Re: An invisible fuzzy amoral mindless blob, aka God

2016-12-28 Thread Torgny Tholerus
On 2016-12-28 23:56, John Mikes wrote: I do not intend to participate in the discussion of this topic fpr more than one reason: 1. I am agnostic, so I just DO NOT KNOW what (who?) that "GOD" may be. *You just have to ask God what she is. Then she will answer. But it may take two years to

Re: An invisible fuzzy amoral mindless blob, aka God

2016-12-26 Thread Torgny Tholerus
On 2016-12-26 10:52, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 25 December 2016 at 19:40, Torgny Tholerus <mailto:tor...@dsv.su.se>> wrote: I have found that God is exactly the same as my subconscious. And my subconscious is connected to other peoples subconsciouses. When I pray, I t

Re: An invisible fuzzy amoral mindless blob, aka God

2016-12-26 Thread Torgny Tholerus
On 2016-12-26 00:09, Brent Meeker wrote: On 12/25/2016 12:40 AM, Torgny Tholerus wrote: I have found that God is exactly the same as my subconscious. And my subconscious is connected to other peoples subconsciouses. When I pray, I talk to my own subconscious. Then my subconscious talks

Re: An invisible fuzzy amoral mindless blob, aka God

2016-12-25 Thread Torgny Tholerus
2016-12-25 03:07 skrev John Clark: On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ​>>​ usage says that "God" means an immortal person with supernatural power who wants, and deserves, to be worshipped. ​> ​That's the Christian use ​ ​. Why do atheists insist so much we use the chr

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-10-01 Thread Torgny Tholerus
LizR skrev 2014-10-01 01:44: On 1 October 2014 04:23, Platonist Guitar Cowboy mailto:multiplecit...@gmail.com>> wrote: Ultrafinitism then: "set of all numbers is finite" and whatever weird logic they need to have numbers obey some weirder upper limit, and I heard they issue fines a

Re: Everything List Survey

2010-01-15 Thread Torgny Tholerus
s nor computers can be conscious. (The alternative: Computers, but not humans can be conscious, is not needed...)) -- Torgny Tholerus -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-

Re: Dreaming On

2009-08-07 Thread Torgny Tholerus
n FOR, I can conceive that I wake up and realize that > quark, planet, galaxies and even my body were not real. I cannot > conceive that I wake up and realize that my consciousness is not real. > When I woke up this morning, I realized th

Re: Dreams and Machines

2009-07-23 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Bruno Marchal skrev: > > On 22 Jul 2009, at 14:12, Torgny Tholerus wrote: >> What do you think about the GoL-universes? You can look at some of >> those at http://www.bitstorm.org/gameoflife/ . If you have an initial >> condition and you have an unlimited board, t

Re: Dreams and Machines

2009-07-22 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Bruno Marchal skrev: > Le 22-juil.-09, à 10:27, Torgny Tholerus a écrit : > > > Rex Allen skrev: > > Brent: > > Do these mathematical objects "really" exist? I'd say they > have > logico-math

Re: Dreams and Machines

2009-07-22 Thread Torgny Tholerus
ical objects does not exist in our universe, in this form of existence. You can not find the "17" object anywhere inside our universe. Then we have the general form of existence saying that our universe exists because it is a mathematical possibility. -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~--

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-17 Thread Torgny Tholerus
ral number is illegal, because you are there doing an illegal deduction, you are there doing an illegal substitution, just the same as in the deductions below with the sets A and B. You are there substituting an object that is not part of the domain of the All quatificator. -- Torgny Tholerus

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-14 Thread Torgny Tholerus
-- Torgny Tholerus > > 2009/6/13 Torgny Tholerus : > >> Quentin Anciaux skrev: >> >>> 2009/6/13 Torgny Tholerus : >>> >>> >>>> What do you think about the following deduction? Is it legal or illegal? >>>> --

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-13 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Quentin Anciaux skrev: > 2009/6/13 Torgny Tholerus : > >> What do you think about the following deduction? Is it legal or illegal? >> --- >> Define the set A of all sets as: >> >> For all x holds that x belongs to A if and only if x is

