--- Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden> wrote:
> Then you should avoid saying "Scientists believe
> that the universe is
> one giant computer."
> Not only many scientist disagree, but actually this
> is in contradiction
> with the comp. hyp. (the computationalist hypothesis
> which asserts that
> "I" am simulable by a computer). I know it is often
> confuse but I have
> propose an argument according to which if I am a
> computer then whatever
> the "physical universe can be" it cannot be a
> computer (perhaps even it
> cannot be, at all).
> (But of course the comp hyp could be false.)
>
O.K, perhaps I should clarify that and state that I
think 'binary numbers' (0's and 1's) are the ultimate
'stuff' of reality. Pure binary maths by itself is
not quite 'computation' is it? I think 'computation'
requires that some minimal *meaning* be assigned to
the 0's and 1's. So I could agree that the universe
is not a computer. It's just pure binary math.
So what do you think of the idea that the ultimate
fabric of reality is pure binary math?
---
THE BRAIN is wider than the sky,
For, put them side by side,
The one the other will include
With ease, and you beside.
-Emily Dickinson
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