1-cylinder engine is not equivalent to an
16-cylinder one. (Can you drive a 16 cylinder Rolls to imitate (perfectly)
the workings of a 1-cylinder boat-engine?)
Cheers
John Mikes
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From: "Stathis Papaioannou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: regarding QM and infinite universes
> John,
>
> I not sure whether we actually disagree about the human brain.
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John,
I not sure whether we actually disagree about the human brain. Of course we
can't say that our 2004 understanding of science is the final word on
physics, or neuroscience, or anything else! There is much that we do not
understand about the workings of the brain, just as there is much that
Interleaving.
"Stathis Papaioannou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote Wednesday, July 28, 2004 1:56 AM:
> John Mikes wrote on 28 July 2004:
>
> QUOTE-(SNIP)
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> I am not sure that I understand what you mean, or that you understood what
I
> meant. I don't claim to know exactly how the human bra
John Mikes wrote on 28 July 2004:
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You can call this consciousness thing mysterious, but we know it >results
entirely from the electrochemical activity in these 10^10
little bags of salty water; start scooping out bits of brain, and you >will
eventually end up scooping out the consciousness a
Hal,
I understand what you are saying and it makes a lot of sense.
However, if you were to accept there are discrete units of time, space,
and matter then the answer to the question "what number will you pick?"
simply becomes the total number of possible interactions of these
discrete uni
Danny Mayes writes:
> First, regarding the idea of magical universes or quantum immortality
> for that matter, doesn't this assume a truly infinite number of
> universes? However, if you start with the idea that the reality we
> experience is being created by a mechanical/computational process,
>
clusively assigned to ONE alternate, the childish ancient
belief system of supernatural agencies, saying: if that is 'not', then
nothing is.
I have no (better) explanation, just feel that such closed-mindedness is
wrong.
John Mikes
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From: "Stathis Papa
Danny Mayes wrote:
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I think there are many things that never happen in even an infinite
universe, for reasons that are hard to put into words, and certainly not
expressable in terms of math. For instance, I do not believe there will
ever exist, anywhere in the multiverse, a reality in whi
So far, no-one has been able to tell me what happens to the
probability of bizarre quantum events occurring as t->infinity in a
finite, eternally expanding universe, which incidentally seems more
likely than the Tipler scenario.
Stathis Papaioannou
I think there are many things that never happ
Papaioannou
From: Danny Mayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: regarding QM and infinite universes
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:54:33 -0400
I posted this today on the Fabric of Reality Yahoo Group, but would like to
get responses to it over here as well.
First, regard
I posted this today on the Fabric of Reality Yahoo Group, but would like
to get responses to it over here as well.
First, regarding the idea of magical universes or quantum immortality
for that matter, doesn't this assume a truly infinite number of
universes? However, if you start with the idea
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