Re:Einstein’s Parable of Quantum Insanity
by spacehome on Thursday September 10, 2015 @11:58PM
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Then I misunderstood originally.
If you're not assuming the universe is simulated and is instead "fundamental" (whatever that means), then who are you to put limits on its processing power?'
I think you have a level-confusion here - the universe isn't packing computational machinery into itself. Remember that space-time is a part of this universe. If something is computing our universe, it has to hold the representation of space-time, too. The computation machinery isn't in here with us.
Re:Einstein’s Parable of Quantum Insanity
by yakult on Friday September 11, 2015 @01:42AM
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If 'fundamental' stuff gets to break P=/= NP, then I don't see why we can't do it in a computer, if only by aping the design. But then P=NP and things get weird.
Re:Einstein’s Parable of Quantum Insanity
by spacehome on Friday September 11, 2015 @01:54AM
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I'm not sure why you keep mentioning NP and P. A problem being exponential doesn't mean it can't be computed. Maybe the universe does the calculations the hard way.
If you're not assuming the universe is simulated and is instead "fundamental" (whatever that means), then who are you to put limits on its processing power?'
I think you have a level-confusion here - the universe isn't packing computational machinery into itself. Remember that space-time is a part of this universe. If something is computing our universe, it has to hold the representation of space-time, too. The computation machinery isn't in here with us.