... Whether you describe an automata as a single entity or a collection of interacting automata, or both, is just a matter of human interpretation (well, at...
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Robin Green
greenrd@...
Feb 1, 2001 2:45 pm
... I find this idea absolutely fascinating. We are quite used to a statement's truth value being dependent on the referents of personal pronouns like "I" or...
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jean.dutertre
Jean.Dutertre@...
Feb 1, 2001 4:23 pm
Lombroso says : I don't believe it is possible to perform an experiment to verify the multiverse hypothesis directly. However,it is true that quantum...
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Adam F. Cornford
acornford@...
Feb 1, 2001 5:30 pm
... David Deutsch <david.deutsch@...> responded to Adam F. Cornford ... Quite so--I was imprecise. I did not mean the falsifiability (or not of) the ...
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McNeill, F.M.
mmcneill@...
Feb 2, 2001 2:30 am
There are three manifestations of magic in the known universe that I can enumerate: 1. Matter ( something rather than nothing, now) 2. Qualia (the presence and...
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Eric Lombrozo
eric@...
Feb 2, 2001 3:24 am
... This is a very interesting twist... For everyone else, it is clearly true. Also, for everyone else it is clear that it is undecidable for you. However, for...
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Marcel.Aucoin
Marcel.Aucoin@...
Feb 2, 2001 6:20 pm
In his explanation of free will, ( FOR page 339), David wrote: ³Thus Turingıs conception of computation seems less disconnected from human values, and is no...
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Marcel.Aucoin
Marcel.Aucoin@...
Feb 2, 2001 6:23 pm
At the end of FOR Chapter 2 page 53 David wrote: ³Many of those David are at this moment writing these very words. Some are putting it better. Other have gone...
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Ardeshir Mehta
ardeshirmehta@...
Feb 2, 2001 9:48 pm
Hi everybody: The problem with sentences like the following seems to be that the word "truth" is used in a meaningless way. If you give *any* definition to the...
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David Deutsch
david.deutsch@...
Feb 2, 2001 10:35 pm
... And in cases where they turn out to be meaningless, one cannot rationally assert their truth. Correct? -- David Deutsch ...
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Ardeshir Mehta
ardeshirmehta@...
Feb 2, 2001 10:52 pm
Hi everybody: ... Correct. And even more importantly, one cannot rationally assert their falsehood either! It's like saying "Santa Claus has no beard". Is this...
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David Deutsch
david.deutsch@...
Feb 2, 2001 11:00 pm
... OK. So, in particular, I cannot rationally assert the truth (or falsehood) of this statement. Correct? -- David Deutsch ...
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McNeill, F.M.
mmcneill@...
Feb 2, 2001 11:41 pm
Please consider Fuzzy Logic in these cases. Crisp Logic as you are using is a very limited case of Fuzzy Logic. Fuzzy Logic connects better with conceptual...
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shivadave@...
Feb 3, 2001 12:03 am
... Some are ... the ... beautiful ... lives in ... What I am curious about is why, if we accept this MWI, which asserts that the multiverse is a fundamentally...
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shivadave@...
Feb 3, 2001 12:22 am
Was it Alfred Korzybsky who said, "Meaning is found in context?" Jason Eggink ... of ... calls for ... that set ... allows the ... limited ... on ... their ......
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David Deutsch
david.deutsch@...
Feb 3, 2001 12:22 am
... OK. ... Having considered this world view, would you rather I concluded it was false, or just fuzzy? -- David Deutsch ...
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Anna M*
pantheon@...
Feb 3, 2001 12:23 am
Better yet, in all probability we cannot ever know what the " truth" is unless we accept the possibility that there is a code for it accessible to the mind...
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David Deutsch
david.deutsch@...
Feb 3, 2001 12:46 am
... OK. ... Having considered this world view, would you rather I concluded it was false, or just fuzzy? -- David Deutsch ...
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McNeill, F.M.
mmcneill@...
Feb 3, 2001 1:43 am
Why Fuzzy of course, with a truth value of .99. Even phlosgiston today still has a truth value of .0001. (Something does flow.) About the same as that of Crisp...
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Graham, Scott
ScottG@...
Feb 3, 2001 1:59 am
... For reference, the statement, made by David, now in question, is: "So, in particular, I cannot rationally assert the truth (or falsehood) of this...
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McNeill, F.M.
mmcneill@...
Feb 3, 2001 3:19 am
Please consider in your genetically biased primate paradigms, that in all these ratiocinations, from a "Great Automaton" or evan fellow "Alien Intelligence"...
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Graham, Scott
ScottG@...
Feb 3, 2001 4:13 am
On the contrary, I rather suspect that a "Great Atomaton" or a highly advance alien intelligence would both look upon us much as we (as adults) look upon...
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Ardeshir Mehta
ardeshirmehta@...
Feb 3, 2001 1:47 pm
Hi everybody: ... Correct. So note that the statement is *not* false, and yet not true either. There is an ambiguity inherent in the symbol '~' used in logic...
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McNeill, F.M.
mmcneill@...
Feb 3, 2001 2:57 pm
"Working" does not obviate "insanity". Take those delightful, entertaining qualia we humans strut around with claiming them to be images of a reality. They may...
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Aki Tasa
jskogste@...
Feb 3, 2001 3:04 pm
... From: <ScottG@...> To: <Fabric-of-Reality@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 5:37 AM Subject: "Standing Wave" Theory of Particles...
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Robin Green
greenrd@...
Feb 3, 2001 3:13 pm
... Perhaps we can make it a bit clearer by being more long-winded: (Incidentally, John Searle provides a good simple defense of the correspondence theory of...
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Robin Green
greenrd@...
Feb 3, 2001 3:15 pm
... Yup, but that only defers the problem. Take "This statement is 50% true". If it is 50% true then it is 100% true, so it can't be 50% true. Beyond that we...
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Marchal
marchal@...
Feb 3, 2001 3:15 pm
... Godel manages to prove his theorem by first proving what is now called the diagonalisation lemma: for any formula A(x) we can construct a sentence k such...
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Marchal
marchal@...
Feb 3, 2001 3:16 pm
... Not necessarily so. The contrary happens with the hypothesis (in "philosophy" of mind) according to which we are universal turing machine (UM). (In the...
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Brian Medley
101330.2542@...
Feb 3, 2001 3:17 pm
Message text written by "Graham, Scott" <ScottG@...> ... falsehood) ... I don't think that any of the examples posted thus far *do* quite work. I think...
