On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 02:19:49AM +0200, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 1:50 AM, Russell Standish
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> > I would say that COMP predicts we must be at the base level, and not
> > in a virtual reality, by virtue of t
On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 09:19:54PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote:
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> On 01 Jun 2014, at 01:53, Russell Standish wrote:
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> >On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 01:40:58PM -0700, meekerdb wrote:
> >>On 5/30/2014 11:45 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
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> >>>Y
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 01:40:58PM -0700, meekerdb wrote:
> On 5/30/2014 11:45 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
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> >Yet it seems to me that CantGoTu environments and other non-virtual
> >reality environments have measure one in the space of environments
> >hoste
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 10:07:00AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote:
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> On 31 May 2014, at 08:45, Russell Standish wrote:
> >I gather you think it might be possible to distinguish between being
> >in a virtual reality, and being in the real reality.
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> >David Deuts
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 06:17:40PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote:
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> On 30 May 2014, at 02:53, Russell Standish wrote:
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> >On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 08:15:30PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote:
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> >>On 28 May 2014, at 03:24, LizR wrote:
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the same estimate as we do? If so
> that would indicate to me that the passage of time is the same everywhere in
> our Universe.
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Sounds suspiciously like another Edgar. But Edgar accepted special relativity...
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is disturbing, as it would appear remove the
possibility of falsification of COMP.
But before we go that far, why would COMP predict a different sort of
physics for "dreaming" or "second order reality"?
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Very punny - or maybe I should say hammy!
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e size of the
solution space using Terrestrial DNA (4 base pairs, around a billion
base pairs makes up human DNA).
For comparison, the number of protons in the visible universe is a
mere 4^132 or so.
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tton for that stuff I don't want to read :).
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Noether's theorem regarding
conservation of energy.
There is also a nice derivation of why i hbar d/dx is the momentum
operator in QM, so its not all about classical physics either. I refer
to that result specifically in ToN.
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definitely be a more productive
use of time than the Tronnies book :), and as a plus it is quite an
easy read.
Mind you, I doubt he'll send you a free copy :).
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computable.
I raise you:
Chang et al., (1994) "The Random Oracle Hypothesis is False",
J. Computer and Systems Science, 49, pp24-39
and
Leeuw et al., (1956) "Computation by probabilistic machines", in
Automata Studies, Shannon (ed), (Princeton UP). pp183-212.
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the equation
t=2r/c sin (pi r/ct)
and attractive forces given by the infinite number of solutions to
t=2r/c sin (0.5pi + pi r/ct)
Is that the general idea?
Is your claim that these exactly cancel out?
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tronnie which
> keeps the two tronnies circling.
>
Then you are no longer talking about Coulomb's law. With Coulomb's
law, opposite charges always attract, no matter the distance between
them.
What do you mean by "Coulomb force", then?
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ugal"
force?
Of course you have still to explain how your tronnie pair avoids the
ultraviolet catastrophe.
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27;t think COMP is incompatible with nonrobust universes, however,
otherwise step 8 (the MGA) becomes completely unnecessary.
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On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 07:01:01PM -0700, Craig Weinberg wrote:
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> On Sunday, May 18, 2014 9:34:40 PM UTC-4, Russell Standish wrote:
> > This doesn't follow. An evolutionary algorithm with a real random
> > source, can potentially stumble upon any solution, not j
e
is sufficiently high.
In COMP, the universal dovetailer provides plenty of real randomness
from the subjective point of view, that can be harnessed. Perhaps
that's exactly what Andrew Wiles did. (In fact, I really rather think
he did - my proofs, which are not so grand as Andrew's, usu
d entirely
> within the pre-existing realm of the incumbent hard won knowledge already
> in place. This is the first layer of separation. The theory from the
> prediction, the prediction in terms of the incumbent theory of the world.
>
Yes - this makes sense.
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On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 07:18:39PM -0700, meekerdb wrote:
> On 5/16/2014 5:17 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
> >On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 11:02:35AM -0700, meekerdb wrote:
> >>On 5/16/2014 12:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
> >>>>It turns out the carbon atoms in the
es has been replaced over the course of our
lifetimes. Well, it just aint so. The situation is far more
subtle. It's an open question as to whether the atoms that are
preserved during a lifetime are important for an individual's
identity, to be sure, but you can't just dismi
t our brains are dramatically rewired
when we're about 2. We're not the same people as when we're infants.
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o replace the brain structure as well in order to effectively
transfer the memories.
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ined by anaesthetisation experiments,
values quoted here are indicative.
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all possible experiences, only the
> experiences that actually arise during the course of history
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> On Thursday, May 15, 2014, Russell Standish wrote:
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> > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 09:05:15PM -0700, Dennis Ochei wrote:
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> > > Under Daniel
how to work out
how far away the other person's experience is from you?
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followed the link, read the first few panels, then scrolled sideways to
> read the next panels, and so on to the end.
>
Ahh - the joys of javascript. I didn't think to expand my browser
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be workable.
