Re: For John Clark

2013-10-26 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Do you think that [you] die in a self-duplication experience? ^^^ We've been through this, it depends on who the hell you is. Is you the guy who remembers being John Clark

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-26 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: Unlike you, I fortunately do not have the time to dig up your ad hominems. Well, I sure didn't have to dig very far to find your ad hominems! In just one short post you say: I'm a bigot. I'm a

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-26 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Yes it's me... you're the one who is bragging for **years** about useless confusion that only exists in your mind. Quentin 2013/10/26 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: Well, you could always

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-26 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/26 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: Well, you could always reciprocate Quentin's courtesy and [...] Courtesy? This is the fellow who said: Your agenda is not to try to comprehend something,

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-26 Thread meekerdb
On 10/26/2013 1:54 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 25 Oct 2013, at 23:33, smi...@zonnet.nl wrote: ... It is: 3) Bruno has yet to develop the mathematical tools to do practical computations. Not at all. That would be the case if the goal was doing physics, but the goal was only to formulate

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 26 Oct 2013, at 19:27, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Do you think that [you] die in a self-duplication experience? ^^^ We've been through this, it depends on who the hell you is. Is you

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-26 Thread meekerdb
On 10/26/2013 10:21 AM, Jason Resch wrote: Brent, Section 3b of ( http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9709032v1.pdf ) seems to also answer some of the questions you posed recently regarding superposition in MWI: B. “It doesn’t explain why we don’t perceive weird superpositions” That’s right! The

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Oct 2013, at 21:46, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: That will not increase precision unless you give a name (and NOT a pronoun!) to the guy who wrote the diary, if its Mr. The Guy Who Is Experiencing Helsinki On October

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-25 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Do you think that [you] die in a self-duplication experience? ^^^ We've been through this, it depends on who the hell you is. Is you the guy who remembers being John Clark

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-25 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/25 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Do you think that [you] die in a self-duplication experience? ^^^ We've been through this, it depends on who the hell you is. Is you

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-25 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: Be consistent, reject MWI, or ask *the same question* about the probability of *you* (who is you ? pinocchio maybe ?) In the MWI John Clark doesn't have to worry about who you is because however many copies of you

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-25 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: We have already agree that you concerns the guy(s) who will remember having been in Helsinki. Fine, then obviously You will survive and equally obvious you will see BOTH Moscow AND Washington. Fine, then

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-25 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/25 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: Be consistent, reject MWI, or ask *the same question* about the probability of *you* (who is you ? pinocchio maybe ?) In the MWI John Clark doesn't have to worry about who

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-25 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/25 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: We have already agree that you concerns the guy(s) who will remember having been in Helsinki. Fine, then obviously You will survive and equally obvious you will see

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-25 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: Fine, if the MWI is true and if the same definition of you is used as Bruno's definition, namely that you concerns the guy(s) who will remember having been in Helsinki, then it is beyond dispute that you will see BOTH

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-25 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: In the MWI John Clark doesn't have to worry about who you is because however many copies of you there may or may not be they will never meet What does it have to do with prediction and probability ? In the MWI if

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-25 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 8:59 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: In the MWI John Clark doesn't have to worry about who you is because however many copies of you there may or may not be they will never meet

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-25 Thread meekerdb
On 10/25/2013 9:08 AM, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com mailto:allco...@gmail.com wrote: Be consistent, reject MWI, or ask *the same question* about the probability of *you* (who is you ? pinocchio maybe ?) In the MWI John Clark

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-25 Thread meekerdb
On 10/25/2013 9:24 AM, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com mailto:allco...@gmail.com wrote: We have already agree that you concerns the guy(s) who will remember having been in Helsinki. Fine, then obviously

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-25 Thread smitra
Citeren meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 10/25/2013 9:08 AM, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com mailto:allco...@gmail.com wrote: Be consistent, reject MWI, or ask *the same question* about the probability of *you* (who is you ?

