Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Mar 2014, at 04:49, LizR wrote: I'm not sure I follow. Tegmark said If you repeated the cloning experiment from Figure 8.3 many times and wrote down your room number each time, you'd in almost all cases find that the sequence of zeros and ones you'd written looked random, with zeros

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-04 Thread LizR
On 4 March 2014 18:43, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I'm not reading Max's book, so I don't know exactly what he said, It's quoted in the first post on this thread. but using FPI as in Everett QM and writing down which of two equally likely events you actually experience is an

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
the Gaussian normal distribution. Bruno Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 17:13:23 +1300 Subject: Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3 From: lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Hello, dear, looking for a bit of multi-sense realism? On 2 March 2014 16:35, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: heh heh heh I

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-03 Thread meekerdb
On 3/2/2014 11:55 PM, chris peck wrote: * **Naah. The *fractional* deviation from 50/50 keeps going down as 1/sqrt(n).* You'll have to explain further because it keeps going down. And at 4 digits its already well below 50% And at 16 digits its already below 20%. If you're generous and say at

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-03 Thread LizR
On 3 March 2014 20:36, chris peck chris_peck...@hotmail.com wrote: Being strict, already with binary sequences just 4 digits long, only 37.5% of those contain half zeros. This drops the longer the sequences get. So, with sequences 6 digits long, only 31.25% contain half zeros. With sequences

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-03 Thread LizR
I should also mention that in the quote, Max says that you wake up in room 0 or room 1, so if we WERE omitting leading zeroes, we'd write 11... ! Shurely shome mishtake! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe

RE: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-03 Thread chris peck
to have sent Bruno running for cover behind his little sums. So perhaps I am on to something All the best Chris. Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 11:59:05 +1300 Subject: Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3 From: lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com I should also mention that in the quote

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-03 Thread LizR
I'm not sure I follow. Tegmark said If you repeated the cloning experiment from Figure 8.3 many times and wrote down your room number each time, you'd in almost all cases find that the sequence of zeros and ones you'd written looked random, with zeros occurring about 50% of the time. That seems

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-03 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: I came upon an interesting passage in Our Mathematical Universe, starting on page 194, which I think members of this list might

RE: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-03 Thread chris peck
: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 22:13:28 -0600 Subject: Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3 From: jasonre...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-03 Thread Jason Resch
. Though it does seem to have sent Bruno running for cover behind his little sums. So perhaps I am on to something All the best Chris. -- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 11:59:05 +1300 Subject: Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3 From: lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-03 Thread meekerdb
I'm not reading Max's book, so I don't know exactly what he said, but using FPI as in Everett QM and writing down which of two equally likely events you actually experience is an example of bernoulli trials. The proportion of 1s and 0s both converge to 1/2 in probability. This is exactly the

RE: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-03 Thread chris peck
and UDA step 3 I'm not reading Max's book, so I don't know exactly what he said, but using FPI as in Everett QM and writing down which of two equally likely events you actually experience is an example of bernoulli trials. The proportion of 1s and 0s both

RE: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-02 Thread chris peck
50/50 on a particular room assignment. Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 17:13:23 +1300 Subject: Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3 From: lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Hello, dear, looking for a bit of multi-sense realism? On 2 March 2014 16:35, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: heh heh heh I love

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-02 Thread meekerdb
On 3/2/2014 11:36 PM, chris peck wrote: * If you repeated the cloning experiment from Figure 8.3 many times and wrote down your room number each time, you'd in almost all cases find that the sequence of zeros and ones you'd written looked random, with zeros occurring about 50% of the time.*

RE: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-02 Thread chris peck
'roughly' 50% ones or zeros, already 50% will have one or the other dominating. That seems to me to be a far cry from what Tegmark describes. Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 23:43:09 -0800 From: meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-01 Thread ghibbsa
On Wednesday, February 26, 2014 3:18:50 PM UTC, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Jason, This initially interesting post of course exposes fundamental flaws in its logic and the way that a lot of people get mislead by physically impossible thought experiments such as the whole interminable p-clone,

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-03-01 Thread LizR
Hello, dear, looking for a bit of multi-sense realism? On 2 March 2014 16:35, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: heh heh heh I love this place. It's like walking through an eccentric street market where traders call out their wares GETCHYOUR P-TIME 2 for 1 logico-computational really real structure

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-02-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 26 Feb 2014, at 16:18, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Jason, This initially interesting post of course exposes fundamental flaws in its logic and the way that a lot of people get mislead by physically impossible thought experiments such as the whole interminable p-clone, p-zombie discussion on

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-02-28 Thread LizR
Now on to chapter 2 and it's really good as a popular science book - lively and informative, and showing just how clever our ancestors were. Science as a detective story is a very good analogy, of course, so that helps. On 28 February 2014 12:12, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: I have just

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-02-28 Thread LizR
On 27 February 2014 04:18, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason, This initially interesting post of course exposes fundamental flaws in its logic and the way that a lot of people get mislead by physically impossible thought experiments such as the whole interminable p-clone, p-zombie

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-02-28 Thread meekerdb
On 2/28/2014 2:43 PM, LizR wrote: If anyone is looking for the source of quantum randomness I've already provided an explanation. It occurs as fragmentary spacetimes are created by quantum events and then merged via shared quantum events. There can be no deterministic rules for

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-02-28 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, Are you addressing that question to me? You are responding to a post by Liz talking about your theory. If so I'll be glad to answer. Edgar On Friday, February 28, 2014 6:14:42 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 2/28/2014 2:43 PM, LizR wrote: If anyone is looking for the source of

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-02-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 26 Feb 2014, at 14:49, Jason Resch wrote: I came upon an interesting passage in Our Mathematical Universe, starting on page 194, which I think members of this list might appreciate: It gradually hit me that this illusion of randomness business really wasn't specific to quantum

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-02-27 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 27 February 2014 00:49, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: I came upon an interesting passage in Our Mathematical Universe, starting on page 194, which I think members of this list might appreciate: It gradually hit me that this illusion of randomness business really wasn't specific

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-02-27 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: I came upon an interesting passage in Our Mathematical Universe, starting on page 194, which I think members of this list might appreciate: It gradually hit me that this illusion of randomness business really wasn't

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-02-27 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 04:09:42PM +0100, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: While reading, do you get a sense that he points towards how this might potentially weaken digital physics/functionalism in their strong sense? That digital physics implies comp, which implies vast non computable parts

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-02-27 Thread LizR
I have just received Max's book from Amazon. I've read the first page or two. So far he has been killed by a truck in (I think) 1975. I eagerly await developments. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-02-26 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, This initially interesting post of course exposes fundamental flaws in its logic and the way that a lot of people get mislead by physically impossible thought experiments such as the whole interminable p-clone, p-zombie discussion on this group. First there is of course no physical

Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-02-26 Thread LizR
On 27 February 2014 02:49, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: I came upon an interesting passage in Our Mathematical Universe, starting on page 194, which I think members of this list might appreciate: Yes, a subset of me certainly does. Thanks. -- You received this message because you

RE: Tegmark and UDA step 3

2014-02-26 Thread chris peck
10:33:25 +1300 Subject: Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3 From: lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com On 27 February 2014 02:49, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: I came upon an interesting passage in Our Mathematical Universe, starting on page 194, which I think members

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