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I don't know the original theory, but this explanation is brief to the point where it's nonsensical.
by j-pb 6y ago
I don't know the original theory, but this explanation is brief to the point where it's nonsensical.
- boxed 6y agoMight be because the entire thing is nonsense. Entropy shoots a hole in the entire thing as far as I can tell. The problem is that the information can never be retrieved, so if it exists or not is really pointless.
- xwdv 6y agoIf you are the information though then you have retrieved it.
- boxed 6y agoNot really. Brains don't exist and cannot exist without a medium to work in. It's the old idea that we have souls that are independent from our bodies and underlying reality. This is nonsense.
- j-pb 6y agoYeah the whole thing is also way to handwavy when it comes to computational complexity of the encodings. It also somehow simultaneously assumes the church turing thesis, the existence of non computable reals and arbitrary functions over them at the same time...