Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
> If every computation is implemented everywhere anyway, this is equivalent to the situation where every
> computation exists as a platonic object, or every computation exists implemented on some computer or
> brain in a material multiverse.
But if implementing a particular computation depends on an observer, or
a dicitonary,
or somesuch, it is not the case that everything implements every
computation unless
it can be shown that evey dictionary somehow exists as well.
> The dynamism part can be provided by a simple physical system such as the idle passage of time.
> If you allow for parallel processing you don't need much time either. This leads to a situation whereby
> every computation is implemented by universe with a single electron
What is parallel about a single electron ?
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Received on Sun Sep 03 2006 - 20:55:01 PDT