It depends on acceptance of self-sampling assumption (SSA), which is a rather arbitrary thing: why for example it's considered plausible to see yourself selected from set of all humans, and not for example all primates or all same-gender-humans? I only see it possible to select worlds where some kind of "mind" invariant is preserved, although I'm not yet sure how to define this same-mind equivalence class. But given that, probably simplicity of out world in this sense (in conjunction with definition of human's mind equivalence class) plays a role in universal prior of our world.
On 10/7/07, Russell Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/7/07, Vladimir Nesov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's interesting perspective - it defines a class of series > > generators (where for example in GoL one element is the whole board on > > given tick) that generate intelligence through evolution in > > time-efficient way, and poses a question: what is the simplest > > instance of this class? > > If we accept Occam's razor plus some form of anthropic reasoning, we > could conjecture that our universe is the simplest instance of this > class, since if there were a simpler one we would (with high > probability) have found ourselves in that universe rather than this > one. > > (Mental health warning: the above is hopefully-amusing philosophical > conjecture only, and should not be confused with science.) > > ----- > This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email > To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; > -- Vladimir Nesov mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=50929239-144a0d