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-13 Thread Torgny Tholerus
ly if A is a set. And we know that A is a set. So from this we can deduce: A beongs to A. --- Quentin, what do you think? Is this deduction legal or illegal? -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you a

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-12 Thread Torgny Tholerus
justification for. What do you mean by "some particular symbol-string"? I suppose that you mean by this is: If you take any particular symbol-string from this universe, then no one will ever have cause to be unsure about whether this symbol-string belongs in this universe. So you are de

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-10 Thread Torgny Tholerus
u have > a third alternative besides spelling out every member or giving an > abstract rule? You have to spell out every member. Because in a *rule* you are (implicitely) using this type of "universe", and you will then get a circular definition. When y

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-09 Thread Torgny Tholerus
about. For you to be able to use the word "all", you must define the "domain" of that word. If you do not define the domain, then it will be impossible for me and all other humans to understand what you are talking about. -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~-~--~~~

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-06 Thread Torgny Tholerus
implicite "all": The full sentence would be: For all n in the universe hold that n is a natural number if n=1 or if n is equal to some other natural number+1. And you may now be able to understand, that if the number of objects in the universe is finite, then this sentence wil

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-06 Thread Torgny Tholerus
n you need to provide a > definition of "natural number" that would explain why this is the case. It depends upon how you define "natural number". If you define it by: n is a natural number if and only if n belongs to N, the set of all natural numbers, then of course BI

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-05 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Kory Heath skrev: > On Jun 4, 2009, at 8:27 AM, Torgny Tholerus wrote: > >> How do you handle the Russell paradox with the set of all sets that >> does >> not contain itself? Does that set contain itself or not? >> >> My answer is that that set does no

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-04 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Brian Tenneson skrev: > > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Torgny Tholerus <mailto:tor...@dsv.su.se>> wrote: > > > Brian Tenneson skrev: > > > > > > Torgny Tholerus wrote: > >> It is impossible to create a set where the s

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-04 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Brian Tenneson skrev: > > > Torgny Tholerus wrote: >> It is impossible to create a set where the successor of every element is >> inside the set, there must always be an element where the successor of >> that element is outside the set. >> > I disagree.

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-04 Thread Torgny Tholerus
an being in the future. Amongst all those explicit numbers there will be one that is the largest. But this "largest number" is not an explicit number. -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-04 Thread Torgny Tholerus
N of natural numbers. And from that you can define the successor operator. The value set of the successor operator will be a new set, that contains one more element than the set N of natural numbers. This new element is BIGGEST+1, that is strictly bigger than all natural numbers. -- Torgny

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-04 Thread Torgny Tholerus
atement is true. Because if you call the Biggest natural number B, then you can describe N as = {1, 2, 3, ..., B}. If you take the complement of N you will get the empty set. This set have no least element, but still N has a biggest element. In your statement you are presupposing that N has n

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-03 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Quentin Anciaux skrev: > 2009/6/3 Torgny Tholerus : > >> Bruno Marchal skrev: >> >>> On 02 Jun 2009, at 19:43, Torgny Tholerus wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Bruno Marchal skrev: >>>> >>>>

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-03 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Bruno Marchal skrev: > On 02 Jun 2009, at 19:43, Torgny Tholerus wrote: > > >> Bruno Marchal skrev: >> >>> 4) The set of all natural numbers. This set is hard to define, yet I >>> hope you agree we can describe it by the infin

Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

2009-06-02 Thread Torgny Tholerus
1 belongs to the set of natural numbers, that is does N+1 belongs to {0, 1, 2, 3, ...}? -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, se

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-05-12 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Bruno Marchal skrev: > On 08 May 2009, at 19:15, Torgny Tholerus wrote: > >> Bruno Marchal skrev: >> >>> On 07 May 2009, at 18:29, Torgny Tholerus wrote: >>> >>>> Yes it is right. There is no infinity of natural numbers. But

