Stephen Paul King wrote:
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>[SPK]
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> Oh, ok. I have my own version of the anthropic principle:
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> The content of a first person "reality" of an observer is the minimum
>that is necessary and sufficient for the existence of that observer.
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> I am trying to include observer selection ideas in my definition of
>"anthropy". ;-) I conjecture that the "third-person" aspect could be defined
>in terms of a so-called "communication" principle:
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> An arbitrary pair of observers and only communicate within the "overlap"
>or set theoretic intersection of their first person "realities".
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To me, that is too complicated a theory.
I think "reality" is a structure/system that is a
set of paths through the plenitude, where those paths exhibit
properties like self-consistency, coherence, locality,
stability, energy etc.
That structure can contain observers that can observe the
very structure they are part of, precisely because of those
properties of self-consistency, coherence, locality, stability
etc that the structure (i.e. those paths through a state-space
plenitude) exhibits.
Every observer will see the structure from their own limited
point of view (from their place and time within it) so there
will be disagreements about it, but fundamentally, the
observers (those who can observe and communicate with each
other) are within the same structure
and are viewing parts of the same thing.
If that is "physicalist" I don't know. It still seems purely
mathematico-logical to me. But I'm just positing a larger
structure that is a commons that is observed by parts of itself.
I think this is "Tegmarkian" anthropy.
Look at it this way. The content of "reality" of an observer
is (their limited perspective on) the minimum (self-consistent
structure) that is necessary for themselves, and all the other
observers they observe, and for the whole sustaining environment
for them and the physics that produced it, to exist.
I wrote this just before much better and my email client
flipped out and killed it. So sorry for the sleepy, angry,
more muddled version you got.
Eric
--
"We are all in the gutter,
but some of us are looking at the stars."
- Oscar Wilde
Received on Sun Jun 15 2003 - 02:59:04 PDT