On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 9:45 AM, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote: > > > > >> You just use a no standard not well defined notion of physical >> computation. When you define it, you use the mathematical notion, and add >> that you take only the physical computation as existing. >> > > That is because > physical computation > is the ONLY type of computation that anyone has ever observed in the > entire history of the world. The evidence for Bigfoot or flying saucers or > the Loch Ness monster or Elvis Presley being alive is far better than the > evidence for non-physical computing. > You could say the same thing about computers existing on other universes or in other branches of the wavefunction: that they don't do anything in this universe or in this branch of the wavefunction. That's true. But you haven't proved that those computers aren't doing anything based from that. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
