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> Russell Standish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > The converse question one could ask is whether a mathematical system
> > with a SAS could be embedded in our world.
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> A simulation containing an aware AI is a simple example of this.
> You'll be seeing them before too long in video games everywhere.
>
>
But then you would just have another SAS embedded within our
mathematical structure. We already have these, namely homo sapiens,
such an entity is not too surprising. What I was asking was whether it
was possible to embed a mathematical structure - eg Conway's Game of
Life - that contained a SAS. It for from obvious that this is
possible, and if it were, it would imply that we were not in a minimal
information world.
Cheers
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