Re: Definition of universe

2010-03-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Feb 2010, at 18:43, David Nyman wrote: On 28 February 2010 15:45, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: UDA shows that the wave equation (not just the collapse) has to emerge from a relative state measure on all computational histories. The schroedinger equation has to be itself the

Re: R/ASSA query

2010-03-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Mar 2010, at 05:40, Rex Allen wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 28 Feb 2010, at 07:33, Rex Allen wrote: What would the causal mechanism for natural selection be? A selection field? Selection particles? Spooky selection at a

Re: Definition of universe

2010-03-01 Thread David Nyman
On 1 March 2010 08:26, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Everett uses comp, in the usual intuitive way, because he characterizes the observer by its crisp memory, and he derives the phenomenology of the wave packet reduction, by showing it to appears through physical interaction in the

Re: R/ASSA query

2010-03-01 Thread Rex Allen
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 01 Mar 2010, at 05:40, Rex Allen wrote: At most (!) one of those levels is what really exists - the other levels are just ways that we think about what really exists or ways that things *seem* to us. The point is that

Re: Many-worlds vs. Many-Minds

2010-03-01 Thread Charles
On Feb 26, 10:34 am, Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com wrote: But isn't the EPR experiment a way of avoiding a past constraint.  The past constraint is just that the net angular momentum is zero, so there is no constraint on the polarization of either photon.  When one is measured it can