RE: Rép : Thought Experiment #269-G (Duplicates)

2005-07-09 Thread Lee Corbin
Bruno writes > >>> You are asked to bet on your immediate and less immediate > >>> future feeling. Precisely: we ask you to choose among the > >>> following bets: > >>> > >>> Immediate: > >>> A. I will see 0 on the wall. > >>> B. I will see 1 on the wall. > >>> C. I will see 0 on the wall and I wi

Re: The Time Deniers

2005-07-09 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, The duality that I am considering is that proposed by Vaughan Pratt. It is NOT a "substance" dualism. It is more a "process" dualism. Please see the ratmech paper for an explanaition. It is found here: http://boole.stanford.edu/pub/ratmech.pdf http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/pratt9

Rép : Thought Experiment #269-G (Duplicates )

2005-07-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 08-juil.-05, à 00:59, Lee Corbin a écrit : Bruno writes Each Lee-i is offered 5$ each time his bet is confirmed, but loses 5$ if he makes a wrong bet. And yes, it would be possible to emphasize to each instance that he is to attempt to maximize "his own instance's" earnings. Quite corre

Rép : UDA, Am I missing something?

2005-07-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 07-juil.-05, à 23:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Bruno, After reading your Universal Dovetailer Argument (UDA) and I?d like to give you my reaction. Thanks, It seems to me that the trick is hidden in your assumptions. Certainly. In a mathematical theory the theorems are always

Rép : The Time Deniers

2005-07-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 06-juil.-05, à 07:16, Russell Standish a écrit : My reading of Bruno's work is that time is implicitly assumed as part of computationalism (I know Bruno sometimes does not quite agree, but there you have it). Thinking again on why you keep saying this, I can imagine, giving the inexhaust

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2005-07-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
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RE: The Time Deniers

2005-07-09 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Jesse Mazer wrote: You might say that in the last example the states were "causally connected", while in the first they were not. But why should that make any difference, especially to a solipsist? If one believes in "psychophysical laws" (to use Chalmers' term) relating 3rd-person patterns