Yeah, its mind numbing and likely non-disprovable, in the Popperian sense (Inventor of the hot popper). However, if out of the blue, it was demonstrated that natural physical objects (as opposed to fantasy objects?) were running computations and that humans could read the computer programs, that would change everyone's view of reality.
Would it cause us all to commit suicide as a species, if it were deemed that the computations are getting run for nefarious purposes? Weird. -----Original Message----- From: LizR <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Mar 26, 2014 6:38 pm Subject: Re: Chaitin's Metabiology On 27 March 2014 08:46, <[email protected]> wrote: Years back, Clifford Pickover at IBM came up the identical (indexical?) notion, using bicycle parts, jello cubes in all the refrigerators on Earth, and flocks of birds. It would be a great thing if we were somehow to capture actual programs being run in cloud formations. I don't even guess how? Hah! I can disprove that. My refrigerator doesn't contain any jello cubes. -- 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/d/optout. -- 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/d/optout.
