Tim May wrote:
One thing that Tegmark got right, I think, is the notion that a lot of
branches of mathematics and a lot of mathematical structures probably go
into making up the nature of reality.
This is at first glance dramatically apposite the ideas of Fredkin,
Toffoli, Wheeler1970, and
At 22:46 -0700 8/07/2002, Hal Finney wrote:
If my mind, as a physical or computational system, is instantiated
in multiple places, whether multiple universes, multiple branches of a
many-worlds interpretation (MWI), or even multiple places and times in one
universe, the question is how that
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
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
On Wednesday, July 10, 2002, at 07:24 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote:
I can't seem to get the idea out of my head that information can not
just refer to information itself but merely can encode the address of
where and when it can be found - this is how I think Goedelization
works.
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,
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