On 14 January 2014 13:40, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > Stephen, > > If everything is information being computed then obviously all observers > are also part of that and thus analogous to running programs interacting > computationally with the other running programs of reality. I guess I > hadn't made that clear yet... >
That's OK, Bruno has said something very similar, so we're familiar with the concept. > > Everything is analogous to a running program. Reality can be thought of as > a single universal running program that can be analyzed into individual > running programs. The distinction is that biological programs construct > internal models of their program environments to improve their functioning. > Non-biological programs just interact according to their natures with no > such internal simulation data models of their environments... > > What I can't understand here is how the programmes get distributed across the googols of processors, which you've assured us *aren't* akin to a game of life (so they *aren't* autonomously running some simple programme that only interacts with their immediate neighbours). How is all this arranged? -- 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.
