The Löwenheim-Skolem Theorem comes to the rescue of computationalists. See
here:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/logsys/low-skol.htm
Saibal
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Aan: <Fabric-of-Reality.domain.name.hidden>
Verzonden: Friday, May 16, 2003 10:41 AM
Onderwerp: Re: Proportions of Infinity
> In a message dated 5/15/2003 8:05:56 PM GMT Daylight Time, m.domain.name.hidden
> writes:
>
>
> > I can see problems with computable universes if
> > spacetime is continuous; how would one represent a particle at an
> > irrational co-ordinate, for instance...
>
> Yes, my thoughts exactly. (Maybe a proponent of the computational
hypothesis
> could give their views on this one?)
>
> Charles
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