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ate ranges from your model.
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mic nuclei and
atoms are all perpetual motion machines.
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> John R.
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ctron in specific configurations to exactly balance the
> Coulomb attractive and repulsive forces in nuclei.
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e, which is what you're trying to deny.
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ISTM it is impossible, in general to know that one is experiencing the
real world, as opposed to some simulation, just as it is impossible in
general to know one is experiencing reality rather than some
incredibly sopisticated and lucid dream.
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cryptographically strong pseudo random generator, and the brain would not
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hite rabbits" are
indistinguishable from a little bit of noise around our normal stable
observation. Only a vanishing few a truly extraordinary - white
rabbits with waistcoats and pocket watches, or fire breathing dragons,
and we're extremely unlikely to see these.
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like to see how it can explain a phenomenon that walks and quacks like
a nearly massless neutral particle. I can't see how you can do it
without chucking out conservation of energy and momentum laws, at a
very minimum.
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> Subject: Re: TRONNIES
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> I agree with your comments below,
osed of three tronnies, or three entrons (in which case
they're composed of six tronnies).
Hopefully this is a typo. Maybe John Ross will elaborate.
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Clark's
post), momentum conservation, lepton and baryon number
conservation. We haven't heard a satisfactory response from you to any
of these problems. And we haven't even started applying things like
CPT symmetry.
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t; sounds like an oxymoron, except that you've
never really explained what they are. If they are actually neutrinos,
then you've got the mass completely wrong, amongst other
things. There's quite good evidence that the neutrino's rest mass is
less than 40 KeV.
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protons would decay very quickly, and we wouldn't be around to have
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mber is balanced by a
corresponding neutrino, of course...
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m deficit in the pair of
photons that are observed.
Exactly that effect lead to the experimental discovery of the neutrino
in the first place.
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age aux Folles ("Birdcage", IIRC) was
rubbish compared with the French original).
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to ships in the feminine, even today.
I have no knowledge of Arabic, but could it be that ants are feminine
in Arabic?
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re-dating Adam, thereby showing that evolution is not opposed to
> creationism, rather it is one of the methods of creation:
> http://can-you-answer.com/scripts/miscArticles.asp?artno=92
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> Samiya
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picture with a dynamic einselectionist picture.
Cue the obvious response from John Clark that "free will is meaningless
noise", and so consequently is decision theory :).
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 07:48:28AM -0700, ghib...@gmail.com wrote:
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> On Monday, April 14, 2014 2:54:25 AM UTC+1, Russell Standish wrote:
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> > Do you have evidence that "conservatives have been pushed and kept out
> > (of academia)"?
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al Apple computer being conceived whilst Jobs was
stoned - any evidence?
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the logistic equation
dx/dt = rx(1-x/K)
where r is the reproductive rate (net of births & deaths) and K is the
environmental carrying capacity.
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u have evidence that "conservatives have been pushed and kept out
(of academia)"?
Whilst it is true that people who's views lie outside the current
paradigm might be pushed out, I'd be very surprised if that aligned
along the conservative-progressive political axis - excep
. Society's role is
to eliminate barriers to making that choice, and providing services to
make abortions medically safe for those who choose to proceed along
that path. No more backyard abortions, thank you!
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truth of that statement requires that you also
> believe scientists are more likely to believe what is false than its
> contrary.
>
> Brent
>
Cue the Bayesian and Popperian armies for a bloody clash. Where's
Elliot when you need some fun!
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On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 10:18:12PM -0700, meekerdb wrote:
> On 4/8/2014 8:45 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
> >On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 06:05:44PM -0700, meekerdb wrote:
> >>>Then why claim that there is an external ontological reality at all,
> >>>if all you'
d reality is constrained by one's act of observation, then
any other observed putative observers must report observations of a
reality constrained in the same way. Hence intersubjective
consistency.
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except unanswerable questions.
To be fair, I don't think you do this Brent, but some people do:
Edgar, Colin Hales and David Deutsch, to name a few.
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mewhere in between, but I suspect that ultimately
he might end up studying law though, as he;d have an easier job of it.
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a BSc (hons) could
probably manage, as the science itself is classical.
Sadly, there are very few politicians with that sort of training though.
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coincidence". Not statistically
significant. YMMV :). Also, presumably by chance, some people's rate
of precognitive dreams would be much higher, just like some people
are more "accident prone" than others.
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; context. (If I understand correctly, committing in a version control system
> is booking in your changes so they are accessible to others...?)
>
>
> On 30 March 2014 13:30, Russell Standish wrote:
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> > On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 12:46:48PM +1300, LizR wrote:
> > > O
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 12:46:48PM +1300, LizR wrote:
> On 28 March 2014 20:03, Russell Standish wrote:
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> > I used to get everything to the commit stage, then go home.
> >
> Typical guy :-)
>
I don't know about the "guy" bit, but certainly typical for
he previous stuff the following day.
