Year: 2010
Type: preprint
Abstract: There are good reasons to believe that we are classical algorithms run on (effectively) classical machines. However, the fact that a physical state of a system in a universe described by a classical deterministic model doesn't contain any information about the model's evolution laws, gives rise to deep philosophical paradoxes with this picture of what we are. We explain these paradoxes in detail and show that they can be resolved once we take into account that in the real world, classical behavior arises as a result of decoherence. We then show that this solution naturally leads to a variant of the idea of a mathematical multiverse, originally proposed by Tegmark.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Author: Mitra, Saibal
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1559112440