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Comment author: rkyeun 28 July 2012 05:17:21AM 0 points [-]

1) Quantum phenomenon -- ie, the universe and any given subsets of it you care to name -- are not Turing-equivalent. The universe has no problem factoring quantum configurations which may or may not represent prime numbers in linear time into amplitude distributions that overlap whenever they aren't prime. 2) There is nothing mysterious about the universe, correct. It is lawful. There are things mysterious about our crudely hand-drawn maps of the territory. 3) Arbitrarily small cause: The big bang. Large-scale effect: The universe.

Comment author: wedrifid 28 July 2012 06:13:51AM 1 point [-]

Quantum phenomenon -- ie, the universe and any given subsets of it you care to name -- are not Turing-equivalent.

(Probably. We can't be sure of this.)