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> inherit fundamental limitations like finiteness and boundedness of everything This, in my opinion, while true in principle, does not have to become visible t
by DemocracyFTW2 3y ago
> inherit fundamental limitations like finiteness and boundedness of everything
This, in my opinion, while true in principle, does not have to become visible to the simulation (from inside the simulation). For example, we cannot build a true Turing machine because we can't supply it with an infinitely long tape, but we can always get a new roll of paper and paste it back-to-back to the one being used, thereby creating an arbitrarily long tape. This process can't go on forever, but if you are sure you can erase and re-use some old tapes (e.g. because they're sufficiently far from 'now' and your machine will only backtrack so much and ultimately advance to the same 'future' direction) it's conceivable to have unbounded non-periodic processes on finite hardware.