Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

From: Hal Ruhl <HalRuhl.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 15:34:54 -0500

Hi Stephen:

Since the Nothing has no information by definition and the boundary between
them - the Everything - has no potential to divide further [i.e. no
information] then the All must have no information if the system has no
information. I do not think the latter part is controversial. For this to
be so, somehow the kernels within the All sum to no net information. Like
red, green, and blue can sum to white when viewed from a proper
perspective. I used to call these complete sets of counterfactuals.

To finish responding to a previous question in the thread if a complete set
of counterfactuals was composed of just two kernels these kernels would be
what I called pair wise inconsistent kernels.

Hal

At 02:45 PM 12/26/2004, you wrote:
>Dear Hal,
>
> About this "zero information" feature, could it be due to a strict
> communitivity between any given "subset" of the All/Nothing? I ask this
> because it seems to me that the "information content" of any string
> follows from the existence of a difference between one ordering of the
> "bits" as compared to another. Commutativity would erase (bad choice of
> wording) the difference. In your theory, the distinction between what
> "it" *is* from what "it" *is not", when we chain it out to tuples, is
> obviously a non-commutativity property, at least.
>
>Kindest regards,
>
>Stephen
Received on Sun Dec 26 2004 - 15:36:20 PST