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.
I don't see how we can exist in (constructive) mathematics. Something must compute, I am stuck with the same conclusion as Aristotle
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Perhaps I'm not understanding your position. Are you claiming that without a computational substrate to evaluate/assert such relations, the relations themselves would not still be true?
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The meaning of information is exactly its relationship to changes in other information. This is computational. Something must implement the relationship, i.e. realize the mechanism that takes care of making that change happen.
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