... I find no "superselction rule" in your FOR. Is it understood (by this rule) that the logic of interference says there cannot be a difference in charge?...
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L.johnstone
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Jan 1, 2001 2:32 pm
Hi All, Just thought I`d say hello. I've read a few of the threads and have to say some of it is a bit beyond me! But would like to share an opinion anyway. I...
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David Deutsch
david.deutsch@...
Jan 1, 2001 5:06 pm
... I've seen this criticism before. Perhaps not nearly as often as I would have if it had been true, but it is nevertheless perplexing. OK, I admit that for ...
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Jussi Kantola
Jussi.Kantola@...
Jan 2, 2001 6:17 pm
... At this point in our understanding of the multiverse and its implications to issues such as personality, I see no reason to paying serious attention to any...
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DJ White
dj@...
Jan 3, 2001 12:14 am
Jussi Kantola writes ... So physically "I" am just a single frame in a static multiverse, with an illusion of timeflow based on memories of certain other...
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Saibal Mitra
smitra@...
Jan 3, 2001 12:15 am
Suppose you start with a star described by some many-particle wavefunction. The star evolves and after a supernova explosion a black hole forms. According to...
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Russell Standish
R.Standish@...
Jan 3, 2001 12:43 am
OK - lets take a stab at this. Uniticity really means that information is conserved across the multiverse. Within each branch, of course, observers will...
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Russell Standish
R.Standish@...
Jan 3, 2001 7:23 am
... There has been a long running debate between those who adopt the above position, and those like myself who consider time to be an essential ingredient of...
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Saibal Mitra
smitra@...
Jan 3, 2001 4:41 pm
I would argue that the illusion of Free Will arises precisely because for epsilon small enough the two consciousnesses are the same, while they will start to...
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John J. Lee
phrxy@...
Jan 3, 2001 7:51 pm
On Thursday 21st December 2000, Bob Hearn wrote: [...] ... [...] I don't think the idea of having 'your conciousness transferred to the branch...' makes sense,...
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John J. Lee
phrxy@...
Jan 3, 2001 7:51 pm
... [...] On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Bacon, Michael wrote: [...] ... [...] But if what Kip Thorne (according to Saibal) says is correct, then there is no need for...
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Wellington Silva
wesilva@...
Jan 3, 2001 7:52 pm
May I argue what is the density of the multiverse in a mathematical sense ? What is the class of its infinite ? I understand that in a quantic reality there...
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John J. Lee
phrxy@...
Jan 3, 2001 7:52 pm
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Russell Standish wrote: [...] ... [...] Where is there difference in this between the MWI and classical cases? John...
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Russell Standish
R.Standish@...
Jan 4, 2001 11:45 am
None whatsoever! However, a consciousness traveling along a splitting branch will eventually be split into two, as the branches diverge sufficiently. So there...
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Russell Standish
R.Standish@...
Jan 4, 2001 11:52 am
... Forgive me if I get this wrong, but this is a statement of COMP, n'est-ce pas? ... Dr. Russell Standish Director High Performance Computing...
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J Bonaiuto
jbonaiuto@...
Jan 4, 2001 5:47 pm
Just a thought - I was watching Rainmain the other night and I saw the part where the doctor is doing calculations on a calculator and Raymond, the autistic,...
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David Deutsch
david.deutsch@...
Jan 4, 2001 5:57 pm
... If they could factor arbitrary numbers with hundreds of digits, then yes, it would. But there are no such people: it's fiction. -- David Deutsch ...
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Wellington Silva
wesilva@...
Jan 4, 2001 7:28 pm
OOppss ! I studied with a Brazilian mathematician, Dr Omar Catunda, PhD, who worked with Von Neumann, and he always said to us that Von Neumann was capable of ...
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Marchal
marchal@...
Jan 5, 2001 5:48 pm
I am not sure it makes sense to attribute consciousness to any "language" (nor machines, bodies, processes, etc.). I prefer to attribute consciousness to...
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Marchal
marchal@...
Jan 5, 2001 5:49 pm
... I agree ! But I almost disagree ! In fact I agree, in the case you agree that knowing is believing something correct (even for accidental reasons). (This...
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John Edwards
johnedwardsus@...
Jan 5, 2001 5:49 pm
No one, even on this list can accurately predict what the human brain is capable of, as we still do not know everything about it. There are numerous cases of ...
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David Deutsch
david.deutsch@...
Jan 5, 2001 11:35 pm
[On the subject of whether disabled people might be able to factorise large integers by quantum computation:] ... Of course we on this List, like all human...
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william taylor
rama_314@...
Jan 6, 2001 11:25 am
Whenever Mr. Godel's Theorem pops up in the arguments of anti-AI folks, I am reminded of a something Emerson once said: "Consistency is the hobgoblin of small...
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Robin Green
greenrd@...
Jan 6, 2001 3:51 pm
... Could you clarify that? Multitudes of what? ... But how can pain or the experience of blueness, be reduced to mathematics? It can't. Yet pain and the...
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Gary S. Bekkum
gbekkum@...
Jan 6, 2001 4:04 pm
I hold David's depth of philosophical insight into the nature of reality with great reverence, so if I am to take issue with him, I must tread carefully...
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Norman Seifert
Norman777@...
Jan 6, 2001 6:42 pm
Agreed that the human brain alone is now limited does not limit what it can achieve using auxiliary devices. See you all in the year 3000. Norman...
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Gary S. Bekkum
gbekkum@...
Jan 6, 2001 6:42 pm
I would suggest that anyone interested in Godel's theorem become aquatinted with the work of Gregory Chaitin of IBM: Chaitin says: "So I had a crazy idea. I...
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william taylor
rama_314@...
Jan 6, 2001 9:57 pm
... I was making a Walt Whitman reference, an annoying habit for which I apologize. Basically what I meant is that Godel's theorem applies to formal systems...
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Saibal Mitra
smitra@...
Jan 6, 2001 11:17 pm
Russel Standish wrote ... Forgive me if I get this wrong, but this is a statement of COMP, n'est-ce pas?´´ Oui! [Non-text portions of this message have been...
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Adam F. Cornford
acornford@...
Jan 7, 2001 1:16 am
... A couple of observations, some reading I have found useful, and a plea: First, David makes a strong case for an essentially computational model of the...
