München 2009 – scientific programme

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MP: Fachverband Theoretische und Mathematische Grundlagen der Physik

MP 1: Quanten- Information, Komplexität

MP 1.4: Talk

Monday, March 9, 2009, 18:15–18:35, M010

Outliers of exponentiated power-law variates could determine entire subjective histories — •Lutz Polley — Institut für Physik, Universität Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg

In the many-worlds view of an observer's physical evolution, I argue that the dimension of a cognitive Hilbert space, at the ends of decoherent branches, should be distributed like a power-law variate exponentiated. Order statistics of extreme and next-to-extreme values then implies that most of the dimension is located in a single branch.