I don't even have a god.
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With what would you compute it? Would your device be part of this universe, and it's outcome, and your reaction to it? If it's not part of this universe, how would you interact with it?
Well, that wooden contraption is a fair representation of how an ALU in a computer's CPU works when it needs to add two numbers. Of course computers these days can do more than simple addition, but that is the start of them. Add an understanding of 2s complement and you can do subtraction as well, repeat and you're doing integer multiplication. Division is hard to do electrically, and tends to require a recipe of operations and conditional loops to do right; even the early ARM chips could do addition, subtraction and multiplication but didn't provide an electrical solution to division.
Sure. Up until about 1950 you only really needed to emulate the earth and any other occupied planets. Everything can be hard coded for the time being. As I said at the beginning of this discussion, since then they must have had to pause the simulation and upgrade the computer repeatedly to cope with what we're doing, which is an argument against simulation.
The universe as it exists already doesn't expose determinism in all situations. It's been a few years since I read Brian Greene's Fabric of the Cosmos, but it documents a situation according to general relativity only I think of passengers on a train accelerating near light speed, where one shoots the other, but if you were to observe it from a train heading in the opposite direction, you'd see the second passenger being shot before the gun is fired.
Yes, free will is a tricky conundrum, but if you look at it from outside of the box so to speak, but all we can see outside of the box really is probability; most of the time someone will do one thing, but occasionally they'll do another. And really, quantum mechanics depends a lot on probabilities, so in that sense it could just be the exposition of quantum effects.
According to Douglas Adams the Earth was created to answer the cosmic question of 'what do you mean, 42?'. Although now I say that I can't quite remember how the dolphins and the lab mice relate to that question. I think the question was raised by the Magritheans, famed for their design work on the fjords.
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I don't remember about the lab mice. But I think the dolphins had nothing to do with the Magritheans ? They simply tried to warn humans of the notice for planet Earth demolition in time for evacuation but we didn't listen to them, so they left before our planet was demolished to build a galactic highway. This is only the very start of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. I should reread it some day, now that's been 42 years since its publication.
Yes, that's how quantum tunnelling happens. Inside a chip if you scale everything down far enough and don't shrink the transistors by going into the third dimension, you have to pack everything tighter and tighter. Once you barriers between connections becomes smaller than the probability curve of the electron, then the electron is probibalistically free to hop over that barrier and into an adjacent connection.
Nope, an actual limit.
Only when it needs to be - like to interact with something alse.
They shape the conditions to raise the probabilities as they'd like them to be or, if the probs are really low like in particles colliding, they crank up the number of passings to raise the collisions per time.
Like particle and its antiparticle, they sum up to nothing. They come, they cancel each other out.
Earlier you claimed the opposite. Plus you originally gave the condition, that the universe of your question was not deterministic. You don't get to refute my answer with an argument like, when we can do math better, undeterministic becomes deterministic.
As I understand it: that's only true if you ignore the gamma burst that would happen if you actually collided matter and antimatter.
I guess, regarding self-contradiction I misread. Maybe I was thrown off by you mixing absolute with subjective limits without being explicit about it. Plus, to my understanding predictability and computability go hand in hand. With what process do you create a prediction, when not with a computation of some input values based on some axioms?
Well, I don't know of anyone else making an equally good case.
I mentioned on these forums before, maybe in this very thread, that I had a dream that time in the afterlife ran in the opposite direction of our time. Not meaning that everything there happens backwards, but more like, if you're here, it looks backwards there, but if you're there watching us, we look like the ones going backwards.
https://img.fireden.net/tg/image/1445/66/1445667694072.pdf gives a good introduction to integrated information theory.
It would look like the slinky, where the bottom does not know what's up until it needs to recalculate.
Cause and effect would be really hard to correlate. There would be no guaranteed repeatable methods (but to be honest, we fare well in our universe where it is not guaranteed that the ball bouncing off the wall would not cross the wall on the next bounce, because there is a slight chance it could). Worse would be the human mind, unable to build upon sets of knowledge. There is this Ryouga Hibiki character in the Manga Ranma 1/2 that, if going right 4 times in a block, would suddenly be somewhere else. This is of couse exagerated for comedic effect, however, he will not have developed spacial skills like we have, in order to "feel" or even "understand" spacial configurations, distance and time taken to cross such space. There was this great discussion about it, but I lost the website.
Well, if we can see with our eyes, then if you want to look at an electron, the photon needs to bounce into that electron and then reach our eyes, so like 2 marbles bouncing, it changes trajectory when being "bounced-and-read"
Ahh,,, clear Pyra's for the Pyrasoners. Now I get it!
It was a red clay pot and the content was lentils (and he got a piece of bread too). And the price was his birthright, a bit steep if you ask me.
