Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Sep 2013, at 20:58, meekerdb wrote: On 9/27/2013 10:42 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 27 Sep 2013, at 04:50, meekerdb wrote: On 9/26/2013 7:33 PM, LizR wrote: On 27 September 2013 14:18, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 9/26/2013 6:47 PM, LizR wrote: On 27 September 2013 13:03,

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Sep 2013, at 20:10, David Nyman wrote: On 27 September 2013 17:00, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: The NDAA bill is equivalent with If you fear me, I will put you indefinitely in jail. I confess that I hadn't been giving this issue much attention. However, I now read the

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Sep 2013, at 19:55, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: I do remember a conversation you had with Bruno about 5 years ago when you were discussing what a man in Helsinki would experience when undergoing the duplicator experiment.

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Sep 2013, at 21:54, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:37 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone who has a problem with Bruno's teleportation thought experiment should logically have the same problem with the MWI. No, you are entirely incorrect. The Many World's

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Sep 2013, at 06:27, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote: Teleportation thought experiments are also about what you can expect to see. And I have no objection to thought experiments of that sort, but Bruno is not

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Sep 2013, at 06:33, chris peck wrote: Hi Russel Thank goodness Clarcky has the same/similar complaint as me. I think Brent does too, because he said he had an initial reaction to the step like this and then offered an analysis of the probabilities to me all of which were

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Sep 2013, at 07:46, Russell Standish wrote: On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 04:33:15AM +, chris peck wrote: Hi Russel Thank goodness Clarcky has the same/similar complaint as me. I think Brent does too, because he said he had an initial reaction to the step like this and then offered

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-28 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 09:29:17AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Sep 2013, at 07:46, Russell Standish wrote: On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 04:33:15AM +, chris peck wrote: Hi Russel Thank goodness Clarcky has the same/similar complaint as me. I think Brent does too, because he said he

Re: The confluence of cosmology and biology

2013-09-28 Thread LizR
So not an ongoing computation performed by the universe, as suggested by, say, Max Tegmark? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Sep 2013, at 06:02, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: I said that if Russell Standish were duplicated then Russell Standish would be in Moscow and Washington. This is only true from the POV of an external observer which

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-28 Thread LizR
On 23 September 2013 13:16, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 12:29:30PM -0400, John Clark wrote: Bruno, if you have something new to say about this proof of yours then say it, but don't pretend that 2 years of correspondence and hundreds of posts in

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Sep 2013, at 10:17, LizR wrote: On 23 September 2013 13:16, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 12:29:30PM -0400, John Clark wrote: Bruno, if you have something new to say about this proof of yours then say it, but don't pretend that 2 years of

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-28 Thread LizR
On 26 September 2013 17:27, chris peck chris_peck...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Liz Interesting. There's another thought experiment, or gambit, MWIers raise involving quantum immortality. In this, some quantum event at time t triggers a gun to shoot (or not shoot) the MWIer. Traditionally,

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Sep 2013, at 09:44, Russell Standish wrote: On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 09:29:17AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Sep 2013, at 07:46, Russell Standish wrote: On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 04:33:15AM +, chris peck wrote: Hi Russel Thank goodness Clarcky has the same/similar complaint

Re: The confluence of cosmology and biology

2013-09-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Sep 2013, at 08:29, freqflyer07281972 wrote: So it seems to me that all of us are situated within a spectacular confluence of cosmological and biological factors. The cosmological factors include the fact that dark energy hasn't gotten strong enough to rip the whole works apart,

Re: The confluence of cosmology and biology

2013-09-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Sep 2013, at 09:44, LizR wrote: So not an ongoing computation performed by the universe, What does that mean? as suggested by, say, Max Tegmark? Can you give a reference? Thanks, Bruno -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-28 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 28 September 2013 14:27, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote: Teleportation thought experiments are also about what you can expect to see. And I have no objection to thought experiments of that sort, but

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-28 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 3:16 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Everett mention what you call feeling of identity, which is a consequence of modeling the observer by a machine It doesn't matter if modeling the observer by a machine is valid or not, if tomorrow somebody remembers

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-28 Thread meekerdb
On 9/28/2013 12:01 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ... Prohibition is only a technic to sell a lot of drugs, without quality control, nor price control, + the ability to directly target all kids on all streets, making huge black markets, and leading to important corruption so that prohibition is

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-28 Thread meekerdb
On 9/28/2013 12:11 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 27 Sep 2013, at 19:55, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au mailto:li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: I do remember a conversation you had with Bruno about 5 years ago when you were discussing

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-28 Thread meekerdb
On 9/28/2013 7:58 AM, John Clark wrote: Does comp mean every event must have a cause? That question has a simple yes or no answer, and you made up the word so you must know the answer, what is it? If it's yes then I don't believe in this thing you call comp. But the answer is yes in Everett's

RE: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-28 Thread Chris de Morsella
I agree with most of what you wrote above, but that last is nonsense. There is no way the government could have engineered the 9/11 attacks without it being leaked even before it happened. Remember Occam, you need to take the simplest explanation. Brent I agree that logically it would seem

Re: The confluence of cosmology and biology

2013-09-28 Thread LizR
On 28 September 2013 21:15, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 28 Sep 2013, at 09:44, LizR wrote: So not an ongoing computation performed by the universe, What does that mean? Actually I think I got confused, it isn't Max T who suggested that, but didn't someone like John Conway

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-28 Thread meekerdb
On 9/28/2013 12:37 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: I agree with most of what you wrote above, but that last is nonsense. There is no way the government could have engineered the 9/11 attacks without it being leaked even before it happened. Remember Occam, you need to take the simplest

RE: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-28 Thread Chris de Morsella
But supposing this giant and very loosely organized group is, as a group, responsible for a bombing because some of it's explosives were used, is a very big stretch. It's much simpler and more likely that a rouge element in one small group, maybe even one man, stole the explosive for use in the

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-28 Thread meekerdb
On 9/28/2013 4:28 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: But supposing this giant and very loosely organized group is, as a group, responsible for a bombing because some of it's explosives were used, is a very big stretch. It's much simpler and more likely that a rouge element in one small group,

Re: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-28 Thread LizR
On 23 September 2013 13:16, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 12:29:30PM -0400, John Clark wrote: Bruno, if you have something new to say about this proof of yours then say it, but don't pretend that 2 years of correspondence and hundreds of posts in

RE: What gives philosophers a bad name?

2013-09-28 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 4:45 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: What gives philosophers a bad name? On 9/28/2013 4:28 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: But

Aaronson's paper

2013-09-28 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 12:47:28PM +1300, LizR wrote: On 23 September 2013 13:16, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: For me, my stopping point is step 8. I do mean to summarise the intense discussion we had earlier this year on this topic, but that will require an uninterrupted

Re: The confluence of cosmology and biology

2013-09-28 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 08:53:48AM +1300, LizR wrote: On 28 September 2013 21:15, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 28 Sep 2013, at 09:44, LizR wrote: So not an ongoing computation performed by the universe, What does that mean? Actually I think I got confused, it isn't

Could quantum of light be the original source of life forming atoms ?

2013-09-28 Thread sadovnik socratus
Could quantum of light be the original source of life forming atoms ? . Lukin said. What we have done is create a special type of medium in which photons interact with each other so strongly that they begin to act as though they have mass, and they bind together to form

Re: Aaronson's paper

2013-09-28 Thread meekerdb
On 9/28/2013 7:20 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 12:47:28PM +1300, LizR wrote: On 23 September 2013 13:16, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: For me, my stopping point is step 8. I do mean to summarise the intense discussion we had earlier this year on this