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Jack comments on the Universe, Computability, and the Singularity - Less Wrong Discussion

-4 Post author: mwengler 05 January 2011 05:19PM

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Comment author: Jack 05 January 2011 10:46:41PM 7 points [-]

That is to say that in order of the time-evolution of anything in the universe to proceed "correctly," the physical processes themselves must be able to, and in real-time, keep up with the complexity of their actual evolution.

This is only true if the universe itself is computable, right? In fact, it's trivial if the universe is computable because any physical process could be determined by using the final physics- so of course an uncomputable piecemeal theory wouldn't be the only law that could describe the phenomenon.

EDIT at Karma -5: Could the next "good citizen" to vote this down leave me a comment as to why it is getting voted down, and if other "good citizens" to pile on after that, either upvote that comment or put another comment giving your different reason?

My guess is that the down votes are coming because it sounds like you're making deep and important claims about the universe based computability theory while also revealing a lack of understanding of computability theory. It also isn't clear what your point is. Then you bring up the Singularity and people here are pretty sensitive to Singularity talk mixed with rambling about science the writer doesn't really understand.

It isn't really my field though, so someone who understands computability theory better than I should confirm my suspicion.