Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-04-30 Thread George Kahrimanis
large number of electrons). So the gravitational measurements will produce something like an X-ray picture of a wavefunction, without destroying it. I find this queer, but here I quit for the night, waiting for any other opinions on this issue. George K. -- You received this message because you are su

Re: aiming to complete Everett's derivation of the Born Rule

2022-04-29 Thread George Kahrimanis
mily); you seem to take it for granted that one should be a team player -- then we are not on opposite sides. The opposite side is hedonism or maximisation of expected utility (for each single case). George K. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups &quo

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-04-28 Thread George Kahrimanis
are probabilistic." > We also need some additional assumption, For Gleason, it was "non-contextuality of measurements". I have seen others. I think that it is enough to assume "equal measures imply equal probabilities", but I do not remember seeing this claim befor

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-04-28 Thread George Kahrimanis
's axioms or their > logical equivalent. The information interpretation is QBism. > Formal properties are not enough to explain probabilities as a guide to life. George K. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" gro

Re: Everett and probability

2022-04-27 Thread George Kahrimanis
re well grounded on the errors in the construction of the box. (If, instead of errors of construction, you prefer to deal with errors of measurement, we shall be mired by the controversy in the foundation of statistics. Therefore I suggest that we just consider construction.) George K. -- You

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-04-27 Thread George Kahrimanis
nsist on this opinion, it should be discussed in a separate conversation -- appealing to your "logical and mathematical skills", as you say. George K. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe fro

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-04-27 Thread George Kahrimanis
s, I have expressed objection to the first assumption, but this is only because some work is needed in order to combine "there are no probabilities" with "there are probabilities in some sense", else one is vague to the point of being ridiculous. One needs to specify "

Re: aiming to complete Everett's derivation of the Born Rule

2022-04-25 Thread George Kahrimanis
a double-slit interference experiment: Caroll's idea implies that field (outside the box) would be as if generated by the electron-as wave, without decoherence. I suggest that we look at the consequences of this conclusion, to assess the plausibility of the idea. George K. -- You re

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-04-22 Thread George Kahrimanis
swallow the pill of no-probability for single outcomes, and build a decision theory on that. (Yes, we can!) >From QM we obtain only the Born Rule for large enough samples. George K. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" g

Re: aiming to complete Everett's derivation of the Born Rule

2022-04-22 Thread George Kahrimanis
On Friday, April 22, 2022 at 2:13:43 PM UTC+3 johnk...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 6:04 PM George Kahrimanis > wrote: > > >> > Strictly speaking, zero information implies "undefined probability", > > > Sure, but[...] > Sorry, but if

Re: aiming to complete Everett's derivation of the Born Rule

2022-04-22 Thread George Kahrimanis
On Friday, April 22, 2022 at 1:33:46 AM UTC+3 meeke...@gmail.com wrote: > On 4/21/2022 3:03 PM, George Kahrimanis wrote: > > [...] Strictly speaking, zero information implies "undefined probability", > or "imprecise probability between 0 and 1". The reason it is

Re: aiming to complete Everett's derivation of the Born Rule

2022-04-21 Thread George Kahrimanis
o trigger an instinctive impulse. But for a RATIONAL decision theory this probability is not granted, IMO. I can give examples of a decision theory w/o probability, but they would dilute the focus of this message. George K. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-04-21 Thread George Kahrimanis
On Thursday, April 21, 2022 at 3:54:04 AM UTC+3 Bruce wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 10:05 AM George Kahrimanis > wrote: > >> -2- The "box" (in which Scroedinger's cat is enclosed, with the lethal >> apparatus) contains also its "environment&

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-04-20 Thread George Kahrimanis
ee the difference between non-local HV theories, which violate relativity, and MWI, which does not. I am writing in a hurry, because these days are hectic. I may have missed some important postings, sorry. I would welcome any hints (with the name and time of posting) sent to my G-mailbox:

