Re: A sequel to my 1996 ultimate ensemble theory paper
Max skrev: Hi Folks, After a decade of procrastination, I've finally finished writing up a sequel to that paper that I wrote back in 1996 (Is "the theory of everything'' merely the ultimate ensemble theory?) that's been the subject of so much interesting discussion in this group. It's entitled "The Mathematical Universe", and you'll find it at http://arxiv.org/pdf/0704.0646 and http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/toe.html - I'd very much appreciate any comments that you may have. I have now read your new paper more carefully, and I have then found one error in it. I the top of page 6 you write: But there is a length scale "1" of special significance in our physical space, namely the Planck length: meter. And there is a time period of special significance, namely the Planck time: . (Source: Wikipedia.) So when you look for the mathematical system that is our universe, you have to look at the mathematical systems that have a special unit length and a special unit time. -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: RSSA / ASSA / Single Mind Theory
Short comments to Jason, Marc and John. Jason, I agree with the answers given by Russell and Stathis to your one person idea or single mind theory. The one person idea (a recurring theme of the list) is still coherent with comp, but most probably undecidable, and above all not relevant for testing comp (deriving the comp-physical laws). Lee Corbin (I think in both the FOR list and the EVERYTHING list), but also David Chalmers (personal communication), were arguing that, after a Washington-Moscow duplication (with annihilation of the original in Brussels), they are simultaneously in W and in M. Honestly this could be just a matter of taste. But I told them that if we are in both W and M, then we most probably are *all* disconnected incarnation of the same person, going thus in your single mind theory direction. But here Lee and David seemed to disagree without justification. I think Lee changes his mind, or at least did understand the non-relevance of the single mind theory for the derivation of the physical laws from comp (or other many-OMs theories. Single mind? Why not, indeed. It makes true one feature of Plotinus theory of evil, where all the bad you do to someone will be done to you. It is the good/bad conservation law. Plotinus dares to say: if a man rapes a woman, he will be reincarnated into a woman just to be raped. The one-person theory makes Plotinus principle true trivially without the need of explicit temporal-like reincarnations. I do like this idea. But this is irrelevant for deriving the physical laws from the comp hyp, where you have to justify probability of families of result-experiences from what you guess about your actual state. In that case, you have to take into account the 1-3 person points of view distinction so that you can infer things like the fact that the probability of self-localization in Washington is 1/2, ... in the same way that you infer that the probability that your coffee will be cold is near one if you add enough cold milk. All that could be sort of illusions, but deriving the physics from comp consists justly in that: explaining where such illusions come from and why they are stable, and why does it hurt, etc. Marc, I will comment Tegmark diagram asap. John, I am still working on some of your posts, but I'm a bit busy, and I ask you to indulge for my lateness. Thanks. Bruno Le 21-avr.-07, à 05:52, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : On 4/21/07, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (quoting Brent Meeker): This seems to be a good definition for a person, but how does the definition handle duplication thought experiments or the infinite breadth of experiences across the multiverse which connects us all? Personhood becomes fuzzy and a truly object treatment of conscious experience might do well to abandon the idea of personal identity altogether. I agree there is not an extra-OM that experiences OMs, but that seems to be what sampling assumptions imply. I think of both personhood and personal identity as emergent phenomena. It is necessary and sufficient for the existence of a person that there exist a set of related moments of consciousness. Related normally means that they arise in sequence as a result of activity in a particular brain, but duplication thought experiments suggest that a stream of consciousness can survive fragmentation of the physical substrate. A person gets into teleportation machine A, is destroyed, and a new person is created at receiving station B who claims to be the same individual. This is simply a description of what would happen if the experiment were performed, and continuity of personal identity is a phrase commonly used to describe the phenomenon. Stathis Papaioannou http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
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