Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jul 2012, at 15:37, Stephen P. King wrote: On 7/14/2012 4:26 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Jul 2012, at 20:26, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 07.07.2012 19:40 John Clark said the following: On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 Evgenii Rudnyiuse...@rudnyi.ru wrote: ... An interesting question is

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jul 2012, at 18:21, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru wrote: As far as I understand, theology is about beliefs Theology is about believing in something when there is absolutely no reason for doing so, it is called faith. Then the danger of

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jul 2012, at 15:47, Stephen P. King wrote: On 7/14/2012 4:46 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 14 Jul 2012, at 06:16, Stephen P. King wrote: On 7/13/2012 11:51 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 7/13/2012 7:31 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: Does unpredictability that you have mentioned in another

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jul 2012, at 18:48, Stephen P. King wrote: On 7/14/2012 5:52 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 14 Jul 2012, at 11:16, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 14.07.2012 11:00 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 14 Jul 2012, at 10:42, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: ... If to speak about your theorem, it is

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jul 2012, at 18:21, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 14.07.2012 11:52 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 14 Jul 2012, at 11:16, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 14.07.2012 11:00 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 14 Jul 2012, at 10:42, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: ... If to speak about your

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-16 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Theology is about believing in something when there is absolutely bsolutely no reason for doing so, it is called faith. Then the danger of cannabis belongs to faith, Yes, absolutely. The definition you give of theology seems

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-16 Thread meekerdb
On 7/15/2012 9:21 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: Interesting. So the unitary evolution of the SWF or state vector is not continuous over its spectrum or what ever it is called ... the cover or span of the basis? It's continuous, but decoherence picks out different subspaces which are almost

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-16 Thread Stephen P. King
On 7/16/2012 1:56 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 7/15/2012 9:21 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: Interesting. So the unitary evolution of the SWF or state vector is not continuous over its spectrum or what ever it is called ... the cover or span of the basis? It's continuous, but decoherence picks

Re: Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead

2012-07-16 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 15.07.2012 16:50 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 14 Jul 2012, at 18:21, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: ... but it looks like that your motive is also close to the Game of Life. What difference do you see in this respect? With comp, after UDA, and supposing it is 100% valid, the choice of