On 15 Jan 2012, at 00:17, Russell Standish wrote:
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 07:02:52AM +0200, acw wrote:
On 1/6/2012 18:57, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 05 Jan 2012, at 11:02, acw wrote:
Thanks for replying. I was worried my post was too big and few
people will bother reading it due to size. I
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 07:02:52AM +0200, acw wrote:
On 1/6/2012 18:57, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 05 Jan 2012, at 11:02, acw wrote:
Thanks for replying. I was worried my post was too big and few
people will bother reading it due to size. I hope to read your
opinion on the viability of the
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
Assuming all possible (consistent mathematical) structures is the
simplest possible hypothesis. The problem with this is that this
'whole' might be a bit too large or inconsistent in itself (like
Russell's Paradox), and
On 07 Jan 2012, at 18:07, Jason Resch wrote:
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be
wrote:
Assuming all possible (consistent mathematical) structures is the
simplest possible hypothesis. The problem with this is that this
'whole' might be a bit too large or
On 1/6/2012 18:57, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 05 Jan 2012, at 11:02, acw wrote:
Hello everything-list, this is my first post here, but I've been
reading this list for at least half a year, and I'm afraid this post
will be a bit long as it contains many thoughts I've had on my mind
for quite some
On 9/27/2011 10:40 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:52 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net
mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
On 9/27/2011 9:13 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
I don't think that. I just noted it's logically possible, contrary to
assertions that
On Sep 28, 2011, at 1:28 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
On 9/27/2011 10:40 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:52 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net
wrote:
On 9/27/2011 9:13 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
I don't think that. I just noted it's logically possible,
Jon, (nihil0)
On 28 Sep 2011, at 01:18, nihil0 wrote:
On Sep 27, 2:46 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
I think Daniel Dennett's book Elbow Room is an excellent defense
of compatibilist free
will and why it is the only kind worth having.
Great suggestion. The wikipedia page was
On 9/26/2011 10:35 PM, nihil0 wrote:
It's a little late for this post since I've already posted 2 or 3
things, but I figured I might as well introduce myself.
I'm majoring at philosophy at the University of Michigan, however I'm
studying abroad for a trimester at Oxford. I turn 21 on Oct. 4.
are joining us.
Jason
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Hi Jon, welcome,
On 27 Sep 2011, at 07:35, nihil0 wrote:
It's a little late for this post since I've already posted 2 or 3
things, but I figured I might as well introduce myself.
I'm majoring at philosophy at the University of Michigan, however I'm
studying abroad for a trimester at Oxford. I
On Sep 27, 2:46 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
I think Daniel Dennett's book Elbow Room is an excellent defense of
compatibilist free
will and why it is the only kind worth having.
Great suggestion. The wikipedia page was fairly informative, but I'll
probably buy the book anyway.
On 9/27/2011 4:18 PM, nihil0 wrote:
On Sep 27, 2:46 am, meekerdbmeeke...@verizon.net wrote:
I think Daniel Dennett's book Elbow Room is an excellent defense of
compatibilist free
will and why it is the only kind worth having.
Great suggestion. The wikipedia page was fairly informative, but
On 9/27/2011 4:18 PM, nihil0 wrote:
1) There is an infinite number of Hubble
volumes in our universe, which are all casually disconnected (as the
theory of inflation implies). 2) There is a limit on how much matter
and energy can exist within a region of space of a given size, such as
a
On 9/27/2011 8:07 PM, nihil0 wrote:
On 9/27/2011 4:18 PM, nihil0 wrote:
1) There is an infinite number of Hubble
volumes in our universe, which are all casually disconnected (as the
theory of inflation implies). 2) There is a limit on how much matter
and energy can exist within a region of
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:52 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
On 9/27/2011 8:07 PM, nihil0 wrote:
On 9/27/2011 4:18 PM, nihil0 wrote:
1) There is an infinite number of Hubble
volumes in our universe, which are all casually disconnected (as the
theory of inflation implies). 2)
On 9/27/2011 9:13 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:52 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net
mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
On 9/27/2011 8:07 PM, nihil0 wrote:
On 9/27/2011 4:18 PM, nihil0 wrote:
1) There is an infinite number of Hubble
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:52 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
On 9/27/2011 9:13 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
I don't think that. I just noted it's logically possible, contrary to
assertions that our universe must be duplicated infinitely many times.
