Re: The One

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, The computational theory I propose has nothing to do with cellular automata. Cellular automata is little more than a simple childish game. I played around with them myself back in the 1960's and found little of interest. All the hype and theorizing around them is misguided. What they

Re: The One

2014-01-13 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:37 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 January 2014 17:44, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: Liz, CY Compact manifolds are particles of 6d space that precipitate out of 3D space. Each particle is about 1000 Planck lengths in diameter. OK. That sounds

Re: A Theory of Consciousness

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Telmo, I don't know what the universal dovetailer is... Again, for the nth time, my theory has nothing to do with comp or UD. It's a completely different theory. Just go by what I say and don't assume any similarities. It's possible there are some but I'll leave that up to others... Edgar

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, How many times do I have to say it before it's clear? Everything in my model consists of pure abstract computational information running in the real actuality and presence (the logical space) of reality. There is NO actual physicality whatsoever. As I've said repeatedly, physicality, the

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014/1/13 Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net Liz, How many times do I have to say it before it's clear? Everything in my model consists of pure abstract computational information running in the real actuality and presence (the logical space) of reality. There is NO actual physicality

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Terren, There is no infinity of simulations. We are talking about actual reality rather than sci fi fantasy here, or at least we should be. Every biological organism has one and only one internal mental simulation of its external reality environment. This whole system, external world

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, You ask where does mind come from? Obviously it arises via evolution like all biological structures. There should be no question about that. Is it some sort of mystery in your 'comp'? And I'm using computable and computations in the STANDARD sense it's used in computer science, as the

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, Yes, some things ARE obvious. For example the fact that we exist. Isn't that obvious? :-) But I agree we must be careful not be led astray with unfounded 'interpretations' of the obvious. The wise man properly discerns what is clearly obvious (eg. that we exist, and we exist in a

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, You first assume all mathematics somehow exists 'out there' independent of humans. If that were true and actual reality consisted of all math sitting there in some static state, then you might be correct, but this is an enormous unwarranted assumption with no empirical evidence. The

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, No contradiction. As I clearly stated, but which apparently didn't register, the computations take place in Present Moment P-time which is NON-dimensional. The computations compute Clock time which IS dimensional. Edgar On Friday, January 10, 2014 5:00:36 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote:

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, I use computation in the STANDARD sense of computer science. Computer programs compute results. Reality computes the current state of the universe. It's very simple, straightforward and standard usage. See my other post on the same topic for more detail. Edgar On Friday,

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread spudboy100
This is an awful question to ask, and inappropriate too, but I will ask. I wonder what good it does, the pitiful human specie, knowing that there's hyper-multiverses? It's breath taking of course, but beyond this, does it help the human condition? Unless we can Tweet, Proxima Centauri, or the

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, To answer your questions. Reality must be finite. When the definition of infinity as an unreachable non-terminable PROCESS (keep adding 1 forever) is clearly understood it is obvious that nothing actual can be infinite. There is no getting around this. Nothing real can be infinite

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Stephen, My computational space is not a physical dimensional space. It's a logical information space. There are no metrics, topology, or parameters. These are all properties of dimensional spaces. Dimensional spaces are part of the computational results that emerge FROM computations in

Re: A Theory of Consciousness

2014-01-13 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi Edgar, I don't know what the universal dovetailer is... Not to worry, I'm sure not a lot of people do outside of this mailing list... :) Independently of your own theory, it's an interesting concept. Bruno might explain better, but it is basically an algorithm that executes all conceivable

Re: A Theory of Consciousness

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Telmo, Thanks for the explanation, though it doesn't seem very applicable to actual reality... I would be very interested in where one can submit papers without an academic affiliation if you could provide names or links. Have you submitted to any? Best, Edgar On Monday, January 13, 2014

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Bruno, I use computation in the STANDARD sense of computer science. Computer programs compute results. Computers compute results. Computer programs describe how computers compute results. This is all circular and nothing

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Edgar, Several of us do not understand what you mean by pure abstract computational information or real actuality and thus cannot evaluate your claims. It would be helpful if you proposed some semi-formal definitions or pointed to similar discussion by other authors. It seems to me that

Re: A Theory of Consciousness

2014-01-13 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Telmo, Thanks for the explanation, though it doesn't seem very applicable to actual reality... http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/publications/SANE2004MARCHALAbstract.html I would be very interested in where one can

Re: The Scale of Digital

2014-01-13 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, January 12, 2014 5:02:07 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 13 January 2014 02:35, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: How large does a digital circle have to be before the circumference seems like a straight line? That depends on who is viewing it and where from,

