Well, that's OK then. Now we've cleared that up, I can repeat my original point:
On 10 January 2014 15:34, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > Liz, > > No, that's not the only way to falsify it. One merely needs to show it > doesn't properly describe reality as I've just done. If you even assume a > computational universe in the first place you have to assume (you are > assuming) that it computes reality. The fact that reality exists is > conclusive proof. > > That doesn't work for [Bruno's] comp, however, which doesn't assume a computational universe. The assumptions it makes are a lot simpler than that. I believe they are The Church-Turing thesis Elementary arithmetic That consciousness is a form of computation -- 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.
