The text has been inspired by the discussion “Turing Machine” on the everything list: http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/40e45a536974609d Many people believe nowadays that the level of scientific knowledge allows us to conclude that everything including the whole universe could be simulated. Some of the them go further and say that the universe that we know is actually simulation [...]
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September 2, 2011 by Evgenii Rudnyi · 1 Comment
Filed under: misc
Social Tagging: Bruno Marchal • computing • simulation argument
Filed under: misc
Social Tagging: Bruno Marchal • computing • simulation argument
Craig Weinberg has made a link to the video on the everything list: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3keLeMwfHY with a question Does the idea of this machine solve the Hard Problem of Consciousness, or are qualia something more than ideas? The Web-site devoted to that nice Turing machine shown in the video is http://www.aturingmachine.com/ The discussion of the Craig’s answer: [...]
June 19, 2011 by Evgenii Rudnyi · Leave a Comment
Filed under: consciousness, philosophy
Social Tagging: Bruno Marchal • computing • simulation argument
Filed under: consciousness, philosophy
Social Tagging: Bruno Marchal • computing • simulation argument
Colin Hales International Journal of Machine Consciousness (IJMC) Volume: 3, Issue: 1(2011) pp. 55-89 http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S1793843011000613 Scientific behavior is used as a benchmark to examine the truth status of computationalism (COMP) as a law of nature. A COMP-based artificial scientist is examined from three simple perspectives to see if they shed light on the truth or [...]
Reading comments to discussion “Can we compute an answer to every question?” on Linkedin (group Artificial Intelligence Researchers, Faculty + Professionals) I have asked what is actually computing. Pedro Marcal has given the next answer “Computation is the control and execution of one or more machines to produce a desired answer.” The machines may be broken down [...]
November 12, 2010 by Evgenii Rudnyi · Leave a Comment
Filed under: consciousness, IT, philosophy
Social Tagging: computing
Filed under: consciousness, IT, philosophy
Social Tagging: computing
Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto, 2010 I have listened to a nice paper in Die Zeit about this book: “Masse und Netz” by Heinrich Wefing, 2010, N 42. Well, the paper was more about the author, the book was presented rather shortly. Yet it was enough to get me interested and [...]
On Linkedin in the group Artificial Intelligence Researchers, Faculty + Professionals there was an interesting discussion “Can we compute an answer to every question?” with over 600 comments. Here I have realized that I cannot give a good definition what computing is, in spite that I have been working with numerical methods all my life [...]
July 18, 2010 by Evgenii Rudnyi · Leave a Comment
Filed under: alife, physics
Social Tagging: computing • Stephen Wolfram
Filed under: alife, physics
Social Tagging: computing • Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram Some Modern Perspectives on the Quest for Ultimate Knowledge http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/recent/ultimateknowledge/ A good overview about computational irreducibility and how it could affect our quest for ultimate knowledge. Just one example from the paper. Let us imagine that the Universe is governed by just a few simple rules and they are completely determenistic. Yet, as they represent [...]
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