David Nyman skrev: > You're right, we must distinguish zombies. The kind I have in mind > are the kind that Torgny proposes, where 'everything is the same' as > for a human, except that 'there's nothing it is like' to be such a > person. My key point is that this must become incoherent in the face > of self-relativity. My reasoning is that a claim for the 'existence' > of something like Torgny's B-Universe is implicitly a claim for > self-relative existence: i.e. independent of other causality, like the > One. When Torgny proposed the Game of Life as an example of 'another > universe', I pointed out that GoL clearly doesn't possess independent > existence: it's just a part of the A-Universe. It is intresting to study the GoL-universe we can see on the Wikipedia page. What will happen if we stop the program that shows this GoL-universe? Will the GoL-universe stop to exist then?
No, the GoL-universe will not stop, it will continue for ever. The rules for this GoL-universe makes it possible to compute all future situations. It is this that is important. This GoL-universe is not dependent of the A-Universe. What we see when we look at the Wikipedia page is just a picture of a part of this GoL-universe. -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
