On 5/13/2014 1:29 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
The result of the computation does not change depending on when I started it, who
started it and so on.
Peter Jones would say that it does matter. There are diophantine equation which emulate
you in our galaxy, but this will count for zero in the measure because they are
immaterial and not really existing, according to Jones.
I think he would say that an equation doesn't emulate anything. Solving the equation, the
physical process of manipulating tokens or writing out the solutions, may emulate
something in our world.
Brent
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