Fwd: Fwd: The Guardian quiz

Test your mathematical sense of humor: http://www.theguardian.com/science/quiz/2013/oct/21/mathematical-humour-quiz?CMP=fb_gu Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails

Fwd: [CharlottePsWeb] Fwd: February Newsletter

Good article. Brent Forwarded Message Religion’s smart-people problem: The shaky intellectual foundations of absolute faith Religious belief the world over has a strenuous relationship with intellectualism. But why? John G. Messerly

Fwd:

Huh? -- Forwarded message -- In the place where souls meet, we came together and conspired to create the forces which separate us all in service of the greater union. The inevitable lightness of being arises naturally from the requirement that the essence of conceptual thinking be

Re: Fwd: Fwd: The Guardian quiz

9/10 - I got the Mandelbrot one wrong - should've known better! On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 04:58:11PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: > Test your mathematical sense of humor: > > > http://www.theguardian.com/science/quiz/2013/oct/21/mathematical-humour-quiz?CMP=fb_gu > > Brent > > > > -- > You received

Re: Fwd: Fwd: The Guardian quiz

8/10 I didn't get the parrot/banana one because although I realised they were looking for a vector cross product I couldn't remember what that actually is! And I didn't get the "Godel is killing me!" one because I didn't see the logic (I still don't, really) -- You received this message because

Re: Fwd: Fwd: The Guardian quiz

On 10/21/2013 6:29 PM, LizR wrote: 8/10 I didn't get the parrot/banana one because although I realised they were looking for a vector cross product I couldn't remember what that actually is! And I didn't get the "Godel is killing me!" one because I didn't see the logic (I still don't, really

Re: Fwd: Fwd: The Guardian quiz

I got that. I just didn't understand why that was the answer. I thought the Freud one, perhaps, because he was at least more their contemporary, as compared to Godel or Goethe. But I don't see the logic - why is that pun more suited to Russell and Whitehead? Oh hang on, I think I've sussed it.

Re: Fwd: Fwd: The Guardian quiz

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 02:29:04PM +1300, LizR wrote: > 8/10 > > I didn't get the parrot/banana one because although I realised they were > looking for a vector cross product I couldn't remember what that actually > is! > > And I didn't get the "Godel is killing me!" one because I didn't see the

Re: Fwd: Fwd: The Guardian quiz

I'm glad to say I worked that out before it was explained to me (see above :D ) On 22 October 2013 15:15, Russell Standish wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 02:29:04PM +1300, LizR wrote: > > 8/10 > > > > I didn't get the parrot/banana one because although I realised they were > > looking for a v

Fwd: Atheist

Sure: "Do you believe in a theist god?" I'd like to. So we can keep using the word "theology" and keep some academic departments that have no subject. This would also include political science, arts, gender studies, french literature. Are you willing to go that far, and make what doesn't b

Fwd: Consciousness

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Fwd: numeracy

Bruno should approve. Brent Forwarded Message "The only math we should teach children is arithmetic." http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=4150 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this

Fwd: Octopuses

So the government of the UK agrees that consciousness is implied by intelligent behavior. Brent Forwarded Message From Daniel C. Dennett:  In the United Kingdom, the law regarding cruelty to animals draws an important moral line at whether the animal is a vertebrate: as fa

Fwd: Physics

Hi everything-list guys, does anyone have any suggestions for our friend Pete down here? He is eager to learn physics! Contact him directly if you have any suggestions. Stephen -- Forwarded message -- From: Felix Hoenikker Date: Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:10 PM Subject: Re: Physics To

Fwd: Fwd: Sokal-type hoax on two theological conferences

John Clark at least will appreciate this. :-) Original Message To: Skeptic mailto:skep...@lists.johnshopkins.edu>> http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/a-sokal-style-hoax-by-an-anti-religious-philosopher-2/ - But today I’m presenting something else: a real

Fwd: Unexpected Hanging

The surprise can appear in a single day: "You will be hanged on monday and you will be surprised by it". Then he reason that he will not be surprised. But he is hanged and surprised by it. Thar reduces the problem to the example of the Diamonds from Brent. So the reasoning is: 1) The statement o

Fwd: Geminoid replicator

From another list: Conway's life not only lives - now it can evolve. Brent Original Message Dave Green has put together a replicator for Conway Life. He has several versions. The smallest, fastest, has a bounding box of 3.7M^2, and takes 89M ticks to make a copy. If I'm read

