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 [email protected] 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 [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.
