[Fis] SYMMETRY & _ On BioLogic (was Re: The Measurement Problem from the Perspective of an Information-Theoretic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

[Bruno Marchal]

Dear Koichiro, dear John and Colleagues,

I bump this older post, as it is related to my recent post to Lou.

On 27 Nov 2015, at 02:06, Koichiro Matsuno wrote:

> At 4:28 AM 11/27/2015, John C. wrote:
>
> A paper by my former graduate advisor, Jeff Bub, who was a student  
> of David Bohm’s.
> http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/17/11/7374
>
> The Measurement Problem from the Perspective of an Information- 
> Theoretic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
>
>    Yes, Bub’s insistence on the absolute randomness would remain  
> invincible as far as third-person probabilities are taken for  
> granted from the outset in comprehending what messages would QM  
> convey to us. On the other hand, once one may happen to feel at ease  
> with the first-person probabilities (see, for instance,  James  
> Hartle’s “Living in a superposition” http://arXiv.org/abs/ 
> 1511.01550 ), the first-person probability of the occurrence of such  
> an agent assuming the first-person status would come to approach  
> unity even within the framework of the decoherent-histories  
> interpretation of QM.

I think I agree (modulo some possible ambiguity perhaps).

If we take seriously that we might not be more than relative universal  
machine ourself, this extends in the "decoherent-histories" internal  
(made by the universal numbers) interpretation of Arithmetic.
I discovered the first person arithmetical probabilities before  
knowing anything about quantum mechanics. It is still possible that  
the arithmetical possibilities does not interfere like they should,  
but that is shown to be testable.

Personally, I don't think that a third person indeterminacy makes  
"interesting sense". Like Einstein, I tend to think that God does not  
play dice, and that there is no spooky action at a distance (but that  
too has not yet been derived completely from computationalism, to be  
sure).

This is my second post of the week.

Best,

Bruno






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