Peter D Jones wrote: ... All I'll interject here (I said I'd stay out of this :-)) is that MWI provides a very nice framework for a deterministic multiverse...
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Bruno Marchal
marchal@...
Oct 1, 2005 11:12 pm
... ... and then I would say that with *such* an argument comp is an even cheaper good explanatory substrate given that comp implies 1st-person indeterminacy:...
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Bruno Marchal
marchal@...
Oct 1, 2005 11:13 pm
... I agree. I mean it could be. ... I suggest better( IMHO) the Turing- thropic principle. ... What do you mean by "acts" and "present" ? The MWI, (and comp)...
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Bruno Marchal
marchal@...
Oct 1, 2005 11:13 pm
... If we have "prepared"; the "cat" in the state "live +dead", we can guess that the cat will be in the state "live+dead" (with probability one) if we measure ...
... that ... still ... No. If someone point a gun at your head that *is* overriding what you are trying to do. If someone implants a radio-control devidce in...
Hallo Peeps :-) The free will thread has been going in circles for some time and is starting to wander off-topic. So I will delete all posts in this thread...
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Gary Oberbrunner
garyo@...
Oct 2, 2005 12:33 pm
... Maybe I just don't understand your terminology, but it is an objective fact that (say) the time of emission of a photon from an excited atom is in...
Just a quick and easy one: If all claims of the form "X exists" are not falsifiable, what about claims of the sort "X does not exist"? Does one simply need to...
Hi, when trying to make up a picture of the multiverse, I came up with the following. The question I have for you is whether this picture - while being rather...
Dear Rolf, How would the graph theoretical model work in the epoch of the Big Band, particularly when we are considering the points on *this side* of the event...
Thanks to those who responded to my question. However, after thinking on it some more, I suspect I may have been a bit hasty in accepting Gary and George's...
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Bruno Marchal
marchal@...
Oct 3, 2005 10:32 pm
... I don't think *all* the claims of the form "X exists" are not falsifiable. At least in mathematics, it could happen that such a claim leads to a...
Stephen, the "graph model" itself has nothing to say about the physical laws within the worlds. In a particular instance of the "graph model", say in "our" ...
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georgelburgess
georgelburgess@...
Oct 3, 2005 10:32 pm
... claims of ... Many claims of the form "X exists" are falsifiable. For example, suppose the claim is X: "A member of the England cricket team in the last...
... that ... objective ... atom is ... in a ... IMO, the "single universe" bit *is* an epistemic limitation. ... it's ... Well, the universe can't be...
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georgelburgess
georgelburgess@...
Oct 3, 2005 10:35 pm
... occur ... experienced. ... in ... I previously answereed: "When measurement takes place by applying the WF as input to the AND gate, selection takes place...
... 2 ... be ... Penrose's RTR treats MWI and decoherence as seperate ontologies and I think my understanding of the latter is a bit faulty. I am going to go...
Dear Rolf, ... From: "Rolf Wilms" <rolf_wilms@...> To: <Fabric-of-Reality@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 7:50 AM Subject: Re:...
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Bruno Marchal
marchal@...
Oct 4, 2005 9:26 pm
... I would say that the natural numbers with their additive and multiplicative structures would be a pretty starting point. (This gives already all...
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Bill Taylor
W.Taylor@...
Oct 6, 2005 11:32 am
There's a thing that always used to annoy me about orthodox (CI) comments about QM, but isn't special to that, as it comes up in MWI accounts as well,...
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Bill Taylor
W.Taylor@...
Oct 6, 2005 11:37 am
The recent threads inquiring about falsifiability, and veering onto verifiability, call to mind an occasional thread that pops up now and then in math forums....
... test in ... operations. ... Surely the Godel sentence has this form ? ... math maybe). ... verifiable)> Arithmetically, these statements can be proved...
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Bill Taylor
W.Taylor@...
Oct 7, 2005 11:58 am
... No; the Godel sentence is of form (b):- "for all n, decode(n) is not a proof of `0=1' " ...where "decode" is a simple (testable) arithmetic statement. So,...
Does anybody know if topos theory and related work is of much use in the Deutsch MWI theory. The only paper I have noted on the topic is arXiv: physics/...
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June Shjppey
jshippey@...
Oct 10, 2005 11:28 pm
Prof Chris Isham in his 1999 lecture on the subject said that he had discovered this math and then applied it to physics, however Isham work is mainly around...
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June Shjppey
jshippey@...
Oct 10, 2005 11:30 pm
Sorry I meant to say that Chris had discovered this math in a book he found on the subject, I would not want to unjustly inflate his EGO ;D Gordon. ... From:...
"June Shjppey" <jshippey@...> said ... Topos theory has been used for the Deutsch MWI by Gouts. He has written a lot in Russian (and English) on topos...
