RE: Definitation of Observers

From: Brent Meeker <meekerdb.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 17:19:10 -0000

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Hal Ruhl [mailto:HalRuhl.domain.name.hidden]
>Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 11:44 PM
>To: everything-list.domain.name.hidden
>Subject: Re: Definitation of Observers
>
>
>Hi Eric:
>
>At 03:40 AM 4/26/2004, you wrote:
>>An observer is a pattern in space-time (a physical
>process) which engages
>>in the processing and storage
>>of information about its surroundings in space-time.
>
>In my opinion the most such a "pattern" can do is
>contain current features
>that may in part be the result of past collisions with
>other patterns -
>assuming a "History" of some sort exists for this universe.

This seems like a failure to communicate because of mixing levels
of description. If you're going to define "observer" as a pattern
you need to say what kind of pattern it is. If you skip to a
functional, "processing and storage" or intentional "engages in"
level of description then you introduce terms with no definite
relation to patterns.

Brent Meeker
Received on Mon Apr 26 2004 - 21:15:48 PDT