Re: Self without context???

From: Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 12:22:04 +0200

Dear Hal,

>We have had a number of discussions both on the list and off and I
>missed them while you were gone.

Thanks. (but I was not really gone, you can always ask).


>I basically think we are not worlds apart.


I will think about a questionnaire for measuring how apart we are. Some
times I feel you close unfortunately when you give details I am rarely
able to follow you.



>I see a cellular automaton with a large set [lookup table] of rules
>[sort of a machine if you will] that lie below physics as we
>perceive it.


Have you ear about last Wolfram book? He tries to explain everything with
cellular automata. Although I believe such approach has some interest
in physics, I don't believe it can help for a derivation of a TOE because
such approach dismisse the 1/3 distinction.



>
>What I have tried to do is keep zero information in the ensemble
>while finding ways in which the cellular automaton comes about, how
>a particular one has an isomorphic link to a part of the underlying
>dynamic of the Everything from which it is in turn emergent, and how
>this dynamic - the lowest layer - insists that the automaton change
>state to maintain the isomorphic link or perish, and how this
>underlying dynamic effects the true noise content of the cellular
>automaton.


Perhaps. It is not yet clear what are your basic postulates.

Bruno
Received on Fri Jun 07 2002 - 03:34:25 PDT