RE: Why physical laws

1999-06-11 Thread Gilles HENRI
I'm just skimming atthe moment, but the idea of universes containing SAS apparently observing a environment without physical laws. seems absurd. How can a process occur, such as the process of observing, without athe necessary sequence appearing to obey laws? James, here you assume that

RE: Worlds do fuse

1999-06-11 Thread hal
It's something of a semantic difference whether worlds should be said to fuse in the MWI. Consider a photon which passes through a two slit interference experiment. One way of describing it is to say that there are two worlds, one where the photon passes through one slit and one where it passes

Re: Why physical laws

1999-06-11 Thread Wei Dai
On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 05:35:28PM +0200, Gilles HENRI wrote: James, here you assume that the conscious process derives from physical laws, exactly what I support. In the everything computable exists, nothing prevents to generate Universes where conscious structures do exist, but don't have a