Brent Meeker wrote:
> 1Z wrote: > > > > David Nyman wrote: > ... > >>Well, if 'experience' is the fact of *being* differentiable existence, > >>and 'the physical' is the observable relations thereof, then both > >>ultimately 'supervene' on there being something rather than nothing. > > > > > > No. There being something rather than nothing is only > > 1 buit of information: not enough for a universe to > > supervene on. > > This may not be the problem you think it is. In quantum mechanics there can > be negative information and there are some (speculative) theories of the > universe that have it originating from at state with only one bit of > information. It would still have to generate localised information, and complex supervenient properties would still need something complex to supervene on. A supervenience-base is more than a necessary precondition. > Then complexity we see is due to the separation of entangled > states by the inflation of the universe. Unitary evolution of the > wave-function of the universe must preserve information. In these theories, > as my friend Yonatan Fishman put it, "The universe is just nothing, > rearranged." But entanglement must generate localised information. > Brent Meeker --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
