Loren Booda
Apr29-04, 08:53 PM
What follows is my attempt to make a comprehensive list of properties that observers and observation exhibit. Please add your own, or critique those already there.
Observer Characteristics
1. An observer increases its accessible spectrum over time
2. An observer increases memory information over time
3. An observer communicates/interacts through observation
4. Observer number is unconserved
5. Observers maximize near entropy minimum
6. An observer is favored by maximal information
7. An observer is defined by all possible observer perspectives
8. An observer exists in comparatively isolated communities
9. Observer communities tend to consolidate over time
10. An observer is alive and sentient
11. An observer is a quantum/classical hybrid
12. Observers exist through selection by/for optimum observation (Anthropic principle)
13. Observations are replicable
14. Self-observation is possible
15. Observation can be correspondently quantum or classical
16. Observation is selective
17. Observation may be intervened by a measuring instrument
18. Observation is limited by relativistic event horizons and Planck action
19. Observables include all properties inherent to the observer
20. Scale of observation ranges from photon- to graviton-mediated
21. Observation obeys the postulates of quantum mechanics
Observer Characteristics
1. An observer increases its accessible spectrum over time
2. An observer increases memory information over time
3. An observer communicates/interacts through observation
4. Observer number is unconserved
5. Observers maximize near entropy minimum
6. An observer is favored by maximal information
7. An observer is defined by all possible observer perspectives
8. An observer exists in comparatively isolated communities
9. Observer communities tend to consolidate over time
10. An observer is alive and sentient
11. An observer is a quantum/classical hybrid
12. Observers exist through selection by/for optimum observation (Anthropic principle)
13. Observations are replicable
14. Self-observation is possible
15. Observation can be correspondently quantum or classical
16. Observation is selective
17. Observation may be intervened by a measuring instrument
18. Observation is limited by relativistic event horizons and Planck action
19. Observables include all properties inherent to the observer
20. Scale of observation ranges from photon- to graviton-mediated
21. Observation obeys the postulates of quantum mechanics