You chopped so much out of my e-mail I can't make sense of it, nor of your responses.
Jason On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 1:37 PM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 9:25 PM, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> >>> "physical" is anything that is NOT nothing. >>> >>> And "nothing" is anything that is >>> infinite >>> , >>> unbounded >>> , and >>> homogeneous >>> >>> in both space and time. >>> >>> >> > >> a Game of Life computation qualifies as a physical universe, >> > > Yes, provided that the game is played on a physical computer or a > physical checkerboard or on anything else that is not nothing. > > > > >> When we envision (imagine) a GoL emulation, we interpret it as a grid >> of cells > > > You talk about "cells" in the plural, so there is more than > one, so they must be both *bounded* and *finite*, so they are not > nothing, so they are physical. > > > > >> with changing states > > > So the cells are *not homogeneous* in the time dimension, so that is yet > another reason they are not nothing. Not nothing aka physical. > > > > > > an equally consistent view would be to imagine the grid as a binary > number, whose bits flip from one step to another according to finite rules. > > > Finite stuff flipping around and changing = physical. > > >> > >> can anyone truly differentiate a "physically existing GoL universe" from >> a "platonically existing recursive computation" >> ? >> >> > > Yes. I can. > > > John K Clark > > > -- > 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 https://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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
