Re: Determinism, Randomness, and Free Will

2010-06-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
From what I know, ordinal number are used in *infinite* game theory ... May be some bank can provide some money lending once you promise to pay the interest at time omega? May be we can extend the state debts up to aleph_one? Cute! To be sure, such ordinal analysis can provide, in principle

Re: unexpected application of logic

2010-06-02 Thread m.a.
It's all in Scott Patterson's Quants. m.a. - Original Message - From: Brent Meeker To: Atoms and the Void ; EveryThing ; Rob Shostak Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 3:22 PM Subject: Fwd: unexpected application of logic I asked a mathematician friend, Ed Clark, about

Fwd: unexpected application of logic

2010-06-02 Thread Brent Meeker
I asked a mathematician friend, Ed Clark, about this. And he asked a logician colleague. Here's the reply. :-) Brent Original Message On 6/2/2010 1:24 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: http://christianmarks.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/mathematical-logic-finds-unexpected-application

Re: Determinism, Randomness, and Free Will

2010-06-02 Thread Brent Meeker
At the end. :-) Brent On 6/2/2010 11:10 AM, John Mikes wrote: Brent: and where is the decimal point? JM On 6/2/10, *Brent Meeker* > wrote: Hey Bruno, how'd you like a seven figure salary (in USD). Brent Original Message So

Re: Re: Determinism, Randomness, and Free Will

2010-06-02 Thread John Mikes
Brent: and where is the decimal point? JM On 6/2/10, Brent Meeker wrote: > > Hey Bruno, how'd you like a seven figure salary (in USD). > > Brent > > Original Message > > Something like this is happening these days, or it seems so > :-)http://christianmarks.wordpress.com/2010/0

Fwd: Re: Determinism, Randomness, and Free Will

2010-06-02 Thread Brent Meeker
Hey Bruno, how'd you like a seven figure salary (in USD). Brent Original Message Something like this is happening these days, or it seems so :-) http://christianmarks.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/mathematical-logic-finds-unexpected-application-on-wall-street/ Somedody, in [FOM],