RE: The Anthropic Principle Boundary Conditions

From: Higgo James <james.higgo.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 08:43:22 +0100

If you will stop jumping from 'observation' to 'observer' then you will find
that this problem does not exist. As nobody here (bar Jacques) is prepared
to do this, I'm logging off from this boring and pointless debate about
wabbits.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brent Meeker [SMTP:meekerdb.domain.name.hidden]
> Sent: Thursday, 01 June, 2000 6:01 AM
> To: everything-list
> Subject: Re: The Anthropic Principle Boundary Conditions
>
> >
> > Brent says:
> >> >> The question is, "Can observers exist in a wabbity world?".
> >
> > If the world was wabbity
> > then some elements of the world would exist with absolutely no reason at
> all.
> > Furthermore the world would be irrational and inconsistent.
> Inconsistency of
> > the world would make the drive for completeness irrelevent. There could
> be a
> > wall around the world with absolutely no justification for this wall
> (back to
> > the Middle Ages before Copernicus). My earlier post deriving the
> existence of
> > the Plenitude using the rationality of the world as a starting point
> would be
> > irrelevent and therefore irrationality would preclude the need for the
> > Plenitude. The Copenhagen school would actually advocate the simplest
> > approach to QM. Observers brains would be governed by wabbity physical
> > processes and would therefore be partially or totally incoherent. All
> you MWI
> > groupies would be nuts (which actually may be the case already for some
> of
> > you) and would better disband.
> >
> > George
>
> Of course at some level of arbitrariness observers (at least observers
> like us)
> could not exist. What I was wondering is what level of arbitrariness is
> consistent with the WAP. Note that many people believe they have seen
> ghosts
> or witnessed miracles or other paranormal phenomena - maybe the world is
> just
> that little bit wabbity. Of course all these paranormal experiences are
> purported to have causes - the causes just aren't consistent with science;
> they're consistent with some religious or spritual world view.
>
> An alternative to the mathematics=existence multiverse is that everything
> exists and we have evolved so as to only perceive a rational subset of
> this
> everything - but evolution isn't perfect; so we sort of perceive wabbits
> that
> are close to the boundary of being consistent. Sort of like QM virtual
> particles that can only exist for small space-time intervals; these
> wabbits
> could only occur to an observer in a very limited way.
>
> Brent Meeker


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