... There is no *logical* reason why things could not be proved by a continuous number of steps by a thing with continuous doodads. So the Turing notion of ...
... I don't see how that's different from just random. Assigning a probability to something could be seen as the "determined" component. If there is no...
... To simulate a general quantum system with a classical computer you need a number of bits that scales exponentially with the number of qubits in the system....
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Günther Greindl
guenther.greindl@...
Oct 1, 2007 3:24 pm
Hi Peter, ... If you choose to call that free will. What is "free" in a partly determined and partly random system? Regards, Günther -- Günther Greindl ...
Gary Thanks for replying. I've been so busy thinking about alot of subjects that I didn't take much time to see if and who responded. I wish to take the...
http://www.higgo.com/quantum/modest.htm " Quantum Physics and the Pensions Crisis by James Higgo The latest advances in quantum physics suggest a way out of...
... I see your point, which I believe is that we care about branching evens in the future that we can influence. And so we choose based on expectation values...
... Are you talking about the A and B series business? As in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._E._McTaggart ? If so, yes, I've read about it in various books...
... OK, but some infinities have more elements than others. Over time does the infinity of worlds include new worlds in DD's view? If so when do they come...
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Bruno Marchal
marchal@...
Oct 1, 2007 3:33 pm
... Not at all. I didn't mention free-will here. The question was: can you change the proportion of relative universes (relative to your own state, say). And...
You are assuming there is no third possibility, and your analogy to "married bachelor" does not apply. The definitions of random and deterministic are not...
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Bruno Marchal
marchal@...
Oct 1, 2007 3:34 pm
... I agree with Timpson about what he says on Deutsch (and I have said similar things myself: the "revisionist conception" on Church'S thesis). But then...
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Bruno Marchal
marchal@...
Oct 1, 2007 3:34 pm
... Gosh! If you were right, any application of math on something not purely mathematical would be an error (good bye physics then!). Actually I know "pure...
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Bruno Marchal
marchal@...
Oct 1, 2007 3:34 pm
... Oh! For this you should consult the work by Hilbert. I think that he just takes the parallel postulate as axiom, given that Bolyai and Gauss did already...
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Bruno Marchal
marchal@...
Oct 1, 2007 3:34 pm
... For a constructive physicalist? Yes. Clearly you can implement a machine doing simple arithmetic by using the (computable, then) physical laws. And in that...
... Subject to the whim of the gods, of course. -- Gary...
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Bruno Marchal
marchal@...
Oct 1, 2007 3:36 pm
Hi Günther, ... It is indeed a consequence of the comp hyp. It is a local result: it predicts the existence of observable phenomena which are impossible to ...
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Bruno Marchal
marchal@...
Oct 1, 2007 3:37 pm
... Now with loop gravity, given that the space time curvature (= gravitation) is itself quantized, there is a case that the number of worlds is finite. No? ...
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Bruno Marchal
marchal@...
Oct 1, 2007 3:39 pm
... Unless you are in Platonia, where there are no deadlines. In the case of typical Godel or Turing-like pure unsolvability results, it is even unwise to wait...
... Hi, Ray. The most common version I've heard is it's isomorphic to the rationals, i.e. a countable infinity. But see below for why "counting" them is not...
... Another harmless redefinition of free will. Fair enough. Charles...
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Bill Taylor
W.Taylor@...
Oct 2, 2007 6:18 pm
->> No. It will allow almost no progress on questions involving Graham-style ->> calculations, (i.e. ordinally-indexed multiply-recursive calculations.) -> ...
... What is the third possibility? ... Well, random means "will happen a specified proportion of the time" and deterministic means "will happen all the time"....
... You could write a play about that. How does "Waiting for Godel" sound? Charles...
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Bill Taylor
W.Taylor@...
Oct 2, 2007 6:19 pm
... I wrote the responding comment there, and Alan has made a follow-up response, which is very interesting, but NOT actually quite relevant to my excerpt. My...
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Bill Taylor
W.Taylor@...
Oct 2, 2007 6:19 pm
Gunther Greindl writes: ->> Ultimately, pain, (and many other things), are ineluctably subjective; ->> qualia have no objective existence... intersubjective...
... No (IMHO), because due to decoherence you have vanishingly small chance of any contact with any of your other copies, so their fates are truly irrelevant...
... I knew what you were going to suggest as soon as I read the title! Of course the same logic can be applied to overpopulated countries, people you don't ...
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Bill Taylor
W.Taylor@...
Oct 2, 2007 6:21 pm
-> Every human feels the -> same levels of pain and there is nothing subjective about it. They do not. There are many counterexamples. -> If I put -> your...
