Re: Methusalem problem for MWI?

2014-11-07 Thread LizR
On 8 November 2014 02:39, Peter Sas peterjacco...@gmail.com wrote: O.K. I think I get it... The number of branches in which people miraculously survive is astronomically lower than the number of branches where people die according to the odds Hence the likelihood that our world contains

Re: The Cartoon Guide to Löb's Theorem + MWI is local

2014-09-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
proved by PA instead of the usual logician's proved in PA. The first is more correct, and that plays some role in AUDA. I will certainly come back on Löbs theorem. BTW I recommend the following exercise for those who doubt that the MWI reinstates locality: translate the Bennett (and Al

Re: On differentiation of universes in MWI

2014-01-23 Thread LizR
On 23 January 2014 19:41, Pierz pier...@gmail.com wrote: Whaddya reckon? To me it makes an elegant sense, though I have no idea of its testable. I suspect not, but it seems a lot cleaner than the entire backup idea, OR the idea of a particle that carries its autobiography under its arm. It

Re: The multiverse and the arrow of time - MWI experts please?

2014-01-23 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Ah, right now I understand your point. If the mathematical multiverse hipothesis is correct, in a certain way, not even today there is time neither init neither end. time is an observation made by living beings inside. We live in a mathematical equation that has no such thing as time when looked

Re: On differentiation of universes in MWI

2014-01-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Jan 2014, at 01:57, Pierz wrote: Excellent jessem, thanks. This line from the abstract of the first paper you cite pretty much summarises the changed understanding of MWI I was getting at: Measurement-type interactions lead, not to many worlds but, rather, to many local copies

Re: On differentiation of universes in MWI

2014-01-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Jan 2014, at 03:25, LizR wrote: On 23 January 2014 12:53, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: By having interacted in the (distant) past. If the universe is a pure quantum state then it has zero entropy, which means that all the complexity and information we see is a local

Re: On differentiation of universes in MWI

2014-01-23 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, Apparently you don't understand QM very well. A decoherence PRODUCES an entanglement. All particle interactions result in entanglements of the interacting particles on the relations between their particle properties imposed by the conservation laws that govern particle interactions.

Re: On differentiation of universes in MWI

2014-01-22 Thread LizR
, Does it? Suppose there's an electron on Jupiter that was entangled in a singlet state with an electron on Earth and the electron on Earth just got it's spin measured? MWI may be able to model this with a local hidden variable, but in THIS world it looks like FTL influence - and it can go a lot

Re: The multiverse and the arrow of time - MWI experts please?

2014-01-22 Thread LizR
On 22 January 2014 18:26, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 02:42:43PM +1300, LizR wrote: Phew, I got there in the end :) I can only assume that having an (apparent) body etc is more probable than being a disembodied p-ghost, but explaining this in

Re: The multiverse and the arrow of time - MWI experts please?

2014-01-22 Thread Alberto G. Corona
this out in order to clarify my understanding - hopefully the MWI experts out there can help me out here. A while back I asked whether the past can be undefined at a quantum level the way the future is. I asked this because I recall (somewhat vaguely unfortunately) reading or hearing something from

Re: The multiverse and the arrow of time - MWI experts please?

2014-01-22 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Alberto, This is total nonsense. It assumes the universe did not evolve for 13.4 billion years until life came along. It's even crazier than block time and MWI Edgar On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 9:19:58 AM UTC-5, Alberto G.Corona wrote: in the mathematical multiverse hypothesis

Re: The multiverse and the arrow of time - MWI experts please?

2014-01-22 Thread Alberto G. Corona
along. It's even crazier than block time and MWI Edgar On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 9:19:58 AM UTC-5, Alberto G.Corona wrote: in the mathematical multiverse hypothesis, there hasn't to be time at all. A mathematical equation has not something called time. Time is the line followed

Re: On differentiation of universes in MWI

2014-01-22 Thread meekerdb
? MWI may be able to model this with a local hidden variable, but in THIS world it looks like FTL influence - and it can go a lot further than Jupiter, e.g. the CMB. Assuming this is correct then the snapshot theory of how the MWI operates looks more a lot likely. (I was given to believe

Re: On differentiation of universes in MWI

2014-01-22 Thread Pierz
Excellent jessem, thanks. This line from the abstract of the first paper you cite pretty much summarises the changed understanding of MWI I was getting at: Measurement-type interactions lead, not to many worlds but, rather, to many local copies of experimental systems and the observers who

Re: On differentiation of universes in MWI

2014-01-22 Thread LizR
On 23 January 2014 12:53, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: By having interacted in the (distant) past. If the universe is a pure quantum state then it has zero entropy, which means that all the complexity and information we see is a local phenomena due to our being quasi-classical, i.e.

