On Wednesday, January 9, 2019 at 4:06:08 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 6 Jan 2019, at 22:27, Philip Thrift <cloud...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > Why - in numerical reality (UD) - can't there be vampires, werewolves, > that sort of things? They can certainly be "created" in computer > simulations of stories of them … > > > Exactly, that is why we need to recover physics by a notion of “bettable”. > If you see a vampire, not explained by the notion of observable, you can > infer that either: > > Mechanism is false, or > You are dreaming, or > You belong to a “malevolent” simulation (à-la Bostrom, made by angry > descendent who want to fail us on reality). > > Fortunately, we don’t see vampires, and up to know, thanks to QM, we see > exactly what mechanism predicts. > > Bruno > > > >
Seth Lloyd of course says the universe is a quantum computer. But what if there are qualia in addition to (or combined with) quanta as the fundamental elements of nature. Then the quantum computer - a purely quantum information processing (QuIP) machine - needs to be upgraded to a qualium(+quantum) experience(+information) processing (QuEP) machine. The universe (now a QuEP machine) could have conscious beings who make up stories about vampires and werewolves. - pt -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
