I was thinking of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, when I wrote that yesterday. Yet, there are papers based on experiments weaken the hold that Heisenberg portrays. I am betting that all things are computable and there is nothing that can be considered non computable. I guess that at the root of everything that occurs, be it human spit, or a galaxy, are all based, or derived from computation. Indeed, that a great computation set off the Big Bang, and that computation yields everything from stones to stellar gases. Am I convincing? No. Because I am stating what I suspect is true. Any and all may disagree. Can love be computable? Well, yes, or at least aspects of it. Moreover, I don't see where all things cannot be computable.
This is not a life-long belief, but something I arrived at recently, after viewing papers and articles in physics and computing. If its all numbers organized into equations, and equations arranged into coding, I can't see how I can be wrong. Mitch -----Original Message----- From: Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Jun 26, 2015 11:08 pm Subject: Re: A riddle for John Clark On Saturday, June 27, 2015, spudboy100 via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote: But surely phenomena in quantum physics and Conways Life are random, but computable? GOL is deterministic. Quantum mechanics (under any interpretation) results in true randomness which is not computable. For example, it is impossible to predict if an isotope will decay in a particular time period. Under the MWI quantum mechanics is deterministic: the isotope will definitely decay in one universe and not decay in another. However, an observer cannot predict which universe he will end up in, so non-computable randomness returns, despite the overall determinism. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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.
