Anthropic Principle

2001-11-06 Thread Russell Standish
Mind mind was ticking over a comment made by Wei Dai in his last post. I had a thought, that I'll share with this group, even though it might be completely crazy: What if there were an absolute measure that favours increased complexity of the mind (ie more complex minds are more likely), along

Re: to Russell Standish

2001-11-06 Thread Wei Dai
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 03:26:02PM +1100, Russell Standish wrote: In a relatively trivial sense, observers must process information. Quite what this means is a little unclear - for example does it mean that all observers need to be capable of universal computation? Clearly many observers are

Re: to Russell Standish

2001-11-06 Thread Russell Standish
Wei Dai wrote: On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 03:26:02PM +1100, Russell Standish wrote: In a relatively trivial sense, observers must process information. Quite what this means is a little unclear - for example does it mean that all observers need to be capable of universal computation?