[HN Gopher] Some remarks on the mathematical structure of the mu...
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       Some remarks on the mathematical structure of the multiverse
        
       Author : bryanrasmussen
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2024-09-17 16:09 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
        
       | OutOfHere wrote:
       | I see the author also has some newer papers as well on the broad
       | topic.
       | 
       | The reader may also enjoy this survey report on multiverse
       | theories which I generated just this morning:
       | 
       | https://html-preview.github.io/?url=https://github.com/impre...
        
       | gpvos wrote:
       | (2016)
        
       | empath75 wrote:
       | This is 8 years old, and as far as I can tell, has never been
       | cited by anyone other than the author.
        
         | slowmovintarget wrote:
         | And seems to be about the parallel branches of Everettian
         | Mechanics, not the multiverse of brane theory (the Bulk), or
         | the multiverse of multiple disconnected bubbles of false
         | vacuum.
        
       | VirusNewbie wrote:
       | This person is making a mistake with Everettian mechanics,
       | assuming there is _branching_ , which is precisely not what is
       | happening.
        
         | nh23423fefe wrote:
         | Everett used the same terminology
        
           | VirusNewbie wrote:
           | no, he talks about the perception of branching. The universe
           | isn't branching, a coherent thread we observe is.
           | 
           | It's the difference between tracing a path on a graph, and
           | seeing a graph change.
        
       | anon291 wrote:
       | Anyone making an absolute claim of knowledge of the nature of
       | self-awareness needs to demonstrate how qualia arises by making a
       | testable way to disable qualia in humans or to demonstrate qualia
       | in a non-human system. The latter is preferred.
        
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