> > Your argument would appear to work if
> > you asserted the essential mathematical nature of the universe, but
> > fails miserably in the TM bitstring case.
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> If you are referring to the argument I gave in response to Jacques Mallah, I
> hope I have responded sufficiently, but if you are referring to the argument
> in my original post in this thread, please say why you think it fails.
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Why it fails is that you assume that all universes are wffs. The
underlying challenge of white rabbits and dragons is that the number
of non-wffs vastly outnumber the number of wffs. The assumption is
that that each non-wff corresponds to to a white rabbit universe. As
we discussed, and you have explained fairly clearly on your web page,
most non-wff universes are in fact indistinguishable from a wff
universe sufficiently close to it, so may be identified with it. In
that case, the number of non-wff universes corresponding to white
rabbits or dragons (ie actually recognisable paranormal phenomena) is
a vanishingly small proportion of the total.
I am currently writing a paper as I mentioned outlining this argument
(amongst others). Currently, it is in draft hand-writing form, so I
can't send it to you yet. I hope to type it up in the next week or
so. It would be useful getting feedback - maybe we could even
co-author it.
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> Many worlds discussions begin at:
> http://www.physica.freeserve.co.uk/p105.htm
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