For a French person, it is very difficult to see the value of the link here.
You dont't have to be French to not see the value of this link. I'm an Australian, living in Germany with a Chinese ancestry and I can't see how this is HN relevant.
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There's a thesis that all particles are information, and all information is functional, thus perception is merely the lazy evaluation of the universe.
How does quantum mechanic's randomness come into play here?
It doesn't have to be random - you can take a many-worlds interpretation where there is a "block history" that just branches into branches with a certain "mass", and the Born probabilities are just the subjective probabilities of finding ourselves in one Everett branch or another.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a thesis that all particles are information, and all information is functional, thus perception is merely the lazy evaluation of the universe.
How does quantum mechanic's randomness come into play here?
It is possible that it is non-random, but we do not have the tools / insight to perceive the patterns.
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How does quantum mechanic's randomness come into play here?
The answer is to use one of the "hidden variable" interpretations of quantum mechanics. Bell's experiments have ruled out local hidden variables, but hidden variables that violate locality are still permitted. Since this function takes the global state of the universe (hidden variables included) as its input and returns a new one for its output, there is no restriction for locality, so it remains consistent. Whether…
so, god is a bad coder with ugly global variables everywhere ? I hope the universe is more elegant than that :)
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#36For a French person, it is very difficult to see the value of the link here.
What a ridiculous comment. As if you automatically have total understanding of a concept if the term used for it is in your native language.
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#38Also read this : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12005869
nice example of mise en abyme ;)
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#40For a French person, it is very difficult to see the value of the link here.
What a ridiculous comment. As if you automatically have total understanding of a concept if the term used for it is in your native language.
French is not my native language, however the wikipedia link adds absolutely nothing to what I already knew. And don't get me wrong, I don't claim to "have total understanding of a concept".
To see what I am talking about, imagine instead of the link this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion