Re: Peculiarities of our universe

2004-01-10 Thread Saibal Mitra
- Original Message - From: Hal Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 12:24 AM Subject: Peculiarities of our universe There are a couple of peculiarities of our universe which it would be nice if the All-Universe Hypothesis (AUH) could explain,

Re: Is the universe computable?

2004-01-10 Thread John M
Erick,thanks for your comments on my exchange with GeorgeQ. Although I do not claim to have understood (digested?) all of your post, I feel it may be in my line of thinking (pardon me the offense). I just use less connotations to 'time' related phrases, as may be obvious from below. Over the

Re: Peculiarities of our universe

2004-01-10 Thread Eric Hawthorne
Hal Finney wrote: One is the apparent paucity of life and intelligence in our universe. This was first expressed as the Fermi Paradox, i.e., where are the aliens? As our understanding of technological possibility has grown the problem has become even more acute. It seems likely that our

Re: Why no white talking rabbits?

2004-01-10 Thread Jesse Mazer
Eric Hawthorne wrote: So the answer to *why* it is true that our universe conforms to simple regularities and produces complex yet ordered systems governed (at some levels) by simple rules, it's because that's the only kind of universe that an emerged observer could have emerged in, so that's

Maximization the gradient of order as a generic constraint ?

2004-01-10 Thread Georges Quenot
In a previous post in reply to Hal Finnay, I have suggested the use of a particuliar case of additional conditions to the hypothetical set of equation that would rule ou universe. This is an attempt to clarify it while taking it out from the computation perspective with which it has nothing to do.

Re: Maximization the gradient of order as a generic constraint ?

2004-01-10 Thread Hal Finney
Georges Quenot writes: Considering the kind of set of equation we figure up to now, completely specifying our universe from them seems to require two additional things: 1) The specification of boundary conditions (or any other equivalent additional constraint. 2) The selection of a set

Re: Why no white talking rabbits?

2004-01-10 Thread Jesse Mazer
Hal Finney wrote: Jesse Mazer writes: Hal Finney wrote: However, I prefer a model in which what we consider equally likely is not patterns of matter, but the laws of physics and initial conditions which generate a given universe. In this model, universes with simple laws are far more likely