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> So there is no need for actual hardware on which the universe runs to exist You may enjoy the science fiction book Permutation City
by kybernetikos 9y ago
> So there is no need for actual hardware on which the universe runs to exist
You may enjoy the science fiction book Permutation City
- teraflop 9y agoIf we're talking about Greg Egan, then I'll go ahead and also suggest his short stories Luminous and Dark Integers. They postulate a similarly tight connection between physical processes and mathematical theorems, and then go on to consider the implications of the fact that such a system can't prove its own consistency.
- ChrisClark 9y agoAnd Egan's other book Distress. Which goes further into the OP's second point. Not actually needing to calculate everything.