On 12 Jul 2017, at 06:45, Brent Meeker wrote:
Here are a couple of papers that may be of interest. Albert
considers what a QM automata may know about itself and arrives at
some unexpected result. Peres throws some cold water on the result
- but Peres doesn't believe in a multiverse.
That paper by Albert use the FPI, or a quantum FPI-like notion, and is
close to Everett's view. Yet, if I remember correctly, Albert, who
criticized the Many-World a lot in his book "QM and experiences" has
restated his self-theory in a Bohmian frame (with still sort of
parallel universe (as Deutsch argues correctly (I think), and lacking
particles and full of p-zombies). I found that development very weird,
and it cannot be used with digital mechanism (even with a quantum
automata). So Albert was close, but then drifted away ...
I will look at Peres paper, but usually I am not very convinced by its
metaphysical assumption, even without assuming computationalism. I
will comment if I find that I missed something.
Bruno
Brent
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<albert1983automata.pdf><peres1984automata.pdf>
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