Re: Quantum Rebel

2004-07-28 Thread Saibal Mitra
I just read the New Scientist article Quantum Rebel last night about Shariar Afshar's work on the double slit experiment. Ingenious as the experiment is, I really don't think it says anything about different interpretations of QM. Indeed, the outcome of the experiment is just what I'd expect from

Re: Quantum Rebel

2004-07-28 Thread Saibal Mitra
The probability that Russell's message contained a virus was low (he uses linux) but nonzero. So, I guess that's bad news for some of my copies in the multiverse. - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: Jeanne Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aan: CMR [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden:

Re: Quantum Rebel

2004-07-28 Thread Saibal Mitra
Saibal Mitra wrote: Now in the article, Afshar claims to have measured which slit the photon passed through and verified the existence of an interference pattern. However, this is not the case - without the wires in place to detect the presence of the interference pattern, photons arriving

Re: Are we simulated by some massive computer?

2004-04-26 Thread Saibal Mitra
I remember discussing this with you a few months ago. I am still not convinced though :-) - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: Jesse Mazer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: Sunday, April 25, 2004 06:19 PM Onderwerp: Re: Are we simulated by some massive computer? Saibal

Re: Are we simulated by some massive computer?

2004-04-26 Thread Saibal Mitra
- Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: Kory Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: Monday, April 26, 2004 03:00 AM Onderwerp: Re: Are we simulated by some massive computer? At 10:48 AM 4/25/04, Saibal Mitra wrote: This is the ''white rabbit'' problem which was discussed

Re: Many Worlds invalidated?

2004-04-26 Thread Saibal Mitra
Even if there is only one World, there would still be a sort of Many Worlds branching after each quantum observation, see here: http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0102010 Many worlds in one Authors: Jaume Garriga, Alexander Vilenkin Comments: 9 pages, 2 figures, comments and references added

Re: Are we simulated by some massive computer?

2004-04-25 Thread Saibal Mitra
This is the ''white rabbit'' problem which was discussed on this list a few years ago. This can be solved by assuming that there exists a measure over the set of al universes, favoring simpler ones. Also, note that there is no such thing as ''next possible'' states. Once you consider the whole

Quantum mechanics without quantum logic

2004-04-15 Thread Saibal Mitra
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0404045 Quantum mechanics without quantum logic Authors: D.A. Slavnov Comments: 24 pages, no figures, Latex We describe a scheme of quantum mechanics in which the Hilbert space and linear operators are only secondary structures of the theory. As primary

Re: measure and observer moments

2004-02-07 Thread Saibal Mitra
-similar states can anyway) with the passage of time (OR with lower probability in a shorter time.) Maybe? Eric Saibal Mitra wrote: - Original Message - From: Jesse Mazer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 12:19 AM Subject: Re: Request for a glossary

Re: Request for a glossary of acronyms

2004-02-06 Thread Saibal Mitra
- Original Message - From: Jesse Mazer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 12:19 AM Subject: Re: Request for a glossary of acronyms Saibal Mitra wrote: This means that the relative measure is completely fixed by the absolute measure. Also

Re: Request for a glossary of acronyms

2004-02-04 Thread Saibal Mitra
This means that the relative measure is completely fixed by the absolute measure. Also the relative measure is no longer defined when probabilities are not conserved (e.g. when the observer may not survive an experiment as in quantum suicide). I don't see why you need a theory of consciousness.

Re: Occam's Razor now published

2004-01-27 Thread Saibal Mitra
Congratulations! B.t.w., I don't like the doublespaced version on http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0001020 - Original Message - From: Russell Standish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 5:16 AM Subject: Occam's Razor now published

Re: Peculiarities of our universe

2004-01-19 Thread Saibal Mitra
- Original Message - From: Fred Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Everything [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 10:17 PM Subject: Re: Peculiarities of our universe One other scenario is that a civilization has indeed reached this pervasive state, but not in a form we'd

