On 16 January 2014 13:10, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/15/2014 3:20 PM, LizR wrote: > > On 16 January 2014 12:12, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Begin by Imagining a world in which everything is computational. >> > > What is this world? What does it consist of? What is doing the > computations? > > Whatever it is, Bruno's UD will eventually do it. >
I would like to know what Edgar's answer is. Obviously Edgar's theory doesn't use the UD, because he has clearly stated that he thinks comp is false. He even started a thread called "Bruno's fundamental mistake (IMHO)" ! OK, I admit that going on past behaviour I shouldn't expect a sensible answer from Edgar. I know I'm most likely to some snide comment telling me it's too obvious to explain, or insinuating that I'm a moron for asking. But even so, I think the polite and courteous thing to do is to keep asking questions, and I live in hope that I will get proper answers from Edgar, and that eventually, if every step of his argument is clarified sufficiently, it will either start making sense to me, or stop making sense to him, as the case may be. So, my original questions were, what is the nature of a world in which everything is computational? For example, is it physical or abstract or something else? (And if so, what?) Does it have physical computational machinery of some sort (like CY compact manifolds), or if not, what *does*it have? All this (and probably a lot more) needs to be explained before one can start to imagine a world in which "everything is computational". -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
