Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-21 Thread Edgar Owen
reality in important ways (e.g. infinities and infinitesimals which don't actually exist in external reality). I can explain further if anyone is interested, or you can read about it in my book... Edgar Owen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ev

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2013-12-21 Thread Edgar Owen
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Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-21 Thread Edgar Owen
to function within it. Yes, computations include logic as well as math. Best, Edgar On Friday, December 20, 2013 6:52:54 PM UTC-5, Edgar Owen wrote: > > All, > > The fundamental nature of reality is examined in detail in my recent book > on Reality available on Amazo

God or not?

2013-12-24 Thread Edgar Owen
All, The question of whether God exists is meaningless without first giving some definition of what is meant by God, of how God is defined. Otherwise everyone is talking about different things and nothing will go anywhere. If you need a God there is only one possible rational definition and tha

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-24 Thread Edgar Owen
Jason, John, and Bruno, One must distinguish here between consciousness itself (the subject of the Hard Problem), and the contents of consciousness and their structure (the subjects of the Easy Problems). The contents and their structure are most certainly computed by the minds of organisms, b

Re: Minds, Machines and Gödel

2013-12-24 Thread Edgar Owen
Liz, No, that doesn't make Reality subject to the halting problem. The halting problem is when a computer program is trying to reach some independently postulated result and may or may not be able to reach it. Reality doesn't have any problem like this. It just computes the logical results of

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-24 Thread Edgar Owen
that human math and logic are distinct from the actual math and logic that > computes reality. The human version is a generalized and extended > approximation of the actual that differs from the actual logico-mathematical > structure of reality in important ways (e.g. infinities and

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-24 Thread Edgar Owen
reality's logico-mathematical system. Edgar On Dec 22, 2013, at 6:44 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 21 Dec 2013, at 00:52, Edgar Owen wrote: > >> All, >> >> The fundamental nature of reality is examined in detail in my recent book on >> Rea

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-24 Thread Edgar Owen
t differs from the actual logico-mathematical > structure of reality in important ways (e.g. infinities and infinitesimals > which don't actually exist in external reality). > > I can explain further if anyone is interested, or you can read about it in my > book... >

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-24 Thread Edgar Owen
013, at 5:14 PM, meekerdb wrote: > On 12/20/2013 3:52 PM, Edgar Owen wrote: >> All, >> >> The fundamental nature of reality is examined in detail in my recent book on >> Reality available on Amazon under my name. >> >> Marchal is on the right track, but reality

A simple incontrovertible proof there are two kinds of time

2013-12-24 Thread Edgar Owen
All, The proof is simply the fact that the time traveling twins meet up again with different clock times, but always in the exact same present moment. This proves beyond any doubt there are two kinds of time, clock time which varies by relativistic observer, and the time of the present moment (

Re: Posting problems

2013-12-24 Thread Edgar Owen
Yes, of course it is set to that. We'll see if this gets posted Edgar On Dec 23, 2013, at 2:12 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > Hi, > I'm using gmail and it works flawlessly. Just check when replying that the > address is set to "everything-list@googlegroups.com" (it should normally > default t

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-24 Thread Edgar Owen
d extended > approximation of the actual that differs from the actual logico-mathematical > structure of reality in important ways (e.g. infinities and infinitesimals > which don't actually exist in external reality). > > I can explain further if anyone is interested, or you can read a