Re: aiming to complete Everett's derivation of the Born Rule

2022-04-18 Thread George Kahrimanis
not a silly question, because it has relevance to decision theory (in particular, on whether Maximisation of Expected Utility is a rationally justified method). George K. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To u

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-04-17 Thread George Kahrimanis
of reference), if you prefer. I hope that these inadequacies in my exposition will not prevent you from focusing on the "Conclusion" about the locality of splits! George K. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List"

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-04-16 Thread George Kahrimanis
saying the opposite in my previous posting. First, a clarification. On Saturday, April 16, 2022 at 5:48:25 AM UTC+3 meeke...@gmail.com wrote: > "In George's description" means George knows...what? Does he know the > setting of Alice's polarizer? Does he know that

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-04-15 Thread George Kahrimanis
t;wavefunction") of a superobserver, George, who only knows that, first Alice then Bob, measure entangled spins on two pre-set axes, without him knowing the outcomes. Instead of the superobserver, you may think of an impersonal quantum description of the whole system, but I wonder what does it

Re: aiming to complete Everett's derivation of the Born Rule

2022-04-14 Thread George Kahrimanis
worth discussing, if and when they mature. George K. -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. T

Re: aiming to complete Everett's derivation of the Born Rule

2022-04-13 Thread George Kahrimanis
s > questions, but only part way. > I guess you refer to the theoretical possibility of the environment occasionally failing to "decohere" the state. Here is one of the approximations that are required in the translation from objective, deterministic QM (without collapse) to the ap

Re: aiming to complete Everett's derivation of the Born Rule

2022-04-12 Thread George Kahrimanis
it to be (in the particular application). Some people may think "po-tah-toes, pot-eight-os", but at some level of thinking *this* is the crucial issue. In particular, a serious consequence for decision theory results from failing to find any rationale for probability proper! George K. -

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-04-12 Thread George Kahrimanis
> point I am trying to get across. > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 3:07 AM George Kahrimanis wrote: > >> A realistic version of the scenario with Bob and Alice [...] >> >> There have always been worries about detection inefficiencies and errors > in the tests of

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-04-12 Thread George Kahrimanis
ess we still have a record indicating that, temporarily, an entanglement had been in effect! I remember David Deutsch showing this in a lecture, in 1985. George K. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe fro

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-04-10 Thread George Kahrimanis
ble imprecision, in the polarisers not being perfectly parallel, and in the possibility of a transcription error in the recording and of the records themselves. So, such branches will not be exactly unphysical, but rather of very small measure. So there are no "Bad Pairings", strictly

Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

2022-04-08 Thread George Kahrimanis
are rolled, and so the requisite randomisation is supposedly introduced, and we can speak of probability proper. Where is the randomisation in a MWI? (A rhetorical question.) So, there is no probability (strictly speaking) in a MWI. We can only identify something-like-probability; I have post

aiming to complete Everett's derivation of the Born Rule

2022-04-07 Thread George Kahrimanis
e Abstract and the first subsection of the Introduction. An argument for workability of QM leads to the Born Rule, for QM without collapse and for QM with collapse George Kahrimanis [, ...] 6 April 2022, incomplete work ABSTRACT Any interpretation of QM without collapse (a.k.a. a MWI) cruci

Re: Perpetual Motion Machines

2019-12-31 Thread George Levy
by a heat flow device designed to trigger the explosive? Would he perceive /heat quantization/ as an anthropically determined phenomenon (in analogy to the quantization of electron's orbit in our world)? George On 12/31/2019 7:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 31 Dec 2019, at 05:02

Re: Perpetual Motion Machines

2019-12-30 Thread George Levy
On 12/29/2019 4:34 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: George, Does your interpretation of Boltzmann's view on the conservation of energy invoke any observer like Boltzmann's Brain or Wigner's Friend? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%27s_friend You know, we need all

Re: Perpetual Motion Machines

2019-12-23 Thread George Levy
to a previous state /even in the presence of an arrow of time,/ thereby restoring its entropy to its original value. This version of the paradox renders moot the arrow of time assumption and bypasses the H-Theorem. The paper includes a theoretical discussion, simulation and experimental data.

