questions which may have
been covererd before but I cannot find an answer to the following
query and I am new to the group.
I have a question to put to anyone who has some ideas as follows:
If the MW immortality is correct then would we not only be
Nick Prince writes:
If the MW immortality is correct then would we not only be immortal but
also very alone in the end. We know that we observe others die so
since we always find ourselves in a branch of the multiverse where we
live on - the conclusion seems inescapable
Can anyone figure
I don't beleive QTI implies this at all. It does imply that your
experienced reality will get rather weird, as strange coincidences
will start happening to keep you alive. It also implies that friends
will be temporary, as you will see them all die off eventually - but
many people change
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Subject: Re: Free Will Theorem
Dear Brent,
I wish I had the insight into future development of our knowledge-base. Or
am
Hi Nick,
I asked a question in a thread Quantum accident survivor some time ago
where, at least in my mind, it was concluded that we can indeed be removed
from loved ones each time we survive a situation that was clearly deadly in
most cases and that one's consciousness is nudged away from the
Nick Prince wrote:
My apologies to the group for bringing up questions which may have
been covererd before but I cannot find an answer to the following
query and I am new to the group.
I have a question to put to anyone who has some ideas as follows:
If the MW immortality is correct then would we
Hi Mark,
Could you tell us about some of the books that you have read on the
subject and about some of your basic ideas?
Stephen
Hi Stephen all,
I have read mostly popular science books like Hawking's ABHoT,
Einstein's Relativity, Feynmann's QED, Johnson's A Shortcut Through
Time
You're right, alas. If QTI is correct, then each of us can expect to be the
last conscious being in some branch of the multiverse. On the brighter side,
we will have probably billions or trillions of years during which even the
most sociable amongst us may well tire of sentient company!
The
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
You're right, alas. If QTI is correct, then each of us can expect to be the
last conscious being in some branch of the multiverse. On the brighter
side, we will have probably billions or trillions of years during which
even the most sociable amongst us may well tire
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