If our universe is not
It's a little late for this post since I've already posted 2 or 3
things, but I figured I might as well introduce myself.
I'm majoring at philosophy at the University of Michigan, however I'm
studying abroad for a trimester at Oxford. I turn 21 on Oct. 4.
The main questions I've been researching
Welcome!
I haven't been active on this list lately. Your article looks very
interesting, I'll read it in detail.
Saibal
Citeren Travis Garrett travis.garr...@gmail.com:
Hi everybody,
My name is Travis - I'm currently working as a postdoc at the
Perimeter Institute. I got an email
Hi everybody,
My name is Travis - I'm currently working as a postdoc at the
Perimeter Institute. I got an email from Richard Gordon and Evgenii
Rudnyi pointing out that my recent paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.2198
is being discussed here, so yeah, I'm happy to join the conversation.
I'll
Hi Travis,
Welcome to the list. Its great to see some new blood. I did get around
to reading your paper a few days ago, and had a couple of comments
which I posted.
1) Your usage of the term Physic Church-Turing Thesis. What I thought
you were assuming seemed more accurately captured by Bruno's
Hi Russell,
You'll see that I immediately followed my joining post with an ever-
so-slightly irate response to your comment ;-) I need to go have
dinner with my family, so let me quickly say that taking existing as
an observer for granted is a very easy thing to do, but it well may
need
Hi Travis,
Thank you for joining us. Please prepare to defend your paper.
Onward!
Stephen
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Subject: JOINING: Travis Garrett
Hi everybody,
My name is Travis - I'm
Hai to all
I'm Sriram Subramanian.
Doing Ph.D in Experimental physics(thin film formation).
I'm very much interested in the concept of TOE. And i'm very strange
to this theoretical concept.
Kindly tell what are the basics to study
Thanks
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Hi, have you read Tegmark's related papers?
http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/crazy.html Also his popular versions are
worth reading, as he is one of the best popular science writers I have ever
read, and the versions on his web site are not dumbed down by editorial
control.
Schmidhuber has some
Hi! My academic background is an MSc in computer science including
lots of math, plus some years of graduate studies and AI research. I'm
a very rational person (with Asperger's) and am interested in many
intellectual topics.
I subscribed to the multiverse idea a long time ago by following this
I am new to this group so I thought I give my background.
I have a BS in physics and chemistry and a BA in philosophy (UNC), an
MS in materials science (Stevens Inst), a PhD in physics (Southampton)
and I have completed ~70 additional hours of graduate studies in
computer science, mathematics,
Brent Meeker wrote:
Actually it collapses before, see quant-ph/0402146 v1. It is shown that
in a Young's slit experiment with C70 buckyballs, the interference
fringes disappear when the buckyballs are sufficiently heated to radiate
some IR photons. No observer is needed, only the
On Jan 3, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
Hi,
Is hurting or make the puppet suffer morally correct with your position ?
If it is not, then this is strange since they are only puppets and you
*are*...(means you can't hurt them because they aren't) This is simply
sollipsism and (un)fortunately
Gevin Giorbran wrote:
On Jan 3, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
Hi,
Is hurting or make the puppet suffer morally correct with your position ?
If it is not, then this is strange since they are only puppets and you
*are*...(means you can't hurt them because they aren't) This is simply
sollipsism
On Jan 2, 9:47 pm, Gevin Giorbran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Three years of college, no degrees, no status. Left school and started
writing, and authored three books about the existence and structure of
all possible universes, including Exploring A Many Worlds Universe
in 1997, arguing as the
Hi,
Sorry, yes you are a puppet, well perhaps the reader of this post
isn't a puppet, but the responses I observe will be from puppets,
while only real pilots are left to question if the set of possible
pilots is more or less restricted than the spectrum of people a pilot
experiences in the
Hi,
Is hurting or make the puppet suffer morally correct with your position ?
If it is not, then this is strange since they are only puppets and you
*are*...(means you can't hurt them because they aren't) This is simply
sollipsism and (un)fortunately completely circular.
