--- On Thu, 10/30/08, Pei Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand your explanation, but you haven't answered my main > problem here: why to simulate the universe we only need physics, but > not chemistry, biology, psychology, history, philosophy, ...? Why not > to say "all human knowledge"?
An exact description of the quantum state of the universe gives you everything else. There is no requirement that the computation be tractable for Occam's Razor to hold. AIXI only requires that the environment have a probability distribution that is computable by a Turing machine. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=117534816-b15a34 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
