RE: Devil's advocate against Max Tegmark's hypothesis

From: Higgo James <james.higgo.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 09:37:05 +0100

        JH > Why is another universe required?

        AM> If the generated universe is somehow specified by the output bit
string,
        then it cannot be the same as the program and TM (combined if you
prefer),
        which in turn must operate in some dimension analogous to what we
think of
        as time (for a step-by-step computation to take place). It seems
reasonable
        to use the term 'universe' for this realm (as Schmidhuber does), but
in any
case it requires an explanation just as ours does.

JH>That's like saying the Mandelbrot set does not exist unless someone runs
the program on a computer outside that set to generate a graphic
representation of oit on a computer screen.
Received on Thu Jul 08 1999 - 01:42:42 PDT