Re: Fwd: Atheist

On 7/13/2014 3:47 AM, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: Sure: "Do you believe in a theist god?" I'd like to. /So we can keep using the word "theology" and keep some academic departments that have no subject./ / / This would also include political science, arts, gender studies, french

Fwd: FW: generalizations_of_islam

The following link might be of interest. It addresses some of the questions raised on this forum about Islam. Samiya -- Forwarded message -- Subject: generalizations_of_islam Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 22:23:35 -0400 Good segment http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/09/30/rez

Fwd: escalating citations

"I was tired of having to find citations for every claim I made" http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/citation-needed I'll bet lawyers would like one too. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this gro

Fwd: Inconsistency Robustness

What do you think of Hewitt's proof of the consistency of mathematics, Bruno? Brent Forwarded Message College Publications (May 20, 2015) > /Inconsistency robustness is information system performance in

Fwd: Pronoun Obsolete

JKC will feel vindicated. But unfortunately we don't have enough proper nouns to go around. Brent Forwarded Message http://phys.org/news/2015-08-pronoun-obsolete.html /Microbiologists have coined new terms for these collective entities – *holobiont *– and for their genom

Fwd: Robot hallucinations

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Fwd: Loebner prize

I liked her answer to this: *User:*Do you think the US should engage in the Syrian civil war? *Rose:*Only when it involves robots. The Terminator movies were good. Even Transformers are better than the usual war movie. Brent On 9/21/2015 8:51 AM,: For the best "chatbot" in a "Turing test" is

Fwd: another puzzzle

On 6/27/05, Stathis Papaioannou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for going on about this, but I'm still trying to understand: what > possible difference could it make to anyone - you or your copy - if you > suddenly disintegrated and were replaced a microsecond later with an exact > copy? To und

Fwd: Modal Logic

-- Forwarded message -- From: Eric Cavalcanti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Aug 13, 2005 4:38 PM Subject: Re: Modal Logic To: Bruno Marchal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Bruno, On 8/13/05, Bruno Marchal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Eric, > > I am having a problem understanding this axio

Re: Fwd: COUNTERFACTUALS

This reply is a little stale, but here goes anyway: Marchal wrote: > > George Levy wrote: > > >In a message dated 99-06-30 11:20:07 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > ><< Precisely: Maudlin and me have proved that: > > > > NOT compORNOT sup-phys > > > > i.e. computati

Fwd: Cryonics Chances

Robin Hanson believes, as do I, that: *"People who “die” today could live again in the future, perhaps forever, as brain emulations (= uploads, ems), if enough info were saved today about their brains. (And of course if civilization doesn’t die, if someone in the future cares enough to bother) Thi

Fwd: The neuroelectric st

"Wisdom is the art of coming up with believable excuses for one's ignorance." This is my excuse... -- Forwarded message -- From: Stephen Lin Date: Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:58 AM Subject: The neuroelectric st To:: Evan, Nadav Hi guys, Sorry about what happened this week: missing

Fwd: Neural Turing Machine

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Fwd: Is Consciousness Computable?

Oops. I forgot to include the link: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1405.0126v1.pdf Original Message I don't buy it. For one thing memory IS lossy and it's largely reconstruction. I think their argument only shows that cognition is irreversible in a stat-mech sense. The implication

Fwd: An unusual race

Maybe Bruno would like to train an entry. Brent Original Message http://www.nature.com/news/the-game-is-on-1.15167 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails f

Fwd: tricolor consciousness compression

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Fwd: Is math real?

On 7 September 2017 at 10:03, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 06 Sep 2017, at 19:45, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > > On 9/6/2017 7:35 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > Some physicists can be immaterialist, but still believe that the > fundamental reality is physical, a bit like Tegmark who remains (despite he

Fwd: Responsibility and Personhood

Jason, Russell, Stathis, Brent I am not a Platonian, not a physicist and not a believer, just an agnostic (in my OWN sense of the term). I don't believe that an algorithm *"DOES"*, or *"ACTS" * so it cannot be 'held responsible'. We, the People do all this. *Russell's* 'sense of agency' requires

Fwd: The final TOE?

Hi Russell, Do you have any further thoughts on my idea that entanglement and gravity are linked together? I really believe that this is the solution to the EPR paradox and the black hole information paradox, but I haven't heard any qualified opinion on the subject yet. Thank you! F.H. -

Fwd: The final TOE?

