A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Everything (1999)

Re:A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Ev... by cgio on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @08:55AM (#14097145)

I wonder who supplied the great programmer with the Turing machine in the first place. What separates Turing machines from mincing machines in that context? And an important premise is an implied equivalence of an infinite sequence of states with infinite states. "Before" the world creation there is not "time" per se. So how is the Turing machine, where sequence plays a pivotal role, supposed to work in that exo-time context?

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Re:A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Ev... by tgragnato on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @11:01AM (#14098295)

Aristotele used to call this primum movens.

> Since every change has a cause, the origin of the chain of causes and effects must be a cause without cause (first cause), which is a primary source of motion without motion.

The thought is logical, but there are also cosmological theories that do not presuppose the existence of a "first unmoved mover".

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bounce

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_quantum_gravity

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Rovelli

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_cyclic_cosmology

In the oscillating models, the universe follows infinite, or indefinite, self-sustaining cycles.

The time may emerge only in a thermodynamic or statistical context.

A sequence of events could "simply" only imply a correlation of adjacent quantum energy states.

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