Re: Morality in a Block Multiverse

2002-07-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Serafino, At 23:00 +0200 10/07/2002, scerir wrote: Hal You can also have a block universe in QM with the many-world interpretation. It has a more complicated geometric structure but philosophically it is deterministic, with the same issues regarding changes, free will, etc. I'm

Re: Morality in a Block Multiverse

2002-07-12 Thread Hal Finney
One of the criticisms of no-collapse theories has always bothered me. Some people say that the mystery of non-determinism in conventional interpretations of QM is replaced by an equally baffling mystery in no-collapse theories: why do I end up in *this* branch rather than some other? The critics

Re: Morality in a Block Multiverse

2002-07-10 Thread scerir
By the term block multiverse I mean a reality in which everything MUST happen, in some timeline or universe. This sounds a lot like predestination to me. Scott W. Somerville, Esq. The argument that the relativistic space-time named (after H. Weyl) block universe eliminates the possibility of

Re: Morality in a Block Multiverse

2002-07-10 Thread Hal Finney
Scerir writes: The argument that the relativistic space-time named (after H. Weyl) block universe eliminates the possibility of changes, free will, becoming (etc.) has been used to conclude that between relativity (which demands separability and determinism) and quamtum mechanics (which

Re: Morality in a Block Multiverse

2002-07-10 Thread scerir
Hal You can also have a block universe in QM with the many-world interpretation. It has a more complicated geometric structure but philosophically it is deterministic, with the same issues regarding changes, free will, etc. I'm not an Everettista, anyway let us try. Alice has photon 1,

RE: Morality in a Block Multiverse

2002-07-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
Scott W. Somerville wrote: Rodolfo writes, There are no hints of predestination. By the term block multiverse I mean a reality in which everything MUST happen, in some timeline or universe. This sounds a lot like predestination to me. Scott W. Somerville, Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not