Observer localization in multiverse theories
Date
2011
Authors
Hutter, Marcus
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World Scientific
Abstract
The progression of theories suggested for our world, from ego- to
geo- to helio-centric models to universe and multiverse theories and
beyond, shows one tendency: The size of the described worlds
increases, with humans being expelled from their center to ever more
remote and random locations. If pushed too far, a potential theory
of everything (TOE) is actually more a theories of nothing (TON).
Indeed such theories have already been developed. I show that
including observer localization into such theories is necessary and
sufficient to avoid this problem. I develop a quantitative recipe to
identify TOEs and distinguish them from TONs and theories
in-between. This precisely shows what the problem is with some
recently suggested universal TOEs.
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world models, observer localization, predictive power, Ockham's razor, universal theories, computability
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Conference paper
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Proceedings of the Conference in Honour of Murray Gell-Mann's 80th Birthday : quantum mechanics, elementary particles, quantum cosmology and complexity, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 24-26 February 2010