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Oct 2013, at 19:57, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Note, John, that you just go from P(W) = P(M) = 0, to the post you sent before (and that I commented), to P(W) = P(M) = 1. That's because it depends entirely about

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-24 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: That will not increase precision unless you give a name (and NOT a pronoun!) to the guy who wrote the diary, if its Mr. The Guy Who Is Experiencing Helsinki On October 21 2013 then the probability he will experience

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-24 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/24 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: That will not increase precision unless you give a name (and NOT a pronoun!) to the guy who wrote the diary, if its Mr. The Guy Who Is Experiencing Helsinki On October 21

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-23 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: I'd only ever seen numerical simulations of it, but consulting the ever-handy Wikipedia, it looks like the percolation threshold is given by the inverse of the average node degree for Erdos-Renyi random graphs.

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Oct 2013, at 20:56, Quentin Anciaux wrote to John Clark (I comment both) 2013/10/22 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 6:03 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/21/2013 9:16 AM, John Clark wrote: Let me put it in this way: accepting that P(W)

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 5:49 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/21/2013 12:27 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 1:02 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/20/2013 10:51 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:11 AM, meekerdb

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Oct 2013, at 18:16, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: When John Clark asks who is you? Bruno responds that he could no more answer that question than he could square a circle. The quote, please. John Clark will be happy to:

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Oct 2013, at 23:17, Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 05:01:50PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: Nevertheless, you do think there must be some strong indicators why a continuous (well at least local changes only) conscious path exists between all conscious states. What is

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-22 Thread Jason Resch
Russell, Out of curiosity, is that link density of ~62% derived from 1 - (e^-1) ? The concept seems related, as it is also the proportion of hash values that can be reached by hashing all possible hash values (for a good hash function with a uniform distribution). Jason On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-22 Thread meekerdb
On 10/22/2013 1:09 AM, Jason Resch wrote: If it's simply a set of experiences, then it can't choose to simulate anything. The mind has the tools available to generate any experience it wants, somewhat like a lucid dream but one where you exercise complete control over everything in

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:38 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/22/2013 1:09 AM, Jason Resch wrote: If it's simply a set of experiences, then it can't choose to simulate anything. The mind has the tools available to generate any experience it wants, somewhat like a lucid

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-22 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 6:03 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/21/2013 9:16 AM, John Clark wrote: Let me put it in this way: accepting that P(W) = P(M) =1/2, with W and M describing the first person experiences of the respective copies, do you accept that P(M) = P(W) = 1/2,

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-22 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/22 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 6:03 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/21/2013 9:16 AM, John Clark wrote: Let me put it in this way: accepting that P(W) = P(M) =1/2, with W and M describing the first person experiences of the

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-22 Thread meekerdb
On 10/22/2013 9:52 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:38 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/22/2013 1:09 AM, Jason Resch wrote: If it's simply a set of experiences, then it can't choose to simulate anything. The

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-22 Thread Russell Standish
I'd only ever seen numerical simulations of it, but consulting the ever-handy Wikipedia, it looks like the percolation threshold is given by the inverse of the average node degree for Erdos-Renyi random graphs. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_graph). Mind you, Wikipedia does seem to be

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 3:42 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/22/2013 9:52 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:38 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/22/2013 1:09 AM, Jason Resch wrote: If it's simply a set of experiences, then it can't choose

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-21 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: When John Clark asks who is you? Bruno responds that he could no more answer that question than he could square a circle. The quote, please. John Clark will be happy to: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Bruno

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-21 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/21 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: When John Clark asks who is you? Bruno responds that he could no more answer that question than he could square a circle. The quote, please. John Clark will be happy

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-21 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: I don't give a damn about predictions, correct ones or incorrect ones, because they have nothing to do with what we were talking about, the sense of self. I only care if I remember being John Clark yesterday, if I do

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-21 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/21 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: I don't give a damn about predictions, correct ones or incorrect ones, because they have nothing to do with what we were talking about, the sense of self. I only care if I

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-21 Thread meekerdb
On 10/20/2013 10:51 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:11 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/20/2013 8:18 PM, Jason Resch wrote: If the first person views/memories are not integrated, they are not experienced by

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-21 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 1:02 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/20/2013 10:51 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:11 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/20/2013 8:18 PM, Jason Resch wrote: If the first person views/memories are not integrated, they

