Re: Romeo and Juliet and QS

2002-10-07 Thread Jesse Mazer
George Levy wrote: Without our quantum laws, for example, if we lived in a mechanistic universe, electrons, unfettered by their quantum levels would fall into their nucleii resulting in the almost immediate annihilation of all matter in the universe and a huge increase in entropy. Even though

Re: Many Fermis Interpretation Paradox -- So why aren't they here?

2002-10-07 Thread Saibal Mitra
- Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aan: Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: vrijdag 4 oktober 2002 18:13 Onderwerp: Re: Many Fermis Interpretation Paradox -- So why aren't they here? At 9:36 -0700 1/10/2002, Tim May wrote: MWI looks,

Re: Calibration Request

2002-10-07 Thread Russell Standish
Don't feel too bad about this. I doubt that anyone has a clear picture of what the mind is, so I doubt that reading avogadro's number of articles on the subject would help anyway. What I was referring to was for projections from a range of possibilities onto an actual observed outcome to be a

Re: Romeo and Juliet and QS

2002-10-07 Thread George Levy
Jesse Mazer wrote: George Levy wrote: Without our quantum laws, for example, if we lived in a mechanistic universe, electrons, unfettered by their quantum levels would fall into their nucleii resulting in the almost immediate annihilation of all matter in the universe and a huge

Re: Modal Realism vs. MWI

2002-10-07 Thread Russell Standish
Tim May wrote: However, I take your point that full Lewis-Stalnaker-D. Lewis modal realism is more disjoint than the less disjoint (initial interference of branching worlds) MWI. In terms of topology, one might say full modal realism is the discrete (perhaps Zariski) topology, while