Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
made that distinction clear but apparently it didn't register... Edgar On Monday, January 13, 2014 3:55:40 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 14 January 2014 07:16, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote: Terren, I just explained how it is possible to tell if your particular simulation

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
that are hard to comprehend at first. I find many of his ideas very useful and have even come to agree with some of them. On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Stephen, PS: In spite of your knee jerk reaction my treatment of 'Realization' deals

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
as to what reality must be or is not. :-) Edgar On Monday, January 13, 2014 7:39:11 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 14 January 2014 13:23, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote: Liz, If your internal simulation of reality is not consistent with the essentials of reality you cannot

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
-computation in every processor cycle. What exists is the active evolution of all information, not sequential static data states one after the other. Edgar Edgar Edgar On Monday, January 13, 2014 7:54:26 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 14 January 2014 13:40, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
a separate Present moment P-time can provide processor cycles that clock time can be computed within. Edgar On Monday, January 13, 2014 8:36:31 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 14 January 2014 14:15, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote: Liz, Good question which I've given a lot

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
On Monday, January 13, 2014 8:42:28 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/13/2014 4:10 PM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: 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

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
fiction from reality? Edgar On Monday, January 13, 2014 9:01:34 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/13/2014 5:49 PM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Jason, Come on Jason, the whole notion of 'living inside a video game' is adolescent fantasy. Is there some real person living inside the game? If so he

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, January 13, 2014 9:09:33 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/13/2014 5:55 PM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Liz, There is no FTL because this is not a physical dimensional space, it's a computational space. The notion of 'together' is computational interaction rather than dimensional co-location

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
:13:05 PM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Liz, Sigh Now we have several people complaining because I haven't offered a 'formal theory'. A first (and great) step would be just to explain in clear normal language

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
The point On Jan 13, 2014 7:10 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript: wrote: 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

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
there is no evidence whatsoever? Get real! I'll let you spend your time constructing theories to explain what there is no evidence for if you like. I have better things to do... Edgar On Monday, January 13, 2014 9:16:30 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/13/2014 6:03 PM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Brent

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, trolls and fairies know things? Edgar On Monday, January 13, 2014 9:21:46 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/13/2014 6:10 PM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Brent, What makes some computations real is that they are computing real and actual processes of reality. They are actually running

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
that, that you can't insert dummy operations, and so forth. But so long as the computations you are positing as fundamental to the processing of reality are Turing complete, then such a move is possible, for the sake of argument. Terren On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
rubber sheet model in which the depression around a mass is caused by a dilation of the grid cells of the surrounding rubber sheet and you'll see how this works. Edgar On Monday, January 13, 2014 9:29:25 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/13/2014 6:14 PM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Brent, Aren't you

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, That's not artificial intelligence. Completely different concept... Edgar On Monday, January 13, 2014 10:00:09 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 14 January 2014 14:49, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote: Jason, Come on Jason, the whole notion of 'living inside a video game

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
? Thanks, Jason On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jason, I've already presented a good part of my theory repeatedly in considerable detail giving good logical arguments. The only 'jargon' I've used is the single neologism 'ontological

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, January 13, 2014 10:22:30 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 14 January 2014 16:10, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote: Brent, The elements of the set are the information encoding the current state of the universe and how it is evolving - whatever that may be. What that may be needs

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, Of course it's possible to create an AI. It's done all the time. I've programmed a number of them myself. Edgar On Monday, January 13, 2014 10:28:47 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 14 January 2014 16:13, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote: Liz, That's not artificial

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Stephen, I define 'Reality' in my book on the subject very simply as everything that exists. One must be careful to distinguish between actual external reality, of which there is only one, and individual 'realities' which vary widely across individuals and species, and which are all individual

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
:58 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Terren, All human babies are automatically consciousness. They are conscious of whatever input data they have. I don't see the point of your question which is why I didn't answer before... Edgar On Wednesday, January 8, 2014 2:42

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
. Edgar On Thursday, January 9, 2014 9:04:39 AM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar, On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Stephen, I define 'Reality' in my book on the subject very simply as everything that exists. I denote

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
that had the proper mental simulation of its world, based on its own sensory apparatus, with the complex feedback systems necessary, that robot would EXperience as well? Terren On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Terren, I don't find

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, Check out this article by S. Wolfram: http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/academic/undecidability-intractability-theoretical-physics.pdf On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Stephen, Please see my proximate answer to Terren a little

