RE: ASSA and Many-Worlds

2007-01-22 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Jason Resch writes: Stathis Papaioannou wrote: What about when multiple equally valid OM's exist? I don't agree that they are all perceived. If I am to be duplicated and one of the copies tortured, I am worried, because this is subjectively equivalent to expecting torture with 1/2

Re: Rép : The Meaning of Life

2007-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 18-janv.-07, à 06:38, Brent Meeker a écrit : Bruno Marchal wrote: To avoid to much posts in your mail box, I send all my comments in this post, Hi Brent, 1a) Brent meeker wrote (quoting Jim Heldberg) : Atheism is not a religion, just as a vacant lot is not a type of

Re: Hello all - My Theory of Everything

2007-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 11-janv.-07, à 15:15, Russell Standish a écrit : I would further hypothesise that all intelligences must arise evolutionarily. I do believe this too, but once an intelligence is there it can be copied in short time. Dishonest people do that with ideas, publishers do that with

RE: Rép : The Meaning of Life

2007-01-22 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Bruno Marchal writes: 1c) Brent wrote (to Stathis): How is this infinite regress avoided in our world? By consciousness not representing the rest of the world. That is an interesting idea. You could elaborate a bit perhaps? I do agree with your most of your recent replies

RE: Rép : The Meaning of Life

2007-01-22 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Bruno Marchal writes: Le 18-janv.-07, à 04:10, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : I would say relative to a theory explaining the appearances, not just to the appearances. Well, it is relative to appearance, but people go on to theorise that these appearances are true reality.