Re: Tegmark is too physics-centric

2004-01-19 Thread Saibal Mitra
I don't think there are many intelligent beings per cubic Plank length in our universe at all! In fact, string theorists don't know how to get to the standard model from their favorite theory, yet they still believe in it. Simple deterministic models could certainly explain our laws of physics, as

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: Quantum accident survivor

2003-11-10 Thread Saibal Mitra
There are some problems with this as Eric has pointed out. The best way to define identity, i.m.o., would be to say that a program is a SAS having an identity. If that SAS experience the outcome of an experiment, it's program will be changed by the mere fact it has acquired the memory of the

Re: Quantum accident survivor

2003-11-07 Thread Saibal Mitra
Russell wrote: The empirical problem with the ASSA is that under most reasonable proposals for the absolute measure, observer moments corresponding to younger people have higher measure than older people. Whilst the reference class issue puts a lower bound on how old you would expect to be,

Re: Quantum accident survivor

2003-11-03 Thread Saibal Mitra
consistent with ''normal'' physics. Saibal - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: Russell Standish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aan: Saibal Mitra [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: Sunday, November 02, 2003 05:45 AM Onderwerp: Re: Quantum accident survivor I disagree. You can only get

Re: Quantum accident survivor

2003-11-01 Thread Saibal Mitra
There have been many replies to this. I would say that you wouldn't expect to survive such accidents. Assume that we are sampled from a probability distribution over a set of possible states. E.g. in eternal inflation theories all possible quantum states the observable universe can be in are all

New article by Chaitin

2003-06-23 Thread Saibal Mitra
Leibniz, Information, Math and PhysicsAuthors: G. J. Chaitin (IBM Research)Subj-class: History and OverviewMSC-class: 68Q30 The information-theoretic point of view proposed by Leibniz in 1686 and developed by algorithmic information theory (AIT) suggests that mathematics and physics

Re: Machine Consciousness Newcomb's problem

2003-03-18 Thread Saibal Mitra
Bruno wrote: I agree with you except that I don't see how the omniscient simulator will miss your small cross on the wall, because this will make some change in your scanned brain, and He will take those changes into account. So, giving the hypotheses, your if the creature is unaware of this

Machine Consciousness Newcomb's problem

2003-03-17 Thread Saibal Mitra
This sounds very strange to me. Arguably one could say that my brain is simulating me (where I associate myself with a particular algorithm). I would say that any physical process computing me has to have my consciousness. So, if someone starts to simulate me, there is a 50% probability that I

everything exists in the multiverse

2003-03-12 Thread Saibal Mitra
- Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: Brett Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: woensdag 12 maart 2003 11:28 Onderwerp: Re: Parmenides' Principle However, no where in the multiverse is the charge on an electron 4 Coulombs. Somewhere in the plentitude, however,

Deterministic Laws of Nature?

2003-02-17 Thread Saibal Mitra
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0212095 Determinism beneath Quantum Mechanics Author: Gerard 't Hooft (Spinoza Institute, Utrecht University) Comments: Conf. Proceedings, Quo Vadis Quantum Mechanics, Philadelphia, 2002, 12 pages, 1 figure Postscript Report-no: ITP-02/69; SPIN-2002/45 Contrary to

New Article: Parallel Universes

2003-02-10 Thread Saibal Mitra
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302131 astro-ph/0302131 [abs, ps(600), other] : Title: Parallel Universes Authors: Max Tegmark (Penn) Comments: 18 pages, 8 figs. A less technical adaptation is scheduled for the May 2003 issue of Scientific American. Version with full-resolution figs at this http

Is the Multiverse twice as large?

