Dear Hal: At 7/23/02, you wrote: > The fact that this requires >a relatively large program suggests that there is some substantial >information content in the idea of running every program at once. > >Hal
With that I have no issue but my view is that the Everything is an ensemble of counterfactuals that contains itself - see my other responses - therefore: If we allow the UD residence in the Everything which I do then it also needs to contain the full set of counterfactuals to the UD. Some if not all of these can be universe generators as well. In my view all of these generators share a susceptibility to noise of external origin but by different mechanisms. Some of these generators are simpler than the UD and I believe our universe is due to one of them not the UD. I believe this because I do not see the need for mathematics as the base for our universe, rather I see what we call mathematics as a macro approximation to the actual underlying rules that are of a complexity below that of any formal system. [IMO ours are a large look up table with built in susceptability to the external noise - extra columns.] I see no differential measure on the frequency of various generators due to the infinite nesting of the Everything and Nothing counterfactuals. Hal
