On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
> In arithmetic all emulation of programs exists, > That is totally unimportant, It's not worth arguing about because it wouldn't change anything even if it were true. But I'll tell you the REALLY important question, is physics a emulation of arithmetic or is arithmetic a emulation of physics? > > >>> >> >>> There is word for "100% accurate simulation", we call that an >>> emulation. The models of RA emulates all computations. >> >> >> >> Don't tell me this wonderful news tell INTEL, their stock price will >> skyrocket! And I own some INTEL stock. > > > > You have repeated this straw man argument a lot, > Straw man my ass, if what you say was true the universe would be *RADICALLY* different from the world we observe, the world where people have to pay money for INTEL silicon microchips. > > You do bad theology, like some fundamentalist. you invent a God > Wow, calling a guy known for disliking religion religious, never heard that one before, at least I never heard it before I was 12. > > > Like I said, you are a fundamentlist Aristotelians. And like I said, Aristotle was the worst physicist who ever lived. > >> >> >> It will be 100% crap unless the Algol or FORTRAN program is running on a >> computer made of matter that obeys the laws of physics. > > > > > False. Physics has no relevance at all here. > > What I said is true in both the case where the Algol interpreter or > compiler run > [...] > Run? RUN! Without physics nothing is running, your FORTRAN or Algol program is just static squiggles on a paper doing absolutely nothing. > > >>> >> >>> This does not make possible to extract the computations result directly, >>> as we live in a physical reality, and must implement the computations in >>> the physical reality to get that effect. >> >> > >> >> >> Why on earth would that be?? If the emulation is perfect and physical >> reality is of only of secondary importance and is being emulated by >> mathematics then we live in mathematical reality too. So why can't we >> extract the results of computations directly? > > > > Because that would be magical. > Indeed it would be but don't blame me for that, you're the one who said calculations don't need physics not me. > > > and should be able to make arbitrarily large calculations instantly. > > > > Yes, comp predicted that this is possible, > I don't care what "comp" predicts because "comp" is one colossal bore. John K Clark -- 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.
