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Jonah Thomas |
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Re: MindForth artificial intelligence lives forever. |
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Kent Paul Dolan <xanthian@well.com> wrote:
> Jonah Thomas wrote:
> > Kent Paul Dolan <xanthian@well.com> wrote:
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> >> Well, no, since, again, the universe is not
> >> binary, and there is in this case a clear ternary
> >> division; before, during, and after, and
> >> infinitely more divisions more finely spaced than
> >> that, time being a continuous variable.
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> > Are you sure time is continuous and not discrete?
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> > How would you tell?
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> Zeno's Paradox can only be overcome if time is a
> continuous variable, and since things _do_ move,
> time is continuous.
No, if time is discrete you get a different solution to zeno's paradox.
In general you can't argue that physics solutions have to be right
because the only alternative doesn't make sense. That approach sometimes
works in mathematics but in general it fails for physics.
It fails pretty consistently for economics, psychology, etc because
people usually do not make sense.
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Jonah Thomas |
Mon, 6 Oct 2008, 9:59 am |
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