Dear Matthieu:
Another correction to my post:
I said:
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I allow that the current state of a universe contains the information
necessary to list all the possible future and prior states but not to
determine the actual prior and future states.
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However, a universe may have a rule that
On 22 Jan 2002, at 23:28, H J Ruhl wrote:
I do not see that at all. Why does it need a history? All it needs
is
the
capability of finding a next state.
It doesn't need the capacity to find the next state. If it has that
capacity, then the history is computable.
I said
Dear Matthieu:
At 1/23/02, you wrote:
An universe can be an oriented graph of states.
Each state has no, one or more next states. It also has no, one or more
previous states.
While I allow that a universe can have more than one possible previous
state or no previous state [when in the
Dear Matthieu:
I thought I had found all cases where I used future when I wanted to use
next but a few escaped and are corrected below:
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I allow that the current state of a universe contains the information
necessary to list all the possible next and prior states but not to
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