Hi Matthieu, I remember our conversations. Welcome to the list! I like Greg Egan very much but I have only read its "permutation city". I'm looking for its "quarantine". So you don't believe in the need of a measure? The whole list seems to be splitted on that question!
Bruno ---- Original message ---- >Instead of replying too quickly to a mail, maybe I should introduce myself >before. >I'm a 28 years old network software engineer. > >I have exchanged some mails with Bruno Marchal quite a long time ago, after >an article in "Pour la Science" (french edition of "Scientific American".) >I also have read his thesis : "Computability, Physics and Cognition". > >I'm a science-fiction reader and Greg Egan fan. I have found "everything" >list from Egan's web site. > >I agree with Max Tegmark statement : that mathematical objets exist, "self- >aware substructures" of these objets perceive their environment as real and >this is why we imagine that our universe is real. > >I don't see why a "measure" is needed. I'm not sure such a measure could be >intrinsically defined. I will try to argue about this later. > >I hope I don't get you bored with things you have already spoken about a >thousand times.