... Those who enjoy Web discussion boards might want to look at http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2000/12/4/141755/118 for a thread derived from the...
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Jerzy Karczmarczuk
karczma@...
Dec 5, 2000 2:25 pm
Kevin Schoedel reminds the article/interview at www.edge.org, [[concretely: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/deutsch/deutsch_index.html ]] ... All this is very...
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John Edwards
johnedwardsus@...
Dec 10, 2000 11:32 am
Could you tell me if this theory is stable independent of the mathematics, as in some naturaly occurring corresponding evidence (even in the slightest). And, ...
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Bacon, Michael
mbacon@...
Dec 10, 2000 6:02 pm
Quantum computations have already been performed experimentally in several instances, as has quantum teleportation. The issue isn't whether we can construct...
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Robin Green
greenrd@...
Dec 10, 2000 6:03 pm
... Could you clarify the question? What do you mean by "stable"? I understand it to mean "doesn't change much" but that's probably not what you meant. ... ...
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John Edwards
johnedwardsus@...
Dec 11, 2000 8:55 am
... not requiring the math to establish it. Regarding the limited experiments: Do you assume that the reality of the quantum computations are limited to ...
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Magnus
karlm@...
Dec 11, 2000 3:16 pm
On quantum logic and the multiverse. The interpretation of quantum physics that suggests a multiverse does not seem to be at all conflicting with quantum...
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Robin Green
greenrd@...
Dec 12, 2000 1:28 am
... Actually there are several, not just one, as recent discussions on this list made clear. ... MWI denies that there is any such collapse. In the MWI...
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Marchal
marchal@...
Dec 12, 2000 2:18 pm
... I agree. Only some *uses* of quantum logic sweep the universeS under the rug. ... Yes. Q-logic, seen as a higher order logic, gives even a logic of the ...
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Magnus
karlm@...
Dec 13, 2000 6:31 pm
... and, ... Doesn't the wave-function collapse *into* several universes? Certainly the MWI contains the idea of many single universes forming a larger...
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Bacon, Michael
mbacon@...
Dec 13, 2000 6:32 pm
Is it basically correct that in the multiverse, the various versions of macro objects (e.g. persons) interfere with each other (to a lesser or greater extent...
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David Deutsch
david.deutsch@...
Dec 13, 2000 6:40 pm
... Yes, basically. The only reason why I qualify my answer is that it is not perfectly clear what is meant by the 'effect' of interference: that seems to ...
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smitra@...
Dec 13, 2000 11:28 pm
Can an observer really decide if the Copenhagen interpretation is false by performing a quantum suicide experiment as proposed by Tegmark (See...
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Jerzy Karczmarczuk
karczma@...
Dec 14, 2000 10:45 am
... I believe that we might abstract from the theoretical speculations while trying to answer the original question. The quantum nature of beings and...
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Aki Tasa
jskogste@...
Dec 14, 2000 10:48 am
... From: Bacon, Michael <mbacon@...> To: Fabric-of-Reality (E-mail) <Fabric-of-Reality@egroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 3:02 PM Subject:...
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Bob Hearn
bob@...
Dec 14, 2000 10:50 am
... I don't this this is necessarily the case. But if it were, then yes, one might expect the same results under Copenhagen as under MWI. However, that's only...
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David Deutsch
david.deutsch@...
Dec 14, 2000 11:04 am
... Well, an object can only interfere with the counterparts of itself in other universes: particle with particle or person with person, for example, but not...
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Marchal
marchal@...
Dec 14, 2000 1:21 pm
... But I do agree. I have even shown that a minimal platonistic assumption together with mechanism (the doctrine that I'm finitely descriptible) entails a...
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John Edwards
johnedwardsus@...
Dec 15, 2000 3:46 am
... world, rather the "one" branching off into an infinite number of possibilities/universes would continue to branch, each being a seperate "one"...each not ...
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Arianna Shelby
arianna_shelby@...
Dec 15, 2000 4:11 am
"Back to the same value." Sorry if I sound silly, but is it thus from what you say safe to assume that no one universe will ever be capable of verifying the...
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Arianna Shelby
arianna_shelby@...
Dec 15, 2000 5:12 am
Would it at all be true to say that all of our quantum assumptions are stabs in the dark? What is proposed in Quantum Theory is compensation for the...
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Jerzy Karczmarczuk
karczma@...
Dec 15, 2000 4:43 pm
... I don't understand this marshmellow analogy. Quantum physics was always for me more like broccoli gratiné (you have the details you want to have). In any...
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Marchal
marchal@...
Dec 15, 2000 4:43 pm
... I'm afraid that *all* our assumptions are sort of stabs in the dark. ... What do you mean ? Quantum theory is a simple and quite intelligible theory once...
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Saibal Mitra
smitra@...
Dec 16, 2000 6:43 pm
... I think that during the process of death, the brain is loosing information, untill it is completely destroyed. Somewhere inbetween, the information still...
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Marchal
marchal@...
Dec 18, 2000 1:03 pm
... Yes. Sure. That's why to be dead cannot be taken as granted, albeit agony is sort of certainty ... With comp (or Everett's QM) you always seem to survive,...
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John J. Lee
phrxy@...
Dec 18, 2000 7:59 pm
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Bob Hearn wrote: [...] ... [...] The sameness or otherwise of two individuals' conciousness is certainly an important issue here. But...
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Russell Standish
R.Standish@...
Dec 19, 2000 8:47 am
... In the latter case, you would need to have a lengthy process that guarantees death. This is what I call a cul-de-sac (a quantum history with a definite...
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Jerzy Karczmarczuk
karczma@...
Dec 19, 2000 10:57 am
... Oh yes? You survive what? Clinical death? Or biological? And if you are frozen then in fact you go elsewhere, as Walt Disney now is in the reality where...
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Marchal
marchal@...
Dec 19, 2000 2:13 pm
... There is indeed some problem with the language here. With quantum or comp immortality, from your point of view you don't survive neither clinical or...
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John J. Lee
phrxy@...
Dec 19, 2000 9:39 pm
... [...] ... You are justified criticising this point of view, but you would also be justified in criticising the everyday view of conscious identity,...