Also as you
Welcome. I look forward to some stimulating discussions in the future.
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 10:18:02AM -0800, Argand wrote:
This is my joining post!
I am a lecturer in mathematics and physics at a senior school in
England
my background is B.Sc and Master of Philosophy degrees
Thanks for your answers to my joining post! Dear Russell, your book
Theory of Nothing has overwhelmed me, it's a fantastic work. Several
months ago, I slowly began writing a book on the theory that
everything exists (in German) -- but I will not go on because your
book seems to be so great
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 12:40:08AM -0700, Youness Ayaita wrote:
Hello everyone.
Yesterday I found this list. I am still surprised and pleased that my
old ideas are also developed and discussed by others than myself.
Since my thought is only little influenced by the literature, I hope
Hi Youness,
Le 31-août-07, à 09:40, Youness Ayaita wrote :
Hello everyone.
You are welcome.
My name's Youness Ayaita and currently I'm a graduate student of
physics and mathematics at Heidelberg University, with special
interests in the field of theoretical quantum physics and in the
Hello everyone.
My name's Youness Ayaita and currently I'm a graduate student of
physics and mathematics at Heidelberg University, with special
interests in the field of theoretical quantum physics and in the
question how it comes to our specific laws of nature.
In the beginning of the year
Recent dialogues with Russell, plus discovering and finding helpful
previous joining posts, prompts me to post this for reference
purposes.
I was born in 1950 in Glasgow Scotland of Anglo-Scottish parents, and
come from Hungarian, Middle Eastern, Russian, and Polish ancestry
insofar as I can
, for there is no profession
for it!
cheers
col
Quoting David Nyman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Recent dialogues with Russell, plus discovering and finding helpful
previous joining posts, prompts me to post this for reference
purposes.
I was born in 1950 in Glasgow Scotland of Anglo-Scottish parents, and
come from
discovering and finding helpful
previous joining posts, prompts me to post this for reference
purposes.
I was born in 1950 in Glasgow Scotland of Anglo-Scottish parents, and
come from Hungarian, Middle Eastern, Russian, and Polish ancestry
insofar as I can trace it. Mixed, anyway.
My formal
the misunderstandability. Sorry.
John Mikes
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From: 明迪
To: everything-list@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: JOINING post
Dear John Mikes, I thought your words 'Origin of (our) universe' are the
same as the word 'origination
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To: everything-list@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 2:45 AM
Subject: Re: JOINING post
Dear John,
I feel I understand your view and distinction of origination point
and origination.
Origination is entailment of origination point
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From: 明迪
To: everything-list@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: JOINING post
Dear John Mikes, I thought your words 'Origin of (our) universe' are the
same as the word 'origination-point'.
You said: (1)
1 Origin of (our
2 objections:
A. If I state that i cannot do something that does not (logically) imply
that I CAN do another thing.
B. Your last line is your opinion substantiated by nothing, I appreciate
anybodies opinion as such, it may have a personal (not factual) meaning -
weight.
We diverted from my
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Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: JOINING post
Dear John Mikes, I thought your words 'Origin of (our) universe' are the same
as the word 'origination-point'.
You said: (1)
1 Origin of (our) universe: we have no way to know.
And you also said: (2
Dear John Mikes, I thought your words 'Origin of (our) universe' are the
same as the word 'origination-point'.
You said: (1)
1 Origin of (our) universe: we have no way to know.
And you also said: (2)
we CANNOT reach to earlier items than the origination-point (whatever it
may be) of our
Dear John Mikes.
I am sorry for the late response. I will reply only to 1 part of your
letter:
1 Origin of (our) universe: we have no way to know.
If we do come up with an alorythm that actually does produce the data that
we postdict (predict in the past), we may be able to (with some
Dear Mindaugas Indriunas,
what I meant consists of the worldview that we can use
in our speculations only our present cognitive
inventory of our existing mind.
