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Re:What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physic... by jfoutz on Thursday August 11, 2016 @11:45PM (#12273283)
In another comment, you said:

> I'm not suggesting anything supernatural. I'm suggesting that there's possibly physical phenomenon that do not fit our current materialist model.

Absolutely. Sure, there are of course physical phenomenon that do not fit our current materialist model.

Let's say we discover those additional phenomenon. Ultimately, we'd want to build a machine to model that phenomenon. Perhaps encode a model of that phenomenon in software. Once that happens, scribbling numbers on a piece of paper indeed could give rise to a conscious being.

If it's some system that can't be covered by scientific understanding, isn't that what supernatural means? It's either some internally consistent (but possibly very complicated) set of rules, or it's supernatural.

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Re:What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physic... by wildmusings on Thursday August 11, 2016 @11:51PM (#12273301)
No, it could be that the universe actually cannot be modeled computationally, that it exceeds the constraints of a Turing machine. This is an open question.
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