Edge Question 2009: "What Will Change Everything?"
http://www.edge.org/q2009/q09_9.html#smolin
What do we think about this? Smolin seems to disagree with most of
what we are on about on this list. My mind remains open in all
directions, particularly as Smolin appears to be enjoying substan
Bruno,
I have also wanted to ask how you come to 2^aleph_zero
> Well, in part this results from the unbounded dumbness of the
> universal doevtailing procedure which dovetails on all programs but
> also on all non interacting collection of programs (as all interacting
> one).
How do you
Hal,
I have entertained quite similar musings some time ago, and this led me
to a position I called "naive materialism" NMAT some time ago on this
list - that causality does not matter, and consciousness would supervene
on the material states directly - and both backward and forward versions
On 01 Jan 2009, at 21:10, Brent Meeker wrote:
>
> Bruno Marchal wrote:
>>
>> It seems to me that your reasoning illustrates well the problems with
>> physical supervenience and physicalism, and perhaps ASSA.
>>
>> In any case the Universal Dovetailer generates all such gaz universes
>> generatin
Ronald,
On 21 Dec 2008, at 15:40, Bruno Marchal wrote:
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>> How is there any mathematics with nothing to
>> conceive of it?
Let me try a straightest answer from math, with an example. Take the
digital or discrete line. You can map it on the integers. It is the
symmetrical extension of t
Bruno Marchal wrote:
>
> It seems to me that your reasoning illustrates well the problems with
> physical supervenience and physicalism, and perhaps ASSA.
>
> In any case the Universal Dovetailer generates all such gaz universes
> generating the Boltzmann brains. Now the probability that you
It seems to me that your reasoning illustrates well the problems with
physical supervenience and physicalism, and perhaps ASSA.
In any case the Universal Dovetailer generates all such gaz universes
generating the Boltzmann brains. Now the probability that you are
implemented by a particula
2009/1/1 "Hal Finney" :
> I want to emphasize that this picture of how Boltzmann fluctuations would
> work is a consquence of the laws of thermodynamics, and time symmetry.
> Sometimes people imagine that the fluctuation into the Boltzmann
> low-entropy state is fundamentally different from the f
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