On 2/19/2012 7:16 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Feb 19, 8:29 pm, meekerdb<meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
On 2/19/2012 5:08 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Feb 19, 2:19 pm, 1Z<peterdjo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
It is with some trepidation that I enter into this discussion, but I would
like to suggest that if MWI is true, where MWI is the Many Worlds
Interpretation of quantum mechanics, which is where every quantum state in
every particle interaction is realized in one parallel world/universe or
another, then there is no need for a god.
Why not? There could an infinite number of the Many Worlds with all
kinds of Gods.
QM based MWI woildn't suggest that the supernatural occurs in any
universe. Are you familiar with Tegmark's classification?
Why would Gods be supernatural? If comp is true, then when we create
AI beings over which we will have power to stop, start, and reprogram
their minds as well as their perceived universes, who will we be to
them other than Gods? Computationalism says that we have no way of
knowing that has not happened yet and MWI (and Tegmark's Level 3
classification) demands that this is inevitable in some universes.
In a scenario of infinite universes, how can any possibility be said
to be supernatural?
In MWI the infinite universes all still the same physics and so the same
statistics. No
event can be *known* to be supernatural; but a very improbable event is still
very improbable.
Improbable is meaningless with the anthropic principle. The set of MWI
universes with Gods would have the same physics and statistics as the
rest of the MWI universes, but within these MWIGs the UMs which the
Gods have learned to build and program would have the physics of the
Gods' choosing since the UMs are actually living in a nested virtual
universe.
What you suggest in saying that no event can be known to be
supernatural is the same as saying that all video games would have to
have the same basic rules.
No all MWI have the same basic rules. MWI is an interpretation of quantum mechanics,
which supplies the basic rules.
It's an arbitrary deus ex machina to plug
the hole in the two theories, which, if both were true, clearly make
the certain epistemology of primitive physics in any universe by it's
inhabitants inaccessible.
The only way out of it that I can see is to acknowledge that it is
possible for 'sense' to transcend logic
"Transcend logic" means what? Logic is just the consistency of a set of propositions
under an inference rule. Perception is some else entirely.
and therefore at least
indirectly access a level of primitive truth through physics, which is
exactly what multisense realism predicts. This corresponds to our
ordinary experience of implicit 'seems like' epistemology which makes
our perceptions specular participation in a real human world rather
than a solipsistic simulation.
Our idea of quantum could simply be the virtual
quantum of the simulation furnished to us by our programmers...who
appear to us as arithmetic Gods because they wish to.
And you could be a simulation of a brain in a vat that has just fluctuated into
existence
as a Boltzmann brain. This is different from a universe in a multiverse.
Yes, but I'm saying that through comp, we cannot know that we are in a
universe at all. We could be programs in someone else's universe, and
our arithmetic and logic the meaningless hallucinations of a brain
simulation that makes us feel our logic makes sense by stimulating the
corresponding regions of our brains with the appropriate virtual
chemistry.
It is also
cognitively unstable; i.e. there is no way to act as if it's true.
In a comp simulation, there is no truth, only internal consistency,
which could be easily simulated by disabling the ability to detect
continuity errors.
In a simulation there's no need for internal consistency either. Which is why there's no
way to act as if it's true...so it's epistemologically and practically irrelevant.
Brent
Craig
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