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-21 Thread meekerdb
On 10/21/2013 9:16 AM, John Clark wrote: Let me put it in this way: accepting that P(W) = P(M) =1/2, with W and M describing the first person experiences of the respective copies, do you accept that P(M) = P(W) = 1/2, No I don't accept that, not if P(W) is the probability that

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-21 Thread meekerdb
On 10/21/2013 12:27 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 1:02 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/20/2013 10:51 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:11 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Oct 2013, at 22:53, meekerdb wrote: On 10/19/2013 7:07 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The base problem disappears when you take 1) the universal wave, and 2) accept the idea that all states of the subsystem are relative indexical defined by the base in which some self-aware subparts

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Oct 2013, at 23:30, meekerdb wrote: On 10/19/2013 10:15 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 11:11 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/19/2013 12:30 AM, Jason Resch wrote: Amnesia = gap in the chain. Memories are not a necessary requirement for experience

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-20 Thread meekerdb
On 10/19/2013 11:30 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: But such a path that exists, and in the case that all paths are explored All things follow from a false premise. Only when actually proved to be false will everything actually follows. You can't speculate on the falsity of e proposition to say

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-20 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.auwrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 07:33:42PM -0500, Jason Resch wrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 06:02:14PM -0500, Jason Resch wrote:

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Oct 2013, at 02:24, Russell Standish wrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 06:02:14PM -0500, Jason Resch wrote: Across the many worlds you will find a nearly continuous spectrum of persons from those just like you to those like someone else, and everything in between. Any suggestion of a

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Oct 2013, at 09:33, Jason Resch wrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 07:33:42PM -0500, Jason Resch wrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Sat, Oct 19,

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-20 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 02:33:54AM -0500, Jason Resch wrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.auwrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 07:33:42PM -0500, Jason Resch wrote: If there is anything in reality that knows what it is like to be you, and knows

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-20 Thread LizR
On 21 October 2013 12:13, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:57:00AM +1300, LizR wrote: On 21 October 2013 11:54, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: What I was saying was that if everything exists, then Jupiter brains who have experienced

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-20 Thread meekerdb
On 10/20/2013 8:18 PM, Jason Resch wrote: If the first person views/memories are not integrated, they are not experienced by the Jupiter brain, only instantiated, and it learns nothing of what it is like to *be* the beings it discovers. ?? How is an experience instantiated without being

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-20 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:11 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/20/2013 8:18 PM, Jason Resch wrote: If the first person views/memories are not integrated, they are not experienced by the Jupiter brain, only instantiated, and it learns nothing of what it is like to *be* the

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread meekerdb
On 10/18/2013 9:58 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Oct 2013, at 00:56, meekerdb wrote: On 10/18/2013 1:38 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:27 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18/2013 12:26 AM, Jason Resch wrote: *On

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Oct 2013, at 07:52, meekerdb wrote: On 10/18/2013 9:49 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Oct 2013, at 00:34, meekerdb wrote: On 10/18/2013 1:29 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:23 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18/2013 12:18 AM, Jason Resch wrote:

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread meekerdb
On 10/18/2013 11:06 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Oct 2013, at 07:52, meekerdb wrote: On 10/18/2013 9:49 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Oct 2013, at 00:34, meekerdb wrote: On 10/18/2013 1:29 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:23 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Oct 2013, at 07:59, meekerdb wrote: On 10/18/2013 9:58 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Oct 2013, at 00:56, meekerdb wrote: On 10/18/2013 1:38 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:27 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18/2013 12:26 AM, Jason Resch wrote:

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 5:34 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18/2013 1:29 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:23 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18/2013 12:18 AM, Jason Resch wrote: Note: I do believe we experience all possible outcomes, and

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 5:56 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18/2013 1:38 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:27 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18/2013 12:26 AM, Jason Resch wrote: *On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:03 PM*, meekerdb

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 6:09 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18/2013 1:45 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:37 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18/2013 12:42 AM, Jason Resch wrote: But that's not compatible with Bruno's idea of

