Re: [kevintr...@hotmail.com: Jacques Mallah]

2009-02-07 Thread russell standish
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 08:59:44AM -0500, Jesse Mazer wrote: > > Ah, never mind, rereading your post I think I see where I misunderstood > you--you weren't saying "nothing in QM says anything about" the amplitude of > an eigenvector that you square to get the probability of measuring that > ei

Re: briefly wading back into the fray

2009-02-07 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Hi, 2009/2/7 Jack Mallah > > --- On Fri, 2/6/09, russell standish wrote: > > So sorry Jacques - you need to do better. I'm sure you can! > > Russell, I expected there might be some discussion of my latest eprint on > this list. That's why I'm here now - to see if there are any clarifications >

Re: consciousness and self-awareness

2009-02-07 Thread John Mikes
Brian, this reply of mine may be out of line usually followed on this list. I have had discussions on a dozen closely and remotely concerned lists over the past 17 years about the "thing?" called consciousness, following the yearly international conferences in Tucson AZ without a universally reach

~Zero probability is an essential property of "existence".

2009-02-07 Thread stefanba...@yahoo.com
~Zero probability is an essential property of "existence". It is not possible to obtain self-identity until/once more then one instances of self-referencing entity/system "exists". It may be presented as an unique binary sub-string of minimal length to be found in huge/(infinite?) binary ring. Th

RE: briefly wading back into the fray

2009-02-07 Thread Jesse Mazer
It seems to me that discussions of quantum immortality often founder on the fact that people don't make their assumptions about philosophy of mind explicit, or don't have a well-thought-out position on metaphysical issues relating to mind in the first place. For example, Jaques, are you assumin

consciousness and self-awareness

2009-02-07 Thread Brian Tenneson
Dear Everything List, Tegmark mentioned in an article the idea of self-aware structures, SAS. He wrote that the search for such structures is ongoing, i.e., he postulated the existence of such structures without giving examples. I'm wondering if consciousness and self-awareness has been "mat

briefly wading back into the fray

2009-02-07 Thread Jack Mallah
--- On Fri, 2/6/09, russell standish wrote: > So sorry Jacques - you need to do better. I'm sure you can! Russell, I expected there might be some discussion of my latest eprint on this list. That's why I'm here now - to see if there are any clarifications I should make in it. I intend to mak

Re: [kevintr...@hotmail.com: Jacques Mallah]

2009-02-07 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2009/2/7 Bruno Marchal > > > Le 06-févr.-09, à 12:06, Quentin Anciaux a écrit : > > > Hi, > > > > 2009/2/6 russell standish > >> He also mentions Tegmark's amoeba croaks argument, which is not > >> actually an argument against QI, but rather a discussion of what QI > >> might actually mean. C

Re: [kevintr...@hotmail.com: Jacques Mallah]

2009-02-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 06-févr.-09, à 12:06, Quentin Anciaux a écrit : > Hi, > > 2009/2/6 russell standish >> He also mentions Tegmark's amoeba croaks argument, which is not >> actually an argument against QI, but rather a discussion of what QI >> might actually mean. Contrary to what some people might think, Q