Re: A Theory of Consciousness

2014-01-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
of the external information reality. Actual fundamental external reality is computationally evolving information in OE only. Edgar On Thursday, January 9, 2014 1:06:49 PM UTC-5, telmo_menezes wrote: Hi Edgar, Ok, I'll bite :) On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
biological brain at some level. If so, Bruno's UDA proves that the physical world as we experience it is not computable. Terren On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Terren, First, it will only detract, not help, to try to shoehorn my theories

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, regardless of what your theory is. It comes across as dogmatic or religious... is that your intent? Terren On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Terren, Receiving a prosthetic brain is a (probably insurmountable) technical problem. There could

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
an imprecise definition which isn't really germane here. As you point out everybody's thoughts and states of mind are always changing Edgar On Thursday, January 9, 2014 5:01:48 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/9/2014 1:15 PM, LizR wrote: On 10 January 2014 09:20, Edgar L. Owen edga

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
with the exact neural circuitry and neural states then I suppose 'I' would still think I was me. I don't see why not. So what's the point? I forgot what it was... Edgar On Thursday, January 9, 2014 5:01:48 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/9/2014 1:15 PM, LizR wrote: On 10 January 2014 09:20, Edgar L

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
of reality. Edgar On Thursday, January 9, 2014 8:12:46 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 10 January 2014 13:51, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote: Liz and Terren, I'm thinking more about this and think I've now changed my mind on it. After all I (my mental state etc.) do continually

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote: Stephen, There is no single observer that can take in all events I never said that and don't believe it. However there has to be a single universal processor cycling for a computational universe to work. That single universal processor cycle

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 January 2014 14:01, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Stephen, There is no single observer that can take in all events I never said that and don't believe it. However there has to be a single universal processor cycling for a computational universe to work

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
is conclusive proof. Edgar On Thursday, January 9, 2014 8:53:18 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 10 January 2014 14:22, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote: Liz, No, I don't agree with that at all. As I've said on a number of occasions, reality is obviously computed because it exists. What

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, Your comp is obviously not my comp. Don't tell me what my comp does or doesn't do... Edgar On Thursday, January 9, 2014 9:38:47 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 10 January 2014 15:34, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote: Liz, No, that's not the only way to falsify it. One

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
to all the various times that occur in the computed reality. The question is, what is *that *time? (whatever it should be called) On 10 January 2014 15:48, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote: Liz, Obviously clock time is the time that clocks measure. What else would

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, That seems to assume a prior existence of quantum correlations in a non-computational universe. Anyway it's just another unproven speculative theory. Why post it as if it proves something? Edgar On Thursday, January 9, 2014 9:35:44 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/9/2014 5:15 PM, Edgar L

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, 2014 9:56:19 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: No you spent them telling me what it *does*. I'd like to know what it *is.* On 10 January 2014 15:54, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote: Common Liz, I just spent the last number of posts telling you and Stephen what it is... Don't make me

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
try a definition of computation: Any transformation of information. On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Stephen, There is NO such requirement. See my response to Liz.. Edgar On Thursday, January 9, 2014 8:45:40 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
can repeat my original point: On 10 January 2014 15:34, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net wrote: Liz, No, that's not the only way to falsify it. One merely needs to show it doesn't properly describe reality as I've just done. If you even assume a computational universe in the first place you

Understanding Entropy

2014-01-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
All, As I explain in my book on Reality, entropy states are not fundamental, as often assumed, because they depend on the spatial mix of prevailing forces. For example the maximum entropy state will be completely different in a positive gravitation universe than it would be in a negative

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Telmo, Thanks for the link but see my new topic A theory of consciousness of a few days ago which no one has even commented on and which is much more reasonable and explanatory. Edgar On Wednesday, January 8, 2014 12:57:37 PM UTC-5, telmo_menezes wrote: In case you haven't seen it...

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
and beyond John Mikes On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Terren, All human babies are automatically consciousness. They are conscious of whatever input data they have. I don't see the point of your question which is why I didn't answer before

Re: Consciousness as a State of Matter

2014-01-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
such items and when I post disbelief that is something I usually can support from my past experience. Have a good 2014 and beyond John Mikes On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Terren, All human babies are automatically consciousness

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote: Liz, What is explained quite well by relativity is the differing clock times. The fact they differ in the same present moment is not even recognized nor explained by relativity It's a basic but totally unexplained assumption

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
January 2014 12:45, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote: Liz, Yes, of course you are correct. They do it all the time but in the present moment rather than any clock time simultaneity. Without a present moment when do they meet up and compare? Certainly not in their individual

