On 18 Dec 2013, at 01:13, meekerdb wrote:
On 12/17/2013 4:09 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:55 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net>
wrote:
I'll favor it as soon as it provides some surprising but
empirically true predictions - the same standard as for every other
theory.
What if in some alternate history Bruno's UDA came before
Everett's, and it provided a possible explanation of the appearance
of random collapse through FPI as seen within an infinite reality?
It would still be an explanation
OK.
- not a prediction.
Why? It is hardly harder to make a more testable theory. Physics is
given entirely by precise theories (the quantified _1* mathematics).
It is just my incompetence which slows down the progress, I'm afraid,
together with the lack of interests, nowadays, in the fundamental
questions, or something ...
I predicted in 1991 that such physics (comp + Theaetetus variants)
would be refuted before 2000. It is not yet refuted. It would be
astonishing that the first interview of the machine give the correct
physics. I have always thought that the hypostases are a bit too much
elegant to be entirely correct. Note that I have worked before on a
different and more complex way to implement them (with conditional
logic like Bp / p, or Bp / Dt, etc.) until I realized that it works
(only!) with the simple conjunction (Bp & p) Bp & Dt, etc.
To paraphrase Cantor, I see it, but don't (yet) believe in it. But it
is 100% testable/refutable, and plausibly improvable. But we have to
do the math to see that. Probably for the future generations.
Only one thing is sure: the primary physicalness hypothesis fails in
the comp frame, on the mind-body problem. Comp+theaetetus does not
fail on the mind-body problem, but still fails in providing the
"Hamiltonian". Much works remain to be done. It is the least we can say.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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