Re: Doomsday and computational irreducibility

2005-06-21 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:06:22PM -0700, Jonathan Colvin wrote: > Russell Standish wrote: > > Are you familiar with Wolframian CI systems? Yes of course. Wolfram did not invent the term. > The idea of CI is that while > the system evolves deterministically, it is impossible (even in principle)

RE: Doomsday and computational irreducibility

2005-06-21 Thread Jonathan Colvin
Russell Standish wrote: >> A new (at least I think it is new) objection to the DA just occurred >> to me (googling computational + irreducibility +doomsday >came up blank). >> >> This objection (unfortunately) requires a few assumptions: >> >> 1) No "block" universe (ie. the universe is a proce

Re: Doomsday and computational irreducibility

2005-06-21 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 03:25:21AM -0700, Jonathan Colvin wrote: > A new (at least I think it is new) objection to the DA just occurred to me > (googling computational + irreducibility +doomsday came up blank). > > This objection (unfortunately) requires a few assumptions: > > 1) No "block" unive