1Z wrote:
>
> David Nyman wrote:
...
>>Well, if 'experience' is the fact of *being* differentiable existence,
>>and 'the physical' is the observable relations thereof, then both
>>ultimately 'supervene' on there being something rather than nothing.
>
>
> No. There being something rather than nothing is only
> 1 buit of information: not enough for a universe to
> supervene on.
This may not be the problem you think it is. In quantum mechanics there can
be negative information and there are some (speculative) theories of the
universe that have it originating from at state with only one bit of
information. Then complexity we see is due to the separation of entangled
states by the inflation of the universe. Unitary evolution of the
wave-function of the universe must preserve information. In these theories,
as my friend Yonatan Fishman put it, "The universe is just nothing, rearranged."
Brent Meeker
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Received on Sat Aug 12 2006 - 19:35:57 PDT