Re: On differentiation of universes in MWI

2014-01-22 Thread meekerdb
On 1/22/2014 6:25 PM, LizR wrote: On 23 January 2014 12:53, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: By having interacted in the (distant) past. If the universe is a pure quantum state then it has zero entropy, which means that all the complexity and

Re: On differentiation of universes in MWI

2014-01-22 Thread LizR
On 23 January 2014 18:09, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Yeah, but decoherence just makes things look classical at a coarse-grained level (when we trace over the environment). Microscopically it's spreading the superposition. Yes, I guess that makes sense. All those quantum entities

Re: The multiverse and the arrow of time - MWI experts please?

2014-01-22 Thread LizR
On 23 January 2014 06:38, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Alberto, This is total nonsense. It assumes the universe did not evolve for 13.4 billion years until life came along. More like 10 billion years, but same point. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: On differentiation of universes in MWI

2014-01-22 Thread Pierz
into the one new branch. This is the exact equivalent of MWI universes re-merging. But let's say I made a change to the *same line* in both code branches. Then I can't merge automatically any more because there's a conflict. I have to choose which version of the line I want. This is the equivalent

Re: On differentiation of universes in MWI

2014-01-21 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 1:30 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/20/2014 5:56 PM, Pierz wrote: A second question/thought on MWI. MWI proposes that the entire universe splits at the point of wave collapse, or rather that it is continually and infinitely splitting with every possible

Re: On differentiation of universes in MWI

2014-01-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Jan 2014, at 06:47, Pierz wrote: The question is whether a whole universe is created for each state in a superposition. Deutsch seems unequivocal that it is. Hmm, Deutsch might have change his mind. he was also sure that there is a base problem, but he changes on it. Liz is right.

Re: On differentiation of universes in MWI

2014-01-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Jan 2014, at 09:43, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 1:30 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/20/2014 5:56 PM, Pierz wrote: A second question/thought on MWI. MWI proposes that the entire universe splits at the point of wave collapse, or rather

Re: On differentiation of universes in MWI

2014-01-21 Thread meekerdb
On 1/21/2014 5:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Jan 2014, at 06:47, Pierz wrote: The question is whether a whole universe is created for each state in a superposition. Deutsch seems unequivocal that it is. Hmm, Deutsch might have change his mind. he was also sure that there is a base

Re: On differentiation of universes in MWI

2014-01-21 Thread Russell Standish
they don't make enough difference to spread, or not much... Which sounds more like your source contol system, well, sort of. On 21 January 2014 14:56, Pierz pier...@gmail.com wrote: A second question/thought on MWI. MWI proposes that the entire universe splits at the point of wave collapse

Re: The multiverse and the arrow of time - MWI experts please?

2014-01-21 Thread meekerdb
patterns occur in MWI due to interference between universes, which can only occur if universes can merge again after splitting, then at least at this level, the past is not well defined. If a universe merges back with another from which it had temporarily diverged, then an observer within

Re: On differentiation of universes in MWI

2014-01-21 Thread LizR
It seems to me that differentiation is local, and spreads slowly, and that there is always going to be some remerging (but only in proportion to the chances of entropy reversing). The an atom starts in a superposition of decayed and non-decayed. Now a cat is in a superposition of alive and dead.

Re: The multiverse and the arrow of time - MWI experts please?

2014-01-21 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 04:14:49PM -0800, meekerdb wrote: The problem with that is that it make mysterious all the intersubjective agreement we found in naive and pre-quantum physics. You have the paradox of Wigner's friend. Instead of trying to explain that directly from the wave function it

Re: The multiverse and the arrow of time - MWI experts please?

2014-01-21 Thread LizR
On 22 January 2014 14:03, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: What is ultimately mysterious is why observed reality is consistent with us as observers - the occam catastrophe problem, I mention in Do you mean consistent between us (i.e. it's mysterious that we agree on what we're

Re: The multiverse and the arrow of time - MWI experts please?

2014-01-21 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 02:08:52PM +1300, LizR wrote: On 22 January 2014 14:03, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: What is ultimately mysterious is why observed reality is consistent with us as observers - the occam catastrophe problem, I mention in Do you mean consistent

Re: The multiverse and the arrow of time - MWI experts please?

