> On 24 Dec 2018, at 16:29, Mason Green <[email protected]> wrote: > > David Deutsch suggested something like this I (that individual universes are > discrete, but the multiverse as a whole is continuous). > > “within each universe all observable quantities are discrete, but the > multiverse as a whole is a continuum. When the equations of quantum theory > describe a continuous but not-directly-observable transition between two > values of a discrete quantity, what they are telling us is that the > transition does not take place entirely within one universe. So perhaps the > price of continuous motion is not an infinity of consecutive actions, but an > infinity of concurrent actions taking place across the multiverse.” January, > 2001 The Discrete and the Continuous
This is consistent with Digital Mechanism, and plausibly mandatory too. The computations evolves discretly, vertically in the universal computational deployment (the tiny sigma_1 arithmetic), but the first person indeterminacy is horizontal and takes into account infinitely many computations. But the precise topology and cardinality remains open problems. Bruno > > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
