Matt Mahoney wrote:
--- Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
A proton is a damn complex system. Don't see how you could equal it with one
mere bit.
I don't. I am equating one bit with a volume of space about the size of a
proton. The actual number of baryons in the universe is smaller, about 10^80.
If you squashed the universe flat, it would form a sheet about one proton
thick.
But I am also pointing out a coincidence (or not) of physics. But you will
note that the volume of the universe is proportional to T^3, not T^2, so if
the relation is not a coincidence, then either the properties of the proton or
one of the other physical constants would not be constant.
And BTW I agree that we cannot prove or disprove that the universe is a
simulation.
-- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FWIW, you could cut down on the computational needs a whole lot if you
only simulated one brain and used lazy evaluation to derive anything it
might be experiencing. (Where did all you Zombies come from?)
For that matter, the simulation could have started only a few
nano-seconds ago and might stop now. ...
Any assumption you make about the nature of the simulation that we might
be running on is unverifiable. (Some of them are falsifiable.)
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