Suppose our universe is actually a wave function evolving in a computer in
another universe acoording to the standard linear wave equations. If there
is a way to send a signal to the administrator of this computer, how many
bits of information would we need to send in order for him to be able to
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Wei Dai, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes:
> Schmidhuber's paper explicitly assumes that only discrete universes exist,
> so that theories of computation can be applied. But this assumption may
> not be necessary. Consider a TM which implements an algorithm for
> numerically solving a fixed system of
I am still confused about the mapping between TM output and a universe.
A TM produces abstract output, a list of symbols. Do we need to also
specify some kind of mapping between the output and the universe?
Suppose we have a physical universe with some characteristics, and a TM
which is offered
On Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 03:27:41PM -0800, Hal Finney wrote:
> I think you're right that the amount of data would be very large.
> You'd have to count the information content of each wave function collapse
> since the creation of the universe.
I now think that I was probably wrong about this, but
Wei Dai said
> On a different note, I'm trying to learn enough quantum mechanics to
> figure out what a program for our universe might look like. Does anyone
> have suggestions for a good quantum mechanics text book?
P.C.W. Davies, _Quantum mechanics_ is OK. Eisberg and Resnick wrote
a textbook
Hal Finney said
> Mitchell Porter, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes:
> > The many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics seems to
> > have been developed with extreme carelessness, as far as I can tell.
> >
> > Suppose the universe is a one-dimensional harmonic oscillator
> > in an energy eigenst
Wei Dai, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes:
> Suppose our universe is actually a wave function evolving in a computer in
> another universe acoording to the standard linear wave equations. If there
> is a way to send a signal to the administrator of this computer, how many
> bits of information would we
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