Re: Tegmark is too "physics-centric"

From: Stephen Paul King <stephenk1.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 00:08:43 -0500

Dear Russel,

    Could we associate this "psychological time" with the orderings that
obtain when considering successive measurements of various measurements of
non-commutative canonically conjugate (QM) states?
    Also, re your Occam's razor paper, have you considered the necessity of
a principle that applies between observers, more than that involved with the
Anthropic principle? Something along the lines of: the allowable
communications between observers is restrained to only those that are
mutually consistent. We see hints of this in EPR situations. ;-)

Kindest regards,

Stephen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell Standish" <R.Standish.domain.name.hidden>
To: "Bruno Marchal" <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Cc: "Russell Standish" <R.Standish.domain.name.hidden>;
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Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: Tegmark is too "physics-centric"

I think that "psychological time" fits the bill. The observer needs a
a temporal dimension in which to appreciate differences between
states.

"Physical time" presupposes a physics, which I haven't done in
"Occam".

It is obviously a little more structured than an ordering. A space
dimension is insufficient for an observer to appreciate differences,
isn't it?

     Cheers

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