Just had one if these long discussions with a smart mathematician, and now I notice that sometimes I get the impression that computationalism (the only working philosophical edifice left) is non-obvious to 90% of people. I find that genuinely puzzling.
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1.b Relativistic time is observed rate of change in an observer's environment, which is relative to the rate of change in the observer. Computational time is absolute and given by the evolution of the substrate.
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2. Gödel's incompleteness theorem refers to an important property of specification languages, i.e. mathematics. Computation is only about actual implementation, so it is unfazed by paradoxes, undecidability and incompleteness. A computational system just goes from state to state.
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