2003-01-15 Thread Saibal Mitra
Well, just perform this simple experiment to find out. See: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0301229

(quantum) suicide

2003-01-05 Thread Saibal Mitra
Hall Finney: ''You might want to clarify what you mean by quantum suicide working. What do you hope to accomplish via QS? What effect will it have on your subjective perceptions?'' By ''quantum suicide working'' I mean that you could make the probability of winning the lottery as close to

Re: A moderated everything-list substitute (was: Re: Provably exponential time algorithms)

2003-01-05 Thread Saibal Mitra
, Saibal Mitra wrote: Actually, one doesn't have to dig very deep in the archive. This very thread is an example of an off topic irrelevant discussion. Irrelevant, because there are so few other postings that should not have appeared on this list. Perhaps instead of creating a seperate

Re: A moderated everything-list substitute (was: Re: Provably exponential time algorithms)

2003-01-03 Thread Saibal Mitra
Hal Finney wrote: Maybe you could look at the list archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/everything-list%40eskimo.com/maillist.html and say which posts from, say, December 30th and 31st you would reject. (Or, if the list would be shorter, you could say which posts in that period you would

Re: Virtual reality rendering

2002-10-12 Thread Saibal Mitra
I think that Newcomb's paradox does provide evidence for machine consciousness, independent of implementation. [A reminder. Newcomb's paradox: A highly superior being from another part of the galaxy presents you with two boxes, one open and one closed. In the open box there is a thousand-dollar

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

2002-10-11 Thread Saibal Mitra
), ... or it would be equivalent with Everett (accepting that quantum contextuality + realism implies the many-things). Bruno Original message by Saibal Mitra: - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aan: Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: vrijdag

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,

New edition of ``Fields´´

2002-09-23 Thread Saibal Mitra
Thenew edition of Siegel's textbook ``Fields´´ can be downloaded from: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-th/9912205 Saibal

Re: Doomsday-like argument in cosmology

2002-08-15 Thread Saibal Mitra
I think that the difference is that invoking the SIA does not affect the conclusion of the paper. Saibal Wei Dai wrote: On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 12:45:17AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dyson, L., Kleban, M. Susskind, L. Disturbing implications of a cosmological constant. Preprint

Re: Doomsday-like argument in cosmology

2002-08-15 Thread Saibal Mitra
PROTECTED] Aan: Saibal Mitra [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: donderdag 15 augustus 2002 23:46 Onderwerp: Re: Doomsday-like argument in cosmology On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 11:28:28PM +0200, Saibal Mitra wrote: I think that the difference is that invoking the SIA does not affect

Ordinary atom-mirror atom bound states

2002-08-11 Thread Saibal Mitra
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0204256 Ordinary atom-mirror atom bound states: A new window on the mirror world Authors: R. Foot, S. MitraComments: about 8 pages, couple of changes Mirror symmetry is a plausible candidate for a fundamental symmetry of particle interactions which can be

More magic: Exp(Pi*Sqrt(n))

2002-08-09 Thread Saibal Mitra
Exp(Pi*Sqrt(n)) PageThis table lists values of Exp(Pi*Sqrt(n)), for some selected values of n up to 1000. Some of these values are very close to integers. A prize will be awarded to anyone who can either convincingly argue that this is coincidence, or who can explain why this is so in terms

Re: More magic: Exp(Pi*Sqrt(n))

2002-08-09 Thread Saibal Mitra
Hal Finney wrote: ``Unfortunately it does not seem likely that an explanation suitable for a college senior is available, unless he is willing to educate himself for several months on higher mathematics.´´ I suspect that Roy Williams Clickery included this condition so that he always has an

Re: Newcomb's paradox

2002-07-24 Thread Saibal Mitra
The very act of predicting what you will choose is equivalent to generating you virtually and observing what box you will choose. So, when you stand in front of the two boxes, you don't know if you are in the real world or in the virtual world. The causal argument is thus invalid. The only way

Re: Is Reality as function of Reference Frame?

