Hi Evgenii, On 13 Sep 2011, at 21:45, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
Bruno,As I have already mentioned, I am not that far to follow your theorem. I will do it presumably the next year.
Take your time. I am at the step 6 on the dot forum, where things are done slowly, deeply and in a nice atmosphere :)
I have been working for the last ten year with engineers and my consideration is so far at the engineering level.
All my work has been possible thanks to engineers, not scientist nor philosopher who are still too much in the "the boss is right" type of philosophy. To be sure there are some exceptions. But usually engineers have a much better common sense and lucidity, than scientist who seems to want to believe religiously in their theories.
After all, if we know something, we should be able to employ it in practice. And if this does not work in practice, then how do we know that our knowledge is correct.
Working in practice does not mean truth.
Said that, I understand the importance of theory and appreciate the work of theoreticians. After all, if we say A, then we must say B as well. Hence it is on my list to follow your theorem (but not right now).
No problem.
At present, I am just trying to figure out our beliefs that make the simulation hypothesis possible.
But this is really astonishing, and in quasi-contradiction which what you say above. We just don't know any phenomena which are not Turing emulable. As a theorician, but only as a theorician, I can show the theoretical existence of non simulable phenomena, but that really exists only in theory, or in mathematics. Worst, most non simulable phenomena will be non distinguishable from randomness, and if we are machine, we will never been able to recognize a non Turing emulable phenomenon as such. It seems that the question is more like "how can we believe something non Turing emulable could exist in Nature".
After all, "Human brain is similar to the Nelder-Mead simplex method. It often gets stuck in local optima."
That can happen. But I am not sure it can makes sense to doubt about mechanism. You need to study hard mathematical theories to even conceive non-comp. Non-comp seems possible in theory, and has an important role in the epistemology of machines, but in nature and physics, it simply does not exist. It might even be a reason to doubt comp, because comp might predict the existence of more non computable phenomena that what we "see" in nature (basically the personal outcome of self-superposition).
Also, the UD simulates not just the computable phenomena, but also the non-computable, yet computable, with respect to oracles, and this is even more complex to verify for a 'natural' phenomenon.
The winning physical histories/computations are those who are very long and deep, and are symmetrical and linear at the bottom, apparently, but this must be extracted from addition and multiplication, and it is partially done with the gifts of distinguishing the truth (about a machine), and the many modalities: the observable, the feelable, the communicable, the provable, the believable, the knowable, etc (with reasonable modal axiomatics and their arithmetical realization.
The ideally correct universal machine has a particularly rich and intriguing theology, which is made refutable, because that theology contains its physics. So we can compare with nature, and if comp is false, we can measure our degree of non computationalism.
Best, Bruno
Best wishes, Evgenii On 13.09.2011 10:58 Bruno Marchal said the following:On 12 Sep 2011, at 21:07, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:On 9/12/2011 8:06 AM Jason Resch said the following: ...What about of dumb water molecules, can they not form a wave? Complex things can result from very simple rules, when you have a huge number of those simple things interacting with each other.I will use this example to continue my thoughts about Simulation Hypothesis and Simulation Technology http://blog.rudnyi.ru/2011/09/simulation-hypothesis-and-simulation-technology.html I will change the original question as follows. Can we simulate a wave starting from water molecules?I am not sure it makes sense a priori to talk about the simulation of something physical, if only because those are not well defined. Now if you accept QM, then, the answer is YES. A quantum computer can simulate any physical process, even in polynomial time. Just compute the heisenberg matrix, with some rational approximations. The quantum errors will not grow, thanks to linearity, so you will get your water wave rather well simulated, and then you can simulate that quantum water wave with a classical computer, but you will have an exponential slow down (which is of no concern for the simulated entities which might be there).I will consider it not in principle, but rather in the objective reality given to us in sensation. (This what I have learned in the USSR: Vladimir Il'ich Lenin: "Matter is the objective reality given to us in sensation")The USSR was a religious state. That matter is the objective reality is the gross Aristotelian extrapolation from sensations programmed by billions of years of evolution.If we imagine brute-force simulation, then the answer is definite no.Due to the real numbers, but with the quantum equation, we can limit ourselves to rational (complex) numbers.Even if we consider a level of molecular simulation when the water molecules are considered classically with a given force field, then it is definitely out of reach, also for foreseeable future. The Moore law just does not help. In what sense then do we usually say "Yes, we can do it"? Presumably this means that we do not have to simulate each molecule to simulate a wave. The laws of continuum mechanics actually suffice. If we consider this numerically, then there is nice way to come to continuum mechanics through coarse-graining. One can think for example of dissipative particle dynamics (DPD, some equivalent of molecular dynamics) where we simulate not water molecules but rather bigger pseudo-particles. Funny enough DPD is pretty similar to smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH), an alternative method to discretize the Navier-Stokes equations. In this sense a pseudo-particle is some equivalent of a cell in finite elements/finite volumes. In a way, molecular dynamics is also could be considered as a course-graining scheme. First we use quantum chemistry to evaluate the force field and then we use it at the next level. In this sense, an interesting question is how simulation hypothesis is supposed to work. As brute-force simulation? Or along the second way?The second way, with rational approximation of the waves (quantum or classical). But all this is not relevant for mechanism, which assumes that the brain is already a simulator. So it has already make the comp truncation, so it might be simulable, even if its material components are not simulable (as it needs to be the case: I recall that if *I* am a machine, then the physical reality (which emerge) cannot be simulable by a computer, but is given as a limiting process pertaining on *all* computations). To sum up: if I am a machine, the physical universe is not a machine, nor is the appearance of the primary matter. Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/--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 .
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