SV: Smolin's View of Time

2009-01-02 Thread Lennart Nilsson
How does this compare with Einstein´s discovery that there is no moment that is the same NOW for everyone? LN -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: everything-l...@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-l...@googlegroups.com] För Kim Jones Skickat: den 2 januari 2009 04:01 Till: Everything List

Re: Boltzmann Brains, consciousness and the arrow of time

2009-01-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 31 Dec 2008, at 23:53, Brent Meeker wrote: The present moment in quantum cosmology: challenges to the arguments for the elimination of time Authors: Lee Smolin (Submitted on 29 Apr 2001) Abstract: Barbour, Hawking, Misner and others have argued that time cannot play an essential

Re: Revisions to my approach. Is it a UD?

2009-01-02 Thread Abram Demski
Hal, I went back and reviewed some of your old postings. My interpretation of your system was closer to the mark than I'd suspected! I think enumeration via inconsistency can be equivalent to enumeration by incompleteness... depending on exactly how things are defined. Enumeration by

Re: Boltzmann Brains, consciousness and the arrow of time

2009-01-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Günther, On 01 Jan 2009, at 23:58, Günther Greindl wrote: Bruno, I have also wanted to ask how you come to 2^aleph_zero Well, in part this results from the unbounded dumbness of the universal doevtailing procedure which dovetails on all programs but also on all non interacting

Re: Revisions to my approach. Is it a UD?

2009-01-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 02 Jan 2009, at 16:01, Abram Demski wrote: Hal, I went back and reviewed some of your old postings. My interpretation of your system was closer to the mark than I'd suspected! I think enumeration via inconsistency can be equivalent to enumeration by incompleteness... depending on

Re: Revisions to my approach. Is it a UD?

2009-01-02 Thread Abram Demski
Bruno, Interesting point, but if we are starting at nothing rather than PA, we don't have provability logic so we can't do that! How can we tell if an *arbitrary* set of axioms is incomplete? This can be related with the so-called autonomous progressions studied in the literature, like: PA,

Re: KIM 2.3 (was Re: Time)

2009-01-02 Thread Thomas Laursen
If I understand the standard MWI right (with my layman brain) Abram Demski's view of time is very much in accordance with it, except that time should be looked at simply as a fourth space dimension. A bird's eye view on the whole universe (= all it's actualized worlds) would be like a static