Re: A Theory of Consciousness

2014-01-13 Thread Gabriel Bodeen
On Friday, January 10, 2014 8:17:13 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: On 1/10/2014 10:49 AM, Gabriel Bodeen wrote: On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 4:25:04 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: As you've explained it above your theory makes a rock just as conscious as a brain. I'm sure you must have a more

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Jason Resch
On Jan 13, 2014, at 6:44 AM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Terren, There is no infinity of simulations. We are talking about actual reality rather than sci fi fantasy here, or at least we should be. Edgar, How do you know reality is really as small and limited as you think it

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Stephen, It's not 'ideal monism'. Trying to shoehorn it won't help you understand it. Just take the pure information content of everything that exists out of the 'things'. You have pure information. Now assume that information is continually evolving to compute the current state of reality.

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, Reality is not 'small', it's very very large. It's just not infinite. See my other post of an hour ago for an explanation of why nothing real and actual can be infinite We explain what we can observe. If you have evidence of some alternate physics somewhere only then you can ask me

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Terren Suydam
Hi Bruno, On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 3:39 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 11 Jan 2014, at 14:05, Terren Suydam wrote: Hi Bruno, Unfortunately I don't have enough familiarity with the math to follow you here. It is something I'd like to become fluent in one of these days but

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Terren Suydam
Edgar, On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason, To answer your questions. Reality must be finite. When the definition of infinity as an unreachable non-terminable PROCESS (keep adding 1 forever) is clearly understood it is obvious that nothing actual

Re: A Theory of Consciousness

2014-01-13 Thread Jason Resch
Edgar, The most well known is the arxiv. It is run out of cornell university. Their website is arxiv.org Jason On Jan 13, 2014, at 7:59 AM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Telmo, Thanks for the explanation, though it doesn't seem very applicable to actual reality... I would

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Jason Resch
You would be surprised how similar what you say below is to the conclusions of the UDA. Jason On Jan 13, 2014, at 7:40 AM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Stephen, My computational space is not a physical dimensional space. It's a logical information space. There are no metrics,

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Terren Suydam
Hi Edgar, On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Terren, There is no infinity of simulations. We are talking about actual reality rather than sci fi fantasy here, or at least we should be. Given that your knowledge of reality necessarily comes from your

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Terren, No, it's not a contradiction. Because present time just is and always has been without anything happening prior to the big bang. Only when clock time began to be computed as happening originated at the big bang was there a measure of time, or rather a time that could be measured by

Re: A Theory of Consciousness

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, You'd have a snowball's chance in hell in publishing a paper there withOUT academic affiliation... Edgar On Monday, January 13, 2014 11:33:42 AM UTC-5, Jason wrote: Edgar, The most well known is the arxiv. It is run out of cornell university. Their website is arxiv.org Jason

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Edgar, On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Stephen, It's not 'ideal monism'. Trying to shoehorn it won't help you understand it. Good point! I tend to have a 5 bin system that I use to categorize ontological theories: Material monism, Ideal

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Stephen, A couple of responses. Forget all other theories when you read mine and judge it only on its own merits... Don't shoehorn! Only information is being computed. It exists independent of things. What are called 'things' are mental interpretations of computational information domains

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Jason Resch
On Jan 13, 2014, at 7:32 AM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason, To answer your questions. Reality must be finite. When the definition of infinity as an unreachable non-terminable PROCESS (keep adding 1 forever) is clearly understood it is obvious that nothing actual can be

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Edgar, how to directly experience reality as it actually is. Now I am most definitely not buying your book. Sorry, but that statement is anathema to me. I have had quite enough of people claiming to have a way for me to know what is really going on. 99.99% of the time they are

Re: A Theory of Consciousness

2014-01-13 Thread Jason Resch
On Jan 13, 2014, at 11:23 AM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason, You'd have a snowball's chance in hell in publishing a paper there withOUT academic affiliation... I've published there without any academic affiliation. Jason Edgar On Monday, January 13, 2014 11:33:42

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Terren Suydam
Edgar, On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Terren, Don't tell me what's in my theory. There are NO infinity of logical realities being computed. There is no Platonia If what you're positing is a fundamental computational reality, then there's

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Terren, Don't tell me what's in my theory. There are NO infinity of logical realities being computed. There is no Platonia You seem to be referencing Bruno's comp. There is NO 'Platonia' in my theory. There is enormous evidence and theoretical justification for Present moment P-time.

