On 23 Jan 2014, at 20:57, Edgar L. Owen wrote:
Finally I agree there is NOT just a single computation going on. I just agreed with that in my previous response. I suggested there are myriads of computations going on in a single computational reality. One of course needs a single computational reality for all the computational results to manifest in the same universe.
OK. But it does not need to be physical. In fact nobody can define "physical computation" without using the arithmetical notion. Arithmetic provides a simple realm containing all computations. The physical appearance can be (and must be, by UDA) explained from it.
1. There is a single fundamental computational reality which includes myriads of individual computations?
Yes, indeed. A tiny part of arithmetic (sigma_1 arithmetic) contains *all* possible computations. It is a consequence of Church thesis, or of Turing definition of computations.
2. This fundamental computational reality includes the attribute of becoming?
In the first person view that we can attribute to relative numbers, once we bet on comp.
3. The current state of the universe is the current result of all these computations?
This is ambiguous. The current state of the universe is the relative state defined by the FPI on all computations, when you are in your current ste comp state. This works for all states, and "current" becomes an indexical.
4. The 'physical world' in which we experience our existence is an internal mental interpretation (representation or simulation whichever term you prefer) of an observer's interaction with the fundamental computational reality?
It uses more than the computational. The FPI is not computable.
Remember even QM agrees there is no physical world in the sense of the classical world of our mental model but actually consists only of colorless interacting wavefunctions, that in essence it's just active mathematical processes... So we should be able to agree the classical material physical dimensional world exists in our minds rather than 'out there' in the universe....
The rabbit hole is deeper, if you take comp seriously into account. Bruno Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ -- 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.
