Re: Computational complexity of "running" the multiverse

2004-01-18 Thread John M
OUR recent explanations of OUR poorly understood observations on THIS little muddy planet during the past split second of its churnings? John Mikes - Original Message - From: "scerir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 5:07 AM Su

Re: Computational complexity of "running" the multiverse

2004-01-18 Thread scerir
From: "Eric Hawthorne" > One of the issues is the computational complexity of "running all the > possible i.e. definable programs" to create an informational multiverse > out of which consistent, metric, regular, observable info-universes > emerge. If computation takes energy (as it undeniably

Re: Computational complexity of "running" the multiverse - errata

2004-01-17 Thread Eric Hawthorne
Eric Hawthorne wrote: So probably, the "extra-universal" notion of "computing all the universe simulations" is not traditional computation at all. I prefer to think of the state of affairs as being that the multiverse substrate is just kind of like a very large, passive qubitstring memory, cap

Re: Computational complexity of "running" the multiverse

2004-01-17 Thread Hal Finney
Eric Hawthorne writes: > One of the issues is the computational complexity of "running all the > possible i.e. definable programs" to > create an informational multiverse out of which consistent, metric, > regular, observable info-universes > emerge. If computation takes energy (as it undeniably

Computational complexity of "running" the multiverse

2004-01-17 Thread Eric Hawthorne
Georges Quenot writes: I do not believe in either case that a simulation with this level of detail can be conducted on any computer that can be built in our universe (I mean a computer able to simulate a universe containing a smaller computer doing the calculation you considered with a