2014-01-21 Thread LizR
On 22 January 2014 14:24, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: No - that it is consistent with oneself, as an observer. Why couldn't we be a disembodied observer playing a virtual reality game? A p-ghost as someone put it recently. Do you mean consistent with (apparently) having a

Re: The multiverse and the arrow of time - MWI experts please?

2014-01-21 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 02:23:12PM +1300, LizR wrote: On 22 January 2014 14:24, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: No - that it is consistent with oneself, as an observer. Why couldn't we be a disembodied observer playing a virtual reality game? A p-ghost as someone put it

Re: The multiverse and the arrow of time - MWI experts please?

2014-01-21 Thread LizR
On 22 January 2014 14:35, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 02:23:12PM +1300, LizR wrote: On 22 January 2014 14:24, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: No - that it is consistent with oneself, as an observer. Why couldn't we be a

Re: On differentiation of universes in MWI

2014-01-21 Thread meekerdb
in a singlet state with an electron on Earth and the electron on Earth just got it's spin measured? MWI may be able to model this with a local hidden variable, but in THIS world it looks like FTL influence - and it can go a lot further than Jupiter, e.g. the CMB. Brent it may be centuries before

Re: The multiverse and the arrow of time - MWI experts please?

2014-01-21 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 02:42:43PM +1300, LizR wrote: Phew, I got there in the end :) I can only assume that having an (apparent) body etc is more probable than being a disembodied p-ghost, but explaining this in comp (or any Theory of Nothing) sounds like it may be a measure problem over

The multiverse and the arrow of time - MWI experts please?

2014-01-20 Thread Pierz
I am putting this out in order to clarify my understanding - hopefully the MWI experts out there can help me out here. A while back I asked whether the past can be undefined at a quantum level the way the future is. I asked this because I recall (somewhat vaguely unfortunately) reading

Re: The multiverse and the arrow of time - MWI experts please?

2014-01-20 Thread LizR
On 21 January 2014 14:18, Pierz pier...@gmail.com wrote: I am putting this out in order to clarify my understanding - hopefully the MWI experts out there can help me out here. A while back I asked whether the past can be undefined at a quantum level the way the future is. I asked this because

On differentiation of universes in MWI

2014-01-20 Thread Pierz
A second question/thought on MWI. MWI proposes that the entire universe splits at the point of wave collapse, or rather that it is continually and infinitely splitting with every possible quantum state. This has been understandably criticised as a vastly extravagant explanation. A whole

Re: The multiverse and the arrow of time - MWI experts please?

2014-01-20 Thread meekerdb
On 1/20/2014 5:18 PM, Pierz wrote: I am putting this out in order to clarify my understanding - hopefully the MWI experts out there can help me out here. A while back I asked whether the past can be undefined at a quantum level the way the future is. I asked this because I recall (somewhat

Re: The multiverse and the arrow of time - MWI experts please?

2014-01-20 Thread Pierz
On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 12:41:46 PM UTC+11, Liz R wrote: On 21 January 2014 14:18, Pierz pie...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: I am putting this out in order to clarify my understanding - hopefully the MWI experts out there can help me out here. A while back I asked whether the past

Re: The multiverse and the arrow of time - MWI experts please?

2014-01-20 Thread LizR
in one time direction than the other. Assuming time symmetry of the underlying physics, a universe at thermodynamic equilibrium could play out with equal probability forwards or backwards, which would surely include MWI splitting/merging? -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: On differentiation of universes in MWI

2014-01-20 Thread LizR
... Which sounds more like your source contol system, well, sort of. On 21 January 2014 14:56, Pierz pier...@gmail.com wrote: A second question/thought on MWI. MWI proposes that the entire universe splits at the point of wave collapse, or rather that it is continually and infinitely splitting

Re: On differentiation of universes in MWI

2014-01-20 Thread Richard Ruquist
of. On 21 January 2014 14:56, Pierz pier...@gmail.com wrote: A second question/thought on MWI. MWI proposes that the entire universe splits at the point of wave collapse, or rather that it is continually and infinitely splitting with every possible quantum state. This has been understandably

Re: On differentiation of universes in MWI

2014-01-20 Thread LizR
Yeah, I believe that's how it's supposed to work. They're all in the same background spacetime but once detangled have no influence on each other. (However a TOE might have something to say about background spacetime) On 21 January 2014 16:45, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: I prefer

Re: On differentiation of universes in MWI

2014-01-20 Thread Richard Ruquist
My understanding is that a different universe really means a different spacetime. On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:53 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, I believe that's how it's supposed to work. They're all in the same background spacetime but once detangled have no influence on each other.

