The Day The Earth Stood Still - remake version in cinemas now
Just saw it - at the very first session at 9.30 AM.
This film is a whole lot better than the reviews make out and a whole
lot better than I expected.
Keanu Reeves is Keanu as usual and only acts with his left eyebrow,
but this wo
Kim,
Right, that can't be done-- maybe such a system exists, but if so then
our rationality basically fails to apply to it. So as Gunther says,
the broader version of mechanism "can be granted by every
scientifically minded person".
--Abram
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Kim Jones wrote:
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Hi Kim,
On 25 Dec 2008, at 06:21, Kim Jones wrote:
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> A bit of an end-of-year ramble. For the multi-lingual, illogically-
> minded, lateral thinkers:
My last post was a bit self-destructive ramble as I am able to do once
a time. But that's ok. (I hope I am not shocking).
It is rather kind o
On 26/12/2008, at 5:23 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
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> On 25 Dec 2008, at 08:05, Abram Demski wrote:
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>> Bruno,
>>
>> I agree with Gunther about the two types of machine. The broader
>> machine is any system that can be logically described-- a system that
>> is governed by rules and has a defin
Hello Bruno,
this is an answer for a mail a few weeks back, did not have the time up
to now.
>With comp, we have an (non
> denombrable) infinity of computations, going through a (denombrable)
> infinity of states, and only few of them, I would say will have 1-OM
> role or 3-OM role. Even a few
Bruno,
> But no weakening of comp based on nature is
> known to escape the replicability. Even the non cloning theorem in QM
> cannot be used to escape the UDA conclusion.
I already wanted to ask you on this one: you have said before on the
list that quantum-no cloning does not make a problem
Bruno,
>> This conception can, I think, be indeed taken for granted by every
>> scientifically minded person.
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> Why ? It is an assumption too. What could we taken it for granted?
Yes, it is an assumption - that is why is wrote "scientifically minded"
- if you are in any way naturalist (and a
On 25 Dec 2008, at 08:05, Abram Demski wrote:
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> Bruno,
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> I agree with Gunther about the two types of machine. The broader
> machine is any system that can be logically described-- a system that
> is governed by rules and has a definite description.
Then Church thesis entails it is not broade
Bruno et al.:
I don't feel comfortable with the view "reality *OF* something". Reality IMO
is the
unfathomable existence (whatever that may be) and *WE - machines, mind,* you
name it are having access to portions that we interpret (realize?) in ways *we
can.*
This portion (part, view, ensemble, w
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