Thank you for your reply! My response is interleaved below: On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 1:03 PM, meekerdb wrote: > > This is a commonplace.  So far as I know there are *no* physicists who think > there are singularities in spacetime (and haven't been for a long time). >  Everybody thinks that quantum

Fwd: Theories and Reality

Hi, I forward it to this list... I'm not sure it pass the barier of moderation on FOR, anyway I think it is relevant... (or I'm too presomptuous to see it is not). Quentin -- Forwarded message -- From: Quentin Anciaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/7/29 Subject: Re: Theories and

[Fwd: Re: subjective reality]

Fair enough. But if we accept those parameters does it make any sense to even talk about "reality."? Maybe in a philosophical sense, but certainly not in a scientific sense as by (your) definition objective reality, the only reality you say, is forever separated from what it is possible f

Fwd: belief, faith, truth

Brent Meeker wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:>> Bruno wrote:>> >>> I think everyone has religious faith...>> >> >> Amen, Bruno, and Ben also!  This is of course a searing statement, which >> goes back to why the word "theology" is taboo.  As it's commonly said, >> the two topics to stay away

Re: Fwd: Implementation/Relativity

> > Russell Standish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > conciousness we experience directly ... generated by some kind of > > self-referential process ... is intrinsically a different to > > the Turing type tests we perform to attribute conciousness in > > external objects. > > ... > > nor do I think it a

Re: Fwd: Implementation/Relativity

> > Russell Standish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I don't think we ever discussed the concept of attributing > > consciousness to inanimate objects before Hans came along. > > But I think you DID agree to attribute consciousness to > purely abstract entities, notably mathematically defined > univers

Re: Fwd: Implementation/Relativity

On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, someone wrote: > This is from Tegmark's paper (although I think he was paraphrasing > Tipler from Physics of Immortality): > > In fact, since we can choose to picture our Universe > not as a 3D world where things happen, but as a 4D world that merely > is, there is no n

Re: Fwd: Implementation/Relativity

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Earlier I think Hans said that one possible observer was the > conscious entity himself. I am an observer of my own consciousness. > My consciousness (or lack thereof) is subjective, and varies > depending on the observer, but one of the observers is me. > > Does this mean

Re: Fwd: Implementation/Relativity

Russell Standish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Anthropomorphism may be common, but this doesn't mean it is correct, > nor useful. It is very useful in making sense of fiction (anthropomorphising words on paper, pictures on film, etc.), therapeutic in communicating with a diary or a teddy bear. It is ec

Re: Fwd: Implementation/Relativity

> > Russell Standish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The converse question one could ask is whether a mathematical system > > with a SAS could be embedded in our world. > > A simulation containing an aware AI is a simple example of this. > You'll be seeing them before too long in video games everywhere

Re: Fwd: Implementation/Relativity

Hans Moravec, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: > Christopher Maloney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > If our tools were sophisticated enough, we could figure out what > > that creature was experiencing at that moment, independent of his or > > her report. > > NO! We may determine the full physical structure

Re: QTI, SSI (fwd)

Russell writes: >> I would like to add this "exercice": Show that for any running program >> there is aleph-one never stopping possible continuations and only aleph- >> zero possible stopping continuations. That is why immortality is more >> probable than mortality. >> >> Bruno. >> > >You seem

Re: Diagonalisation 1 (fwd)

Both Russell and Brent are right (see orig. message below), but they *cannot* be both right, or can they? They are right but not enough precise for agreeing! You should try to restate the "paradox" in such a precise way each of you find one of the two different theorems which are hidden behind

Re: Diagonalisation 1 (fwd)

, *** Forwarded message, originally written by Brent Meeker on 22-Aug-01 *** On 22-Aug-01, Russell Standish wrote: > Brent Meeker wrote: >> >> I think there is a cheat here. "Computable" requires that the >> function be defined finitely. While >> >> g(n) = f_n(n) + 1 >> >> ap

[Fwd: a possible paradox]

Joao Leao wrote: > Your Principles are correct but the wording is not: > you should change all your use of *possible* to 'contingent' > and qualify as 'possible' instead all the invocations of 'world' > not qualified with *actual*. This because possible/actual is > a distinction that applies to wo

Re: Re: Fwd: The All

t; - Receiving the following content - From: Roger Clough Receiver: Richard Ruquist Time: 2012-09-05, 07:21:20 Subject: Re: Fwd: The All Hi Richard Ruquist I'm too busy to do your homework right now, Richard. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 9/5/2012 Leibniz would say, "I

