On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 10:13:56PM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote: > >The whole point of the the bitstrings is that they are interpreted by > >something we call an observer. In the usual Comp Sci setup, there is a > >reference universal Turing machine, but when talking about everything > >theories, there can be no such thing - it must always be relative to > >an observer. Note that this doesn't rule out that it is the > >bitstrings, or some part of the bitstrings that is the observer, so > >that what is happening is self-observation, so one cannot claim this > >must be dualist. > > But then we need some explication of how one bitstring observes > another bitstring and > why this relation is the one we would attribute to ourselves as > observing for a moment.
For a complete theory perhaps. For now, it suffices that there is an interpreter (observer) and interpretee (data, or the bitstrings). I was just making the point there was no need to assume that these were two different kinds of things. To think of a concrete model - consider Bruno's universal dovetailer. The bitstrings are the histories that make up the dovetailer's trace, UD* as he denotes it. An observer moment is made up of all computations having the same trace up to that point in time. OM are sets of things. Bruno's theory is monistic - everything is "number stuff", showing that dualism is not a necessary condition. > > Where in the bit strings is the information that one knows? How > does a bitstring know > a different bitstring? > Information is in the constraints. If I know something or other, then this entails that some bitstrings are compatible with my existence, and others are not. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow hpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
