On 11 Sep 2016, at 19:23, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote:



On Sunday, September 11, 2016 at 10:50:17 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote:

On 10 Sep 2016, at 16:22, Stephen Paul King wrote:

Hi,

Is there any consideration of the duration of the period of time of the moment? Are they assumed to have vanishingly small durations?


Duration and moment are more like Bergson-Brouwer 1p notion. It emerges in the 1p statistics on all relative computations. I guess a moment might be well approximated there by an open set in some topological space, probably through the semantics of the machine first person theories (S4Grz(1), X1*).

To have the notion of computation, and the computations per se, we need only the digital clock given by the successor operation, and (at a different level) from the induction axioms (for the machine who want prove things about the computations).

Bruno

Ahaa! So it is the monkey typing randomly that creates everything. But where does he/it get the clock and the notion of a successor element? God given? AG

It follows from the assumption, which are part of what all scientists assume. Precisely, everything follows from the following axioms (with digital mechanism assumed at the metalevel---that *is* the result):

0 ≠ (x + 1)
((x + 1) = (y + 1))  -> x = y
x = 0 v Ey(x = y + 1)
x + 0 = x
x + (y + 1) = (x + y) + 1
x * 0 = 0
x * (y + 1) = (x * y) + x


That is not obvious, note. But, I insist, the UD has nothing to do with the typing monkey. You get the Monkey already with

0 ≠ (x + 1)
((x + 1) = (y + 1))  -> x = y

which is not Turing Universal. To get the computations, you need addition and multiplication. The rest is elementary theoretical computer science. See the book by Davis, or Boolos-and-Jeffrey.

If you can explain how a Turing universal machine/number can distinguish introspectively (without doing measurement) the arithmetical reality from any reality invoking a transcendent notion (like Primary Matter), it is up to you to solve the paradoxes of being both Turing emulable, and using something not Turing emulable. The step 8 shows that this is logically impossible. This is not done in the sane04 paper, see:

Bruno Marchal. The computationalist reformulation of the mind-body problem, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Volume 113, Issue 1, September 2013, Pages 127–140


Bruno












On Saturday, August 27, 2016 at 7:44:16 PM UTC-4, telmo_menezes wrote: On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 11:38 PM, Charles Goodwin <crg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone and everything, I was discussing comp and similar things with > Liz the other day and we came across a sticking point in what I think (from
> memory) is step 7 of the UDA. Maybe you can help?
>
> I'm assuming AR, "Yes, Doctor" and so on. At step 7 we reach the point where > we assume that a physical Universal Dovetailer can be created and that it > runs forever, and ask what is the probability that my observer moments are
> generated by it, rather than by my brain.
>
> Now ISTM that the UD will have an infinite number of possible programmes to > run, so even if it runs forever, how does it get on to the second step in
> any of them?

Every program can be mapped to a natural number (intuitively, imagine
the binary encoding of a program in any Turing-complete language).
With something akin to the binary encoding (more abstractly, you can
do this to the state table of a Universal Turing Machine), program
size increases with their numbers.

Then the dovetailer proceeds like so:

- execute step 1 of program 1
- execute step 2 of program 1
- execute step 1 of program 2
- execute step 3 of program 1
- execute step 2 of program 2
- execute step 1 of program 3
...

So it will only take finite time for all the computable programs of up
to a certain size to finish.

Telmo.

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