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
Stathis:
1. Bin Laden's US presidency indeed occurred already:
in THIS universe, in Danny's post, which - discounted certain physical
parameters - is an occurrence.
It happened twice: in your mind again, when you wrote about it.
The condition he put on the 'applicable'(?) model:
...in which the
I am confused about how belief works in this logical reasoner of type 1.
Suppose I am such a reasoner. I can be thought of as a theorem-proving
machine who uses logic to draw conclusions from premises. We can imagine
there is a numbered list of everything I believe and have concluded.
It starts
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,
Danny Mayes writes:
Assuming MWI is correct, and that Tipler's Omega point theory is correct
in that in at least some portion of the multiverse there will exist the
physical capacity for a computer to exist with infinite computing power,
even in the confines of a finite universe, does this
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 units.
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 as
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