2009/1/8 Brent Meeker <[email protected]>: > > Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >> 2009/1/7 Abram Demski <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I would not deny causality in such a universe so long as the logical >>> structure enforces the Life rules (meaning, the next level in the >>> stack is *always* the next life-tick, it couldn't be something else... >>> which is true by supposition in the block world). >>> >>> Perhaps that still counts as a magical requirement for you, though. >> >> So if the boards were shuffled, or separated by arbitrary distances, >> the causality would go and the computation (perhaps a conscious >> computation) would no longer be implemented? What justification is >> there for adding this requirement? >> >> > > > 2 + 2 = 4 is true > 4 + 2 = 2 is false > > Order counts.
But in a block universe, where each frame contains all of the information for a particular time, the order is implicit. Arranging the frames a particular way is only important for an observer outside of the ensemble, like someone watching a film. Some argue that such a block universe would lack the special quality that gives rise to computation, consciousness and all other good things. -- Stathis Papaioannou --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
