Re: comp, Maxwell demons and Observers

2011-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno and Evgenii, -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 11:50 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: comp and Maxwell demon You can simulate it. But you cannot program it. It uses a huge amount of information that it is hard to ex

Re: comp and Maxwell demon

2011-01-16 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
Thanks for the answer. My question was due to the fact that comp presumably can simulate more than we observe. Let me check if I have understood your answer correctly. I will cite a paragraph from my text http://blog.rudnyi.ru/2010/12/entropy-and-artificial-life.html We bring a glass of hot wa

Re: comp and Maxwell demon

2011-01-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
You can simulate it. But you cannot program it. It uses a huge amount of information that it is hard to extract from the environment. I would say. In a larger sense, in which we are ourself Maxwell demon, you can filter it from long computation. They will transform selective information int