--- Russell Standish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You're playing with words. The point is a > > measure distribution must be measure *of > > something*. Thus it makes no sense to speak > > of "the measure distribution" > > given a wavefunction, unless you state what it is > > measure *of*. The only measure distribution we > > have been dealing with in that context is of > > observer-moments. I call that M(c)
> Not at all true. A lot of discussion has taken place > in this list re > measure of strings in a Schmidhuber plenitude. Which is not in "that context", of a wavefunction. > Measure is always taken to be the strength or > density of a particular object from within an > ensemble (continuous or otherwise) of > objects. It is readily related to a sampling > probability when the > measure distribution is normalisable. > > Schroedinger's equation gives a measure distribution > for outcomes of particular observables, given > certain constraints (a Hamiltonian and a > boundary condition). > An observer moment must be the conjunction of > some vast array of observables having particular > values. Really? Are you saying that the Sh. eq. gives a measure distribution for "outcomes" of "observables" even when there are no obserrver-moments? What is that supposed to mean? If by "observables" you mean Hermitian operators, how does the Sh. eq. do the above? My view, as I have stated repeatedly, is that it should be possible to derive a measure distribution for computations implemented by a physical system and that given a wavefunction & the Sh. eq., it should be possible to show that the ratios of the measures of appropriate computations that could be conscious (if present, e.g if there is a brain in the system) to the total measure of such are the usual effective probabilities. > My own preference is to talk about a quantum > history, which under some > (perhaps rather flaky) assumptions, could be > identified with the concept of observer moment. What's a "quantum history"? Any relation to the "consistent histories interpretation"? ===== - - - - - - - Jacques Mallah ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Physicist / Many Worlder / Devil's Advocate "I know what no one else knows" - 'Runaway Train', Soul Asylum My URL: http://hammer.prohosting.com/~mathmind/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online and get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/