> On 11 Dec 2018, at 20:20, Brent Meeker <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 12/11/2018 11:06 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 12:53 PM Philip Thrift <cloudver...@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:cloudver...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 12:45:13 PM UTC-6, Jason wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 11:29 AM Brent Meeker <meek...@verizon.net <>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/11/2018 12:31 AM, Philip Thrift wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Monday, December 10, 2018 at 7:05:17 PM UTC-6, Jason wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> No one is refuting the existence of matter, only the idea that matter is 
>>> primary.  That is, that matter is not derivative from something more 
>>> fundamental.
>>> 
>>> Jason
>>>  
>>> 
>>> I can understand an (immaterial) computationalism (e.g. The universal 
>>> numbers. From Biology to Physics. Marchal B [ 
>>> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26140993 
>>> <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26140993> ]) as providing a purely 
>>> informational basis for (thinking of) matter and consciousness, but then 
>>> why would actual matter need to come into existence at all? Actual matter 
>>> itself would seem to be superfluous. 
>>> 
>>> If actual matter is not needed for experientiality (consciousness), and 
>>> actual matter does no exist at all, then we live in a type of simulation of 
>>> pure numericality. There would be no reason for actual matter to come into 
>>> existence.
>> 
>> If it feels like matter and it looks like matter and obeys the equations of 
>> matter how is it not "actual" matter?  Bruno's idea is that consciousness of 
>> matter and it's effects are all we can know about matter.  So if the 
>> "simulation" that is simulating us, also simulates those conscious thoughts 
>> about matter then that's a "actual" as anything gets.  Remember Bruno is a 
>> theologian so all this "simulation" is in the mind of  God=arithmetic; and 
>> arithmetic/God is the ur-stuff.
>> 
>> It's not just Bruno who reached this conclusion. from Markus Muller's paper:
>> 
>> In particular, her observations do not fundamentally supervene on this 
>> “physical universe”; it is merely a useful tool to predict her future 
>> observations. Nonetheless, this universe will seem perfectly real to her, 
>> since its state is strongly correlated with her experiences. If the measure 
>> µ that is computed within her computational universe assigns probability 
>> close to one to the experience of hitting her head against a brick, then the 
>> corresponding experience of pain will probably render all abstract insights 
>> into the non-fundamental nature of that brick irrelevant.  
>> 
>> Jason 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> What is the computer that running "her computational universe"?
>> 
>> 
>> The very same that powers the equations that bring life to our universe as 
>> you see it evolve.
>>  
>> What is its power supply?
>> 
>> 
>> Power is only required to erase information, and that is only a concept of 
>> the physical laws of this universe.  Even the laws of our universe permit 
>> the creation of computers which require no power to run.
>> 
>> See the bit about reversible computing: 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle 
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle>  (computations that 
>> are reversible require no energy).
> 
> And they produce no results since they run both ways.  They are not even 
> computations in the CT sense.

They are computations in the CT sense. All computations can be done reversibly. 
Read and write needs some energy, but is not part of the computation, unless 
you run the couple “you + the computation concerned”. If not QM would not be 
Turing universal, which it is.

Bruno




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