2002-07-16 Thread Saibal Mitra
Hello Stephen, Here are the references to 't Hooft's papers. Ref. 3 is written for non-specialists, and should be easy to follow. Greetings, Saibal [1] Quantum Gravity as a Dissipative Deterministic System http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9903084 [2] Determinism in Free Bosons

Re: Copenhagen interpretation

2002-07-14 Thread Saibal Mitra
MWI is a fully deterministic theory, but it is not the only deterministic theory consistent with QM. I believe that 't Hooft's theory is more natural from the point of view that universes are programs. It is hard for me to understand how you get interference between ``nearby´´ universes or

Re: Copenhagen interpretation

2002-07-14 Thread Saibal Mitra
Gordon wrote: Saibal Mitra wrote: This all assumes that photons, electrons, etc. are real. We don't know that. If you were Einstein, and you were faced with Bell's result, you could have concluded that the nonexistence of local hidden variables implies that elementary paricles don't

Copenhagen interpretation

2002-07-12 Thread Saibal Mitra
This all assumes that photons, electrons, etc. are real. We don't know that. If you were Einstein, and you were faced with Bell's result, you could have concluded that the nonexistence of local hidden variables implies that elementary paricles don't exist. They are mere mathematical tools to

Re: relevant probability distribution

2002-06-14 Thread Saibal Mitra
Russell wrote: I take consciousness to be that property essential for the operation of the Anthropic Principle. The universe is the way it is because we are here observing it as conscious beings. The first problem this raises is why does the anthropic principle work? - one can conceive

Re: test

2002-05-06 Thread Saibal Mitra
Maybe it isn't working but only seems to be working due to a white rabbit. - Origineel Bericht - Van: Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Maandag, Mei 6, 2002 11:30 am Onderwerp: Re: test At 13:19 -0700 5/05/2002, Wei Dai wrote: This is a test to make sure the Everything Mailing

Re: Holodeck guy tries to prove 'Bruno theory'

2002-04-16 Thread Saibal Mitra
- Original Message - From: Brian Scurfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 6:47 AM Subject: RE: Holodeck guy tries to prove 'Bruno theory' In this paper Olum defends the self-indicating assumption which says that given the fact you exist you

Re: Holodeck guy tries to prove 'Bruno theory'

2002-04-13 Thread Saibal Mitra
Nick Bostrom's uses the self-sampling assumption without simultaneously invoking the self-indicating assumption. That's wrong and leads straightforward to nonsense. E.g. the Doomsday argument is a closely related fallacy. This is explained by Ken Olum: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology,

Mirror Matter

2002-04-03 Thread Saibal Mitra
I have made a homepage for Mirror Matter, It can be found at http://people.zeelandnet.nl/smitra It is still under construction, comments welcome. Saibal Mitra

Re: Optimal Prediction

2002-03-28 Thread Saibal Mitra
I don't understand this point. Bill Jefferys wrote: Ockham's razor is a consequence of probability theory, if you look at things from a Bayesian POV, as I do. Saibal Mitra

Mirror Matter

2002-03-13 Thread Saibal Mitra
A new preprint on the mirror matter hypothesis by R. Foot and T.L. Loon has appeared. My observation that cratering rates on the Moon point to the presence of mirror asteroids in our solar system is also included. See: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0203152 Abstract: There are a number of

Shadowlands

2002-03-13 Thread Saibal Mitra
Robert Foot has written a book on mirror matter. It can be ordered or downloaded from: http://www.upublish.com/books/foot.htm Saibal

Tragedy in a ``nearby´´ universe

2002-03-01 Thread Saibal Mitra
Recently discovered documents detail the steps Nasa and the Nixon administration would have taken had the Apollo XI astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin been unable to return from the moon. The following is the full text of the unused speech, ominously entitled "In the event

Re: Bell, Aspect Copenhagen vs. MWI

2002-02-06 Thread Saibal Mitra
Hello Bruno, I did follow a course on Hopf algebras, but that's already some time ago. I will read the articles you mentioned, should be interesting! B.t.w. Kreimer has also written some papers with David Broadhurst. He has done some quite amazing work, see his homepage:

Mirror Symmetry

2002-02-03 Thread Saibal Mitra
It has been conventional wisdom that the fundamental laws of physics are not invariant under parity.Now, the computational complexity of a model that lacks mirror symmetry is muchlarger than a similar mirror symmetric model.It would thus be very strange if Nature isindeed not invariant

http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-th/0201092

2002-01-16 Thread Saibal Mitra
High Energy Physics - Theory, abstracthep-th/0201092 From: Stephen Blaha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 21:57:12 GMT (634kb) A Quantum Computer Foundation for the Standard Model and SuperString Theories Authors: Stephen BlahaComments: 78 pages, PDF We show the Standard Model and