Re: Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2015-11-13 Thread George Levy
Thanks Bruno On 11/11/2015 12:59 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi George, Congratulations! Best wishes for you and your amazing work. I am not convinced but that might only be due to my incompetence in the field. I will make a further look. Bruno On 10 Nov 2015, at 23:10, George Levy wrote

Re: Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2015-11-10 Thread George Levy
_Temperature_Gradient_in_Non-Maxwellian_Gases Best George -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com

Re: Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2014-12-01 Thread George
the temperature gradient(s) into low entropy energy (i.e., work) and/or low temperature matter. George On 11/30/2014 8:36 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: John, Experimental results at several high-energy colliders suggest that at some point in the big bang the universe was a quark-gluon plasma

Re: Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2014-11-29 Thread George
would not flow backward. There is a lot of literature on this topic but from the narrow point of view of a non-Maxwellian perpetual motion machine, Loschmidt was wrong with respect to the direction of time. In summary: entropy can decrease but time always flows forward. Best, George Levy

Re: Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2014-11-28 Thread George
e enlightenment. Best George Levy On 11/27/2014 6:33 PM, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Bruce Kellett mailto:bhkell...@optusnet.com.au>> wrote: >> The 2nd law is like that - unlikely things generally failing to happen - on the molecular scale,

Re: Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2014-11-26 Thread George
is built in, but can be circumvented by stepping outside of, classical physics. George Levy On 11/24/2014 12:24 PM, George wrote: The gas does not flow unidirectionally in the column as in a pipe. There is no net flow. Convection involves a cyclic, mostly vertical, movement of gas in the

Re: Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2014-11-24 Thread George
answering them may enlighten the Loschmidt paradox. George Levy On 11/23/2014 5:38 PM, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 6:28 PM, George <mailto:gl...@quantics.net>> wrote: > There is no convection current even though gas near the floor is hotter than gas near the

Re: Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2014-11-23 Thread George
ion > ground is identical to the original ** This shows that Loschmidt was wrong. A column of gas following Maxwell’s distribution cannot spontaneously develop a temperature gradient. It remains isothermal. Best George Levy On 11/23/2014 8:39 AM, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at

Re: Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2014-11-22 Thread George
t show that some of it can still be salvaged. Best George On 11/22/2014 1:09 PM, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 , meekerdb <mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote: > Loschmidt's idea was that an isolated column of gas in a gravitational field would develop a tempe

Re: Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2014-11-21 Thread George
My problem is to justify using the exponential distribution, obviously without having to invoke the Second Law which is being challenged. On 11/21/2014 11:19 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 11/20/2014 9:07 PM, George wrote: Brent you are right. Maxwell distribution is not exponential with energy. For t

Re: Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2014-11-20 Thread George
is whether Maxwell distribution is exponential with _elevation_. If it is then Loschmidt falls on Maxwellian gases. If it is not, then Loschmidt is completely vindicated for any kind of gas. I need to think about this. Any idea? George On 11/20/2014 6:41 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 11/20/2014 6

Re: Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2014-11-20 Thread George
zero . The distribution decays exponentially with higher energies. George On 11/20/2014 6:13 PM, meekerdb wrote: If it were the momentum or velocity the mean would be zero, but it wouldn't be exponential. If you just considered the speed (absolute magnitude of velocity) in a particular

Re: Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2014-11-20 Thread George
p in temperature. *Figure. 12.* Renormalized Fermi-Dirac distributions at ground level (red/thick) and at elevation (blue/thin) are different. Elevation lowers energy and temperature of gas. Please look on the right of the pictures for the temperatures at the ceiling and at the floor. George

Quantum Mechanics Violation of the Second Law

2014-11-19 Thread George
6.pdf>. This paper discusses derivation of 2^nd Law from QM. I welcome any comment or criticism that you may have. George Levy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receivi

