If we cannot answer the annoying question of why there is something rather than nothing, perhaps we can at least answer why there is only something rather than everything. Perhaps existence is the default.
Maybe the only comprehensible worlds are measurable ones, and timers emerge from measurement-constructed histories, so elementary tasks (those caused by timers) are possible if any "why" questions have answers. Why are explanations "possible"? Maybe bc only explainers survive.
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I don't yet understand the Deutsch speak! How do you define task and constructor in normal computationalism?
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A task is the abstract specification of a transformation, and a constructor is that which can cause a transformation that meets that specification. If the laws impose no limit on how accurately or reliably a transformation can be performed, then a constructor for it can be built
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