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To be frank, I don't think any formal system can entail (or simulate) the world in its entirety. There will be inconsistencies within such a model sys...
December 07, 2016 at 06:43
Well, there is just one concrete thing, the world. There is no reason to assume a gap in intelligibility/understanding between the brain and all its f...
December 06, 2016 at 04:14
Well, I am quite ignorant and uneducated so forgive my lack of knowledge. May I ask if a universal Turing machine is an object that can simulate an ar...
December 06, 2016 at 03:22
Truth. Truth makes it possible. This is where I contest with the JTB theory of knowledge. Truth comes before beliefs and justification. I don't quite ...
December 06, 2016 at 03:07
Yes; but, you're asking me how does this forum exist. I'm just saying that it exists in logical space or if you prefer 'state-space'. It could be that...
December 06, 2016 at 03:05
I'm confused. You seem to be making an issue about degrees of truth or different categories of truth. In logical space all truths are equal, depending...
December 06, 2016 at 03:01
I am no computer science expert or know all that much about computer architecture; but, what I do know about computational entities is that they are r...
December 06, 2016 at 02:33
I feel there is a deep connection between philosophy and the mindset characterized by 'anxiety, depression/hopelessness, angst, apathy... etc.' Obviou...
December 06, 2016 at 00:33
I think mentioning 'emergent phenomena' is apt here. Take Escher's paintings for example... These are properties of a system that are at the same time...
December 05, 2016 at 11:52
So, my question is... In order to answer such fascinating questions as 'Is the universe deterministic?', then one need compute said physical laws as p...
December 05, 2016 at 11:38
Serious stuff. Hope you can get Banno to post around here. After all... everything is a goat.
December 04, 2016 at 17:46
Whatever happened to Banno?
December 04, 2016 at 08:07
Poland made Jesus Christ their King of all kings. So, essentially we have Christian fascism.
December 01, 2016 at 20:12
I am reading it as we speak. I see no mention of the halting problem thus far...
November 28, 2016 at 20:25
Posted this question over at physicsforum: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/church-turing-deutsch-principle-and-incompleteness-halting.895072/ I'...
November 28, 2016 at 19:22
I have yet to see proof that every physical law can be computed, which you (by the way) state as an absolute truth(?) Until then this is an unsubstant...
November 25, 2016 at 22:43
Yet, that statement requires much-needed justification! Is it all platonism in modeling logical relations between objects in logical space?
November 25, 2016 at 21:14
If all the laws of physics can be computed, then doesn't that presuppose that logic is at least synonymous or at least as important as physics is. Or ...
November 25, 2016 at 20:37
No, if something is computable (doesn't encounter the Halting problem), then it is real in some sense. If something can't be computed then that is ind...
November 25, 2016 at 20:25
I made a post about this issue over at physics forum. See: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/proving-the-church-turing-deutsch-principle.894529/
November 25, 2016 at 20:13
I think it's ignorant to say that (The West has a bigger military, thus Putin hasn't achieved his goal). The Soviet's realized that they could not kee...
November 25, 2016 at 02:33
I'm going to try and simplify my question to a more simple one pertaining as to whether Godel's Incompleteness Theorems negates the possibility of con...
November 25, 2016 at 02:23
So, what I am getting at is what you can ask. My main point is that how can we know for certain that the MWI is actual/real/valid/.../true if the only...
November 25, 2016 at 01:41
I actually think it's more to do with the years of subversion Russia has been mounting against the U.S and its allies finally showing results. I don't...
November 24, 2016 at 23:29
So, the Church-Turing-Deutsch Principle can never be known to be true. Thus, we don't know if we can simulate Everittian QM and know it is determinist...
November 24, 2016 at 23:05
This is an issue because given any sufficiently sophisticated universal computing device there will be "truths" or what can be called manifest physica...
November 24, 2016 at 22:35
I suppose the crux of my issues in asking these questions is how do you prove the Church-Turing-Deutsch Principle?
November 23, 2016 at 19:12
If no physical law can be proven, then doesn't that mean that physics will always be incomplete? In other words, you can have a supposed infinite amou...
November 23, 2016 at 18:53
For example that some events within a simulated universe can be unintelligible. Or maybe that there are emergent phenomena within a universe that can'...
November 23, 2016 at 17:16
But, that is the case, because any formal system relies on mathematics and logic to rationalize it. For the matter Tegmark's ultimate dimension of the...
November 23, 2016 at 16:24
Well if physics is mathematics manifest in nature, then a computer modeling such a mathematical construct would have to face with Godel's Incompletene...
November 23, 2016 at 16:17
Let me elaborate my reasoning. Let's say that some sufficiently complex computer of whatever origin is designed to simulate all the physical laws of t...
November 22, 2016 at 23:12
Stoics are machines. Therefore, become a Stoic.
November 22, 2016 at 22:51
It's my opinion based on my rather superficial understanding of evolutionary game theory that altruism and cooperation are always the better options i...
November 22, 2016 at 01:32
There is one way to answer this pertinent question. If every physical law is computable, then we can recreate reality (on a much smaller scale) here o...
November 22, 2016 at 01:27
If the wavefunction exists as a mathematical conception existing in Hilbert space, then I am compelled to agree with Tegmark's belief that reality is ...
November 22, 2016 at 00:53
Thank you, I think I understand now. One last question that is on my mind. Does Everettian QM obey causality? And if not what determines the evolution...
November 22, 2016 at 00:26
1. 2. 3. The first quote gives me the impression that this one wavefunction is representative of all interactions between objects in space, which seem...
November 21, 2016 at 22:39
Regarding that. Is there any distinction between local events and supra-local events in Everettian QM?
November 21, 2016 at 21:58
Sounds like something you say in a cult. Never mind me, I never got past understanding how one defines an or a ? 'observer' in QM.
November 21, 2016 at 20:57
I find it solipsistic and incomprehensible to view every entity existing in a multiplicity of states in the multiverse. Doesn't one wavefunction entai...
November 21, 2016 at 20:27
Does anyone think the MWI, leads to notions of solipsism for any particular observer? Kinda a reductio ad absurdum if you may...
November 21, 2016 at 18:42
And every photon is happy in their own possible world.
November 21, 2016 at 05:50
What's worse is that there's no time to think. Let Fox News do that for me.
November 21, 2016 at 03:20
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I've worked a couple of places and find work to be the most therapeutic thing one can do when confronted with problems. You basically have some measur...
November 20, 2016 at 07:43
I don't think the wording was appropriate. Rather we've already had 4, with an upcoming 5'th administration that believes that the free market is best...
November 20, 2016 at 05:00
Possibly? Are you just being coy about this or really think that people are better off financially than 30 years ago? The free market is not to blame ...
November 20, 2016 at 04:51
So, in reality, people are even poorer than expected or rather have become much poorer relative to where they stood some 30 years ago. Add some inflat...
November 20, 2016 at 04:35
Well for starters people can't afford their mortgage despite enjoying tvs and air conditioning. Also, moving up the ladder isn't good just for the ind...
November 20, 2016 at 04:13
Yes, these are all nice things that one can now afford due to technology and deflationary tendencies that technology and global trade incur. However, ...
November 20, 2016 at 02:06