Re: Are we simulated by some massive computer?

2004-05-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
I agree with George, but note that I arrive at an equivalent assertion without using that lower levels have lower complexity and therefore higher measure. That is possible, but the problem is that it is a priori hard to estimate the dumbness of the universal dovetailer which is quite capable to

Boltzmann's Stosszahlansatz?

2004-05-06 Thread Stephen Paul King
Daer Bruno and George, At the risk of being massively naive, does this idea seem to be related to the infamous problem of Boltzmann's Stosszahlansatz? http://www.lns.cornell.edu/spr/1999-02/msg0014388.html http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/1244/01/Winsberg_laws_and__statmech.doc

Re: Are we simulated by some massive computer?

2004-05-06 Thread Hal Ruhl
The following is a combination of several of my previous ideas which forces me to raise a question re measure in this thread. 1) The first step is to examine the act of definition. In this case the definition of a Nothing. Any definition process simultaneously defines two entities. The