Re: Introduction (Digital Physics)

From: Fred Chen <flipsu5.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 19:25:48 -0700

Joel, thanks for your clarification.


>
> Fred:
> > If two worlds within this everything are contradictory or not
> > consistent with each other, with no common ground, how exactly do
> > they interact?
>
> Well I believe the universe is strictly local and completely homogeneous
at
> the bottommost layer. So even though two worlds/cosmoses may be very far
> apart, eventually the information from one will reach the other. There
they
> will interact, although the result may be completely unexpected from
> anything that was happening in the two worlds when they were apart, and
> their inhabitants may be long since gone.
>

Perhaps you are saying all worlds have some commonality eventually? Such as
the program you mention below?

> > I imagine all possible programs for all possible universes. If there
> > were a single program running the whole show, I would ask, why that
> > program?
>
> Because that one program runs all the others. All the others are embodied
> by the larger computation.
>
> Any program that instantiates "all programs" should be as good as any
other,
> don't you think? All of these superprograms souuld be equivalent, since
> they all do exactly the same thing. Yes?
>
> > As I mentioned in my reply to scerir, we can't avoid self-referential
> > problems, however, if we try to represent or describe ourselves.
>
> But if we are merely three-dimensional bit sequences - 3D movies, then all
> we have to do is find a program that generates our movie. But instead of
> looking for our particular movie, it's easier to find the program that
> generates all movies... which must necessarily also generate ours. I
don't
> see any problem with that description. It's all bits.
>
> Joel
>

Sounds like you are going after some magic program that generates all
possible programs. Would this program be a logical necessity in and of
itself? That is, must it necessarily exist? Or would it just happen to
exist?

Fred
Received on Thu Jun 28 2001 - 19:33:02 PDT