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"Turing completeness is necessary for intelligent life." Sure, but it would be extremely difficult to write a simulator with "interesting feedback" that is not
by ozy 9y ago
"Turing completeness is necessary for intelligent life." Sure, but it would be extremely difficult to write a simulator with "interesting feedback" that is not turing complete ...
"In our universe, the speed of light is the speed of causality" In your simulation the step function is causality. I would not be too concerned if the simulator was not strict in conservation. As a matter of fact, the interesting parts of our universe have the property that they are in the middle of an entropy flow.
Just some random advice, maybe you don't find it useful, but I would not focus too much on these things ...
- goldenkey 9y agoConversion between states means nothing if the states can multiply endlessly. There needs to be conservation to prevent "something for nothing."
- ozy 9y agoThere is quite some room between that and strict conservation of "energy".
- goldenkey 9y agoEnergy is an abstraction dealing with information states. So one has to first define what is the instigator of state change..and what its state is. The whole thing is a self referential nightmare if you don't conserve. Any kind of constant bias will take hold if vast compute cycles pass. But I dont necessarily disagree with psuedo randomness like hidden cyclic variables and other types of statistic macroscopi conservation without strict micro conservation.
- ozy 9y ago"whole thing is a self referential nightmare if you don't conserve" Indeed and that is probably best to focus on. Conservation, should serve that goal first. And I think you will see that as you implement things you can let go of strict versions.