Hello, I have been reading this group for a while now and I have a couple of questions that I have had since reading, "fabric of reality" and "the end of...
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Doug Donaghue at 054
DDonaghue@...
Aug 1, 2002 10:14 am
... No, it's not a terribly satisfying answer to those who ask 'why' does morality even exist. Or those who look to science for answers concerning 'natural...
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Doug Donaghue at 054
DDonaghue@...
Aug 1, 2002 10:14 am
... Simply to emphasize the fact that, once the decision is made, there is no 'turning back' and changing the 'future' from that point. Doug...
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Doug Donaghue at 054
DDonaghue@...
Aug 1, 2002 10:15 am
... Our theories have shown that it *may* be an illusion. But that isn't 'proof' in the strict sense. And, I suspect, a lot of people firmly believe that...
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Doug Donaghue at 054
DDonaghue@...
Aug 1, 2002 10:15 am
... This is an argument that I've had with a lot of AI types over the years. I haven't really stayed on top of that literature (oddly, since 25 years ago I ...
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Doug Donaghue at 054
DDonaghue@...
Aug 1, 2002 10:15 am
... Errmmmm...... Don't look now, but you just *did* invent time travel <g> Doug...
From: Doug Donaghue at 054 <DDonaghue@i...> Date: Wed Jul 31, 2002 9:13 am Subject: RE: Multiversal people ... If you think the problems are still valid,...
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ISING Nicole
nicole.ising@...
Aug 1, 2002 11:46 am
I've come accross two related concepts which leave me in knots: low entanglement and high entanglement. Here is the quote from "Quantum Entanglement" by Leah...
In a message dated 8/1/2002 11:15:36 AM GMT Daylight Time, ... I just discovered that David Hume got to my view on free will a couple of centuries before I...
In a message dated 8/1/2002 11:15:35 AM GMT Daylight Time, ... I agree. Changing the future (or the past) is a meaningless concept. Charles [Non-text portions...
In a message dated 8/1/2002 11:15:47 AM GMT Daylight Time, ... Hm, yes, so I did. Or someone did - Frank Tipler perhaps. Of course most people consider time...
In a message dated 8/1/2002 11:16:06 AM GMT Daylight Time, ... Isn't this true of all scientific theories? That's why I said "our best theories have...
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Bruno Marchal
marchal@...
Aug 1, 2002 5:19 pm
... This is not an easy question. Obviously, the more general question "How can anything be felt?" is not easy too. A related hard question is "How can an...
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Scott Somerville
scott@...
Aug 1, 2002 5:20 pm
I'm writing a Philosophy course for high schoolers in my spare time at home, and Christopher Wentling's questions raise EXACTLY the same issues that I've been...
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june.shippey@...
Aug 1, 2002 5:20 pm
... [Gordon] Ah I think that these snap shots have an intrinsic Physical process which we Human are are part of therefore you are never the same person acorss...
... Charles, It is very difficult for me to imagine the deduction most implausible: that "everything there is" came into existence out of "nothing at all"...or...
In a message dated 8/1/2002 6:20:41 PM GMT Daylight Time, ... We can't. It's possible for the universe to have appeared five seconds ago, with records,...
In a message dated 8/2/2002 10:14:52 AM GMT Daylight Time, ... I suspect that the real answer will be neither that something came from nothing nor that it has...
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Doug Donaghue at 054
DDonaghue@...
Aug 2, 2002 3:03 pm
... <snip> ... Don't you just *hate* it when somebody else gets 'your' results published before you do? <g> Doug...
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Doug Donaghue at 054
DDonaghue@...
Aug 2, 2002 3:03 pm
... If there were some way to 'change horses' in midstream (swap places with one of your copies in another branch of the multiverse) you might, ...
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Doug Donaghue at 054
DDonaghue@...
Aug 2, 2002 3:04 pm
... Usually, in the physical sciences, 'proof' means 'experimental proof'. To a mathematician it means a demonstration based upon formal definitions and rules...
In a message dated 8/2/2002 4:04:05 PM GMT Daylight Time, ... Yeah, especially some obscure philosopher... Charles [Non-text portions of this message have been...
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Doug Donaghue at 054
DDonaghue@...
Aug 2, 2002 3:25 pm
... That's actually an illusion caused by the Lorentz-Fitzgerald dilation of your time line under acceleration. Time, in the rest of the universe (multiverse)...
In a message dated 8/2/2002 4:05:07 PM GMT Daylight Time, ... True. ... One can only deduce it from one's best available laws of physics. Atoms, for example,...
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Doug Donaghue at 054
DDonaghue@...
Aug 2, 2002 11:28 pm
... See http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/2000/35/index.html and http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/97/32.html for a couple of prety good pictures of what...
In a message dated 8/2/2002 4:26:01 PM GMT Daylight Time, ... I beg to differ. Relativistic time dilation is not an illusion, as can be seen in cases like...
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ronwaite@...
Aug 2, 2002 11:29 pm
So how does anyone prove that there is a "parallel and fungible self"? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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