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

From: Alastair Malcolm <amalcolm.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 23:47:07 +0100

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From: Higgo James <james.higgo.domain.name.hidden>
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Sent: 08 July 1999 09:37
Subject: RE: Devil's advocate against Max Tegmark's hypothesis


> 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.

If you look back to my earlier post you will see that I was positing a
higher universe specifically for cases where ('lower') universes were
generated as a result of a process of execution of a program. If a
Mandlebrot set does not have to be generated by such a process in order to
exist (as appears to be the case), then it does not fall into the context of
my answer to your question.
Received on Thu Jul 08 1999 - 16:13:44 PDT