On 31 Jul 2012, at 17:36, smi...@zonnet.nl wrote:
Citeren Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be>:
On 30 Jul 2012, at 19:57, meekerdb wrote:
On 7/30/2012 2:19 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote:
The Boltzman brains , according with what i have read, are
completely different beasts. Boltzman pressuposes, that , since
no random arrangement of matter is statistically impossible,
and Boltzman demonstrated it in certain conditions (ergodic
conditions) , with enough time, some arrangements of matter
would simulate minds, or even worlds and civilizations. But
15.000 Million years, that is the age of the universe is not
enough.
Boltzman was considering the question of how the universe came to
be in its state of low entropy. I could be due to a random
fluctuation. And it was more probable that the random
fluctuation simply produced the universe as we see than a
fluctuation that produced a big bang universe which then evolved
into what we see.
Actually I doubt this, like the probability that life appears on
earth and leads to us, is plausibly bigger than the probability
that "I" appears here just now, in my exact current state.
And extending this line of thought further, a fluctuation that
merely created a brain along with the illusion of this universe
was still more probable (i.e. less improbable).
If that were true, that could be used to put more doubt on the
existence of the 1-person indeterminacy measure, I think.
In the UD, or arithmetic, this reflects the competition between
little numbers (simple explanation) and big numbers
(algorithmically complex explanation). But the indeterminacy bears
on all numbers, so the little one have to multiply much more than
the complex one, in some ways. Linearity at the physical bottom
might be explained by that phenomenon, qualitatively.
Sean Carroll has a good discussion of this and why this argument
does not hold for a multiverse, in his book "From Infinity to Here".
Looks interesting. I guess this can be very easily extended to the
"many dreams" occurring in arithmetic.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
The problem is to explain also why the entropy of the early universe
was so low. If you just accept that this is the case and also don't
bother about the very distant future, there is no problem. But if
you assume that time goes on from the infinite distant past and/or
to the infinite distant future, you have a problem, because smaller
local low entropy states are then more likely than the whole
observable universe being in some low entropy state.
And Sean Carroll's argument amounts to simply hiding the problem in
an ever expanding state space, it's not that he has shown that in a
multiverse the problem doesn't occur.
But with comp I don't see how we could avoid the ever expanding state
space. That is what a UD is, notably, and its existence is a
consequence of simple laws (+ and *).
Should not a quantum multiverse also contains some quantum universal
dovetailer and avoids the problem in the Sean Carroll way? (as far as
I can imagine it)
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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