Re: Draft Philosophy Paper

2002-02-20 Thread Alastair Malcolm
The condition given at the start of the appendix is of one copy per (logically possible) unit combination. Section 2 of the paper deals with the various possible cases of copies. Alastair - Original Message - From: H J Ruhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 20 February 20

Re: Draft Philosophy Paper

2002-02-20 Thread H J Ruhl
Dear Alastair: I think you still miss the thrust of my comment. As directly as I can say it: The Everything is the ensemble of all counterfactuals. The counterfactuals cancel out resulting in no information in the Everything. The Everything and the Nothing are cancelling counterfactuals and thu

Re: Draft Philosophy Paper

2002-02-20 Thread Russell Standish
The information is contained within the Anthropic Principle itself. Resource constraints that any observer must have impose a bias towards simpler descriptions - that is the thrust of Alistair's and my argument. Without the AP, the Everything is indeed devoid of any structure whatsoever. I never u

Re: Draft Philosophy Paper

2002-02-20 Thread H J Ruhl
Dear Russell: As to any surprise that we are in the universe we are in I see none. It is just chance. My previous post did not go into the part of my approach as to why a universe should evolve. What drives this dynamic inside an Everything? The process I have currently set up for this happ