On 2/14/2014 4:24 PM, Kim Jones wrote:
On 14 Feb 2014, at 3:42 pm, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au
<mailto:li...@hpcoders.com.au>> wrote:
What about the CMBR? When it was created there were (presumably) no
observers in existence in the universe. Are you saying it wouldn't exist if
we hadn't evolved to detect it (e.g. if humans hadn't evolved, or if we had
never invented radio telescopes) ?
Yes - exactly.
A direct consequence of The Reversal. First comes Mind. Physics and matter and the 3D
holographic farmyard are a long way down the road.
I hope no one is assuming that it requires something as weird as a "human" to implement
consciousness.
Something as basic as a Boltzmann brain would be in principle, instantly possible in any
universe, surely.
Of course Boltzmann brains are notoriously transient, so we're to think of the universe
(or at least pieces of past light cones) blinking in and out of existence. Or does that
take a Boltzmann brain plus optic nerves and eyes and a Boltzmann telescope?
Brent
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