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 12:52 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18/2013 9:49 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Oct 2013, at 00:34, meekerdb wrote: On 10/18/2013 1:29 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:23 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 19 Oct 2013, at 07:52, meekerdb wrote: On 10/18/2013 9:49 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Oct 2013, at 00:34, meekerdb wrote: On 10/18/2013 1:29 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:23 AM,

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Oct 2013, at 08:23, meekerdb wrote: On 10/18/2013 11:06 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Oct 2013, at 07:52, meekerdb wrote: On 10/18/2013 9:49 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Oct 2013, at 00:34, meekerdb wrote: On 10/18/2013 1:29 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Oct 2013, at 09:30, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 5:34 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: convoluted with periods of amnesia, Amnesia = gap in the chain. Memories are not a necessary requirement for experience and thus are not a requirement for

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Oct 2013, at 10:00, Jason Resch wrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 19 Oct 2013, at 07:52, meekerdb wrote: On 10/18/2013 9:49 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Oct 2013, at 00:34, meekerdb wrote: On 10/18/2013 1:29 PM, Jason Resch

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: As I've said many times, being deterministic and being predictable is NOT the same thing. There is not *uncertainty* from the 3rd POV... nothing, zip, nada (both event happen) and it is fully deterministic.

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/19 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.comwrote: As I've said many times, being deterministic and being predictable is NOT the same thing. There is not *uncertainty* from the 3rd POV... nothing, zip, nada (both event

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 11:11 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/19/2013 12:30 AM, Jason Resch wrote: Amnesia = gap in the chain. Memories are not a necessary requirement for experience and thus are not a requirement for subjective continuation and survival. You survive

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 19 Oct 2013, at 09:42, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 6:09 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18/2013 1:45 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:37 AM, meekerdb

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread meekerdb
On 10/19/2013 12:42 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 6:09 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18/2013 1:45 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:37 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread meekerdb
On 10/19/2013 1:00 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 19 Oct 2013, at 07:52, meekerdb wrote: On 10/18/2013 9:49 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Oct 2013, at 00:34, meekerdb wrote:

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread meekerdb
On 10/19/2013 7:07 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The base problem disappears when you take 1) the universal wave, and 2) accept the idea that all states of the subsystem are relative indexical defined by the base in which some self-aware subparts (local universal machine) can develop and remember

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread meekerdb
On 10/19/2013 10:15 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 11:11 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/19/2013 12:30 AM, Jason Resch wrote: Amnesia = gap in the chain. Memories are not a necessary requirement for experience

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 01:53:14PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: But why are self-aware subparts necessarily classical? That's was my question that started this thread. Why can't there be a self-aware subpart that is aware of the wave-functions projection onto other bases in which it is not even

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 4:30 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/19/2013 10:15 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 11:11 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/19/2013 12:30 AM, Jason Resch wrote: Amnesia = gap in the chain. Memories are not a

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 4:30 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/19/2013 10:15 AM, Jason Resch wrote: branching, etc. Any state eventually leads to every other state. Sounds like wishful thinking. I will accept that when you can point to a computational state not

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 06:02:14PM -0500, Jason Resch wrote: Across the many worlds you will find a nearly continuous spectrum of persons from those just like you to those like someone else, and everything in between. Any suggestion of a discrete border that defines where Brent ends and

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.auwrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 06:02:14PM -0500, Jason Resch wrote: Across the many worlds you will find a nearly continuous spectrum of persons from those just like you to those like someone else, and everything in

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Oct 2013, at 19:30, Jason Resch wrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 19 Oct 2013, at 09:42, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 6:09 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18/2013 1:45 PM, Jason Resch wrote:

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 8:04 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 October 2013 13:42, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: The basis problem is no different from the present problem under special relativity: If we exist in many times across space time, why do we find ourselves in this

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
-list@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: For John Clark Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 02:04:27 + Hi Jason Subject refers to the I, the indexical first-person. The word 'I' is indexical, like 'now' and 'here'. The experience isn't indexical, its just me. This page offers some examples

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
the problems to be? Not at the moment. As i said, Im not sure what to make of any of it. regards. Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:04:58 +1300 Subject: Re: For John Clark From: lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com On 18 October 2013 13:42, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread Jason Resch
. As i said, Im not sure what to make of any of it. Okay, that is fair. Jason regards. -- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:04:58 +1300 Subject: Re: For John Clark From: lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com On 18 October 2013 13:42, Jason

