On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:08:43AM -0500, Stephen Paul King wrote: > Dear Russel, > > Could we associate this "psychological time" with the orderings that > obtain when considering successive measurements of various measurements of > non-commutative canonically conjugate (QM) states?
The word "successive" implies a time dimension already. I'm not sure
what you are proposing here.
> Also, re your Occam's razor paper, have you considered the necessity of
> a principle that applies between observers, more than that involved with the
> Anthropic principle? Something along the lines of: the allowable
> communications between observers is restrained to only those that are
> mutually consistent. We see hints of this in EPR situations. ;-)
>
No I haven't considered this second requirement. It would be
interesting to note whether it is a derivative concept (can be derived
from the standard QM principles say), or whether it needs to be added
in as a fundamental requirement (in which case comes the question of
why).
Cheers
> Kindest regards,
>
> Stephen
>
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> From: "Russell Standish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 5:19 PM
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> I think that "psychological time" fits the bill. The observer needs a
> a temporal dimension in which to appreciate differences between
> states.
>
> "Physical time" presupposes a physics, which I haven't done in
> "Occam".
>
> It is obviously a little more structured than an ordering. A space
> dimension is insufficient for an observer to appreciate differences,
> isn't it?
>
> Cheers
>
> snip
>
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