Bruno Marchal wrote:
...
> Now, when you run the UD, as far as you keep the discourse in the third 
> person mode, everything remains enumerable, even in the limit.
> But from the first person point of view, a priori the uncountable 
> stories, indeed generated by the UD, take precedence on the computable 
> one: thus the continua of white rabbits. This results from the lack of 
> any possibility from the first person point of view to locate herself 
> into UD*. Somehow the first person belongs to 2^aleph_zero histories at 
> the start.
> 
> A similar "explosion of stories" appears with quantum mechanics, except 
> that here the physicist as an easy answer: white rabbits and Potter 
> universe are eliminated through phase randomization (apparently).

But only relative some particular bases.  Why the quantum mechanical world has 
the classical world as an approximation (instead of a white rabbit world) is 
not a solved problem - though there are proposed, possible solutions.

Brent Meeker 


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