Re: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

From: Brent Meeker <meekerdb.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:46:31 -0700

jamikes.domain.name.hidden wrote:
> Very wise words, Bruno.
> John
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> From: "Bruno Marchal" <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
> To: <everything-list.domain.name.hidden>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 8:45 AM
> Subject: Re: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...
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> Le 15-août-06, à 20:52, complexitystudies a écrit :
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>>The deductions made via UDA are impressing,
>>but I would like to seriously question the Platonic
>>Assumptions underlying all this reasoning.
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> No problem. I see you assume a physical universe. I don't. We have just
> different theories.
> Note that if you understand the whole UDA, you should realize that the
> price of assuming a physical universe (and wanting it to be related
> with our experiences *and* our experiments) is to postulate that you
> (and us, if you are not solipsistic) are not turing emulable.

Perhaps I misunderstood. I thought it only implied that you were *probably*
being turing emulated - not that you necessarily were.

Brent Meeker

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