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
on page 2 of his paper): http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/specrel.pdf It would avoid a lot of confusion I think, because so far we seem to be talking past each other over what basic words mean. Jason On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
by their differing clocks. When are they together Brent? Obviously in a present moment which is a kind of time that clearly is not the same as clock time. Edgar On Monday, January 6, 2014 12:18:16 AM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/5/2014 12:00 PM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Brent, No, the present moment

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, What clock measures your coordinate time? Apparently none. It's beginning to sound just like another name for Present time. What's the difference? Edgar On Monday, January 6, 2014 9:47:36 AM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Jan 6, 2014, at 6:55 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-05 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Resch wrote: On Jan 4, 2014, at 5:36 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript: wrote: Jason, PS: And don't tell me the twins meeting with different clock times in the same present moment is an event as if that explained something. I use that word in the usual relatavistic

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-05 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, You say of the present moment Yes, it's not a clock time. I agree, then what is the present moment if it isn't a clock time? Edgar On Sunday, January 5, 2014 3:07:10 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 04 Jan 2014, at 19:32, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Jason, If you don't agree with my

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-05 Thread Edgar L. Owen
for a computational universe to work. Otherwise nothing would even happen Edgar On Sunday, January 5, 2014 3:16:42 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 04 Jan 2014, at 21:06, Jason Resch wrote: On Jan 4, 2014, at 12:32 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jason

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-05 Thread Edgar L. Owen
that true. Best, Edgar On Saturday, January 4, 2014 9:01:53 PM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Jan 4, 2014, at 6:48 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript: wrote: Jason, PPS: More questions about your theory of block time. 1. How do you keep Quantum Theory from being contradicted by block

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-05 Thread Edgar L. Owen
On Sunday, January 5, 2014 2:08:47 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/5/2014 4:33 AM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Brent, No, that's the exact opposite of what I said. I said they ARE at the same present place when their clocks don't agree. Yes. So why don't you recognize that present place

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-05 Thread Edgar L. Owen
:29 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 6 January 2014 10:16, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote: Liz, What is explained quite well by relativity is the differing clock times. The fact they differ in the same present moment is not even recognized nor explained by relativity It's

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-04 Thread Edgar L. Owen
is an absolute permanent clock time effect that all observers agree upon WHEN there is no relative motion. That should clarify everything but I fear it won't Edgar On Friday, January 3, 2014 11:23:42 AM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-04 Thread Edgar L. Owen
at 11:10 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jason, Thanks for your several posts and charts. You really made me think and I like that! Thanks, I am glad to hear it. :-) I'm combining my responses to your multiple recent posts here. First though there are two ways

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-04 Thread Edgar L. Owen
of events which occur widely separated in space and in different reference frames: True or False? 3. According to your P-time notion, there is some uniquely true order of events at the same point in space: True or False? -Gabe On Friday, January 3, 2014 10:23:57 AM UTC-6, Edgar L. Owen wrote

Re: For Edgar - Unanswered question time.

2014-01-04 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, I'm not going to give Yes/No questions to ill formulated questions. Have you stopped beating your dog? :-) See my answers to these questions (in my own words) in my response to Gabe who asked them Edgar On Friday, January 3, 2014 5:18:00 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: Our first topic is

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-04 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Pierz, It may not be physics by your definition but both the Present moment and Consciousness are certainly part of reality, in fact they are basic aspects of reality. Reality subsumes physics, if you want to define physics as just what is mathematically describable. Not all of reality is

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-04 Thread Edgar L. Owen
and their clock times are not simultaneous. This question is the key to the whole issue. Be interested to hear your answer... Edgar On Friday, January 3, 2014 11:51:53 AM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jason

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-04 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, 2014 3:06:21 PM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Jan 4, 2014, at 12:32 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jason, If you don't agree with my theory of the Present moment, then what is your theory of this present moment we all experience our existence and all our actions within

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-04 Thread Edgar L. Owen
? Edgar On Saturday, January 4, 2014 3:06:21 PM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Jan 4, 2014, at 12:32 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jason, If you don't agree with my theory of the Present moment, then what is your theory of this present moment we all experience our existence

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-04 Thread Edgar L. Owen
is true, and there is no free will, are you any more than a robot zombie? Awaiting your answers with interest... Edgar On Saturday, January 4, 2014 3:06:21 PM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Jan 4, 2014, at 12:32 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jason, If you don't agree with my

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-03 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, The common present moment is not something I need. It's the way nature works... Edgar On Thursday, January 2, 2014 9:34:46 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: Another thing I've been intending to ask Edgar, but it seems i can't now, because he's refusing to reply to any of my posts... Why does

