On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 07:30:42PM +1100, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > Why that last phrase? There is a great elegance and simplicity in the > idea that all mathematical structures exist necessarily, with the > anthropic principle selecting out those structures with observers.
How is that a good theory? Which falsifyable predictions does it produce? Do you have a set of equations into which I can plug those parameters for our universe (empirically measured to a very high degree of precision) to obtain predictions other theories can't produce? > There is also an inevitability to it, even if you believe that as a > matter of fact there is a real physical world out there. All it takes What is a "real physical world"? The theories don't make that particular distinction. They don't leak any information about any underlying metareality. > is one infinite computer to arise in this physical world and it will "infinite" and "this physical world" don't mix. The only infinities appear in some theories, and are more a problem of the particular theories than that of the underlying reality. E.g. infinite spacetime curvature singularities go away in a number of TOE candidates. > generate the mathematical Plenitude. How can you prove that the Moon is not made from green gorgonzola, when we're not looking? -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=11983
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