Re: Cosmology and Boltzmann brains

2008-06-14 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 07:56:21PM -0700, Greg Egan wrote: > > Hi Russell, thanks very much for your reply. > > It's possible that I'm arguing at cross-purposes here, because I > gather that the whole reason for this list is to discuss models of the > universe that are very different from standa

Re: Cosmology and Boltzmann brains

2008-06-14 Thread Greg Egan
Hi Russell, thanks very much for your reply. It's possible that I'm arguing at cross-purposes here, because I gather that the whole reason for this list is to discuss models of the universe that are very different from standard cosmology, but I hope you won't mind if I pursue a defence of my spec

Re: Cosmology and Boltzmann brains

2008-06-14 Thread Russell Standish
Hi Greg, and welcome to the list. Your ears must be burning - you have often been talked about here, always in a good light! On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 09:28:07PM -0700, Greg Egan wrote: > > On Jun 13, 9:25 am, Russell Standish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm not sure his application of Bayes

Re: Cosmology and Boltzmann brains

2008-06-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Stathis, hi Greg, Le 14-juin-08, à 10:35, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : > 2008/6/14 Greg Egan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> The context in which I was discussing this at the N-Category Café is >> the claim by some cosmologists that we ought to favour A-type >> cosmological theories in which clas

Re: Cosmology and Boltzmann brains

2008-06-14 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2008/6/14 Greg Egan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The context in which I was discussing this at the N-Category Café is > the claim by some cosmologists that we ought to favour A-type > cosmological theories in which class 2 observers like us, with a clear > Darwinian history, will not be outnumbered (ove