Le 19-avr.-08, à 22:46, Günther Greindl a écrit :
>
> Dear Nichomachus,
>
>> decision. If she measures the particle's spin as positive, she will
>> elect to switch cases, and if she measures it with a negative spin she
>> will keep the one she has. This is because she wants to be sure that,
>> having gotten to this point in the game, there will be at least some
>> branches of her existence where she experiences winning the grand
>> prize. She is not convinced that, were she to decide what to do using
>> only the processes available to her mind, she would guarantee that
>> same result since it is just possible that all of the mutiple versions
>> of herself confronted with the dilemma may make the same bad guess.
>
>
> I have also thought along these lines some time ago (to use a qubit to
> ensure that all outcomes are chosen, because one should not rely on
> one's mind decohering into all possible decisions).
>
> The essential question is this: what worlds exist? All possible worlds.
> But which worlds are possible? We have, on the one hand, physical
> possibility (this also includes other physical constants etc, but no
> totally unphysical scenarios).
>
> I have long adhered to this "everything physically possible", but this
> does break down under closer scrutiny: first of all, physical relations
> are, when things come down to it, mathematical relations.
>
> So we could conclude with Max Tegmark: all possible mathematical
> structures exist; this is ill defined (but then, why should the
> Everything be well defined?)
>
> Alastair argues in his paper that everything logically possible exists
> (with his non arbitrariness principle) but, while initially appealing,
> it leads to the question: what is logically possible? In what logic?
> Classical/Intuitionist/Deviant logics etc etc...then we are back at
> Max's all possible structures.
>
> For all this, I am beginning very much to appreciate Bruno's position
> with the Sigma_1 sentences; but I still have to do more reading and
> catch up on some logic/recursion theory for a final verdict ;-))
You are on the right track :)
>
> One objection comes to mind immediately (already written above): why
> should the Everything be well defined?
I think you should ask Brian Tenneson. Personally I follow Plotinus and
many Buddhist, Israelites, Muslims, and Christians, (and more) on the
fact that the Big Picture (Brian's Universal set, I think) is not a
member of what belongs to the Big Picture, so the everything cannot be
described, nor really belonging to the everything.
Even restraining ourself to the mathematical universe (i.e. adopting
mathematicalism), they are good reasons to believe that the whole of
mathematics cannot be considered as a mathematical object. One reason
is that all attempts to make the mathematical everything purely
mathematical have failed. Set theories (like ZF) miss some mathematical
object and also, in some sense, produce to much unwanted mathematical
objects. Lawvere made an attempt to get the Big Mathematical Picture as
a category, but he fails, although he (re)deiscovered the topos
catehories in the process, which captures more the mathematician's mind
than the mathematical reality (realities). The set theory NF does
capture Universal Sets, but then I have doubt that it does it in a
genuine sense, or if it is not in inconsistent theory.
Another reason is a not yet clear generalization of Gödel's
incompleteness phenomenon along the line of Grim (ref in my thesis).
With comp, we have also a universal object (the universal machine), but
again, like the toposes, it is more on the side of the "mathematician"
than of the "mathematical reality". With comp (actually with the
arithmetical comp, i.e. with the lobian interview) we have good reason
to suspect that the notion of "truth (about) us" *is* the big picture
(Plotinus' One), but we can prove, then, that IF comp is true, and IF
we are self-referentially correct (and thus lobian) then such a notion
of truth cannot be expressed by any means by us. So I do thing that the
everything, curiously enough, perhaps, does not belong to any
everything thing we can defined (despite its name, probably because of
its name).
I am not sure about the motivation of Brian for his search of a
universal set. May be he could tell us a bit more?
bruno
PS I intended to comment some other posts but I have work to do, and I
think this week I will be very buzy. I keep reading the list and
absence or delay in comments does not reflect lack of interest but
accumulation of time consuming jobs those days. Normally I will have
more time next week. Best regards to all of you.
Ah ... A colleague of mine (the one who actually suggested me to look
at that movie) told me that "The Prestige" is the most
anti-computationalist movie ever conceivable, and he gave me a very
good argument! Cannot say more now without trigging the "spoiler alert"
... :)
>
> To go back to your original question: to consider if both variants are
> chosen by the player of the game by herself (without qubit) seems to
> depend on which kind of Everything you choose. And that, I think, is
> the
> crux of the matter.
>
> Cheers,
> Günther
>
> >
>
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