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-03 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, This is of course complete nonsense I have immense respect for many female scientists, thinkers and artists. Emmy Noether is one who comes to mind. Edgar On Friday, January 3, 2014 1:24:29 AM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 3 January 2014 16:22, Richard Ruquist yan...@gmail.com

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-03 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Lliz, Brent and Jason, Actually Liz is correct here, by GR it is the acceleration. That is the physical cause of the clock time differences of the twins. It is true the effects can also be analyzed just by spacetime paths as others have suggested, but it is actually the acceleration (or

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-03 Thread Edgar L. Owen
: On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Lliz, Brent and Jason, Actually Liz is correct here, by GR it is the acceleration. That is the physical cause of the clock time differences of the twins. In my experiment, lets say the acceleration lats

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-03 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, Come on Jason. Of course not. You have to have EQUAL amounts of acceleration to produce the same effect. But doesn't matter where in space it is. Edgar On Friday, January 3, 2014 10:24:26 AM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-03 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Gabriel, See my long most recent response to Jason for an analysis of how this works and why this contradiction doesn't falsify Present moment P-time. Best, Edgar On Friday, January 3, 2014 10:31:59 AM UTC-5, Gabriel Bodeen wrote: (I'm expanding on the comment by Jason.) The P-time

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2014-01-02 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, Great! An amazing post! You seem to have correctly gotten part of the theory I proposed in my separate topic Another stab at how spacetime emerges from quantum events. Please refer to that topic to confirm... Do you understand how the fact that the spins are determined in the frames of

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-02 Thread Edgar L. Owen
: On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 01:20:35AM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Jason, That's a totally off the wall answer. When the two shake hands it's not just photons that are interacting, it's the electrons, protons and neutrons of the matter of their hands which don't travel at the speed of light

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-02 Thread Edgar L. Owen
On Thursday, January 2, 2014 9:56:44 AM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Hi Jason, No, sadly you haven't quite gotten it yet but you are getting closer it seems. First the twins do NOT have the same (x,y,z,t

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2014-01-02 Thread Edgar L. Owen
at common events in the SAME computational reality.) Edgar On Thursday, January 2, 2014 9:11:57 AM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jason, Great! An amazing post! You seem to have correctly gotten part of the theory I

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-02 Thread Edgar L. Owen
. Jason On Thursday, January 2, 2014 9:56:44 AM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net wrote: Hi Jason, No, sadly you haven't quite gotten it yet but you are getting closer it seems. First the twins do NOT have the same (x,y,z,t

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2014-01-02 Thread Edgar L. Owen
is NOT a hidden variable theory. There are no hidden variables at all in my explanation. Please, respectfully, reread it and see there are none... Edgar On Thursday, January 2, 2014 12:55:50 PM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-02 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, January 2, 2014 1:45:21 PM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jason, Taking your points in order. No contradiction. Sam and Pam do experience 10 and 6 years of clock time respectively, but it's all experienced in a common

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-02 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, I answered Jason directly. See that post. There is no preferred CLOCK time frame. There is a shared common present moment they both share which is 'preferred' in that sense. Again you are confusing clock time and Present moment time. See my response to Jason for one more approach that

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2014-01-02 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, No, they aren't hidden variables. Not at all. Read my new topic post Another shot at how spacetime emerges from quantum events for the detailed explanation. Edgar On Thursday, January 2, 2014 3:16:13 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/2/2014 8:44 AM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: The spin

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-02 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, We'll let Jason judge whether I answered him or not. Edgar On Thursday, January 2, 2014 4:14:02 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 3 January 2014 10:00, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote: Liz, I answered Jason directly. See that post. By not answering, yes

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-02 Thread Edgar L. Owen
On Thursday, January 2, 2014 4:21:05 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 3 January 2014 10:17, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote: Liz, We'll let Jason judge whether I answered him or not. No we won't. I followed his argument, and I want an answer too. Funny thing about science, it doesn't

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-02 Thread Edgar L. Owen
the logical reasoning... Edgar On Thursday, January 2, 2014 4:30:37 PM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Liz, We'll let Jason judge whether I answered him or not. You did answer, but your answer is that you did not know

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-02 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, January 2, 2014 6:05:36 PM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jason, I said I don't know because SR doesn't know. What's wrong with that? It's consistent with SR. Nothing is wrong with that position, I just thought P-time

