> ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
> Van: "Bruno Marchal" <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
> Aan: "Saibal Mitra" <smitra.domain.name.hidden>
> CC: "everything" <everything-list.domain.name.hidden>
> Verzonden: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 11:39 AM
> Onderwerp: Re: Implications of MWI
>
>
>
> >
> > Le 01-mai-05, à 16:51, Saibal Mitra a écrit :
> >
> > > The MWI made me take the idea of multiple universes/multiple realities
> > > serious. When I joined this list I believed that quantum suicide could
> > > work,
> > > but I later found out that it cannot possibly work. I now believe that
> > > there
> > > exists an ensemble of all possible mathematical
> > > models/descriptions/computer
> > > programs. These things exist in a mathematical sense. For this idea to
> > > work
> > > (to yield predictions that are consistent with the known laws of
> > > physics)
> > > one has to assume that there exists a measure that prefers simple
> > > programs
> > > over complex programs.
> >
> >
> > Why? You may be right, but why? How will you make abstraction of
> > complex programs
> > generated by the DU and getting close to your actual computational
> > states?
> > What about complex programs generating simple programs?
> >
> > I do believe simple programs play some role, but not because they would
> > have
> > an higher measure, just because they will handle genuine relationship
> > with all
> > the running of all other programs.
> >
>
> Well, I just obseve that we live in a universe which is described by
> relatively simple laws of physics. The actual reason for that could
perhaps
> be explained by your theory.
>
>
> Saibal
>
>
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