On 01 Jul 2013, at 21:00, Stephen Paul King wrote:
Hi Mitch,
Great comments! I would only wonder why the BB concept is not seen,
by Susskind et al, as equivalent to the Observer Moment (or
Barborian Time Capsule) concept. My question is how do they justify
the 'memory of a past state' of a BB; or do they ignore this?
Additionally, it seems that we can easily stretch the BB idea into a
"Last Thursdayism" concept.
I agree. And "physical BB" might not make computational sense, as some
comp state needs long histories to appear and stay stable.
But it remains to be see, by the math, if deepness and linearity
stabilize consciousness enough to get physical laws like the one we
infer from observation.
(Cf my comment to Mitch)
Bruno
On Monday, July 1, 2013 12:25:27 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
You'll likely hate my comment, but Susskind and Raphael Bousso are
or were pretty big on Boltzmann Brains. The more I look at the words
of physicists speaking about this phenomena (pro and con) the more
it seems to be an evolving theology. Bostrom might also be into
this. Conway may not even be aware of BB, and I would guess that
Tegmark would laugh it all off. Which maybe he should. I am amzed
and sometimes inspired by the discussions regarding this. Questions
arise and evolve such as-
In an infinite universe you'd produce more BB's them people
What about a smaller number of BB's?
Would these observers be as described? Having their own personal
memories, and personalities, however false?
Being of human level intelligence or better.?
I asked Dr. Clough if a BB could be one of his Monads??
There has been a question asked out there internet-land, whether we
exist as thoughs or ideas in one BB?
Finally, is our BB, God?
One Russian Physicist working in Peking wrote a paper that he saw
BB's as likely, but that each cosmos would have it's own BB.
It's mind-numbing and perhaps not even worth discussing (?) I
apologize if this is too crazy, but it's what I have been
interneting about the last couple of weeks. If Our BB did write a
program that eventually created us, that might do it for me. Other's
would say no. At any rate, it might be a nice thing to be friendly
to our universe's BB, if only to enjoy commincating (if possible?)
with such a brilliant mind.
BB's were believed by Boltzmann to evolve from thermal differences
in space. Sort of like Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy drive
producing a air borne whale, falling to the surface of the planet,
Magarthea. Or it might be one way to simply arrive, via thermal
fluctuations.
Well, string drink is called for.
Mitch
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From: Jason Resch <[email protected]>
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Sent: Sun, Jun 30, 2013 11:13 pm
Subject: Worth while video
On the subject of reality, featuring John Conway, Max Tegmark,
Leonard Susskind, and Nick Bostrom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyH2D4-tzfM
Jason
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