I much preferred the situation where I could bribe my colleagues with a
few glasses of wine if I needed to. Also, I have done my share of
remote login to check and fix builds after hours, but that's not
always feasible when you've got
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:31:25AM +1300, LizR wrote:
> On 27 March 2014 11:30, Russell Standish wrote:
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> > infinitely big in either space or time ... - yes, well why not? We
> > consider Turing machines that can run for ever with a potentially
> > infinite
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 08:30:41AM +1100, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
> On Thursday, March 27, 2014, Russell Standish wrote:
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> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 05:06:46PM +1100, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
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> > > The engineering tolerance of the brain must be finit
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>From your Amazon store near you.
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way, historically.
That still leaves your FPI contribution as original in the
computationalist setting, as Everett is not explicitly
computationalist. But for Max's purposes, he assumes the Hilbert space
is fundamental, so only needs Everett.
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on't dominate slow and
deliberate ones.
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alises to unequal probabilities - which was the thrust of that
paper we discussed here a couple of years ago - in generating the Born
rule from counting arguments.
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urch Thesis as one does with the UDA.
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universe's expansion is accelerating due
to dark energy. This would entail that free energy will forever be
created faster than the dissipative processes can consume it.
Again, consider this to all be revised again in our lifetimes.
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the same thing) are not currently
keeping up with the increase in maximum entropy caused by an expanding
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and utterly mystifying. But with the latter picture,
which I got through studying Misner, Thorne and Wheeler's excellent
tome, it comes alive, and makes intuitive sense.
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:10:45AM +1300, LizR wrote:
> > (Do everyone see a lozenge here: ◊ ?)
>
> Yes I do!
>
Not me (alas). Although it is visible when typing my response.
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On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 07:03:30PM +1300, LizR wrote:
> On 10 March 2014 17:39, Russell Standish wrote:
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> > If I ask you to measure the value of alpha to 5 significant places,
> > and I was to measure the same thing, then we can compare
> > notes. Intrasubjec
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 04:55:27PM +1300, LizR wrote:
> On 10 March 2014 16:50, Russell Standish wrote:
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> > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 01:09:43PM +1300, LizR wrote:
> > > On 10 March 2014 12:38, Russell Standish wrote:
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> > > >
> >
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 01:09:43PM +1300, LizR wrote:
> On 10 March 2014 12:38, Russell Standish wrote:
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> >
> > But my point remains, at this point in time, intrasubjective consistency is
> > not sufficient to demonstrate the existence of an external reality
> >
ime, intrasubjective consistency is
not sufficient to demonstrate the existence of an external reality
independent of the process of observation, contra Edgar's claim.
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sitions of the planets, it is certainly possible.
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stency necessarily implies the existence of some external
ontological reality.
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t;similar thing" is a mere reflection of the observers observing.
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ith each other because we (as observers) are
more less similar to each other?
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On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 03:41:51PM -0800, meekerdb wrote:
> On 3/6/2014 3:35 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
> >On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 04:48:37PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote:
> >>
> >>For example, a brain cannot think. Brain activity cannot think, a
> >>compute
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 03:05:42PM -0800, meekerdb wrote:
> On 3/6/2014 2:58 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
> >My only comment is that I don't think X's hostility towards Bruno
> >started when he mentioned the question "Goedel?" in class. That, in
> >itself,
ceivable". That was why
he wrote another thesis, which was accepted at Lille, and for which
the prize was awarded. It is speculation that he had anything to do
with the mysterious retraction be Le Monde, but no other hypothesis
seems to fit the facts.
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eference machine. That machine and the running of the program can be
quite abstract, of course, which is something people find hard to get,
but is perfectly fine for the concept of supervenience.
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faced). Nevertheless, that doesn't excuse X's actions, which remain
appalling by anyone's standard.
As to what actually happened with le Prix Le Monde - its possible
nobody will ever know. All we have are Bruno's suspicions.
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> On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 10:57:30 PM UTC, Russell Standish wrote:
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> > On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 02:26:50PM -0800, ghi...@gmail.com
> > wrote:
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> > > Soyou
ey don't drown in their sleep.
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be considered a thinly disguised plug for Max's book. I
don't know how these things work, exactly, but I would assume that Max
is well aware of the ideas being discussed on this list.
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you can have the
best of both worlds.
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e French equivalent is graphe circulaire.
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in spite of the environmental
objections!
>
> Environmentalist love any new energy source as long as it's just on paper
> and is never put into practice; they prefer the solution of freezing to
> death in the dark.
>
> John K Clark
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simultaneously, numbers emerge from the mind. Such would
an example of Hofstadters "strange loop".
IIRC, you (Brent) have suggested virtuous (or vicious) cycles at the base of
everything at times in the past too?
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>
Interesting questions, to be sure, but all quite irrelevant to
information theory. All an observer needs to do for information theory
is detect a difference (that makes a difference).
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ing), then how does that contradict your reversal result? It is
only a theory _about_ phenomena, not about what's ontologically real.
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