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-05-10 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Quentin Anciaux skrev: > Hi, > > 2009/5/8 Torgny Tholerus : > >> I was an ultrafinitist before, but I have changed my mind. Now I accept >> that you can say that the natural numbers are unlimited. I only deny >> actual infinities. The set of all natural numbers

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-05-08 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Bruno Marchal skrev: > On 07 May 2009, at 18:29, Torgny Tholerus wrote: > > >> Bruno Marchal skrev: >> >> >>> you are human, all right? >>> >> I look exactly as a human. When you look at me, you will not be >> able to

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-05-07 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Bruno Marchal skrev: > On 06 May 2009, at 11:35, Torgny Tholerus wrote: > > >> Bruno Marchal skrev: >> >>> Someone unconscious cannot doubt either ... (A zombie can only fake >>> doubts) >>> >> Yes, you are right. I can only f

Re: Consciousness is information?

2009-05-06 Thread Torgny Tholerus
our own consciousness, by > becoming someone else you can't identify with. I can say "yes" to the doctor, because it will not be any difference for me, I will still be a zombie afterwards... -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You receive

Re: Mathematical methods for the discrete space-time.

2008-11-24 Thread Torgny Tholerus
alculus ), that look like exactly what I am looking for. The Umbral calculus seems to be a good candidate for a tool for handling discrete space-time! -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gr

Re: Mathematical methods for the discrete space-time.

2008-11-20 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Torgny Tholerus skrev: > > What I want to know is what result you will get if you start from the > axiom that *everything in universe is finite*. > One important function in Quantum Theory is the harmonic oscillator. So I want to know: What is the corresponding function

Re: QTI & euthanasia (brouillon)

2008-11-14 Thread Torgny Tholerus
t think of me. I am an entity that have all the appearance of a human, but I have no consciousness... -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post

Re: Mathematical methods for the discrete space-time.

2008-11-14 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Torgny Tholerus skrev: > > Exercise: Show that the extended Leibniz rule in the discrete > mathematics: D(f*g) = f*D(g) + D(f)*g + D(f)*D(g), is correct! > Another way to see both form of the Leibniz rule is in the graphical set theory, where you represent the sets by circle

Re: Mathematical methods for the discrete space-time.

2008-11-13 Thread Torgny Tholerus
f(0)*g(0), f(1)*g(1), f(2)*g(2), ... , f(N-1)*g(N-1)]. and to apply a function f on a function g then becomes: f(g) = [f(g(0)), f(g(1)), f(g(2)), ... , f(g(N-1))]. Exercise: Show that the extended Leibniz rule in the discrete mathematics: D(f*g) = f*D(g) + D(f)*g + D(f)*D(g), is

Mathematical methods for the discrete space-time.

2008-11-12 Thread Torgny Tholerus
S-1, so D(x(n)) = x(n+1) - x(n). What do you think, is this a good starting point for handling the mathematics of the discrete space-time? -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ev

Re: QTI & euthanasia

2008-11-11 Thread Torgny Tholerus
You do not need anything continuous. When you look at a movie, you are shown 24 pictures every second, but you feel like it is a continuous movie. But in reality it is just 24 discrete events every second. -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You r

Re: Which mathematical structure -is- the universe in Physics?

2008-09-26 Thread Torgny Tholerus
The time is just a direction in that static structure. -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To uns

Re: UDA paper

2008-03-04 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Bruno Marchal skrev: > Hi Torgny, > > Le 29-févr.-08, à 15:25, Torgny Tholerus a écrit : > > >> >> I have just tested to upload a file to the group (PofSTorgny1.doc). >> You >> can try to see if you can see that file. (You have to log in to Google &

Re: UDA paper

2008-02-29 Thread Torgny Tholerus
e that file. (You have to log in to Google groups first.) -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Theory of Everything based on E8 by Garrett Lisi

2007-11-30 Thread Torgny Tholerus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: > On Nov 28, 9:56 pm, Torgny Tholerus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> You only need models of cellular automata. If you have a model and >> rules for that model, then one event will follow after another event, >> according to the

