Re: truth

2012-07-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Jul 2012, at 20:55, John Mikes wrote: Dear Bruno: here we go again (quote from Ronald Reagan). The vocabulary of different (belief?) systems. You seem to abide firmly at axioms, meaning not more in MY vocabulary than postulates to make OUR (actual, conventional, ongoing) theories

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-08 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 07.07.2012 19:40 John Clark said the following: On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 Evgenii Rudnyiuse...@rudnyi.ru wrote: Hawking and Mlodinow start with the statement that free will is illusion If they said that, and I don't recall that they did, they were being much too kind in equating the free

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-08 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru wrote: What I cannot comprehend though is why some people, which after all are also just occasional conglomerates of small particles obeying the Theory-of-Everything, react very differently when they see some pattern I don't understand

the closure of the computable functions

2012-07-08 Thread Stephen P. King
Dear Bruno, I would very much appreciate from you some remarks on the closure of the computable functions. -- Onward! Stephen Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. ~ Francis Bacon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group.