The Yes-Doctor Experiment for real

2013-12-10 Thread George
leases/2013/12/131209152259.htm> George Levy -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post t

Re: Algorithmic Thermodynamics

2013-01-22 Thread George
log to the kinetic energy of the gas molecules?) George Levy On 1/17/2013 6:48 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/17/2013 7:10 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: I particularly liked this statement by Baez which relates to Feynman renomalization for QED and Crammer's Transactioanal Analysis: "Ma

Re: Kabbalah and the Multiverse

2010-06-19 Thread George Levy
Hi John Thanks for your appreciation. John Mikes wrote: Dear George, I was missing more of your contributions on this list lately (years?). Let me reflect to a few of your topics: *Chaos.* A decade or so ago I was named 'resident chaotician' on another list - later changed my m

Re: Kabbalah and the Multiverse

2010-06-19 Thread George Levy
within our lifetime. George -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@google

Re: Kabbalah and the Multiverse

2010-06-17 Thread George Levy
logical physical laws). Consciousness and the world mirror each other and therefore, they are in their own image. There can be many different consciousnesses, each one being in fact a whole world. Best Regards George Rabbi Rabbit wrote: Dear Jason, My assumption is that the Name of God,

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-09 Thread George Levy
have to define the operations +, - x / with specific exceptions for overflow. The concept of BIGGEST needs to be tied with _the kind of operations you want to apply to_ the numbers. George Brent Meeker wrote: > Quentin Anciaux wrote: > >> You have to explain why the exception is n

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-05-18 Thread George Levy
esolve these arguments you need to include the creator of the look up table in the argument. (Inclusion can be across widely different time periods and spacial location) George --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the G

Re: Changing the past by forgetting

2009-03-15 Thread George Levy
elf is the same as resetting the universe. No more problem or paradox associated with forgetting! George A. Wolf wrote: >> Thanks! This is like undoing historical events. If you forget about the >> fact that dinosaurs ever lived on Earth and there is an alternative >> history &

Re: Changing the past by forgetting

2009-03-15 Thread George Levy
elf is the same as resetting the universe. No more problem or paradox associated with forgetting! George A. Wolf wrote: >> Thanks! This is like undoing historical events. If you forget about the >> fact that dinosaurs ever lived on Earth and there is an alternative >> history &

Re: language, cloning and thought experiments

2009-03-10 Thread George Levy
f-observer. The sum is no sum at all: U = M_o Q_o where o = you as observer. George Wei Dai wrote: > Jack Mallah wrote: > >> They might not, but I'm sure most would; maybe not exactly that U, but a >> lot closer to it. >> > > Can you explain why you

Re: Measure Increases or Decreases? - Was adult vs. child

2009-02-11 Thread George Levy
Jack Mallah wrote: > Hi George. The everything list feels just like old times, no? Which is nice > in a way but has a big drawback - I can only take so much of arguing the same > old things, and being outnumbered. And that limit is approaching fast again. > At least I think you

Measure Increases or Decreases? - Was adult vs. child

2009-02-11 Thread George Levy
of this problem.Your paper really did not illuminate the issue in a satisfactory manner. George Jack Mallah wrote: > --- On Sun, 2/8/09, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > >>> Suppose you differentiate into N states, then on >>> >> average each has 1/N of y

Re: Probability

2008-11-06 Thread George Levy
= 0.23. So according to B P{X} = 0.77. A does not see any of the crashes. So: P{X} as seen by A = 1.0 This last example illustrates how three different observers can see three different probabilities. George Levy --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message bec

Re: RE : Re: Discussion of the MUH

2008-03-08 Thread George Levy
to be a kind of logic adapted to deal with the MUH. I don't know enough to say if there is such a logic. George Brian Tenneson wrote: >> We get Tegmark on this list occasionally. He, like you, needs to >> acquaint himself more with the core concepts of THIS discussion. >&g

Re: dark energy

2008-01-19 Thread George Levy
Hal Ok, there is no feeling but there is motivation. There is no feeling of motivation and there is motivation without feeling. This is totally alien or the English language is broken. George Hal Ruhl wrote: > Hi George: > > I see no "feeling" of anything in a Something.

