Re: The codical-material universe

2018-08-29 Thread Philip Thrift
On Wednesday, August 29, 2018 at 6:15:50 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > > On 8/29/2018 4:04 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, August 29, 2018 at 4:55:12 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: >> >> Do you have some evidence for doubting CT? It seems that it's >> essentially a definition of digital

Re: The codical-material universe

2018-08-29 Thread Brent Meeker
On 8/29/2018 4:04 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: On Wednesday, August 29, 2018 at 4:55:12 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: Do you have some evidence for doubting CT?  It seems that it's essentially a definition of digital computation.  So you could offer some other definition, but it would need

Re: The codical-material universe

2018-08-29 Thread Philip Thrift
On Wednesday, August 29, 2018 at 4:55:12 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > Do you have some evidence for doubting CT? It seems that it's > essentially a definition of digital computation. So you could offer > some other definition, but it would need to be realisable. > > Brent > > On 8/29/2018 12:

Re: The codical-material universe

2018-08-29 Thread Brent Meeker
Do you have some evidence for doubting CT?  It seems that it's essentially a definition of digital computation.  So you could offer some other definition, but it would need to be realisable. Brent On 8/29/2018 12:12 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: also thought by some in what I call the UCNC gang

Re: The codical-material universe

2018-08-29 Thread Philip Thrift
This is just a repeat of the message I posted yesterday. but didn't appear. My proposition is that *Matter precedes computation*, but also that the Church-Turing thesis is doubtable, also thought by some in what I call the UCNC gang [ International Conference on Unconventional Computation a

Re: Church-Turing Thesis

2018-08-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 29 Aug 2018, at 19:11, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, August 29, 2018 at 12:14:50 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 29 Aug 2018, at 02:30, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at 2:19:40 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> On

Re: Church-Turing Thesis

2018-08-29 Thread agrayson2000
On Wednesday, August 29, 2018 at 12:14:50 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 29 Aug 2018, at 02:30, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at 2:19:40 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 27 Aug 2018, at 19:54, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Saturday,

The codical-material universe

2018-08-29 Thread Philip Thrift
The codical-material universe: The Babel of Languages and the Substrate of Nature https://codicalist.wordpress.com/contents/ Im in the "process" is writing an ebook as a collection of"Notes", now a list of 94. The simple thesis: All is matter, but a;; matter has codicality (a codical,

The Babel of Languages and the Substrate of Nature

2018-08-29 Thread Philip Thrift
I'm in the process of writing an ebook: *The Babel of Languages and the Substrate of Nature* https://codicalist.wordpress.com/contents/ The "process" is writing "Notes", now a list of 94. The simple thesis: *All is matter, but matter has codicality (a codical nature).* Some of these No