Re: The desert island amnesiac - a multiverse parable

2015-11-06 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 2:57 AM, Pierz wrote: > > > On Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 8:48:49 PM UTC+11, telmo_menezes wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Pierz wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Monday, November 2, 2015 at 5:27:04 AM UTC+11, telmo_menezes

Re: The desert island amnesiac - a multiverse parable

2015-11-06 Thread Pierz
On Friday, November 6, 2015 at 10:06:48 PM UTC+11, telmo_menezes wrote: > > > > On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 2:57 AM, Pierz > wrote: > >> >> >> On Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 8:48:49 PM UTC+11, telmo_menezes wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Pierz

Re: The desert island amnesiac - a multiverse parable

2015-11-05 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Pierz wrote: > > > On Monday, November 2, 2015 at 5:27:04 AM UTC+11, telmo_menezes wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 3:14 AM, Pierz wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 11:20:32 PM UTC+11,

Re: The desert island amnesiac - a multiverse parable

2015-11-05 Thread Pierz
On Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 8:48:49 PM UTC+11, telmo_menezes wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Pierz > wrote: > >> >> >> On Monday, November 2, 2015 at 5:27:04 AM UTC+11, telmo_menezes wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 3:14 AM, Pierz

Re: The desert island amnesiac - a multiverse parable

2015-11-02 Thread Pierz
On Monday, November 2, 2015 at 5:27:04 AM UTC+11, telmo_menezes wrote: > > > > On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 3:14 AM, Pierz > wrote: > >> >> >> On Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 11:20:32 PM UTC+11, telmo_menezes wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 5:19 AM, Pierz

Re: The desert island amnesiac - a multiverse parable

2015-11-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 30 Oct 2015, at 13:39, Pierz wrote: So imagine a guy washed up on a small desert island after a plane crash. Unfortunately during the plane crash he suffered a traumatic injury which caused him to completely lose his memory. He wakes up on the sure without the faintest clue about who

Re: The desert island amnesiac - a multiverse parable

2015-11-01 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 3:14 AM, Pierz wrote: > > > On Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 11:20:32 PM UTC+11, telmo_menezes wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 5:19 AM, Pierz wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 1:01:08 PM UTC+11, Brent

Re: The desert island amnesiac - a multiverse parable

2015-10-31 Thread Brent Meeker
On 10/31/2015 7:14 PM, Pierz wrote: Interesting, but you may be running afoul of some fuzziness in the notion of "information content". What you seem to be referring to is complexity rather than information, which is typically equated with entropy. If you want to reproduce a system by

Re: The desert island amnesiac - a multiverse parable

2015-10-31 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 5:19 AM, Pierz wrote: > > > On Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 1:01:08 PM UTC+11, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> On 10/30/2015 5:39 AM, Pierz wrote: >> >> So imagine a guy washed up on a small desert island after a plane crash. >> Unfortunately during the plane

Re: The desert island amnesiac - a multiverse parable

2015-10-31 Thread Pierz
On Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 11:20:32 PM UTC+11, telmo_menezes wrote: > > > > On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 5:19 AM, Pierz > wrote: > >> >> >> On Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 1:01:08 PM UTC+11, Brent wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 10/30/2015 5:39 AM, Pierz wrote: >>> >>> So

Re: The desert island amnesiac - a multiverse parable

2015-10-30 Thread Pierz
On Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 1:01:08 PM UTC+11, Brent wrote: > > > > On 10/30/2015 5:39 AM, Pierz wrote: > > So imagine a guy washed up on a small desert island after a plane crash. > Unfortunately during the plane crash he suffered a traumatic injury which > caused him to completely lose

Re: The desert island amnesiac - a multiverse parable

2015-10-30 Thread Brent Meeker
On 10/30/2015 5:39 AM, Pierz wrote: So imagine a guy washed up on a small desert island after a plane crash. Unfortunately during the plane crash he suffered a traumatic injury which caused him to completely lose his memory. He wakes up on the sure without the faintest clue about who he is

Re: The desert island amnesiac - a multiverse parable

2015-10-30 Thread John Mikes
Beautiful! Not very flattering to acceptors of the Theory of Everything though: you have to forget EVERYTHING to begin with. Then make up the WORLD from that fraction you experienced and format it into a Total. The hack with the rest... JM On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Pierz