Re: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-14 Thread Benjamin Udell
>> Or conceivably could an SAS in a classically deterministic universe surmise >> something like a Level III multiverse, from considerations of the (ontological?) >> status(es) of terms of alternatives, alternatives of the types studied in logic >> (e.g. multivalue logic), mathematical theory of

Re: Dark Matter, dark eneggy, & conservation

2003-11-14 Thread George Levy
Ron, I am not a physicist, just a dabbling engineer philosoper, however, the idea of dark energy is intriguing. I asked a question a few weeks ago, whether dark (mass) energy is identical to negative (mass) energy and what the implications would be in terms of Newton mechanics. The reason for

Re: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-14 Thread Joao Leao
scerir wrote: Joao Leao: > The association between non-locality and "retrocausality" > (for lack of a better word) is anything but simple! In any > case it has less to do with the flow of time than with its > negation! [...] Bell's theorem shows that, given the hidden variable lambda, the result

Re: Quantum accident survivor

2003-11-14 Thread Eric Cavalcanti
- Original Message - From: "Bruno Marchal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>When you said earlier that: >>"In a materialistic framework, ' I ' am a bunch of atoms. These atoms >>happen to constitute a system that has self-referential >>qualities that we call consciousness." > > >I would say I *

Re: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-14 Thread scerir
Joao Leao: > The association between non-locality and "retrocausality" > (for lack of a better word) is anything but simple! In any > case it has less to do with the flow of time than with its > negation! [...] Bell's theorem shows that, given the hidden variable lambda, the result of the experim

Re: Dark Matter, dark eneggy, & conservation

2003-11-14 Thread Ron McFarland
Looks like this topic ended with my last post of 3 days ago. Thank you to those who contributed. I've no idea how things will really settle out in a Theory of Everything related to physics. My arguments are but one view point, certainly not the most educated, and until some time in the future i

Re: Quantum accident survivor

2003-11-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 14:21 12/11/03 -0800, Pete Carlton wrote: Greetings; this reply has taken some time... I don't quite agree with your point of view, and the reason is maybe similar to our disagreement in my statement: "It is not useful to talk about 1st person experiences in 3rd person terms, since when we do th

Re: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 09:30 13/11/03 -0800, Hal Finney wrote: This list is dedicated to exploring the implications of the prospect that all universes exist. According to this principle, universes exist with all possible laws of physics. So by "all universes exists" you mean "all physical universes" exists? It f

Re: "Last-minute" vs. "anticipatory" quantum immortality

2003-11-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 20:11 13/11/03 -0500, Jesse Mazer wrote: David Kwinter wrote: Thank you Bruno & Jesse, this "anticipatory QTI" is the most awesome interpretation of QM I've ever heard. It's not so much an interpretation of QM as "the many-worlds interpretation of QM + some assumptions about laws of conscious

Re: Request for a glossary of acronyms

2003-11-14 Thread Jesse Mazer
Hal Finney wrote: Jesse Mazer writes: > In your definition of the ASSA, why do you define it in terms of your next > observer moment? The ASSA and the RSSA were historically defined as competing views. I am not 100% sure that I have the ASSA right, in that it doesn't seem too different from the S