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2004-01-06 Thread Georges Quenot
Hi all, I am Georges Quénot. I have a PhD in Computer Science. I have worked on computer architectures dedicated to speech recognition and image processing. I am now more on the software side and I am working in the field of Multimedia Information Retrieval. My main work is not so related to the s

Is the universe computable?

2004-01-06 Thread Georges Quenot
I start from a part of this post from David Barrett-Lennard (Mon, 3 Nov 2003 19:48:49) but I could probably hev selected several similar other ones: > Given the "source code" for the simulation of our universe, it would > seem to be possible to add some extra instructions that test for a > certain

Re: Is the universe computable?

2004-01-06 Thread Frank
Indeed, I've always thought there was a dubious assumption there. There isn't a universal time to pace the clock tics of a simulation. Relativity forbids it. Anyway, time is a subjective illusion. Back to the question: So what happens when the simulation "diverges" from regularity? Some possibilit

Re: Is the universe computable?

2004-01-06 Thread Erick Krist
> It seems to me that there is a very strong assupmtion here which > is that there should be some synchronicity between the "time" in >the > postulated computer into which the universe would be simulated >and > the time inside that simulated universe I have been studying the function of what I ref

Re: Is the universe computable?

2004-01-06 Thread Erick Krist
> I would be interested in reading the opinions of the participants > about that point and about the sense that could be given to the > question of what "happens" (in the simulated universe) in any non- > synchronous simulation "when" the simulation diverges ? I would expect that the situation wou

Re: Is the universe computable?

2004-01-06 Thread Eric Hawthorne
Frank wrote: Indeed, I've always thought there was a dubious assumption there. There isn't a universal time to pace the clock tics of a simulation. Relativity forbids it. Anyway, time is a subjective illusion. Back to the question: So what happens when the simulation "diverges" from regularity? So