Re: One world versus many: the inadequacy of Everettian accounts of evolution,

2010-08-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
Thanks Brent. It looks interesting indeed. Glad to see the frequency operator coming back. Tegmark is decidedly the closer physicist to the possible physics which has to be extracted from the computationalist hypothesis. It is sad that he is not ware of the delicacy of the mind-body problem

Re: One world versus many: the inadequacy of Everettian accounts of evolution,

2010-08-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
It is the nth attempt by Kent to refute Everett. Ah, but he may succeed, one day. Thanks for the link. I will try to find some time to take a look. But personally I think that many-worlds is already a consequence of mechanism, well before quantum mechanism. In that sense I think that

Re: One world versus many: the inadequacy of Everettian accounts of evolution,

2010-08-29 Thread Brent Meeker
On 8/29/2010 11:49 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: It is the nth attempt by Kent to refute Everett. Ah, but he may succeed, one day. Thanks for the link. I will try to find some time to take a look. But personally I think that many-worlds is already a consequence of mechanism, well before quantum