No information from super(extra)natural sources
included. Accoredingly we CANNOT reach to earlier
items than the origination-point
Hi Mohsen, welcome to the list,
Le 04-mars-07, à 08:43, Mohsen Ravanbakhsh a écrit :
Hi everybody,
As it was suggested in the homepage of the group, I'm going to have a
brief description of my backgrounds:
I'm an undergrad (grad in near future) student of Computer Science(Not
Hi everybody,
As it was suggested in the homepage of the group, I'm going to have a brief
description of my backgrounds:
I'm an undergrad (grad in near future) student of Computer Science(Not
exactly!)
I have some backgrounds in philosophy of mind and a holistic and abstract
view of Quantum
Hello,
I am an undergraduate student of mathematics, I come from Europe,
Lithuania. My lifetime research interests are the universe and it's origin
(it's structure). I have been studying physics, but changed my field to
mathematics because physics has no model which can explain the earliest
Bruno Marchal wrote:
I will take a look once I get enough time. It seems you belong to the
ASSA group, that is you accept some form of bayesianism for fundamental
probability question. Hope you will wake them up ...
(ASSA = absolute self-sampling assumption). You should read Nick
Bostrom and
Hello Everyone,
I am a 22 year old male who majored in computer science. I have some
level of familiarity with Ultimate Ensemble, Digital physics, the
many-worlds interpretation, as well as philosophy. Some people that
have influenced my ideas include: Max Tegmark, David Deutsch, Wei Dai,
Hi Jason,
Welcome,
Le 03-janv.-07, à 11:07, Jason a écrit :
http://home.gcn.cx/users/jason/ideas.html
I will take a look once I get enough time. It seems you belong to the
ASSA group, that is you accept some form of bayesianism for fundamental
probability question. Hope you will wake
Hi Maurizio,
Le 11-déc.-06, à 14:29, Maurizio Morabito a écrit :
Hello everybody
I am a 39-year-old male with a Master in Engineering, a scientific
background and an enduring passion for Cosmology
I have been elaborating something along lines similar to Tegmark's
myself for a few years,
Hello everybody
I am a 39-year-old male with a Master in Engineering, a scientific
background and an enduring passion for Cosmology
I have been elaborating something along lines similar to Tegmark's
myself for a few years, albeit starting from a more philosophical point
of view
My original
Le 03-juil.-05, à 05:17, chris peck a écrit :
The idea that the earth is an orb is not counter intuitive even though
the earth is flat locally. It counters no logical principles. The idea
that particles can be in more than one place at the same time is not
counter intuitive because it is a
more than I wanted to about all this. I ought to go and
download one of your papers.
Chris. :)
From: Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: chris peck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: everything-list@eskimo.com
Subject: Re: joining.
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 20:19:46 +0200
Hi Chris,
Le 29-juin-05, à 17:49
@eskimo.com
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 6:57 AM
Subject: Re: joining.
Hi Bruno;
'intuition is always like believing that the earth is flat.'
I disagree. People believed the earth was flat because it looked flat,
they didnt intuit this idea. Intuition is not just the absence of any
doubt about
, sounds interesting.
'I have use the modal logics of self-reference (Solovay's G and G'). Have
you heard about them?'
Nope, im new to a lot of this - thus my joining. Is self reference the same
as self perception? you know as well as refering to myself, i can introspect
to a degree too. Mind may
. Deutsch is forced to a revisionist view on
Church thesis to make it fitting with his physicalist conception of the
multiverse for example.
'I have use the modal logics of self-reference (Solovay's G and G').
Have you heard about them?'
Nope, im new to a lot of this - thus my joining. Is self
Hello;
My name is Chris Peck, this is my joining post. I have not seen anyone
elses, so im not entirely sure what's expected.
I have Ba in Philosophy from University College London, and an MSc in IT
from the same institution.
Im interested in philosophy of science - particularly
Le 28-juin-05, à 17:05, chris peck wrote (quoting Kripke)
'Some philosophers think that something's having intuitive content is
very inconclusive evidence in favor of it. I think that it is very
heavy evidence in favor of anything myself. I really don't know, in a
way, what more conclusive
Hi Chris,
Welcome! I look forward to your posts. ;-)
BTW, I have neglected to post my own Joining statement, so let me
introduce myself. I am a self-taught student of philosophy of science,
specializing on the Problems of Time and Consciousness. I somewhat follow
Chalmers' ideas
Hello everyone,
I have an M.S. in Mathematics. I've done casual reading, e.g. The Loss of Certainty (Kline), The Emperor's New Mind (Penrose), The Elegant Universe (Greene),Pensees (Pascal), lots of papers online.
