Recent content by khanster

It seems highly unlikely that other copies of "us" exist in an inflationary multiverse scenario. The fluctuations that give rise to different universes would evolve differently would they not? The infinite monkey theorem seems to agree concerning the improbability of a monkey typing out...

Math appears to be a very concise language with much information contained in its symbols when compared to a written language like English.

Anyone who can survive usenet has my respect :biggrin:

I think I will stay here, learn and respect the rules and use them to my advantage. ...and make sure rigormortis doesn't set in :smile:

I suppose we can ask the question "is reality made of math?" We observe certain consistencies and redundancies in the manifold structure of reality that bolsters such an impression. If reality is made of math, where do we begin to start in the construction of the correspondence?

It is more reasonable to assume that intelligence emerges from the computational meat of the brain rather than to suppose that mind is somehow separate from the meat... :biggrin:

Intelligence is an emergent property that requires energy from an outside source while non-intelligence is the status-quo of empty regions of space-time.

Falsifiability is a very important criterion for testing a hypothesis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability

Stiplating an intelligent entity as the genesis of all creation appears to be an added supposition that is not necessary, if, complex systems[like universes with intelligent beings] can arise via random fluctuations.

Sean Carroll has a very interesting idea for the arrow of time and multiple universes. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/what-is-time/

Complex systems can arise from very simple initial conditions. An existential substrate forming the basis of all existence appears to be necessary but there is no reason to stipulate an ultimate existence to be an intelligent entity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_protection_conjecture Time travel to the past is an idea that generates logical problems. The universe appears to have built in laws that prevent certain paradoxes from occurring. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_universe...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov%27s_zero-one_law It seems that it will never be possible to travel back in time to the past because. we see no tourists from the future. Likewise it seems that traveling to parallel universes will never be possible due to the fact that we see no...

I will give it a try: Randomness appears to be the descriptive complexity of a data structure such, that description of the structure takes more bits of information than what appears to be contained in the structure itself. In that respect, we live in a random world due to the inability...