On 27 Nov 2017, at 04:04, Jason Resch wrote:
Richard Feynman in "The Character of Physical Law" Chapter 2 wrote:
"It always bothers me that according to the laws as we understand
them today, it takes a computing machine an infinite number of
logical operations to figure out what goes on in no matter how tiny
a region of space, and no matter how tiny a region of time. How can
all that be going on in that tiny space? Why should it take an
infinite amount of logic to figure out what one tiny piece of space/
time is going to do?"
Does computationalism provide the answer to this question,
Yes. :)
in the sense that even the tiniest region of space is the result of
an infinity of computations going through an observer's mind state
as it observes the tiniest region of space?
That might be OK, if space was something entirely physical, which is
suggested by the physics of the vacuum, or general relativity, but
with Mechanism, spece and time might be less physical than here
suggested. The reason is that it is not clear how "empty space" could
make a computation different from another, and so space could be only
a marker differentiating some computations, like time seems to be in
the indexical approach. All this would need big advance in the
mathematics of the intelligible and sensible arithmetical matter. I
expect space to be explained by quantum knot invariant algebra due to
subtil relation between BDB and DBD logical operators (I mean []<>[]
and <>[]<>). Kant might be right on this, apparently space and time
are really in the "categorie de l'entendement", I don't know Kant in
English sorry, but this means mainly that they belong to the mind).
Bruno
Jason
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