Re: dark energy

2008-01-17 Thread George Levy
Hal, Allright. You are saying that incompleteness is the (only) motivator of the members. In other words the members feel motivated by incompleteness. They do have the feeling of being incomplete that motivates their behavior. Is this correct? George Hal Ruhl wrote: >Hi George: > >

Re: dark energy

2008-01-16 Thread George Levy
Hal Ruhl wrote: > > This is an automatic process like a mass has to answer to the forces > [meaningful questions] applied to it. What in the psyche of the mass makes it answer to the forces? George --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message be

Re: dark energy

2008-01-16 Thread George Levy
Something. which denies spirit, and on the third hand: the quest is an ... system induced need for a ongoing influx of information in which the term "need" goes back to supporting a spirit-based system. George Hal Ruhl wrote: >Hi George: > >I use the term "quest

Re: dark energy

2008-01-16 Thread George Levy
y minimization" to explain how a reaction is driven in one particular direction. In chemistry, for example, "Le Chatelier Principle" is used. George Hal Ruhl wrote: >I have touched on this subject before but the following is my current >view of "Dark Energy" > >

Re: Are First Person prime?

2007-11-26 Thread George Levy
nce of M in accordance with A, then if M has access to M, it also has access to q. (This is a form of Anthropic principle) I am not sure if this is leading anywhere, but it's fun playing with it. Maybe a computer program could be written to express these staqtements. George Bruno Marchal wrote

Re: Are First Person prime?

2007-11-24 Thread George Levy
e multiple uses of M refers to the same machine. I guess there may be cases where multiple machines can have access to the dame data. Same with statement 4 George Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 22-nov.-07, à 20:50, George Levy a écrit : Hi Bruno, I am reopening an old

Re: Are First Person prime?

2007-11-22 Thread George Levy
One more question: can or should p be the observer? George George Levy wrote: > Hi Bruno, > > I am reopening an old thread ( more than a year old) which I found > very intriguing. It leads to some startling conclusions. > > Le 05-août-06, à 02:07, George Levy a écrit : > &g

Re: Are First Person prime?

2007-11-22 Thread George Levy
Hi Bruno, I am reopening an old thread ( more than a year old) which I found very intriguing. It leads to some startling conclusions. Le 05-août-06, à 02:07, George Levy a écrit : Bruno Marchal wrote:I think that if you want to make the first person primitive, given that neither you nor

Theory of Everything based on E8 by Garrett Lisi

2007-11-21 Thread George Levy
m/channel/fundamentals/dn12891-is-mathematical-pattern-the-theory-of-everything.html> The Wiki entry <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E8_%28mathematics%29> on E8 is also interesting. George --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscr

Re: OM measure and universe size

2007-11-05 Thread George Levy
Sorry the nice equation formats did not make it past the server. Anyone interested in the equations can find them at the associated wiki links. George Russell Standish wrote: >On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 12:20:35PM -0700, George Levy wrote: > > >>Russel, >> >>W

Re: OM measure and universe size

2007-11-02 Thread George Levy
derations) Now I have trouble relating these facts to your equation H = C + S or maybe to the differential version dH = dC + dS. What do you  think? Can we push this further? George Russell Standish wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 05:11:01PM -0700, George Levy wrote: Could we relate the

Re: What are the consequences of UD+ASSA?

2007-10-31 Thread George Levy
cosmological principle for measure: that measure is independent of when or where the observer makes an observation. However, I thought that tying cosmic expansion to measure may be an interesting avenue of inquiry. George Levy Rolf Nelson wrote: >(Warning: This post assumes an familiarity w

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2007-10-08 Thread George Levy
Sorry Bruno, no disrespect, I meant to type "Hi Bruno". George George Levy wrote: > Ho Bruno > > Sorry, I have been unclear with myself and with you. I have been > lumping together the assumption of an "objective physical world" and > an "objective

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2007-10-08 Thread George Levy
of reference and a common platonic frame of reference respectively. A common platonic frame of reference implies that there are other platonic frames of references.This is unthinkable... literally. Maybe I have painted myself into a corner Yet maybe not... No one in this Universe can say..