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Oct 2013, at 04:17, LizR wrote: On 18 October 2013 15:04, chris peck chris_peck...@hotmail.com wrote: Immediately after teleportation there will be uncertainty because you are no longer sure of your location but are sure that you have been duplicated and sent to one place or the

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread Jason Resch
*On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:03 PM*, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/17/2013 6:04 PM, LizR wrote: On 18 October 2013 13:42, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: The basis problem is no different from the present problem under special relativity: If we exist in many times

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:27 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/17/2013 5:42 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 6:23 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/16/2013 11:55 PM, Jason Resch wrote: I see your reference and raise you a reference back to

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Oct 2013, at 01:23, meekerdb wrote: On 10/16/2013 11:55 PM, Jason Resch wrote: I see your reference and raise you a reference back to section 4.1 of http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0312136 From the paper: What of the crucial question: should Alice1 feel uncertain? Why, Alice1 is a

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread meekerdb
On 10/18/2013 12:26 AM, Jason Resch wrote: *On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:03 PM*, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/17/2013 6:04 PM, LizR wrote: On 18 October 2013 13:42, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com mailto:jasonre...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread meekerdb
On 10/18/2013 12:42 AM, Jason Resch wrote: But that's not compatible with Bruno's idea of eliminating the physical - at least not unless he can solve the basis problem. Could you do me a favor and explain what the basis problem is in a way that a 6th grader could understand? I've

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread meekerdb
On 10/18/2013 12:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 18 Oct 2013, at 01:23, meekerdb wrote: On 10/16/2013 11:55 PM, Jason Resch wrote: I see your reference and raise you a reference back to section 4.1 of http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0312136 From the paper: What of the crucial

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/18 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 10/18/2013 12:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 18 Oct 2013, at 01:23, meekerdb wrote: On 10/16/2013 11:55 PM, Jason Resch wrote: I see your reference and raise you a reference back to section 4.1 of http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0312136

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Oct 2013, at 18:55, meekerdb wrote: On 10/18/2013 12:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 18 Oct 2013, at 01:23, meekerdb wrote: On 10/16/2013 11:55 PM, Jason Resch wrote: I see your reference and raise you a reference back to section 4.1 of http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0312136 From

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread meekerdb
On 10/18/2013 10:48 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/10/18 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net On 10/18/2013 12:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 18 Oct 2013, at 01:23, meekerdb wrote: On 10/16/2013 11:55 PM, Jason Resch wrote: I see your reference

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread meekerdb
On 10/18/2013 11:22 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 18 Oct 2013, at 18:55, meekerdb wrote: On 10/18/2013 12:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 18 Oct 2013, at 01:23, meekerdb wrote: On 10/16/2013 11:55 PM, Jason Resch wrote: I see your reference and raise you a reference back to section 4.1

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2013/10/18 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 10/18/2013 10:48 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/10/18 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 10/18/2013 12:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 18 Oct 2013, at 01:23, meekerdb wrote: On 10/16/2013 11:55 PM, Jason Resch wrote: I see your

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Oct 2013, at 19:48, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2013/10/18 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On 10/18/2013 12:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 18 Oct 2013, at 01:23, meekerdb wrote: On 10/16/2013 11:55 PM, Jason Resch wrote: I see your reference and raise you a reference back to section

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread meekerdb
On 10/18/2013 11:45 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The key result is that incompleteness makes the Theaetetus' definition of knowledge (the only one I know capable of doing justice to the metaphysical antic dream argument) given a classical theory of knowledge (S4Grz) which X1* is an important

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:23 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18/2013 12:18 AM, Jason Resch wrote: Note: I do believe we experience all possible outcomes, and you can even say in truth there is only one I In your theory a person is a chain of experiences, so different chain

Re: For John Clark

2013-10-18 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:27 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/18/2013 12:26 AM, Jason Resch wrote: *On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:03 PM*, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/17/2013 6:04 PM, LizR wrote: On 18 October 2013 13:42, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com

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