I agree Brent, but that assumes that "logic" is limited to distributive lattice structures. We know better!
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 12:15 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/12/2013 6:57 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Stephen Paul King >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >Telmo Menezes wrote: >>> >"...My understanding is that >>> > >>> >it's consistent with the MWI and also with what Russel proposes in his >>> >book: everything happens but each observer only perceives one of the >>> >outcomes. >>> > >>> >This seems highly unintuitive to a lot of people, but it seems more >>> >reasonable to me than the idea that there is just one Telmo with one >>> >personal diary. If there are infinitely many, each one with his own >>> >personal diary, the world still looks exactly like it does to this >>> >particular instance of me, and we do not have to resort to any >>> >randomness magic." >>> > >>> >What people do not seem to understand is that 1st person perspectives, >>> for >>> >instance, what any one version of Telmo perceives' is constrained to be >>> >consistent with Telmo's existence as a perciever. Observing many points >>> of >>> >view simultaneously from a single location is very much like a list of >>> >propositions that are not mutually consistent. This is a failure of >>> >satisfiability in a Boolean algebra. >>> >The property of satisfiability does not just occur by magic... >>> >> Yes, I think about that too. It leads me to the idea that logic is >> more fundamental than physical laws. I would propose that each subset >> of consistent perceptions is precisely what a 1p is. >> > > But be careful, I think it matters what domain logic is applied to. When > quantum mechanics was first proposed people said a particle can't be in two > different states at the same time - that just violates logic. > > Brent > > > That's why I am >> not aware of my alters, and maybe why I am not aware that I am you. >> I'm counting memories as perceptions for simplification -- one could >> imagine the brain as a bag of states that can be perceived, which is >> perhaps a bizarre way of defining memory / personal diaries. >> >> Telmo. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/** > topic/everything-list/K7E-**Vfwj4QU/unsubscribe?hl=en<https://groups.google.com/d/topic/everything-list/K7E-Vfwj4QU/unsubscribe?hl=en> > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > everything-list+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<everything-list%[email protected]> > . > To post to this group, send email to > everything-list@googlegroups.**com<[email protected]> > . > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/**group/everything-list?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
