I don't understand Deutsch so far. The parts I understand seem obvious, but I still fail to get the point of the whole enterprise. I am sure it is my fault and it will click. (His perspective on QM is different than mine, but I am less qualified than him to have a perspective.)
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Replying to @Plinz
My guess is that the parts that sound obvious are primarily Popper and so nothing new to you. Same for Darwin/Dawkins/Turing.
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Replying to @davidarredondo
If I would describe my own perspective, it is basically a finitist version of the Church Turing thesis as the fundamental law, and you can derive physics by generating all universe states and recovering the universe that must contain us as a thread by following its memories.
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Replying to @Plinz
Ok. That makes more sense to me. Now how do we create more Knowledge?
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Replying to @davidarredondo
For foundational physics, we probably already know enough observable constraints to automate the exploration of the theory space. We should stop tinkering by hand, except for fun.
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Replying to @davidarredondo
evolution is like two lines of code, a general function that can explain increase in complexity but requires gluing a self replicator and a turing machine together, so the tm can take care of arbitrary state transitions; evolution needs to be understood as multilevel selection
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Replying to @Plinz
So why is a self (or observer) needed to say this? Or at all in physics or elsewhere. It just confuses good explanations.
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Replying to @davidarredondo
Self is a psychological/phenomenological entity. A model maintained by the mind that experiences a VR generated by the same mind. Physical observers are an artifact of describing the universe as separate interacting systems.
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Likewise!
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