On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 05:28:31PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > Le 12-mai-06, à 09:41, Kim Jones a écrit : > > > > > Bruno, > > > > I almost understand this. Just expand a little > > > > Kim > > > > On 11/05/2006, at 9:00 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > >> Schmidhuber did leave the list by refusing explicitly the first-third > >> person distinction (which explain why his great programmer does not > >> need to dovetail). > > > > > I guess it is a delicate point, a key point though, which overlaps the > ASSA/RSSA distinction (that is: the Absolute Self Sampling Assumption > versus the Relative Self Sampling Assumption). > > If you identify a "conscious first person history" with a "third person > describable computation", it can be argued that an explanation for > physics can be given by Bayesian sort of anthropic reasoning based on > some universal probability distribution like Hall Finney's > Kolmogorovian UDist. Note tat this approach relies also on Church > Thesis. Here somehow the TOE will be a winning little program. I agree > that this would hunt away the third person white rabbits.
I disagree. The UDist comes from looking at the measure induced on a set of descriptions (or computations if your prefer, although the two are not equivalent), given a reference Turing machine U. This appears to be a 3rd person description, but it need not be so. As I have pointed out (but suspect it hasn't really sunk in yet), U can be taken to be the observer erself. When done this way, there is a 1st person "universal distribution", with a corresponding 1st person Occam razor theorem. And this implies the absence of 1st person white rabbits. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 8308 3119 (mobile) Mathematics 0425 253119 (") UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks International prefix +612, Interstate prefix 02 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---