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, We cannot keep adding 1 forever to get an infinity. The universe where addition is possible is only 13.7 billion years old. Not quite old enough to get to infinity! This applies all the types of infinity you mention. The universe (extended quantum vacuum) has always existed but there

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Stephen, I didn't really expect you to buy my book, but a lot of other people are And I agree with you most people who tell you how to experience reality are scam artists. Edgar On Monday, January 13, 2014 12:52:42 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar, how to directly

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Terren, I just explained how it is possible to tell if your particular simulation is accurate or not. The fact of your continued existence. If it didn't accurately model the logic of external reality you wouldn't be here. The 'Matrix' scenario that you can't distinguish between all possible

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
Edgar, On 13 Jan 2014, at 13:52, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, You ask where does mind come from? Obviously it arises via evolution like all biological structures. Not only that is not obvious, but this might be false. It might be locally true for the human mind differentiation, but the

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Stephen, PS: In spite of your knee jerk reaction my treatment of 'Realization' deals not with 'New Age' type nonsense but mainly with serious insights on how to directly experience reality as it actually is such as: 1. The fundamental experience of our existence, our consciousness within a

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Jan 2014, at 13:59, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, Yes, some things ARE obvious. For example the fact that we exist. Isn't that obvious? :-) Who we ? The universal numbers? Your consciousness here-and-now is, for you, obvious. I grant that. Nothing more. I bet on this, and believe

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread L.W. Sterritt
On Jan 13, 2014, at 9:21 AM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Terren, No, it's not a contradiction. Because present time just is and always has been without anything happening prior to the big bang. Only when clock time began to be computed as happening originated at the big bang

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014/1/13 Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net Terren, I just explained how it is possible to tell if your particular simulation is accurate or not. The fact of your continued existence. If it didn't accurately model the logic of external reality you wouldn't be here. The 'Matrix' scenario that

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Jan 2014, at 14:17, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, No contradiction. As I clearly stated, but which apparently didn't register, the computations take place in Present Moment P-time which is NON-dimensional. Sorry, but I don't understand. To discuss on this, I need to know what you

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Jan 2014, at 14:20, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, I use computation in the STANDARD sense of computer science. Computer programs compute results. Reality computes the current state of the universe. So reality is a computer program? That seems like digital physics thesis.

Re: A Theory of Consciousness

2014-01-13 Thread meekerdb
On 1/13/2014 7:17 AM, Gabriel Bodeen wrote: On Friday, January 10, 2014 8:17:13 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: On 1/10/2014 10:49 AM, Gabriel Bodeen wrote: On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 4:25:04 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: As you've explained it above your theory makes a rock just as

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
William, No, it's not the reification fallacy, unless you apply the same definition to all theories, none of which are real. Of course theories aren't reality. In any case the quantum vacuum, out of which real particles can appear, is a well accepted concept. I just generalize it a little in

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Terren Suydam
Edgar, A simulation can be utterly precise and impossible to distinguish from sensory data, in principle. You seem to be ignoring that by your own theory it is possible to simulate the logic of external reality precisely, as that is what you are positing happens at a fundamental level. I am

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Edgar, So far what I am missing are detailed explanations and definitions of terms. Yes, we could read your book, but we wonder if it's content has those explanations and definitions. OTOH, I have often explained my ideas -which are rather technical- and have had thunderous silence in

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi, Someone wrote, not sure if it was Terren or Bruno: ... from their own 1-1 points of view, they are in the UD*, and will follow the path with the greater measure. This looks like some form of a self-selection!? It essence, any observer having a 1p means that it will always exist

Re: The One

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 01:02, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, The computational theory I propose has nothing to do with cellular automata. Cellular automata is little more than a simple childish game. I played around with them myself back in the 1960's and found little of interest.

Re: The One

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 01:04, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:37 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 January 2014 17:44, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: Liz, CY Compact manifolds are particles of 6d space that precipitate out of 3D space. Each

Re: A Theory of Consciousness

2014-01-13 Thread meekerdb
On 1/13/2014 9:23 AM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Jason, You'd have a snowball's chance in hell in publishing a paper there withOUT academic affiliation... Edgar Yeah, arXiv was once pretty open but it got so many papers it's started to require a 'sponsor' to vouch for new posters. Which is not

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 01:44, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Terren, There is no infinity of simulations. We are talking about actual reality rather than sci fi fantasy here, or at least we should be. So you don't think there is any such thing as arithmetical realism. OK. Every