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2007-10-07 Thread George Levy
Bruno Marchal wrote: > I think that Maudlin refers to the conjunction of the comp hyp and > supervenience, where consciousness is supposed to be linked (most of > the time in a sort of "real-time" way) to the *computational activity* > of the brain, and not to the history of any of the state o

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2007-10-03 Thread George Levy
Oops: replace Newton's demon by Maxwell's demon. George George Levy wrote: > Hi Bruno, > Yes I am still on the list, barely trying to keep up, but I have been > very busy. Actually the ball was in my court and I was supposed to > answer to your last post to me about a ye

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2007-10-02 Thread George Levy
ciousness. (Mind over matter instead of matter over mind), so I would very much like to see an argument that could prove it, but in my opinion Maudlin's does not cut it. More comments below. Bruno Marchal wrote: >Hi George, > >Are you still there on the list? >I am really s

Re: Justifying the Theory of Everything

2007-06-30 Thread George Levy
applied to the cosmic scale. This would correspond to the "I" being equally "at home" in multiple different worlds or equivalently that multiple worlds would be in a superposition with respect to the "I." George Jason wrote: >I have seen two main justifications on

Re: Hypostases (was: Natural Order & Belief)

2006-12-09 Thread George Levy
een possible for God to limit >the capacity >for suffering, favouring pleasure rather than avoidance of pain as a >motivating factor. > A sado-masochistic world would do the trick, wouldn't it? George :-) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this me

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2006-10-10 Thread George Levy
Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 09-oct.-06, à 21:54, George Levy a écrit : To observe a split consciousness, you need an observer who is also split, ? This is simple. The time/space/substrate/level of the observer must match the time/space/substrate/level of what he observes

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2006-10-09 Thread George Levy
David Nyman wrote: On Oct 9, 8:54 pm, George Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To observe a split consciousness, you need an observer who is also split, in sync with the split consciousness, across time, space, substrate and level (a la Zelazny - Science Fiction writer). I

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2006-10-09 Thread George Levy
Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 08-oct.-06, à 08:00, George Levy a écrit : Bruno, Finally I read your filmed graph argument which I have stored in my computer. (The original at the Iridia web site http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/bxlthesis/Volume3CC/3%20%202%20.pdf is not accessible

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2006-10-07 Thread George Levy
consciousness does not supervene the physical. The example is just an instance of consciousness operating across two different time intervals by mean of a physical substrate and a physical means (recording) of connecting these two time intervals. George

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2006-10-04 Thread George Levy
: Consistent logical links operating in a bootstrapping reflexive emergent manner. Bruno is right in applying math/logic to solve the consciousness/physical world (Mind/Body) riddle. Physics can be derived from machine psychology. George Russell Standish wrote: If I can sumarise George&#x

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2006-10-04 Thread George Levy
Oops. Read: IF (Input = 27098217872180483080234850309823740127) George George Levy wrote: Bruno, Stathis, Thank you Stathis for the summary. I do have the paper now and I will read it carefully. Based on Sathis summary I still believe that Maudlin is fallacious. A computer program

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2006-10-04 Thread George Levy
rocess. To understand the insertion of Maudlin into the consciousness of The Conscious_Subroutine, you must agree that this consciousness is independent of time, space, substrate and level. This Maybe is the Moral of Maudlin's Machinations...? George Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 03-o

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2006-10-03 Thread George Levy
from convincing. George Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 03-oct.-06, à 06:56, George Levy a écrit : Bruno Marchal wrote in explaining Maudlin's argument: "For any given precise running computation associated to some inner experience, you can modify the device in such

Maudlin's argument

2006-10-02 Thread George Levy
patible. I think the paradox can be resolved by tracing how information flows and Maudlin is certainly in the circuit, using information, just like Maxwell's demon is affecting entropy. George --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscrib

Re: Solipsism unplugged

2006-09-20 Thread George Levy
also exist (the Plenitude). Hence he is not alone. Solipsism is dead. George Colin Hales wrote: This is an extract from the full work on solipsism. It is one special section written in the first person, for what else could a solipsist scientist do? I'd be interested in any comments.

