Re: Definitation of Observers

From: Eric Hawthorne <egh.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:36:50 -0700

pattern
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physical pattern (constraint on the arrangement of matter and energy in
space and time)
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physical process (physical pattern with characteristics like that some
regular and often localized, and yet complex
form of change is of its essence. Can be described as comprised of
states, events, and subprocesses)
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physical computational process physical sensing process
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mind-of-intelligent-observer


The | relation is "is-a" inheritance.

Does that help successfully communicate what I mean by a pattern that
computes and stores information about
its surroundings?

Eric

Brent Meeker wrote:

Eric Hawthorne wrote

>>>An observer is a pattern in space-time (a physical
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>>process) which engages
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>>>in the processing and storage
>>>of information about its surroundings in space-time.
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>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.
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>Brent Meeker
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Received on Tue Apr 27 2004 - 13:11:58 PDT