Sharpening Occam's Razor

2002-01-10 Thread Saibal Mitra
Computer Science, abstractcs.LG/0201005 From: Paul Vitanyi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 16:44:10 GMT (11kb) Sharpening Occam's Razor Authors: Ming Li (Univ. Waterloo), John Tromp (CWI), Paul Vitanyi (CWI and University of Amsterdam)Comments: LaTeX 10 pagesReport-no: CWI

Re: Travelling to a different universe

2001-12-26 Thread Saibal Mitra
Bruno wrote: Saibal Mitra wrote: Now there exists a class of universes, with a very low measure, in which the laws of physics are such that I am guaranteed to win. The probability that I find myself in such a universe will have increased substantially after each experiment. After a few

Re: Travelling to a different universe

2001-12-24 Thread Saibal Mitra
back. Saibal John Mikes wrote: OK, Saibal Mitra, you won. Are you happy now? Can you ever go back? John Mikes Suppose that every week I subject myself to a suicide experiment. I usea suicide machineto win that weeks lottery. After a few years I will have won hundreds

Re: Travelling to a different universe

2001-12-24 Thread Saibal Mitra
that quantum suicide actually works (as Larry Niven said about the matter transmitter which destroys you at point A and creates a perfect copy at point B, I wouldn't ride in the damn thing). Charles - Original Message - From: Saibal Mitra [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: everything [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Variations in measure

2001-12-09 Thread Saibal Mitra
Russel wrote: Saibal Mitra wrote: Hal wrote: One of the concepts we have explored is that all universes and hence all minds exist, but that some observer-moments have greater measure than others. This may help to explain why we observe the kind of universe that we do

Re: The Simulation Argument

2001-12-02 Thread Saibal Mitra
A proper calculation using Bayes' theorem is missing in the article. The conclusion is false. E.g. let's assume that (2) and (3) are false. So, we know with almost 100% certainty that we are not living in a simulation, and we know with almost 100% certainty that a posthuman civilization is going

Re: The infinite list of random numbers

2001-11-09 Thread Saibal Mitra
All arrangemets are equally likely, but the probability is, of course, zero. So with probability one you don't get only zeros. There is a theorem that says that any finite arbitrary configuration will appear an infinite number of times in an infinite random sequence with probability one. Saibal

Re: Predictions duplications

2001-10-15 Thread Saibal Mitra
Hal Finney wrote: Juergen Schmidhuber writes: But there is no uniform prior over all programs! Just like there is no uniform prior over the integers. To see this, just try to write one down. I think there is. Given a program of length l, the prior probability is 2^(-l). (That is 2 to

Re: Who is the enemy?

2001-09-19 Thread Saibal Mitra
Bruno, what did you expect? You should expect Jacques to be a typical American. You know how Americans on opposite sides of an issue tend to behave. E.g. recounting of votes in Florida, pro life versus pro choice... Unthinkable here in Europe! Anyway, there is nothing wrong with Jacques, he is

Re: doomsday argument

2001-09-15 Thread Saibal Mitra
Bruno wrote: Charles wrote: (BTW, would I be right in thinking that, applying the SSA to a person who finds himself to be 1 year old, the chances that he'll live to be 80 is 1/80?) This argument (against Leslie Bayesian Doomsday argument) has been developped by Jean Paul Delahaye in the

Re: Conventional QTI = False

2001-09-10 Thread Saibal Mitra
? This doesn't appear to be related to the problem of being required to forget how old you if you are immortal in a physical human sense. Cheers Saibal Mitra wrote: According to the conventional QTI, not only do you live forever, you can = also never forget anything. I don't believe this because I

Re: Conventional QTI = False

2001-09-10 Thread Saibal Mitra
survive without memory loss, other branches are not considered. This leads to the paradox that you should experience yourself being infinitely old etc.. Saibal Charles Goodwin wrote: -Original Message- From: Saibal Mitra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] In the case of a person

