On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 GSLevy.domain.name.hidden wrote:
> Jacques Mallah said
> > No one ever said we experience the objective reality! I certainly
> >didn't. Of course we can try to guess what it is, and the AUH is one such
> >attempt. What we (depending as usual on the definition of that term)
> >experience is an observer-moment, effectively drawn at random from the
> >overall measure distribution. Now, the measure distribution is of course
> >part of objective reality.
>
> We go back now to the measure problem. We kind of agreed that the AUH or
> plenitude is objective leaving our perception of the world as subjective
> experiences. If the AUH is truly and absolutely infinite, measure itself
> could be infinite. I do not understand how you can be so confident in talking
> about assigning firm values to measure, gaining measure and losing measure.
> Infinity x2 = infinity, infinity/2 = infinity.
That's one of the first topics I discussed on this list. My
answer now is the same as it was then. First, we know that some
observations do have more measure than others, because if not we'd see
only 'white rabbits'. Second, in physics we deal with ratios of infinite
quantities all the time. The key is to use a limiting process in the
definition. One can renormalize the measure distribution to make it into
an effective probability distribution. If you like you can take the
latter to be the fundamental quantity, but it's easier to work with
measure so we don't have to worry about the normalization.
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Jacques Mallah (jqm1584.domain.name.hidden)
Physicist / Many Worlder / Devil's Advocate
"I know what no one else knows" - 'Runaway Train', Soul Asylum
My URL:
http://pages.nyu.edu/~jqm1584/
Received on Thu Mar 02 2000 - 11:17:25 PST