Hi Russell: I have at last found a opportunity to start looking at your book. Thanks for the cite.
My view has been that the Nothing is incomplete because it contains no ability to answer meaningful questions about itself and there is one it must answer and that is its duration. This question is always asked and must be answered. To answer it the Nothing must acquire information and become a Something. Most initial Something landing pads - so to speak - will also be incomplete and continue the quest for completeness. Such a quest must exhibit a monotonic increase in information in that Something. Therefore the initial observation of an incomplete and unstable Nothing has within it the imposition of an ordered sequence of compatible states for a Something each containing more information than the last - that is the imposition of time. Each step of the quest has an equal but opposite twin and so to minimize selection a Something bifurcates at each one. The Everything contains enough Nothings [meaningful question: How many more Nothings beyond 1 are in the Everything? Minimum selection response: unlimited.] so that all paths to completeness are followed over and over forever. Hal Ruhl --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