Re: On differentiation of universes in MWI

2014-01-20 Thread Pierz
The question is whether a whole universe is created for each state in a superposition. Deutsch seems unequivocal that it is. I'm just questioning a) whether that's what he really means and b) whether that is necessary. It's necessary that that local states be able to decohere, but that doesn't

Re: Born Rule in MWI

2013-08-22 Thread meekerdb
On 2/22/2013 9:10 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: A problem: physicists don't try to define what is a (primary or not) physical universe. That's not a bug. It's a feature. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from

Re: Born Rule in MWI

2013-02-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Feb 2013, at 04:10, Joseph Knight wrote: Question: Why is the derivation* of the Born Rule in (Everett, 1957) not considered satisfactory**? Good question. I asked it myself very often. *Everett shows that the amplitude-squared rule for subjective probability is the only measure

Re: Born Rule in MWI

2013-02-22 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 22 Feb 2013, at 04:10, Joseph Knight wrote: Question: Why is the derivation* of the Born Rule in (Everett, 1957) not considered satisfactory**? Good question. I asked it myself very often. *Everett shows that

Re: Born Rule in MWI

2013-02-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
. If the SWE is correct, then the SWE is an epistemological consequence of comp, including the MWI; and if QM is not correct, with comp, this could lead to multiverses but also to multi-multiverses, or multi- multiverses, etc. Even them might be only local, without any definite global physical reality

Re: Born Rule in MWI

2013-02-22 Thread Stephen P. King
plausible. I agree. I don't think this is compatible with the SWE+comp. I agree. If the SWE is correct, then the SWE is an epistemological consequence of comp, including the MWI; and if QM is not correct, with comp, this could lead to multiverses but also to multi-multiverses, or multi

Born Rule in MWI

2013-02-21 Thread Joseph Knight
Question: Why is the derivation* of the Born Rule in (Everett, 1957) not considered satisfactory**? *Everett shows that the amplitude-squared rule for subjective probability is the only measure consistent with an agreeable additivity condition. **It is apparently not satisfactory because there

Re: Born Rule in MWI

2013-02-21 Thread meekerdb
On 2/21/2013 7:10 PM, Joseph Knight wrote: Question: Why is the derivation* of the Born Rule in (Everett, 1957) not considered satisfactory**? *Everett shows that the amplitude-squared rule for subjective probability is the only measure consistent with an agreeable additivity condition.

Re: Born Rule in MWI

2013-02-21 Thread Joseph Knight
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:56 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/21/2013 7:10 PM, Joseph Knight wrote: Question: Why is the derivation* of the Born Rule in (Everett, 1957) not considered satisfactory**? *Everett shows that the amplitude-squared rule for subjective probability

Re: Born Rule in MWI

2013-02-21 Thread meekerdb
On 2/21/2013 9:06 PM, Joseph Knight wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:56 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/21/2013 7:10 PM, Joseph Knight wrote: Question: Why is the derivation* of the Born Rule in (Everett, 1957) not considered

Re: [foar] 18% of (certain) scientists (still) support MWI as of 2011

2013-01-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
to both them, and to the MWI defenders, but of course, it can also makes them both nervous. Many points of view overlap much more than what their defenders believe. The problem is that they don't try to define terms like information, observers, physical, etc. I would say that more than 50

Re: [foar] 18% of (certain) scientists (still) support MWI as of 2011

2013-01-25 Thread Craig Weinberg
state. The computationalist shift worlds == dreams should please to both them, and to the MWI defenders, but of course, it can also makes them both nervous. Many points of view overlap much more than what their defenders believe. The problem is that they don't try to define terms like

Re: [foar] 18% of (certain) scientists (still) support MWI as of 2011

2013-01-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Jan 2013, at 04:03, Gary Oberbrunner wrote: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1301.1069v1.pdf See question 12. Interesting. Thanks. A bit sad, also. If it takes time to understand the MWI of the SWE (which writes it almost explicitly), I guess it will take time to understand the universal

Re: [foar] 18% of (certain) scientists (still) support MWI as of 2011

2013-01-24 Thread Jason Resch
:03, Gary Oberbrunner wrote: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1301.1069v1.pdf See question 12. Interesting. Thanks. A bit sad, also. If it takes time to understand the MWI of the SWE (which writes it almost explicitly), I guess it will take time to understand the universal machine's many worlds

