On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 03:25:51PM +1100, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > One response to this idea is that the non-computational worlds are overrun > with white rabbits, whereas the computational worlds allow the calculation > of a local measure, such as Russell Standish has described, which explains > the orderly universe we know. However, this doesn't explain why the > non-computational white rabbits don't suddenly intrude in the next moment: > what's to say that their relative measure should be less than the orderly > computational worlds' relative measure?
Actually, this is exactly what I do claim, so if you think I haven't succeeded, I'd be very interested in learning why. Note that the non-appearance of white rabbits comes from what I call "robustness" of the observer, and robustness is not a general property of Turing machines, which is why the white rabbit problem seems so intractable in comp. I argue why robustness should be a very likely property of observers from evolutionary reasons, but perhaps the weakness of the argument is not yet calculating the relative proportion of robust observers to non-robust observers and relating this to the relative proportion of white rabbits. I certainly believe it should more than compensate, but perhaps I'm being overly optimistic. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
