Re: The universe consists of patterns of arrangement of 0's and 1's?

From: Eric Hawthorne <egh.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 00:20:02 -0800

Stephen Paul King wrote:

>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. ;-)
>
Yes! That's exactly it.

Now how about this. Observers are not constrained to observe a single path
through "potential-state" space, but rather, are constrained to only
observe )and
communicate via) one of the paths (or all of the paths) that remain
consistent with
existence. So there is room for (a limited form of) free will and
limited observation
of quantum uncertainty in these theories, if necessary.

Eric
Received on Wed Nov 27 2002 - 03:18:54 PST