Re: Do prime numbers have free will?

2006-04-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
Brent Meeker wrote: > Unfortunately there is no way to distinguish "true randomness" from > just > "unpredictable" randomness. So there are theories of QM in which the > randomness > is just unpredictable, like Bohm's - and here's a recent paper on that > theme you > may find interesting: > >

Re: Do prime numbers have free will?

2006-04-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 06-avr.-06, à 10:04, Dominic Tarr a écrit : > Bruno wrote >> ... >> Karl Popper did make an attempt to explain >> free-will in term of "self-diagonalization" indeed. The basic and >> simple idea is that IF I can totally predict myself, then I have the >> opportunity to refute such a predictio

Re: Intensionality (was: The Riemann Zeta Pythagorean TOE)

2006-04-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 05-avr.-06, à 23:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom) wrote : > > Another categorization of this dichotomy could be the Plato universals > corresponding to Intensional definitions and the possible, vs. the > Aristotle particulars corresponding to the Extensional definitions and > the actual. The Inte

Re: Intensionality (was: The Riemann Zeta Pythagorean TOE)

2006-04-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 05-avr.-06, à 22:35, Quentin Anciaux a écrit : > > Hi, > > Le Mercredi 5 Avril 2006 22:07, John M a écrit : >> Stephen: >> >> right on! (onwards, of course). >> I did not mention the arts. Express "art" by numbers >> and you killed the art. > > It is not a question to describe art by numbers.

Re: Numbers

2006-04-07 Thread 1Z
Bruno Marchal wrote: > Le 01-avr.-06, à 19:18, 1Z a écrit : > > > >> > >> All right but sometime map are continuously or computationally > >> embedded > >> in the territory, and so there is a fixed point where the point of the > >> map coincide with the point of the territory: typically yhe ind

Re: The Riemann Zeta Pythagorean TOE

2006-04-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 04-avr.-06, à 21:24, John M wrote: > Bruno, you failed to give me an answer. I must be more > simpleminded than you 'math-minded people' who "see" > some relation between a 'big' number and the Gone with > the Wind. I don't. No matter how big and how long (you > said: eternity and infinitely

Re: The Riemann Zeta Pythagorean TOE

2006-04-07 Thread John M
I went to see your points 1-8, as suggested. I started to read AT THE BEGINNING and got stupefait (perplexed?) by your sentences. First: I don't appreciate thought experiments: they are artifacts to show something NOT TRUE and make 'the truth' shown by it (eg. EPR). People love them because it le