On 6/23/2016 6:25 PM, Jason Resch wrote:


If a GoL universe exists and contains a Turing machine executing the universal dovetailer, no conscious entities within the programs executed by the universal dovetailer could ever know their ultimate substrate happens to be a GoL universe.

That's like a brain-in-a-vat argument. If it's an undecidable speculation, then it's worthless. That's why I press Bruno, from time to time, to come up with some prediction (not retrodiction) based on his theory.

Brent

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