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

From: Fred Chen <flipsu5.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 13:10:41 -0700

GSLevy.domain.name.hidden wrote:

> Turing Machines have no real time clock and no interrupt. If we assume the
> comp hypothesis (purely based on Turing machines) and the anthropic
> principle, then the flow of consciousness can only be constrained by the
> logical nature of the links pernitting transitions from one observer moment
> to the next. Time therefore is an illusion derived from such a logical flow.

It is interesting that we observe macroscopic systems tending to greater disorder
(Second Law of Thermodynamics) which follow a flow of time parallel with the flow
of our experienced consciousness (or observer-moments or whatever). If this is
not parallel with the flow of the underlying computation (Turing machine or other
form), would not the computation 'time' be the fundamental, 'objective' time?

Fred
Received on Sun May 21 2000 - 13:49:36 PDT