At 12:17 11/04/04 +0100, Brett Hall (FOR-LIST) wrote:
How?
(I was saying:
snipped More shortly: if we are living in a massive computer then we are
living
in arithmetic-platonia, and by the church thesis and other
computer-science
theoretical constraints, this is testable.)
Actually this is
6) This shows that if we are in a massive computer running in
a universe, then (supposing we know it or believe it) to
predict the future of any experiment we decide to carry one
(for example testing A or B) we need to take into account all
reconstitutions at any time of the computer
Ben Goertzel writes:
So, in my view, we are faced with a couple different ways of introducing
the arbitrary assumptions needed to justify induction:
1) make an arbitrary assumption that the apparently real physical
universe is real
2) make an arbitrary assumption that simpler hypotheses are
Bruno Marchal wrote:
Put in another way, *either* the massive computer simulates the exact
laws of physics (exact with comp = the laws extractible from the
measure on all 1-computations) in which case we belong to it but
in that case we belong also to all its copy in Platonia, and our
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