On 25 Apr 2015, at 15:50, Alberto G. Corona wrote:
Mathematics may be the simplest rules that produce complexity that
can be computed.
... and not computed.
Always remember that the computable is only a tiny part of the
arithmetical reality, which is 99,999..998 % non computable.
Reality may be the most complex game possible with the simplest
rules possible, so that some elements can exist and live while
responding to what happens around them.
To live is to compute. If the rules of the game were a bit more
complicated than necessary, the world would not exist, because
nobody would live and thus observe it.
The problem is that we cannot distinguish the non computable from the
computable empirically. A machine much more complex than ourselves can
fail us into believing in non-computable, in a computable way, but
comp offers indirect clues, like finding trace of the non-computable
below our substitution level. QM confirms this, somehow.
Life "occurs" at the frontier between the computable and the non
computable.
Bruno
2015-04-25 3:48 GMT+02:00 Russell Standish <[email protected]>:
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 05:23:38PM -0700, meekerdb wrote:
> On 4/24/2015 2:57 PM, John Mikes wrote:
> >Liz and Friends of Nearer Geography:
> >I wrote so many times and nobody reflected so far.
> >WHY is 2 + 2 = 4 if there is a VALID concept like RANDOM?
> >Why not 2 + 2 = -----175,834? or even '1'? (Without
> >changing the game).
> >I deny random, it would eliminate all our technology, science,
> >physics, etc. etc.
>
> Random doesn't mean "anything goes", it means not-deterministic. It
> means exactly the same system may produce different outcomes. And
> if you try to add two meters to two meters your result may well be
> 4.0000123 or 3.999876. So far this has not destroyed technology,
> science, or physics. Engineers deal with it in every system.
>
> Brent
> 2+2=5 for large values of 2.
>
Exactly. Thanks Brent.
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