Re: [foar] 18% of (certain) scientists (still) support MWI as of 2011

2013-01-24 Thread meekerdb
://arxiv.org/pdf/1301.1069v1.pdf See question 12. Interesting. Thanks. A bit sad, also. If it takes time to understand the MWI of the SWE (which writes it almost explicitly), I guess it will take time to understand the universal machine's many worlds interpretation of arithmetic

Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Jan 2013, at 17:23, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 14 Jan 2013, at 18:11, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 13 Jan 2013, at 05:34, Richard Ruquist

Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Jan 2013, at 17:30, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 15 Jan 2013, at 16:24, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: What do you mean by quantum mind? keep in

Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-16, 11:02:52 Subject: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory On 16 Jan 2013, at 13:24, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal The senses convert

Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-17 Thread Richard Ruquist
that includes as modules: 1. the CTM for a compactified-substance subspace that derives the MWI Quantum Mind as well as 2. the physical world: Matter and Energy (that was created along with Space and the Compact Manifold CM Subspace). According to string theory the particles of fermionic matter are connected

Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-17 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 16 Jan 2013, at 17:23, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 14 Jan 2013, at 18:11, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Bruno

Re: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-17 Thread Roger Clough
...@verizon.net] 1/17/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-17, 06:08:26 Subject: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory On 16 Jan

Re: Re: Re: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-17 Thread Craig Weinberg
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Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
anywhere, except as a graduate specialization for mathematicians. So I will accept the results of arithmetics in a systems analysis that includes as modules: 1. the CTM for a compactified-substance subspace that derives the MWI Quantum Mind as well as 2. the physical world: Matter and Energy

Re: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-17 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King Ultimately the PEH. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/17/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-16, 17:47:35 Subject: Re: MWI

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: MWI as an ontological error,it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-17 Thread Roger Clough
, 10:59:12 Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: MWI as an ontological error,it should be TwoAspects Theory On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 6:31:51 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg 1) Good point. So far, there is only indirect evidence of gravity waves. http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=15438

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: MWI as an ontological error,it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-17 Thread Craig Weinberg
], [rcl...@verizon.net javascript:] 1/17/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-17, 10:59:12 Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: MWI as an ontological

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: MWI as an ontological error,it should beTwoAspects Theory

2013-01-17 Thread Roger Clough
: 2013-01-17, 11:59:05 Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: MWI as an ontological error,it should beTwoAspects Theory On Thursday, January 17, 2013 11:54:03 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg Sorry, I'm missing your point. What is it ? You said Potential energy is more than conceptual, so I

Re: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-16 Thread Roger Clough
Subject: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory On 13 Jan 2013, at 20:05, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, January 13, 2013 11:57:48 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Jan 2013, at 13:01, Telmo Menezes wrote: Hi Roger, How can you have a wave without some

Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jan 2013, at 18:11, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 13 Jan 2013, at 05:34, Richard Ruquist wrote: That's because they don't consider that matter is inherently sensitive. I do. In my model of reality all matter is

Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
: everything-list Time: 2013-01-15, 08:47:49 Subject: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory On 13 Jan 2013, at 20:05, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Sunday, January 13, 2013 11:57:48 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Jan 2013, at 13:01, Telmo Menezes wrote: Hi Roger

Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Jan 2013, at 16:24, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: What do you mean by quantum mind? keep in mind that with comp we cannot assume the quantum. It is has to be derived from the digital seen from inside. And I am not sure

Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-16 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 14 Jan 2013, at 18:11, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 13 Jan 2013, at 05:34, Richard Ruquist wrote: That's because they don't consider that

Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-16 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 15 Jan 2013, at 16:24, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: What do you mean by quantum mind? keep in mind that with comp we cannot assume the quantum. It is

Re: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-16 Thread Roger Clough
:52 Subject: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory On 16 Jan 2013, at 13:24, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal The senses convert the phenomenol space-time world out there I don't grasp how something phenomenal can be out there. into nonphysical perceived

Re: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-16 Thread Roger Clough
-list Time: 2013-01-16, 11:23:57 Subject: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 14 Jan 2013, at 18:11, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Jan

Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-16 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/16/2013 11:34 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Leibniz's perception isn't really instantly and continuous, it's more like a slide show. Hi Roger, What determines the sequencing of the 'slides' and their rate of transition? -- Onward! Stephen -- You received this message because you are

Re: Re: Re: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-15 Thread Roger Clough
the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-14, 11:51:03 Subject: Re: Re: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory On Monday, January 14, 2013 7:06:57 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg Why

Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
natural restrictions here). The whole problem with QM, is that the wave's physical interpretation is an amplitude of probability, and that we can make them interfere as if they were physical. But in MWI, the quantum waves are just the map of the relative accessible physical realities

Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
collapse instantly into something the size of particles so that they may interact with other particles at the Planck scale. I think this is a necessary step, a collapse of waves to a particle size, even for MWI, in order to obtain multiple physical worlds. So it does not rule out MWI. But if waves

Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-15 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: What do you mean by quantum mind? keep in mind that with comp we cannot assume the quantum. It is has to be derived from the digital seen from inside. And I am not sure we can choose the computations we are in, no more

Re: Re: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-14 Thread Roger Clough
- From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-13, 09:48:20 Subject: Re: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory On Sunday, January 13, 2013 7:56:25 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: Hi Richard Ruquist EM waves are physical and exist in spacetime

Re: Re: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-14 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist OK--- in the mind. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/14/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Richard Ruquist Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-13, 08:45:18 Subject: Re: Re: MWI

Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
shares with matter. Nothing collapses, Planck scale is a mathematical abstraction, and quantum mind is just plain old ordinary sense. I think this is a necessary step, a collapse of waves to a particle size, even for MWI, in order to obtain multiple physical worlds. So it does not rule out

Re: Re: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-14 Thread Craig Weinberg
the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-13, 09:48:20 Subject: Re: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory On Sunday, January 13, 2013 7:56:25 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: Hi Richard Ruquist EM waves

Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-14 Thread Richard Ruquist
, Planck scale is a mathematical abstraction, and quantum mind is just plain old ordinary sense. I think this is a necessary step, a collapse of waves to a particle size, even for MWI, in order to obtain multiple physical worlds. So it does not rule out MWI. A universe based

Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-14 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, January 14, 2013 12:11:58 PM UTC-5, yanniru wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.bejavascript: wrote: On 13 Jan 2013, at 05:34, Richard Ruquist wrote: That's because they don't consider that matter is inherently sensitive. I do. In

Re: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-13 Thread Roger Clough
must travel at the speed of light. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/13/2013 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Richard Ruquist Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-12, 10:33:11 Subject: Re: MWI

Re: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-13 Thread Richard Ruquist
particles, IMO this is necessary for all interpretations of quantum mechanics including MWI and Feynman renormalization. Richard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list

Re: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-13 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: Roger wrote: but EM waves are physical (electrons) However, EM waves collapse to photons, not electrons. And I would put EM waves on the mental side and photons on the physical side. But light seems to bridge the

Re: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-13 Thread Craig Weinberg
: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory EM waves and fields clearly exist in spacetime. Yet I would classify them along with quantum waves as part of the quantum mind and nonphysical. The photon particle and quantum particles appear to bridge the gap between

Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-13 Thread Craig Weinberg
with matter. Nothing collapses, Planck scale is a mathematical abstraction, and quantum mind is just plain old ordinary sense. I think this is a necessary step, a collapse of waves to a particle size, even for MWI, in order to obtain multiple physical worlds. So it does not rule

Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
restrictions here). The whole problem with QM, is that the wave's physical interpretation is an amplitude of probability, and that we can make them interfere as if they were physical. But in MWI, the quantum waves are just the map of the relative accessible physical realities. An electronic

Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
this is a necessary step, a collapse of waves to a particle size, even for MWI, in order to obtain multiple physical worlds. So it does not rule out MWI. But if waves can collapse instantly in the quantum mind, then the Feynman method of cancelling the infinities of Quantum Electrodynamics

Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-13 Thread Craig Weinberg
problem with QM, is that the wave's physical interpretation is an amplitude of probability, and that we can make them interfere as if they were physical. But in MWI, the quantum waves are just the map of the relative accessible physical realities. An electronic orbital is a map of where you

Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-13 Thread Richard Ruquist
of particles so that they may interact with other particles at the Planck scale. I think this is a necessary step, a collapse of waves to a particle size, even for MWI, in order to obtain multiple physical worlds. So it does not rule out MWI. But if waves can collapse instantly in the quantum mind

MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory

2013-01-12 Thread Roger Clough
Hi everything-list, I don't believe that Descartes would accept the MWI. Here's why: I think that the ManyWorldsInterpretation of QM is incorrect, due to the mistaken notion (IMHO) that quantum waves are physical waves, so that everything is physical and materialistic. This seems to deny

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