Fwd: The Singularity Institute Blog

A long, rambling but often interesting discussion among guys at MIRI about how to make an AI that is superintelligent but not dangerous (FAI=Friendly AI). Here's an amusing excerpt that starts at the bottom of page 30: *Jacob*: Can't you ask it questions about what is believes will be true abo

Re: Fwd: "The Mental Universe"

On 06.08.2012 21:50 meekerdb said the following: How's Bruno going to criticize those darn physicists if they just won't stick to materialism. Brent Original Message Link to the PDF: http://henry.pha.jhu.edu/The.mental.universe.pdf I find it strange that the author has not

Fwd: Leibniz: Reality as Dust

Stephan, If the compact manifolds of string theory are all different and distinct (as I claim in my paper from observations of a variable fine structure constant across the universe), then the manifolds should form a Stone space if each manifold instantly maps all the others into itself, my (BEC ph

Fwd: the curse of materialism

Roger, I liked your "1p think therefore 1p am" But your statement below, although correct , is much too vague. Quantum mechanics is not understood because it is not complete. Feynman came close to completing it but still missed an essential property. That property is that the quantum mind has in

Fwd: Is Earth F**ked?

Original Message --- On the subject of completely fucked up : In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems researcher named Brad Werner made his way through the throng of 24,000 earth and space scientists at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held

Fwd: Poe, cosmology, and ham

Edgar Allen Poe explains it all. Brent Forwarded Message In 1848, Edgar Allan Poe first proposed the Big Bang theory, black holes, the Big Crunch, and the correct solution to Olbers' paradox, in a "prose poem" called Eureka. Good discussion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E

Fwd: Philip Ball, MWI skeptic

Forwarded Message In July 2011, participants at a conference on the placid shore of Lake Traunsee in Austria were polled on what they thought the meeting was about. You might imagine that this question would have been settled in advance, but since the broad theme was quantu

Fwd: Global Warming Hoax Confirmed

Forwarded Message Remember all that stuff we told you about 97% of scientists agreeing that climate change was real? And all those sad polar bears hanging off of icebergs? And all the dire warnings about catastrophic sea-level rise? We just learned that none of it is true. I

Fwd: Electron spin and consciousness

Maybe there is a quantum aspect to consciousness. Brent Original Message Interesting finding regarding properties of ESR and how anesthesia works. While quantum, this is not in line with Penrose/Hameroff's theory. http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/2014/08/anesthesias-ele

Fwd: "The Span of Infinity"

May be of interest to the group. Later today. Brent Original Message The Span of Infinity Saturday, October 25, 2014 2:30-4:30 pm http://www.helixcenter.org/roundtables/the-span-of-infinity/ This is a panel discussion taking place this afternoon in NYC (so I assume t

Fwd: Correction to MWI post

Phillip Ball's critique of MWI. Brent Forwarded Message Use this MWI

Fwd: Answers to David 4

-- Forwarded message -- From: David Nyman Date: 26 May 2017 at 01:53 Subject: Re: Answers to David 4 To: Brent Meeker On 26 May 2017 at 01:24, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > On 5/25/2017 4:11 PM, David Nyman wrote: > > > > On 25 May 2017 23:18, "Brent Meeker" wrote: > > > > On 5/2

Fwd: Answers to David 4

-- Forwarded message -- From: David Nyman Date: 26 May 2017 at 02:13 Subject: Re: Answers to David 4 To: Brent Meeker , Bruno Marchal < bruno.fernand.marc...@gmail.com> On 26 May 2017 at 01:24, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > On 5/25/2017 4:11 PM, David Nyman wrote: > > > > On 25 May

Fwd: Answers to David 4

-- Forwarded message -- From: David Nyman Date: 27 May 2017 at 23:12 Subject: Re: Answers to David 4 To: meekerdb ​Brent, why are y ou still PM'ing me ​?​ ​Please let me know if you have read this. On 27 May 2017 21:36, "Brent Meeker" wrote: > > > On 5/27/2017 6:24 AM, David

Fwd: Answers to David 4

-- Forwarded message -- From: David Nyman Date: 27 May 2017 at 22:43 Subject: Re: Answers to David 4 To: meekerdb On 27 May 2017 9:19 p.m., "Brent Meeker" wrote: On 5/27/2017 5:36 AM, David Nyman wrote: > ​It might. But ISTM that the entire project of explanation itself ent

Fwd: P vs NP result?

