Re: Computational complexity of running the multiverse

2004-01-18 Thread scerir
From: Eric Hawthorne One of the issues is the computational complexity of running all the possible i.e. definable programs to create an informational multiverse out of which consistent, metric, regular, observable info-universes emerge. If computation takes energy (as it undeniably does

Computational complexity of running the multiverse

2004-01-17 Thread Eric Hawthorne
Georges Quenot writes: I do not believe in either case that a simulation with this level of detail can be conducted on any computer that can be built in our universe (I mean a computer able to simulate a universe containing a smaller computer doing the calculation you considered with a

Re: Computational complexity of running the multiverse

2004-01-17 Thread Hal Finney
Eric Hawthorne writes: One of the issues is the computational complexity of running all the possible i.e. definable programs to create an informational multiverse out of which consistent, metric, regular, observable info-universes emerge. If computation takes energy (as it undeniably does

Re: Computational complexity of running the multiverse - errata

2004-01-17 Thread Eric Hawthorne
Eric Hawthorne wrote: So probably, the extra-universal notion of computing all the universe simulations is not traditional computation at all. I prefer to think of the state of affairs as being that the multiverse substrate is just kind of like a very large, passive qubitstring memory,