On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 07:48:57PM -0500, Stephen P. King wrote: > Hi Russell, > > I agree with this view, especially the part about the > compatibility of bases leading to a 'sharing of realities' that then > gives rise to an illusion of a single classical reality; I just > phrase the concepts differently. My question to you is how 'simple' > can an observer be, as a system? It seems to me that even particles > could be considered as observers. I buy Chalmers' argument for > panpsychism. >
I doubt that very much, as if true, then we should expect to find ourselves as particles, which is the Occam's catastrophe redux I point out in my book. I suspect that as human beings, we rank amongst the simplest of all possible observers. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales 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.
