On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 01:08:40AM +0000, chris peck wrote: > Hi Prof. Standish > > I read your paper 'Evolution in the Multiverse' and the related discussion in > your book. > > I'm not sure I really got it. My original interpretation was wrong, I think, > but went something like (by all means laugh at any howlers): > > there is the plenitude which is everything that could possibly be and it > 'exists' as a kind of cloud of quantum superpositions of states waiting to > decohere (collapse?). On measurement dechoerence traces out a history for > each viable universe with the AP setting the end point, the type of > intellegent organisms evolution must meet, with the SSA setting the most > likely starting point. In this way, for any universe, the AP and SSA kind of > govern the nature of life in the universe and combined can be seen as a kind > of selective principle. I then had this image of a bunch of universes > allowing life at varying degrees of sophistication peaking at the universe > with the ultimate brainy ET.
OK... > > But then I thought hang on, decoherence is copenhagen whereas Prof. Standish > is MWI so something is wrong. Im definately in a muddle here... > decoherence is MWI, collapse is Copenhagen. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