Re: Theory of Everything based on E8 by Garrett Lisi

2007-11-30 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Bruno Marchal skrev: > > > Le 29-nov.-07, à 17:22, Torgny Tholerus a écrit : > > There is a difference between "unlimited" and "infinite". "Unlimited" > just says that it has no limit, but everything is still finite. If > you >

Re: Theory of Everything based on E8 by Garrett Lisi

2007-11-30 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Jesse Mazer skrev: > > > >> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:55:20 +0100 >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> As soon as you say "the set of ALL numbers", then you are forced to >> define the word ALL here. And for every definition, you are forced to >> introduce a "limit". It is not possible

Re: Theory of Everything based on E8 by Garrett Lisi

2007-11-29 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Jesse Mazer skrev: > > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> As soon as you talk about "the set N", then you are making a "closure" >> and making that set finite. >> > > > Why is that? How do you define the word "set"? > > > The only possible way to talk about > >> something wit

Re: Theory of Everything based on E8 by Garrett Lisi

2007-11-29 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Quentin Anciaux skrev: > Le Thursday 29 November 2007 18:52:36 Torgny Tholerus, vous avez écrit : > >> Quentin Anciaux skrev: >> >> >>> What is the production rules of the "no"set R ? >>> >> How do you de

Re: Theory of Everything based on E8 by Garrett Lisi

2007-11-29 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Quentin Anciaux skrev: > Le Thursday 29 November 2007 18:25:54 Torgny Tholerus, vous avez écrit : > >> >> As soon as you talk about "the set N", then you are making a "closure" >> and making that set finite. >> > > Ok then

Re: Theory of Everything based on E8 by Garrett Lisi

2007-11-29 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Quentin Anciaux skrev: > Le Thursday 29 November 2007 17:22:59 Torgny Tholerus, vous avez écrit : > >> >> There is a difference between "unlimited" and "infinite". "Unlimited" >> just says that it has no limit, but everything is still fini

Re: Theory of Everything based on E8 by Garrett Lisi

2007-11-29 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Quentin Anciaux skrev: > Hi, > > Le Wednesday 28 November 2007 09:56:17 Torgny Tholerus, vous avez écrit : > >> >> You only need models of cellular automata. If you have a model and >> rules for that model, then one event will follow after another event, >>

Re: Theory of Everything based on E8 by Garrett Lisi

2007-11-28 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Bruno Marchal skrev: > > > Le 28-nov.-07, à 09:56, Torgny Tholerus a écrit : > > You only need models of cellular automata. If you have a model > and rules for that model, then one event will follow after another > event, according to the rules. And after t

Re: Theory of Everything based on E8 by Garrett Lisi

2007-11-28 Thread Torgny Tholerus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: > >> When I talk about "pure mathematics" I mean that kind of mathematics you >> have in GameOfLife. There you have "gliders" that move in the >> GameOfLife-universe, and these gliders interact with eachother when they >> meet. These gliders you can see as physical

Re: Theory of Everything based on E8 by Garrett Lisi

2007-11-26 Thread Torgny Tholerus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: On Nov 23, 8:49 pm, Torgny Tholerus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think that everything is reducible to physical substances and properties. And I think that all of physics is reducible to pure mathematics... You can't have it bot

Re: Theory of Everything based on E8 by Garrett Lisi

2007-11-26 Thread Torgny Tholerus
like bosons (fotons) and the end of the open strings behave just like fermions (electrons). -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group

Re: Theory of Everything based on E8 by Garrett Lisi

2007-11-22 Thread Torgny Tholerus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: > > As far as I tell tell, all of physics is ultimately > geometry. But as we've pointed out on this list many times, a theory > of physics is *not* a theory of everything, since it makes the > (probably false) assumption that everything is reducible to physical > substan