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-02 Thread Edgar L. Owen
the incompatibility of these views... Jason On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Jason Resch jason...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jason, I said I don't know because SR doesn't know. What's wrong

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2014-01-02 Thread Edgar L. Owen
On Thursday, January 2, 2014 8:39:08 PM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jason, That's very simple P-time allows us to explain how there is a present moment in which we experience our mutual existence, are able to converse

Re: The background to Edgar's book

2013-12-31 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Hi Liz, The Two kinds of time theory is original with me dating back to 2007. I've presented it in quite a clear logical framework from a couple different perspectives in my posts to this group. The logic is quite clear and quite convincing, but only when the underlying concept is clearly

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-31 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, Thanks for asking. I'll start a new topic on Consciousness hopefully sometime today as it is clearly an important topic on its own. Edgar On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 12:13:26 AM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Jason Resch jason...@gmail.comjavascript:

A Theory of Consciousness

2013-12-31 Thread Edgar L. Owen
All, I'll present a brief overview of my theory of consciousness from my book on Reality here. If anyone is interested I can elaborate. To understand consciousness we first must clearly distinguish between consciousness ITSELF and the contents of consciousness that become conscious by

Re: The background to Edgar's book

2013-12-31 Thread Edgar L. Owen
for spatially separated observers as outlined in my previous posts. Edgar On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 10:54:12 AM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Dec 31, 2013, at 8:22 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Hi Liz, The Two kinds of time theory is original with me dating back to 2007

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-31 Thread Edgar L. Owen
. Edgar On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 11:06:51 AM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Dec 31, 2013, at 8:28 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jason, Thanks for asking. I'll start a new topic on Consciousness hopefully sometime today as it is clearly an important topic on its own

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-31 Thread Edgar L. Owen
20 Questions game? On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jason, Not quite. The CONTENTS of conscious are the results of computations. The FACT of consciousness itself, that the computations are conscious, is due to the self-manifesting nature

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-31 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, Because it's not the computations themselves, but the fact they occur in the Present Time locus of reality that makes them real that is relevant... Edgar On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 1:01:43 PM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga

Re: The background to Edgar's book

2013-12-31 Thread Edgar L. Owen
. The only way they can confirm their clock times are different is by comparing them in the same Present time moment. Edgar On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 12:42:33 PM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jason, As I've

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-31 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Resch jason...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jason, Because it's not the computations themselves, but the fact they occur in the Present Time locus of reality that makes them real that is relevant... So your

Re: A Theory of Consciousness

2013-12-31 Thread Edgar L. Owen
contents. This is quite clear to anyone who has experienced it Edgar On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 4:25:25 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 1 January 2014 04:09, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote: All, I'll present a brief overview of my theory of consciousness from my book

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-30 Thread Edgar L. Owen
PM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: All, All, Once we accept the obvious observable fact that we share a common present moment when we are together we need to take the next step and establish that we also share

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-30 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Stephen, Jason, Liz, The answer is very simple when one understands there are two kinds of time. Present moment P-time is the processor cycle of the computations, and the computations compute clock time. The computations MUST take place in time of some sort to compute anything. The fact that

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-30 Thread Edgar L. Owen
13:02, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote: Pierz, Liz and Frequent Flyer, Jeez, you guys, this seems to be becoming a matter of sacred religious dogma to you and someone who doesn't agree deserves to burned at the stake! Lighten up guys and take a deep breath, they're just

The Nature of Truth

2013-12-30 Thread Edgar L. Owen
All, In response to the discussion of the possibility of a Final Theory I'm starting a new topic on the Nature of Truth since this is an important and separate issue from previous discussions. 1, it is impossible to directly know the external fundamental reality, we know external reality

Re: The background to Edgar's book

2013-12-30 Thread Edgar L. Owen
John, and Liz, Yes John is correct here. Without a current academic affiliation it's well nigh impossible to be accepted for publication in a peer reviewed journal... Sad but true... Edgar On Monday, December 30, 2013 4:38:40 PM UTC-5, JohnM wrote: Dear Liz, as a former ed-in-chief of a

Re: The background to Edgar's book

2013-12-30 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, You claim my theory of time is Newtonian but that just demonstrates your complete lack of understanding of the theory... Edgar On Monday, December 30, 2013 5:02:06 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 31 December 2013 10:38, John Mikes jam...@gmail.com javascript:wrote: Dear Liz, as a former

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-29 Thread Edgar L. Owen
the rotation of the Earth), then can you describe what the experiment would be that shows the two observers to be in the same present moment? Jesse On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Pierz, The common universal present moment is defined

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