Hi Folks, After a decade of procrastination, I've finally finished writing up a sequel to that paper that I wrote back in 1996 (Is "the theory of everything'' merely the ultimate ensemble theory?) that's been the subject of so much interesting discussion in this group. It's entitled "The Mathematical Universe", and you'll find it at http://arxiv.org/pdf/0704.0646 and http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/toe.html - I'd very much appreciate any comments that you may have.
The purpose of this paper is both to clarify what I mean by the Level IV Multiverse and to further explore various implications, so it has lots of discussion of stuff like the simulation argument, the relation to Schmidhuber's ideas, Gödel incompleteness and Church-Turing incomputability. Please let me apologize in advance for the fact that Sections III, IV and the appendix of this paper are quite technical, so if you're among the 99.99% who don't have a Ph.D. in theoretical physics, perhaps skip those sections. I've added links to more accessible papers touching on some of these issues at http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/toe.html, and I'll try to write something less obtuse soon. Finally, if you discover a good time stretching device, please let me know! Although I'm embarrassed that I haven't found the time to follow and participate in the fascinating discussions in this group, the fact that there's such interest has inspired and motivated me to continue pursuing these ideas despite the discouragement from mainstream academia. So thanks for the encouragement! Max ;-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---