Lee Corbin's Home Page
Interests: Cryonics, Mathematics, History, Chess, Philosophy,
Polemics
Current Economic Thoughts
(Physics and Causality)How Fast Do Influences Spread?
Historical Comparison of Early Eastern and Western Development
The MWI Explanation for EPR
The Pit and the Duplicate
Philosophic Use of Newcomb's Paradox
The Birth of the Flying Saucers
Continuity: The Last Refuge of the Soul
Why Duplicates Are Self: A Proof
The Dissolution of Identity
The 100 Urns Problem
Godel's Proof in One Sentence
Contravariant and Covariant
The Blind Programmer
Covariance
Correlation
"Criminal behavior arises from inevitable tendencies determined
by the organic constitution of the delinquent." - Cesare Lombroso
Feigenbaum's Number: 4.669201609102...
(Many books, including "The Beauty of Fractals", have it wrong.)
It's easy to remember as: 4.669 201 609 102 ..., (say it fast).
Definition: A
is a non-terminating program that perpetually analyzes all known
data concerning an individual's life and compares it to everything that is
known.
In so doing, a resurrector eventually provides additional runtime to vanished
individuals.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's classic five stages of grief
denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance
possess a precious anti-corollary.
The five stages of regard for data not fitting your preconceptions:
denial, dismissal, accomodation, interest, fascination