If the universe were a Laplace Daemon, stepping by precomputed planktime/length quants, we wouldnt have freedom to discuss this here. @Plinz
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@Datenklempner I think you are misunderstanding the concept of freedom here. - 14 more replies
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@Plinz What empirical observation could render this everything-is-comp.-theory as false? If the answer is "none", it's a religion. ;) -
@laryllian If we can show that something is hypercomputational, then it is false. - 4 more replies
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@Plinz Everything is Chemistry (says a Chemist), everything is Physics (says a Physicist), everything is psychology (says a Psychologist)... -
@laryllian BS. A chemist or psychologist would not call planetary movements chemical or psychological etc. - 4 more replies
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@Plinz Is a Turing machine simply the discrete equivalent to a differential equation? - 3 more replies
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@Plinz I recently read this and thought "fuck, I NEED to study this". Where to start? I'm a sociologist, considering a master in math atm...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Plinz to pick up a thread I left dangling at congress: I'd like a definition of computation that allows to spot its emergence in the wild -
@Plinz at a glance, instead of requiring a tedious proof-of-weird-machine-presence for each instance. - 1 more reply
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