Re: Cantor's Diagonal

2007-11-21 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Bruno Marchal skrev: Le 20-nov.-07, à 23:39, Barry Brent wrote : You're saying that, just because you can *write down* the missing sequence (at the beginning, middle or anywhere else in the list), it follows that there *is* no missing sequence. Looks pretty wrong to me. Cant

Re: Cantor's Diagonal

2007-11-20 Thread Torgny Tholerus
meekerdb skrev: Torgny Tholerus wrote: An ultrafinitist comment to this: == You can add this complementary sequence to the end of the list. That will make you have a list with this complementary sequence included. But then you can make a new complementary sequence, that is

Re: Bijections (was OM = SIGMA1)

2007-11-20 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Bruno Marchal skrev: > > But infinite ordinals can be different, and still have the same > cardinality. I have given examples: You can put an infinity of linear > well founded order on the set N = {0, 1, 2, 3, ...}. > The usual order give the ordinal omega = {0, 1, 2, 3, ...}. Now omega+1 > is

Re: Cantor's Diagonal

2007-11-20 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Bruno Marchal skrev: But then the complementary sequence (with the 0 and 1 permuted) is also well defined, in Platonia or in the mind of God(s) 0 1 1 0 1 1 ... But this infinite sequence cannot be in the list, above. The "God" in question has to ackonwledge that. The complemen

Re: Bijections (was OM = SIGMA1)

2007-11-20 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Bruno Marchal skrev: > > To sum up; finite ordinal and finite cardinal coincide. Concerning > infinite "number" there are much ordinals than cardinals. In between > two different infinite cardinal, there will be an infinity of ordinal. > We have already seen that omega, omega+1, ... omega+omega

Re: The big-black-cloud-interpretation.

2007-11-19 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Torgny Tholerus skrev: Now you define a new concept INNFINITE, that is defined by: If you have a bijection from all visible numbers of a set S, to all visible numbers of a true subset of S, then you say that the set S in INNFINITE. Then you can use this concept INNFINITE, and you

Re: Bijections (was OM = SIGMA1)

2007-11-19 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Torgny Tholerus skrev: If you define the set of all natural numbers N, then you can pull out the biggest number m from that set.  But this number m has a different "type" than the ordinary numbers.  (You see that I have some sort of "type theory" for the numbers.)  Th

The big-black-cloud-interpretation.

2007-11-16 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Bruno Marchal skrev: Le 15-nov.-07, à 14:45, Torgny Tholerus a écrit : Do you have the big-black-cloud interpretation of "..."?  By that I mean that there is a big black cloud at the end of the visible part of universe, Concerning what I am trying to conve

Re: Bijections (was OM = SIGMA1)

2007-11-16 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Bruno Marchal skrev: Le 15-nov.-07, à 14:45, Torgny Tholerus a écrit : But m+1 is not a number.  This means that you believe there is a finite sequence of "s" of the type A = s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(s(

Re: Bijections (was OM = SIGMA1)

2007-11-16 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Quentin Anciaux skrev: Hi, Le Thursday 15 November 2007 14:45:24 Torgny Tholerus, vous avez écrit : What do you mean by "each" in the sentence "for each natural number"?  How do you define ALL natural numbers? There is a nat

Re: Bijections (was OM = SIGMA1)

2007-11-15 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Bruno Marchal skrev: Le 14-nov.-07, à 17:23, Torgny Tholerus a écrit : What do you mean by "..."? Are you asking this as a student who does not understand the math, or as a philospher who, like an ultrafinist, does not believe in the potential infinite

Re: Bijections (was OM = SIGMA1)

2007-11-14 Thread Torgny Tholerus
ove that each x in N has a corresponding number 2*x in E? If m is the biggest number in N, then there will be no corresponding number 2*m in E, because 2*m is not a number. > Now, instead of taking this at face value like Cantor, Galileo will > instead t

Re: No(-)Justification Justifies The Everything Ensemble

2007-09-19 Thread Torgny Tholerus
uot;models" (cf type 1 multi-realty of Tegmark). The type 1 multi-reality of Tegmark does not require infinity.  The type 1 multi-reality is true also in a finite universe, that is *enough* big... -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Re: Space-time is a liquid!

