Re: being inside a universe

From: Wei Dai <weidai.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 09:52:39 -0700

On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 12:05:02PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote:
> But from the point of view of the *conscious* observer there is
> an intrinsical ignorance (for sound machine) about *which* histories
> he/it/she/they participate, and the uda thougth experiment shows that in
> some sense we belong to all, but we differentiate along consistent many path.
> We face a measure problem. Actually we face two measure problems, due to
> the 1/3 distinction.

Here is something basic in your ideas which I've never understood. What
does "conscious observer" have to do with "sound machine"? I understand
that an observer can be considered as a machine, but how can an observer
be sound or not sound? Soundness as far as I understand it applies to an
axiomatic theory, that is, the theory is sound if you can't deduce "false"
from its axioms. Now if you have a machine that enumerates theorems of an
axiomatic theory, maybe you can say that it's sound if the theory itself
is sound. But obviously an observer is not a theorem producing machine, so
what does it mean for an observer to be a sound machine?
Received on Fri Jul 05 2002 - 09:53:07 PDT