On 17 Jan 2014, at 18:04, Edgar L. Owen wrote:
John,
I give a fairly detailed answer to what quantum randomness is and
what it applies to in my New Topic post "Another shot at how
spacetime emerges from computational reality".
You did not answer the argument that there is no computational
physical, or theological, or psychological reality. the computational
reality is entirely defined by a tiny fragment of arithmetic, and it
is embedded in a vast non computable reality (and that play a role due
to the FPI).
Basically nature must choose randomly
Which nature? You reify nature. That is (epistemologically)
inconsistent.
Here is a problem with a common p-time for everybody. If I slow the
clock of may artifical brain (a von Neuman machine, say), then from my
point of view time "accelerated". I can see the needle of the clock
moving rapidly. My first person p-time is made different from all the
others.
No problem with this in the indexical relative setting.
Bruno
when it aligns the separate spacetime networks that arise from
particle property conservation when particles computationally
interact. That's because there can be no deterministic way to align
separate spacetimes, so nature must choose randomly among the
available possibilities.....
Edgar
On Friday, January 17, 2014 11:57:08 AM UTC-5, John Clark wrote:
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I give a coherent definition of free will in my book on Reality.
Free will is simply the fact that some bounded system generates
actions that are not entirely determined by its environmental inputs.
OK, then the term "free will" is synonymous with the word "random".
But there is no great mystery in how that came about and it doesn't
matter if brain
microtubules vibrate or not; as I've said more than once I know of
no law of logic that demands that every event have a cause. A
deeper question than "why are some things random?" would be "why
isn't everything random?".
John K Clark
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