On 11/15/2014 12:41 AM, LizR wrote:
On 15 November 2014 20:27, Peter Sas <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Russell, thanks for your answer... I will definitely give your book a
closer
reading in the near future, if I can get my poor philosopher's head to
understand
the mathematics :)
I hope you don't mind answering some questions in advance. You wrote:
Exactly. The source of the symmetry breaking is the action of an
observer. Symmetry is restored by considering all other observers out
there in the "Nothing"-verse (more commonly called the Plenitude).
This what I don't get: How can there already exist observers (or at least
one
observer) prior to the symmetry breaking, given that it is this breaking
that turns
zero-info into info?
I don't think the claim is that the observers exist prior to the Nothing in a temporal
sense, an ontological sense, or even a logically prior sense. I think your viewpoint as
expressed below, of the form "A must exist in order to cause B" isn't exactly how it
works, although I am hard pressed to put this intuition into words. I'm sure Russell can
answer you far more precisely, but my feeling is that the Nothing is symmetrical and
that the symmetry isn't broken in the physicist's sense, but only because for every
observer doing action A there is an "anti-observer" doing the opposite action, and that
these cancel out overall (though not locally, and we can only ever observe what's
happening locally). To put it another way, if we assume the world is somehow built from
information, this is along the lines of each positive number having a negative counterpart.
Or as my friend Yonatan Fishman summarized it, "The world is just nothing,
rearranaged."
Brent
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