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Makes sense. Everything can be encoded in a bitstring, which is a single number, and a single number has no sense of space and time.
by yters 8y ago
Makes sense. Everything can be encoded in a bitstring, which is a single number, and a single number has no sense of space and time.
- bodi 8y agoOne of the most beautiful and simultaneously terroristic traits of our existence is that of binary computational equivalence. Of course, binary as a notion is simply a set of relative measurements of the peaks and troughs of a wave at a specific time and scale, therefore we may deduce the ultimate excitation of all, what appears as this large number, is an analog, encompasses everything, and our reality a carefully crafted series of reductions from this source. Wonderful and awe inspiringly scary that we may even consider such a thing of brilliance.
- TheOtherHobbes 8y agoMany things can be approximately represented by a bitstring. Perhaps the difference between an approximation and a complete encoding should be emphasised more forcefully on CS courses.
- coffeeaddicted 8y agoThere are infinite recursive processes which can't be encoded in a bitstring. You can only put the results you got so far into one. To get more digits you will have to evaluate the function.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoNot everything, but perhaps a description of most things.
- yters 8y agoIf reality is finite and discrete, then it is everything. On the other hand, if there are non computable processes at work in reality, then not everything.