On 5/13/2014 4:06 PM, LizR wrote:
On 14 May 2014 06:29, meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:On 5/12/2014 9:40 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:Turing **emulation** is only meaningful in the context of emulating one part relative to another part that is not emulated, i.e. is "real".If you say so. We can still listen to the machine, and compare with nature.When we compare with nature we find that some things exist and some don't.Like other worlds don't exist, or atoms don't exist ... the question about what exists hasn't been answered yet. Or indeed the question about what it means for something to exist.
So is it your view that no matter what comp predicts it's not falsified because it may be true somewhere else?
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