On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Stephen Paul King <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi LizR,
>
>   This is fun! :-) We must remember that we are defining People as
> intersections of infinitely many computations. Right? Their perceptions of
> themselves as physical being having some particular set of configuration,
> for example bilateral symmetry, etc. is not really relevant to UDA. So, if
> there is a change in accessibility to data, facts, etc. Where is that
> "change" coming from".
>
>   This is my problem: We are presented with an argument that works in
> Platonia and we have no explanation as to the relation it has with the
> "real world" where things change and degrade and evolve, etc. What is
> measuring that change?
>

If the argument is correct there is no other reality but Platonia. The
"real world" is a product of the computations in platonia.

Jason


>
>
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:49 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 28 December 2013 17:46, Stephen Paul King 
>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Ah, but they do degrade. Consider your ability to access a '80s floppy
>>> drive's data.
>>>
>>> Well, that's because people haven't worked out how to do it perfectly. I
>> agree digital archaeology is a real problem, but so would analogue be
>> without the relevant machines to play it back (admittedly it's easier to
>> decode analogue from first principles). But that is a different form of
>> degrading. If you have a system capable of copying the data it should be
>> more or less 100% accurate.
>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:44 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  On 28 December 2013 17:41, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Stephen Paul King <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi LizR and Jason,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Responding to both of you. I don't understand the claim of
>>>>>> determinism is "random noise" is necessary for the computations. Turing
>>>>>> machines require exact pre-specifiability. Adding noise oracles is 
>>>>>> cheating!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> I think you misunderstand.  Computers are deterministic, but they
>>>>> often need randomness to implement things such as cryptography or
>>>>> monte-carlo simulations, etc.  Due to this need for true unpredictability,
>>>>> our computers must harness environmental noise if they are to have any 
>>>>> hope
>>>>> of being unpredictable.  This is because computers cannot generate
>>>>> unpredictability on their own.
>>>>>
>>>>> They are engineered not to! This is why digital recordings don't
>>>> degrade, etc.
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