On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 01:08:40AM +0000, chris peck wrote: > Hi Prof. Standish > > I read your paper 'Evolution in the Multiverse' and the related discussion in > your book. > > I'm not sure I really got it. My original interpretation was wrong, I think, > but went something like (by all means laugh at any howlers): > > there is the plenitude which is everything that could possibly be and it > 'exists' as a kind of cloud of quantum superpositions of states waiting to > decohere (collapse?). On measurement dechoerence traces out a history for > each viable universe with the AP setting the end point, the type of > intellegent organisms evolution must meet, with the SSA setting the most > likely starting point. In this way, for any universe, the AP and SSA kind of > govern the nature of life in the universe and combined can be seen as a kind > of selective principle. I then had this image of a bunch of universes > allowing life at varying degrees of sophistication peaking at the universe > with the ultimate brainy ET.
OK... > > But then I thought hang on, decoherence is copenhagen whereas Prof. Standish > is MWI so something is wrong. Im definately in a muddle here... > decoherence is MWI, collapse is Copenhagen. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
