Dear Russell,
Neat! I have been thinking of this idea in terms of a "very weak
anthropic principle" and a "communication principle". Roughtly these are:
"All observations by an observer are only those that do not contradict the
existence of the observer" and "any communication is only that which
mutually consistent with the existence of the communicators". I will read
you paper again. ;-)
Kindest regards,
Stephen
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Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: The universe consists of patterns of arrangement of 0's and
1's?
> In my paper "Why Occam's Razor", I identify a postulate called the
> "projection postulate", which in words is something like "An observer
> necessarily projects out an actual from the space of possibilities"
> Mathematically, this corresponds to choosing a subset from the set of
> all descriptions.
>
> My paper shows in essence P+T+K => QM (projection postulate + time
> postulate + Kolmogorov probability axioms implies quantum mechanics).
>
> Apparently (not that I'm any expert on these matters) Kant tried to
> derive Classical dynamics by introducing this as a "necessary prior",
> so its quite possible that this idea is not at all new.
>
> Cheers
>
> Stephen Paul King wrote:
> >
> > Dear Russell,
> >
> > Bingo! But can a method of definig the "subsethood" be defined? What
> > distinguishes one subset from another?
> >
> > Kindest regards,
> >
> > Stephen
> >
>
>
>
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