On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 04:42:46PM -0400, Rex Allen wrote: > > How can any of those questions be approached by conscious entities in > a deterministic computational framework? > > Everything you’ll ever learn, every mistake you’ll ever make, every > belief you’ll ever have is already locked in. > > Your life is “on rails”. Maybe your final destination is good, maybe > it’s bad - but both the destination and the path to it are static and > fixed in Platonia.
This is provably false. One of Bruno's important results is 3-determinism implies 1-indeterminism. It is not that hard to get, so would be worth your while trying to understand. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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.
