Re: Logic of Zero

From: Ian Goddard (Ian@Goddard.net)
Date: Mon Sep 28 1998 - 18:55:17 MDT


  The anti-inquiry gangsters who deface the ExI
  list would do well to observe the mature and
  civil behavior of one Joe E. Dees:

Joe E. Dees (jdees0@students.uwf.edu) wrote:

>> > IAN: Change is defined by its displacement from zero
>> > change. If a system anticipates its change, it must
>> > use "no change" as a hypothetical point of measure
>> > the deviation from which defines a state of change.
>> > So zero is implicit in the measurement you speak of.
>> >
>>
>> That's a tricky definition of change but it's not the only one,
>> e.g., FPGA circuits can be made to work without ever using zero.

  IAN: If you cannot measure no (zero) change, from what
  do you differentiate change? An EPGA is a set of logic
  gates on a chip with no exact order or structure, but
  what is the FPGA-circuit-definition of change? Also,
  are we talking here about zero as just a digit or
  zero as a number representing digit and value?

  There's no change between all events in all space
  and time, and all events in all space and time;
  there is therefore zero change over all. No?

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