On 30 December 2013 06:16, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > Begin by Imagining a world in which everything is computational. In > particular where the usually imagined single pre-existing dimensional > spacetime background does NOT exist. >
How would this work? What is doing this computing, and how and where is it doing it? Computation is generally considered to be a time-based operation, a series of rule-governed state transitions. It also appears to require some form of space (e.g. Turing's "infinite tape" and state table) in which the machine state and the input and output are to be stored. The only way I know of to not assume space and time as a fundamental background is Bruno's idea that computation can be made to operate "indexically" inside arithmetical realism. Are you proposing something like that? If so, please elaborate. One cannot just "imagine a world in which everything is computational" - to have an ontology based on computation, one needs a framework which starts from the nature of computation and explains how it can be instantiated without any supporting structures (like time or hardware). Once you've explained and justified this initial assumption, we can proceed to the next step in your argument. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
