On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 01:50:21PM -0500, John Clark wrote: > > Yes, people very often, usually in fact, don't know with certainty what the > future will bring. Bruno apparently believes he's the first to notice that, > well he is the first to give that concept a pompous sounding acronym. As I > said, philosophy around here is finding pretentious and long words to > describe well known but pedestrian ideas. >
To be fair to Bruno, that is not what he claims. The FPI comes from the fundamental uncertainty in know which person you are, and generates genuine randomness within a completely deterministic system. This is still a shocking result to many people. Whether he is first or not is more debatable. Certainly, it seems Everett did much the same thing with the MWI. Bruno's contribution is to show the mechanism works within the setting of classical computationalism via the universal dovetailer. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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/d/optout.
