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- From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti)
- Subject: Precognition mechanism of mathematical discovery?
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- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:51:30 GMT
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- re-posted from WELL conference on mathematical discovery:
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- Are you all aware of what Penrose thinks in Emperor's New Mind?
- I conjecture that mathematical forms are actually intelligent and create
- themselves using the quantum connection backward in time violating David
- Deutsch's basic principle of the philosophy of science. You know the
- mathematician has a precognition of his discovery that pops into her
- consciousness - prior training is needed to recognize the significance of
- the message from the future etc.
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- What we have learned is that a formal model of this can be made but it
- involves a minimal generalization of present day standard quantum mechanics
- to allow a non-fatal kind of non-unitarity in the time evolution that still
- conserves probabilities. This is analogous to the non-fatal globally self
- consistent causality violation that time machine traversable wormholes
- permit according to Kip Thorne et-al.
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- This model of mathematical creation as precognition is actually consistent
- with Penrose's phenomenology in Emperor's New Mind. The world of Platonic
- Forms are, in this model, intelligent programs that form the Mind of God and
- that communicate backwards in time to our minds.
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