parallel universes

From: printmodel <printmodel.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 22:13:11 -0400

>Has anyone on the list experienced personal elevations into

>one or more of these parallel universes, I have and would like to
>exchange info


>> mechanically (even allowing infinite resources) generate a world.<
>
>JC: Hmmm..but then if such worlds are not effective objects, how
...snip...
>that this is
>incorrect. Can you show why it is incorrect? Thanks,
>Norman Samish
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Well, I was elaborating on Bruno's statement that worlds ("maximal
consistent set of propositions") of a FS are not computable; that even given
infinite resources (ie. infinite time) it is not possible to generate a
"complete" world. This suggests to me that it is *not* the case that given
infinite time, eveything that can happen must happen. I must admit this is
not my area of expertise; but it seems to me that the only other option of
defining a world (identifying it with the FS itself) will, by Godel's
incompleteness theorem, necessitate that there exist unprovable true
propositions of world; the world will be incomplete, so again, not
everything that can happen will happen.

Bruno?

Jonathan Colvin
Received on Sun Apr 17 2005 - 22:22:04 PDT