2007-09-18 Thread Torgny Tholerus
John Mikes skrev: > > JM: Then what makes them into a continuous 'string'? OR: do those > individual points arrange in unassigned directions they just wish? If > they only fluctuate by themselves, what reference do they > (individually) follow to be callable 'string' -'fluctuate' - or just > "

Re: Space-time is a liquid!

2007-09-17 Thread Torgny Tholerus
John Mikes skrev: 1.- Q: What are light and fermions? A: Light is a fluctuation of closed strings of arbitrary sizes. Fermions are ends of open strings. 2.- Q: Where do light and fermions come from? A: Light and fermions come from the collective motions of string-like

Space-time is a liquid!

2007-09-12 Thread Torgny Tholerus
(From the swedish Allting List:) The discrete space-time is a liquid. This explains why the space is isomorph in all directions. The one that discovered that the space-time is a liquid, was Xiao-Gang Wen (Home Page: http://dao.mit.edu/~wen ). He has found that elementary particles are not t

Re: Why Objective Values Exist

2007-08-27 Thread Torgny Tholerus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: > > (7) From (3) mathematical concepts are objectively real. But there > exist mathematical concepts (inifinite sets) which cannot be explained > in terms of finite physical processes. How can you prove that infinite sets exists? -- Tor

Message to swedish language members.

2007-08-06 Thread Torgny Tholerus
. -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Asifism revisited.

2007-07-13 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Brent Meeker skrev: > Torgny Tholerus wrote: >> >> That is exactly what I wanted to say. You don't need to have a complete >> description of arithmetic. Our universe can be described by doing a >> number of computations from a finite set of rules. (To g

Re: Asifism revisited.

2007-07-13 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Brent Meeker skrev: Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 09-juil.-07, à 17:41, Torgny Tholerus a écrit : ... Our universe is the result of some set of rules. The interesting thing is to discover the specific rules that span our universe. Assuming comp, I don&#

Re: Asifism revisited.

2007-07-12 Thread Torgny Tholerus
? > Our universe has nothing to do with different models of our universe. A model is more like a picture of our universe. You can make a model of a GoL-universe with red balls, or you can make a model with black dots, but still there will hold the same relations in both thes

Re: Asifism revisited.

2007-07-12 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Bruno Marchal skrev: Le 09-juil.-07, à 17:41, Torgny Tholerus a écrit : Bruno Marchal skrev: I agree with you (despite a notion as "universe" is not primitive in my opinion, unless you mean it a bit like the logician's notion of model per

Re: Some thoughts from Grandma

2007-07-11 Thread Torgny Tholerus
t is a non-reflexive world, I can not see anything reflexive in that universe. -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email t

Re: Asifism revisited.

2007-07-10 Thread Torgny Tholerus
ules of our universe decide what our universe will look like tomorrow. -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Asifism revisited.

2007-07-09 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Bruno Marchal skrev: Le 05-juil.-07, à 14:19, Torgny Tholerus wrote: David Nyman skrev: You have however drawn our attention to something very interesting and important IMO. This concerns the necessary entailment of 'existence'. 1. Th

Re: Asifism revisited.

2007-07-09 Thread Torgny Tholerus
then B-Torgny will be interviewing B-David in the B-Universe. Because everything that happens in A-Universe will also happen in B-Universe. All objects in A-Universe obey the laws of physics, and all objects in B-Universe obey the same laws, so the same things will happen in both universes.

Re: Some thoughts from Grandma

2007-07-06 Thread Torgny Tholerus
is not dependent of the A-Universe. What we see when we look at the Wikipedia page is just a picture of a part of this GoL-universe. -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everythin

Re: Asifism revisited.

2007-07-05 Thread Torgny Tholerus
s with observers, and we are specially interested in our own universe. But otherwise there is noting special with our universe. -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything Li

Re: Asifism revisited.

2007-07-04 Thread Torgny Tholerus
here is no observer integral to that Universe. The same is true about the B-Universe.  You can look at it as an outside observer. -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything L

Re: Asifism revisited.

