Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 27

En réponse à Tristan <kesuari@...>:

>
> Lol, very good law you have their now :) How about the Tristan Law of
> Existence: if you can imagine something, it either exists, has
> existed,
> will exist, or does not exist, never has existed, and never will exist
> in somewhere in the multiverse :)
>
You misunderstood. I said "probably", not "possibly". The odds are in favour of
the existence. The "probably" is there only because the multiverse itself may
be finite and won't exist long enough to see everything we can imagine appear.
But what the law really says is that *nothing* forbids anything we can imagine
to actually exist. That's the true meaning of this law. I do think that
the "probably" isn't actually necessary, but I add it just for extra care.

>
> Do you know of any other logics?
Well, I know of multi-valued logics, which have more than two values (i.e.
instead of "true" and "false", they have three, four, five, ... n truth
values). Those are well-known and have already been studied for a while. But
they are only extensions of our bi-valued logic. There are also all the logics
that we cannot even conceive because our brains are limited and hardwired for a
certain type of logic.

 How to they work?
>
I'm not good enough as a mathematician to explain how they work :) .

>
> Do we pretend that we can? I thought we pretended that we could
> predict
> the universe?
>
You cannot predict without explaining before. You can only predict how things
will be once you're able to explain how things are. In any case, I find it
pretty annoying that people pretend to be able to achieve that. My experience
in science (and specifically in hydrodynamics) has proven that even without
resorting to Quantum Mechanics you can't always explain or predict things,
whatever the level of precision you choose to get.

>
> Okay, people mislead me then :) But yes, it was Russel.
> (Unfortunately,
> that scanning is too small to be read :(
>
True :(( .

>
> When does 1+1 != 2? And saying that 1+1=10 in binary is cheating and
> doesn't count, because 10 base 2 = 2 base > 2 :)
>
People have already given quite a few replies to that :) .

Christophe.

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