Re: Turing Machines Have no Real Time Clock (Was The Game of Li

From: Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon Jan 17 03:55:31 2000

GSLevy.domain.name.hidden wrote:

>If the world was not quantized the comp hypothesis would not hold.

Only if my generalised brain is the entire universe.
Look at my discussion with Niklas Thisel. Comp entails
that, from the first person perspective some
universal feature of our observable neighborhood will
appears non-finite, non-discrete, non-computable, etc.

So I agree with Russell here!
When you say:

>A continuous universe would not by emulable by a Turing
>Machine

You are right! For the same reason you cannot emulate
real randomness with a UTM. But it is easy to explain
why UTM are right to identify real randomness with
the result of self-localisation after self-duplication-like
experiments.

To sum up roughly:
3-determinisme => 1-indeterminisme
3-locality => 1-non-locality
3-discreteness => 1-continuum (existence of)
3-computability => 1-uncomputability

Bruno
Received on Mon Jan 17 2000 - 03:55:31 PST