Re: to Russell Standish

2001-11-06 Thread Russell Standish
Wei Dai wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 03:26:02PM +1100, Russell Standish wrote: > > In a relatively trivial sense, observers must process > > information. Quite what this means is a little unclear - for example > > does it mean that all observers need to be capable of universal > > computati

RE: to Russell Standish

2001-11-06 Thread Charles Goodwin
> -Original Message- > From: Wei Dai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, 7 November 2001 10:22 a.m. > > I don't think you have solved the white rabbit paradox. > You've tried to > explain why we perceive the world to be relatively simple > given our own > information processin

Re: to Russell Standish

2001-11-06 Thread Wei Dai
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 03:26:02PM +1100, Russell Standish wrote: > In a relatively trivial sense, observers must process > information. Quite what this means is a little unclear - for example > does it mean that all observers need to be capable of universal > computation? Clearly many observers

Re: to Russell Standish

2001-11-02 Thread Russell Standish
In a relatively trivial sense, observers must process information. Quite what this means is a little unclear - for example does it mean that all observers need to be capable of universal computation? It does seem to me that observers do implement some kind of totally recursive function i.e. will