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The Self–Simulation Hypothesis Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Article The Self–Simulation Hypothesis Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics Klee Irwin 1,* , Marcelo Amaral 1 and David Chester 1 1 Quantum Gravity Research, Los Angeles, CA 90290, USA * Correspondence: [email protected] Abstract: We modify the simulation hypothesis to a self–simulation hypothesis, where the physical universe, as a strange loop, is a mental self–simulation that might exist as one of a broad class of possible code theoretic quantum gravity models of reality obeying the principle of efficient language axiom. This leads to ontological interpretations about quantum mechanics. We also discuss some implications of the self–simulation hypothesis such as an informational arrow of time. Keywords: simulation hypothesis, philosophy of mind, quantum mechanics Contents 1 Introduction and Background2 1.1 Definitions.............................................6 2 The Self–Simulation Hypothesis7 2.1 Axioms and Principle of Efficient Language..........................7 2.2 Information............................................8 2.3 Nonlocality of the Self–Simulation............................... 14 3 Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics 18 3.1 Completeness........................................... 18 3.2 Local Realism........................................... 19 3.3 Determinism............................................ 19 3.4 Randomness............................................ 19 3.5 Ontologically Real Wavefunction................................ 20 3.6 Unique Particle History..................................... 20 -
The Self-Simulation Hypothesis Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
entropy Article The Self-Simulation Hypothesis Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics Klee Irwin * , Marcelo Amaral and David Chester Quantum Gravity Research, Los Angeles, CA 90290, USA; [email protected] (M.A.); [email protected] (D.C.) * Correspondence: [email protected] Received: 11 January 2020; Accepted: 17 February 2020; Published: 21 February 2020 Abstract: We modify the simulation hypothesis to a self-simulation hypothesis, where the physical universe, as a strange loop, is a mental self-simulation that might exist as one of a broad class of possible code theoretic quantum gravity models of reality obeying the principle of efficient language axiom. This leads to ontological interpretations about quantum mechanics. We also discuss some implications of the self-simulation hypothesis such as an informational arrow of time. Keywords: simulation hypothesis; philosophy of mind; quantum mechanics 1. Introduction and Background The simulation hypothesis [1] is a materialistic view, which argues that our universe is most likely a simulation in a physical universe. In Are you living in a computer simulation?, Nick Bostrom discusses how sufficient evolution of future technology leads to lifeforms capable of producing a large quantity of high fidelity simulations, called ancestor simulations. These simulations express an evolutionary process leading to humans and on up through higher levels of biological and technological evolution. The simulation hypothesis explains where the information that is our reality comes from. However, it does not offer an explanation for where the physical stuff of the real universe comes from. Because there would be more simulations than the one real universe, the deduction is that it is more likely that we are in one of the simulations than the real universe. -
Uncommon Dissent
UNCOMMON DISSENT UNCOMMON DISSENT Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing Edited by William A. Dembski lSI BooKs WILMINGTON, DELAWARE ------ Copyright © 2004 lSI Books, the imprint of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute Second printing, 2005 Third printing, April 2006 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper, or broadcast. Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Uncommon dissent : intellectuals who find Darwinism unconvincing I edited by William A. Dembski. - 1st ed.- Wilmington, Del. : lSI Books, c2004. p.; em. Includes index. ISBN: 1932236309 (cloth) ISBN: 1932236317 (paper) 1. Evolution (Biology)-Religious aspects. 2. Intelligent design (Teleology) 3. Creationism. 4. Religion and science. 5. Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882- Criticism and interpretation. I. Dembski, William A., 1960- BL263 .U53 2004 2004102726 213-dc22 CIP Published in the United States by: lSI Books Post Office Box 4431 Wilmington, Delaware 19807 www.isibooks.org Cover design by Kevin van der Leek Book design by Kara Beer Manufactured in the United States of America To the memory of Michael Polanyi, for freeing inquiry from ideology "The purpose of freedom is to create it for others." - Bernard Malamud, The Fixer CoNTENTS Acknowledgments XI Foreword John Wilson Xttl Introduction: The Myths of Darwinism William A. Dembski XVtt PART I: A CRISIS oF CoNFIDENCE 1. The Check Is in the Mail: Why Darwinism Fails to Inspire Confidence Robert C. -
Outliers: the Story of Success Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers: The Story of Success Malcolm Gladwell Outliers: The Story of Success Author: Malcolm Gladwell Category: Art of Living Other name: Diana C. Website: http://motsach.info Date: 28-October-2012 Page 1/126 http://motsach.info Outliers: The Story of Success Malcolm Gladwell INTRODUCTION The Roseto Mystery THESE PEOPLE WERE DYING OF OLD AGE. THAT'S IT.” out-li-er \-,l•(-9)r\ noun i: something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body 2: a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample. Roseto Valfortore lies one hundred miles southeast of Rome in the Apennine foothills of the Italian province of Foggia. In the style of medieval villages, the town is organized around a large central square. Facing the square is the Palazzo Marchesale, the palace of the Saggese family, once the great landowner of those parts. An archway to one side leads to a church, the Madonna del CarmineOur Lady of Mount Carmine. Narrow stone steps run up the hillside, flanked by closely clustered two-story stone houses with red-tile roofs. For centuries, the paesani of Roseto worked in the marble quarries in the surrounding hills, or cultivated the fields in the terraced valley below, walking four and five miles down the mountain in the morning and then making the long journey back up the hill at night. Life was hard. The townsfolk were barely literate and desperately poor and without much hope for economic betterment until word reached Roseto at the end of the nineteenth century of the land of opportunity across the ocean.