Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

From: Jesse Mazer <lasermazer.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 23:41:25 -0500

>From: Hal Ruhl <HalRuhl.domain.name.hidden>
>To: everything-list.domain.name.hidden
>Subject: Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model
>Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 22:41:45 -0500
>
>Maybe this will help:
>
>The All contains all possible output states of all Turing machines [among
>all manner of other info such as states of really messy universes]
>simultaneously. These states are given "Physical reality" by evolving
>Somethings in random order over and over. Some such sequences can
>arbitrarily closely approach or even exactly match those that would be
>output by a Turing machine for long runs of states [but not infinite runs
>of states due to the random input factor - no selection allowed]. All
>other sequences of all kinds of states also take place.
>
>Hal

OK, that is helpful in making your ideas a little more concrete. But in this
case, what would it mean for two possible states to be "inconsistent" with
one another? Can you give an example of two Turing machine states that are
inconsistent?

Also, when you talk about Turing machine states, are you talking about
different possible strings of numbers on the tape that will be seen *after*
a given Turing machine's computation has halted, or are you talking about
the state of a Turing machine during a single step in its computation, like
"the tape reads 100011010, the Turing machine's read/write head is on the
second zero, and the machine is in internal state #14"?

Jesse
Received on Tue Dec 07 2004 - 23:46:58 PST