On 4 February 2011 18:44, Andrew Soltau <[email protected]> wrote:
> From my perspective this debate / clarification is getting lost in language > problems. > > Given that a universal dovetailer must necessarily produce *all* > experiential realities, all possible experiencable moments, how do you > account for our endlessly repeated observations of an experiential reality > that corresponds *precisely* not only with ordinary every day observations > of a physical quantum reality, but also all quantum experiments to date. Forgive me butting in, but occasionally I find it helps to reconsider the problem using less technical language (since I'm not very technical). I tend to think about this from a One-Many perspective. Essentially, in talking about "consciousness" or observation, the comp assumption implies that our perspective is always from the "point of view" of the One. The infinity of computation, in this analogy the Many, is somehow "seen" from the point of view of the One. So then the question is - how can any particular set of experiences emerge, or be filtered, from the totality of the Many, from such a perspective? Simple ideas of "measure" may indeed seem to give the wrong answer, very quickly. It seems that we have to think combinatorially, in terms of higher orders of "filtration" - perhaps an infinity of them. The "Goldilocks enigma" of cosmology may be suggestive here - the 20-or-so free parameters, their sometimes exquisite degree of adjustment, and their possible inter-dependence, seems to imply a pitiless winnowing of the Many such that vanishingly few experiential realities with the observed characteristics can survive. Hence the remainder subside into non-experiential oblivion. I suppose that was as clear as mud. But it may give a flavour. David > From my perspective this debate / clarification is getting lost in language > problems. > > Given that a universal dovetailer must necessarily produce *all* > experiential realities, all possible experiencable moments, how do you > account for our endlessly repeated observations of an experiential reality > that corresponds *precisely* not only with ordinary every day observations > of a physical quantum reality, but also all quantum experiments to date. > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