2007-07-04 Thread Torgny Tholerus
about how to spell that word (where to put all those "h":s...), so I included the thoughts in "all that kind of stuff". The B-Universe should not include any thouths(!). The B-Universe should be a strictly materialistic Universe. -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~-~--~---

Asifism revisited.

2007-07-03 Thread Torgny Tholerus
-Universe pushes the same buttons on their computers as we do in our A-Universe. Questions: Is B-Universe possible? If we interview an object in B-Universe, what will that object answer, if we ask it: "Are you conscious?"? -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~-~--~~~---~--

Re: Justifying the Theory of Everything

2007-06-30 Thread Torgny Tholerus
subscribe to or know of other > justifications I would be interesting in hearing it. > Both justifications are true. All mathematical possible universes exist. (Game of Life is one possibility...) But this theory doesn't say anything about our universe. So the informat

Re: Asifism

2007-06-28 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Quentin Anciaux skrev: On Thursday 28 June 2007 16:52:12 Torgny Tholerus wrote: Consciouslike behaviour is good for a species to survive. Therefore human beings show that type of behaviour. I don't know what is consciouslike behaviour without consciousness i

Re: Asifism

2007-06-28 Thread Torgny Tholerus
s to survive. Therefore human beings show that type of behaviour. -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Asifism

2007-06-19 Thread Torgny Tholerus
> > On Tuesday 19 June 2007 11:37:09 Torgny Tholerus wrote: >> What you call "the subjective experience of first person" is just some >> sort of behaviour. When you claim that you have "the subjective >> experience >> of first person", I c

Re: Asifism

2007-06-19 Thread Torgny Tholerus
computer, you can see that there is no "subjective experience", there are just a lot of electrical fenomena interacting with each other. There is no first person experience problem, because there is no first person experience. -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~-~--~~--

Re: Asifism

2007-06-14 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Quentin Anciaux skrev: > 2007/6/14, Torgny Tholerus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> If a rock shows the same behavior as a human being, then you should be able >> to use the same words ("know", believe", "think") to describe this >> behaviour. &

Re: Asifism

2007-06-14 Thread Torgny Tholerus
in something.  If the rock behaves as if it has thought, then you can say that the rock has thought. If a rock shows the same behavior as a human being, then you should be able to use the same words ("know", believe", "think") to describe this behaviour. -- Torgny Tholeru

Re: Asifism

2007-06-14 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Bruno Marchal skrev: Le 07-juin-07, à 15:47, Torgny Tholerus a écrit : What is the philosophical term for persons like me, that totally deny the existence of the consciousness? An eliminativist. "Eliminativist" is not a good term for persons like me, because that term im

Re: Asifism

2007-06-11 Thread Torgny Tholerus
del of self in the > world. > Yes, I simpy deny the separate existence of something called 'consciousness'. -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything Li

Re: Asifism

2007-06-11 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Mohsen Ravanbakhsh skrev: What is the subjective experience then? The "subjective experience" is just some sort of behaviour.  You can make computers show the same sort of behavior, if the computers are enough complicated. -- Torgny Tholerus On 6/8/07, Torgny Tholerus <[EM

Re: Asifism

2007-06-08 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Quentin Anciaux skrev: On Friday 08 June 2007 17:37:06 Torgny Tholerus wrote: What is the problem? If a computer behaves as if it knows anything, what is the problem with that? That type of behaviour increases the probability for the computer to survive, so the natural

Re: Asifism

2007-06-08 Thread Torgny Tholerus
behaviour increases the probability for the computer to survive, so the natural selection will favour that type of behaviour. -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything

Re: Asifism

2007-06-08 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Bruno Marchal skrev: Le 07-juin-07, à 15:47, Torgny Tholerus a écrit : When I look at you (in 3rd person view), I see that you are constructed in exactly the same way as I am. So I know why you say that you are conscious. I know nothing sure about you, but the most probable conclusion is

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