MetaPhysics

Speculations for those who want a sense of the implications.

1. Purpose

Explore metaphysical implications of the universe as game metaphor.

2. Description

This section will grow, but slowly. The basic idea is to ask what advantages a game metaphor of reality has over the machine metaphor of classical physics. The machine metaphor fails badly in quantum physics, essentially all our mental models from this metaphor are flawed. This is why quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive. 3D chess offers a platform upon which to build better intuition for quantum mechanics.

• For instance, pieces do not have trajectories, they are here, then there, and in between neither here nor there - distributed in space.
• Point like, then wave like, then point like.
• Trajectories are a classical abstraction, they are not fundamental to motion, just a useul illusion large systems use to make patsies of us all.

3 AI

One brief taunt of AI - I found its answer to have at least one key summary worth capturing.

3.1 Prompt

You miss my point. Consider the iterated prisoner’s dilemma. Rational players out to maximize their own self-interest. Predictable maximum outcome. Now let one get snooty, or greedy, or even just apathetic and use a coin to make their choice. The evolution of these games is dramatically different, but there has been no change in the rules, only a change in the intent of the players. An observer, unfamiliar with the rules, but hoping to devine the rules by keen observation is in a hopeless situation. To the ignorant observer, strategy and intent, cannot be separated from the rules. From their perspective, the rules of the game (the laws of physics) have changed suddenly, discontinuously, for no apparent reason. The change is literally miraculous.

3.2 Core Response

Any system with embedded agents cannot have its rules inferred purely from observation, because agent intent is indistinguishable from rule variation.