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From: "Günther Greindl"
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Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: Boltzmann Brains, consciousness and the arrow of time
> We need only turing emulability, because quantum states,
> although not copyable, are "preparable" (in the quantum "prepare
PS. If the two-dimensional cartoon man has something to say about
mathematics or logic, I would certainly listen, but his intuition,
"common sense" and and experienses I would rather smile at :)
Maybe somebody is smiling at me right now? or laughing? I hope not ;-)
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OK, and thanks Bruno. I thought MW more or less presumed a block
universe without time, but apparently this is yet uncertain.
Abram,
> If time is merely an additional space dimension, why do we experience
> "moving" in it always and only in one direction? Why do we remember
> the past and not th
Hi Bruno,
thanks for your comments, I interleave my response.
>> showed a glimpse of the vastness of the UD. And, I agree, _in the limit_
>> there will be an infinite number of histories. So, as we have to also
>> take into account infinite delay, we must take this limit into account
>> and have
On 06 Jan 2009, at 20:18, Brent Meeker wrote:
>
> Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
>> 2009/1/6 Abram Demski :
>>> Thomas,
>>>
>>> If time is merely an additional space dimension, why do we
>>> experience
>>> "moving" in it always and only in one direction? Why do we remember
>>> the past and not the
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
> 2009/1/7 Abram Demski wrote:
>
>> I would not deny causality in such a universe so long as the logical
>> structure enforces the Life rules (meaning, the next level in the
>> stack is *always* the next life-tick, it couldn't be something else...
>> which is true by s
2009/1/7 Abram Demski wrote:
> I would not deny causality in such a universe so long as the logical
> structure enforces the Life rules (meaning, the next level in the
> stack is *always* the next life-tick, it couldn't be something else...
> which is true by supposition in the block world).
>
>
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