On Wed, Aug 9, 2023, 5:07 PM James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > You might find his paper with SLAC physicist Pierre Noyes of interest. > <https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9808011> > Indeed. I read as much as I could before my brain was overloaded. To summarize the first 3/4 or so. 1. Causality: Given random variables A and B, we can say that A has a causal effect on B if A is independent of B, p(A|B) = P(A), but B depends on A, P(B|A) != P(B). 2. You can't detect causality by observing A and B because you can only measure P(A,B), not P(A) or P(B). Nevertheless our brains are hard wired to believe in the illusion of causality and the illusion of the arrow of time because it leads to more offspring. 3. Quantum mechanics can be derived from pure math by extending probability theory to allow negative values that we can't observe. For example, if you have 10 white shirts and -10 green shirts in your closet, then you can't select a shirt because you have a total of 0 shirts. But if you want a white shirt, you have 10 to choose from. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T772759d8ceb4b92c-M1cc5df764cbc46d8b16bf79e Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
