Agent Smith

What is an example of something outside the multiverse?

If the light blips then atoms exist \forall x(Bx \to \exists x(Ax)) If x thinks then a thinker x exists \forall x(Sx \to \exists x(Rx))

A big if! Are you up to making a wager à la Pascal?

Yep, that seems to be the most logical option. I tried translating "If I think THEN I exist" into predicate logic but all I can manage is nonsense lik...

A most interesting paragraph mon ami, a most interesting paragraph. Au revoir.

Merci beaucoup for that interesting remark. Wonderful! 1. Information is an emergent property 2. Enformy is an effect and not a cause I have a feeling...

The problem with naturalism is simply that evolution as the justification for reason is that it's circular (evolution justifies reason justifies evolu...

You ask good questions mon ami, good questions. It's just that fictional stories are logically rich and I would much prefer it if logic could be used ...

Muchas gracias. I'll need some time to process that. It's not a surprise at all, now that I think of it, that logic (being reality-oriented) is so fic...

You're an information goldmine, monsieur. :up: My conception of how info underpins everything is that it's a prerequisite to, well, everything. Before...

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All this might be somehow connected to the hard problem of consciousness: if objectivity is so high on the agenda (for life), why, o why, did subjecti...

How does it work? Did you go into the mechanics of it? All I can recall from a video on the app is that a photon is split into two. What happens after...

To me the distractions is life. We're not here on some kinda mission to do something specific. We're here to look around, explore, create a magnificen...

I was not all there. :smile:

A given signal's information content seems to be a measure of how much noise (Shannon entropy) it has to deal with. Again got this from Dawkins, if I ...

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DNA is the medium (paper), the message (information is in the sequence of nucleotides)

Interesting read (the excerpt). Last I checked, (digital) computers are essentially analog i.e. current is continuous quantity, can assume any value w...

Yeah, but if information isn't conserved and if matter & energy (physical) are then ... Are you perhaps conflating the medium for the message?

Gettier Problem JTB theory of knowledge S = somebody P = a proposition S knows P IFF 1. S believes P 2. P is justified 3. P is true Justification 1. D...

Danke mon ami, danke!

Yes master?! :chin: :grin: Gracias mi amigo. That information is not conserved may be the good & bad news nonphysicalists are waiting for. Energy & ma...

Saw your relations diagram. Reminds of the seven bridges of Königsberg problem (status: solved, courtesy Leonhard Euler) Also do read my reply to 180 ...

To tell you the truth, a Google search on conservation of energy was negative although there was something in The black hole information paradox (Suss...

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A cool app, goes by the rather modest name umiverse splitter Well go on then, split the universe! :party:

Stay safe Jack! :up: Talking is a cakewalk compared to doing! The expression "put yer money where yer mouth is" is on point. Walk the talk? :smile: Se...

Spot on sir/madam as the case may be. One spanner in the works is habit (pick up bad ones and you've basically sealed your fate). However, difficulty ...

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Would I be correct if I said praxis is the stumbling block? Many people, I for one, are unable to practice rationality despite knowing everything ther...

Isn't unification the norm? NATO, Warsaw Pact, SAARC, G20, ASEAN, BRICS, BIMSTEC, OPEC, EU, The League of Nations, and UN its successor.

:rofl: To, Aristotle, Head of the Lyceum. Greece Dear sir, Gracias for the prompt reply. It's heartening to know even your PA', Mr. Paris Drakos', kno...

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There's a lot yet to explain in cosmology/cosmogony/astronomy. Did you read 180 Proof's reply to me? There are some mathematical models which purport ...

There's this riddle if youtube videos are to be believed that scientists haven't yet solved: why was the early universe in a low entropy state? Must b...

From the Fibonacci sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ... we get the following ordered pairs (1, 1), (2, 3), (3, 5), (5, 8), (8, 13) ... Is this some kind...

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Muchas gracias for the compliment. I'm learning Latin ... in fits and starts. Wish me luck.

An interesting take on The Matrix Trilogy. The two, Mr. Anderson, ultimately Neo, The One, and Agent Smith, later the Smith virus, were like positron ...

It's like room cleaning. You cleaning your room = You moving your garbage elsewhere. Your room is clean, but the environment is dirty and the net dirt...

:up: What is an anomaly? Why does it beg/demand for an explanation? You need to watch this video \downarrow. Sean Carroll shares his views on entropy ...

So, in a sense, this Enformy (order) is a "pattern" in Entropy (chaos). @"180 Proof" would agree, I recall him saying something to the effect that ord...

I believe Bartricks wants to discuss the now very famous Dunning-Kruger effect. I conjecture that if we take the y axis as how well one recognizes one...

A good ol' question. Hypothesis non fingo.

Ati sundar! :up:

In my thread Is Chance A Cause?, I draw the distinction between nature of phenomena (?) and cause of phenomena (a particular combination of causal fac...

:up: A stranger in a strange land, mon ami? Would you describe yerself as cosmopolitan (à la Diogenes the Cynic, but taken up a notch, a citizen of th...

:fire: :clap: :up: :100: I once replied to my sister who kept pestering me with the question "what is love?" with "Love is a chemical reaction". That'...

Neat! It's rather curious that Yeshua would perform miracles in all the branches of science - it bears all the hallmarks of a power display, designed ...