The minimal explanation for what is going on still requires that something must hold the state of the universe and execute its transition function. This prime mover, the basic Turing machine ticking away in the void is a debt that freaks me out.
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Replying to @Plinz
That's remarkable only if the transition function is very complex. I suspect it's extremely simple. Even repeated operation of XOR produces remarkable emergent behavior (e.g., http://eloquence.github.io/elixor/ ).
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Replying to @xirzon
No! I know that a minimal finite state machine for performing universal computation is incredibly easy to make. And yet, how is there something rather than nothing? Does that not blow your mind?
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3.1415 … what is next? Information and it’s patterns have a kind of existence, but lack causal powers. Except when it comes to sequences (eg Fibonacci), previous states determine the next. Kind of existence, kind of causality — do we exist inside some math pattern?pic.twitter.com/IPkXS283pZ
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(I think that is where Egan got confused when he developed the dust theory. The meaning of information is its relation to change in other information. It must be dynamic.)
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