Re: first person indeterminacy vs predictability

2011-03-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
ions. You might, but are not obliged, to present yourself, mister or miss digital physics. Bruno Marchal (*) http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/publications/SANE2004MARCHALAbstract.html http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal From: marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: fi

RE: first person indeterminacy vs predictability

2011-03-08 Thread Digital Physics
hallucinations? From: marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: first person indeterminacy vs predictability Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 18:19:33 +0100 On 07 Mar 2011, at 17:26, Digital Physics wrote: I agree that white rabbits have programs much shorter than those of random

Re: first person indeterminacy vs predictability

2011-03-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Mar 2011, at 17:26, Digital Physics wrote: I agree that white rabbits have programs much shorter than those of random structures. It depends. Very short programs can generate all random structures. You mean the short program that computes the entire set! But this is irrelevant he

RE: first person indeterminacy vs predictability

2011-03-07 Thread Digital Physics
> > I agree that white rabbits have programs much shorter than those of random > > structures. > It depends. Very short programs can generate all random structures. You mean the short program that computes the entire set! But this is irrelevant here: to predict a concrete individual history, w

Re: first person indeterminacy vs predictability

2011-03-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
comp would imply white noise and would fall immediately in Russell's Occam catastrophe. But, thanks to God, universal numbers does not put only mess in Platonia, they generate also a lot of order. -- Bruno Marchal From: marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subjec

RE: first person indeterminacy vs predictability

2011-03-07 Thread Digital Physics
From: marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: first person indeterminacy vs predictability Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 14:58:15 +0100 On 07 Mar 2011, at 10:47, Digital Physics wrote:But if most histories are equally likely, and most of them are random and unpredictable and weird

Re: first person indeterminacy vs predictability

2011-03-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Mar 2011, at 10:47, Digital Physics wrote: But if most histories are equally likely, and most of them are random and unpredictable and weird in the sense that suddenly crocodiles fly by, then why can we predict rather reliably that none of those weird histories will happen? > From: m

RE: first person indeterminacy vs predictability

2011-03-07 Thread Digital Physics
But if most histories are equally likely, and most of them are random and unpredictable and weird in the sense that suddenly crocodiles fly by, then why can we predict rather reliably that none of those weird histories will happen? > From: marc...@ulb.ac.be > To: everything-list@googlegroups.c