Forwarded Message Whoa. Anyone have opinions on this? https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.03486.pdf "A Solution of the P versus NP Problem" Norbert Blum Institut f¨ur Informatik, Universit¨at Bonn Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 144, D-53113 Bonn, Germany email: b...@cs.uni-bonn.de August

Re: Fwd: Responsibility and Personhood

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 03:28:22PM -0400, John Mikes wrote: > Jason, Russell, Stathis, Brent > > I am not a Platonian, not a physicist and not a believer, just an agnostic > (in my OWN sense of the term). I don't believe that an algorithm *"DOES"*, > or *"ACTS" * so it cannot be 'held responsible'

Re: Fwd: Responsibility and Personhood

You wrote: *"Then you have not met an algorithm whose output is directly influencedby the environment. Most robots are agents in this sense. If the agents areprocessing and reacting to rules, then those agents can be punishedfor breaking the rules." * As I understand: a 'robot' is not an 'algo

Re: Fwd: Responsibility and Personhood

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 03:28:09PM -0400, John Mikes wrote: > You wrote: > > > > > *"Then you have not met an algorithm whose output is directly influencedby > the environment. Most robots are agents in this sense. If the agents > areprocessing and reacting to rules, then those agents can be pu

Fwd: Dan Dennett on AI

Why we shouldn't develop machines with general AI. Brent Forwarded Message A contribution to a discussion we were having a couple of weeks ago: https://www.wired.com/story/will-ai-achieve-consciousness-wrong-question/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Fwd: The Invention of Philosophy

The Invention of Philosophy -- 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...@googlegrou

Fwd: Death, science, and politics

The language is Hindi I believe.  There are others looking at the vaccines more carefully than you and John.Advocacy journalism follows:  https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-study-covid-vaccine-blood-clot-elderly-et/ Core report: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S02644

Fwd: unexpected application of logic

I asked a mathematician friend, Ed Clark, about this. And he asked a logician colleague. Here's the reply. :-) Brent Original Message On 6/2/2010 1:24 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: http://christianmarks.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/mathematical-logic-finds-unexpected-application

Fwd: XKCD outdoes itself today...

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Re: Fwd: The final TOE?

On 6/11/2011 1:20 AM, Felix Hoenikker wrote: Hi Russell, Do you have any further thoughts on my idea that entanglement and gravity are linked together? I really believe that this is the solution to the EPR paradox and the black hole information paradox, but I haven't heard any qualified opinion

Re: Fwd: The final TOE?

> > I'm afraid I don't understand how your idea "qualitatively predicts all > features of GR without QCD or QFT." or what it means for (Feynmann diagram?) > loops to have "net entanglement coming out". I think you need to be more > explicit and precise (e.g. mathematical). The idea that GR can be e

[Fwd: Apparently not a spoof...]

Here's a school that's ahead of Bruno in taking consistency to be part of theology. :-) http://chfbs.org/high_school/high_sch_math.htm Brent Meeker --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything Lis

RE: [Fwd: Re: subjective reality]

danny mayes wrote: Fair enough. But if we accept those parameters does it make any sense to even talk about "reality."? Maybe in a philosophical sense, but certainly not in a scientific sense as by (your) definition objective reality, the only reality you say, is forever separated from wh

Fwd: Let There Be Something

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:   I guess I'll "break the symmetry" of relative silence on this list lately.   I just don't get how it can be rationally justified that you can get something out of nothing. To me, combining the multiverse with a selection principle does not explain anything. I see no r

Fwd: Let There Be Something

In the previous post I should have said, "Russell, you've even said in your Why Occam's Razor paper that the Plenitude is ontologically _equivalent_ to Nothing."   Tom --- Begin Message --- To me it's very simple, and I've already laid it out in just a few words below, and in more words in

Fwd: Posting error: Everything List

I will comment asap, but first resend you message as you ask me to do. John wrote: Début du message réexpédié : De: John M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 21 mars 2006 23:41:38 GMT+01:00 À: Bruno Marchal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Objet: Réexp : Posting error: Everything List Répondre à: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Fwd: Why physical laws

y system. > -Original Message- > From: Wei Dai [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 11:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Fwd: Why physical laws > > On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 01:54:03AM -0400, [EMAIL PROT

Re: Fwd: Why physical laws

Wei Dai wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 01:54:03AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > To answer your question, I could say that, in my opinion, the real essence of > > the world is disorder. The world is becoming undone every Planck time and is > > also reconstituted every Planck Time, as Jam

