Has anyone had a look at Mallah's paper at arXiv:0709.0544 yet? I've been reading it this afternoon, and whilst the programme seems interesting - to derive Born's rule from anthropic reasoning on conscious computations, the paper itself seems to be a brain-dump. It is big (55 pages), and doesn't seem well organised. I'm having a lot of trouble finding my way around it, and distilling the essential ideas.
I'm curious that he makes no mention at all of my "Why Occam's Razor" paper, as it does derive Born's rule from the SSA. Jacques Mallah knows about the paper, as he found a minor technical error in the first draft of it. In my case, the measure is carried explictly by the amplitude of the (unnormalised) state vector, and is complex-valued, whereas in Mallah's paper the measure is some kind of "L" factor that is associated with the state vector, and is positive-valued only. What do others think? I'm disappointed with the paper, frankly, but I do wonder if there is some kernel in there struggling to get out. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
