> On 1 Feb 2020, at 06:20, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 1/31/2020 5:59 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> On 23 Jan 2020, at 22:19, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List >>> <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 1/23/2020 7:26 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 22 Jan 2020, at 21:01, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List >>>>> <[email protected] >>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 1/22/2020 7:09 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 18 Jan 2020, at 10:16, Philip Thrift <[email protected] >>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Saturday, January 18, 2020 at 2:00:23 AM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/257476/how-did-the-universe-shift-from-dark-matter-dominated-to-dark-energy-dominate/257542#257542 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> <https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/257476/how-did-the-universe-shift-from-dark-matter-dominated-to-dark-energy-dominate/257542#257542> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Proof that physics = witchcraft with equations. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Maybe programming (implementing simulations in programs) would be >>>>>>> better. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Note that if Mechanism is correct, the physical reality cannot be >>>>>> emulated by a computer. The reason is that if “we” can be emulated by a >>>>>> computer, physics has to be reduced into a statistic on *all* >>>>>> computations, >>>>> >>>>> Why "all". We can only experience a finite number of >>>>> thoughts/feelings/etc. >>>> >>>> >>>> For a fraction of a second, maybe. But for more, you need to take into >>>> account the infinitely many computations executed in the universal >>>> dovetailing (aka the sigma_1 truth). >>>> >>>> Take a universal machinery phi_i. A computation is a sequence phi_u(j)^s >>>> with s = 1, 2, 3, …, (s numbers the steps) and for u some universal >>>> number. By the fact that all programs recurs infinitely often in the >>>> universal dovetailing, + the fact that the first person cannot be aware of >>>> the step-time delays of the universal dovetailer, to get the physical >>>> (statistical) prediction right, you need to take into account the >>>> infinitely many programs running you. The first person dynamical >>>> experience is always a statistic on all infinitely many relative >>>> computational histories. >>> >>> A statistic on an infinite set can be (and usually is) finite >> >> What does that mean? > > A statistic is a function whose argument is a data set and whose value is a > number, e.g. Average is a statistic.
No problem. But that is not the statistics, just a result in some statistical analysis. > >> >> You will need some measure on an infinite space to do the math. It will >> usually contain a continuum of open set on some non enumerable space. > > I don't need anything. You're the one who's claiming physics is a statistic. Is not quantum physics, when use as a prediction tool, a statistic? Bruno > > Brent > >> >> >>> (although it's not clear what "statistic" you mean...or is it just >>> metaphor). >> >> It means the same as in the WM duplication, except that your relative >> continuation is all computations (including all oracles) going through your >> actual state. Cf step 7 of the UDA. >> >> >> >>> And if we compute the statistic we can compute our experience. >> >> The net result is not computable, like with a coin in practice, or like with >> a quantum coin in both theory and practice. We can compute the >> distribution, but not the outcome per se of the experience. >> >> 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/4a802a67-7bbc-9c42-9954-0d8b2f3a3667%40verizon.net > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/4a802a67-7bbc-9c42-9954-0d8b2f3a3667%40verizon.net?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/B4D1F675-3195-4027-9867-E0978F777345%40ulb.ac.be.