Tom Caylor
Hi, I'm Paddy Leahy. I'm an astrophysicist and observational cosmologist
with a long-standing interest in the foundations of QM.
==
Dr J. P. Leahy, University of Manchester,
Jodrell Bank Observatory, School of Physics Astronomy,
Macclesfield,
Hello...
I am subscribing to this list, and as requested by the list-creator, here is
a brief introduction of moi-meme.
I found this list while Google x-referencing doomsday argument x reference
class. I am interested in metaphysika such as the DDA, MWI, Simulation
Argument, Anthropic Principle,
Hi everyone! I have been a fan of this list for some time, reading the
archive. I am an attorney with no educational background in science, so
I probably will mostly keep my mouth shut and continue to read. With
that said, I do have a great deal of interest in these topics, and have
read a
andy wrote:
Hi Everyone,
This is really a cool list, where even the most exotic
scenarios are seriously taken into account.
I'm andy, have mostly worked in IT during the 13 years
since my physics graduation.
I like simple theories. You may notice this in future
postings and on my web site.
Hi Everyone,
This is really a cool list, where even the most exotic
scenarios are seriously taken into account.
I'm andy, have mostly worked in IT during the 13 years
since my physics graduation.
I like simple theories. You may notice this in future
postings and on my web site.
Hopefully
Hi all,
I am Georges Quénot. I have a PhD in Computer Science. I have worked
on computer architectures dedicated to speech recognition and image
processing. I am now more on the software side and I am working in
the field of Multimedia Information Retrieval. My main work is not
so related to the
Hi,
My name is Eric Cavalcanti, and I am joining this list.
As was solicited in the website, I am sending this Joining post with details
of my background.
I am a physicist, recently received my MSc in atomic physics.
I have been participating in the Fabric of Reality list for some time, so I
08 July 2003
Sign me up ...
Bio / background : http://www.umsl.edu/~altmanc/news.html
..
Christopher Altman
Chairman
First Committee on Disarmament and International Security
United
My name is Lloyd David Raub. I'm a retired executive from Ohio State
University. I have a Ph.D. in Public Administration from Penn. State and my
interests now include TOE's, alternate universes, MWI, inflationary other
cosmologies {cyclic universes, quasi steady state, plasma,etc.} I am
Hi all,
I'm Ben Goertzel. This is my initial joining post
I'm a math PhD originally, spent 8 years as an academic in math, CS and
psych departments. Have been in the software industry for the last 5 years.
My primary research is in Artificial General Intelligence (see
www.realai.net
Hi Saibal,
At 0:26 +0200 1/06/2002, Saibal Mitra wrote:
I think that statistical physics, and especially renormalization group
techniques, are essential if one wishes to derive the physics that we
observe from abstract concepts like a measure defined on a set of computer
programs.
As I said I
I am a licensed Professional Engineer.
BSEE The University of Illinois - Champaign/Urbana; 1966
MSEE Syracuse University; 1970
Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu
A member of Mensa
From 1966 to about 1987 I worked in the power semiconductor/power
electronics industry. I published some papers on the
their intellectual backgrounds. What fields are
you familiar with, what relevant books/papers have you read, etc.? This
way, if you don't understand someone's post, you can look up his JOINING
post in the archive and figure out what background he is assuming. I got
this idea from the SL4 mailing
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Subject: JOINING posts
I find that I often have trouble understanding posts on this mailing list,
given the wide range of intellectual ground that it covers. It seems that
people sometimes assume a background in an academic field, and I'm not
even sure what the field is, or how
Dear All,
I've been lurking for a while while I try to figure out something useful to
contribute, but figured you should at least know I'm here...
I'm a postdoctoral research fellow at Cambridge (UK), working in
palaeontology - specifically, the early evolution of various invertebrate
with, what relevant books/papers have you read, etc.? This
way, if you don't understand someone's post, you can look up his JOINING
post in the archive and figure out what background he is assuming. I got
this idea from the SL4 mailing list; maybe it will work here as well.
To begin with myself, I work
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