From the questionnaire: >Why do we believe that both the past and the future are not >completely random, but the future is more random than the past?
I didn't know we believed that *grin*. Cheers, Günther Zen_Ved wrote: > > > Wei Dai: >> I'm not sure what questionnaire Zen_Ved is referring to, but maybe it's this >> paragraph from the mailing list invitation: >> >> Because this mailing list attracts people from many different academic >> fields, and many posts have high technical content, it is suggested that >> after joining, you post a message to the mailing list with the subject >> "JOINING post". In this post, please give a brief biography of yourself and >> tell us your intellectual backgrounds. What fields are you familiar with, >> what relevant books/papers have you read, etc.? This way, if you don't >> understand someone's post, you can look up his JOINING post in the archive >> and figure out what background he is assuming. >> >> I copied this idea from the SL4 mailing list, I think. >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "John Mikes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 8:49 AM > ____________ > As to "questionnaire Zen_Ved ", see > > http://www.weidai.com/everything.html > Wei Dai's "everything'' mailing list > Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998: > _____________ > ......... > You are invited to join a mailing list for discussion of the idea that > all possible universes exist. Some possible topics of discussion might > include: > - What is the set of all possible universes? > - What is a reasonable prior/posterior distribution for the universe > that I am in? > - Why do we believe that both the past and the future are not > completely random, but the future is more random than the past? > - Before observing anything about the universe, should we expect it to > have (infinitely?) many observers? > - How can we/should we predict the future and postdict the past? > _______________ > > Sorry, cheers. > > > > -- Günther Greindl Department of Philosophy of Science University of Vienna [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.univie.ac.at/Wissenschaftstheorie/ Blog: http://dao.complexitystudies.org/ Site: http://www.complexitystudies.org/ Research Proposal: http://www.complexitystudies.org/ph.d.-thesis.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