Re: Immortality

2001-09-09 Thread Saibal Mitra
I see that according to you Hal Ruhl qualifies as a copy of Hal Finney. - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: jamikes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Saibal Mitra [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Hal Ruhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: zondag 9 september 2001 15:06 Onderwerp: Immortality

Re: Conventional QTI = False

2001-09-09 Thread Saibal Mitra
Hal Finney wrote: Saibal writes: According to the conventional QTI, not only do you live forever, you can also never forget anything. I don't believe this because I know for a fact that I have forgotten quite a lot of things that have happened a long time ago. Right, but to make the

Re: fin insanity

2001-09-08 Thread Saibal Mitra
Charles Goodwin wrote: -Original Message- From: Saibal Mitra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] As I have written before, a person is just a computation being implemented somewhere. Suppose that the person has discovered that he suffers from a terminal ilness and he dies

Re: FIN insanity

2001-09-03 Thread Saibal Mitra
Jacques Mallah wrote: From: Saibal Mitra [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are different versions of QTI (let's not call it FIN). I'm certainly not going to call it a theory. Doing so lends it an a priori aura of legitimacy. Words mean things, as Newt Gingrich once said in one of his smarter

Re: FIN insanity

2001-08-31 Thread Saibal Mitra
Charles Goodwin wrote: -Original Message- From: Jacques Mallah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On the other hand I can't see how FIN is supposed to work, either. I *think* the argument runs something like this... Even if you have just had, say, an atom bomb dropped on you, there's

Re: FIN

2001-08-30 Thread Saibal Mitra
Jacques Mallah wrote: From: Saibal Mitra [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jacques Mallah wrote: `` I have repeated pointed out the obvious consequence that if that were true, then a typical observer would find himself to be much older than the apparent lifetime of his species would allow; the fact

QTI/FIN

2001-08-29 Thread Saibal Mitra
Jacques Mallah wrote: `` I have repeated pointed out the obvious consequence that if that were true, then a typical observer would find himself to be much older than the apparent lifetime of his species would allow; the fact that you do not find yourself so old gives their hypothesis a

Re: Universes with different laws?

2001-08-18 Thread Saibal Mitra
According to quantum theory there exists a finite probability that someone will simulate me in a virtual environment using a computer. This means that there is a finite probability that I could wake up in a virtual world with different effective laws of physics. Of course, the real laws of

Re: UDA last question (was UDA step 9 10).

2001-07-06 Thread Saibal Mitra
Questions 1) and 1a) have been answered in this article: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/math-ph/0008018 Saibal Joel wrote: Bruno and fellow Everythingers... Sorry I've been disconnected for a while. I think Bruno's last message has really helped me to understand the Universal Dovetailer.

Re: Journals

2001-07-05 Thread Saibal Mitra
Try Foundation of Physics Letters! Saibal Russel wrote: As many of you are aware, I have been attempting to publish Why Occams Razor for about 18 months now. In September, it will have been two years since I wrote the paper. I first tried Phys Rev - which rejected it on editorial policy

Re: Journals

2001-07-05 Thread Saibal Mitra
Correction: the journal is called Foundations of Physics.

Re: Introduction (Digital Physics)

2001-06-30 Thread Saibal Mitra
Joel wrote: This may be true, but has anyone here (or anywhere else) ever checked to see that we can't program the universe exactly with simple algorithms? I think this is something new. (Check out what Stephen Wolfram has been doing lately: http://www.wolframscience.com) Everyone's

Re: Consistency? + Programs for G, G*, ...

