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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 ho

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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

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On 07 Jan 2012, at 18:07, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Bruno Marchal 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 itse

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On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Bruno Marchal 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 like I've s

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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

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Jon, (nihil0) On 28 Sep 2011, at 01:18, nihil0 wrote: On Sep 27, 2:46 am, meekerdb 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,

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On Sep 28, 2011, at 1:28 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 9/27/2011 10:40 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:52 PM, meekerdb 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 mu

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On 9/27/2011 10:40 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:52 PM, meekerdb > 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 b

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On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:52 PM, meekerdb 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 duplicated a huge nu

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On 9/27/2011 9:13 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:52 PM, meekerdb > 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 o

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On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:52 PM, meekerdb 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) There is

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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 spac

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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

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On 9/27/2011 4:18 PM, nihil0 wrote: On Sep 27, 2:46 am, meekerdb 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 t

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On Sep 27, 2:46 am, meekerdb 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. From what I gathe

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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

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om/2002/jun/featuniverse > I would be grateful if anyone could shed some light on any of these > questions. I'm very impressed with what I've read so far from people. > > Ahh good, so you were looking for input. :-) > Glad to be here, > > Thanks, glad you ar

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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. Th

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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

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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 : 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 Evge

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Hi Travis, Thank you for joining us. Please prepare to defend your paper. Onward! Stephen -Original Message- From: Travis Garrett Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 4:10 PM To: Everything List Subject: JOINING: Travis Garrett Hi everybody, My name is Travis - I&#

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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 ne

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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 C

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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 re

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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 s

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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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

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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 si

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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, che

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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 intera

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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 >>

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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 com

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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 acknowled

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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

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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

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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 Phi

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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

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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

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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

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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 2003

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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

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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 Ang

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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

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> > > > "origination point" IMO is part of the item to be originated, the > pertinent > > 'point' (within and for) the evolving total to grow out from. > > As I used 'origination" refers to the entailment producing such "point" >

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before the 'time' of Loebian machines (even before my time). We can speculate, it is cheap. John - Original Message - From: 明迪 To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 2:45 AM Subject: Re: JOINING post Dear John, I feel I understand your

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back to, not further to 'its' entailing > circumstgances we have no access to. > I tried to adjust to a vocabulary I responded to, not my own and preferred > one. Hence the misunderstandability. Sorry. > > John Mikes > > > - Original Message - > From: 明迪 > T

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ikes - Original Message - 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'. Yo

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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 p

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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

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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 (what

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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 certainty

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" I can only conclude that the 'isms are asomewhat artificial classification - useful for discussing past ideas on consciousness perhaps, but not useful for going forward." I got your point, thanks. I wanted to see if there's any assumption. -- Mohsen Ravanbakhsh, --~--~-~--~~

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On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 09:29:51PM +0330, Mohsen Ravanbakhsh wrote: > > and I have another question: > Throughout discussions, what is the assumption regarding the mind-body > problem? (Emergentism, reductionism, eliminativism, dualism, ...) > > -- > > Mohsen Ravanbakhsh, > > None of the ab

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Thank you for your welcome, A neat approach! "You know the many world interpretation of Everett?" Yes, I've read about it, but as I said before my knowledge of Quantum Physics is too general. "You know quantum computing?" I have some background, but I don't know if there's any way in which it's re

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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 > ex

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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 physi

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Dear Mindaugas Indriunas, I usually do not reply to newcomers, I leave it to the more seasoned list members and keep my pretty unorthodox ideas from the 'unseasoned' fresh theoretically idealists. Now I make an exemption, mainly not for you, but for other listers to expose some of my heretic positi

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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 momen

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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 the

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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 the

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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, Konr

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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 ques

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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 '

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On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 03:17:56AM +, chris peck wrote: > > But logic proves validity, not truth. We shouldnt assume there is any truth > about a valid argument. We can question the premises of a valid argument, > and should do so if its conclusions are as counter intuitive as those of > th

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for agnosticism here? Speak Soon hopefully. Chris. From: Bruno Marchal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "chris peck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Everything-List List Subject: Re: joining. Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 15:55:10 +0200 Le 30-juin-05, à 12:57, chris peck a écrit : 'int

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Le 30-juin-05, à 12:57, chris peck a écrit : 'intuition is always like believing that the earth is flat.'(BM) 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 a proposition, intuition is

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; To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: 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 no

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rst person perspectives generally. Anyway Im arguing 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

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27;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 ma

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the ultimate evidence is "conclusive" but ineffable.' I'll give it a go, 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

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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

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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 ev

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Hi,   I have a degree in Maths, and Physics and have worked in the computer industry for the last 15 years.   David  

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Hello   I'm mainly an idoit, sometimes a savant.  I get most of the references that I've read so far, but don't really have a deep technical background in any one area.  Can't wait to catch up on the archives! 

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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 l

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> Here are a few words describing my background. > Ok, who wants to go next? scerir = serafino cerulli-irelli born in Rome, 1949 physicist at Rome Un. La Sapienza (during '70s and '80s) now a farmer, and sometimes a lawyer, but still reading papers & books about quantum fields, econophysics,

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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 subj

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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

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I am currently working on my Ph.D. project on statistical physics. I am familiar with renormalization group techniques and some specialized techniques for exactly solving models, like the Bethe Ansatz and the Yang-Baxter equation. I independently concluded that mathematical existence and physical

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On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 05:02:06PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > - Computability and Logic, by George Boolos and Richard Jeffrey (Cambridge > University Press (third ed. 1989). I noticed that a fourth edition just came out in March of this year. This seems to be THE book for learning me

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nd 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. OK. I am a belgium mathematician from Brussels University (born in Germany 1955). I go

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members each posts a short biography of > themselves, and tell us 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 arc

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aps it would help if list members each posts a short biography of > themselves, and tell us 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

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om: "Wei Dai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 7:47 PM 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

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