<div>Thanks Stuart, your "computational interpretation is interesting." Pasting from a Medium comment thread about my essay:<br></div><div>"reminds me of Wheeler’s participatory universe hypothesis, where things
become real “Just-in-Time” when somebody asks. Videogames provide an
interesting analogy — it doesn’t make sense to waste resources to
compute things that nobody can see or needs to know, so in modern
videogames some features like mobs and NPCs are left in a limbo of
possibilities and instantiated only when a player comes close. In this
sense, I agree with you: I think quantum physics lends plausibility to
the simulation hypothesis."<br></div><div><br></div><div>I tend to think that ALL currently discussed interpretation of QM are probably "wrong" and going to be superseded by future advances, but many current theories including Everett, De Broglie-Bohm, Cramer etc. point to actual aspects of "The Thing Itself" (Ding an Sich), whatever that is/<br></div><div><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block "><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user "><div>--<br></div><div>Giulio Prisco<br></div><div>https://giulioprisco.com/<br></div><div>giulioprisco@protonmail.ch<br></div></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-proton protonmail_signature_block-empty"><br></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" class="protonmail_quote"><div>-------- Original Message --------<br></div><div>Subject: [ExI] QM Interpretations was Re: Shadows and the concept of self<br></div><div>Local Time: April 3, 2017 6:50 AM<br></div><div>UTC Time: April 3, 2017 4:50 AM<br></div><div>From: avant@sollegro.com<br></div><div>To: Exi Chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br></div><div><br></div><div>Giulio wrote:<br></div><div> > Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 16:59:22 +0200<br></div><div> > From: Giulio Prisco <giulio@gmail.com><br></div><div> <br></div><div> > The chaotic path of my quest to better understand fundamental quantum<br></div><div> > physics has taken me back to the ?many worlds? ideas of Hugh Everett & co.<br></div><div> > I?m republishing this related article that author Richard L. Miller and<br></div><div> > I<br></div><div> > wrote in 2005, with minor edits to fix typos...<br></div><div> ><br></div><div> > https://turingchurch.net/shadows-and-the-concept-of-self-d01ff65ce9f9<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Interesting read, Guilio. I am still agnostic about MWI. While I agree<br></div><div> that Copenhagen is dead, there are a lot of other good interpretations out<br></div><div> there.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Perhaps even a new one that I will call the "computational intepretation"<br></div><div> of quantum mechanics which I could succinctly explain by pointing out that<br></div><div> a perfect simulation of a cat, whilst stored on a flash drive in someones<br></div><div> pocket is neither alive nor dead.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> In other words perhaps, Schrodinger's cat is in superposition until you<br></div><div> observe it, because the universal machine does not call/process/execute<br></div><div> the object.cat.alive() property code until an observer opens the box. Just<br></div><div> like how in MMORPGs certain NPCs or events won't occur until they are<br></div><div> triggered by some action by the player. So wave-function collapse could be<br></div><div> synonymous with code execution in the "Great Simulation" regardless of<br></div><div> whether or not there is a simulator. Could just be the way the universe<br></div><div> works. But I am skeptical of the Simulation Argument because of the<br></div><div> experimentally meausred smoothness of space-time.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Of course there is also de Broglie-Bohm Pilot Wave theory which is another<br></div><div> real contender as is Kramer's Transactional Intepretation. So I am<br></div><div> agnostic of the various interpretation of QM even if you narrow it down to<br></div><div> just those which call for an objectively real wave function.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Stuart LaForge<br></div><div> <br></div><div> "Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling<br></div><div> will spoil it." -Lao Tzu<br></div><div> <br></div><div> <br></div><div> _______________________________________________<br></div><div> extropy-chat mailing list<br></div><div> extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<br></div><div> http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>