Fwd: being inside a universe

I got a bounce (" - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - "|flist everything-list" (expanded from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) so I'm trying to send this a second time: Begin forwarded message: > From: Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon Jul 08, 2002 12:17:27 PM U

Re: MWI, Copenhage, Randomness (fwd)

On 09-Sep-02, Bruno Marchal wrote: > Jesse Mazer wrote: >> Bruno Marchal wrote: >> Jesse Mazer wrote >> Ok, I think I see where my mistake was. I was thinking >> that "decoherence" just referred to interactions between a >> system and the external environment, but what you seem to >>

[Fwd: Fw: Something for Platonists]

Joao Leao wrote: > James N Rose wrote: > > > Joao wrote: > > > > "Speaking as a devout Platonist ..." > > > > About 7 years ago I realized there was > > a severe contradiction resident in modern > > concepts of Being. > > > > Godel's Incompleteness Theorems have > > established a condition-of-know

[Fwd: RE: Observation selection effects]

I always forget to reply-to-all in this list. So below goes my reply which went only to Hal Finney. -Forwarded Message- > From: Eric Cavalcanti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Hal Finney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Observation selection effects > Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:57:14 +1000 >

[Fwd: Re: Observation selection effects]

Original Message Subject: Re: Observation selection effects Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 02:29:54 -0400 From: Danny Mayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References

Re: [Extropolis] Fwd: Cryonics Chances

On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 3:53 PM Keith Henson wrote: >> >> *I also agree with Hanson chemical fixation is a very promising >> alternative to liquid nitrogen that deserves much more emphasis:* >> > > * > **I don't think it makes a lot of difference. The difference between > zero and what it costs t

Fwd: Fwd: [New post] 2022 Templeton Prize goes to Nobel-winning physicist Frank Wilczek

Another example of why Bruno should get a Templeton. Brent Forwarded Message Site logo image whyevolutionistrue posted: "The Templeton Prize, now worth $1.3 million, was initiated by the hedge-fund magnate Sir John Templeton (1912-2008) to award accomplished people of fait

Fwd: Platonic (Leibnizian) mechanics and computationalism

On 24 Dec 2013, at 13:58, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal Good to hear from you. Merry Christmas ! Merry Christmas Roger. We differ basically in the role that thinking by the One plays. My view is that thinking by the One was only a one-time event (but from the aspect of eternit

Fwd: fundamentalists object to set theory

Surprisingly, Bruno might be invited to teach at Bob Jones University, :-) http://boingboing.net/2012/08/07/what-do-christian-fundamentali.html Brent "Die ganze Zahl schuf der liebe Gott, alles Übrige ist Menschenwerk" --- Kronecker -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Fwd: Better Than the Chinese Room

-- Forwarded message -- From: David Nyman Date: 15 February 2014 23:45 Subject: RE: Better Than the Chinese Room To: Craig Weinberg Can you give me a principled distinction between reproducing and copying? David Sent from my Windows Phone -- From: C

Fwd: Scott Aaronson vs. Max Tegmark

Original Message Scott Aaronson reviews Max Tegmark's /Our Mathematical Universe/: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1753 The comments section includes Max Tegmark's remarks on Scott Aaronson's remarks, ending for now with: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1753#co

Re: Fwd: Leibniz: Reality as Dust

On 11/8/2012 8:51 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: Stephan, If the compact manifolds of string theory are all different and distinct (as I claim in my paper from observations of a variable fine structure constant across the universe), then the manifolds should form a Stone space if each manifold instan

Re: Fwd: Leibniz: Reality as Dust

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: > On 11/8/2012 8:51 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: > > Stephan, > If the compact manifolds of string theory are all different and > distinct (as I claim in my paper from observations of a variable fine > structure constant across the universe), th

Fwd: [Swines] "Mind-reading" smartphone headband :-?

-- Forwarded message -- From: May-Tzu Date: Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:51 PM Subject: [Swines] "Mind-reading" smartphone headband :-? To: swi...@yahoogroups.com ** CNN tries out the mind-reading smartphone headband By Stephanie Busari, CNN updated 10:38 AM EST, Thu December 6, 2012

Fwd: [FOM] Preprint: "Topological Galois Theory"

Hi Bruno, You might be interested in this! Original Message Subject:[FOM] Preprint: "Topological Galois Theory" Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 20:08:04 +0100 From: Olivia Caramello Reply-To: Foundations of Mathematics To: Foundations of Mathematics Dear

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