On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 09:29:40PM -0500, Hal Ruhl wrote:
>
> As I understand your Theory of Nothing book the "Everything" in it has or at
> least contains time like components [time postulate]. I agree but
> apparently for a different reason.
> In your reply to Jason you allowed that the OM "machine" [our "machines"
> also apparently differ] could have an extent in space as well. This seems
> to require the Everything to have space like aspects. Actually if it
> contains one dimension in a real sense to avoid selection it should contain
> more. If it has time and space aspects what prevents it from having
> material aspects? Until now I had felt that the Everything did not require
> space or material aspects but I am reconsidering the possibility.
The time postulate is a requirement of observerhood. I'm not sure this
means that time-like components are "in" the Everything, but I can
accept this is possible.
I don't know of any similar requirement for space, but I have tossed
around some ideas to do with embedding dimension of networks. It is
still very much an open question.
What does it mean to "have a material aspect"?
>
> As I understand your response to Jason you allow two different observers [a
> fly and a human] in the same universe to have different OM durations and I
> do not see this. Perhaps I do not understand your response. Did you intend
> to have them in the same universe?
>
> Yours
>
> Hal Ruhl
>
Sharing the same universe is I suppose equivalent to being able to
communicate. Rather than a conscious fly, it might be easier to
imagine an AI that works much faster than human intelligence, thus
having smaller OM durations, but still able to communicate with humans
(eg via a teletype interface). It would be interesting to see how
different the perspective is.
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