2001-06-09 Thread Saibal Mitra
Bruno wrote: Saibal wrote: The Great Programmer can presumably compute certain correlations between our obserations of what we think is a star and the state of the observed system itself. As I see it the Great Programmer outputs descriptions, including descriptions of an astronomer

Re: quantum immortality

2001-06-08 Thread Saibal Mitra
? Cheers Saibal Mitra wrote: The total number of states a certain person can be in is bounded. One might argue that according to quantum mechanics a certain person will always find himself alive, but all that means is that that person will always find himself in one out

Re: existence of stars

2001-06-02 Thread Saibal Mitra
You'll have to ask Bruno, because that's what he wrote. On 01-Jun-01, Saibal Mitra wrote: BTW, do you know that Godel wrote a formalisation in the modal logic system S5 of St. Anselm proof of the existence of God? (I'm not sure there is any evidence that Godel takes his proof seriously

Re: existence of stars

2001-06-02 Thread Saibal Mitra
Bruno wrote: Saibal wrote: (complete message below for the FORers) Can't we prove that stars (and for that matter anything we observe) exist in at least some universes? But does some universes exists ? To tell you frankly I have a problem with the word universe. I guess you take it as

Re: Provable vs Computable

2001-05-05 Thread Saibal Mitra
George Levy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Example: a never ending universe history h is computed by a finite nonhalting program p. To simulate randomness and noise etc, p invokes a short pseudorandom generator subroutine q which also never halts. The n-th pseudorandom event of

Re: another anthropic reasoning

2001-03-21 Thread Saibal Mitra
Wei Dai wrote: This experiment is not a game, since the action of each participant only affects his or her own payoff, and not the payoff of the other player. Actually you can do this with just one participant, and maybe that will make the paradoxical nature of anthropic reasoning clearer.

Re: excuse the triple (!) posting

2001-03-04 Thread Saibal Mitra
Maybe Jürgen can explain why the particular bitstring defining your previous post has such a large probability? - Original Message - From: Michael Rosefield To: Michael Rosefield ; Saibal Mitra ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 1:33 AM Subject

Re: (Quantum) suicide not necessary?

2001-03-03 Thread Saibal Mitra
Bruno wrote: Saibal Mitra wrote: Instead of the previously discussed suicide experiments to test various versions of many-worlds theories, one might consider a different approach. By deleting certain sectors of one's memory one should be able to travel to different branches

Re: on formally describable universes and measures

2001-03-03 Thread Saibal Mitra
Jürgen wrote: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 5:32 PM Subject: Re: on formally describable universes and measures Saibal Mitra wrote: I think the source of the problem is equation 1 of Juergen's paper

QTI

2001-03-03 Thread Saibal Mitra
such as time and space) can be derived from nothing more than an arbitrary probability distribution defined over some arbitrary set. See http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/math-ph/0008018 Saibal - Original Message - From: James Higgo To: Michael Rosefield ; Saibal Mitra ; [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: on formally describable universes and measures

2001-02-20 Thread Saibal Mitra
Jürgen wrote: ``Please read again. If "consciousness" is indeed a well-defined concept,and if there are any "conscious" computable observers, then they will becomputed. Otherwise they won't. In either case there is no need to defineconsciousness - I have not seen a convincing definition

(Quantum) suicide not necessary?

2001-02-18 Thread Saibal Mitra
Instead of the previously discussed suicide experiments to test variousversions of many-worlds theories, one might consider a different approach. By deleting certain sectors of one's memory one should be able to travelto different branches of the multiverse. Suppose you are diagnosed with

Re: The Rapidly-Accelerating Computer

2000-10-13 Thread Saibal Mitra
Wei Dai wrote: On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 01:13:35PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It may be impossible to construct such a machine in our universe, but can we achieve the same results by slowing down the consciousness of the observer observing a conventional computer? In other words,

Re: Measure of the prisoner

2000-09-14 Thread Saibal Mitra
Bruno wrote: - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: woensdag 29 maart 2000 11:40 Onderwerp: Re: Measure of the prisoner Suppose that the simulated prisoner is a ``digital ´´ copy of a real Saibal Mitra wrote

Interesting article

2000-08-23 Thread Saibal Mitra
Recently an article appeared on the Los Alamos archive that explains how, for certain systems, dynamics can be derived from probabilistic arguments alone. I think that the formalism developed in the article can be generalised, and used to explain the physical laws we observe without

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