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- From: tolman%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Kenneth Tolman)
- Subject: Re: Computability of the universe
- Date: 11 Sep 92 13:06:51 MDT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.130651.1157@hellgate.utah.edu>
- Organization: University of Utah, CompSci Dept
- References: <rwallace.716144999@unix1.tcd.ie> <1992Sep10.183603.2357@sei.cmu.edu> <1992Sep11.013141.28378@galois.mit.edu> <1992Sep11.142213.19269@sei.cmu.edu>
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- >This point is important to me, because I care about the real world and
- >want to understand it. And, as best we know, true randomness is a key
- >and irreducible component of that world.
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- Let me make a few comments (I recently wrote a paper to the same effect)
- It is possible to deduce that ALL noncompressibility that exists in the
- world was produced from quantum amplification. All information and
- complexity arises from this random property. Computers are incapable of
- creating information, they may merely manipulate it. A nice simple proof
- of this is to examine the definition of Kolmogrov complexity. Our
- computers can not take any creative actions at this moment, and hopefully
- eventually they will accept this second &*( paper..
- Imagine the world as unfolding from day one, and imagine the little
- crinkles that quantum processes yield. Some of these become the galaxies,
- and much much later it begins in evolution, and each mutation brings
- on a richer and richer complexity, until we reach the memetic age of today.
-