On 27 February 2014 04:18, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > Jason, > > This initially interesting post of course exposes fundamental flaws in its > logic and the way that a lot of people get mislead by physically impossible > thought experiments such as the whole interminable p-clone, p-zombie > discussion on this group. >
Yeah, stuff starting with "p-" seems to be bad news. > > First there is of course no physical mechanism that continually produces > clones and places them in separate rooms, nor is there any MW process that > does that, so the whole analysis is moot, and frankly childish as it > doesn't even take into consideration what aspects of reality change > randomly and which don't. Specifically it's NOT room numbers that seem > random, it's quantum level events. > This is the point of Schrodinger's cat - if you magnify a quantum event, it could be used to do macroscopic things, e.g. put people in separate rooms. > > If anyone is looking for the source of quantum randomness I've already > provided an explanation. It occurs as fragmentary spacetimes are created by > quantum events and then merged via shared quantum events. There can be no > deterministic rules for aligning separate spacetime fragments thus nature > is forced to make those alignments randomly. > OK, I'll bite. Show us the maths and the experts can see how it stacks up against Everett et al. > > But sadly no one on this group is interested in quantum theory, only > relativity, and far out philosophies such as 'comp'. > How sad it was that no one discussed QM on this list until you came along. -- 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.
