On 19 Jan 2015, at 19:41, meekerdb wrote:
On 1/19/2015 6:35 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
A super powerful mind (or person) simulating some reality could
of course cause the simulation to deviate from its "physical laws".
But in a simulation, not in reality.
So you do (bad) theology. You talk like if we knew already what
reality is. But with comp reality is anything Turing complete. So
here you do an implicit metaphysical assumption, which is
inconsistent with mechanism. No problem ... as long as you are
aware of this.
I was being sarcastic, since Jason other places assumes simulation
and reality are indistinguishable.
It is indistinguishable is the first person direct apprehension. But
for someone able to test the statistics on its experiment outcomes, it
is testable relatively to comp. If the physics does not conforms to
the computationalist logic of the observable, it means that either
classical computationalism is false, or that we are in an emulation à-
la-Boström (to distinguish it from the infinite UD emulations). The
already done quantum testings confirm a posteriori that we might live
at the base "emulation" (by the UD or the whole of arithmetic). That
base is not really emulable in the usual sense, as it is a sum on
infinities of emulations in the UD.
Bruno
Brent
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