On 16 December 2013 05:04, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > As I said you confuse "indeterminacy" (the general vague concept) with >> the many different sort of indeterminacy: >> 1) by ignorance on initial conditions (example: the coin), that is a 3p >> indeterminacy. >> 2) Turing form of indeterminacy (example: the halting problem), that is >> again a 3p indeterminacy. >> 3) quantum indeterminacy in copenhague (3p indeterminacy, if that exists) >> 4) quantum indeterminacy in Everett (1p indeterminacy, which needs the >> quantum SWE assumption) >> 5) computationalist 1p-indeterminacy (similar to Everett, except that it >> does not need to assume the SWE or Everett-QM). It is the one we get in >> step 3, and it is part of the derivation of physics from comp. >> > > Only the first 3 make any sense, and even there all those peas are > unnecessary. >
What doesn't make sense about number 4 (the MWI explanation of indeterminacy) ? -- 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.
