On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:05 AM, russell standish <lists.domain.name.hidden> wrote:
>
> What you are talking about is what I call the "Occam catastrophe" in
> my book. The resolution of the paradox has to be that the
> random/white-noise filled OMs are in fact unable to be observed. In
> order for the Anthropic Principle to hold in a idealist theory
> requires that the OM must contain a representation of the observer, ie
> observers must be self-aware. Amongst such OMs containing observers,
> ones that are the result of historically deep evolutionary processes
> are by far the most common. And evolution of those observer moments
> must also be constrained to be similar to those previously observed,
> eliminating white rabbits, due to "robustness" of the observer.
>
> Cheers
>
Hi Russell,
What you said reminded me of this article, which appeared in the Boston Globe:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/graphics/011109_hacking_your_brain/
See the section on hallucinating with ping pong balls and a radio. It
would seem the way the brain is organized it doesn't accept perception
of pure randomness (at least not for long, I have not yet tried the
experiment myself). If it can't find patterns from the senses it
looks like it gives up and invents patterns of its own.
Jason
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Received on Wed Apr 29 2009 - 10:28:36 PDT