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 02:11, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Bruno, You first assume all mathematics somehow exists 'out there' independent of humans. If that were true and actual reality consisted of all math sitting there in some static state, then you might be correct, but this is an

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 02:17, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Bruno, No contradiction. As I clearly stated, but which apparently didn't register, the computations take place in Present Moment P-time which is NON-dimensional. The computations compute Clock time which IS dimensional. What

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
Og, please tell me where can I download Max's book, I'd like to do the same. On 14 January 2014 02:29, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: This is an awful question to ask, and inappropriate too, but I will ask. I wonder what good it does, the pitiful human specie, knowing that there's

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 02:32, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason, To answer your questions. Reality must be finite. When the definition of infinity as an unreachable non-terminable PROCESS (keep adding 1 forever) is clearly understood it is obvious that nothing actual can be

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 02:40, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Stephen, My computational space is not a physical dimensional space. It's a logical information space. There are no metrics, topology, or parameters. These are all properties of dimensional spaces. Dimensional spaces are part

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread meekerdb
On 1/13/2014 10:16 AM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Terren, I just explained how it is possible to tell if your particular simulation is accurate or not. The fact of your continued existence. If it didn't accurately model the logic of external reality you wouldn't be here. That's poor logic

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 04:31, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Stephen, It's not 'ideal monism'. Trying to shoehorn it won't help you understand it. LOL! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group

Re: A Theory of Consciousness

2014-01-13 Thread spudboy100
Matti Pitkannen's VIXRA, an alternative to ARXIV -Original Message- From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Jan 13, 2014 3:42 pm Subject: Re: A Theory of Consciousness On 1/13/2014 9:23 AM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Jason,

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread meekerdb
On 1/13/2014 10:54 AM, L.W. Sterritt wrote: Isn’t this just the reification fallacy? From Wikipedia: Reification (also known as concretism, or the fallacy of misplaced concreteness) is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction (abstract belief or hypothetical construct) is treated as if it

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 08:07, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 13 Jan 2014, at 14:17, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, No contradiction. As I clearly stated, but which apparently didn't register, the computations take place in Present Moment P-time which is NON-dimensional. Sorry, but I

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 10:17, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/13/2014 10:54 AM, L.W. Sterritt wrote: Isn’t this just the reification fallacy? From Wikipedia: Reification (also known as concretism, or the fallacy of misplaced concreteness) is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
Oops typo. That should read Edgar thinks that people not understanding his theory is their fault. He hasn't worked out the simple fact that if he can't communicate it properly, that is his problem. He probably never will. On 14 January 2014 10:27, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 January

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Gabriel Bodeen
On Monday, January 13, 2014 11:49:17 AM UTC-6, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Forget all other theories when you read mine and judge it only on its own merits... Don't shoehorn! FWIW, that's all well and good for mathematical and other formal theories. You've been insistent on not formalizing your

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 10 January 2014 07:04, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Terren, First, it will only detract, not help, to try to shoehorn my theories into standard categories. It's an entirely new theory. This is fine if you are writing fiction, but in science you have to be prepared for some

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 04:31, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Stephen, It's not 'ideal monism'. Trying to shoehorn it won't help you understand it. Just take the pure information content of everything that exists out of the 'things'. You have pure information. Now assume that

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Gabe, Hear Hear! On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Gabriel Bodeen gabebod...@gmail.comwrote: On Monday, January 13, 2014 11:49:17 AM UTC-6, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Forget all other theories when you read mine and judge it only on its own merits... Don't shoehorn! FWIW, that's all

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread meekerdb
On 1/13/2014 11:37 AM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: William, No, it's not the reification fallacy, unless you apply the same definition to all theories, none of which are real. Of course theories aren't reality. In any case the quantum vacuum, out of which real particles can appear, is a well

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread meekerdb
On 1/13/2014 1:29 PM, LizR wrote: On 14 January 2014 10:17, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/13/2014 10:54 AM, L.W. Sterritt wrote: Isn’t this just the reification fallacy? From Wikipedia: Reification (also known as concretism, or the

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
A set whose proper subsets are isomorphic to the set. On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, How do you define infinity differently than an unreachable process? Edgar On Monday, January 13, 2014 4:08:52 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 14 January 2014

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 11:38, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, How do you define infinity differently than an unreachable process? Countable infinity can be defined as the number of members in the set of all the integers. Uncountable infinity can be defined as the number of members

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 11:40, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: A set whose proper subsets are isomorphic to the set. Very nice definition, I knew that one (honest!) having read a book by Rudy Rucker on the subject, but had forgotten it. This is the property nicely illustrated by

