Re: Need Clarification on MW

1999-12-07 Thread Russell Standish
> > Fritz Griffith, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, asks about the Doomsday > argument. I suggest looking at http://www.anthropic-principle.com/, > a whole web site on this topic, by Nick Bostrom. We have had some > discussion here, and I think the result was that in an all-universe model > the argument l

Re: The Game of Life

1999-12-07 Thread Fred Chen
How would you verify your Life pattern has achieved SAS status? Jerry Clark wrote: > More relevantly, it is posulated as highly likely that, starting with a random > Life > formation, SAS's will evolve of their own accord. One proves this by showing > that > our UTM is also a universal construct

Need Clarification on MW

1999-12-07 Thread Fritz Griffith
I've done a little more research on MWI and QTI, and I have a few questions. First of all, there is a theorem which states that choosing a random number out of a set of n numbers, labelled 1 to n, will give a general idea of the size of the set. For example, if the randomly chosen number is

Re: Need Clarification on MW

1999-12-07 Thread hal
Jerry Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't think that it means anything to say whether one is in a universe with > an infinite future or not: In an all-universe model there are many universes > which have identical copies of 'you' in them and there is no meaning to saying > which one of the