Re: Devil's advocate against Max Tegmark's hypothesis

1999-07-07 Thread Marchal
I comment last posts by Russell, Alasdair, George. I am very glad with the fact that people here are aware of the flying white rabbit appearance problem in Tegmark/Schmidhuber-like approach. I really think that it is not possible to solve the rabbit problem with Tegmark hypothesis (that all math

Re: Devil's advocate against Max Tegmark's hypothesis

1999-07-07 Thread Christopher Maloney
Alastair Malcolm wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: Higgo James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > As for flying rabbits, one appeared on my ceiling as I was reading your > > post, but as it was only there for 10E-43 seconds, I did not notice it. > The > > odds against it remaining there fo

Re: Devil's advocate against Max Tegmark's hypothesis

1999-07-07 Thread Alastair Malcolm
- Original Message - From: Higgo James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Alastair Malcolm' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 06 July 1999 11:10 Subject: RE: Devil's advocate against Max Tegmark's hypothesis > Can you provide any evidenc

RE: Devil's advocate against Max Tegmark's hypothesis

1999-07-05 Thread Marchal
Hi Alasdair, James told me: >An ancient greek (I forget who) said that the world is supported on the back >of a turtle. When asked what supported the turtle he said 'It stands on >another turtle' When asked what that Turtle stood on, he said It's "Turtles >all the way down". Thank you, James.