The Game of Go has been explored for 2500 years and resulted in a body of theories that Go masters study in Go schools. Alpha Go discovered that human Go understanding was caught in a local optimum, and broke out of it. The game of modern physics started only 130 years ago...
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Mechanism is now computationalism. We can show that computation is necessary and sufficient for producing all observables. "Physical reality" is a thing that nobody has ever seen, we cannot treat it as if we could be acquainted with it.
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'We can show that computation is necessary and sufficient for producing all observables.' Go ahead and Stockholm will be glad to offer you a Prize :) Seriously now I hope you understand this is a statement of omniscience refuted by Fitch's paradox. http://www.digitalcosmology.com/Blog/2011/08/28/is-fitchs-paradox-of-knowability-just-a-scholastic-argument/ …
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The essay is based on a platonic mathematical notion of truth. We don't inhabit a platonic mathematical universe. To exist means to be implemented.
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