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, Sigh Now we have several people complaining because I haven't offered a 'formal theory'. However not a single one of the complainers has themselves offered a formal theory even though they are continually offering theories of their own, none of which are formalized. Is that fair? The

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Dear Flyer, You must be hard up for entertainment. Perhaps you should try watching the Matrix one more time with popcorn or try contributing something meaningful to the discussion? :-) Edgar On Monday, January 13, 2014 5:44:47 PM UTC-5, freqflyer07281972 wrote: Haha! Ya Liz, I think your

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, et al, The so called 'unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics' is obvious in a universe where reality math actually computes reality. That couldn't be any simpler or clearer. Edgar On Monday, January 13, 2014 6:06:15 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 14 January 2014 11:29, meekerdb

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear LizR, What would happen is mathematics did not amazingly match up with the patterns of phenomena of the physical world? Think about it. We expect a model of a system to match that system as best possible, so what is magical about symbolic representational systems that obey rules? I

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 12:42, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, Sigh Now we have several people complaining because I haven't offered a 'formal theory'. However not a single one of the complainers has themselves offered a formal theory even though they are continually offering

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 12:56, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, et al, The so called 'unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics' is obvious in a universe where reality math actually computes reality. That couldn't be any simpler or clearer. It's all obvious. Nothing could be clearer.

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Terren, No, it's not that simple as I thought I had explained. You have to consider not just what is happening in the simulated being's 'mind' or simulation but the whole context of the simulation. I'll try again. Even if a simulated world is entirely convincing in the short term it still MUST

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 13:04, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear LizR, What would happen is mathematics did not amazingly match up with the patterns of phenomena of the physical world? Think about it. We expect a model of a system to match that system as best possible, so

Re: A Theory of Consciousness

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, Thanks for the suggestions and encouragement. It's been on my 'to do list' and posting here is helping to clarify the presentation of some of my ideas towards that end. Edgar On Monday, January 13, 2014 3:41:17 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/13/2014 9:23 AM, Edgar L. Owen wrote:

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 12:52, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Dear Flyer, You must be hard up for entertainment. Perhaps you should try watching the Matrix one more time with popcorn or try contributing something meaningful to the discussion? He just did. He pointed out a number of ways

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, That doesn't follow. Don't you understand basic logical forms? Edgar On Monday, January 13, 2014 7:15:04 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 14 January 2014 13:10, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote: Terren, No, it's not that simple as I thought I had explained. You have to

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 13:19, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, That doesn't follow. Don't you understand basic logical forms? It was as logical as your argument. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, If your internal simulation of reality is not consistent with the essentials of reality you cannot function or exist. That depends on consistency with the LOGIC of reality, NOT how it is represented internally by the qualia you mention (which are also covered extensively in my book). I

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 13:25, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 7:12 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 January 2014 13:04, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear LizR, What would happen is mathematics did not amazingly match

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 13:23, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, If your internal simulation of reality is not consistent with the essentials of reality you cannot function or exist. That depends on consistency with the LOGIC of reality, NOT how it is represented internally by the

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread meekerdb
On 1/13/2014 3:06 PM, LizR wrote: On 14 January 2014 11:29, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/13/2014 1:29 PM, LizR wrote: On 14 January 2014 10:17, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/13/2014 10:54 AM,

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Stephen, If everything is information being computed then obviously all observers are also part of that and thus analogous to running programs interacting computationally with the other running programs of reality. I guess I hadn't made that clear yet... Everything is analogous to a running

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 13:38, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/13/2014 3:06 PM, LizR wrote: Quite possibly, of course! But in my humble opinion, Max Tegmark and Bruno and Eugene Wigner (and Galileo, Gauss, Einstein etc) do have a point, that maths does seem to kick back and to be

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, That's one possibility but more likely is that you just don't take the time to read and consider what I've actually written in your over eagerness to criticize... Anyway thanks for letting us know you don't have any theory of reality yourself in spite of your incessant proclamations as

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 13:40, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Stephen, If everything is information being computed then obviously all observers are also part of that and thus analogous to running programs interacting computationally with the other running programs of reality. I guess I

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread LizR
On 14 January 2014 13:51, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, That's one possibility but more likely is that you just don't take the time to read and consider what I've actually written in your over eagerness to criticize... Yes of course, I couldn't possibly have any valid

Re: The One

2014-01-13 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 3:36 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 January 2014 01:04, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:37 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 January 2014 17:44, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: Liz, CY Compact manifolds

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