Re: Request for a glossary of acronyms

2003-11-14 Thread Jesse Mazer
Hal Finney wrote: Jesse Mazer writes: In your definition of the ASSA, why do you define it in terms of your next observer moment? The ASSA and the RSSA were historically defined as competing views. I am not 100% sure that I have the ASSA right, in that it doesn't seem too different from the

Re: Last-minute vs. anticipatory quantum immortality

2003-11-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 20:11 13/11/03 -0500, Jesse Mazer wrote: David Kwinter wrote: Thank you Bruno Jesse, this anticipatory QTI is the most awesome interpretation of QM I've ever heard. It's not so much an interpretation of QM as the many-worlds interpretation of QM + some assumptions about laws of

Re: Quantum accident survivor

2003-11-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 14:21 12/11/03 -0800, Pete Carlton wrote: Greetings; this reply has taken some time... I don't quite agree with your point of view, and the reason is maybe similar to our disagreement in my statement: It is not useful to talk about 1st person experiences in 3rd person terms, since when we do

Re: Dark Matter, dark eneggy, conservation

2003-11-14 Thread Ron McFarland
Looks like this topic ended with my last post of 3 days ago. Thank you to those who contributed. I've no idea how things will really settle out in a Theory of Everything related to physics. My arguments are but one view point, certainly not the most educated, and until some time in the future

Re: spooky action at a distance

2003-11-14 Thread scerir
Joao Leao: The association between non-locality and retrocausality (for lack of a better word) is anything but simple! In any case it has less to do with the flow of time than with its negation! [...] Bell's theorem shows that, given the hidden variable lambda, the result of the experiment

Re: Quantum accident survivor

2003-11-14 Thread Eric Cavalcanti
- Original Message - From: Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] When you said earlier that: In a materialistic framework, ' I ' am a bunch of atoms. These atoms happen to constitute a system that has self-referential qualities that we call consciousness. I would say I *own* a bunch of

Re: spooky action at a distance

2003-11-14 Thread Joao Leao
scerir wrote: Joao Leao: > The association between non-locality and "retrocausality" > (for lack of a better word) is anything but simple! In any > case it has less to do with the flow of time than with its > negation! [...] Bell's theorem shows that, given the hidden variable lambda, the result

Re: Dark Matter, dark eneggy, conservation

2003-11-14 Thread George Levy
Ron, I am not a physicist, just a dabbling engineer philosoper, however, the idea of dark energy is intriguing. I asked a question a few weeks ago, whether dark (mass) energy is identical to negative (mass) energy and what the implications would be in terms of Newton mechanics. The reason for

Re: spooky action at a distance

2003-11-14 Thread Benjamin Udell
Or conceivably could an SAS in a classically deterministic universe surmise something like a Level III multiverse, from considerations of the (ontological?) status(es) of terms of alternatives, alternatives of the types studied in logic (e.g. multivalue logic), mathematical theory of