Re: Everything Physical is Based on Consciousness

[Bruno Marchal]

Le 09-mai-05, � 19:39, Brent Meeker a �crit :
In what sense does "the program" exist if not as physical tokens?  Is 
it
enough
that you've thought of the concept?  The same "program", i.e. 
bit-string,
does
different things on different computers.  So how can the program 
instantiate
reality independent of the compu
By the magic of Church thesis, going from one computer to another is 
just like
making a change of basis in some space. All result in Algorithmic 
information theory
are independent of the choice of computer modulo some constant. The same
for recursion theory (abstract computer or generalized computer theory) 
even without constant.

Bruno
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