Re: KIM 2.3 (was Re: Time)

2009-01-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
I disagree, and your remark singles out the problem with the bird's eye/frog view of Tegmark. Those two views remains third person point of views. Consciousness is intrinsically a first person view. You cannot describe it in any third person point of view. This explains why the

Kim 2.4 - 2.5

2009-01-03 Thread Kim Jones
Bruno, In this step, one of me experiences (or actually does not experience) the delay prior to reconstitution. In Step 2, it was proven to me that I cannot know that any extra time (other than the 4 minutes necessary transmission interval) has elapsed between my annihilation and

RE: Revisions to my approach. Is it a UD?

2009-01-03 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Abram and Bruno: My goal some time ago was to find an origin to a dynamic in the Everything. It seemed that many on the list were pointing to such a dynamic - the UD for example. I came up with the Nothing to Something incompleteness dynamic initiator maybe 10 or more years ago. Since then

Re: Boltzmann Brains, consciousness and the arrow of time

2009-01-03 Thread Günther Greindl
Hi Bruno, first of all thanks for the long answer, and yes, it was very helpful. You described the production of all reals with a very vivid imagery; it showed a glimpse of the vastness of the UD. And, I agree, _in the limit_ there will be an infinite number of histories. So, as we have to

Re: Boltzmann Brains, consciousness and the arrow of time

2009-01-03 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Günther, Nice post! Coments soon. Speaking of Svozil's work, please see: Cristian S. Calude, Peter H. Hertling and Karl Svozil, ``Embedding Quantum Universes in Classical Ones'', Foundations of Physics 29(3), 349-390 (1999) [abstract], [CrossRef DOI:10.1023/A:1018862730956],