It's a mad mad mad world (was computationalism and supervenience)]

2006-08-21 Thread George Levy
leaving unanswered the really big quest based on human psychology. George Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 21-août-06, à 07:11, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : It seems to me that there are two main sticking points in the discussions on several list threads in recent weeks. One is computati

It's a mad mad mad world (was computationalism and supervenience)

2006-08-21 Thread George Levy
If you're not sure that you are sane, then you must be crazy to say "Yes Doctor.".. ...yet a man could say it but not a "sane" machine. Bruno's quest based on machine psychology runs the risk of leaving unanswered the really big quest base

Re: I think, was "Difficulties in communication. . ."

2006-08-15 Thread George Levy
Hi John, I may have picked up the humor from some high school hungarian friends in Montreal 1957-1960 just after the hungarian revolution. There were amongst them some of the most dry-witted people I have ever met. George John M wrote: George: I enjoyed your wits, in Hungarian we call

Re: I think, was "Difficulties in communication. . ."

2006-08-15 Thread George Levy
Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 13-août-06, à 23:48, George Levy a écrit : "I think" also implies the concept of sanity. Unless you assume the first step "I think" and that you are sane, you can't take any rational and conscious second step and have any ratio

Re: I think, was "Difficulties in communication. . ."

2006-08-13 Thread George Levy
Brent Meeker wrote: George Levy wrote: Brent Meeker wrote: George Levy wrote: Brent Meeker wrote: That brings us back to Descartes "I think therefore I am"; which Russell pointed out was an u

Re: I think, was "Difficulties in communication. . ."

2006-08-13 Thread George Levy
Brent Meeker wrote: George Levy wrote: Brent Meeker wrote: That brings us back to Descartes "I think therefore I am"; which Russell pointed out was an unsupported inference. IMHO everything hinges on "I think." "I th

I think, was "Difficulties in communication. . ."

2006-08-13 Thread George Levy
ion. Possibly different logico/mathematical processes may result in different qualities of consciousness i.e., any given modality for a thought process results in a different modality of consciousness. i.e. "I think *what* I think".. George --~--~-~--~~~--

Re: Are First Person prime? - time

2006-08-10 Thread George Levy
ork are in fact emergent according to the Anthropic principle. The logical links (or consistencies) exist because you are there to observe them. Just as a Rorschach test . You are making the links as you go along. George --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this messa

Re: Are First Person prime?

2006-08-09 Thread George Levy
David Nyman wrote: George Levy wrote: Not at all. A bidirectional contingency is superfluous. The only relevent contingency is: If the observed event will result in different probabilities of survival for myself and for others observing me, then our perceptions will be different

Re: Are First Person prime?

2006-08-09 Thread George Levy
. Perhaps each post, especially the long ones, should be preceded by an abstract. ;-)  Could you point me in the right direction? George --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List"

Re: Are First Person prime?

2006-08-08 Thread George Levy
David Nyman wrote: George Levy wrote: Thus first person perception of the world comes about when our own existence is contingent on our observation. Hi George I think I agree with this. It could correspond with what I'm trying to model in terms of FP1 etc. Perha

Re: Are First Person prime?

2006-08-08 Thread George Levy
pholding those physical laws supporting life. According to this hypothesis our primary perception of the world is first person. Thus first person perception of the world comes about when our own existence is contingent on our observation. Third person perce

Re: Are First Person prime?

2006-08-07 Thread George Levy
1Z wrote: George Levy wrote: A conscious entity is also information. I am assuming here that a conscious entity is essentially "software." George --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscri

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