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You are assuming unlimited computational resources. At some point the computer required is bigger than the universe and exceeds the limits of what our current
by mkstowegnv 10y ago
You are assuming unlimited computational resources. At some point the computer required is bigger than the universe and exceeds the limits of what our current knowledge of physics and cosmology allows us to speculate about in any kind of meaningful way. I actually believe that a computer with human level intelligence and consciousness will be possible - but only because it won't need to be as messy as real human minds. To paraphrase Hitchhikers Guide, biology is messy. Really messy. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly messy it is.
- notduncansmith 10y agoIf the idea is that our universe is a simulation then its state is, by definition, represented by a finite subset of the state of the simulating universe. In other words, yes, it would be a computer bigger than our universe, in the same way we simulate a universe smaller than ours on one of our computers today.
- mkstowegnv 10y agoIt's turtles all the way up. Or in this case It's Turing Machines all the way up.