On Wednesday, August 12, 2020 at 2:59:30 AM UTC-5 Bruno Marchal wrote:
> On 10 Aug 2020, at 22:54, Lawrence Crowell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> > I remember reading something of yours a couple of years ago. You might > have to send me the paper with this development. > > > I will do that. > > > > The equation between quantum states and units of information is through > the von Neumann quantum entropy and its parallel with Shannon;s formula. > Transitions between states by interactions are then in a way modeled as a > sort of computation or algorithmic-like process. I am not particularly > given to the idea the universe is an algorithm though. > > > Thanks for these references. I have a bit of a queue of papers yet to read. LC > > Mechanism makes this impossible. The physical universe is an emerging, in > the mind of the universal machine, of a *non* computable first person > (plural) pattern. > > At each instant (indexical computational step) you have an infinity of > computations (arithmetical concept) going through you state. To predict any > first person experience (like seing a the position of a needle on some > device), you need “in principle” to look at all computations going through > that state, and that can be shown to be not computable a priori. > > A slogan could be: IF I am a machine, then what I am not is NOT a machine. > > Most attributes of a machine (even non universal) are not > computable/decidable. Already, the set of programs computing any functions > is not a decidable set (Rice theorem), and no person-machine can know which > machine support her, or which computations access her. > (This is easy to prove, but is also rather obvious if you thing to program > factorial using some partially undecided subroutine). > > I will send you paper soon. Meanwhile, you can consult my sane04 summary > papers, > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/publications/SANE2004MARCHALAbstract.html > > > and if your institution follows some journal, you might get them from > herebelow: > > Marchal B. The computationalist reformulation of the mind-body problem. > Prog Biophys Mol Biol; 2013 Sep;113(1):127-40 > https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23567157 > > Marchal B. The Universal Numbers. From Biology to Physics, Progress in > Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 2015, Vol. 119, Issue 3, 368-381. > https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26140993 > > B. Marchal. The Origin of Physical Laws and Sensations. In 4th > International System Administration and Network Engineering Conference, > SANE 2004, Amsterdam, 2004. > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/publications/SANE2004MARCHALAbstract.html > (sane04) > > Plotinus PDF paper with the link: > Marchal B. A Purely Arithmetical, yet Empirically Falsifiable, > Interpretation of Plotinus’ Theory of Matter. In Barry Cooper S. Löwe B., > Kent T. F. and Sorbi A., editors, Computation and Logic in the Real World, > Third Conference on Computability in Europe June 18-23, pages 263–273. > Universita degli studi di Sienna, Dipartimento di Roberto Magari, 2007. > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/publications/CiE2007/SIENA.pdf > (http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/publications/CiE2007/SIENA.pdf) > > Marchal B. The East, the West and the Universal Machine, Progress in > Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 2017, Vol. 131, pp. 251-260. > https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28919132 > > Marchal B. Religion, science and theology, similarity and differences, > Dialogo Journal, 2018, Vol. 5, pp. 205-218. > (available at http://www.dialogo-conf.com/archive/) > > > > -- 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/b8925f1f-c814-465c-a589-00b72395109fn%40googlegroups.com.
