I don't mean the white rabbits from the Turing machine, I mean the ones outside it. If we accept that an abstract machine can just exist, without benefit of a separate physical reality, why not also accept that non-computational talking white rabbits can also just exist? That is, why should computations have a privileged ontological status in the everything?
Stathis Papaioannou On 3/19/07, Russell Standish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
