Re: Juergen's paper

2002-01-24 Thread H J Ruhl
Dear Matthieu: Another correction to my post: I said: - 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. - However, a universe may have a rule that

Re: Juergen's paper

2002-01-23 Thread Matthieu Walraet
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

Re: Juergen's paper

2002-01-23 Thread H J Ruhl
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

Re: Juergen's paper

2002-01-23 Thread H J Ruhl
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: xx 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