Mangled Worlds Quantum Mechanics

"This variation on the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics allows us to derive the Born probability rule via finite world counting and no new physics."

When Worlds Collide

Next Big Future: Achieving a Mundane Technological Transhuman Singularity

Next Big Future: Achieving a Mundane Technological Transhuman Singularity

Links to a series of mind upload pages

related to my recent link to the IEEE special report on the technological singularity, here are links to several sources of information on the prospect of "mind uploading."

Wikipedia Mind upload page (good source for basic overview)

"The Mind Uploading Home Page"

Uploading (Anders Sandberg)

Mind Uploading (Transtopia)

Minduploading.org

Foresight.org Uploading page

Computational Neurophysiology at the Boston U. Center for Memory and Brain

Paper explores feasibility of different upload strategies

Matrioshka Brains "work in progress" by Robert Bradbury

Some good info on the theory and some interesting links.

Matrioshka Brains

IEEE Spectrum special issue- The Singularity

IEEE Spectrum special issue on the Technological Singularity.

Paper speculates time dimension could transform

...into space like dimension.

Some light reading

Many lives in many worlds

Article by Max Tegmark in July, 2007 Nature on Many Worlds theory (as posted on 12 Degrees of Freedom).

General relativity as proof of virtual reality?

Paper by Brian Whitworth who has a theory that certain aspects of relativity theory could point to our living in a virtual environment.

I found this paper interesting in that I had recently thought about the relative nature and (for instance) slowing of time for objects moving at a high rate of speed and whether these aspects of reality could be related to finite processing capability at specific points in space.

Universe as a virtual reality

Plausibility of the Existence of all Possible States

http://www.physica.freeserve.co.uk/pa01.htm

The argument for the existence of all possible worlds has in the past been deemed problematical due to the failure of induction it implies. In this paper I argue that by focussing on an approach that distinguishes a hidden reality from the world of appearance, and on a corresponding generalisation from 'all possible worlds' to 'all possible states', this problem is readily surmountable. Moreover the positive success of inductive reasoning and the lack of observed paranormal events emerge as a natural consequence.

--ALASTAIR MALCOLM

Digital Physics

Wikipedia on Digital Physics.