On Wednesday, January 9, 2019 at 4:06:08 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 6 Jan 2019, at 22:27, Philip Thrift <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > Why - in numerical reality (UD) - can't there be vampires, werewolves, > that sort of things? They can certainly be "created" in computer > simulations of stories of them … > > > Exactly, that is why we need to recover physics by a notion of “bettable”. > If you see a vampire, not explained by the notion of observable, you can > infer that either: > > Mechanism is false, or > You are dreaming, or > You belong to a “malevolent” simulation (à-la Bostrom, made by angry > descendent who want to fail us on reality). > > Fortunately, we don’t see vampires, and up to know, thanks to QM, we see > exactly what mechanism predicts. > > Bruno > > > >
Seth Lloyd of course says the universe is a quantum computer. But what if there are qualia in addition to (or combined with) quanta as the fundamental elements of nature. Then the quantum computer - a purely quantum information processing (QuIP) machine - needs to be upgraded to a qualium(+quantum) experience(+information) processing (QuEP) machine. The universe (now a QuEP machine) could have conscious beings who make up stories about vampires and werewolves. - pt -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
