I assume the quote below is a reply to my question yesterday ... As I pointed out, a function has at best a Platonic existence, at least, if we are talking...
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pourrientui
Feb 6, 2004 1:02 am
I've heard that autistics can have exceptional math abilities, though I'm unaware of the cause or link with autisim, but I didn't know that they could factor...
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Bruno Marchal
marchal@...
Feb 6, 2004 1:02 am
... I don't think so. Riemann Hypothesis (RH) is fruitful (unlike the ex-conjecture "fermat"), The RH has a lot of non trivial consequences including the case...
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WillBBlake@...
Feb 6, 2004 1:02 am
In a message dated 05/02/04 05:03:54 GMT Standard Time, charles@... ... I don't think I agree this is at all impossible, quite the opposite, because, ...
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jake_freivald@...
jdfreivald
Feb 6, 2004 1:01 am
... There are more male autistic people than female, by a fairly large number. I forget the ratio, but it's on the order of 2-to-1. Most autistic people aren't...
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WillBBlake@...
Feb 6, 2004 12:59 am
As far as I understand Roger Penrose's view of the interpretation of QM, he thinks that the wave function objectively exists within our universe and, on ...
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uv
uv@...
Feb 6, 2004 12:59 am
For this Year's edge question, Hameroff's Law is: "The sub-conscious mind is to consciousness what the quantum world is to the classical world." I agree that...
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Charles Goodwin
charlesgoodw...
Feb 5, 2004 2:49 am
... From: <WillBBlake@...> ... possible ... which ... time. ... Not to mention impossible, once the relevant parts of the whole structure have decohered......
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WillBBlake@...
Feb 5, 2004 1:27 am
... Brian, the quote is, as you say, interesting and relevant to various aspects of the discussion. I first responded to a post from Charles Halswell which ...
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WillBBlake@...
Feb 5, 2004 1:26 am
In a message dated 04/02/04 13:39:57 GMT Standard Time, charles@... ... To be honest I'm relying on my memory for the "original"; MWI interpretation. I...
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Barry Brent
barrybrent@...
Feb 5, 2004 1:25 am
I read a lot of passages like this ... macroscopic object. on this list. The writers are using a shorthand, apparently, since functions exist Platonically at...
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WillBBlake@...
Feb 4, 2004 4:53 pm
... Sorry, no particular references. Just general reading which I did quite a while ago, together with having recently re-read FoR, having been impressed the ...
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Brian Scurfield
mayorofcool
Feb 4, 2004 1:39 pm
... Just a point of clarification: What do you mean by the original MWI? The term "many worlds" was not Everett's. Given that it sometimes seems as though...
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Richard Lubbock
rlubbock@...
Feb 4, 2004 1:37 pm
... I reflect that some exceptional people, autistics in particular, can handle large primes easily. A Darwinian argument from the theory of sexual selection...
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Charles Goodwin
charlesgoodw...
Feb 4, 2004 1:35 pm
... From: <WillBBlake@...> ... hypothesis ... This is one point I'm not very clear about. What does the original MWI do instead of describing reality as a...
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Gustavo Eulalio
gusuf
Feb 4, 2004 12:28 am
... Have you looked at QCL? http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/~oemer/qcl.html I have a kind of recent group for discussion about quantum computing. Maybe your questions...
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WillBBlake@...
Feb 4, 2004 12:25 am
... My point is that FoR's multiverse is not a feature of the original MWI, not whether or not FoR describes the multiverse accurately. FoR's addition of the ...
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Gary Oberbrunner
garyo2
Feb 4, 2004 12:22 am
... I'm not sure whose version of MWI you consider the "original"; one. Do you have a reference? All the current references I know of (admittedly IANAP) treat...
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egg plant
eggplant107@...
Feb 4, 2004 12:19 am
... But suppose the Riemann Hypothesis is true but not provable; then 10 billion years from now our descendents will still be looking, unsuccessfully, for a ...
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Alan Forrester
alan_forrester2
Feb 3, 2004 2:28 pm
... It is an explanation that does not capture absolutely every feature of the multiverse, but it was never intended to do that, simply to refute the theory...
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WillBBlake@...
Feb 3, 2004 1:37 pm
In a message dated 03/02/04 13:09:50 GMT Standard Time, ... I think there's rather more to the shortcomings of FoR's elaboration of MWI than you say. I think...
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WillBBlake@...
Feb 3, 2004 1:09 pm
In a message dated 03/02/04 00:44:26 GMT Standard Time, charles@... ... You're quite right, this is FoR's approach. To recap, the original version of ...
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pourrientui
Feb 3, 2004 1:09 pm
For this Year's edge question, Hameroff's Law is: ["The sub-conscious mind is to consciousness what the quantum world is to the classical world. The vast...
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Brian Scurfield
mayorofcool
Feb 3, 2004 1:08 pm
As DD pointed out, it is convenient to speak of universes interfering because it provides a very accurate, though ultimately approximate, description of...
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Charles Goodwin
charlesgoodw...
Feb 3, 2004 12:42 am
... From: <WillBBlake@...> ... wave ... between ... what's ... of MWI ... why ... different ... I *think* the FoR approach is that the quantum system...
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Bruno Marchal
marchal@...
Feb 2, 2004 1:20 pm
... I agree with Ronald. Kitaev's work is a sort of applied knot theory to a form of quantum computing called topological computing. Its advantage resides in...
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WillBBlake@...
Feb 2, 2004 1:19 pm
In a message dated 02/02/04 02:05:03 GMT Standard Time, ... Brian Thanks for taking the trouble to find those extracts; they were interesting and illuminating....
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Brian Scurfield
mayorofcool
Feb 2, 2004 2:03 am
I think DD is fully appreciative of the issues you raise. If you look in the archives at message 4033, you will see that DD wrote: "'Universe' and 'particle'...
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WillBBlake@...
Feb 1, 2004 4:19 pm
In a message dated 01/02/04 13:06:54 GMT Standard Time, ... I think that one of the problems with the FoR version of MWI (I think there may be others) is...
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Brian Scurfield
mayorofcool
Feb 1, 2004 1:06 pm
From: WillBBlake@a... Date: Sun Feb 1, 2004 4:26 am ... If I understand you correctly, your difficulty is essentially the problem of the preferred basis in...
