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The logic should more precisely be: the dynamics of the universe, ie. the things that physics allows, includes the operation of Turing machines, so that the phy
by evanb 13y ago
The logic should more precisely be: the dynamics of the universe, ie. the things that physics allows, includes the operation of Turing machines, so that the physical laws are at least Turing complete. Thus, the universe, from a computational point of view, a computer.
- dinkumthinkum 13y agoThat's sort of like saying the universe is a table because its constituent parts, laws, etc make tables possible. I guess it's interesting, not very interesting, though.
- evanb 13y agoThere's somehow something deeper about computerness than there is about tableness.
- DerpDerpDerp 13y agoAnything with a subpart which computes is a computer; not everything with subparts that are tables is a table.