Re: wheeler walked away from MWI

2002-09-26 Thread vznuri
ok thanks HF for the clarification. I didnt realize all the recent threads on tegmark were also referring to a tegmark-wheeler article. fyi, here is the quote from gribbin. I havent noticed, but is everyone aware of this book? good stuff.. from 1984, a bit dated, but it keeps getting reprinted ap

Re: wheeler walked away from MWI

2002-09-26 Thread Hal Finney
VZ Nuri writes: > hi all. I just read an amazing factoid in john gribbins > "search for sch.cat". it says that wheeler, in spite > of his initial enthusiasm for MWI & promoting it, and being > the advisor to everett, eventually abandoned > it, feeling it "carried too much metaphysical baggage" > o

wheeler walked away from MWI

2002-09-26 Thread vznuri
hi all. I just read an amazing factoid in john gribbins "search for sch.cat". it says that wheeler, in spite of his initial enthusiasm for MWI & promoting it, and being the advisor to everett, eventually abandoned it, feeling it "carried too much metaphysical baggage" or something like that. I was

Re: From Hardegree to Chellas for Joyce + Restall

2002-09-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 14:49 -0400 25/09/2002, Wei Dai wrote: >I recommended Joyce more for its philosophy rather than its mathematics, >but I'm glad you found that useful too. I am indeed less sure about its philosophy. I guess this should have been apparent from my comment of Newcomb paradox, which I have made bef

Re: MWI of relativistic QM

2002-09-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
Title: Re: MWI of relativistic QM At 13:09 -0400 25/09/2002, Wei Dai wrote: Is there a paper or book that describes this discrete minkowski multiverse in more detail? Tim gives some interesting references. A formidable paper on discretization is "Foundations of Discrete Physics (Working Docume

Re: Tegmark's TOE & Cantor's Absolute Infinity

2002-09-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 12:51 -0400 25/09/2002, Wei Dai wrote: >If we can take the set of all deductive consequences of some axioms and >call it a theory, then why can't we also take the set of their semantic >consequences and call it a theory? In what sense is the latter more >"technical" than the former? It's true