Self Simulating Universe
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Anthropic Bias
Anthropic Bias explores how to reason when you suspect that your evidence is biased by "observation selection effects"--that is, evidence that has been filtered by the precondition that there be some suitably positioned observer to "have" the evidence. This conundrum--sometimes alluded to as "the anthropic principle," "self-locating belief," or "indexical information"--turns out to be a surprisingly perplexing and intellectually stimulating challenge, one abounding with important implications for many areas in science and philosophy. There are the philosophical thought experiments and paradoxes: the Doomsday Argument; Sleeping Beauty; the Presumptuous Philosopher; Adam & Eve; the Absent-Minded Driver; the Shooting Room. And there are the applications in contemporary science: cosmology ("How many universes are there?", "Why does the universe appear fine-tuned for life?"); evolutionary theory ("How improbable was the evolution of intelligent life on our planet?"); the problem of time's arrow ("Can it be given a thermodynamic explanation?"); quantum physics ("How can the many-worlds theory be tested?"); game-theory problems with imperfect recall ("How to model them?"); even traffic analysis ("Why is the 'next lane' faster?"). Anthropic Bias argues that the same principles are at work across all these domains. And it offers a synthesis: a mathematically explicit theory of observation selection effects that attempts to meet scientific needs while steering clear of philosophical paradox.
Universal Mind
Are you struggling to reconcile science and faith? Do you feel lost in the maze of modern theology? Are you searching for a rational yet deeply spiritual understanding of God and the universe? This book is your ultimate guide to bridging the gap between metaphysics and theology, offering a fresh perspective on divine purpose and human existence. Here’s what you’ll gain: - Discover how the Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (C.T.M.U.) redefines creation and existence. - Understand God as the ultimate syntactic operator and the source of all reality. - Explore the theological implications of self-referential systems and divine omniscience. - Learn how infocognition unifies mind and matter, offering a new lens for divine thought. - Gain insights into the teleological framework of the universe and its divine purpose. - Resolve the age-old debate of free will vs. determinism with C.T.M.U.’s logical approach. - Address the problem of evil through a systemic and theological lens. - Align your spiritual practice with divine syntax for a deeper connection with God. If you want to unlock the secrets of the universe and align your life with divine purpose, then buy this book today. Transform your understanding of God, reality, and your place in the grand scheme of creation.
Simulated Selves
Author: Andrew Spira
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date: 2020-06-25
The notion of a personal self took centuries to evolve, reaching the pinnacle of autonomy with Descartes' 'I think, therefore I am' in the 17th century. This 'personalisation' of identity thrived for another hundred years before it began to be questioned, subject to the emergence of broader, more inclusive forms of agency. Simulated Selves: The Undoing Personal Identity in the Modern World addresses the 'constructed' notion of personal identity in the West and how it has been eclipsed by the development of new technological, social, art historical and psychological infrastructures over the last two centuries. While the provisional nature of the self-sense has been increasingly accepted in recent years, Simulated Selves addresses it in a new way - not by challenging it directly, but by observing changes to the environments and cultural conventions that have traditionally supported it. By narrating both its dismantling and its incapacitation in this way, it records its undoing. Like The Invention of the Self: Personal Identity in the Age of Art (to which it forms a companion volume), Simulated Selves straddles cultural history and philosophy. Firstly, it identifies hitherto neglected forces that inform the course of cultural history. Secondly, it highlights how the self is not the self-authenticating abstraction, only accessible to introspection, that it seems to be; it is also a cultural and historical phenomenon. Arguing that it is by engaging in cultural conventions that we subscribe to the process of identity-formation, the book also suggests that it is in these conventions that we see our self-sense - and its transience - best reflected. By examining the traces that the trajectory of the self-sense has left in its environment, Simulated Selves offers a radically new approach to the question of personal identity, asking not only 'how and why is it under threat?' but also 'given that we understand the self-sense to be a constructed phenomenon, why do we cling to it?'.