> On 13 Aug 2019, at 16:53, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nobody ever said there was a philosophical problem in observing the far side > of the moon, it was always just a matter of engineering, but no amount of > engineering can make your ridiculous phantom calculations real.
There is a philosophical problem even on milk in the fridge when the fridge is close. We can use Einstein’s reality principle, but as you know, this leads to other problem, and people different on the existence or not of a collapse. Yes, those are not problem if we adopt a FAPP-philosophy. > If they existed it would be possible in principle to count the number of > angels that were sitting on the head of a pin, With mechanism, that is the same as the problem of how much bits or qubits we can process in a volume similar to the head of a pin. It makes sense. > but your non-material Turing Machine is hopeless. Then Church, Turing, Post, Kleene, Gödel and many more are all hopeless, in fact elementary arithmetic becomes hopeless. Bruno -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/569AFC96-2892-49F4-89CC-18C1235E5101%40ulb.ac.be.
