Saturday, May 19, 2012
Decisions in InfoDynamics (part 2)
This is the second part of some work on information that I did when I was working at U n i l e v e r. ( Might stop some search engines) It is very much tongue in cheek, but with very serious content. I cannot imagine that it has any proprietory value now.
I hope you enjoy it.
There is a link to the paper below as well as a embedded copy, which you may be able to read sensibly
Martin
link to document
I hope you enjoy it.
There is a link to the paper below as well as a embedded copy, which you may be able to read sensibly
Martin
Decisions in InfoDynamics
- The Speed of decisions slows down in the presence of Information
Decision are typically fastest when there is no information. The principle is obvious, there being no interaction with information to slow down the decision, which can be made with almost no effort. It can be associated with a good life style, with a decision maker spending more time with his family etc.
The maximum speed of decisions is called the speed of dice, since it just needs the spin of a coin or dice.
When information is present, this tends to deflect the decision, leading to a slow speed of decisions and a deflection of direction. The more information the more the slowing and the greater the deflection. The density of information is associated with a deflective index - Decisions only interact with their alternatives, and not with other decisions
People have observed interference effects, which have been put down to the naïve nature of decisions. [Compare this with the other early hypothesis the articulate theory of decisions.] We now know of course that this is actually part of a greater Question Mechanics theory of decision making.
For a long time people thought that decisions interfered with other decisions, but famous experiments by Thompson and Thomson where the flow of decisions was reduced to single decisions at a time, clearly indicated that different decisions never interact with each other and act totally independently. Decisions however do interact with their alternative selves, creating interference patterns and other effects such as deflection in the presence of information.
This principle is no well known, and is normally considered of little value. However people have recently considered that one could make use of these alternative parallel universes to power a Question Computer that could use the interference to calculate decisions based on the outcome of alternative decisions in a vast number of parallel states. (c.f. Dutch )
For a long time people thought that decisions interfered with other decisions, but famous experiments by Thompson and Thomson where the flow of decisions was reduced to single decisions at a time, clearly indicated that different decisions never interact with each other and act totally independently. Decisions however do interact with their alternative selves, creating interference patterns and other effects such as deflection in the presence of information.
This principle is no well known, and is normally considered of little value. However people have recently considered that one could make use of these alternative parallel universes to power a Question Computer that could use the interference to calculate decisions based on the outcome of alternative decisions in a vast number of parallel states. (c.f. Dutch )
Martin Wilkinson
2000-12-18 [ISO 8601]
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How do you slow a neutrino down?
Neutrinos might have zero basic mass, or some mass. It does not appear that anyone knows. Of course, I like to think that they have mass, and then you might be able to do something with them. Hence this question....
Also I thought it linked nicely to the stupid experiment that thought they might travel faster than c? Could we move them much slower than c? That seems much more exciting to me.
If it has no mass, forget it.
If it has mass, then
- create a few from a very fast moving platform, and look at the ones where they fire off against the speed. can the LHC fire heavy particles into light particles to achieve this? Or is it always the same particle in both directions?
- fire them off from very near a black hole, and let them slow down against the gravity
* Could the world be full of slow moving neutrinos? And we don't know it? Something near a black hole?
* If they were slower than the escape velocity of the Earth , would they just oscillate or orbit like a satellite, gently ignoring anything in its way, and in any plane? Could the earth catch them in some way? Or a satellite of a galaxy?
* could there be enough to weigh? Ie dark matter. How dense could they get?
* once they are slow, can you speed them up? Do they just accumulate?
I rather assume that all our observations of neutrinos rather depend on them speeding along, and having quite a lot of energy. Would we actually see slow neutrinos at all, other than their gravitational force.
Martin
