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AP: Any two deterministic, reversible automata with state space ofthe
same cardinality are isomorphic, no?
BH: If so, wouldn't that involve an isomorphism whose information
contentispotentially the same size as the state space
itself?AP: I am not sure how the
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BH:How do you decide whether
two logically possible souls are the same if
neither exists in this world? Presumably you do it by comparing what we
(hypothetically)know about them -- i.e. their specifications or descriptions.
AP:I take it that we agree
that there
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AP: The question of whether two chunks of matter are the samesurely
has little to do with specifications.
BH:You just did it again. Would you still say "surely" if in
yourstatementyou replace "chunks of matter" with "souls" or
"spirits" or "logicallypossible
[Brian Holtz]
If two spacetime-disconnected regions are causally disconnected (such that
none of the events in each has any possibility of influence on any events in
the other), then it seems pure artifice to say the regions are in the same
world. You could as easily say that all possible events
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I reply to Prof. Pruss:
BH: I have the vague suspicion here that by using words like
physical/matter/concrete/chunk, you're skirting the issue of how worlds are
specified in the general case, by narrowing the scope to worlds whose only
constituents are material --
Le 27-juin-05, à 17:12, Brian Holtz a écrit :
I reply to Prof. Pruss:
BH: I have the vague suspicion here that by using words like physical/matter/concrete/chunk, you're skirting the issue of how worlds are specified in the general case, by narrowing the scope to worlds whose only constituents
Le 14-juin-05, 18:26, Brian Holtz a crit :
Hi everyone (in this world and all relevantly similar ones :-),
Welcome to the list Brian. Thanks for the link to Alexander R Pruss'
web page, which seems quite interesting (and which I will comment a
little bit too, here or in a next post).
ubject: Re: possible solution to modal
realism's problem of induction
Hi everyone (in this world and all
relevantly similar ones :-),
I like the solution to the Induction /
Dragon / Exploding Cow problem that I see in work by Malcolm, Standish,
Tegmark, and Schmidhuber. So I
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Alex Prusswrote:
Remember that I am working in David Lewis's framework. Each world
isa physical object: a bunch of matter, connected
togetherspatiotemporally. So I do not need to work with
specifications, butwith concrete chunks of stuff. There is nothing
further
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:02:19PM -0700, Brian Holtz wrote:
Alex Pruss wrote:
Remember that I am working in David Lewis's framework. Each world is a
physical object: a bunch of matter, connected together spatiotemporally. So
I do not need to work with specifications, but with concrete
Title: Message
Hi everyone (in this world and all
relevantly similar ones :-),
I like the solution to the Induction /
Dragon / Exploding Cow problem that I see in work by Malcolm, Standish, Tegmark,
and Schmidhuber. So I forwarded references to Alexander Pruss, whose
dissertation raises
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:26:54AM -0700, Brian Holtz wrote:
Hi everyone (in this world and all relevantly similar ones :-),
I like the solution to the Induction / Dragon / Exploding Cow problem that I
see in work by Malcolm, Standish, Tegmark, and Schmidhuber. So I forwarded
references to
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