Re: comp and Maxwell demon

2011-01-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Jan 2011, at 22:27, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Thanks for the answer. My question was due to the fact that comp presumably can simulate more than we observe. Let me check if I have understood your answer correctly. I will cite a paragraph from my text

Re: comp, Maxwell demons and Observers

2011-01-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Jan 2011, at 22:37, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno and Evgenii, -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 11:50 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: comp and Maxwell demon You can simulate it. But you cannot program it. It uses a

Re: Observers and Church/Turing

2011-01-17 Thread 1Z
On Jan 12, 10:50 pm, Colin Hales c.ha...@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au wrote: I confess to the usual level of exasperation. Yet again the great culturally maintained mental block subverts real progress. And, yet again, the participant doesn;t even know they are doing it.  Garrett says /The key

Re: comp and Maxwell demon

2011-01-17 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
on 17.01.2011 14:00 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 16 Jan 2011, at 22:27, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: ... Have you meant that the Universal Dovetailer will act for such a situation according to Poincaré recurrence? The UD will do that an infinity of times, given that the Poincaré