Irvon,

Thanks for your new play and your support.

Luke also sent me a play. A short one about a student pondering this essay question:

Yes!....one hour........No!.......one hour..........Maybe! A little short but to the point :)

Thanks for your plays.

Don Limuti

Hi Don,

Full marks for saying just about everything that needs to be said! Your essay neatly sums up the whole issue in an amusing way.

Regards Lorraine

Dear Don Limuti

I appreciate your essay. You spent a lot of effort to write it. If you believed in the principle of identity of space and matter of Descartes, then your essay would be even better. There is not movable a geometric space, and is movable physical space. These are different concepts.

I inform all the participants that use the online translator, therefore, my essay is written badly. I participate in the contest to familiarize English-speaking scientists with New Cartesian Physic, the basis of which the principle of identity of space and matter. Combining space and matter into a single essence, the New Cartesian Physic is able to integrate modern physics into a single theory. Let FQXi will be the starting point of this Association.

Don't let the New Cartesian Physic disappear! Do not ask for himself, but for Descartes.

New Cartesian Physic has great potential in understanding the world. To show potential in this essay I risked give "The way of the materialist explanation of the paranormal and the supernatural" - Is the name of my essay.

Visit my essay and you will find something in it about New Cartesian Physic. After you give a post in my topic, I shall do the same in your theme

Sincerely,

Dizhechko Boris

    Boris,

    Thanks for visiting my site. If you did read my essay, I think you would know I did not take a long time to write it :)

    I did find your essay very interesting, enough so, that I did some browsing on Cartesian philosophy. I was introduced to something I did not know existed. So, thank you for introducing me to a new world. I cannot say that I am a full fledged "new Cartesian" but I certainly use cartesian coordinates excessively.

    Your essay was (as you acknowledge) a little difficult to read, but it was worth the struggle. And I learned something new, thus it gets a high rating from me.

    Thanks,

    Don Limuti

    Dear Don Limuti!

    I'm very, very easy to read with online translator your essay. I hope someday you write about such a New Cartesian Physic and always with pleasure.

    Sincerely,

    Dizhechko Boris

    Don, I enjoyed reading your essay. Short and to the point. Yet it does more than just highlight the freewill/ determinism problem. I think you show clearly that there is a difference between the goal (winning), the task planning (I will enter), the task execution (the essay written and submitted) and the outcome (yet to be, as I write this).

    You demonstrate a goal that is realistic for one person eg. Don may be unrealistic for another eg. Dad. It is the task planning and execution in between that raises the probability that the imagined outcome is achieved.

    Choosing to alter the probability of an outcome in the external reality is where will comes in to play. Yet the choices made can also be affected by things like neurotransmitter levels/ balance which can be reduced to chemistry and physics, or seen as the product of lifestyle and environment and social relationships. The freewill problem may come from trying to isolate goal production (will) from micro and macro environment. Yes, we can have will, yet it can never be entirely free.

    I think your contribution to the contest is thought provoking. I'm glad you chose to write and enter it.

    Don,

    Thanks for your response above. I do think we often need careful distinction between 'causal' and 'deterministic' from reading many other essays. Yours handles it quite well.

    I haven't seen you comment on mine and hope If you haven't yet read it you get to do so, comment and score it before the cut off.

    Best of luck in the run in.

    Peter

      Hi Peter,

      It turns out that I have already voted for your essay, but failed to comment on your blog. I tried to vote again ....rats it locked me out! This is easily one of the best essays. And is the most comprehensive, it covers the universe!

      Thanks,

      Don Limuti

      Hi Don,

      You promised a short essay, and you delivered!! No small typed single spaced nonsense, no messy equations, no predictive power... beautiful;) 10!! It reminded me a Platonic dialogue.

      Based on your essay, you are a prime candidate for liking my movie "Digital Physics". Please check it out on iTunes, Vimeo, or Amazon Prime. In some sense, you have no choice... but this does not imply you'll watch it... but please, please do!!

      Oh well. Que Sera, Sera...

      Jon

        Jon,

        Thanks for your support! It is on my queue to watch "Digital Physics" ....You do know my website is www.digitalwavetheory.com....This could be interesting!

        One of your key words is augmentation.....Perchance are you acquainted with Doug Engelbart?

        Don Limuti

        Starting to read your website now, and I just found "The Mother of all Demos" on youtube! Hidden gems!! I will respond more after I digest some of this stuff.

        Thanks again, Don!

        Jon,

        What a treat: The Mother of all Demos youtube was awesome! A better title would be The Demo that Started it All.

        Even more awesome was the eulogy given by Ted Nelson (inventor of hypertext):

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMjPqr1s-cg

        I worked for Doug for a year or two after that 1968 Demo ......He was the real deal!

        Doug at SRI was loggerheads with John Mccarthy at Stanford, Augmentation vs. AI .... No contest in my humble opinion. Anytime I hear the term AI bantered around, I know it is BS, augmentation is king!

        I will post this on your Blog also.

        Thanks very much,

        Don Limuti

        PS: The YouTube of the cat breathing fire was very good. I was able to find the Trailer for Digital Physics but could not find the movie. Could you send the URL.

        Don,

        I love this essay. Good job with your context and your ability to keep it short with meaning.

        Yafet: Dear Don, I am waiting anxiously the next Fxqi essay contest so I can see this equation where it is shown by mathematical formulas the nature of choice, unfortunately at the same time my deterministic nature seems to leave me no other choice but to wait patiently.

        Don

        Just a quick message to say congrats. I'm guessing you're quite enjoying the result, and deservedly so. Its good to see you on this level of the board.

        Steve

          12 days later

          Hi Don

          I hope you can forgive me for the late reply. I have been distracted from forum time lately. Restoring a sail boat for one thing. The next distraction I have lined up is sailing it. Its in the water now!

          I have been thinking about the relationship you describe, which draws on a guess that gravitons share the same energy values as photons. That you claim this uncovers a meaningful correlation, is most interesting to me. I havent read your wider body of work, although I would like to understand it better. Its just a time thing. So before I have read it, I hope you dont mind me just putting forward a couple of ideas that draw from my ideas.

          The reason my concept likes that you have identified a correlation between gravity (gravitons) and photons is as follows. Photons (Gluons) from which mass emerges from in the nucleus, might be considered as a possible motivator for the driver of gravitational acceleration.

          Photons (light) can propel through the void of space right! Gluons are photons as well, perhaps capable of propulsion. Mass accelerated within a gravitational field by the same mechanism that light uses to travel at C.

          Can you see how this idea is implicated with your correlation? You have guessed that gravitons have the same values as photons and you achieved a meaningful result. This could be because gravitational acceleration is enacted by photons. Simple. It could be that your mathematical approach is genuinely meaningful because it services this possibility.

          This is a very simple idea, and I hope you will spend a little time in consideration of. I am capable of giving countless further reasons in evidence of this notion, but I will leave it there for now.

          Steven Andresen

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