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I bump into things now in three dimensions. There is a difference between the 4-space of Euclidean space,, and the 4-space of relativity. Once you inc...

Sorry that was not an accusation. I meant that both our posts were getting lengthy. I commend your efforts to shorten the convo. The forum is usually ...

I was halfway through responding line by line to your lengthy post, and I lost the whole damn thing in the forum software. Perhaps this is a happy acc...

I'm satisfied on the output or interface aspect. The output could be anything, they could watch us on 3D holograms or a VR headset. It could even be i...

No worries mate.

They could never execute me. And since death warrants specify the execution date, I'd only have to hold out long enough to reach the next calendar day...

I'm gratified to know I'm being helpful. Thanks. Ok correct to there. "Infinitely fine precision" is imprecise. If you change it to arbitrarily fine p...

The buffet at the Hilbert hotel!

Olive Garden Never Ending Pasta Bowl of course!

Ok, I'll concede that the sim program has some kind of graphic output that lets the simulators watch the ancestor simulation in action. BTW Google map...

Ok. So far, after all this, what I understand of your idea is that the real line consists of a countably infinite set of overlapping open intervals, e...

I'm coming to the end here. My interest in this topic is far exceeded by my word count at this point. At one point I thought I understood the sim/VR d...

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What? You know, none of this makes any sense. What? There's no difference with respect to algorithms. Consider 1/3 = .333... Of course, because they a...

I have no problem with you identifying the various computable real numbers with any one of the many algorithms that generate their decimal digits. Or,...

The voices in my head. Put there by our Simulator who art in heaven. Yes, we're characters in a video game, with the assumption that Ms Pac-Man has an...

That is really cool, thanks! I think I'll be hooked on looking these up now.

@"Michael" I have tracked down but not yet had the time to read Benacerraf's famous paper on the subject, Tasks, Super-tasks, and the Modern Eleatics ...

Modulus of convergence is a thing in constructive math. I learned about it arguing with a constructivist here a couple of years back. Andrej Bauer wro...

I don't read this thread, I only respond to my mentions. So I have no idea what @"Arkady" may have said. If I sound like him he must be an individual ...

Was my mention of constructive analysis helpful? You don't believe in the real numbers, how can you manipulate them? You think every real number can b...

At exactly midnight, there is no time interval or delay prior to it that doesn't jump us back into the sequence. This is because midnight is a limit p...

Get with the program, man. AI partners are the way to go. https://romanticai.com/ ps -- I played around with this. It's an uncanny chatbot. Once they ...

I have no limbic system. Only a simulation of a limbic system in a computer, if I understand you correctly (clearly I don't, right?) A computer simula...

I understand your point. I really do. But you are expecting a limit point to have an immediate predecessor, when it does not. Consider the sequence of...

Well, physics got strange in the 20th century, leading to a lot of philosophy, good and bad. There's a philosopher of physics named Tim Maudlin whose ...

What about computer arithmetic, fixed and floating point representations, smallest and largest possible values? All that followed went way over my hea...

Is that right? I'm not sure if I have studied that, the pre-Newton and pre-Leibniz developments. You could be right.

I think the circumstantial case against the CIA is stronger than the circumstantial case against Oswald. There's no proof either way. Oswald never cou...

@"Wayfarer" I can address the specifics of your post now. I understand! When the Democrats impeach Trump twice, the first time over something that Bid...

I'm reading The Dark Side of Camelot by Sy Hersh. Dishes the dirt. I don't say JFK was a saint. I do say that this country has not been the same since...

Well, you said that as if it makes a point. Which escapes my simple mind. If after all this, your point is that Thompson's lamp is a silly thought exp...

Wow. I'm speechless. Dare I ask why you say that? But nevermind. I don't necessarily need to have this conversation. Really? "However, arson, vandalis...

If there are no gaps, it's complete. That's the informal definition. The official definition is that every Cauchy sequence converges. You haven't defi...

Just grabbing this quote for tagging purposes, perhaps I'll get to the particulars later. I want to be more general today. Your posts have been on my ...

I see intelligent people on the left, where I used to be, rationalizing lawfare and the politicized application of justice, from Russiagate to the pre...

Just can't help yourself. Done with you

Have a nice evening. Your inability to engage in intelligent conversation is apparent to all.

Hysterical. Childish. I expect the left to riot and rampage if Trump wins. It's the left who are the danger to democracy these days. I'll concede your...

Overthrow the government. That hysterical rhetoric is childish. Nobody overthrew the government. Handful of unarmed clowns in costumes. Guess you miss...

Where is the will that initiates the process? You are agreeing with me again? I made no rules. I expressed an opinion. Ok. My reasons are irrational. ...

Who is pushing this button, by the way? And how? Magic again? It's a premise of the thought experiment that there is a sequence of steps at successive...

Then what on earth are you doing? You claimed completeness. Do you now retract that? Or have a private definition? How does it work? What does it do? ...

Didn't they throw certain GOP members off the committee or deny them membership, flouting longstanding procedures? I also hear they destroyed all thei...

I think there are abstract things and concrete things. But physics these days pushes hard on the nature of physical things. Is there a philosopher in ...

You know, Searle got into some trouble a while back, he was harassing the female grad students. A lot of other Berkeley philosophers knew about it and...

You totally get it. @"Michael"'s turn :-)

This isn't going anywhere. And as I've mentioned, the real numbers are categorical. That means that up to isomorphism, there is only one model of the ...

In online discussions of infinity, someone is bound to come along and say, "Infinity is a concept." Which always makes me say, So What? 3 is a concept...

Ok. Agreement is good. I appreciate that. I hope you agree that building a mathematical model of the problem is a valid way to approach it. I do recog...